San Francisco, CA — On Monday history was made at the Chapel of Our Lady at the Presidio in San Francisco as the first-ever state recognized human-animal marriage took place.
Local resident 35-year-old Paul Horner was the groom during the ceremony. Joining him was his faithful dog Mac who is 36-years-old in dog years. Mac also decided to be the groom but ended up wearing a white veil at the last moment.
Father McHale who officiated the outdoor wedding told reporters he was extremely happy to be a part of this joyous moment of life. “This is the definition of true love my friends. There is nothing more sacred than the bond between a man and his faithful dog,” McHale said. “Now, since it is recognized as a legally binding marriage in the state of California, Mr. Horner and Mac will have all the same tax benefits and everything else coming to them that a regular married couple would receive. It’s a fantastic day to be alive!”
So how could this have happened?
In the book of California’s State Laws and Regulations there is a little known law that was passed as the state was first forming in 1850. According to article 155, paragraph 10, it clearly states:
If a man and a man can get married and a woman and a woman can get married, if ever comes that day, then a human and animal will have the exact same rights to marriage in every eye of the law. God help us if this ever is to happen!
In attendance was Horner’s entire family who flew in from Hawaii to witness the event. Mac had her puppies on hand and making a special celebrity appearance was Alex from Stroh’s and Spuds Mckenzie.
“I just love my Mac so much, I can’t wait till we can finally get back to the honeymoon sweet in Montana where bestiality is legal. Gosh, get with the times California! We can marry here just fine, but love making is a big no-no,” said Horner. “People keep asking me why I wanted to marry a dog. I told them I just want the same god given rights that every person in California is allowed to have. Don’t tell me I can’t marry my dog. I don’t tell you that you can’t marry a 500 lb woman with gas issues. That’s your decision. Don’t tread on me. I love my dog and I know he loves me a hundred times more than any gay wedding out there.”
With this wedding between a man and a male dog now on the books, one can only ask what is in store next?
A man marrying a toaster? A toaster marrying a dog? A toaster marrying a toaster?
America, what happened to the sanctity of marriage? Tsk. Tsk.
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On the surface all appears to be well, but a search reveals deep seated animosity that has suddenly polarized the PDP in Cross River State into North-South divide in the aftermath of the zoning of the governorship position to the Northern Senatorial District. A tug of war is raging silently between the two districts following the entrance of Chief Gershom Bassey, from the south, into the race despite his endorsement late last year of the decision by an enlarged caucus of the PDP in the state to zone the office to the North which is yet to produce a governor in the political history of the state.
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Plateau State Governor, Chief Jonah Jang, has urged the National Assembly to suspend amending the constitution until the proposed national dialogue has been done and its outcome duly certified. The governor, at a valedictory session yesterday in Jos, for the retired of state Chief Judge, Justice Lazarus Dakyen, also asked that the national dialogue should discuss issues without restrictions and the report be subjected to a referendum. He said: “I personally support President Goodluck Jonathan’s national dialogue, but would wish that there be no no-go areas and the outcome be subjected to a referendum by the citizens of Nigeria. “Indeed, I call on the National Assembly to suspend further efforts at amending the constitution and await the outcome of the national dialogue.” Expressing the wish that the outcome of the national dialogue would not be dumped on the shelf, Jang urged the National Assembly not to oppose a national referendum as it was the only way the constitution could truly be the ‘property’ of Nigerians. Jang, after the valedictory session, left for the Government House, where he swore in Justice Pius Damulak as the acting chief judge. He charged him to speed up trials and avoid anything that could bring about delay in justice. “I urge your lordship to ensure that litigations, particularly criminal trials, are fast tracked”, the governor told the new chief justice, adding that “a situation whereby criminal trials take years defeats justice.” The governor said he gave the charge bearing in mind that ‘justice delayed is justice denied.’
