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AUDU MAIKORI @audumaikori “My passions are the arts, law and entrepreneurship. I believe that all three have the power to change lives and as such I am focused on fostering collaborations and co-creation as a means to bake a bigger pie for all parties involved. This is the model I have championed in both Chocolate City Group and in other ventures we have been involved in. Yes Africa is open for business and we are helping to open those doors!”

Audu Maikori (born 13 August 1975, Kaduna) is a Nigerian lawyer, entrepreneur, social activist, public speaker and creative industry professional. He is the founder and president of the Chocolate City Entertainment. He is best known as a judge of Nigerian Idol's first season. Unsurprisingly, he has been bestowed with many awards and accolades.

In 2008, at the inaugural edition of the United Kingdom Young Music Entrepreneur, Maikori was nominated to serve as a judge alongside four other British music industry judges, making him the first black judge for a major British Music industry competition.

On 29 June 2007, he won the INTERNATIONAL YOUNG MUSIC ENTREPRENEUR OF THE YEAR (IYMEY) for his work with Chocolate City beating off international competition from Egypt, India, Indonesia, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, Philippines, Poland and Tanzania.

He received special judges commendation as well as $15,000 Dollars in prize money.

In December 2011, Chocolate City Group, under Audu’s leadership, was named winner at the prestigious Africa Awards for Entrepreneurship in Nairobi, Kenya. Chocolate City was selected from over 3,300 applicants from 48 African countries to win prize of $50,000.

In November 2014, he was inducted as a Fellow of the Nigerian Leadership Institute(NLI) in November at the NLI-YALE Leadership Conference which held at the campus in New Haven.

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[IFELAW WEEK '17] CHIEF FEMI FANI-KAYODE AT PROFESSOR ADEMOLA POPOOLA ANNUAL PUBLIC LECTURE: MEET YOUR SPEAKER

"Those that have never experienced love can never understand it. They ridicule it, abuse it, destroy it, reject it, mock it and subject it to contempt. Worst still they envy those that receive it. Poor them, for as the bard said, ’tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." - Femi Fani-Kayode.
Femi Fani-Kayode was born in Lagos, Nigeria on 16th October 1960 to Chief Remilekun Adetokunbo Fani-Kayode and to Chief (Mrs) Adia Adunni Fani-Kayode.He was christened David Oluwafemi (meaning “the beloved of the Lord”) Adewunmi Fani-Kayode.
He is a lawyer, a Nigerian politician, an evangelical christian, an essayist, a poet and he was the Special Assistant (Public Affairs) to President Olusegun Obasanjo from July 2003 until June 2006.
He was appointed the Minister of http://www.ifelawwriters.com/2017/11/chief-femi-fani-kayode-at-professor.html

They're not corrupt, they themselves are corruption

JUNE 12 STANDS FOR HOPE Opined By Wole Zangani LLB 3
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JUNE 12, 1993; THE ANNULLED HOPE OF THE COMMON MAN By LADY_KAY LLB 4
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JUNE 12: DOES IT WORTH CELEBRATING IN HONOUR OF ABIOLA OR THE REPAYMENT OF EVIL FOR HIM?
An Analysis By Adejumo Kabir of Newstrack Platform
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THE ILLOGICALITY OF POWER by Ambassador Ademola Adeoye
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JUNE 12, A HISTORY WE CAN’T FORGET – ATIKU, TINUBU
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JUNE 12 IS ‘MOTHER OF MAY 29’
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THEATER OF THE ABSURD: THE NIGERIAN SENATE by Jimoh Rashidat Efua LLB1

Looking at the Nigerian senate in recent times,i remember the drama-text called Fate of a cockroach by Tewfiq Al-hakim,it talks about absurdity and that is clearly portrayed in the now Nigerian senate. A senate structured to represent the interest of Nigerians,make laws,over see the excess of the executive amongst other responsibilities. but looking at the Nigerian senate these days one would wonder exactly what they are doing apart from earning millions monthly and billions annually, well that's aside from all their shady side business income,no one really knows how much they earn exactly!
The senate has become an unnecessary joke http://www.ifelawwriters.com/2017/06/theater-of-absurdthe-nigerian-senate.html

