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The Okoye boys off again in private jet to Uganda

 

Peter says flying private is no longer a luxury, it's now a necessity considering how often they need to travel for concerts. P-Square and their brother/manager, Jude Okoye, are currently in Uganda where they will perform a show tonight. Above are Peter and Jude's rooms in Uganda.

Meanwhile, I want you guys to help me see something...it's after the cut...

Homosexuality: The Nigerian Perspective

                                 
Homosexuality in Nigeria (and the world) has always been an ugly topic to explore.
Engaging in such topic can be compared to the man who decided to preach The Word to a hungry lion at the University of Ibadan zoo some years ago; he was torn apart.
To prevent this, the writer will like to state that this article is not to prove whether or not homosexuality is right or wrong, but rather to establish an understanding of the social and biological theories surrounding homosexuality and how this can be related to the Nigerian context.
Most scholars argue that “people express gender beliefs, their own and those of the culture in which they live, in everyday language as they either indirectly or explicitly accept and assign gendered meanings to what they and others do, think, and feel.” In other words, homosexuality can be influenced by the norms and beliefs in a particular society.
Based on the above argument, one may argue that homosexuality cannot be a Nigerian thing. After all, our culture promotes “appropriate” gender beliefs, which supports the union of a man and a woman.
That said it would be insane or absolutely hypocritical to assume that there are no homosexuals in our country and raises the following questions: Can a Nigerian be born gay? Does the Nigerian culture promote same sex marriage? Is it a crime for an individual to choose their sex partner(s)?
Whether we want to accept it or not, these Nigerian gays and lesbians are, first of all, humans which mean they have the right to make personal choices. Pointing judging fingers would not change their orientation or correct their “abnormality”.
Psychiatrists have placed their “abnormalities” into three categories:
First, theories of normal variation treat homosexuality as a phenomenon that occurs naturally. Such theories typically regard homosexual individuals as born different, but it is a natural difference, like left-handedness. The contemporary cultural beliefs that people are ‘‘born gay’’.
Second, theories of pathology regard adult homosexuality as a disease, a condition that deviates from ‘‘normal,’’ heterosexual development. A typical gender behavior or feelings are symptoms of a ‘‘disease’’ to which mental health professionals need to attend. These theories hold that some internal defect or external pathogenic agent causes homosexuality and that such events can occur pre- or post-natally (intrauterine hormonal exposure, excessive mothering, inadequate or hostile fathering, sexual abuse).
And the third, theories of immaturity regard expressions of homosexual feelings or behavior at a young age as a normal step toward adult heterosexuality. Ideally, homosexuality is a passing phase that one outgrows. However, as a ‘‘developmental arrest,’’ adult homosexuality is equated with stunted growth.
The above theories can give us an umbrella where we can place these “unwanted elements” as described by many Nigerians. But these are mere theories that cannot help us change the stigma faced by these special beings.
There have been cases where some men have been lynched, some women have been ostracized and others have committed suicide as they could not understand why the society would treat them with disregard.
What theory fits the discriminations they face every day? Is it safe to say that some weren’t born equal or that some simply feel right and godly?
In a country where religion has imprisoned the mental mind of the majority, logic cannot be applied in handling such critical issues. As a matter of fact, pastors and the some illogical heterosexuals use the Sodom and Gomorrah story as the basis for their discrimination. “Kill them, simple!” a Nigerian pastor once screamed during an interview. Before we kill them, have we asked the right questions?
The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) confirmed in Toonen v. Australia that laws criminalizing consensual same-sex activity violate both the right to privacy and the right to equality before the law without any discrimination.
Contrary to this, House Majority leader of the Nigerian House of Representatives, Mulikat Adeola-Akande, argued that, “It [homosexuality] is alien to our society and culture and it must not be imported. Religion abhors it and our culture has no place for it.”
Is it safe to conclude, therefore, that our culture promotes inequality? Before the next man or woman is killed, arrested or discriminated against, ask yourself this question: what would you do if you were related (by blood) to this type of human? Kill him or her?