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The police in Rivers State Wednesday released the 275 Boko Haram suspects out of the 294 arrested on Sunday. The release came three days after the suspects were arrested and detained at the state Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) in Port Harcourt. The other 19 suspects who did not have any reasons whatsoever to move to Port Harcourt and who did not give any satisfactory account of their mission to Rivers State were recommended for further investigation. Addressing journalists in Port Harcourt yesterday, the Deputy Commission of Police, SCID, Sam Okaula, said one of the suspects, Mohammed Musa, was discovered to be in possession of an expended ammunition which was hidden in a bag. Okaula also disclosed that another suspect, Mohammed Lawal, who was crossing form Niger Republic to Nigeria in his Toyota Hiace Bus with unidentified persons into Port Harcourt was still being detained for further interrogation. He said the 295 suspects were being driven into River State in 17 buses and that they were arrested between 2.am and 6.am on Sunday by two different teams of policemen led by the DPO of Nkpolu and Oyigbo Divisions on the instruction of the Commissioner of Police, Joseph Mbu. According to Okaula, “It will be recalled that on Friday night, January 24, 2014, the commissioner of police received an alarming information that members of Boko Haram were being massively transported to Rivers State particularly, Port Harcourt from certain parts of the country for the purpose of causing havoc on innocent citizens. “As it were, such information cannot be taken lightly hence all DPO’s, Area Commanders and operatives were alerted to be vigilant by the commissioner of police. What the police have done was a response to information especially considering the security situation in some parts of the country. “It must be noted that there is no political colouration whatsoever as being speculated by some members of the public. The exercise is purely security routine and should be seen as such.”
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Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi and his Ogun State counterpart, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, yesterday mourned the death of a former President of the defunct National Union of Nigerian Students (NUNS), Chief Segun Okeowo, whom they described as a “fearless reformer.” In separate statements issued Wednesday by Fayemi’s Chief Press Secretary (CPS), Mr. Yinka Oyebode, and Amosun’s Senior Special Assistant, Media, Mrs. Funmi Wakama, the governors noted that the late Okeowo was a true hero and dogged pace setter, who should be in the sustained vanguard for a better Nigeria. On his part, Fayemi described Okeowo’s death as the end of an era of a freedom fighter, whose legacy inspired future generations to the defence of the rights of the oppressed. The governor noted that personalities like Okeowo inspired many, including himself to join the students’ union movement as an undergraduate at the University of Lagos (UNILAG), a development which he said, had prepared him for the roles he played as a pro-democracy activist and human rights campaigner, before becoming a governor. Also, Amosun said: “We recall his struggle in 1978 during the ‘Ali Must Go’ saga when he championed the resistance by university students the 50 kobo increment in the price of meals on campuses by the then Supreme Military Council (SMC), an action which was driven by patriotism and selflessness. “No doubt, he was moved by the passion for the well-being and glorious future of Nigerian students, a virtue, which is rare among leaders of today. The death of Chief Segun Okeowo is indeed a great loss to Ogun State in particular and the nation in general.”
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The Cross River State Government has raised the alarm over the increasing security challenges in the Gulf of Guinea and wants the Eastern Naval Command to intensify maritime patrol and general security operations in the area. The state Security Adviser, Mr. Rekpene Bassey, told the new Commander of the Nigerian Naval Ship (NNS), Victory Calabar, Commodore Frederick Ogu, that the Gulf of Guinea was facing security problems, which needed to be tackled urgently before things get out of hand. In recent years, sea piracy, smuggling, oil bunkering, sea robbery and other sea crimes generally have been giving the nation’s security operatives challenges, prompting the Nigerian Navy to go into international collaboration with other nations that share the same maritime boundary with Nigeria. Twice in the last three years, states within the Gulf of Guinea held regional security conferences in Calabar, the Cross River State capital with a view for full cooperation on maritime patrol to check incessant reports of sea crime along their international maritime boundary. The new Commander of NNS Victory was in Bassey’s office on a courtesy visit, but the state Security Adviser commended the navy for rising to the occasion to stem the tide of piracy and robbery, thus making Cross River safe and secure for human habitation. He said since the state had tourism as the main stay of its economy, security should be given priority at all times, noting that though the state remains the safest and most peaceful in Nigeria, “we cannot rest on our oars in ensuring that effective security is sustained.’’ Bassey also commended the appointment of Rear Admiral Usman Jubrin as the new Chief of Naval Staff, saying the officer performed creditably well as the Flag Officer Commanding (FOC) Eastern Naval Command, Calabar, adding that he was “a first class military officer bound to bring great innovations to the Nigerian Navy.’’ He implored him to support the two naval formations in the state. Ogu, who commended the state government for the support it had given his command over the years, stressed that such assistance was evident in the donation of gun boats which had helped the command to carry out its activities effectively. Ogu, however, asked for more support as such would enable the navy to execute its professional assignment with ease and efficiently too.