BENARD P's recommendations to OAU new VC:

DEMANDS OF A CONCERNED STUDENT FROM THE NEW VICE CHANCELLOR

"From my childhood, I have learnt that If you want anything done, you have to make some noise" - Malcolm X

Revolutionary greeting to the incoming vice Chancellor of this community, in person of Prof. Eyitope Ogunbodede, on your swearing in ceremony today, Ad multos annos, may your tenure bring development to us.

However, it will be pertinent to note that our university community is been faced with http://www.ifelawwriters.com/2017/06/demands-of-concerned-student-from-new.html

Emman O. Emma (EOE) warns OAU Community:

FIRE! DANGER!! FIRE!!!

There is fire on the mountain, and nobody seems to be on the run.

Greatest Ife, Articulate Ife; evil will continue to triumph when good men sit back and do nothing. This is not meant to scare anybody but to tell students, the truth, nothing but the truth, the whole truth.

If we decide to keep mute, we will all go down, as we are all sitting on a keg of gunpowder. While our solace ought to be the Student Union executives, they have only succeeded in drawing us back with their own unseriousness and irresponsibility.

At a parliamentary sitting early this semester, I learnt of a student that wore a customized jersey of ‘Supreme Eiye Confraternity’. While I did not believe it initially, I was dumbfounded when http://www.ifelawwriters.com/2017/06/fire-danger-fire.html

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OAU WATER AND MY CRY: MESSAGE TO GREAT IFE CEC; UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

“Without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living; without the cry, there is no soothing.”

I am not an activist. I am not a human rights advocate. I am just an innocent student being pushed to the wall. Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, is my institution of learning and I will do everything within my power to protect her integrity and promote the good image of the institution. It is my duty. It is our collective responsibility. However, it is also our obligation to cry out when things are going wrong and when situations are becoming unbearable. We need to be consoled. They call me The Smiling Man and here is my cry.

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IN RESPONSE TO THE RECENT CLAMOUR FOR A YOUNG NIGERIAN PRESIDENT
Written by TAYO FABUSIWA

It is now stale news from the African experience, the spree of “old” leaders at the helms of affairs in several countries. Personalities who have enjoyed political positions over and over again still linger around the presidential chairs of these African States. In light of this, for instance, Nigerians have begun casting aspersions to the competence of our 73 year old president amidst his unstable health conditions. Zimbabwe is not left out, with her president, Robert Mugabe (93 years), being Africa’s oldest Head of State as well as the world’s second oldest Head of State and also having many of his policies questionable even by his people. These are just a few instances from a host of others in Africa.

There has therefore arisen, the clarion call for a youth president in Nigeria. The question then is "Who is a youth?" http://www.ifelawwriters.com/2017/05/in-response-to-recent-clamour-for-young.html

EKPA, STANLEY EKPA, Snr.
Immediate Past President
Law Students' Society
Faculty of Law
Obafemi Awolowo University

PARTNERS FOR DEVELOPMENTAL REVOLUTION: YOUTHOCRACY

Myriads of theorizing upon predictions, Africa is gradually earning a swelling reputation for over romanticizing ideologies than taking bold actions to concretize her developmental fortunes. And whereas in climes where development is done than said, leaders forecast the positive impact of development on successive generations; in jurisdictions where development is preached, every rhetoric of UN, IMF, World Bank is reechoed, while we wait for Macron or Obama to win elections, or for U.S., Japan and Russia to monopolize the outer space before we begin to chant in plagiarism 'yes we can'.

