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Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni on Wednesday defied international calls to rescind an anti-gay law seen as one of the world’s harshest, including a potential death penalty for “aggravated homosexuality”. “The signing of the bill is finished, no one will move us,” Museveni said in a statement after a meeting with …

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For decades, members of the Rastafari community have been persecuted and imprisoned for their ritualistic marijuana use. “I (was) born within the Rastafari community. My mother and father are Rastafari,” says Ras Kiyode Erasto, a priest with the Ras Freeman Foundation for the Unification of Rastafari. Erasto suffered bullying and …

 Sweden has officially declared sex as a sport and is also set to host its first-ever sex competition. The participants will engage in sex sessions which can go up to six hours daily. A panel of judges will decide the winners of the sex competition while the audience will also influence the …

A group, under the aegis of the Northern Christian Youth Professionals, has hailed President Bola Tinubu for finding the former Governor of Benue State, Senator George Akume, good enough to be appointed as the Secretary General of the Federation. While praising the president as a man who is genuinely interested …

Top diplomats from BRICS countries called for a “rebalancing” of the global order during talks in South Africa on Thursday, as the bloc seeks a larger voice in the international arena. Foreign ministers from the five-nation grouping of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa met in Cape Town for …

The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, on Wednesday, dismissed five of its personnel, including a Deputy Director, for offences ranging from bribery, pilfering of confidential documents, amongst others. This was as two other officers were demoted by two ranks for soliciting bribes from a human trafficking …

Youths under the aegis of the All Progressives Congress youth wing in the United Kingdom on Tuesday congratulated the newly sworn-in president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Bola Tinubu. In a letter signed by their leader, Olumide Awoyemi, the forum urged Tinubu to focus and implement youths-oriented policies. The …

A Beninese migrant aged 30 was stabbed to death and five other wounded in an attack by a group of Tunisians in the central eastern part of the country. The spokesperson for the Sfax court made the announcement Monday (May 29). The attack against 19 migrants gathered in a housing …

SEGUN ODUNAYO writes on Ijara-Isin, a small community in Kwara State, which has its unique means of buying and selling Ijara-Isin is a sleepy small community in Isin Local Government Area of Kwara State, North-Central, Nigeria. The villagers are quiet people who go about their business peacefully. Many of the …