Bodo Mende and Karl Kreile who met 38 years ago were wed in a civil ceremony, the couple exchanged a long kiss as they were pronounced husband and husband.this is spotted to be the first same-sex marriage in the country
Leaders of the South senatorial district in Ekiti state has urged the leadership of All Progressives Congress (APC) grant the south senatorial district the exclusive right to produce the next governor of the state as this will be fair to the district. The call was made at a media briefing organized by Ekiti South leaders in Ikere, Ekiti State. The forum which was represented by its chairman, Chief Oluwole Ariyo, its Public Relations Officer (PRO), Barrister Wole Adebola and the Secretary, Chief Oloruntoba Ajayi made it clear that APC must abide with this recommendation on where the next governor should come from. The Forum, through it spokesperson noted that the South senatorial Zone is yet to produce a governor in the past 21 years of it creation unlike its Central and North districts which will has been produce governors twice and thrice respectively. He said: “Come October this year, Ekiti state will turn 21 years old. The state is constitutionally divided...
The Afghan Taliban stormed a military base in the south of the country killing at least 43 troops on Thursday, the Defence Ministry said, with the militants putting the toll at at least 60. Of 60 soldiers manning the base in the province of Kandahar, 43 were killed, nine were wounded and six were missing after the militants attacked in the middle of the night, the ministry said in a statement. At least ten Taliban were also reported killed. Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, a local spokesman for the militant group, said the attack began with a suicide car bomb followed by an assault that overran the base. The attack killed at least 60 Afghan soldiers and wounded many more, he said. The Taliban have been waging an insurgency for a decade and a half in an attempt to overthrow the Western-backed government in Kabul and reestablish a fundamentalist Islamic regime.
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