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At least five students and a security guard have been shot and killed in a dawn attack at a secondary school in northern Kenya. According to the school's head teacher the attack was allegedly led by a former student who had been suspended. He is accused of returning to dormitories at the school in Lokichogio on Saturday with two accomplices. As well as killing six people, witnesses say they raped two girls and injured another 18 students. According to the head teacher, the boy is said to be from nearby South Sudan and had fought with another pupil, which led to his suspension. He returned to find the boy, but he was not at the AIC Lokichogio Secondary School at the time. Turkana County Commissioner Seif Matata told Kenya's Daily Nation newspaper that the suspect "was heard telling fellow students that he is going to burn the school or he will come back and avenge because of the suspension". The Kenya Red Cross says they have evacuated the injured.

Prison authorities, yesterday, assured that security has been fortified at Kirikiri prison where notorious kidnap kingpin, Chukudemebi Onwuamagbu aka Evans, is awaiting trial and stated that he had no plans to escape from the prison as being rumoured. During a musical concert organised by Lamboginny in conjunction with the Nigeria Prisons Public Relations, Officer of Nigeria Prisons, Francis Enobare at Kirikiri Medium Security, Apapa said that “the suspect was in high spirit and his lawyer had free access to him. According to the Deputy Controller of Prisons; the notorious billionaire kidnapper popularly known as Evans did not plot to escape from our custody as claimed. The report is mere rumour, he is hale and hearty. “There is no truth in that story published by one media house (name withheld) that Evans plotted to escape from our custody. He is in high spirit and he sees his lawyers as he wants. He has never plotted to escape since we took custody of him. The security ...

Public and private school children deserted their schools over rumored forceful vaccination by Army in Ovwie Local Government Area of Delta State. The school children in Ugbomro community, were scared and consequently ran out of their schools for fear that soldiers were approaching to forcefully inject them with suspected substances. Recent updates show that virtually all schools have become empty with no students or teachers available for activities. The incident has caused serious tension in the area as parents were equally seen running down to pick their children from school at about 9am. Teachers also vacated the school premises to avoid getting mobbed by the fearful parents. But the Delta State Commissioner of Police, CP Zanna Mohammed Ibrahim, in a statement signed by the Delta State Acting Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Andrew Aniamaka had on Wednesday October 11 told Deltans to dispel the rumour that security agencies were engaged in forceful vaccination/injection of...

If you are living in Nigeria and have ever had to lose weight, then you would know how hard it is to find the right type of foods to help you lose weight. Even when you are lucky enough to get a good diet plan that you think you can easily stick to, finding the necessary ingredients/foods can be a very frustrating experience. But the good news is that you don’t necessarily need to pull some fancy ‘oyinbosih’ diet plan from the Internet before you can achieve great and permanent weight loss in Nigeria. The country is blessed with so many natural foods that are very effective for weight loss. For instance, did you know that the popular African Mango seeds commonly referred to as "Ogbono" are now being packaged and sold as a very expensive weight loss supplement in the United States of America? Ogbono is a very good weight loss aid, and if you’ve not been eating it before, now is the time to start considering it as a major part of your diet. But remember to go easy on the o...

Photographer Paola Peredes first caught the media’s attention with her powerful photo series “ Unveiled ” where she documented the moment she told her parents about her homosexuality. And now she’s taking it further with her new series titled “Until You Change”, where she re-enacts the horrible events that take place daily in the Ecuadorian rehab facilities that ‘cure’ homosexuality in the most brutal ways. A friend tipped her off about the clinics that claim to ‘cure’ homosexuality using torturous techniques such as starvation, abuse and sometimes even ‘corrective rape’. These clinics hide under the official operations like treatment facilities for alcoholics and drug addicts, but for a charge of $500-$800 a month, they also ‘treat’ gay people. “Since I was going through my own personal journey with my sexuality at the time, it affected me in a completely personal way,” Paol...

Africa is indeed a blessed continent filled with great talents in every sector including football. Most African footballers, who play for big teams, are paid immensely for the great work they do on the field of play. The question now is, who is the highest paid footballer in Africa so far this year? Most of them are new signings at the Chinese Super League and there is no doubt that China is seriously making millionaires out of the players.  Let's take a view at the comprehensive list of highest paid African footballers. 10. Victor Moses - Chelsea FC (£50,000) The Nigerian footballer who plays for the English side, Chelsea FC as a wing-back opens our list of the highest paid African footballers.   09. Emmanuel Adebayor - Istanbul Basaksehir (£58,000)   The Togolese who moved to the Turkish club, İstanbul Başakşehir last January as a striker is another top earner. He earns £58,000 on a weekly basis. 08. Ahmed Musa - Leicester City (£60,000) An...

The Blues weren’t able to quickly bounce back from defeat against Man City due to the international break, and so that loss has been going round and round the minds of those in the pub. To make matters worse, they’ve had uncertainty surrounding the fitness of Alvaro Morata, who suffered an injury against the Citizens, leaving fans sweating on whether he will be able to feature against Watford. Unfortunately for the Blues, though, more bad news has come over the weekend, with N’Golo Kante also suffering an injury – meaning that arguably two of Chelsea’s most important players may not be fit to face Crystal Palace this weekend. Fortunately, though,  as per Matt Law of the Telegraph , the Blues do have something to smile about ahead of the game.  Confirming that both Morata and Kante remain uncertain for the game, Law has  added  that Danny Drinkwater – who is yet to play for the Blues following a summer move – is edging back to fitness and could be available. This ...