please help us stop Jackson Ude with his blackmail. Ebonyi State Govement Aid plead

Open and shot letter to Mr Jackson Ude of pointblanknews. Please if you have anything to say about Ebonyi State of Nigeria, it will be best for you to be in the state to see things yourself. stop trying to blackmail you way, we are not reading to pay you anything, if you think your story is true go ahead a print it, you need to be stop. You have to stop writhing things about people you don't know, your fake story will take you no where....... STOP ..
Hon. Ode Aleke

Senator Abaribe responded to Jackson Ude fake Story on Pointblank

Pointblank news,
What you have written above is false and simply a figment of the imagination of whoever wrote the story.
2. There has NEVER been any meeting of the National Assembly members with Gov TA Orji in Senator Chukwumerije's house. Therefore the basis for your story is non-existent and therefore false.
3. Members of the National assembly have unfettered access to the Governor and therefore have no need to hold any grouse against the Governor when any matter could be taken up with him at any time.
4. The members of the National Assembly have always supported the Governor in his bid to transform the lives and fortunes of Abians.
5. The Abia State Governor and members of the National Assembly are all members of the PDP family and therefore it is not in the interest of the National Assembly members for the Abia State Government to be pulled down in any way.
6. This story is merely an attempt to draw us back to the dark ages of politics in Abia State. It seems that Point Blank News is finding it difficult to accept the new Abia thinking of peace for development.
7. Members of the National assembly are very accessible to the public. Our phone numbers and email addresses are matters of public knowledge. It would be better to verify your story rather than this ridiculous attempt at stoking the fires of discord.
8. Using the Local Govt Transition Council matter is cheap and smacks of ignorance. The Governor in exercising his powers has absolute responsibility for making such choices.
9. Trying to start up a divide and rule strategy in Abia by deliberately creating division of a supposed Ukwa-Ngwa legislators "opposed" to Governor Orji is a tactic well known to us, utilized by the former power in the state, and cannot work this time. It is futile.
Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe
Chairman, Senate Committee on Information, Media and Public Affairs

Country is at risk from homosexual invasion, says Archbishop

It would be nice to be able to simply dismiss Nicholas Okoh as an irrelevant bigot, but he also heads the Anglican Church in Nigeria, and as such is also a senior figure in the Anglican communion worldwide. Sadly, he's a prime example of the kind of barking fundamentalism which so many religious leaders across the continent seem to be embracing and selling as somehow African. Earlier this month he told a press conference that "Same sex marriage, paedophilia and all sexual pervasions [sic] should be roundly condemned by all who accept the authority of scripture over human life" and talked about the risk of a gay invasion (more here)

For a long time, homosexuality (albeit condemned) was fairly low down on the list of key issues for religious leaders across the world, but not any more. Playing on cultural taboos and strengthening religious ones is a quick win, and we should be wary of the way those who claim to speak for the world's major religions are cosying up to one another on this issue. No one could have predicted when so many of us went onto the streets to campaign for gay rights in the US and Europe in the 1970s that rational thought would be so under threat 40 years later.

Nigerian gay pastor dares Senate, recruits more members

The Senate during the week passed the anti Same-Sex Marriage Bill prohibiting all marriages between man and man and between woman and woman.
The Bill sponsored by Senator Magnus Abe, PDP, Rivers, prescribes 14 years jail term for anybody convicted of contracting marriage between same sex.
It also prescribed 10 years for anybody convicted of aiding and abetting the contraction of same sex marriage in Nigeria and also nullifies certificate of same sex marriage contracted outside the shores of Nigeria.
The act also kicked against the operation of gay clubs in Nigeria with a punishment of 10 years jail term without option of fine for anybody guilty of operating gay clubs within the country.

In 2008, Saturday Vanguard reported a story about a gay Reverend Rowland who was running a church secretly in Nigeria. The Church called House of Rainbow was situated at No 36/38 Yakoyo street, Ojodu Berger, Lagos. Reverend Roland some time ago reportedly appeared on Cable Network News, CNN, where he proudly talked about his church of gays.
The initial reaction about his exposure was that such a church could not exist within Nigeria as such things are common outside the country.
But an uproar in the Anglican communion in Europe on gay bishops brought up the case of Reverend Rowland, a Nigerian, and was residing in Lagos. He was also operating his gay church in Lagos.
In his plot 145 flat 1, Jakande Estate, Isolo, Lagos, where Rev. Rowland Olajide Macaulay, the gay pastor lived, the apartment was locked. It was learnt that the Reverend had left his house on Saturday, September 13, immediately after a national newspaper carried the story of his homosexual church.
According to the neighbours, the Sunday service was unable to hold both at the Jakande Estate branch and the Ojodu headquarters of House of Rainbow Ministries after that publication.
Right now, Rev. Rowland has relocated abroad where he is presently running his gay church,”House Of Rainbow Fellowship”.
According to him, “ My Church is a voice of the younger generation of citizens, activists, and diaspora, and our collective belief in a more progressive Nigeria. They are afraid of our growing influence as we gather allies not just from the West, a people that are not afraid but powerful and resilient.
“Right now, they are spreading their tentacles to every village, town and city around the world”. The Church is also calling on faithful and dedicated local leaders who believe in homosexuality and lesbianism. Ten House Of Rainbow Fellowship local leaders are in Ghana, Nigeria, UK, Burundi, and Lesotho.
According to the gay pastor,  “any negative effect on the anti-gay bill will have detrimental effect on the work and mission of House Of Rainbow in Nigeria. The lives of LGBTI people and their friends, families and allies will be further frustrated with fear and prejudice. We need to pray and stand up against injustice”.
Nigeria is kicking against the practice of same sex marriage where homosexuality is punishable by up to 14 years in prison, so it might be a terrible time for both gay and religious leaders who are in support of this practice.
Meanwhile, Rev Rowland Jide Macaulay, the gay minister who founded the church, is leading a comeback even though he remains in self-imposed exile in London.
”Religion is a backbone to life in Nigeria, so we all want to go to church,” he said. “But we don’t want to lie to God about who we are.”
Macaulay first set up House of Rainbow in 2006, where he openly held Sunday services in a Lagos hotel hall decorated in rainbow colours. A public backlash culminated in members being beaten as they left the church. Macaulay fled to the UK after receiving death threats.
This year, he has recruited a small team that includes his local leaders in Lagos in his voluntary role.
The project could even spread beyond the borders of Africa’s most populous country. Macaulay has recently recruited a local leader in Accra, the capital of nearby Ghana. He is considering applications from Rwanda and Zimbabwe.
Pentecostal pastors often see gay desire as the work of demons. “You might start casually but, once you get into it, you will be possessed by the spirit,” said Emmanuel Owoyemi, a pastor in Lagos.
Meanwhile, in the 12 sharia states in the North, gay sex carries the death penalty, although no executions have yet taken place.
A national anti-gay marriage bill, which pushes for jail sentences for anyone who even assists gay marriage, has been before Nigeria’s parliament since 2009 and was passed recently prohibiting the practice. Macaulay, however, is not taking any chances this time.
Prayer sessions are being held in secret locations. No unknown newcomers are being admitted. He continues to preach via YouTube from London – he thinks it would be unwise to return home. “We have learnt our lesson,” he said. “It is a hostile situation.”
Being gay is regarded as an offence across much of Africa.
Apart from being on the wrong side of the law, many homosexual Nigerians say exclusion from church is one of the hardest parts of being gay. ”We are brought up to believe that you should belong to a religion. We feel that, if we don’t go to church, God will not answer our prayers,” says a young gay man in Abuja, .