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MORE THAN 100,000 CHILDREN HAVE BEEN DISPLACED BY THE LATEST ESCALATION IN EASTERN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO, UNICEF SAID ON SUNDAY, WARNING THE NUMBERS ARE EXPECTED TO RISE AS VIOLENCE SPREADS.(PHOTO).

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 More than 100,000 children have been displaced by the latest escalation in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, UNICEF said on Sunday, warning the numbers are expected to rise as violence spreads. Since Dec. 1, intense fighting has uprooted more than 500,000 people, with children accounting for over 100,000 of those displaced in South Kivu alone, the UN agency said in a statement released Sunday. It said since Dec. 2, hundreds have been killed in the fighting, and children have been among the victims, with four students killed, six injured, and at least seven schools attacked or damaged. The rapid escalation has forced hundreds of thousands of children and families to flee within Congo and into neighboring Burundi and Rwanda, it added. Many people fleeing the violence have crossed into Burundi, with over 50,000 new arrivals reported between Dec. 6 and 11, nearly half of them children, UNICEF said, adding that the numbers are expected to rise as more displaced are identified. “Chi...
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SNEAK PEEK OF LADY GAGA'S ROLE IN SIN CITY,A DAME TO KILL FOR.

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            Lady Gaga proudly shared a snap of her character on instagram wearing a server's Uniform in the up coming movie Sin City,A Dame to Kill For.She captioned the image ''It's true i'll be in Sin City 2,A Dame to kill for with my favourite scene partner Joseph Gordon-Levit,i love Rodriuez,he really killed this one''.Rodriguez is the film director who worked on the action thriller along with Frank Miller.They both collaborated on the first Sin City movie in 2005.More photos below.                                                              
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PATRICK SAWYER'S WIFE DECONTEE,THE MAN WHO DIED OF EBOLA IN LAGOS,OPENED UP ATLAST.

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             40 years old Patrick Sawyer who was planning to return home to Coon Rapids,Minnesota to be reunited with his children {two daughters}for their birthday in August but he met his untimely death when he contracted the deadly disease from Liberia but he died in Lagos Nigeria.His devastated wife 34 year old Decontee Sawyer,shudders when she thinks how close Sawyer came to returning home to the states for his daughters birthday,carrying the dreaded virus.She said ''It's a global problem because Patrick could've easily come home with Ebola.Easy,easy it's at our front door,it knock down my front door''.People are still wondering how he board an international flight without being fished out as an Ebola carrier.More photos below.                                                                ...
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AFRICAN NATIONS,DON'T MAKE ECONOMIC EXCUSES-OBAMA.

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            U.S president Barack Obama on monday gave a preview of a summit he will hold with African leaders next week,saying African nations should look inward for solutions to economic woes and not make excuses based on a history of dependence and colonization.Speaking to 500 young African finishing a six week Washington leadership fellowship.Obama said it was important for developed countries to consider providing some targeted debt relief,it was time to end the notion that all of African nations problems resulted from onerous debt imposed by the west.''At some point,we have to stop looking some where else for solutions,and you have to start looking for solutions internally.As powerful as history is,and you need to know that history,at some point,you have to look to the future and say ok,we didn't get a good deal the,but let's make sure that we're not making excuses for not going forward''.
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HOSPITAL WHERE A LIBERIAN EBOLA VICTIM DIED IN LAGOS,IS SHUT DOWN.

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           Patrick Sawyer,a consultant for Liberia's finance ministry in his 40's,collapsed on arrival at the Lagos airport on July 20.He was put in isolation at the first consultants hospital in Obalende,and he died  on friday.So during a news conference held yesterday by Nigeria Centre for Disease control,Lagos state,it was said by the Health Commissioner Jide Idris that ''The private hospital was demobilized {evacuated} and the primary source of infection is eliminated.The decontamination process in all the effected ares has commenced''..
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DID MBGN QUEEN IHEOMA NNADI LIE ABOUT HER AGE?

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                 In the competition,she advertised her age as 19 but she posted a picture of herself on instagram 10 months ago saying she took the picture since 2007 in which if you minus seven years from her present age {19},she would have been 12 when she took that picture.I can tell you for free that some children look older than their age but you be the judge after examining the picture below.Is that a 12 year old girl?.One more picture below.                                                                                                                                                ...
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NASIR EL-RUFAI'S SON HAMZA,DIED THESE MORNING IN ABUJA.

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           Mallam Nasir El-Rufai who was the former minister of Federal capital territory Abuja,announced on his facebook page that his son Hamza El-Rufai,passed away this morning around 8am in a motor accident in Abuja.Is a pity such a young lad that is so full of life just died like that,so painful.May his soul rest in peace,Amen.
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