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The U.N. war crimes tribunal for Rwanda sentenced former minister Callixte Nzabonimana to life in prison on Thursday after he was found guilty of playing a key role in his country’s 1994 genocide. The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), based in Arusha in Tanzania, convicted the former Rwandan Minister of Youth and Associate Movements for genocide, conspiracy, incitement and extermination as a crime against humanity. “The trial chamber found that … Nzabonimana instigated the killing of Tutsis. It also found Nzabonimana guilty of entering into two separate agreements to kill Tutsis,” ICTR said in a statement. The former Rwandan politician, 59, was arrested in Tanzania in February 2008. Ethnic Hutu militia and soldiers butchered 800,000 minority Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus in the tiny east African country in just 100 days between April and June 1994.

Judges at an international war crimes court have sentenced former Liberian President Charles Taylor to 50 years in prison following his landmark conviction for supporting rebels in Sierra Leone who murdered thousands during their country’s brutal civil war in return for blood diamonds. The Special Court for Sierra Leone found Taylor guilty last month on 11 charges of aiding and abetting the rebels who went on a bloody rampage during the decade-long war that ended in 2002 with more than 50,000 dead. Presiding Judge Richard Lussick says the crimes Taylor was convicted of were of the “utmost gravity in terms of scale and brutality.” The 64-year-old warlord-turned-president is the first former head of state convicted by an international war crimes court since World War II.

The Lagos State Government on Thursday said it has recalled all the 788 doctors sacked earlier this month for allegedly participating on what it termed illegal strike action. The government’s decision to recall the sacked doctors was disclosed by Hakeem Bello, the Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the Lagos State governor, Babatunde Fashola. Mr Bello said the decision to recall the doctors followed several pleas from the national and state leaders of the Action Congress Party (ACN), traditional leaders in the state and other concerned leaders in the country.

Ilorin – An expatriate working with Borini Prono Construction Company has been kidnapped in Ilorin, Kwara State. The victim, who was said to have gone to inspect an ongoing road construction at Bishop Smith road, was whisked away by his abductors at about 5:30 p.m. on Monday to an unknown destination. The Police Public Relation Officer (PPRO) in Kwara, DSP Fabode Olufemi in Ilorin on Wednesday, said that the police was aware of the incident. He said that no contact had been made with the kidnappers, adding that the police could only confirm the report pending the outcome of its investigations. The police spokesman explained that the victim was an Italian, working with Borini Prono. He, however, assured the public that the victim would soon be rescued. When NAN visited the head office of the company along new Yidi road, there was nobody on hand to speak on the incident.  (NAN)

Umuahia—A United States-based Nigerian, Emeka Mazie, yesterday dragged his 96-year-old father to court for insisting to re-marry after the demise of his wife eight years ago. The suit with number HU/54/2012 filed before the Umuahia High Court 4, is presided over by Justice Agwu Kalu. Counsel to the defendant, Miss Ebere Orji, told the court that her client, Chief Israel Mazie, and father of Emeka, had contracted a marriage with Ebere Ndubuka under the Marriage Act. She noted that his children from the late wife (Emeka’s mother)  had continued to obstruct the marriage, pointing out that his client was hale and hearty and entered the marriage with his whole mind. She maintained that the plaintiff and only son of Israel with his sisters was duly informed before the marriage was contracted but regretted that they made a u-turn to stop the union. Counsel to the Plaintiff, Mrs Ann Uchendu, told the court that Israel and Ndubuka had yet to consummate their marriag...

His statement below... This is one gift horse which, contrary to traditional saying, must be inspected thoroughly in the mouth. Primary from all of us must be a plea to the MKO Abiola family not to misconstrue the protests against the naming of the University of Lagos after their heroic patriarch. Issues must be separated and understood in their appropriate contexts. The family will acknowledge that, among the loudest opposing voices to Jonathan’s gift horse, are those who have clamoured tirelessly that MKO Abiola, the Nigerian nation’s president-elect, be honoured nationally, and in a befitting manner. Next is my confession to considerable shock that President Goodluck Jonathan did not even think it fit to consult or inform the administrators of the university, including Council and Senate, of his intention to re-name their university for any reason, however laudable. This arbitrariness, this act of disrespect, was a barely tolerated aberration of military governance. It is ...

