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...Read the full article.

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Pardon me, but I am at a loss to find which I find more amusing from the
two things I have gleaned from this essay; is it the issue of a President who
is reported to have confidently stated in public that “such a tendency is
clearly un-biblical(!), unnatural and definitely un-African” OR the new-found
cause of our of our up-and-coming Irish-Nigerian star - Sister Bennie - to
promote gay rights (of all the serious social ills that plague us!) in Nigeria.

To Baba, I will love to ask if he cared if the "tendency" is also un-Quoranic,
un-Moremi, un-Iyemoja, un-Ogunlakaaye etc. No, don't give me that talk
about him addressing Xtian Bishops; he is first of all the President of ALL
Nigerians - muslims, christians, pagans, atheists, agnostics etc - before
anything else and as such should be seen to be representing not just the
interests of folks with "biblical" views, but views of Nigerians in general.

As for Ms Attoh's new-found cause, I say, before 'gay rights' (in Nigeria!-lol!)
come women's right, children's right, right to freedom of association, right
to travel in peace without police harassment, right to live in peace in your
house without robbers' phonecall to tell you they'll be at yours in 2 hours
precisely, the right to have your vote reflect your choice of leader, the right
to control and enjoy your God-given resources..and other MORE IMPORTANT
right than the right of bone-to-bone or boob-to-boob.(!) Abeg now Sister
Bennie, fight for such in Ireland first. Over there, they have all those basic
rights near satisfactory already, hence they are satiated enough to fight for
things like 'Gay Rights'. We barely enjoy the basic rights to life and personal
liberty and economic prosperity in Nigeria, not to talk of 'Gay Rights'.
LOL..abi?..LOL!

Funny way to start the week. I predict a torrent of responses to this article.
Have a nice week, Villagers.

Auspicious.

*un-Moremi, un-Iyemoja, un-Ogunlakaaye - all various attributes of Yoruba
traditional dieties.

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Benedict, your essay is sagaciously lamed and therefore an omitigated disaster. The write-up depict a scoundrel, you spoke in unctuous tones and clearly based on expendiency. However, we have seen your like in the Netherlands and in the person of Ms Ayan. There are no links between the title of your essay and the Nigeria economic that is obviously not sturdy. Nigeria and Ireland appears to have same moral environment, therefore you are hooked in both sides of the atlantic and both countries are not prepare for your agnostic gospel.

God bless Nigeria and Catholic Republic of Ireland.

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typographic error:

mitigated - not omitigated

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Sister Bennie,
I think that you may have hit upon a raw nerve here!!

In religious terms and even in our local Nigerian culture, Homosexuality is WRONG!!! Let me say it here and now;.....

Man and Woman were created for a purpose! FACT!!

Our sexual organs were also created for a PURPOSE!! FACT!!

...Now when humans "CHOOSE" to deviate from that which is normal and come up with such lame excuses as..."I was born this way" or "You just dont understand" there is only one word for this;.....DEVIANT! PERIOD!!

There can be no known excuse or reason for asking for GAY rights, and not in Nigeria of all places. We have enough problems as it is.

I know these things exist in Nigeria, dont get me wrong; ...but let "them" remain in the CLOSET where they belong!!!

SHIKENA!!...second bass O jare!!

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I congratulate the writer for a thoughtful and well-balanced article. People's lifestyles should have nothing to do with their citizenship or human rights. If I am gay, I should have the same rights as every heterosexual to maintain my citizenship, human and civil rights, period!

As the writer pointed out, Stealing from the poor, polygamy, etc are considered sinful, but no one is yet to strip the likes of your politicians, most of who are polygamists of their human rights.

Just leave us alone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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The good of the greater number madam, that is what governance should be about. There is always an obscure right, including the right of the individual chickens to life, which is intensely violated especially during easter, that a country cannot satisfy everyone including those in diaspora who have advanced and maybe even superior notions of how things should be.

The law that you talk about may be faulted on the premise that it was not subjected to diaogue, and that those that it will affect the most were excluded from contributing during public hearings and similar other mechanisms that enable the people contribute to the law enactment process. If they were not actively prevented, and the law went through in spite of their best efforts, then democracy can be deemed to have taken its course and the law has been made for the good of the greater number.

