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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...

SOLDIERS STORMS BOLA TINUBU'S PRIVATE RESIDENCE IN IKOYI,TO MONITOR HIM.

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             According to Bola Tinubu media office,who said today tuesday that the former governor of Lagos State's  residence in Bourdillon,Ikoyi Lagos was invaded by combat ready soldiers.The media office for Tinubu,further explained that ''For three straight days,the private residence of the National leader of All Progressives Congress {APC} has been under surveillance by battle ready and helmet wearing soldiers,numbering close to 30 and riding in three patrol vans and an army truck stationed close to the entrance of the gate to Tinubu's house along Bourdillon road in Ikoyi,they have become a permannt feature.Their obvious target Tinubu himself and perhaps the hordes of politicians and visitors that visit his Bourdillon residence.The soldiers were first noticed on a sunday a few minutes to 11:pm in a army truck,so these morning tuesday,10 February,two vans from the army were stationed on both sides of the house along Bourdillon road,their missi...

1 YEAR AFTER THE DEATH OF MANY,THE IMMIGRATION SERVICE IS ABOUT TO RECRUIT MORE PEOPLE AGAIN.

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                                               These information got to my desk yesterday,after the Public Relations Officer for the Nigerian Immigration Service Chukwuemeka Obuah,on monday made the information available after they placed an advertorials were placed in major media outlets for the purpose of recruitment.The statement reads ''The Presidential Committee to assist in Immigration Recruitment on monday February 9,2015,placed advertorial in some national national dailies requesting application from suitable Nigerians for enlistment into the Nigerian Immigration service starting from 9 February,2015 to 22 March 2015.Note the application is free and must be done online''.The last recruitment tragedy happened March 15 2014,when 6.5 million people in all 37 states including the FCT,for just 4000 vacant position in the service.More photo below.     ...