Senators Fear Gender Equality Bill Will Turn Women to Prostit*tes & Lesbians – Senator Abaribe

 According to Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe representing Abia South Senatorial District, many senators turned down the Gender Equal Opportunities Bill because they feared it will turn some women to prostit*tes and lesbians.

The bill which was turned down by the senate on March 15th, was designed to address women's freedom of movement, female economic activity, girls' access to education, equal rights for women in marriage, divorce, property/land ownership and inheritance, appropriate measures against gender discrimination in political and public life and prohibitions of violence to women.

According to Premium Times, Abaribe said this while speaking at a forum on political rights of women in Nigeria organised by the Civil Resource Development and Documentation Centre (CIRDDOC) in Abuja yesterday April 13th.

“The bill was defeated at the second reading when its details were highlighted to the senators. Some lawmakers started expressing deep worries about some parts of the bill that they think could give women too much freedom and lead them to prostitution, lesbianism and other social vices.

The reason why we’re here is that we think that we should be able to restrategise, we should be able to look at the bill again and see those contentious areas we may need to modify. We should be able to find those critical constituencies within the senate that we must have to address. We should be able to look at the narrative of the bill and how it is being presented to the public and change that narrative and make it a positive narrative. For example, the bill is not a north versus south bill.

The bill is not a Christian versus Muslim bill. The bill is not a male versus female bill. The bill simply seeks to extend to every Nigerian all the rights that are they should enjoy. And if women by virtue of our culture, by virtue of our historic antecedents are being behind, then we need to also drag them into the economy by giving them every right that they can use to be productive members of the society and that is all that we’re trying to do.”he said

Is Michael Jackson's Daughter Paris Now a Lesbian? Spotted Kissing a Woman(See Photos)

 Michael Jackson's only daughter, Paris Jackson, was spotted kissing a female friend on the lips during a day out in New York City over the weekend.

 They were later spotted holding hands as they strolled the city with other friends. More photos below...

Omotola Jalade Flaunts Her Bare Belly For Glitz Africa(Photos)

 Nollywood actress Omotola Jalade covers the latest edition of Glitz Africa...

I Never Abort*d Pregnancies For Femi Fani Kayode, Kemi Olunloyo Is Mentally Unstable - Bianca Ojukwu

 Bianca Ojukwu has finally replied to the allegations controversial Social Media Personality Kemi Olunloyo made against her.

 In a recent interview with Jola Sotubo, Olunloyo alleged that Bianca Ojukwu aborted twice for ex-Aviation Minister Femi Fani Kayode while she was still married to Ojukwu.

See Bianca’s disclaimer below:

“The attention of Her Excellency has been drawn to an interview granted by a media character Ms Kemi Olunloyo, a deportee from Canada, and a fugitive from justice in the United States of America, whose sole existence centres around online character assassination.

“Her victims have ranged from Bishops, General Overseers, Presidents, Ministers, Hardworking Musicians and real media Personalities down to her own family members including her mother, father, stepmother and siblings.

“It is rather unfortunate that it has become the practice for anyone seeking publicity to add Her Excellency’s name to their stories, fantasies or delusions, and none more so than this mentally unstable internet troll whose insane need for attention is well known to Nigerians.

“This unhealthy obsession with Her Excellency for some time now, a situation most public figures can identify with, has been glaringly evident in her posts, and is indicative of a more serious underlying condition.

“It is quite clear that her delusions and fantasies have become her reality, and her lack of gainful employment and hours spent online focusing on other people’s lives have exacerbated her already strained sanity or lack thereof.

“It is obvious that Ms Olunloyo needs urgent psychiatric attention. Her Excellency extends her sincere sympathies to Ms. Olunloyo’s family, and urges those who are able, to ensure that this mentally challenged individual receives the crucial psychiatric help she is so desperately in need of in order to contain her excesses.”

About 3 years ago, Fani Kayode confirmed in an interview that she dated Bianca but the wife of the ex-Biafran activist denied the claim and threatened to sue him for defamation of character.

Police DPO Demoted For Beating Up Female Traffic Officer

 IGP Arase has ordered the immediate demotion of Patrick Onwu, the Divisional Police Officer in charge of Ikenne who beat a traffic warden to coma on Monday.

As it stands, the DPO has been demoted to the rank of Deputy Superintendent of Police(DSP).

IGP learnt about the incident in the newspapers and immediately called Ogun State Police Commissioner and gave him the directives.

