One Pastor Uduak Umoren, and his brother, Emmanuel Umoren, have been sentenced to death by hanging for beating one Iboro Joe to death over a land dispute. Justice Winifred Effiong of the Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Essien handed the sentence to the brothers on Wednesday. Joe, a 45-year-old farmer and trader from Ikot Otu in the Essien Udim local government area was attacked by the pastor and his brother when he reportedly visited his sister-in-law in Adiasim Ikot Ekon in the same council area to offer his condolences to her on the death of her husband.
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Homosexual: Ignore US threat, lawyers tell FG
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…We owe America no obligation to repeal law made reflecting our culture, values
By Ikechukwu Nnochiri , Henry Ojelu & Jane Onozore
Senior Advocates of Nigeria, SANs, and other lawyers across the country have flayed the threat by President of the United States of America, Joe Biden, to sanction Nigeria and other countries that fail to make laws to accommodate Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer and Intersex, LGBTQI, people.
In their separate reactions to the threat, the senior legal practitioners, maintained that it would be wrong for America to attempt to use its superpower to force sovereign African countries to embrace abhorrent sexual orientations.