LAGOS — History will be made tomorrow when President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan commissions the first locally made warship,  NNS ANDONI,  constructed by Nigerian Navy engineers. The commissioning ceremony will take place at the Nigerian Naval Dockyard, Victoria Island, Lagos. The 31m Nigerian Navy Seaward Defence Boat (SDB) was conceived as a research and development project by Vice Admiral GTA Adekeye and Rear Admiral GJ Jonah who were then Chief of the Naval Staff and Chief of Naval Engineering respectively. NNS ANDONI, first locally-made warship constructed by Nigerian Navy engineers, to be commissioned by President Goodluck Jonathan, at the Nigerian Naval Dockyard, Victoria Island, Lagos, tomorrow. The vessel, which was to be designed and built locally, was patterned after the river town class patrol craft in the Nigerian Navy which include  NNS YOLA  and  NNS BRASS,  albeit with several modifications as decided by the design team. The keel o...

A Federal High Court sitting in Akure has sacked a member of the House of Representatives, Mr. Ifedayo Abegunde representing Akure North/Akure South Federal Constituency,  for defecting from the party from which he was elected. Abegunde was elected into the House of Representative on the platform of the Labour Party (LP) during  the April 2011 general elections, but defected to the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) after a few months. He had approached the court for judicial protection against his recall by the Ondo State House of Assembly and the Labour Party. Joined in the suit are the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Alhaji Aminu Tambuwal and Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Abegunde’ s counsel, Chief Adekola Olawoye had argued that by the provisions of Section 68(1) (G)) of the 1999 Constitution and the imbroglio, division and factionalization in LP, he is entitled to dump the party. The defence counsel led by the Attorney General an...

A conductor of a commercial bus identified simply as Ibrahim has been arraigned in a Lagos court for allegedly stabbing an official of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, Akingbohungbe Olalekan, in the hand.   The driver of a Volkswagen wagon with number plate LAGOS XB 990 AAA, on Wednesday around 3.10pm was obstructing the free flow of traffic  by picking and allowing passengers to alight from his bus at an unauthorized place in Ojota area of the state.  He was apprehended by Olalekan and another LASTMA official, Alabi Emmanuel, who attempted to impound his vehicle. Olalekan ended up getting stabbed.     PUNCH Metro learnt that Ibrahim and the driver descended on the officials, beat them up and tore their uniforms.   It was learnt that Ibrahim later stripped himself naked and stood in front of the bus. Our correspondent gathered that a team of policemen and traffic enforcement agents later arrived at the scene. But the dr...

It was an all Nollywood affair on Saturday May 26, 2012, as one of Nigeria’s movie favourites Olufunke Ayotunde Akindele tied the knot with her beau Kehinde Adeola Oloyede popularly called Kenny Almaroof in a three-part wedding combo. The build-up was massive, and the wedding touted as the next big Nollywood wedding – after Mercy Johnson‘s lavish August 27, 2011 nuptials. And after a private Nikkai ceremony two days earlier, on May 24, the couple were determined to make up by having a grand ball. The wedding ceremony took place at The Haven event centre as opposed to what had been announced earlier. Guests and well-wishers had made their way to the publicised venue: All Seasons Plaza, Ikeja, only to meet a shut gate. Those lucky enough to find out the new venue then made their way towards The Haven in GRA, Ikeja. We’re told the announcement of All Seasons was a decoy to prevent media and public intrusion although the bride’s reps say they changed venues to accommodate crowd...

SHARE THIS TAGS 30 people were allegedly killed while four police officers and the village head of Ntan Obu Ukpe in Eniong in Odukpani local government area of Cross River State were beheaded in a communal clash between the Ntan Obu and the Ikpanya in Ibiono local government area of Akwa Ibom State on Tuesday. According to a local newspaper, about 2,000 indigenes of Ntan Obu were forced to take refuges in nearby communities of Odukpani council as many houses including churches were destroyed during the crisis. The Chairman of Odukpani Local council, Stephen Asuquo, while confirming the incident, told journalists that the people of Ntan Obu were attacked by the Ikpanaya neighboring community of Akwa Ibom State, last week. “The remote cause, I can say, is the struggle by people from the Ikpanya for the land that belongs to the Ntan Obu. Ikpanya is in Ibiono council of Akwa Ibom State while Ntan Obu is in Odukpani council in Cross River State,” he said.

