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Church hosts first same-sex marriage
The U.S. Military Academy's Cadet Chapel at West Point hosted its first same-sex marriage Saturday, December 1.
Penelope Gnesin and Brenda Sue Fulton, a West Point graduate who’s been together for the past seventeen years, exchanged vows in the regal church in a ceremony conducted by a senior Army chaplain.
The ceremony comes a little more than a year after President Obama ended the military policy banning openly gay people from serving.
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Atiku emerges African Leadership Magazine Man of the Year-2012
The selection team, comprising leading African Business and political leaders, in arriving at this decision, took into cognizance his enormous contributions to Nigeria’s Socio- Economic Growth as an employer of repute, creating jobs for thousands of Nigerians and indeed Africans; and as a frontline political icon and astute manager of people and resources.
With this award, Atiku joins other past recipients like Dr. Mo Ibrahim, Founder Mo Ibrahim prize for leadership and founder Celtel; H.E. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, President of Liberia; H.E. John Kuffour, former president of Ghana, and H.E. Xavier Luc-Duval, Vice Prime Minister of Mauritius. Other past African Leadership award recipients includes Dr. Donald Kaberuka, President of the African Development Bank Group and Sanusi Lamido Sanusi of the Central Bank of Nigeria.
Kim Kardashian triggers riot in Bahrain
It ain’t everyone drooling for reality TV sex symbol, Kim Kardashian as she got the shocker of her life when her presence in Bahrain to launch a milkshake franchise caused a near riot; screaming fans, angry Muslim hardliners and police throwing stun grenades.
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About 100 Sunni Salafists demonstrated with banners outside The Walk Bahrain, an upmarket mall in the capital Manama, after some MPs tried to block the visit over what they called her "bad reputation", according to a local newspaper.
Thousands of fans, who had paid up to 500 Bahraini dinars ($1,360) a ticket, broke into hysterical screams as the 32-year-old celebrity launched the Millions of Milkshakes franchise inside the mall.
Witnesses said police dispersed the demonstrators with stun grenades as the inauguration proceeded inside. There were no reports of casualties.
Kardashian stirred controversy even before she arrived in Bahrain from Kuwait, where she opened another store last week.
Hardline Sunni Muslim MPs presented a motion to parliament calling her "an actress with an extremely bad reputation", according to Bahrain's English language Gulf Daily News.
The assembly did not vote on the motion, the newspaper said.
Many Kardashian fans tweeted their displeasure, saying the "MPs should focus their time on solving key political, economic and social issues", the newspaper reported.
Bahrain, where the U.S. Fifth Fleet is based, is trying to overcome nearly two years of unrest among its majority Shi'ite Muslims demanding political reforms and equality with the Sunni Muslims who rule the kingdom.
Again, Gov. Okorocha’s ADC beats policeman to coma
The Aide-de-Camp to the Imo State Governor Rochas Okorocha, Mr. Omo Gabriel, and two other police officers on Saturday, December 1, allegedly beat up a policeman, attached to the state government house to unconscious for delaying in opening the gate for the governor’s convoy.
The mobile policeman, Corporal Itere Ewedor, was said to have been on duty at the security post when the governor’s convoy drove in around 12:30am from the governor’s wife’s party.
The policeman’s friend, Edhie said; “When the convoy drove in, the ADC and some other police officers came down and asked him why he delayed. They wanted to collect his gun, but he refused. So, they started beating him. They beat him until he became unconscious, with bruises all over his face and parts of his body.”
The ADC allegedly took Ewedor, in his unconscious state, to Shell Camp Police Station and requested that he be detained but the police officers on duty refused saying they could not detain a dying man.
Gabriel then made arrangements for Ewedor to be taken to the Federal Medical Centre Owerri, where he was admitted. Ewedor was discharged the same day around 5pm after he regained unconscious.
When contacted, the state Commissioner for Information and Senior Special Adviser to the Governor on Media, Mr. Chinedu Offor, refuted the report.
