Author: Chukwu Ikenna

A scientist claims most humans are bis£xual and s£xuality is “heritable”, with almost everyone having them to a lesser or greater degree.

According to the most recent official stats, 987,000 UK people aged 16 or over identify as bis£xual, meaning they’re s£xually attracted to both men and women.

This is a rise from 457,000 people who said they were bis£xual in 2018.

However, the true number of people having both same-s£x and opposite-s£x encounters is actually much higher, a scientist suggests.

Dr Jason Hodgson, anthropologist and evolutionary geneticist at Anglia Ruskin University, thinks most people are “in the bis£xual range” – much like our primate relatives living wild in the jungle.

He says s£xuality is a spectrum, from exclusively heteros£xual at one end, through the bis£xual range, to exclusively homos£xual at the other end.

Heteros£xuality and homos£xuality are at the extremes of this spectrum, so most people should be somewhere in the middle in that they have s£x with both men and women.

“I predict that most people should actually be bis£xual,” Dr Hodson told MailOnline.

“The genes that influence same s£x s£xual behaviour are probably just genes that influence general sociality, and people in the middle of the range of variation are probably better at all social relationships.

“Therefore people who would engage in same-s£x s£xual behaviour in some situations are probably also better at forming heteros£xual relationships.”

To elaborate further, the academic imagines a s£xuality spectrum running from 0 to 1, denoting the proportion of same-s£x experiences out of all s£xual experiences.

A person with a value of zero would have 0 per cent same-s£x experiences, and 100 per cent heteros£xual experiences, while a person with a value of 1 would have 100 per cent same-s£x experiences and 0 per cent heteros£xual experiences.

“Those are the homos£xual and heteros£xual extremes of the scale,” he said.

“Everything in between would be in the bis£xual range – some proportion of same s£x, and some proportion of opposite s£x s£xual experiences.

Attempt by a 24-year-old Thai lady, Ms. Pattaphi Wimonnat, to smuggle 43 parcels of Canadian Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis, weighing 46.60 kilograms into Nigeria through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja Lagos has been thwarted by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, who arrested her after discovering the illicit consignment in her boxes.

A statement from Femi Babafemi, spokesperson of the NDLEA, says the suspect who confessed to being a hired drug trafficker was arrested on Thursday 20th February 2025 during the inward clearance of passengers on Qatar Airways flight from Thailand via Doha, Qatar at the arrival hall, terminal 2 of the Lagos airport. She said the drug cartel, which recruited her promised to pay her $3,000 upon successful delivery of the illicit drug consignment in Nigeria.

Babafemi said another bid by a drug trafficking syndicate to ship 68 parcels of Ghanaian Loud with a total weight of 42.2kg concealed in walls of crated cartons to London, UK, through the export shed of the Lagos airport was also frustrated by NDLEA officers on Friday 21st February. Three suspects: a freight agent and two dispatch riders were initially arrested in connection with the seizure before the mastermind of the shipment, Samuel Bitris, was swiftly traced to his Exodus Estate, Ajah, Lagos home where he was arrested.

Channels Television and Africa Independent Television have apologised publicly to the Department of State Services(DSS) following their reports regarding the agency’s appearance during the Lagos Assembly crisis on February 17.

AIT News retracted their initial report in an official statement during its News Hour program.

It clarified that its reportage was based on eyewitness accounts but acknowledged that the information was however incomplete and had unintentionally misrepresented the intervention of the DSS.

It said: “AIT News wishes to apologise to the Department of State Services for the news item broadcast during our bulletin on Monday 17th February 2025, regarding the presence of DSS at the Lagos State House of Assembly.

“Our intention was not to malign or embarrass the DSS, an institution we hold in the highest regard for its critical role in safeguarding our nation.

“Our reporting was based on eye-witness account obtained from sources available at the Lagos State House of Assembly. However, we recognize that the report may have been incomplete and unintentionally misrepresented the service and its presence at the State House of Assembly. We regret any embarrassment this may have caused.”

Channels TV on their part also tendered apology during its ‘Politics Today’ programme hosted by Seun Okinbaloye, with the former Assistant Director-General of the DSS, Muhammed Ngoshe, as guest.

“It came to light in some of the letters that we actually now saw that it was the clerk of the Lagos Assembly who actually wrote for DSS protection at the House of Assembly. But if you look at the video, it was made to appear as though the lawmakers were fighting to get inside and they were shocked that DSS was there.

“I think it’s right to apologise to the service to say the use of invasion might not be the right word to use because it was portrayed as though the DSS invaded, they were not invited, but it came to light that there was no decency in how they carried out their work.

