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Hope For Stroke Patients  - Functions! www.NeuroAidStroke.com   AP Jamaat-e-Islami former chief Ghulam Azam, center on wheelchair, is escorted by security people to a court in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Monday. The 91-year-old leader was sentenced to 90 years in jail for crimes against humanity during the country’s 1971 war. AP Bangladeshi activists shout slogans as they protest against the verdict handed out to former Jamaat-e-Islami leader Ghulam Azam in Dhaka on Monday. TOPICS World Bangladesh civil unrest political dissent police law enforcement Fresh violence over the conviction of fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami’s 91-year-old supremo Ghulam Azad left at least four persons dead, even as machete-wielding protesters went on the rampage enforcing a country-wide strike on Tuesday. Two Islamist demonstrators, including a minor, were killed in police firing when several thousand Islamists attacked police with sticks, machetes an...

By   FUNMI OJUROYE July 16, 2013 -- Updated 0116 GMT (0916 HKT) Friends since 2005, Chris Brown and Rihanna went public with their romantic relationship in 2008. The couple went their separate ways after Brown pleaded guilty in June 2009 to assaulting the Barbadian singer on the eve of the 51st Grammy Awards. They've since reconciled, only to seemingly break up again. Here's a look back at their rocky relationship: HIDE CAPTION Rihanna and Chris Brown through the years 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

JULY 15, 2013   BY FUNMI OJUROYE Asiwaju Bola Tinubu credits: File copy The National Leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has said the Rivers State and the Nigeria Governors’ Forum crises are a presage of what will happen in the coming 2015 elections. He, therefore, condemned the crises and the underlying forces behind them, saying such would only turn “an imperfect democracy into a perfect mess.” The former Governor of Lagos State, in a statement on Sunday, accused President Goodluck Jonathan of masterminding the crisis in Rivers State. Tinubu, who described the crisis as an “assault on the constitution,” explained that the crisis showed the failure of the Peoples Democratic Party to promote democracy in the country. He said, “However, we all know the truth but most are afraid to speak.  There is no way the police and  small number of five lawmakers would act so brazenly, unless they receive instructions from their high plac...

JULY 16, 2013   BY FUNMI OJUROYE, LAGOS STATE OPEYEMI BAMIDELE credits: File copy Femi Makinde  writes on the dispute between Governor Kayode Fayemi and the Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Legislative Budget and Research, Mr. Opeyemi Bamidele The Action Congress of Nigeria in Ekiti State has been polarised by the insistence of the Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Legislative Budget and Research, Mr. Opeyemi Bamidele, to contest against Governor Kayode Fayemi. The party before now denied the existence of a rift between the governor and Bamidele. The state chapter of the party is now split between those who  support Fayemi and those sympathetic to the lawmaker. This has become a threat to ACN’s dominance of the state’s political landscape. Aware of the not too pleasant consequences of allowing the dispute linger, the national leadership of the party sent a high-powered delegation to Ado Ekiti to reconcile the...