Pictures: Jay-Z Buys Rihanna A $100,000 Porsche And She Brags About It

She tweeted her excitement about the gift saying, "Ain't nobody phuckin wit my clique!!"
She added, "All I see is signs, all I see is dolla $ign$"

Irabor, Kanu to run Nigeria league

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The changes in the Nigeria Premier League continues today (Friday) the Nigeria Football Federation releases the names of those appointed on an interim basis run the league until a new board is constituted. The NFF board was scheduled to meet on Thursday night to fine-tune the list and the draft terms of office before the names are made public on Friday.

Fire disaster at Lagos airport

Fire at Lagos airport

Confusion hit  hundreds of intending  passengers at the international wing of the Murtala Muhammed Airport, Lagos, on Thursday after a mid-day fire erupted at a section of the building.

The inferno, which caused a thick cloud of smoke to invade the terminal building, forced air travellers and airport officials to scamper to safety around the 33-year-old airport.

Investigation revealed that the fire started from a piece of electric equipment at a section of the airport under reconstruction.

Fire outbreak at Murtala Mohammed International Airport

All workers and passengers have been evacuated while fire fighters work to extinguish the fire. Nobody knows for now what caused the fire. More details soon...

Dear AAB readers: If I get a girl for BJ only would it be cheating?

Dear AAB readers: If I get a girl for BJ only would it be cheating?

From a married male LIB reader

I want your reader's perspective on this issue. I've been married for 3 years to a beautiful woman (inside & out) and we have a baby girl thats 2 years old. Life is good and God has been kind to us in all things but the major problem is our sex life....do not get me wrong, sex with my wife is beautiful, intense and fulfilling apart from the blow jobs!..the increasingly lack of it leaves me a bit empty and unhappy. For 3 years i have not cheated on my wife and dont intend to except if things continue as they are.....lately my wife finds blow jobs "demeaning" and a chore that lasts for like 3 mins instead of the fun it once was...we both work a 9-5 pm shift. Her head game used to be tight but now its uneventful..don't mean to sound uncaring, i know she gets tired from work, the baby and me...i practically have to beg her to put it in her mouth for longer than 5mins.

Orisirisi. More after the cut...

Christmas Tree Split Showstopper

What do you do come Christmas if you're an architect who lives in a neighborhood known for over-the-top holiday displays, and your wife drives a car with the license plate "GRSWLDS," a not-so-subtle reference to the Clark Griswald movie character made famous by Chevy Chase?

(Photo Courtesy: Patrick Kruger)If you are Patrick Kruger you send a Christmas tree right through the roof of your family's home, or at least make your neighbors think that's what happened.

Kruger, 41, and an architect by trade, bought a 14-foot-tall Christmas tree last Saturday and placed it in the front window of the Seattle home he shares with his wife, Maggie, and 4-year-old son, Miles.
READ MORE: De-Lightful Holiday Light Displays
Before he did that, however, he sawed off the top six feet of the tree and placed the tree top on his home's roof, making it appear as though the tree had crashed through the roof.
"We lived in a two-story house years ago and did a tree that was both on the first and second floors, a 20-foot-tree that we cut in half," Kruger told ABCNews.com. "Now we live in a smaller house so I thought let me put it through the roof."

(Photo Courtesy: Patrick Kruger)Kruger and his wife spent nine hours on Saturday, in the rain, to pull the stunt off, measuring the distance between the center of the tree and the inside wall of the house and then applying that measurement to the roof while adding in the dimension of the eve, he said. They also recruited a spotter who stood in the street to make sure the two halves of the tree were perfectly aligned.

To make it look realistic he also built a platform on the roof to make it look like something had pushed the shingles and roofing materials awry.
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On Sunday Kruger woke up to see that "his baby," as he calls it, had fallen to the ground in an overnight wind storm.
"I was completely embarrassed," he said. "My wife was out at this point - she said, 'I did it once,' - but I was able to convince a colleague of mine to help me bolt it to the roof."
"The insanity of putting four bolts into a perfectly good roof is something probably to be noted," Kruger joked.
The bolts worked and the tree has stayed put, much to the delight of Kruger's own son, Miles, and the whole neighborhood.
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"He's in heaven," he said of Miles. "He loves pointing it out to the other kids in the neighborhood. The kids line up in front of the house and look at it and bring their friends by and go right up to the window to see how did it go through the roof."

