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  • ENTERTAINMENT: Kenny Brandmuse Reveals He Is A Gay

     
    Today Kenny Brandmuse has revealded he is a gay, read his facebook post below:
     When I first told my ex-wife that I was gay, we were far from being married. I wanted her to find other men honorably, who had a thing for women. I never did. I ‘swear down.’ I was only obeying the popular demand of traditions. Now, this was my terrible mistake. No one should live their life based on dogmas and other people’s expectations. As far as I could remember, even though I was always dating girls, I had always preferred being with a man. I had fought it with every fiber of spirituality in me as a Pentecostal preacher boy (find details and journeys in my book ‘THE EXODUS.’) The more I fought my sexual preference for men, the more I became more miserable. Unfortunately, as erroneously believed, sex wasn’t the problem. I had been having sex with women as far back as a twelve-year-old. Sexuality is whom we are emotionally present with, not whom we are sleeping with. And oh boy, she really tried to make me a heterosexual. But I'm still not, sadly.

    One of those pre-marriage days, while we were with our marriage counseling team, I brought up the issue again – that I had always had a preference for men. I wanted the Ministers to dissuade her from the marriage. I just couldn’t put a ring on a fat big lie. My father taught me one principle: DIE FOR YOUR OWN TRUTH, EVEN IF IT'S UNPOPULAR, BUT DON'T HARM OTHERS WITH IT. She was so happy to tell the ministers, as quickly as she could, that my feelings for men would all be gone, because she believed it was a childhood disorder. I guess she meant she was going to fck my brains into heterosexuality. This is a mistake a lot of us make. We all want to change people to conform to our preferences. We find it easier to play god in the lives of people we did not make.

    After six years together, I knew I was not getting any better. I STILL LOVED MEN. And one day, because I didn’t want to cheat on her, I humbly asked her that we should go our separate ways. That was when all hell broke loose. She suddenly forgot about how it all started. In court, she told the Judge how she suddenly found out that I was gay, and how it’s against the Law of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. In other words, she wanted me sentenced to the new 14 years jail term served by the Nigerian government. Luckily, I was in a civil court. Sadly, that day, I had to duck my face in shame as the crowd jeered at me for being whom I had always been. 'You faggot' 'Oh what a shameful man!' 'homo!' 'Na wa o ' I still don’t know how I walked out of the court premises that day. ( this case is still ongoing) What about my business.? Tell any client in Nigeria that you are gay, and you lose their business. That’s exactly what happened. I lost friends, businesses, sponsorships and family members. I had to start my life all again. Applied for a new job. Get back to school. Although my ex-wife is one of the most faithful and beautiful women in Nigeria, she is a victim of institutionalized homophobia. Just like many people who are reading this.

    It will be exactly a year today, when Nigeria instituted a law to jail people like me. What’s our offense? Because we are simply wired differently. There are only about 5 to 10% of homosexuals in every population as cited by popular findings and documents. Why is a 90% dominant population afraid of its 10%? Shouldn’t you care about us? Don’t you think it’s a lot easier to be seen as part of the 90%? And before you throw those religious verses on us for being wired differently, I want to leave you with my favorite Bible verses from Romans 8:Italics mine:

    That Nothing Can Separate Us from ( the universal narrative of ) God’s Love
    31 What shall we say about such wonderful things as these? If God is for us, who can ever be against us? 32 Since he did not spare even his own Son ( in the popular narratives according to the Christian Faith ) but gave him up for us all, won’t he also give us everything else? 33 Who dares accuse us whom God has chosen for his own? No one—for God himself has given us right standing with himself. 34 Who then will condemn us? No one…

    38 And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,[b] neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. 39 No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in ( in the narrative of ) Christ Jesus our Lord. 
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  • NEWS: Boko Haram Threatens Cameroon

    By Blessing Dickson
    The leader of the Boko Haram sect Abubakar Shekau had threaten Cameroon on you-tube video that the same fate that has befallen Nigeria would soon happen to them.
       
    The video was addressed to president Paul Biya on the 5th of January 2015 after repeated fights in the far northern part of the country.
       
    Shekau had told the president in Arabic “Oh Paul Biya, if you don’t stop this, your evil plot, you will taste what has befallen Nigeria… Your troops cannot do anything to us,”
    This is the first time Boko Haram Sect is publicly addressing the president of the country as well as accepting their attacks in the country of Nigeria.
    The sect has been believed to have launch attacks on the north eastern part of Nigeria from bases in Cameroon but in recent months there have been increase attacks within the country.

