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Nigeria's parliament and president quietly approved the legislation, making the country the 38th in Africa to have laws persecuting gay people Nigerian authorities today began arresting gay men after legislation was quietly approved criminalising homosexuality and imposing prison terms up to 14 years for breaking the new law. Several gay couples were taken into custody in the country’s majority-Muslim north, and rights groups feared that others would be targeted across the West African country. Goodluck Jonathan, Nigeria’s president, signed the Same Sex Marriage Prohibition Act into law on January 7, but there was no public report of the new law until journalists obtained a copy of the act on Monday. It prohibits homosexuals from even meeting in groups of two or more, bans marriage or civil unions between people of the same sex, and criminalises gay clubs and events. Reuben Abati, the presidential spokesman, said Nigerians were happy with the new law. It makes Nigeria ...

The husband said it was the wife that starved him of sex. A house wife, Saratu Haruna, on Monday, dragged her husband, Isa Mainika, before a Kaduna Sharia Court two, Magajin Gari, for allegedly denying her sex for 10 years. Ms. Haruna of Kawo, in Kaduna North Local Government Area , told the court that she was no longer interested in the marriage. The woman said she no longer believes that there was marriage between them. “We have being staying for ten years now, but nothing is happening between us in terms of marital affairs,” she said. She told the court that she was no more interested in staying with her husband, saying: “I don’t love him again.” Mr. Mainika denied the claim, and accused the wife of starving him of sex. “Anytime I requested for sex, she always deny me. There was a time we had a serious fight over this issue and she bite me,” he said. The husband told the court that trouble started after his wife gave birth to their second baby, sayi...

The Conference of Nigerian Political Parties – CNPP Anambra State Chapter, has endorsed the just concluded Local Government election in twenty Local Government Councils as transparent, free and fair. Briefing journalists in Awka after its executive meeting, the body extolled Governor Obi for his giant strides in conducting the election after sixteen years. Presenting the stand of the Association, the State Chairperson, and Mrs. Oby Okafor expressed satisfaction that unlike Local Government elections conducted in other States, ANSIEC provided a level playing ground and conducted free, fair and credible election which other political parties secured victory in various parts of the State, unlike in others States where ruling parties won all the posts. The Association enjoined candidates of other political parties to use their positions in the Council to promote healthy debate and inputs that would help entrench good governance, while urging the Council Chairman to be fair and j...

Senator Tinubu who is Gov Amaechi's close ally according to a statement by the Special Adviser on Media to the State Chairman of PDP, Jerry Needam is only interested in protecting his business contracts in Rivers State by courtesy of Governor Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi. The party notes that investigations reveal that the major contracting firms handling various jobs in the state are owned by Senator Bola Tinubu. The PDP regrets that the only way Senator Tinubu feels he can sustain his business interest and retain his grip on the soul of the state is to continue to deceive Gov Amaechi and instigate crisis in the State. Rivers State remains only one, out of all the PDP controlled states in the country, and cannot alone give the APC the votes required to form the central government without a corresponding support from others. This clearly shows that there are other reasons for the special attention of the APC National leadership in Rivers State. And to complement this vicious des...

A fresh attempt by a political cabal in Taraba State to retun to office Danbaba Suntai, the   governor who suffered brain injuries in a 2012 plane   crash, failed yesterday following a weeklong series of maneuvers.Working in collaboration with some   media outlets, the cabals last Monday took the sick governor to his office in Jalingo along with some of   his physical therapist to see if he   could be   smuggled back into office but after   5 minutes, Mr.Suntai could   not tell what he   as doing.He was then rushed back to the governor’s mansion where, when asked where he   was, he   answered Airport ” .The group behind the   efforts, which is reported to be funded by former Nigeria Minister of   Defence.Theophilus Danjuma, then shipped Mr Suntai to Abuja to meet with President Goodluck Jonathan in the   hope that a public outing with the   president would   help provide an offfical veneer to their she...