But it will be uncharitable to hold that there is nothing progressive and developmental about the African continent, it is rather apposite to x-ray the pace, innovativeness and committed sincerity in actualizing meaningful development in Africa and the significant roles youth must play in the path to Africa's renewal. The truism that youths are the trustees of a nation's peace and prosperity begets the the socio-political concept of 'Youthocracy'. The idea that young people with transcendent credentials of entrepreneurial and leadership savvies, competence, patriotism, and globally liberal can re-engineer societal progress, development and peace. How then can youth's resourcefulness: intellect, energy, resilience, aspirations, time, vigor and hope be harnessed to proffer sustainable solutions to mankind's demanding challenges? http://www.ifelawwriters.com/2017/05/partners-for-developmental-revolution.html

A 360 DEGREE STUDENT: OLUFADE IBIDOLAPO'S SPEECH AT MY PLO AND I

On the 19th day of June 1992, specifically a Friday at the magnificent Hezekiah Oluwasanmi Library, a young law student – Olasupo Ojo bequeathed on us a legacy – the Great Ife Anthem. This Anthem had been the fuel of countless revolutions, struggles and protests for eons past, and it has also remain a mythical Muse inspiring us till today. I shall not be reproducing all the lines of the anthem but the lines apposite for today’s business state “For learning and culture, sports and struggle”.

This Anthem shows us in unequivocal terms what is expected from a student of this great institution birthed in 1962 and so it is an unpardonable taboo for a Great Ife Student to learn without having culture, to be sporty without struggling against neofascist forces that want to pull down the very core of our communal existence as an intellectual habitat.

It is therefore fitting, if I say that whenever we sing our Anthem, we are making a solemn declaration that we will be balanced and rounded students. Students whose habitat isn’t just the lecture theatres but whose very abode is the theatre of the world – where life battles are fought and won as gladiators whose blood and sweat have mixed with the sand of the Arena.
The Executive Council of the Law Students’ Society have called upon me to speak to you on the topic the 360 degree student http://www.ifelawwriters.com/2017/05/olufade-ibidolapo-speech-at-my-plo-and-i.html

KOYE-LADELE Mofehintoluwa

As We Resume: My Address to the Generality of Great Ife Students, the Noble and Progressive Parliamentarians of the SRC and A Stammering and Divided CEC

In a day, the school would be filled with staleites especially those who have acquired bedspace through the illegal black market. We will return to our bedbugs space that the management has refused to fumigate and when they were eventually forced into it, they did a poor job that on the exact spot where the fumigation spray landed. Some bugs came out to do Shedrach, Mesach and Abedenego before entering the peace of the foam again to wait till the owner of bed lies down. We are resuming soon to the conditions prevalent and a new Vice Chancellor.

If rumors are anything to go by, the new Vice Chancellor sponsored the emergence http://www.ifelawwriters.com/2017/05/as-we-resume-my-address-to-generality.html?

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ALL MEMBERS,
LSS PUBLICITY COMMITTEE

After relentless hours of preparation and hard work, students of the Obafemi Awolowo University proceeded to Bowen University for its Inter University Moot and Mock Competition. The following schools dotted the Bowen University landscape in Iwo: University of Ibadan, Bowen University, Osun State University and Obafemi Awolowo University. 
At the Moot stage which was the qualifying stage to the final, Team OAU faced Bowen University as Respondents.  Representing the Obafemi Awolowo University were Adefarati Mosunmola (300 level) and Adewunmi Victor (300 level).
Obafemi Awolowo University emerging as the best the overall at the moot stage, while Osun State University came thus both teams proceeded to the finals. 
Oyewale Faith and Agboola Elijah represented Obafemi Awolowo University as counsels while Olajide Mary and Oseni Tawakalt were witnesses at the finals, the Mock. 
In delivering its judgement, after the enthralling and brilliant final address by the highly cerebral and fire cracking counsels of OAU team, the judge resolved all three issues in favour of the prosecution (Team OAU). OAU emerged as winner of the competition. Equally Oyewale Faith emerged as the best counsel!

Reported by:

Oyiki Great Avwerosuoghene
Deputy Chairman, 
Moot and Mock Committee,
Law Students' Society, 
Obafemi Awolowo University, 
Ile-Ife, Nigeria. 

