Edeson Online News: 04/17/13

Wednesday 17 April 2013

Margaret Thatcher Has Been Buried Amid Tears...

Photo: Update on Margaret Thatcher's DEATH:

...She Has Been Buried Amid Tears...

Margaret Thatcher, Britain's Iron Lady, was laid to rest today with a level of pomp and protest reflecting her status as a commanding, polarizing political figure.

Queen Elizabeth II, prime ministers and dignitaries from 170 countries were among the mourners at St. Paul's Cathedral, where Bishop of London Richard Chartres spoke of the strong feelings the former prime minister still evokes 23 years after leaving office.

"The storm of conflicting opinions centers on the Mrs. Thatcher who became a symbolic figure — even an -ism," he said. "Today the remains of the real Margaret Hilda Thatcher are here at her funeral service."

"There is an important place for debating policies and legacy ... but here and today is neither the time nor the place."

More than 700 soldiers, sailors and air force personnel lined the route taken by Thatcher's coffin to the cathedral and around 4,000 police officers were on duty. Security was stepped up after Monday's bombings at the Boston Marathon that killed three people and wounded more than 170.

Spectators lining the route broke into applause — and scattered boos — as the carriage passed by, escorted by young soldiers, sailors and airmen.

Some clearly disagreed with the bishop's exhortation to leave politics at home. Some staged silent protests by turning their backs on Thatcher's coffin. One man held a banner declaring "Rest in shame." Arguments also broke out in the crowd along the route between Thatcher supporters and opponents.

Guests inside the cathedral included Thatcher's political colleagues and rivals and her successors as prime minister — John Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and David Cameron.

Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and former Vice President Dick Cheney were among the American dignitaries, while figures from Thatcher's era included F.W. de Klerk, the last apartheid-era leader of South Africa; former Polish President Lech Walesa; ex-Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and entertainers including "Dynasty" star Joan Collins, singer Shirley Bassey and composer Andrew Lloyd Webber.

R.I.P.

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Margaret Thatcher, Britain's Iron Lady, was laid to rest today with a level of pomp and protest reflecting her status as a commanding, polarizing political figure.

A randy husband Edwin (surname withheld) at the Junior Staff Quarters, Asaba, Delta State, has put his wife's bosom in the family way three months after wedding.

6 year old Isabella Barrett is a millionaire who earned her money after winning a beauty pageant.
Isabella has set up a kid’s jewelry and makeup line which was ranked in $1 million in 2012.

“ MEND is a Faceless Group, Not Recognized by LAW”

“I Have 18 Children, We Are Muslims and We Can’t Fight Ourselves”
… ASARI DOKUBO…

The Ondo State governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko, has said that the state government would give automatic employment to the 10 First Class graduates of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko (AAUA).

Photo: The Amnesty SAGA:

…5,000 Repentant Abia Criminals Seek Amnesty…

…Ex-Criminals Angry Over Non-Inclusion BY FG Amnesty…

The House of Representatives on Monday said 5,000 repentant Abia criminals have petitioned the National Assembly, complaining of non-extension of amnesty to them.

The House said the youths were those previously involved in criminal acts, including kidnapping, who voluntarily surrendered their arms in 2010 when the state government offered them amnesty.

Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Public Petitions, Chief Uzor Azubuike, disclosed this on Monday in Umuahia, the Abia State capital, when he led members of his committee to pay courtesy call on Governor Theodore Orji shortly before they began to hear the petitions by the youths.

Meanwhile, while the hearing held, most of the Abia youths asking for amnesty besieged streets in Aba in protest.

However, Azubuike said, “We are here because of petitions by over 5000 Abia youths previously involved in criminal acts. They are complaining that they were not included in the Amnesty programme of the Federal Government.”

He said, “If they are not listened to, it has the capacity to engulf the nation into crisis. There is danger of a backslide if the youths abandoned their criminal acts and nothing is done to resettle them. It will be uncanny of the Federal Government to ignore them. The petition is a fallout of your action when you offered the youth amnesty to make them drop crime.”

The chairman commended Abia State governor for fighting crimes in the state and the ability to manage crime in the state, saying that no other government across the country has done as much as the state has done in security matters.

He also commended President Goodluck Jonathan for his youth empowerment programme, which culminated in the amnesty programme of the repentant militants.

“So we are here today to listen to those petitions from the youths from this state. Amnesty office has confirmed that they have the petitions. We are here to see how these youths can be captured in the programme,” Azubuike explained.

Receiving the committee members, Governor Orji noted that though Abia is now peaceful, there was once upon a time when it had the problem of kidnapping.

“That time, Abia became the den of kidnappers. Aba became a ghost city. Everybody ran away. I visited Abanta’s place [a member of the committee], there was nobody, they had all fled, I saw only his posters. That was the situation and we fought it. We fought them doggedly.

“We tried amnesty here. They came here and I saw them. They told us their grievances, and we acceded to their complaints and proposed amnesty to them. They accepted and we built camps. They brought their arms. They were in camps and we were planning to settle them. But when they heard that the Federal Government had provided largesse to their colleagues, they abandoned the camps.

“We took their names to the Federal Government but no response. Though they left camp, they promised that they will not make any trouble because we treated them like human beings. They maintained it till their kinpin, Osisikankwu was killed. Please, tell the Federal Government to start where we stopped.”

(Source: PUNCH NEWSPAPERS)
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…Ex-Criminals Angry Over Non-Inclusion BY FG Amnesty…
The House of Representatives on Monday said 5,000 repentant Abia criminals have petitioned the National Assembly, complaining of non-extension of amnesty to them.