Professor of law and chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee against Corruption (PACAC), Itse Sagay, says that Nigeria would have collapsed if Bubari had not intervened.

He said this at the presentation of the committee’s report on a new legal framework for fighting‎ corruption Monday; October 17, 2016.

“We know of some governors who are not supposed to be there, but found themselves on the seats with the help of some judges, if Buhari had not come, I don’t think there would have been a country. Zimbabwe would have been better. No agency would have dared to arrest Oputa, Obaseki, Eso, and some others. The government is operating on a zero budget. The moral authority of the golden era of the Supreme Court has crashed. No judge should be guilty of corruption; if that happens then they have reduced themselves to our level, so they should take whatever happens. Let us be fair to this country.”

Heart-wrenching images show a screaming young woman flogged in front of a jeering crowd for breaking Islamic laws as floggings reportedly spike in Indonesian province.

An unidentified woman screamed out in pain as she was caned 23 times in Indonesia’s Aceh for breaking the province’s strict Islamic law forbidding intimacy between unmarried couples.

Aceh is the only province in Indonesia that enforces sharia law and people face floggings for a range of offences, including gambling, drinking alcohol and gay sex. She was one of 13 people aged between 21-30 – to be flogged on Monday at a mosque.

The woman was allegedly caught standing too close to her boyfriend. She received her harsh floggings for getting to close to a fellow university student who was also whipped.

Ms Elita keeled over in pain at the end of her lashings as she had to be carried off stage and taken to hospital.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested the wife of former Minister of Aviation, Mrs. Precious Fani-Kayode in Ado Ekiti and her 8 months old baby.

UPDATE: Read the press statement from Femi Fani-Kayode detailing the incident that took place today

This govt is sick and cowardly and so are the EFCC. If you have a problem with me face me and leave my family alone. My wife traveled to Ado Ekiti to see my friend and brother Governor Fayose and his family.

They were on their way out of town when they went to Access Bank in Ado Ekiti to get some money. When they got there my 8 month old son Aragorn and wife Precious Chikwendu were illegally detained, brutalised and put under arrest on the orders of the EFCC at a bank in Ado Ekiti today.

She has never had any business with me, she has never been formally invited by the EFCC or asked any questions about her transactions and neither have they written to her on any issue even though they are always sending letters to my house and sending people there.

If Buhari wants to deal with me why doesnt he face me like a man obstead of trying to harm and hurt my 8 month old son and wife.

Had it not been for the intervention of Governor Ayo Fayose they would have been taken them away and subjected them to all manner of harm and indignities simply because she is married to me.

This was an account that has 200,000 naira in it and that has never had more than 500,000. She has operated it since 2005 and she stopped using it in 2013. The account has no connection with me and I did not know it existed till today.

In an attempt to starve and harass me and my family all my accounts and wifes accounts have been frozen. Now they are resorting to arresting peoples wives and children for no just cause. I thank God for Gov. Fayose and the people of Ado Ekiti who stormed the bank and freed my wife from this illegal detention and attempt to kidnap them.

Had it not been for the governors intervention and prescence the bank would have been burnt down by the crowd. My family have since left Ekiti state.

This is Buhari’s Nigeria and we will resist his wickedness and tyranny. We intend to sue the bank and to sue the EFCC for this illegal and wicked action.

They have no right to do this. If they want to see my wife all they need to do is to invite her. We have nothing to fear. They do not need to be so primitive and barbaric to people.

Lydia Meredith has opened up in an interview with Rolling Out about how her life was affected when her husband, Reverend Dennis A. Meredith, came out as gay.

The two divorced in 2008 after they struggled over his infidelity while they were married, but they have remained on good terms. However, she admitted that it took her years to recover after her husband left her to be with a man.

Speaking on her new memoir called The Gay Preacher’s Wife: How My Gay Husband Deconstructed My Life and Reconstructed My Faith, she said:

“I want to share some topics that I feel need to be addressed for women who find themselves in situations like I found myself in and to help them and to show them they can get through it.”

Meredith admits it has taken years for her to heal since her husband abandoned her and left her for a man.

“I wasn’t paying attention because I am a recovering workaholic,” she defends. Lydia lived in a state of denial even though her husband was arrested for soliciting sex with a man, and sought a fellow minister to bail him out, never calling her.

She went on to admit that she missed the warning signs, saying,

“Yes, I miss[ed] them. I am not a tracker. There are some women who are investigators, who will pick up the phone if their [mate] is not home at a certain time and if they are not calling. That’s a problem. I am a professional woman working as a senior engineer for a Fortune 500 company. I was living my life, married with three children.”

“I loved my husband … I still love him. He left me for another man. He told me he wanted to live the rest of his life as a gay man. At that time, I didn’t know he was in a relationship with a man, a man that he’d fallen in love with. Most of the time when we were in therapy discussing his struggles with same-sex relationships, it was never a relationship; it was always [just] sex. This particular time it was very different. He had fallen in love with a man.”

While she was living her life, she also missed the signs that her middle son, who is now the minister of music at the church where his father ministers, is also gay.

Her husband now leads a congregation of over a thousand members, many of whom are lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender.

“The church needs a new kind of ministry – one steeped in the ministry started by Jesus – free of bias, discrimination, hate or prejudice,” she said.

Excerpts from her book
“I was one of those preachers’ wives who sat in the pew on many a Sunday morning while my “real” life was a fraud. i discovered several years into my marriage that my husband was cheating on me–with men–numerous men. (And women too, I later found out). But I stayed. I stayed through the broken promises and the humiliation because I believed and hoped that things got better. I watched my husband stand in that pulpit on Sunday morning, preaching one message and living out yet another. I needed answers.

“The first place I turned to for answers were God. I prayed. I wept. I prayed. I wept. I prayed and I wept. God woke me at 3 a.m. I sat straight up in the middle of my bed. … What did Jesus really say about homosexuality? What was Jesus’ message about gays?

“I prayed my entire young life for God to send me a husband–God Always answers my prayers–why did I end up marrying a gay man?”

An 88-year-old man from Niger State, Bello Abubakar Masaba, with 97 wives and about 190 children, has said that he is able to meet his wives’ sexual needs because “God has given (him) the power and strength.”

Masaba, an Islamic scholar and healer, was detained in 2008 for failing the keep the Sharia Law of not marrying more than 4 wives, told newsmen over the weekend in Bida, Niger State that every time he comes across a new ‘Miss Right’, he marries her.

“In his wisdom, God has given me the power and strength to give them the sexual portion they need. If I didn’t satisfy them, they would leave,” the octogenarian said to DailyPost.

Masaba failed to obey the order by the Sharia Court, which said that he should let go of 82 of the 86 wives he had at the time (2008).

The case dragged into an Abuja High Court and he was released after 57 of the wives testified that they married him willingly.

Recently, there were rumours that the 87-year-old ‘spectacular’ polygamist died after a brief illness. Vanguard contacted him and he dismissed the rumours of his death, saying “I am still alive, bubbling in good health.”

Masaba, who dismissed the rumour on phone yesterday, described the rumour as a deliberate act by his detractors to bury him while still alive. He said:

“My dear, I am still alive, hale and hearty. At least, you can hear me speak and certainly, a dead person cannot speak. The rumour is baseless and can best be described as the work of my detractors because they envy what God has done and what He is still doing for me. I am seated outside of my house and I am speaking with you live in Bida without any problem with my health. What I am doing is divine. It is an assignment and I will keep doing it till the end.”

He also debunked rumours of his death.