“In the real sense of it, it happened that they invited the DSS. I think an apology is right to be placed on the doorstep of the DSS to say the use of ‘invasion’ is probably not the right word to use and not to demean the role and the effort of the DSS, that was not the right word to use.”

DSS had before now threatened a lawsuit against both media stations, accusing them of publishing false and malicious reports..

A Federal High Court sitting in Calabar, the Cross River State capital has convicted and sentenced the Chief Executive Officer, of a Cooperative Society, Uno Michael Eke, to one-year imprisonment over charges bordering on conspiracy, obtaining property by false pretence and money laundering to the tune of N2bn (Two Billion Naira).

Eke was sent to prison after pleading guilty to four-count amended charges preferred against him by the Uyo Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

This was contained in a statement on the X handle of the anti-graft agency, on Saturday, February 22.

The statement reads in part: “Justice Rosemary Dugbo Oghoghorie of the Federal High Court sitting in Calabar has convicted and sentenced the Chief Executive Officer, Micheno Multi-purpose Cooperative Society, Uno Michael Eke to 1-year imprisonment for conspiracy, obtaining property by false pretence and money laundering to the tune of N2bn (Two Billion Naira).

“He was jailed after pleading guilty to four-count amended charges preferred against him by the Uyo Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

“Eke pleaded guilty to the charges when they were read to him.

“In view of his guilty plea, prosecution counsel, Joshua Abolarin prayed the court to convict the defendant based on the charges before the court. The defence counsel, Ime Umanah informed the court of a plea bargain agreement before the court and prayed for a lighter jail term for his client.”

Former Kaduna Nasir El-Rufai has stated that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar deserves some flowers for leading economic reforms during President Olusegun Obasanjo’s administration.

El-Rufai claimed that humans only remember the negative things that their fellows have done forgetting the good ones.

The former Governor said this during a condolence visit to the family of Edwin Clark, an elder statesman and Niger Delta advocate who died on February 17.

El-Rufai said: “Nobody gives Alhaji Atiku Abubakar the credit for economic policy making under the Obasanjo administration. Many of the things we did, we did under his leadership.

“Maybe because we don’t write about it, and people don’t read history, we tend to forget. We only remember negative things. Maybe it’s part of human nature.”

Abubakar was vice-president in the Obasanjo government from 1999 to 2007.

While he was Obasanjo’s Deputy, Atiku was responsible for overseeing the privatisation of national assets.

Sowore, convener of #RevolutionNow movement, described Babangida as a “villain” responsible for Nigeria’s democratic setbacks.

In an interview with Nigerian Info FM, Sowore decried the fact that Babangida, who annulled the historic June 12, 1993, presidential election, is being honoured instead of facing justice for his actions.

He expressed dismay that the former leader, instead of “rotting in jail,” is enjoying privileges and reverence despite his role in what many consider one of Nigeria’s darkest political betrayals.

Babangida, popularly known as IBB, who ruled Nigeria from 1985 to 1993, remains a controversial figure in the nation’s political history.

His annulment of the June 12 election, widely believed to have been won by Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale (MKO) Abiola led to political unrest and prolonged military rule, which ended in 1999.

Many Nigerians still hold him responsible for derailing the country’s democratic process.

During the launch of his book, “The Journey in Service,” and a fundraising event for his presidential library in Abuja on Thursday, Babangida acknowledged that Abiola won the June 12, 1993 presidential election, admitting that he takes full responsibility for the annulment.

During the interview, Sowore, a longtime advocate for good governance and accountability, argued that Nigeria’s failure to prosecute leaders who subvert democracy has emboldened impunity in the nation’s political system.

He said, “I’m convinced and I have expressed even before the book was launched a few days ago that it was going to be a pack of lies.

“My own conviction starts from the fact that Nigeria is so backward that justice is so delayed that people’s lives are ruined, the economy of this country was destroyed, the future of this country was suspended in 1993 by Babangida.”

“For him to come back 32 years later to slap the Nigerian people in the face with a book launch and a launch for his presidential library which raised over N17 billion in three hours instead of rotting in jail shows that Nigeria is not working.

“Nigeria never worked and we must make sure that this country works so that people who engage in impunity and criminal activities just don’t get away with it in such a way that they were even rewarded years later.”

Sowore was asked if the right thing to do is for IBB to apologize to Nigerians rather than merely admitting that Abiola won the election and taking responsibility for the annulment.

He said, “No, an apology is unnecessary. It is punishment that is necessary and I dare say that it doesn’t matter when he is punished but IBB ought to be punished even if it is one day to his death. He deserves to be punished.