  • HEALTH: World Most Deadliest Diseases Ebola Is Just a Least.

    By Lizzy Adie

    Though Ebola is certainly a terrible disease, other diseases once held a spot as the most terrifying diseases for their time.


    Ebola Virus: Ebola is currently raging through West Africa at an unstoppable pace. Since March 2014, when the first cases of the virus were reported, it has gone on to infect over 6,300 people of whom 3,083 are now dead. It is suspected that the disease can infect 1.4 million by January 2015 if health experts do not figure out a way to control it.


    Smallpox: this little fella has been around for at least 10,000 years until the disease, according to the World Health Organization, was eradicated in 1976. It is estimated that 300 million people died of Smallpox in the 20th century, but the really big downside is that its unlikely the disease has been eradicated and, even if it has, the Russians and the USA refuse to destroy their smallpox stocks in case of a bio-terrorist incident, what ever that means.


    Sars: Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome as it’s hilariously referred to; Not only just ten years old, this is the youngest of our viruses, though no less aggressive. It could be argued that if the Chinese authorities had alerted the WHO immediately, i.e., not virtually ignoring it for three months, it wouldn’t have been the pandemic it became. Within a few week of its outbreak, SARS has spread to 37 countries, 4 cases in the UK infecting over 8,098 people and killing 774 of them.


    Tuberculosis: usually attacking the lungs. This disease is spread by airborne saliva. The classic symptoms of active tuberculosis infection are a chronic cough with blood-tinged sputum, fever, night sweats, and weight loss.


    Influenza: Commonly known as Flu, Influenza is usually transmitted through the air like tuberculosis but sometimes through direct contact with contaminated surfaces, since the virus can be inactivated by soap, however, frequent hand washing reduces the risk of infection.


    Diarrhoea: A common cause of death in third world countries and the second most common cause of infants death worldwide. The loss of fluid through diarrhoea can cause dehydration and electrolyte disturbance such as potassium deficiency or other salt imbalance.

  • POLITICS :Timeline Of Buhari Presidential Campaign In Cross River

    By Efio-Ita Nyok

    2:03p.m
    Introduction of Hon. Mrs. Abike Erewo of the House of Assembly as APC National Presidential Compère

    2:06p.m
    Songs of Worship led by Hon. Abike, This worship session is punctuated by Senator Mamorah Bola who introduced a piece which goes thus: ‘There is something that makes me want to vote APC, my party; my party ooooo my party(2x), there is something that makes me want to vote APC, my paaaaarrrrty!’

    The both of them emphasises on the importance of having the Permanent Voting Card(PVC).
    Senator Bola informed the crowd of the trending APC’s acronym, that is ICE, which when translated means, Insecurity, Corruption and Economy. According to them, the APC is poised to deal with the hard-to-conquer challenge of Insecurity, Corruption and a dwindling Economy.
    It was here that it was said that the APC Presidential Rally was deprived the use of the U.J. Esuene’s Stadium as venue to receive Buhari. Normally, the stadium should have been preferrable.

    2:13p.m
    The APC Women Leader, Hajia Ramatu was called to take the stage, after which she cheered up the crowd

    2:17p.m
    Malam Farouk Adamu Aliyu was asked to mount this change; after which he expressed his profound disapproval of the state of affairs in CR State. He was also seen to chanting ‘by the grace of God’ as a means to salvage the state.

    2:23p.m
    The APC Presidential Compere asked four individuals from the crowd to dance to the Dorobucci master piece.

    2:30p.m
    Introduction of Barr. Eyo Nsa who highlighted the fact that, for sixteen years, there has been no social welfare in the state, but there has been increased graduate unemployment, loss of Bakassi, ceding of 76 oil wells to sister state, Akwa Ibom; and one-quarter of the state has been influenced by the obnoxious Green Tree Agreement.

    2:35p.m
    One Honourable Esther pinpointed the the marginalisation of women, and asked observed that APC will bring  a change.

    2:45p.m
    Gbogboeh G. Akondoreli noted that they are all agents of change.

    2:45
    Malam Farouk Aliyu and the crowed, were thrilled by Cultural avoid.

    3:28p.m
    Buhari with his contingent, power.

