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Jubilations In Egypt As Hosni Mubarak Is Sentenced To Life In Prison.

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Egyptians react with cheers of jubilation outside a Cairo court as deposed president Hosni Mubarak is jailed for life

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Ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak attempts to cover his face as he is wheeled into an ambulance after being found guilty

Doctors treating Mubarak claim he is weak after losing weight from refusing to eat and is suffering from severe depression

An Egyptian judge has sentenced former president Hosni Mubarak to life in prison after finding him guilty of being complicit in the killings of protesters during the uprising that ended his 30 year rule.

It was the first time a deposed Arab leader had faced an ordinary court in person since a wave of uprisings shook the Arab world last year, sweeping away four entrenched rulers.

The ruling came at a politically fraught time for Egypt, two weeks before a run-off in its first free presidential election that will pit the Muslim Brotherhood, which was banned under Mubarak, against the deposed autocrat's last prime minister.

Mubarak, propped up on a hospital stretcher and wearing dark sunglasses, heard the verdict with a stony expression. He had been wheeled into the cage used in Egyptian courtrooms, while the other defendants stood.

Over the past months, Mubarak has been held in a presidential suite in a hospital on the outskirts of Cairo. Doctors treating him have said he is weak and has lost weight from refusing to eat. They have also said he suffers from severe depression.

Demonstrators outside the court, many of whom had been demanding the death penalty for Mubarak, greeted the verdict with fireworks and cries of 'Allahu akbar' meaning God is great.  
Soha Saeed, the wife of one of about 850 people killed in the street revolt that toppled Mubarak on February 11, 2011, shouted: 'I'm so happy. I'm so happy.'Some people inside the court who had wanted a death sentence scuffled with guards, decrying the Mubarak-era judiciary. 'The people want the judiciary cleansed!' they chanted.

One man held up a sign calling for Mubarak to be executed, others chanted for a death sentence.

Judge Ahmed Refaat opened Mubarak's trial in August last year and declared it a 'historic day' fro the country. He hailed Egyptians for removing the only leader many of them had known.

The people of Egypt woke on Tuesday, January 25, to a new dawn, hoping that they would be able to breathe fresh air ... after 30 years of deep, deep, deep darkness,' he told the court. 

Total silence fell over the courtroom in the moments before Refaat announced his verdict.

The judge also sentenced Mubarak's former interior minister, Habib al-Adli, to life in prison. He sentenced Mubarak's two sons Alaa and Gamal to time already served.
The crowd outside then erupted in joy. Anti-Mubarak demonstrators and a smaller crowd of his supporters threw stones at each other.

Other protesters angered at the outcome of the trial against deposed Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, his sons and high-level security officials clashed with police outside the building where the verdicts were read.

Protesters threw rocks at riot police standing guard outside the building and the security forces gave chase, witnesses said.

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Fast Rising Hip Hop Singer ,Imelda Ada Okwori Aka Imelda J,Drops ''FOSOKE'' Video

Benue born hottest fast rising star Imelda Okwori after dropping a couple of songs like ''my love for you''featuring OJB Jezreel has finally dropped the much publicized video FOSOKE,The event took place at Club Royale Ikeja .The sonorous-voiced singer also released four hit  singles ,including Go ahead,Love Magic ,Fosoke,Together as one,featuring Mike Okri and the bonus show video of Show me,that featured side 1.
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TV Broadcaster Sere Eradiri Is Dead.

Nigeria Television Authority broadcaster, Sele Eradiri, passes on at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital early Tuesday morning, aged 57.She died in LUTH after returning from India for a surgery a month ago.
She was 57 years until her death.
So many Nigerians would remember the popular NTA reporter as an interesting anchor for the Sunday Newsline show. Until she passed on, Eradiri was Assistant Director, News, at NTA 2 Lagos Network Centre.
Born on March 13, 1955, Ms. Eradiri attended the Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton from where she graduated in 1983 ·

President Jonathan Ban’s Continental Dishes At Official Events.

The President's Democracy Day Speech broadcast was aired live from the office of the president in Abuja yesterday and part of the president speech was an outright ban on continental dishes in all government events across the country.
This directive is in tune with the administration's "Cassava bread" policy, as it pushes for consumption of cassava made bread across the country.

Furthermore, President Jonathan was noted as saying, “We must use our population to create markets for what we produce. We must grow local, buy local and eat local. To promote this, I have directed that all official functions of government serve local foods, especially our local rice and cassava bread and other foods. In the State House, I am faithfully keeping to my promise of eating cassava bread and local rice,” he said.
However, this policy has remains unpopular amongst law makers, who have rebuffed the President's Bill prescribing 50 per cent of cassava in the making of bread. In their defense, the lawmakers described that such a law would infringe on the rights of the citizens to their choice of food, as these could as well constitute health hazard to diabetic citizens.
Among other highlights of the president's speech was the willingness of his administration to establish a presidential museum in Abuja. The museum is expected to catalogue the lives and history of former presidents post independence.

UNILAG Shut For Two Weeks, No Going Back On Renaming School, Says FG

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WorldStage Newsonline—The Federal Government said on Wednesday that there is no going back on the renaming of University of Lagos after Chief Moshood Abiola, saying it was done in the interest of the country.

This is coming as the school authorities shut the institution down on Wednesday to quell the growing protest that erupted over the name change.

The Senate of the university, in a release on Wednesday directed that all academic activities be suspended forthwith for two weeks.

The statement mandated all students to vacate the Halls of residence, latest by 11.00 a.m. Wednesday, May 30, 2012.

Students for a second day protested against the government decision to rename the school,  using buses to block both sides of the Third Mainland Bridge.