A girl who is obsessed with Don Jazzy and tweets at him every day, mistakenly sent her nude pics to a fake Don Jazzy account, after the guy admitted it was Don Jazzy’s second account. The fake Don Jazzy finally exposed her on twitter and damn her response will shock you.  ‘I came to this world naked, and naked will I return. SO WTF? giggle’

Why I renamed UNILAG - Jonathan -  http://t.co/tDgChNtE Why I renamed UNILAG - Jonathan  ow.ly/1MYtbx President Goodluck Ebebe Jonathan has explained why he renamed the University of Lagos (UNILAG) after the late Chief Moshood Kasimawo Olawale (MKO) Abiola

Three motorcyclists arrested for protesting in Uyo by Etim Ekpimah Three commercial motorcyclists were on Tuesday arrested by the police for protesting the non-payment of the money promised them by the Akwa Ibom State Government. Members of the state Commercial Motorcyclists Union had trooped out to protest the non-payment of the N1bn promised them by the s tate government for the motorcyclists to get off the road. The motorcyclists were advancing towards the Governor’s Lodge in Uyo when three of their colleagues were arrested. Their Chairman, Mr. Samuel Peter, said Governor Godswill Akpabio had always kept promises made to the union wondering why this was an exception. Peter blamed the Personal Assistant to the Governor on Commercial Motorcyclists, Mr.Udo Okpo, for the delay, saying he might have collected the money without informing the union. He said, “The money is with Okpo. He cannot tell us that he has not collected this money from the government. Our governor has never promised...

Students of UNILAG have been asked to vacate the hostels and all academic activities have been suspended for two weeks.

Following the Federal Government's decision to rename the University of Lagos after Moshood Abiola, the students have taken to the streets of Lagos ‎to protest the decision. Here is the 3rd mainland road block by MAU students.

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Prezzo has had it with Goldie as it transpired just past midnight. The Kenyan Housemate and Nigerian lass have been an item since the beginning of StarGame and though they have had their fair share of fights, they managed to work them out. However, of late Prezzo hasn't really had much time for Goldie, who is the current Head of House in Upville. Things are just not the same between the two of them and if Zainab's plans of coming between the two are anything to go by, then she may just win this one hands down. Earlier in the day,  Zainab was flirting with Prezzo and he seemed to like it too. During the midnight chat, Prezzo told DKB that he had solved too many of Goldie's issues and he was not prepared to do it anymore. "I wash my hands," Prezzo said which led to DKB sharing a Ghanaian idiom with him; "A man comes to do his work but not everything."  Don't you wonder how Goldie will cope without Prezzo especially because she already told Big Brot...

SHARE THIS TAGS Abiola Channels Television MKO Abiola Nigeria President Goodluck Jonathan UNILAg Students of the University of Lagos on Tuesday morning organised a protest against the renaming of the institution after the late acclaimed winner of the June 12, 1993 presidential election, MKO Abiola. President Goodluck Jonathan had in a national broadcast early on Tuesday announced the renaming of the institution after Abiola for his contribution to democracy in Nigeria. The protesting students began gathering in groups in the main campus at Akoka, Lagos immediately after the president’s announcement. They subsequently trooped out of their hostels chanting protests songs and denouncing the change of the institution’s name. They also blocked access to the institution and disrupted traffic on University of Lagos Road and St. Finbarrs’ College Road. Officials the institution came out to beg the students to go back to campus saying, “We are with you.” Stude...

SHARE THIS TAGS Boko Haram Channels Television Chief MKO Abiola Head Of Department For Mass Communication Moshood Abiola University Of Lagos Nnamdi Azikwe Professor Ralph Akinfeyele UINLAG Univeristy Of Lagos University Of Nigeria Nsukka The change of name of the University of Lagos by President Goodluck Jonathan has been described as illegal and a political misadventure. President Goodluck Jonathan in an early morning address to the nation to celebrate ‘Democracy Day, announced the change of name of the institution to Moshood Abiola University of Lagos. Reacting to the announcement, the Head of department for Mass Communication, Professor Ralph Akinfeyele in a phone interview with Channels Television, stated the change of name is a political miscalculation and political misadventure. Prof Akinfeyele noted that “late Chief MKO Abiola was not a regional person but a national and international figure, who was noted to be the first pillar of sport in Africa...