The alleged bully is also facing disciplinary actions.

This will serve as a warning to others like him who take pride in abuse of office.

Sad : Three Month Old Infant Dies on First Day at Daycare

 After three and a half months of maternity leave, Adrienne Kromer's took her daughter, McKenna Felmly to a daycare because she had to return to work. She said she called her daughter's new daycare center three times to check on the baby girl.

 Kromer said her daughter was perfectly healthy when she was dropped off at the Lehigh Township, Pennsylvania, center in the morning,

Kromer said she was nervous about dropping her daughter off at such a tender age but had to go back to work. She said one time when she called the daycare, they told her McKenna was having trouble sucking on her bottle,then they later said she'd fallen asleep quickly (something Kromer said was very rare for her daughter to do),so Kromer decided to leave work early and pick up her daughter.

Few minutes after she left work, the daycare center called her and told her McKenna wasn't breathing. By the time Kromer arrived, McKenna had been transported to the hospital; soon after Kromer and Brian Felmly (the infant's father) arrived at the hospital, doctors told them they couldn't save the infant and that she had passed away.

Daycare workers said they found McKenna unresponsive in her crib and that they gave CPR and several other attempts to revive her at the daycare, but she was pronounced dead upon her arrival at the hospital.

An autopsy showed no signs of trauma and police say the death does not appear suspicious at this time, but a cause of death won't be determined until toxicology and viral tests are completed and other aspects of the case, including the crib, are investigated.

"We are continuing to conduct interviews with family, friends, and employees of the daycare," the police chief told LeHigh Valley Live Wednesday. "We still have some work to finish yet. I can't say when we will determine manner of death."

The result could take as long as three months.

Police confirmed that the daycare center has a valid certificate of operation and had last been inspected in January this year.

Abducted Chibok Girls Make Passionate Appeal To Government & Parents In New Video, As Mothers Identify Them(Photos)

 They were stolen from their beds in a school dormitory, hundreds of teenage girls kidnapped by gunmen.

A few dozen escaped to tell of the night that Boko Haram militants brought terror to their school.

From the rest, silence. No sign of where they had been taken or what could have happened to them for almost two years, even as the world screamed #BringBackOurGirls.

Hundreds of parents left, day after day, night after night, and then months with no information, until now.

CNN has obtained a video of some of the "Chibok Girls" sent to negotiators by their captors as a "proof of life."

The video had been seen by negotiators and some members of the government.

But no one had shown the parents. Until now.

Rifkatu Ayuba catches sight of her long-lost, desperately missed, now 17-year-old. "My Saratu!" she wails, reaching out to a laptop screen, the closest she's been to her child in two years. She is desperate to comfort her little girl, but helpless.

 Saratu Ayuba is one of 15 girls seen in the recording shown to some of the families for the first time at an emotional meeting this week. Wearing a purple abaya, with a patterned brown scarf covering her hair, Saratu stares directly into the camera.

"I felt like removing her from the screen," Ayuba tells us, desperate to pluck Saratu from the mysterious location where she is being held and bring her home. "If I could, I would have removed her from the screen."

The video is believed to have been made last December as part of negotiations between the government and Boko Haram.

It was released by someone keen to give the girls' parents hope that some of their daughters are still alive, and to motivate the government to help release them.

The girls, their hair covered and wearing long, flowing robes, line up against a dirty yellow wall. They show no obvious signs of maltreatment.

As the camera focuses in on each of them, a man behind the camera fires off questions: "What's your name? Was that your name at school? Where were you taken from?"

One by one, each girl calmly states her name and explains that she was taken from Chibok Government Secondary School. Only the occasional hesitation betrays a flicker of fear and emotion.

As the two minute clip comes to an end, one of the girls, Naomi Zakaria, makes a final -- apparently scripted -- appeal to whoever is watching, urging the Nigerian authorities to help reunite the girls with their families.

"I am speaking on 25 December 2015, on behalf of the all the Chibok girls and we are all well," she says, stressing the word "all." Her intonation seems to imply that the 15 teens seen in the video have been chosen to represent the group as a whole.

The date given by Naomi matches information embedded in the video, suggesting it was filmed on Christmas Day, though whether that's true or whether the day was picked deliberately is unknown.

Most of the 276 girls taken from Chibok on April 14, 2014 were Christian. They are believed to have been forced to convert to Islam by their terrorist captors.