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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...

# NO SLACKING,GHANA ACTRESS YVONNE OKORO,POUNDS BANKU,LIKE A PROFESSIONAL#

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                                 Ghana actress Yvonne Chinyere Okoro,who is also a Nigerian by origin but based in Ghana,posted a picture of herself pounding a well known Ghana food Banku,with a very funny caption that is referring to her future boy friend.She wrote ''Dear BF...just to let u know that whoever u are with now {tht lil chic} can't possibly be this domesticated..I Go hard...Check out my hot pants whiles making banku.It surely doesn't get better than this...Sincerely your future Yvonne Chinyere Okereke Okoro''.LOL.More photos below.                                                                                                         ...

TODAY FRIDAY,T.B JOSHUA'S APPLICATION TO STOP THE INQUEST OF HIS COLLAPSED BUILDING,WAS THROWN OUT OF COURT.

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                                      The inquest T.B Joshua was trying to challenge was set up by the Lagos state Government to unravel the cause of the September 12,2014 building collapse which killed 116 people most of South African nationality.T.B Joshua had dragged the coroner court and the coroner,Mr Oyetade Komolafe,before Justice Okunnu of the Lagos High Court Ikeja,asking for a judicial review of the proceedings.In delivering her ruling,Justice Okunnu held that ''Although the coroner's court cannot be sued,Mr Oyetade Komolafe himself can be sued in his own capacity as a coroner.The court needed to resolve the issue whether the coroner has acted contrary to the rules of natural justice by not granting the applicants a fair hearing and whether he has exceeded the scope of a coroner's court.Sections 26 and 27 of the Coroners System Law of Lagos state 2007,empowered the coroner to summon ...