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Punch Newspapers Sections Angela Onwuzoo A lady with a vision loss who is still trying to figure out the cause of her sudden blindness is Opeyemi Adewale. Now in her early 20s, the graduate of Political Science and International Relations, University of Lagos, became blind at 13. The human resource practitioner said, “It all started in 2010. I was 13 years then and I was in SS1. As a science student, I wanted to study medicine. “On that fateful day, when I came back from school, I was watching a cartoon network and all of a sudden, everything went blurry and blank. Initially, I thought it...

Those with family history of glaucoma are four to nine times more likely to develop the eye condition, as attested to by Maxwell Opara who also bec...

president of the muslim brotherhood party. his rival, the former prime minister for ousted president hose nyeny mubarak came up about 1 million votes short. as the results were announced, this was the reaction of the crowd in tahrir square. they were exuberant. cnn's senior international correspondent ben wedeman is standing over tahrir square on a balcony there. crowds are still pretty sizable even with nightfall? >> reporter: in fact, with nightfall the crowds are only getting bigger. in fact, when the announcement was made, i'd say there is maybe one-third of the square was full. ...

morsi is addressing and speaking to all egypt shuians. he has a message for muslim, christians, coptics, mothers, fathers. our ben wedeman is there overlooking tahrir square. it is nightfall. there are cheering crowds and fireworks. it is like a sea of egyptian flags there. people are feeling very celebratory. is it being punctuated by the words of the president-elect? do they get a chance to hear him as he is speaking right now? >> reporter: yes. you can hear that loud speaker putting out the speech. what's interesting. he is very much trying to stress that he is not addressing his ...