    3:32. National Anthem

    3:33p.m
    State publicity secretary.

    3:35p.m
    State APC Chair addresses the crowd

    3:37p.m
    National APC Chair addresses the mammoth assembly. Hon. Odey Ochicha is officially presented with the APC Gubernatorial flag as the flagbearer of the state. He expressed acceptance.

    3.39p.m
    Governor Amaechi takes the stage. He berates the governors of Cross River, especially, and formally declares that: ‘President Goodluck Jonathan is not my brother…’

    3.48p.m
    APC National Chair talks on the APC Manifesto:
    which will create 65 million jobs, jobless graduate will receive allowance, students will be the fed at least a square meal in school.
    senior citizens of ages beyond 60 who are unable to earn a living will be giving an allowance.
    etc

    3:58p.m
    GMB while approaching the platform, falls by the stair owing to his momentarily stepping on the Efik traditional attire he was putting on. It was a slight fall. He man the stage and addresses the crowd.
    He emphasises on education which he asserts is ‘an assert’.
    4:08p.m

    The National Anthem is sung. The crowd disperse.

  • TECHNOLOGY: Microsoft No '1' Man Drinks Water Gotten From Human Faeces

    By Eyo Ene-Okon

    Bill Gates has drunk a glass of water distilled from human faeces, to showcase an advanced technology that could provide clean water to the developing world.

    The Microsoft founder, Mr Gates said he wanted to begin sending processing plants around the world after tests later this year.

    The project was welcomed by WaterAid, which said that it could particularly be of aid to most urban areas in critical economic conditions,

    According to the charity, some 748 million people worldwide lack clean drinking water.

    In a video posted on his blog, Mr Gates watched as the human waste was fed into the processor, before drinking the end product from a glass.

    ‘Sewer sludge’
    “The water tasted as good as any I’ve had out of a bottle. And having studied the engineering behind it, I would happily drink it every day. It’s that safe,” he wrote in the blogpost.
    In the video, the developer of the Omniprocessor system, Peter Janicki, says the raw “sewer sludge” is first boiled, during which process the water vapour is separated from the solids.
    Those solids are then put into a fire, producing steam that drives an engine producing electricity for the system’s processor and for the local community.
    The water is put through a cleaning system to produce drinking water.
    “Why would anyone want to turn waste into drinking water and electricity?” Mr Gate asked.
    The answer, he wrote, was because “diseases caused by poor hygiene conditions kills an average of 700,000 children every year, and they others, contribute to diverse growth adnomalities”.
    He added: “If we can develop safe, affordable ways to get rid of human waste, we can prevent many of those deaths and help more children in critical economic situations grow up healthy.”
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  • ENTERTAINMENT: Banky W Drops Debut Production As a Filmaker!- Mercy

    By William Oyo-Ita


    ​Musician, song writer and now filmaker, Banky W  has just taken things higher this year by producing the video “Mercy”- a track of his last album.

    The music film was produced in New York city and features ‘upcoming music student. follow link to watch video http://t.co/Ei9Eojxe1G 

  • ENTERTAINMENT: Tonto Dike Dumped For Senator's Daughter

    By William Oyo-Ita


    ​Many fans of Nollywood actress Tonto Dike will be wondering what exactly is going on with the actress relationship status.


    Its should be recalled that some times last year, Tonto Dike openly declared that Malivelihood as her boy friend. but towards the end of last year she started flaunting the photo of another man on her social media, calling him Mr ‘X’ up till now the identity of the man has not been revealed. 

    It was revealed that the much publicized relationship in which Tonto got customized phones  were customized by Malivelihood is no longer existing.

    Malivelihood has however moved on with his life, as he is rocking and rolling with his new babe Deola smart. Depla is the daughter of popular Senator representing Kogi District, Senator Adeyemi Smart.

    See her pics bellow:


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  • Politics: Buhari Presidential Campaigne Storm Cross River and Akwa Ibom!