We should as people come together to decide what we want or want not, no matter what other nations of the world say. International laws attempt to set a minimum standard but even so in recognition of the sovereignty of nation states, there are exemptions and provisos. China after all chose the third option.

My right as a parent to prtect my child from being persuaded to a lifestyle that was not coded by his/her genes should also be protected I think. And being human a level of self control, based on what is socially acceptable is expected of us. Since Kleptomania wil not stand up as defence for theft, natural blood lust will not do for murder just as the comliness of a 13 year old virgin or even a natural desire to sleep with children can never be defence enough for paedophilia, so too should people who have homosexuality coded in their genes come to the understanding that their condition is a call to celibacy. No one ever died yet from not having sex.

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I don’t know what gay rights have to do with the fact that OBJ is planning a coup in 2007 (sorry interim government), or the other serious issues we face back home and in Diaspora.

I think there are more important issues even in Ireland that one can channel their energy into than fighting for same sex rights.

I don’t know if the writer is aware but folks in the Republic of Ireland (mostly blacks) are losing their jobs to Polish and other cheap labour Eastern European immigrants in the last year or so. Nigerians who constitute the largest black group in Ireland are told point black their jobs are going to new white members of the EU.

You have enough there to sink your teeth into than moonlighting for sausage jockeys.

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Look Bennie! I am disappointed with you. Your comment-seeking article has revealed a complacent personality. Ireland, an arch conservative catholic nation, is the wrong place to migrate, and start the gospel of Gay freedom.

You have indicated interest in Irish politics, and to start that with Gay-leftist activism may bring the wrath of white Irish politicians in the upper echelon. And, Such has the potentials to posse a big threat to a first generation immigrant. ( no matter your aduro story)

You were probably aware of the case of Ayan Hirsi, the former Somali aduro, who later became a member of the Dutch parliament. She became so loquacious just as you are becoming, and stepped on some powerful white Dutch toes. Consequently, she was investigated and stripped of her Dutch citizenship.

I am not frightening you my sister, but just be careful. With exception to the UK, the rest of Europe are not like the US where freedom is practiced to its maximum.

The religious or traditional African values which implores us to abhor these types of vices should continue to be upheld. There are certain elements in them that are valuable weapons to checkmate certain human misbehaviour. It smacks of oversight, when educated Africans allow Western radicalism to override core African values. Our conservative values can serve as the third-eye to the madness called freedom in the wild West. Africans can benefit from helpful Western values, while throwing away the undesirables. Asians are wisely doing it.


I do not always agree with the US Evangelist, Rev. Jerry Falwell, but I was in accord with him when he said, " I do not believe the homosexual community deserves minority status. One's misbehaviour does not qualify him or her for minority status....".

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Dear Vatika,

I think you missed out on various other grammatical errors in your reply, so I am doing you the (thankless, I bet) favour of correcting it. Before you pick up a dictionary and write all the big words you can find to lambaste the write-up, may I suggest you learn to write correct and simple English first?

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Benedict, your essay is sagaciously lamed(lame) and therefore an omitigated(a mitigated- okay you already saw this one yourself) disaster. The write-up depict(s) a scoundrel, (may I suggest a full stop here?) you spoke in unctuous tones and clearly based on expendiency(it is expediency, if this statement makes any sense at all). However, we have seen your like in the Netherlands and in the person of Ms Ayan. There are no links between the title of your essay and the Nigeria economic(it is economy in this context) that is obviously not sturdy?????. Nigeria and Ireland appears(appear, not appears) to have same moral environment, therefore you are hooked in both sides of the Atlantic and both countries are not prepare(prepared) for your agnostic gospel.


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I am tired of reading bad grammar from people who think they write perfectly. Several people even accuse some writers of writing bad "grammer". Grammar is written with an a not e.

I know I will be slaughtered by people who claim English is not our mother tongue, but, anyone who graduated from a Nigerian University has had at least 16 years instruction in English and, last time I checked, English was still the Lingua Franca of Nigeria, so I do not accept that excuse.

Marin:mad: