Today's Out Spotlight is a Nigerian-born civil rights activist, and was the first gay Nigerian man to be interviewed on national TV in Nigeria.

Bisi Alimi was born in Nigeria in 1975, grew up and went on to attend the University of Lagos (Nigeria) pursuing a degree in theater. While as a student in 2003, he was outed by the university's student newspaper during student government elections.

Homosexual activity is illegal in Nigeria, the conservative influences of the Muslim faith in the north and a large Christian presence in the south. It is punishable by death by stoning in all 12 states, or being sentenced up to 14 years of imprisonment. There is no legal protection against discrimination for LGBT Nigerians. Very few are out, and violence against those in the LGBT community is frequent. Legislation is pending to criminalize same-sex marriage throughout Nigeria.

Alimi was expelled from university in 2004, before he was able to receive his degree.

Later that year, he was selected to be the Nigerian face of homosexuality at the fourth National Conference on HIV/AIDS in Abuja. Also that year, he was brought onto Funmi Iyanda's New Dawn talk show on the Nigerian Television Authority and it was here that he publicly came out before the nation and asked for acceptance from the public.

Almost immediately, there were repercussions for both Alimi and the interviewer. Almini received both love letters and death threats, and lost his home and his job. The New Dawn talk show's Friday edition was canceled and further interviewees on the show were were screened by the NTA in a country where censorship against homosexuality is already tight.

Not deterred, in July 2005, Almini helped found the Independent Project for Equal Rights-Nigeria, serving as executive director of the organization's Nigerian LGBT Youth Group. He also worked as director of the Alliance Rights, Nigeria's youth programs.

In December 2007, he lost his partner to a chest infection, and which led to severe mental health issues dealing with his grief. His family and friends, came to his aide, supporting him and getting back on his feet and helping to take life one day at a time.

In 2008, Alimi was granted asylum by the United Kingdom, where he currently resides. He has become a spokesperson for African gay men in the UK working with several organizations in the LGTB community and help set up a project for newly arrived African gay immigrants. He was also elected a member of the IAS youth organizing member for the Mexico 2008 meeting and was a member of AMFAR review panel for the international grants for African MSM AIDS initiatives.

Almini also is a sexual health activist and works for Naz Project London which is provides sexual health and HIV prevention and support services to targeted Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) communities in London. "NPL aims to educate and empower communities to face up to the challenges of sexual health and the AIDS pandemic, and to mobilize the support networks that exist for people living with HIV/AIDS."

At this time he working on his master's degree in filmmaking with concentration on documentaries and is hoping to change views of Africans about homosexuality through movies and short films.


ghen ghen so very soon our sons will from media start thinking being gay is normal or actually cool

http://sdgln.com/news/2010/08/10/bisi-alimis-gay-nigerian-story

its one of these states imo ,anambra ,delta ,edo ,rivers.

Desola: Imo? Anambra? Are we talking education in spare part dealership or cocaine courier, here?

bad belle na wa

Musiwa..:
you count your lost first before you become stipud.


Arumemi-Ikhide will be broke. Peterside will be eating from where... ben bruce will be selling fish in the open market.. you will be so poor, that you will eat Jonathan Goodluck for breakfast and dinner.

this guy sef

bennyraz:
i know some high class pro.sti.tutes and they do gist me about their customers. So that where i got all d info frm. Apart frm that, i also have some friends that complain abt their sexual life.

u must be a hater, keep crying while we keep taking your woman from you . laughing at your stupidity , are talking about muscular men or men that are on steriods ?. from medical point of view and from participating in various surgeries i can only conclude you are high on something, theres no correlation between being muscular and having smaller prick, a lot of lanky guys have small dick however muscular guys can go on an on just as they do with those heavy metals in the gym, and you wonder why women cant get enough of them.

~Killz~:

Bro, i'm trying to help your ministry maintain a parabolic trajectory. . .

ok i don hear

~Killz~:
Dies Death!

guy na mistake na abi we dey write jamb

shymmex: How come Nigerian music sound the same with the same beats? These clowns and their shinny jackets are getting boring now with their buffonery. Music with no depth and soul never stands the test of time - this bs will die soon.

mugu and america, indian , carribbean, asian , european musics dont sound the same

new j martins video fine fine love


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOleLWoJS74

charles316: i went on hols in the states and saw the babes there looking so fresh. Came back to nigeria and dicovered that most babes here have stretch marks nd fat dry bodies. what could be d cause? our food? what?

shut upstop disrespecting our women all the time, which u.s are you talking about the same that is filled with obese people? u must be out of ur mind, celebrate our women not bashing them. mumu


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOleLWoJS74

una wahala too much but still love you


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOleLWoJS74

abeg someone should help me embed it

Yenagoa's population is estimated at about 12,350,000 people.[citation needed] It is the home of the Bayelsa United FC, a premier league football club.


i think he meant our population is about about 12.3 million and not yenogoa population.btw who takes what is written in wikipedia seriously.

Yenagoa's population is estimated at about 12,350,000 people.[citation needed] It is the home of the Bayelsa United FC, a premier league football club.


i think he ment our population is about about 12.3 million and not yenogoa population.btw who takes what is written in wikipedia seriously.

tpia@:

@ topic

did he really say that?





this is starting to sound like his standard [stock] comment anywhere he goes, lol.


gej lovers , no need for you to jump me, thanks.

find something worthwhile to do with yourselves besides being glued to the internet ogling the screen for any post you perceive as not being supportive enough of goodluck.

he is not mumbling , of course i dont expect you understand that statement neither will i explain it to to you , the less you yorubas know the better.

can we have more photos of ojukwus burial , men am tripping for the man. i dont think we have ever had a burial as big as this in naija , see efizzy.

supported

southern nigeria i hail theee

BBDelta:

NORTH, SOUTH, EAST OR WEST, Let the Best be in AUTHORITY, For ASARI DOKUNBO or whatever He  is called, I no Blame am, Na Vanguard I Blame when dey no get Moral Status of Reporting for their Media, Dey Listen to What a man like that has to say,  Once you have carried Gun illegally secret or openly, annesty or plotical aid, you should be treated with disdain, PERIOD.

rubbish , nigeria can no longer operate on that , you think nigerians are fools, if after johnattan a northerner enters and after that say another norther or yoruba enter will you go and tell igbos let the best man win? better wake up the seed of disunity planted by awolowo and the northern oligarchy plus the civil war saga have finally matured. as for asari you can call him whatever you want but it wont change the fact that he speaks the truth and in the best interest of the ijaw nation, its people and its resources.

VoodooDoll:

GEJ has been president or vice president for almost 5 years now. Still nothing tangible to show for it. GEJ is a parasite.

how about you suggest to your governors to use your state allocation wisely rather than spending it on their girlfriends and buying houses abroad. learn to operate your state as a company that way you wont care what fg does after all your state contributes nothing.

Imanuelle:

Finally,  They have seen what ojukwu saw!! South south should go to hell!! Confirm blazes!!

Dey betrayed d igbos, let dem go deir way!

shut up there, issac boro and ojukwu clearly had a misunderstanding , nobody is sure what really happened, after all it was ironsi who crushed our first seccdesion attempt led by boro. if you dont know what to say just shut your trap.

KINGwax:

when you're a foo|, it's so clearly shown! U think yorubas don't have oil? Sorry man. Or shall we talk of bitumen, coal, reserved gold, limestone and all? You're a nice foo|. Even without having total control of d oil, we have seen d lenght yourpeople are willing to go in amassing wealth and grabbing power. Your can ojukwu can alwys be a perfect example of blood-sucking-power-thirsty sucker!

get the fu, ck out of here, did you see anybody mention yoruba here, you people are always looking for attention, if you dont like jonattan simply take your oil,bitumen or whatever and walk away trusty me the south south wont blink an eye infact it might be the opportunity we have been looking for to also walk away, ewedu chewing goat, parasitic almajiro cousin. go and blame obasanjo for making you yorubas poorer than you were before he entered for 8 years.

Osun Monarch charged with child stealing
on MARCH 2, 2012 · in NEWS
3:50 pm
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Osogbo – Oba Akadiri Okanola, the Olokini of Okinni in Osun, and one Abbass Mojeed, 25, have appeared before an Osogbo Chief Magistrates’ Court charged with child stealing.

The Police Prosecutor, Mr Michael Iniavan, told the court that the monarch, 65, Mojeed and others now at large committed the offence on Feb. 19, at about 12 p.m. at Dam Road in Ejigbo, Osun.

Iniavan told the court that the accused persons “with intent to deprive the parents of a 9-year-old boy of having access to him stole the child”.

He said that the offence contravened section 516 and 371 of the Osun Criminal Laws 2003.

Mojeed pleaded guilty to the charge while the monarch pleaded not guilty.

The Counsel to the monarch, Mr Bola Ige, orally applied for bail for his client and the Chief Magistrate, Mr Adewumi Makanjuola, granted him bail in the sum of N100,000 and two sureties in like sum.

Makanjuola ordered each of the sureties to submit two passport photographs to the court and later adjourned hearing of the case till March 12.

The first accused, Mojeed, who pleaded guilty confessed during his summery trial that he and his friends now at large stole the boy and handed him over to the Oba.

He further informed the court that they stole two children on two occasions, which they gave to the monarch, who in return rewarded them with N5,000 each.

He, however, pleaded for leniency.

The magistrate reserved further hearing till March 12. (NAN)

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2012/03/osun-monarch-charged-with-child-stealing/

alj harem:


Igbo man you still dey here

wetin happen

Osun Monarch charged with child stealing
on MARCH 2, 2012 · in NEWS
3:50 pm
Email0
Osogbo – Oba Akadiri Okanola, the Olokini of Okinni in Osun, and one Abbass Mojeed, 25, have appeared before an Osogbo Chief Magistrates’ Court charged with child stealing.

The Police Prosecutor, Mr Michael Iniavan, told the court that the monarch, 65, Mojeed and others now at large committed the offence on Feb. 19, at about 12 p.m. at Dam Road in Ejigbo, Osun.

Iniavan told the court that the accused persons “with intent to deprive the parents of a 9-year-old boy of having access to him stole the child”.

He said that the offence contravened section 516 and 371 of the Osun Criminal Laws 2003.

Mojeed pleaded guilty to the charge while the monarch pleaded not guilty.

The Counsel to the monarch, Mr Bola Ige, orally applied for bail for his client and the Chief Magistrate, Mr Adewumi Makanjuola, granted him bail in the sum of N100,000 and two sureties in like sum.

Makanjuola ordered each of the sureties to submit two passport photographs to the court and later adjourned hearing of the case till March 12.

The first accused, Mojeed, who pleaded guilty confessed during his summery trial that he and his friends now at large stole the boy and handed him over to the Oba.

He further informed the court that they stole two children on two occasions, which they gave to the monarch, who in return rewarded them with N5,000 each.

He, however, pleaded for leniency.

The magistrate reserved further hearing till March 12. (NAN)

alj harem:

Me Iwe how can I be jealous of you BTW that is not a complete sentence neither did it make sense

[size=18pt]SURELY YOU ARE AN IGBO MAN[/size]

obe what a shame thanks for releveling yourself

God punish you. you really know how to get on people nerve

Gbawe:

Loaded talk. Not hard to work out what some losers are trying to do on Nairaland. They have long cursed the North and the SW as the 'devils' who ruined Nigeria. They simplistically held that all it would take for Nigeria to become Dubai is for one of their own, who understands "marginalisation", to take charge. This is why they feverishly and passionately backed GEJ. Some of us told them that it is not about ethnicity. Rather, we must seek out the best leaders wherever they are from and similarly reject mediocrities wherever they are from.

Now that GEJ is leading terribly and doing things exactly opposite to what his bigoted fans predicted, the next approach is for them to start hurling frustrated abuse at imaginary enemies (ACN, CPC, North, SW, Yoruba, Hausa, Fulani etc) instead of admitting, like people of honour, that they gullibly backed another 'Voltron' of the elitist and damaging central control of Nigeria's wealth by a few.

Rather than advise GEJ , the most powerful man in Nigeria, to play his part in the badly needed devolution of power that will develop Nigeria beyond 2015 when anything may happen, the new tactics is to defend GEJ blindly and pretend as if the "evil" SW and North wish to bring him down. Admitting GEJ is "more of the same" and a willing defender of the system, practices and hegemony that has kept Nigeria down is simply too much for some since they swore, non-stop, that the "messiah" is here . This is why Asari-Dokubo would rather say , ridiculously, the death sentence for AL Mustafa is a Yoruba plot to ridicule GEJ !!!!!! Are these people at all aware that 4 years (virtually only 3 now) will fly by quickly ?