Meanwhile, Information Minister, Mr. Labaran Maku who was responding to questions from newsmen on the protest that greeted President Goodluck Joanthan gesture noted that Nigerians should not allow the protest to overshadow the national significance of what President Goodluck Jonathan has done.

He further stated that the president only showed that he truly appreciates the significance of M.K.O contribution in the political development of the country.

President Goodluck Jonathan had in his nationwide broadcast Tuesday on the occasion marking the Democracy Day renamed the university in honour of the business mogul turned politician who died in prison while attempting to claim his mandate.

Abiola was the winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election which was aborted by the then military Head of State, Gen. Ibrahim Babaginda.

Jonathan had stated that Abiola, presumed victory in the 1993 Presidential election, and death, while in custody, proved to be the catalyst for the people’s pro-democracy uprising; adding that “after very careful consideration, and in honour of Chief M.K.O. Abiola’s accomplishments and heroism, on this Democracy Day, the University of Lagos, is renamed by the Federal Government of Nigeria, Moshood Abiola University, Lagos. The Federal Government will also establish an Institute of Democratic Studies and Governance in the University.”

But the decision did not go down well with the student of the university who went on the street to protest.

The minister in defence of the president gesture said, “For those of us who have been part of this country for long and who have been adults that lived through the history of Nigeria, particularly in the last two decades if there is any figure that symbolizes sacrifice of self for this nation, that figure is Chief M.K.O Abiola who clearly won the June12 1992 Presidential election and died in captivity because he stood for principle, he stood to defend the principle of democracy, and anyone that is familiar with the development of our politics in the last two decades, there is no event in the political history of our country that touches the hearts of quiet a significant number of citizens like the June 12 Presidential election.

“In the last two decades there have been widespread outcry that this democracy has not given Chief M.K.O Abiola and other heroes who passed on in controversial circumstances as a result of what they did to stand for the democratic development of this country. These outcries have continued to come from citizens spread across the nation.

“What Mr. President did was to listen to the outpouring of appeals of persuasions by Nigerians across this country that MKO deserved to be immortalised. What he therefore did in his capacity as a visitor to the University of Lagos was to name the University after Moshood Abiola of blessed memory. He did so in the best interest of the country, he did so because any nation that does not honor those who clearly stand out and make a sacrifice as a role model or others to follow cannot appeal to the best in its own traditions for citizens to follow. The decision has been made in very good faith by Mr. President and we have seen the reactions by a section of the students if University of Lagos , we have also seen the outpouring of encomiums by patriots and statesmen who really understand the reasons why the President honored Abiola.

“It is our hope that reasons will prevail and that the decision to honor one of our nations's and heroes will be appreciated by all Nigerians including our youths and students who are the future leaders of this country.

“Yes sometimes government decisions get reactions from the populace we do not as an administration see this as disapproval. We just see it as a normal way in every democracy that when you make major decisions definitely sometimes you have public reaction but we should not allow the protest to overshadow the national significance of what Mr. President has done. I think he has shown that he is a true statesman and he truly appreciates the significance of M.K.O contribution in the political development of our country and as people who were adults in 2003 we think that this decision has been long over-due and that today Abiola can turn in his grave and say this nation for whom I made a supreme sacrifice for political development has recognized my contributions.

“I think the most important thing is that this decision should unify Nigeria, those who believe in one country, those who believe in one democracy, those who believe in the reward for sacrifice for the nation and I think that is exactly what the President did.”

He also recollected the renaming of University of Ife after Chief Obafemi Awolowo.

“I remember that around 1987-88 when one of Nigeria's foremost nationalist and leaders Chief Obafemi Awolowo passed on. The FG renamed the University of Ife as Obafemi Awolowo University. In addition to that also in the course of our history we have had several national institutions named after our past heroes and even living heroes,” he said.

Taylor Receives 50 Years for ‘Heinous’ Crimes in War.

 
Former Liberian President Charles Taylor was sentenced to 50 years in prison for supporting rebels who committed atrocities in neighboring Sierra Leone during an 11-year civil war

"The accused is being found responsible for aiding and abetting as well as planning of some of the most heinous and brutal crimes recorded in human history," Presiding Judge Richard Lussick said at the Special Court for Sierra Leone in Leidschendam, near The Hague. Prosecutors requested he be imprisoned for 80 years.

Taylor, 64, is the first former head of state to be convicted by an international court for war crimes since the Nuremberg trials after World War II. He was charged with 11 counts, including terrorizing civilians, murder, rape and kidnapping children to use as soldiers, according to the tribunal, which was set up by the West African nation and the United Nations in 2002.

"Mr. Taylor was functioning in his own country at the highest level of leadership which puts him in a class of its own when compared to the principal perpetrators who have been convicted by this court," Lussick said. The court has now convicted nine people.

Sierra Leone's civil war left 50,000 people dead and displaced 2 million before the government and rebels agreed to a cease-fire in 2000. The Revolutionary United Front guerrillas, backed by Taylor, gained notoriety for amputating the limbs of their victims.

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The court, which on April 26 found Taylor guilty, said the former president provided the rebels with arms and ammunition in exchange for so-called blood diamonds, regularly found by slave laborers.

Taylor led a group of rebels who invaded Liberia from neighboring Ivory Coast in 1989, starting a civil war that lasted until 1996. He won an election in 1997, becoming president until he resigned in 2003. Taylor then went into exile in Nigeria as pressure mounted following his indictment and he was arrested in 2006.

Taylor pleaded not guilty and he may appeal the verdict. The time he has served in The Hague since 2006 will be deducted from the sentence. The longest sentence handed out by the court was 52 years for Revolutionary United Front leader Issa Sesay.