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A UN-backed war crimes court sitting at Leidshendam, Netherlands has sentenced former Liberian warlord and President, Charles Taylor to 50 years imprisonment. The sentenced was carried out today, Wednesday, May 30 after Charles Taylor was found guilty of war crimes he committed while in power. The trial chamber unanimously found Charles guilty of all charges brought against him. He becomes the first former head of state to be sentenced by a world court after the Nazi trials in 1946 at Nuremberg. Charles Taylor was found guilty of an-11 counts charges involving crimes against humanity for aiding and abetting Sierra Leone’s Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels and their allies during the war, in which 120,000 lives were lost. He was also found guilty of dealings in diamond sales which was done in exchange for arms and ammunitions used during the war. He sought an asylum in Nigeria during the Obasanjo regime few years ago. Richykuzee's

Tempestt Henderson, a 19-year-old girl from Florida, has a rather peculiar addiction – she can’t help eating soap bars and washing powder. There are worst things to be addicted to, but this has to be one of the strangest. The young girl remembers she loved the smell of washing powder on her mother’s cardigan and on her bed sheets, and so do many other people, but that doesn’t make them want to stuff their face with the toxic substance. But that’s exactly what Tempestt felt when she first dipped her fingers in washing powder and licked it off. ‘I dabbed the powder onto my tongue and it tasted so sweet, and salty…it just felt so right. I was hooked straight away.’ says the young nursing student. She new that stuff was hazardous to her health, but she loved it so much she couldn’t stay away from it. From the moment she woke up, she would give in to her washing powder craving, ignoring the warning labels. Before she knew it, Tempestt began licking off the soap bubbles of her skin in ...

 Mr. Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur, Governor, Bank of Ghana, has called for effective collaboration between governments within ECOWAS to help combat money laundering and financial terrorism within the West African Sub-Region. He stressed that building an effective and robust Anti-Money Laundering and Combating the Financial Terrorism (AML/CFT) regime at the national levels, required action at many levels and governments were expected to set up the appropriate inter-ministerial structures, together with the development of a national strategy for dealing with AML/CFT deficiencies. Mr. Amissah-Arthur made the call when addressing participants at a Regional Workshop on AML/CFT in Accra. The two-day workshop being orgainsed by Inter-Governmental Action Group Against Money Laundering in West Africa (GIABA) for Chief Executive Officers and Chief Compliance Officers of financial institutions in ECOWAS Member States, was to create a platform for sharing ideas and best practices among bank a...

Mark hits back at Jonathan Written by Isiaka Wakili Thursday, 31 May 2012 Senate President David Mark yesterday took on President Goodluck Jonathan over his failure to assent to some bills passed by the National Assembly. Mark also said the President “distorted facts” when he said on Monday that the lawmakers tore up the budget proposal sent to them thereby making it difficult for the executive to implement it. “A number of bills that would have changed a lot of things for this country have not been signed,” Mark said at the opening of a public hearing by the Senate Committee on Environment and Ecology on a bill to set up an erosion control commission. “So, my advice to the executive is to dialogue with the legislature in matters like these and find a common ground instead of shifting blames,” he added, speaking through his representative, Deputy Senate President Ike Ekweremadu. At the Democracy Day symposium on Monday, Jonathan squared up with Speaker of the House of Repr...