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Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi Ojaja II and Queen Wuraola-Zynab Ogunwusi’s marriage has allegedly crashed. Thecapital.ng reports that Olori Wuraola was accused of many unpublishable things and lack of commitment to her marital vows. “*Why Olori Wuraola Ran To Obasanjo For Quick Intervention. Alas, one year down the line, the marriage has crashed irretrievably. The well-celebrated marriage has run its full course. While it lasted, they had no child. Inside sources described the marriage as a sham, plagued by suspicion, hatred and devoid of love; they accused Olori of many unpublishable things and lack of commitment to her marital vows. Even as you read she is not on talking terms with her in-laws. The allegations are as wide as they are wild. Back then when Olori Wuraola held sway, she had the world at her feet; she got her wishes at the snap of a finger and she literally ruled the royal household. Wherever he went, she was constantly by his side. She basked in the stratospheric adulation that came with being the apple of the Ooni’s eyes. Pray, who wouldn’t? Unfortunately, things have changed and many within the palace now snigger and sneer at her for losing her position as the queen to one of the most powerful Monarchs in Africa. Curiously, however, on arrival from a trip recently, Olori Wuraola scurried to the home of former President Olusegun Obasanjo to intervene and probably advise her husband not to be influenced to dump her like a bad habit and get another wife. Both have since gone their separate ways perhaps ruing what was and what could have been.” Source
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Splashed on the front page of the dailies, he’s the first in a queue of 42 gay men who were arrested by the police in Nigeria last week. White singlet – white, like the long white garment that flowed to his ankles when I saw him, almost ten years ago. It was the uniform of the Aladura Church, a Nigerian sect of Christians well known for their frenetic and frenzied approach to prayer. Prayer to heal the sick. Maybe cast out devils. Maybe cure same sex attractions too. That sunny Sunday morning, his face subdued with a nervous smile, Michael sat with me by the soccer field along Awolowo Avenue in Ibadan. His big eyes, like saucers, were filled with watery innocence as he talked about his grandmother. He was staying at her house. She was very fond of him. “I like staying with her, instead of at my parents’ house. In fact, I’m going to go to university in Lagos or Abeokuta,” he said, “just to get away from home.” I understood. He had the air of some kind of geeky professor-in-the-making, even when he wasn’t saying much. When I asked about his parents, his reply felt strained, and his gaze – and the conversation – was dropped. Ten short years, an unethical law and a frivolous arrest later, it turns out Michael was right to be skeptical about his family. He now needs two sureties, family or neighbor, to be granted bail before his trial. Yet the same law by which Michael was arrested can also incriminate anyone else by association. Parents must choose between affirming their children and risking public ridicule, or turning their backs and sacrificing their own blood. Many often choose the latter. In this sordid scandal, money in the millions will have exchanged hands, from the vulnerable, desperate and desolate victims of this brutish witch-hunt, to their captors: oppressive police, corrupt court administrators, and other agents of the Nigerian pseudo-theocratic state. Even if any of the 42 men meet bail conditions, they may no longer be able to return home. Even if they are judged not guilty, which is unlikely, they have already been tried in the courts of public opinion. By unethically displaying Michael’s photograph, the Nigerian Media entertains a bloodthirsty cult of pseudo-moral savages who shall feast on the still-breathing carcass of his sullied reputation. It is a worrisome plight, not just for Michael and the other 42 men. It is a fearful omen for the perhaps twenty million more homosexual men and women hiding in Nigeria’s shadows.The repression of some of us by the rest of us makes life a collective prison sentence for all of us, in which the dignity of being otherwise human is undermined by inhumane laws. Source
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Fifth Harmony’s Lauren Jauregui: ‘Noone can use my bisexuality against me’
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Fifth Harmony singer Lauren Jaurequi has said people “can’t use her bisexuality against her”. Jaurequi, who came out as bisexual last year in a brutal letter to US President Donald Trump, spoke to Seventeen Magazine, the cover of which she appeared on with her bandmates. She tells the magazine that she is proud to be bisexual. She said: “You can’t use the fact that I’m bisexual against me if that’s something I’m proud of. I feel motivated more than scared to share who I am because it makes me feel awesome when someone comes up to me and says that because of me she was able to find the strength to accept herself.” The singer previously spoke about a bisexual love song featuring Halsey. Jaurequi told Elle magazine in an interview: “It’s a whole space that no one’s ever really touched upon before, and I feel like representation in music is so important. “And reality-wise, we’ve both been in the situation before with different people, so it’s cool to have that representation.” In the duet, the pair sing: “I miss the morning with you laying in my bed, I miss the memories replaying in my head.” The song was described in Elle magazine as potentially the first same-sex love duet heard on mainstream radio. Halsey has discussed the song in the past, saying: “I just love that Lauren [Jauregui] and I are two women who have a mainstream pop presence doing a love song for the LGBTQ community. It’s unheard of. “It’s very rare to see it from a female perspective. It’s a whole space that no one’s ever really touched upon before, and I feel like representation in music is so important. “And reality-wise, we’ve both been in the situation before with different people, so it’s cool to have that representation.” Jauregui, 20, has featured in Fifth Harmony since the band was formed in 2012. She came out as bisexual in a controversial letter to Donald Trump in November 2016, just 10 days after he beat Hillary Clinton to the US Presidency. In the letter she described herself as a “proud bisexual Cuban-American”, and called Trump a “power-hungry tycoon” whose supporters are “worthless”. “Your words are worthless,” she told Trump’s supporters, “because your actions have led to the single-handed destruction of all the progress we’ve made socially as a nation.” “You have, with your pure ignorance and refusal to understand the way the government and the world works, allowed a power-hungry business tycoon to take over the United States of America. “‘The land of the free, the home of the brave, under God, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for ALL.’ You are HYPOCRITES,” she wrote in the letter published on Billboard. Source