    By Efio-Ita Nyok
    Feelers from Calabar metropolis, the capital city of CR State suggests that the Presidential aspirant of the All Progressives Congress(APC), namely, Muhammaddu Buhari is billed to pay a visit to Cross River State in the company of staunch party stalwarts like the APC leader Bola Tinubu and others.
    At the state party Secretariat of the APC domiciled in Marian Hill by Barracks Road, there is a flurry of hustles and bustles as they rally to receive the APC contingent. Our political correspondent has in his reports that the streets of Calabar, especially around Marian Hill, Mary Slessor, Mayne Avenue, and Atu Street are characterised by trailers, buses, taxis, etc filled to the brim with supporters of the APC, the air being rented by music of one kind and the other.
    The presidential aspirant of the APC is going to be flagging off his campaign in the Southern region of the country beginning from Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, before he will now proceed to Calabar in Cross River State. The venue of the presidential campaign rally in Calabar is Government Secondary School, Atu Street by Mayne Avenue. It is already harbours supporters, party men and women of the APC.  
    It has also been tipped that the gubernatorial candidate of the APC in CR State namely Odey Ochicha from Bekwarra L.G.A. will be presented with the party’s flag for the State.
    The schedule for the arrival of the contingent is billed for 12p.m. at the Margaret Ekpo International Airport, Calabar, CR State. but, as it stands now, they ae yet to arive from Uyo, Akwa Ibom State.

  • NEWS: Shell Pays Ogoni 15 Billion Over Oil Spillage

    By Dickson Blessing

    Shell Development Company has been driven to make an out of court settlement of about 15 billion (£55 million) as a compensation to Ogoni people based on a legal action in the United Kingdom after six years of oil spills which  destroyed thousands of livelihood in Bodo area of Ogoni land.

     The two oil spills took place at Bodo in 2008, first in August and the second in December from Shell pipelines, but the company denied responsibility for the spills.
      
    Amnesty International said in a statement on Tuesday that the organisation and Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development (CEHRD) have worked on the Bodo spills case since 2008 trying to secure compensation and clean-up for the community.
     
    In 2011, the people of Bodo, represented by UK law firm, Leigh Day, began court proceedings in the UK against the Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria.
     
    Although, Shell had always blamed the illegal activity of the Niger Delta as a core reason for the pollution, its claims have been discredited in research by Amnesty International and CEHRD.
     
    The out-of – court settlement the £55million will be split as £35m for 15,600 individuals and £20m for the community.
    “While the pay-out is a long-awaited victory for the thousands of people who lost their livelihoods in Bodo, it shouldn’t have taken six years to get anything close to fair compensation,” Mr. Audrey Gaughran, Director of Global Issues at Amnesty International, said in the statement.
      “In effect, Shell knew that Bodo was an accident waiting to happen. It took no effective action to stop it, then it made false claims about the amount of oil that had been spilt. If Shell had not been forced to disclose this information as part of the UK legal action, the people of Bodo would have been completely swindled,” he added.
      
    Throughout this time, many Bodo residents who lost their livelihood in the ongoing spill have had to live with the ongoing pollution without compensation.
     “In effect, Shell knew that Bodo was an accident waiting to happen. It took no effective action to stop it, then it made false claims about the amount of oil that had been spilt. If Shell had not been forced to disclose this information as part of the UK legal action, the people of Bodo would have been completely swindled,” he added.
    Styvn Obodoekwe, Director of Programmes of the Centre for Environment, Human Rights and Development (CEHRD) said  “The compensation is a step towards justice for the people of Bodo, but justice will be fully achieved when Shell properly cleans up the heavily polluted creeks and swamps so that those who rely on fishing and farming for their income can begin to rebuild their livelihoods”.

  • Politics: Shell Agrees to Pay Compensation

    By Efio-Ita Nyok

    The Royal Dutch Shell has agreed to the sum of $84m to the worst hit and grieving people of Bodo in the Ogoni Land of the Nigeria's Niger Delta region.

    This legal suit by 15,600 fishermen community of the said Niger Delta area is said to be prompted by the oil spill of 2008 & 2009.

    Mitiu Sunmonu the Managing Director of the oil firm is said to explain that the oil spill is caused by operational failure of the pipelines. According to him: 'From the outset, we have accepted responsibility for the two deeply regrettable oil spills in Bodo'.

    Leigh Day is the law firm that has represented the Bodo community for the six years. According to Lawyer Martin Day of the law firm, it took Shell six years to recognise the extent of  damage.

    This environmental damage has caused untold hardship to the Bodo community. Health wise, it inflicts headaches and eyesores.

    Economically, it affect the means of livelihood of this mainly fishing and farming community.

    Each member of the community is expected to received $3300 as individual compensation. The $30m left over will go into the purse of the community worst hit environmentally.