(Photo Courtesy: Patrick Kruger)"They have a big smile on their face and that was the objective," he said.

The decorated tree inside the house wedges right up against the ceiling and the tree on the roof, though decorated with lights and a few ornaments, does not have a topper, something Kruger excluded due to concerns over the wind and something he says his neighbors says the tree needs.
The only topper Kruger is concerned with now, however, is how he is going to top this next Christmas.

"I think we'll definitely do it again next year. We've had a really great time doing it," he said. "And I don't know what we'll do to top it."

The pygmy whale, a mysterious cetacean …

The pygmy right whale, a mysterious and elusive creature that rarely comes to shore, is the last living relative of an ancient group of whales long believed to be extinct, a new study suggests.

The findings, published Tuesday in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, may help to explain why the enigmatic marine mammals look so different from any other living whale.

"The living pygmy right whale is, if you like, a remnant, almost like a living fossil," said Felix Marx, a paleontologist at the University of Otago in New Zealand. "It's the last survivor of quite an ancient lineage that until now no one thought was around."
Living fossil
The relatively diminutive pygmy right whale, which grows to just 21 feet (6.5 meters) long, lives out in the open ocean. The elusive marine mammals inhabit the Southern Hemisphere and have only been spotted at sea a few dozen times. As a result, scientists know almost nothing about the species' habits or social structure.
The strange creature's arched, frownlike snout makes it look oddly different from other living whales. DNA analysis suggested pygmy right whales diverged from modern baleen whales such as the blue whale and the humpback whale between 17 million and 25 million years ago. However, the pygmy whales' snouts suggested they were more closely related to the family of whales that includes the bowhead whale. Yet there were no studies of fossils showing how the pygmy whale had evolved, Marx said. [In Photos: Tracking Humpback Whales]
To understand how the pygmy whale fit into the lineage of whales, Marx and his colleagues carefully analyzed the skull bones and other fossil fragments from pygmy right whales and several other ancient cetaceans.
The pygmy whale's skull most closely resembled that of an ancient family of whales called cetotheres that were thought to have gone extinct around 2 million years ago, the researchers found. Cetotheres emerged about 15 million years ago and once occupied oceans across the globe.

The findings help explain how pygmy whales evolved and may also help shed light on how these ancient "lost" whales lived. The new information is also a first step in reconstructing the ancient lineage all the way back to the point when all members of this group first diverged, he said.

Displaced Again: People Take Shelter in Camps After Fighting in Goma

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DRC 2012 © Aurelie Baumel/MSF

Hundreds were injured and thousands fled their homes in eastern DRC when the rebel group M23 took the city of Goma in North Kivu Province in mid November.

Yakowa’s body arrives in Kaduna amid tears

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The remains of the Late Governor of Kaduna State, Patrick Yakowa, and that of his aide and friend, Dauda Tsoho, arrived in Kaduna airport aboard a Nigerian Air Force cargo plane at 2.45pm on Tuesday.

The bodies were received by hundreds of wailing sympathisers who thronged the airport.

Bodies of the late governor as well as those of other four, out of the six victims of Saturday’s naval helicopter crash in Okorobo, Bayelsa State, had been airlifted from Yenagoa aboard a Nigerian Air Force Super Puma Helicopter marked NAF 567 at 11.45am.

The other bodies that left Yenagoa alongside that of Yakowa and Tsoho were those of an ex-National Security Adviser Gen. Owoye Azazi’s bodyguard, Warrant Officer Mohammed Kamal; and the two naval pilots, Commander Murtala Mohammed Daba, and Lt. Adeyemi Sowole.

The PUNCH learnt that the NAF aircraft stopped at the Port Harcourt airport in Rivers State where the bodies were flown to different destinations in different aircrafts.

Yakowa and the four, as well as Azazi, were victims of the crashed Augusta 109 Naval Helicopter in Okoroba, Bayelsa State, on Saturday.