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TEAM OAU LEAVES GOLDEN BENCHMARK AT BOWEN UNIVERSITY
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IFELAW FRESHERS' ORIENTATION: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW
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[POEM] THE NAME IS FOUND
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[POEM] IWE OGABA (BOOKWORM)
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[SHORT STORY] THE INNOCENT FRESHER: THE THOUGHT
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[SHORT STORY] LOST LOVE
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We are law students; we are intellectuals; we are great writers.

[center] “If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride – and never quit, you’ll be a winner. The price of victory is high but so are the rewards.” ― Paul Bryant[/center]

On behalf of the entire members of Law Students’ Society, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife (LSS OAU), I am delighted to welcome the incoming part one law students to the prestigious Faculty of Law, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.

Indeed, the journey was not easy. After lots of preparation, sleepless nights and various examinations, you were able to find your way through, among the numerous applicants, into the quintessential Faculty of Law, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. And we are really glad you are here.

Although orientation week maybe really hectic for you as you have to do various kind of registrations and familiarise yourselves with various facilities available at the University, LSS OAU Orientation Committee is here to provide you with all the support you need to make orientation week a successful and a memorable one. We give you the best orientation in the country!

Accordingly, on the commencement of LSS OAU orientation exercise, all part one law students of the Faculty of Law are hereby directed to resume early to settle down and subsequently bring the necessary documents to be submitted to the Faculty.

ON COMMENCEMENT OF IFELAW FRESHERS' ORIENTATION
ON DOCUMENTS TO BE SUBMITTED
ON COURSE REGISTRATION
ON CODE OF CONDUCT FOR LAW STUDENTS
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⚖LAW STUDENTS' SOCIETY, OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY, ILE-IFE,
NIGERIA⚖

Law Students’ Society, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria, LSS OAU, is an organised and purposeful body of all students admitted to study law into the prestigious Faculty of Law, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.

After firmly and unanimously resolved to organise ourselves into a united and purposeful body geared towards the improvement of the academic and general welfare of the Law Students and the uplift of the legal profession, do hereby make and give ourselves a Constitution which is to be cited as “the Constitution of the Law Students’ Society of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife”, for the purpose of pursuing the mentioned goals and objectives.

Accordingly, Article I Section 3 of the Sacrosanct Constitution provides for the aims and objective of the LSS OAU as follows:

(1) To improve the general welfare of the Law Students’ Society of Obafemi Awolowo University.
(2) To supplement our legal education by means of Seminars, Symposia, Workshop, Publication, Moot and Mock Trials, Law Debates and Excursion to court and other legal establishments.
(3) To liaise with various students association within the faculty with the aim of fostering other aims here provided.
(4) To liaise with all other relevant external bodies.

These aims and objectives of the society we relentlessly pursue by organising various programmes, among others. Also, in order to improve the general welfare of all members of LSS OAU by liaising with various students association within the faculty and other external bodies, we hereby create official social media accounts for the society. This development becomes inevitable after realising that the effectiveness of ICT cannot be overemphasised in distributing and accessing information, both within and outside the society. THE CREATION OF THESE OFFICIAL SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS FOR THE SOCIETY WILL FIRST, SERVE THE PURPOSE OF CONNECTING THE SOCIETY WITH THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE; SECOND, BE A VERITABLE PLATFORM FOR INTERESTED MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC TO GET FIRST-HAND AND ACCESS DIFFERENT INFORMATION ABOUT THE STAKEHOLDERS AND VARIOUS EVENTS WITHIN THE SOCIETY; AMONG OTHER VARIOUS UTILITIES.

For the following reasons, members of the society and the public are kindly directed to follow the society on these various social media platforms:

INSTAGRAM: @ifelaw_official
https://www.instagram.com/ifelaw_official
FACEBOOK: @ifelawofficial
http://www.facebook.com/ifelawofficial
TWITTER: @ifelaw_official
http://www.twitter.com/ifelaw_official

Thank you. God bless Nigeria; God bless LSS OAU.