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The Transition Monitoring Group (TMG), a civil society organisation, has cautioned President Goodluck Jonathan against what it described as mass retirement of top military officers. TMG in a statement signed by its Chair, Zikrulahi Ibrahim, expressed concern over what it described as the in-appropriateness of replacing highly skilled military personnel with newer officers. “TMG is concerned about the appropriateness of cutting the nose to spite the face, especially in a situation where military expertise and competence are very crucial security assignments,” he said. Zikrulahi observed that not less than 30 senior military officers were retired just to accommodate the newest appointments. “We are not ignorance of the fact that as the Commander-in-Chief of the Nigerian Armed Forces, the president has the power to make appointments especially as demanded by the escalating and unending security crisis in the country. We are apprehensive that an exercise of that magnitude may have robbed the country of the necessary services and expertise of these highly experienced officers whom the country has invested so much on,” he said. TMG in a separate statement, also signed by Zikrulahi, commended the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for the timely release of the 2015 electoral timetable. According to him, TMG particularly welcomed the gaps between each strand of elections as stated in the timetable. “We particularly welcome the gaps, which we believe will offer the commission ample space to make necessary adjustments in the event of any unforeseen developments,” the statement noted. The group noted that early release of the timetable was not aimed at tempting politicians to embark on premature campaign, but to guarantee the commission more time to address all cases of litigation that may arise from the electoral exercise. The group, however, urged Nigerians to be more concerned about the preparedness and capacity of INEC to deliver on its promises of credible elections rather than dissipate energy on the sequencing of elections. “TMG does not believe that the conduct of the 2015 general election has anything to do with the proposed national conference. If anything, TMG is aware that both exercises are crucial in the life and existence of Nigeria. While the constitution has stipulated that regular elections must be conducted every four years, the same constitution has empowered the president to make pronouncements or proclamations in the interest of the Nigerian people,” he added.
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Former Governor of Sokoto State, Alhaji Attahiru Bafarawa, who defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) last week from the All Progressives Congress (APC), yesterday hinged his action on the need to deepen and save democracy in Nigeria. On his part, Niger State Governor, Dr. Babangida Aliyu, who was among PDP officials that worked out of the party’s convention in Abuja last year, explained why he did not follow his other comrades to APC. Bafarawa, who led a delegation of his supporters to the national secretariat of PDP in Abuja, said APC was operating outside its constitution, hence he had to defect to the PDP to save democracy. He said: “APC is yet to give a membership card to anybody, six months after its registration as a political party. Along the line in the past six months, APC started operating outside the constitution of the party. Our complaints against PDP are repeating itself in the APC. “There is no difference between the PDP and APC because there is no respect for the constitution; but with the emergence of Adamu Mu’azu as the national chairman (of PDP), there is a glimmer of hope. PDP is lacking good leadership, but with Mu’azu as chairman, we are encouraged with the turn of events in the PDP. You see it is better to come inside and make your contributions. I have to come in and make my contributions from within.” Speaking further on Mu’azu’s leadership of PDP, the former governor said: “We are here to show our support to your leadership. We are not looking for appointments. I have been in opposition since 1976 when I was elected a councillor. We are not joining the PDP because of any material gain. I joined PDP so as to build democracy and because of Mu’azu. “Mu’azu is a leader, who listens to advise and we exchange ideas while in office.” Bafarawa accused some politicians of introducing ethno-religious sentiment into politics and urged the party chair to beware of such people. He also advised Mu’azu to abide by the PDP constitution, saying: “Obey the constitution and always bear in mind that the party is supreme.” He called on stakeholders of the party to convene a national convention as soon as possible to confirm Mu’azu as the national chairman. Bafarawa assured the party chair that he would not engage in any power tussle with Sokoto State Deputy Governor, Alhaji Mukhtari Shagari, who is currently the leader of the party in the state. “We don’t have any grudge against Shagari. I am coming to PDP without senators, but with the people. I am in the PDP on behalf of the PDP,” he said. On whether he supports the presidency being from the south-south, the former governor said: “Nigeria belongs to everybody. When we talk about region, we are killing democracy. Let’s allow people to choose their candidate. Let