They met their death while returning from the burial of the father of President Goodluck Jonathan’s aide, Oronto Douglas. Douglas is Jonathan’s Adviser on Research, Documentation and Strategy.

The remains of Azazi, an indigene of Bayelsa, were however left in the mortuary of the Federal Medical Centre, Yenagoa, for burial on a date yet to be announced by the government.

While the bodies of Yakowa and Tsoho were airlifted from Port Harcourt to Kaduna, those of Daba and Sowole were taken to their respective home states in Kano and Lagos.

Two black caskets with silver handles bore Yakowa’s and Tsoho’s remains while three brown caskets with golden handles contained the bodies of three others.

The caskets which were covered with the Nigerian flags were accompanied by Bayelsa State Governor Seriake Dickson; his wife, Rachel; Deputy Governor John Douglas; a former governor of the state, Diepreye Alameiseigha; commissioners and other members of the state executive council.

At the special valedictory session in honour of Yakowa at the Executive Chambers of the Government House before the late governor’s remains departed the state, were also the Flag Officer Commanding, Central Naval Command, Rear Admiral Johnson Olutoyin; commanders of the Air Force Mobility Command, the Joint Task Force, and the state Commissioner of Police, Mr. Kingsley Omire, among others.

Dickson poured encomiums on the late Yakowa, describing him as a bridge builder and humble governor.

Some chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party, including the aides of the late Yakowa, attended the ceremony.

Dickson, who said Yakowa died in active service, added that his death should encourage people to live in peace and harmony.

In Kaduna, children, women as well as men wailed as the delegation from Bayelsa State, led by Alamieseigha, formally handed over the corpses of Yakowa and his aide to top Kaduna State government functionaries.

At the Kaduna airport to receive the corpses were the new Governor of the state, Mukhtar Yero; Yakowa’s widow, Amina; Senator Danjuma Goje; Senator Bola Saraki; and top state functionaries.

The Catholic Archbishop of Kaduna Diocese, Archbishop Matthew Man Oso Ndagoso; and the Catholic Bishop of Zaria, Rev George Jonathan Dodo, took turns to pray for the remains of the late governor and his aide before the caskets were transferred into an Hilux ambulance.

From the airport, the two golden caskets were driven in a motorcade through the Nnamdi Azikiwe Western Bypass to the Saint Gerard Catholic Hospital where the corpses were deposited in the mortuary.

The Senate President, David Mark, in company with his wife, Helen, was at the St. Gerard Hospital. He later proceeded to the Government House to pay condolence to Yakowa’s family.

The late governor is expected to be buried on Thursday in his home town, Fadan Kagoma in Jema’a Local Government Area of the state.

Meanwhile, one of the soldiers that moved the bodies of Yakowa and the others from the morgue into the helicopter slumped shortly after the assignment, thus causing panic and anxiety among those at the venue.

The state medical team however revived the soldier, whose name could not be ascertained, several minutes after.

The collapsed soldier was among the two groups of soldiers who took turns to lift the caskets bearing the bodies of the victims into the Air Force helicopter.

Each group, under the command of a parade commander, was made up of six soldiers.

The collapsed soldier who apparently was exhausted after the assignment slumped and was immediately rushed into an ambulance belonging to the Nigerian Air Force Mobility Command at 10.40am.

The ambulance consequently rushed the soldier to the Government House Medical Centre, where a medical team battled to revive him. i pray that God will grant the family the grace to bear this tragic moment.

I narrowly missed crashed helicopter –Gowon

Former Head of State, Gen. Yakubu Gowon
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Former Head of State Gen. Yakubu Gowon said on Wednesday in Kafanchan, Kaduna State he narrowly missed the helicopter that crashed killing Kaduna State Governor Patrick Yakowa and ex-National Security Adviser Andrew Azazi in Bayelsa State on Saturday.

Four others also died in the crash.

Gowon said this during a Special Service Session to mark the 50th birthday of Apostle Emmanuel Kure of Throney in Broom Ministry, Kafanchan.

He said, “As we were with the aide to the President to pay our condolences, they were arranging a Navy helicopter to take us to Yenogoa (with Yakowa). But, another helicopter was arranged for me and five others. And that was it.

