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Nigeria blasts UN for pushing ‘LGBT’ agenda

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English: Political map of the 36 States of Nigeria (English) Deutsch: politische Karte Nigerias (Englisch) (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) The ambassador of one of the world’s most populous nations told the United Nations secretariat to stop promoting the LGBT agenda in defiance of a majority of member states that uphold natural marriage. Nigerian Ambassador Usman Sarki told a meeting of national representatives, “We wish to remind the UN to limit itself strictly to activities mandated by member states and especially to promote issues that are beneficial to mankind rather than lend itself as tool to promote aberrant behaviour under the guise of promoting human rights .” Sarki was responding to the UN’s issuance last week of six postage stamps tied to the UN human rights office’s Free and Equal campaign advancing the status of homosexual, transgender and bisexual people. In Nigeria , with a population of 182 million people, homosexual relations can bring the death penalty in the Musl...