The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Tuesday May 17th, 2022 – International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia
International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia is observed on May 17 and aims to coordinate international events that raise awareness of LGBT rights violations and stimulate interest in LGBT rights work worldwide. By 2016 the commemorations had taken place in over 130 countries. The founders of the International Day Against Homophobia, as it was originally known, established the IDAHO Committee to coordinate grass-roots actions in different countries, to promote the day and to lobby for official recognition on May 17. That date was chosen to commemorate the decision to remove homosexuality from the International Classification of Diseases of the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1990.
“My name is Gilbert.” First night in ISD detention by Zulfikar Shariff
I was taken in a car. I heard that ISD’s Detention Centre was in Whitley, and I expected to be taken there. But with the hood on, I had no idea where I was.
As I tried to rest my back on the seat, the handcuffs cut into my wrists. I moved my hand to get some space within the cuffs.
“Brother, double lock it” I heard Tim speaking from the front seat.
I heard Roslan’s voice beside me. “It is already locked” I told him.
During the car ride, I tried to console myself. This was a new experience.
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Limitations #poem by Jan Sand
“One cannot taste with an eye
Nor hear with a nose.
The symphonic qualities
Cannot be exposed
To one who’s never heard
Any sound at all.”
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The scramble for president by Kola King
Events of the past few weeks lend credence to the belief that politics has been reduced to a racket for the simple reason that the All Progressives Party, APC has totally monetized the race for president raising the stakes by fixing the presidential nomination forms at a princely sum of 100 million naira. Despite the prohibitive price for the presidential forms every Tom, Dick, and Harry has been flooding the party secretariat signing 100 million naira cheques for the presidential forms, without batting an eyelid as if money was being plucked from a tree. The general impression is that the political process is being turned into a bazaar or casino with gamblers staking their cards in a bid to make a deal after which things will be turned over to buccaneers, pirates, and sundry crooks, so to speak, who have amassed wealth by both fair and foul means.
For a government that came into power with the cardinal aim of fighting corruption, ordinarily, it should be worried that part of these funds may be proceeds of corruption and even possibly money from drug-related businesses as the nation has been awash with reports of several multi-billion naira drug deals being busted by National Drug Law and Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, which culminated in the arrest of a celebrated cop Abba Kyari, a Deputy Commissioner of Police.
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Ephemera #055 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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