apply internal democracy.” He called on PDP to issue him and his supporters with membership cards to enable them became full members of the ruling party. In his response, Mu’azu directed the National Organising Secretary of PDP, Mustapha Abubakar, to ensure that Bafarawa and his group are issued PDP membership cards. Mu’azu said: “After so many years, Bafarawa and I are now in PDP. PDP is very accommodating. Bafarawa is a core grassroots politician.” He said the unity of Nigeria could not be compromised and charged Bafarawa and his supporters to embark on a massive membership drive in Sokoto State for PDP. Like Bafarawa, Aliyu, who was also at the PDP national secretariat to visit Mu’azu, defended his stay in the party, despite the fact that some of his aggrieved comrades have defected to APC. The governor, who led other stakeholders from the state to pay homage to Mu’azu, said though he led the protest against the party, he had no intention of leaving it. According to him, “I led a protest, which came to be known as G7. It was not intended to kill the party and move away. Many people asked me, you led the group how come you did not move? I didn’t move because my conscience, understanding and my position is with the PDP. And I believe that in 2015, PDP will form the government.”
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Following the refusal of the speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Aminu Tambuwal, to appear in a case against his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), a Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja, yesterday ordered all the parties to hand all “processes (court documents) yet to be served on the third defendant (Tambuwal) to the court’s bailiff, who shall ensure that he is served between now and Friday.” The suit was instituted late last year by some members of the National Assembly, including 22 PDP senators and 57 House members, including those who had defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC). They were among others, seeking to restrain the PDP and the leadership of the National Assembly from declaring vacant the seats of those who have defected to APC. The defendants in the suit are the then PDP National Chairman, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur; Senate President David Mark, Tambuwal, PDP and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). The judge’s order was informed by complaints from most lawyers in the case, including the plaintiffs’ lawyer, Mahmud Magaji (SAN), that they had difficulties serving Tambuwal with the court processes. Mark’s lawyer, Ken Ikonne, frowned on Tambuwal’s failure to either attend court or send a representative, even after he (the lawyer) went the extra step to personally effect service of processes on the speaker. The inability of other parties, particularly the plaintiff, to serve Tambuwal had stalled moves by Joe Kyari Gadzama (SAN), lawyer to PDP and Tukur to argue his application seeking the reversal of the defection of some former PDP lawmakers to APC. Gadzama’s application, seeking the nullification of the defection, was hinged on the argument that the defection took place after the court had ordered parties to maintain status quo pending the determination of the case. Gadzama had argued that the application he filed last December was intended to protect the court’s dignity because its order had been flouted by the PDP House members, who allegedly defected to the APC, after the court had ordered parties to maintain status quo. He argued that the constant threat by some senators, who were parties in the case, to also defect was because the court had failed to take action against those who defected after its order for the maintenance of status quo. Magaji objected to the hearing of Gadzama’s application on the grounds that his inability to serve Tambuwal with his motion for extension of time had denied him the opportunity to properly respond to Gadzama’s application. Magaji said he had filed a counter affidavit to the application and had equally filed a motion for extension of time, having filed out of time, but that his inability to serve Tambuwal had made it impossible for the court to hear Gadzama’s application to which he was responding. Ruling, Justice Ahmed Mohammed upheld Magaji’s submissions, noting that should the court proceed to hear Gadzama’s application, without hearing the plaintiffs’ motion to extend time, he (Magaji) would be denied the right to respond to the application. He held that the court could not deny the plaintiffs’ right to respond and could not proceed without all the parties being properly served. The judge, who ensured that one of the court’s bailiffs was in court to hear his pronouncement, ordered parties to hand all processes intended for Tambuwal to the bailiff , who shall serve the speaker between now and Friday. He adjourned until February 5 for hearing of Gadzama’s application. The plaintiffs are, in the originating summons, seeking the following reliefs: “A declaration that the circumstance prevailing at the national level and various state chapters of the PDP (fourth defendant) which led to factions/ divisions as witnessed at the special national convention of the fourth defendant held on 31st August, 2013 and holding of a parallel convention simultaneously at Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Centre, followed