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Stop Telling Nigerians Not To Eat Bush Meat.. National Hunters’ Association Cry Out!!!
The National Hunters’ Association of Nigeria has told the government to stop telling Nigerians not to consume bush meat because it has affected their business drastically in the last few days and its also driving its members into unemployment.
The association made this known while addressing journalists in Lagos during a conference held with journalists to address the situation.
The President of the group, Chief Ishola Olasehinde while speaking at the conference said;
“We want to use this medium to tell the government that our businesses have been affected since they have informed people to stop consuming bush meat to prevent Ebola. This is our only means of sustenance. Even if there is any virus in these animals, once they are boiled and fried, it gets killed. Government should include hunters in their research if they really want to prove that bush meat causes Ebola.
We hunters are the ones who protect the country’s borders from being invaded by nomads from Mali and Lake Chad. If not for our activities in the forest, Boko Haram members would have taken control of many cities in the country. This is not the way the government should reward us,” he said.
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BREAKING NEWS: Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah has died
Just saw this shocking news some seconds ago.
Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah has died. The health of Abdullah bin Abdulaziz al-Saud had previously been a subject of rumors; word emerged earlier this month that he indeed ill.
Abdullah was 90 years old. He ruled Saudi Arabia for nearly 10 years, having assumed the throne after his brother King Fahd died in 2005.
The kingdom’s new ruler is King Salman, according to state TV.
The news has just emerged. We’ll update this post as we learn new details.
“Abdullah was born before Saudi Arabia was even a country,” NPR’s Kelly McEvers reports for our Parallels blog.
But in his lifetime, he saw the country rise to prominence — thanks to the discovery in 1938 of massive oil reserves.
Source: http://www.npr.org
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Nawa ooo!!!:Baker faces civil rights complaint for refusing to put anti-gay message on Bible-shaped cake
Bakery owner Marjorie Silva stands for a photo inside her own Azucar Bakery, in Denver.
DENVER — A dispute over a cake in Colorado raises a new question about gay rights and religious freedom: If bakers can be fined for refusing to serve married gay couples, can they also be punished for declining to make a cake with anti-gay statements?
A baker in suburban Denver who refused to make a cake for a same-sex wedding is fighting a legal order requiring him to serve gay couples even though he argued that would violate his religious beliefs.
But now a separate case puts a twist in the debate over discrimination in public businesses, and it underscores the tensions that can arise when religious freedom intersects with a growing acceptance of gay couples.
Marjorie Silva, owner of Denver’s Azucar Bakery, is facing a complaint from a customer alleging she discriminated against his religious beliefs.
According to Silva, the man who visited last year wanted a Bible-shaped cake, which she agreed to make. Just as they were getting ready to complete the order, Silva said the man showed her a piece of paper with hateful words about gays that he wanted written on the cake. He also wanted the cake to have two men holding hands and an X on top of them, Silva said.
She said she would make the cake, but declined to write his suggested messages on the cake, telling him she would give him icing and a pastry bag so he could write the words himself. Silva said the customer didn’t want that.
“It’s just horrible. It doesn’t matter if, you know, if you’re Catholic, or Jewish, or Christian, if I’m gay or not gay or whatever,” said Silva, 40, adding that she has made cakes regularly for all religious occasions. “We should all be loving each other. I mean there’s no reason to discriminate.”
Discrimination complaints to Colorado’s Civil Rights Division, which is reviewing the matter, are confidential. Silva said she would honor the division’s policy and would not share the correspondence she has received from state officials on the case. KUSA-TV reported the complainant is Bill Jack of Castle Rock, a bedroom community south of Denver.
In a statement to the television station, Jack said he believes he “was discriminated against by the bakery based on my creed.”
“As a result, I filed a complaint with the Colorado Civil Rights Division. Out of respect for the process, I will wait for the director to release his findings before making further comments.”
Jack did not respond to emails from The Associated Press seeking comment. No one answered the door at the address listed for Jack in Castle Rock.
According to a local Fox affiliate, Jack is the cofounder of Worldview Academy, which is based in Texas but appears to hold camps all over the nation. On its website, the academy is described as a “nondenominational ministry committed to training students to think and live in accord with the Christian worldview.”