Signed:
OLABODE Oladapo Samuel
(THE SMILING MAN)
PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER,
LAW STUDENTS’ SOCIETY,
OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY,
ILE-IFE, NIGERIA.

and

THE CHAIRMAN,
LSS PUBLICITY COMMITTEE.

STILL ON CHARLESTON SHOOTING!!!
Breaking News: U.S. Attorney General announces hate crime charges against Charleston shooter Dylann Roof.
Attorney General: Charleston shooter "further decided to seek out & murder African Americans because of their race.”
Attorney General on Charleston shooter: No decision has been made on whether to seek death penalty.
http://olabodeoladapo..com/2015/07/breaking-news-us-attorney-general.html

Messi reportedly paid £2.4m to lay stone for new AFCON stadium http://olabodeoladapo..com/2015/07/messi-reportedly-paid-24m-to-lay-stone.html

Watch Video: It's Time to Act on Climate Change, U.K. Institutions Tell Governments. http://olabodeoladapo..com/2015/07/its-time-to-act-on-climate-change-uk.html
Two dozen of the United Kingdom's top scientific and cultural institutions released a joint letter on Tuesday urging governments to take action on climate change, and work for a world with zero net carbon dioxide emissions by the second half of this century.

"The scientific evidence is now overwhelming that the climate is warming and that human activity is largely responsible for this change through emissions of greenhouse gases," says the letter signed by the Royal Society, the Academy of Medical Sciences and the British Ecological Society, among other groups.

They urge world leaders to set goals to strike carbon emissions and develop policies to tackle climate change ahead of international talks to be held in Paris beginning in November.

Nations will have to hit the zero-carbon emissions mark, the letter signers say, if they want to avert the worst repercussions of warming the world more than 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels

Police arraign man for allegedly snatching laptop, cell phone. Case adjourned to Wednesday.
The Police on Tuesday arraigned one Godwin Maceteli in a Bayelsa High Court for conspiracy and armed robbery.

The accused, Godwin Maceteli, was arraigned on a two-count charge before the court.

The accused, according to the prosecution, committed the offences on June 28, 2014, in Yenagoa, the Bayelsa capital.
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Following the impediments created by the actions of the Non-Academics Staff Union, Obafemi Awolowo University chapter, in their struggle for the payment of arrears of allowance owed them by the management, the president of the Great Ife Students’ Union, Akande Omotayo, popularly and politically known as TY, has called on all students of Great Ife to make themselves available at a congress to hold by 2pm today Tuesday, 7th July, 2015 to determine the way forward.
In a statement made by the president when he came to announce to the few law students that attended Commercial Law class held in Aud I, made the announcement that the executives of NASU met with the Students’ Union Central Executives to join them in solidarity in their struggle against oppression.
TY said that when NASU approached them, the Students’ Union central executives requested them not to take the water and light which they eventually did with the explanation that the school management http://olabodeoladapo..com/2015/07/nasu-strikes-ty-calls-on-congress-to.html

A priest was arrested on a charge on rape after allegedly raping a young girl in his backyard because he had to cleanse her soul, police in Florida said.



Sunrise police said that they have arrested 48-year-old Brogenet Cinor, after being accused of taking the 11-year-old girl to hut in his background, where he raped her.


The mother of the girl confronted Cinor, but he said it was part of a cleaning ritual. He also threatened to put a curse on the mother and her family if she reports him to the police. However, the mother called the police to report the priest. According to the police investigation, the mother brought the girl to Cinor’s home because he claimed that she had to be cleansed of evil spirits. Cinor immediately http://olabodeoladapo..com/2015/07/priest-rapes-11-year-old-girl-in-his_5.html

Detectives are probing the “unilateral” alteration of the Senate rules on the election of the Senate President and his deputy.

Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu has been invited for questioning - an action that has drawn the ire of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Inspector General of Police Solomon Arase asked Ekweremadu to report at the Force Headquarters, Abuja, today to answer questions on a petition said to have been filed against him by a group of senators detailing how he unilaterally tinkered with certain provisions of the Senate Standing Rules.

The petitioners were said to have alleged that Ekweremadu had taken undue advantage of the rules to become the Deputy Senate President in the June 9 election of principal officers of the National Assembly.

The election was to have been by voice vote, The Nation learnt. But ballot was used —against the rules, which Ekweremadu said had been adjusted.

Opponents of his election claim that there was no sitting to ammend the rules throughout the four years of the last Senate.

In Abuja yesterday, PDP National Publicity Secretary Olisa Metuh said the said amendment to the rule was effected by the bureaucracy of the National Assembly headed by the Clerk, Alhaji Salisu Maikasuwa.

Metuh said the invitation from the IGP was a build-up to phantom charges with a view to arresting and incarcerating Ekweremadu and pave the way for the imposition of a preferred APC senator to take his position.

The party accused certain unnamed All Progressives Congress (APC) leaders of instigating the police action against Ekweremadu, adding that the party had uncovered threats to the life of the Deputy Senate President and other key PDP leaders.

“Since President Muhammadu Buhari’s statement that Senator Ekweremadu’s election was ‘unacceptable’ to his party, the Deputy Senate President, who can only be removed by the Senate, has come under threats and intense pressure from APC leaders to resign and allow a senator from the ruling party to take his position.

“However, having failed to get him to resign, the APC has now engaged in heinous plots to force him out of office, a design which totally negates the independence of the legislature and the spirit and letters of the constitution of Nigeria. http://olabodeoladapo..com/2015/07/police-probe-ekweremadu-for-senate.html

"The composition of the Government of the Federation or any of its agencies and the conduct its affairs shall be carried out in such a manner as to reflect the federal character of Nigeria and the need to promote national unity, and also to command national loyalty, thereby ensuring that there shall be no predominance of persons from a few ethnic or other sectional groups in that Government or any of its agencies" (section 14(3) of the 1999 constitution of the federal republic of Nigeria).

I am not an ethnicist nor ready to champion ethnicity but to sensitize the federal government on the need to respect the above quoted of the Constitution, which is meant to ensure unity among the various ethnic groups in the country. Although the President of the country has power to appoint anyone he THINKS can serve the country selflessly, there is also a need to critically consider the necessity to carry along all the regions, tribes and religions to a very large extent.



Since his assumption of office as the President of the country, Buhari has made about nine appointments (top positions). Of course, no president will do without making appointments. Among those appointed are: Lawal Daura (Katsina) as the director of State Service, Mr Mordechai Baba Ladan as the Director, the department of petroleum resources, Alhaji Ahmed Idris as the accountant-general of the federation. Others are Mallam Abdullah Kazure as the Chief of protocol, Aide De Camp, Lt. Colonel Lawal Abubarka, Senior Special Assistant on media and publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, Mrs. Amina Zakari as the acting INEC chairman and Mr. Femi Adesina, who happens to be the only appointee from the south as the special adviser on media and publicity. http://olabodeoladapo..com/2015/07/buharis-appointment-need-for-true.html

A tearful young man crying about the uncertainties of being gay has just gotten the ultimate affirmation by none other than Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

"I'm homosexual and I'm afraid about what my future will be and that people won't like me," reads the caption on the widely-distributed portrait of a teen sitting on a stoop in a collared shirt and teal cardigan. The shot was taken by Brandon Stanton for Humans of New York, his popular and prolific photo series known to illustrate microcosms of emotion in America's most populous city.

Among the photo's more-than 500,000 Facebook likes and 50,000 shares from the Humans of New York Facebook page, the nameless youth had at least one big-name fan.