“So when I heard about this accident, it really pained me. And I want to say, well, you can never tell with some of these things. It was an accident. Don’t impugn any meaning to it. Don’t say that it was planned to get rid of some people or something like that.

“It was an accident, yes. There was this young pilot of the helicopter, who came to me after another helicopter was found for us, and he said to me, ‘Sir, but I was all ready to take you to Yenagoa as part of my duty today’. And I said to him, ‘don’t worry, there will be another time. I really hope I will have the pleasure of flying with you again’.

“These were nice innocent people. Something, probably mechanical, went wrong to have caused the accident. So it was not a plan to get rid of the governor for whatever any reason people want to guess.

“When, on Sunday, I saw the governor (Mukhtar Yero), I said, ‘I hope you will continue with the good work that your late governor was doing. It was the two of you that were doing the work. You were working to bring peace to Kaduna State. I hope you will do something about this madness alluded to Boko Haram, which, unfortunately is being alluded to Muslims’.”

Also speaking on the occasion, Plateau State Governor Jonah Jang said Yakowa lived for the service of Nigeria.

Meanwhile, Fadan Kagoma village, in Jema’a Local Government Council, birthplace of the late Yakowa, is to receive his remains today (Thursday). Fadan Kagoma is about 230km away from Kaduna city.

At the Yakowa country home, workers were seen putting finishing touches to the grave he will be buried.

One of the leaders in the village, who would not want his names in print, said,“Our village is going to witness the greatest gathering it has ever seen, but for a sad reason. We are expecting the President to land in this village by helicopter tomorrow (today).”to God be all the glory .

Marry Christmas

The most wonderful time of the year, Christmas, is here again and we are pleased to announce the opening of The Lagos Christmas Shop at the Silverbird Galleria, Lagos.

Since 2006, it has been The Christmas shop’s custom in Abuja to provide an amazing one stop Christmas shop to help our discerning customers create an idyllic Christmas atmosphere in their homes and offices.

The shop has now decided to share the experience of the last six years, for the first time in Lagos.

Abacha loot:Switzerland has returned $700m to Nigeria- Swiss envoy

Nearly 15 years after the death of General Sani Abacha, Nigeria’s former military ruler, the Swiss Government has said that it has so far returned to Nigeria the sum of $700 million stolen by the late dictator and deposited in several Swiss banks.

The Swiss Ambassador to Nigeria, Dr. Hans-Rudolf Hodel, announced the figure at a media briefing in Abuja on Tuesday.

Nice try, Rob!

Very predictable Master Kardashian. Now he's claiming his tweets were not about Rita Ora...and blaming the media for assuming it was. Below is what he wrote on his twitter page, which he has since deleted. In fact he has wiped out everything he's ever written on Twitter...

Just so we are clear I never once mentioned ‘Rita Ora’ in any of my tweets or even used the word ‘whore’ and I never would. I Respect Women.

Sad that the media created negativity for a young artist new to the game that is working so hard to make it. Never mentioned any names.

I speak truth. I'm a very Real dude and everything I say I mean…But never called anyone specific a whore and said any names. You all did."

Nice try, Rob! Meanwhile, Rita Ora has explained the reason they broke up. See it after the cut...

Photos from Friends Africa Dec 1 World AIDS Day novelty match

 

Ojukwu’s firm rejects Bianca as director

A Director of Ojukwu Transport Company Limited has said the wife of the late Biafran leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odimegwu-Ojukwu, Bianca, has no place on the directorship or trusteeship of the company.

Director, Mr. Ifeukwu Ojukwu, said on Monday that since OTL was owned by the late Sir Louis Odumegwu-Ojukwu, the late Biafran warlord could not dictate who the trustees or directors of the company should be.

Rita Dominic and Benjamin Joseph win FAB award Most Stylish

Rita won Most Stylish Actress beating Omotola, Genevieve, Nse Ikpe Etim and Beverly Naya, while Joseph Benjamin beat Ramsey Noah, Mike Ezuruonye, and Gideon Okeke in the Most Stylish Actor category.

Do you agree that Rita and Joseph are the two most stylish actors we have in Nigeria?