Jack can be seen online in various YouTube videos, in which he describes himself as “sick and tired of these evolutionists, humanists and atheists taking over the culture.”
The case comes as Republicans in Colorado’s Legislature talk about changing the state law requiring that businesses serve gays in the wake of a series of incidents where religious business owners rejected orders to celebrate gay weddings. Republican Sen. Kevin Lundberg said the new case shows a “clash of values” and argued Colorado’s public accommodation law is not working.
“The state shouldn’t come in and say to the individual businessman, ‘You must violate your religious — and I’ll say religious-slash-moral convictions. This baker (Silva), thought that was a violation of their moral convictions. The other baker, which we all know very well because of all the stories, clearly that was a violation of their religious convictions,” Lundberg said.
But gay rights advocates say there is a significant difference in the cases. Silva refused to put specific words on a cake while Jack Phillips, the baker who turned away the gay couple, refused to make any wedding cake for them in principle.
“There’s no law that says that a cake-maker has to write obscenities in the cake just because the customer wants it,” said Mark Silverstein, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union in Colorado.
Phillips’ attorneys had argued in court that requiring him to prepare a gay marriage cake would be akin to forcing a black baker to prepare a cake with a white supremacist message. But administrative law judge Robert N. Spencer disagreed, writing that business owners can refuse a specific message, but not service.
“In both cases, it is the explicit, unmistakable, offensive message that the bakers are asked to put on the cake that gives rise to the bakers’ free speech right to refuse,” administrative law judge Robert N. Spencer said.
Phillips’ attorney, Nicolle Martin, said she has sympathy for Silva, arguing she is in the same category as her client. “I absolutely support her right to decline,” Martin said. “I support her right as an American to pick and choose the messages she will express.”
Silva said she remains shaken up by the incident. “I really think I should be the one putting the complaint against him, because he has a very discriminating message,” she said.
IMAGE: IVAN MORENO/ASSOCIATED PRESS
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Lagosians Now Enjoy Air-Conditioned Trains – Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan says his administration has transformed the railway system, adding that the people of Lagos now enjoy train rides in air-conditioned coaches. Continue reading
Kano Hosts General Buhari And APC Campaign Team.
On my way to work yesterday, it really felt like there was some kind of curfew. Everywhere was just empty like some kind of rapture had taken place and, yes, you guessed right. the only reason for that was because GMB was in town.
Buhari certificate: Those seeking to destroy BUhari may end up destroying the military, APC warns.
The APC has reacted to the statement the military released today about Buhari’s certificate.
But wait, there’s more!
Bodies found floating in India’s Ganges
MORE than 100 decaying bodies have been found in a tributary of the Ganges river in northern India, officials say.
AUTHORITIES said they believed that the deceased were given water burials, although a police investigation has been ordered.
Water burials are sometimes used when families cannot afford a cremation.
Thirty bodies were recovered from the river in Unnao district of Uttar Pradesh state on Tuesday.
By Wednesday, a total of 104 bodies had been found.
Senior district official Saryu Prasad said efforts were under way to DNA test the bodies and identify them.
“The waters in the river have receded, because of which the bodies may have surfaced,” Prasad said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party has vowed to clean up the notoriously polluted river, India’s most sacred waterway.
Green campaigners have been demanding an end to water burials in the Ganges.
Volunteers of the Ganga Bachao Andolan (Save Ganges Movement) on Wednesday began a sit-in protest against the dumping of the dead in the river, the IANS news agency reported
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Photos: President Jonathan & Buhari Hug And Hold Hands
If there is any reason why I think nigerians should pray for peace in the upcoming 2015 elections, then this definitely tops the ranks.
The president and APC presidential candidate pictured hugging at the 2015 election sensitization workshop on non-violence in Abuja this morning. See another photo of Jonathan, Buhari, Oyegun and Mu’Azu holding hands below;
Please don’t kill yourselves over politicians in Nigeria…
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Police In Imo Defuse Bomb Close To The State’s INEC Office.
Men of the Imo state Police command this morning defused two bombs planted close to the Imo state INEC secretariat in Owerri the state capital. According to reports, the bombs were planted in front of the Owerri Capital Development Agency OCDA and were discovered after a loud noise emanated from that area at about 9.30am today. Policemen are said to have cordoned off the area.
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