On July 3 at 12 p.m. EST, Clinton commented: "Prediction from a grown-up: Your future is going to be amazing. You will surprise yourself with what you're capable of and the incredible things you go on to do. Find the people who love and believe in you - there will be lots of them. –H"

The "H" indicates that Clinton herself left the comment, rather than someone on her team, and the comment's individual likes are inching toward 100,000.

While many Humans of New York photos go viral, this portrait gained early press not just due to topicality but because Facebook administrators initially deleted it, Jezebel reports.

"Seems that Facebook removed the young man's brave statement and is now preventing me from uploading any further photos. I'm hoping it was a mistake. http://olabodeoladapo..com/2015/07/hillary-clinton-comments-on-viral-photo.html

Federal and local authorities have found that the man charged in the shooting deaths of nine black people in a South Carolina church last month had been in contact with white supremacists online, although it does not appear they encouraged him to carry out the massacre, according to law enforcement officials.

Investigators uncovered that information as they have pieced together where the gunman, Dylann Roof, 21, received his inspiration, and whether anyone else should face charges in connection with the murders.

“To understand what happened, you have to understand who he talked to and who may have known what,” said one law enforcement official briefed on the case. The officials spoke on the condition of anonymity because they did not want to be identified discussing a continuing investigation.

So far, the authorities have determined that people around Mr. Roof were aware that he held some racist beliefs.
http://olabodeoladapo..com/2015/07/charleston-suspect-was-in-contact-with.html
If the authorities find that any of Mr. Roof’s associates knew about his plans, they would most likely try to prosecute them. In the case of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, at least two men who were friends of the bombers were charged with helping them dispose of evidence from the bombing and from a subsequent shooting of a police officer. Three other men associated with the bombers were charged in connection with lying to the authorities or obstructing the investigation.

AN international United Nations accredited human rights advocacy organisation, the International Humanist and Ethical Union, and the Nigerian Humanist Movement, have expressed concerns over the death sentences reportedly handed down to nine individuals in Kano State by an Upper Sharia Court recently.

In a joint letter to President Muhammadu Buhari, Kano State Governor, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje and the Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, the groups urged the trio “to do whatever you can to seek true justice, respecting and restoring the human rights of those accused, and to work to end the malicious and unjust use of “blasphemy” as a criminal prohibition anywhere in Nigeria.”

The letter was signed by Andrew Copson, President of the International Humanist and Ethical Union, and Leo Igwe for the Nigerian Humanist Movement.

An Upper Sharia Court, Rijiyar Lemo, in Kano, had on Thursday, June 25, this year, announced the sentencing of nine to death for blasphemy against the Prophet of Islam. A statement by the State Sharia Court of Appeal signed by a man named Nasiru, had said the nine persons were found guilty under Section 110 and Section 382b of the Sharia Penal Court law year 2000.

The International Humanist and Ethical Union and the Nigerian Humanist Movement, however, considers the death sentences on the accused persons as “disproportionate and constitutes an egregious violation of the right to life” given their alleged offence.
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Help might be coming the way of Mrs. Ruth Uche, the mother of three set of twins whose husband absconded from their home in Agege, Lagos, as State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode Friday directed the deputy Governor, Dr. Mrs. Oluranti Adebule to effect the immediate rehabilitation and provision of welfare assistance for her and her children.

This was contained in a statement signed by his Chief Press Secretary, Habib Aruna.

Governor Ambode’s directive followed newspaper publications which narrated the ordeal of the woman, who spoke with our reporter during her distress visit to the Government Secretariat, Alausa on Thursday.

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The issue of gay marriage and gayness seems no longer a secret affair among those who involved themselves in this unique form of marriage which has been nailed and praised at the same time by many individuals based on their distinct perspectives ranging from moral, ethics, religion and human rights which can be considered logical as many countries had legalised the type of marriage and many more are following the suite.

On Friday, 26th day of June, 2015, the United States of America through a verdict of its Supreme Court signed into law the gay marriage and therefore becomes the 21st country to publicly legalize the condemned kind of marriage that attracts the interest of various religious groups, philosophers, social analysts among others.
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