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THE federal government has responded with near adequate conviction, the pressure by Western countries to impose the perverted culture of legalising homosexual lifestyles in Nigeria. The two arms of the National Assembly have taken uncompromising stands, making a law prescribing a fourteen-year jail term for people caught, tried and sentenced for practising homosexual acts in Nigeria. Our President, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, has also made it clear that he would align with the feelings of the Nigerian people and its supreme legislature in ensuring that the law is implemented. We are, however, worried at the half-heartedness with which the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is handling the matter. The Minister, Ambassador Olugbenga Ashiru, while recently re-iterating Nigeria’s decision not to succumb to pressures from the West on this vexatious issue, however opened some windows of possibility and prospects for homosexuality in Nigeria. First, he begged the West to be patient with Nigeria and allow ...

BY PETER DURU MAKURDI - Governor Gabriel Suswam of Benue state has decried the rising cases of gay activities, urging the Church to lead the campaign against the unholy activity in Nigeria.This came as the state uncovered the existence of a 400 member gay club in Makurdi Suswam also cautioned parents against abdicating responsibilities of keeping a close tab on their children whom he said were easily being lured into homosexuality. The Governor spoke yesterday at a special thanksgiving service in honour of  the Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to the Governor on Beautification, Dorcas Depuun at St. Mary's Catholic Church, North Bank, Makurdi. He said , "these things are happening out there, homosexuality is true and it is happening in our society, that is why parents must take more than a passing interest in their children that are of age and are tilting towards fellow the same sex other than the opposite." Suswam observed that "gay activities and marriage is a mis-nor...

LIBREVILLE (AFP) - A gay rights campaigner in Cameroon was found dead in his Yaounde home after being tortured, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday. Eric Lembembe's body was discovered in the capital on Monday and his body showed he had been extensively tortured, the group said in a statement. "Friends of Lembembe found his body on Monday evening. According to one of his friends his neck was broken and his face, hands and feet were burned with an iron," the statement said. The organisation referred to the incident as "murder" and called on the authorities to carry out a "thorough" investigation. They said Lembembe was found after worried friends had been unable to contact him by phone. The front door to his house was padlocked on the outside but they could see his body through a window and called the police, who broke down the door. Lembembe, who was executive director of the Cameroonian AIDS Foundation, was an outspoken advocate of gay rights in a coun...

BY EGUFE  YAFUGBORHI PORT HARCOURT— A CHURCH founder simply identified as Pastor Chinagoro has been released by the Oyigbo Divisional Police Office in Rivers State after five days in detention for alleged abuse of a 13-year-old Destiny Kalu. The police, acting on complaints by the victim’s mother, Mrs. Kalu through a counsel, had arrested the Pastor who runs a church in Mbesie, Imo State after the teenager had confided in her mother that the suspect has been having sex with him through his anus. [caption id="attachment_401962" align="alignleft" width="300"] The alleged gay pastor[/caption] Vanguard investigations revealed that Destiny, a drummer, had been living with Chinagoro who offered to take care of him out of pity over his parents’ living condition in their Port Harcourt residence. “The pastor was making love to me in my anus with other children after stripping us naked. I was not the only one. I had reported the issue to some persons who come aroun...