Pathetic how some naive losers and feudalists are being fooled by the Asari-Dokubo and Briggs of the world to the extent they come here shouting "alliance" and making empty feudal noise while failing to acknowledge that what we actually need and should all be demanding is the devolution of power that will make it easy for States and regions to essentially operate as their own Country unimpeded !!!!!

Let me ask Nairalanders this.

What happens if absolutely nothing changes under GEJ and we then gain a devotee of elitist central control in 2015 like Atiku, Sambo, Gusau et al ? What would all the noise and hate against the North have amounted to? Hate that only made some embrace noise-making while they ignored calling out GEJ to subtly put measures in place that will mean , whatever happens in 2015, we are all somewhat closer to true federalism and the concept of developing at our own pace without an indolent centre holding the entire nation down !!

Nairalanders should open their eyes to the crass deception of those wishing to distract from GEJ's abysmal failings and penchant for the sort of inefficient model of Governance that has gotten us where we are today .

nothing will change after GEJ, nothing will change if we have an igbo president and nothing will change if we have another yoruba either, the whole system should be scraped with division on the table. we can keep postponing dooms day but it will come again. thank to nairaland seun is playing the role of inciting deep ethnic hatred.

tevinsolt:

yall are idiots i wonder how yall would feel when white people come on this thread to say just because ur african u have dirty skins, you have low IQ yall are poor stricken Hiv positive ugly chimpanzees, bleeping idiots
it's ironic that the bigots are the first ones to shout RACISM first. damn hypocrites!!

you should start with the owner of the website who happens to be a yoruba man, google anything about nigeria and you will get the most disgusting results all from nairaland,yorubas have no shame.

alj harem:

htaz wetin do you, cat cut your tongue ?

Abi you no be Ijaw again nwannem ?

iwe ri so ,opu ikpu smfh whether am ijaw or not does not change the fact that yorubas need deliverance to chasse away the spirit of witch hunting and careless statements

alj harem:

I am glad you brought that up. You Igbos can be dispeakable at time with what you are doing on those websites.

The rate you insult the yorubas would make one think that this hate was born out of something different from with it is.

I seriously SMH for you people. really !!!

Yes I have told you that there CAN NEVER BE SOUTHERN NIGERIA.

if you want to face igbos you know how to find them ,if you want to face ijaws am always there branding me igbo does not change the fact that you and your yorubas are just pathetic waste, am sure you know what brought me to nairaland in the first place, your dirty stinking comments ijaws. you probably think we dont hav access to internet when you and your pathetic yoruba race were running your mouths.

0lumide:

TINUBU DON FINISH!!

HE IS STRONGER THAN YOUR FISHERMAN IN ASO ROCK SHA, HAHAHAHHA

f, uck you , f, uck ACN and f, uck the south west , bunch of as.ss lickers, what happened to your alliance with the north? dumbwitts. now run away your hausa fulani masters need you.

0lumide:

I hope I don't get to cry for Niger Delta in 2016, Naive fuks,

Obasanjo weakened the Northern elites by far when he was there, You Niger Deltans are playing into the hands of the Northern Elites,

I hope y'all know something called ally building, SE is not a good political for anyone. The SE elites are buffoons and political sluuts, "SS" have the chance to get resource control now than ever, Instead of fighting to have a system that allows regions to control their resources in place, they are crying jonathan our man, Resource control isn't possible unless the system that allows it is put in place,

thank you for the advice but we know who our enemies are, the same south east backed us to get 13 percent derivation while you yorubas where trying to sabotage it and they will back to get back every other remaining thing , they backed us to get presidency while you yorubas where begging your hausa fulani masters for alliance and we saw how it turned out for you epic failure,what have your yoruba leaders done for us if not hatred, cheating, lies and back stabbing, bunch of cowards, you have started you evil game again but it wont work . go and preach to your hausa fulani masters for political alliance, as you can see all the south southerners hate you with deep passion cus only lies and evil come out of your rotten mouths. obasanjo weakened my ass.

OAM4J:

Abacha was a Muslim. Muslims are buried immediately. Same thing that happened to Yar'adua.

so your stil alive ? i thought your dead or are you no longer a moderator