up with the emergence of new National Executive Committee constitute and qualify as crisis, faction and division anticipated under Section 68 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 as amended. “A declaration that any of the plaintiffs or other members of the PDP who pursuant to the crisis that led to factions/divisions in the fourth defendant, joined new faction of the fourth defendant or desires to join it or another political party (individually or as a group) is/are saved by the proviso to Section 68(1) (g) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 as amended, without losing his/their elective seats. “A declaration that in view of the proviso to Section 68 (1) (g) of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 as amended, the first defendant or any other officer of the fourth defendant or any person or authority whatsoever cannot declare vacant the seats of any of the plaintiffs or others members of the fourth defendant that joined or who may desire to become members of another political party in view of the present crisis that created factions/divisions in the fourth defendant vacant. The plaintiffs want an order, “restraining the second and third defendants from conducting any proceedings in their respective chambers aimed at declaring the seat (s) of any the plaintiffs or other members of the fourth defendant who joined or intended to become members of another political party vacant in view of the present circumstance in the fourth defendant as vacant. “An order restraining the fifth defendant (INEC) from accepting nominations of any purported candidate and conducting by-election aimed at filling the seats of any of the plaintiffs or other members of the fourth defendant who joined or may wish to become members of another political party in view of the present circumstance in the fourth defendant.” The defendants, particularly Tukur and PDP, have opposed the suit. They want the court to dismiss it on several grounds. They argued that the substance of the case “is an intra-party matter for which the fourth defendant (PDP) has various administrative and legal mechanisms which are yet to be exhausted by the plaintiffs.” The party and its ex-chairman urged the court to dismiss the suit on the further grounds that the plaintiffs “lacked that requisite legal standing to institute and sustain this suit,” that the suit amounts to an abuse of court process, that it was wrongly commenced and that there is no reasonable cause of action that lies against the defendants.
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Former military president, General Ibrahim Babangida, has denied media report that he, like former President General Olusegun Obasanjo, has written a letter to President Goodluck Jonathan on the state of the nation. Babangida, in a statement yesterday by Mr. Kassim Afegbua, denied the report, which he described as “outright blackmail journalism and a sad commentary on the journalism practice.” In the statement given to THISDAY in Minna, Niger State, Babangida denied issuing any statement titled: “Your aides are misleading you; IBB warns Jonathan,” published in an online publication. “To state the least, this is outright blackmail journalism and a sad commentary on journalism practice; a profession that I hold dear to my heart. “Let me also state without mincing words that I did not issue the said statement that is flying around the social media on behalf of IBB,” the statement added. Afegbua also stated that Babangida did not authorise anyone to write the statement, adding that since he left to be the Special Assistant to the Edo State Governor, Adams Oshiomhole, Babangida had not officially appointed a spokesman. He said: “I declare with all the emphasis at my disposal that General IBB did not authorise anyone to issue any statement on his behalf let alone crediting same odious statement to me; Prince Kassim Afegbua. Even though General IBB has not officially appointed a media spokesman since I left, my acceptance of the offer of special adviser by my governor automatically removes me from being General IBB’s spokesman, a position I so cherished and a personality I so admire. “It is, therefore, bad journalism for one obscure, good-for-nothing, unprofessional platform such as the Global Villa Extra, to fabricate a statement and credit same to me, not only to mislead the public but cause disaffection amongst the personalities involved.” He explained that it was not in Babangida’s character to take up issues with leaders in such a pedestrian manner as reflected in the so-called statement credited to him. “This rebuttal becomes instructive to put the records straight and disabuse the minds of our numerous followers, friends and associates who may come across this statement in one way or the other,” he added. According to him, ‘When I called the local mobile telephone number of the online publication: 08165076156, no one answered my several calls. In fact, the receiver from the other end was cutting my calls. When I called the international number, 00912407041545, a receiver from the other end who refused to disclose his name, expressed shock at my declaration. He did promise to instruct his co-conspirators to remove the tissue of concocted lies from their site. As at the time of writing this rebuttal, he has not done so.”
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