The gunman in the shooting incident at the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas has been identified as 64-year-old Stephen Paddock.

Paddock, a white male local resident, opened rapid-fire at an outdoor concert in the wee hours of the morning causing pandemonium among thousands of concertgoers until SWAT units found and killed him.

Local media reports that about 50 people have died from the incident while no fewer than 200 sustained various degrees of injuries.

Sheriff Joseph Lombardo called for calm after the shooter was taken out, saying that Marilou Danley, a woman he described as Asian and 4-foot-11, has been declared a person of interest following the bloody attack.

BREAKING NEWS: Police name Stephen Paddock, age 64, as Las Vegas shooting suspect. He was killed by police. https://t.co/9UIeDKeODd pic.twitter.com/BltWyNc86h

— CNN (@CNN) October 2, 2017

In the aftermath of the mayhem, the police also descended on nearby Ali Baba Restaurant, where they investigated reports of a shooting at the New York-New York Hotel and Casino, not far from the concert ground.

No reason has been adduced for the abominable attack but the police have promised to give updates as soon as they’re available.

At this time we do not believe there are any more shooters. More information to come shortly from @Sheriff_LVMPD.

— LVMPD (@LVMPD) October 2, 2017

Two concertgoers who barely escaped described hearing round after round of gunfire

“It just kept coming,” one of the witnesses, Robyn Webb, told The Las Vegas Review-Journal. “It was relentless.”

The Vegas massacre is the bloodiest attack in the United States since another lone wolf stormed a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida last year killing 49.

So far, the authorities are yet to rule this latest onslaught as an act of terrorism.

The coming hours will tell us more. Meanwhile American President, Donald Trump, has nothing but sympathy for the victims:

My warmest condolences and sympathies to the victims and families of the terrible Las Vegas shooting. God bless you!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 2, 2017

A woman, identified as Mrs Amaka Ihuoma, allegedly attacked her 13-year-old housemaid, Ogochukwu Moses with a high heel shoe for urinating in a toilet without flushing.

According to one Chika Ali, who reported the incident online, Mrs Ihuoma was in the habit of treating maids badly as little miss Ogochukwu was the 6th maid she has had within a short period of time as the others reportedly ran away.

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A white guy has taken to Twitter to drag through the mud, the Nigerian healthcare system as he contrasts an animal receiving health treatment in the U.S to a woman receiving hers in Lagos.

According to @africafeed, a dog gets better treatment in Nigeria than a woman does in Lagos – sharing a photo of a dog with lymphoma, strapped up and pulled into a linear accelerator, Sean Murphy, mocks the Nigerian healthcare system by saying it’s a shame that the dog gets better aid than a woman with a tumor does in Lagos.

His words:

‘So a dog with lymphoma in Miami has a better chance of getting treatment than a woman with a brain tumor in Lagos. Shame’

He further tweeted a stats that Nigeria has 18 linear accelerators, but 11 are broken, while U.S has 2,500, +65 more just for animals.

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Former Governor of Abia State, Uzor Orji Kalu has stated that leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu rejected the advice he (Kalu) gave him (Kanu) while he was in Kuje prison.

The former governor said instead of heeding his advice to shun the struggle and embrace peace, the IPOB leader kept on organizing boys who raped girls, and establishing secret cults.

This is part of an interview Kanu, now a member of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, had with Punch.

He said, “I spoke with Nnamdi Kanu in the prison and gave him quality advice. I counselled him to embrace peace and agree with whatever terms that will set him free.

“I also warned him against allowing his boys to be displaying Biafra flags, coat of arms, organising parades, establishing secret security service, and mounting a guard of honour.

“I told him that by doing all these, his group had subdued the sovereignty of Nigeria and are therefore looking for trouble.

“No government on earth including the United States will allow any group to be championing the cause of dividing their country.

“I believe most sincerely that with the situation on ground today, majority of the Igbo do not agree on the issue of Biafra as a separate country.

“I have heard some elite, including professors who are saying that they want Biafra but they should know that there is no way such agitation can be achieved under the law.

“There is no section of the Nigerian constitution where you have restructuring. There is no section that spells out the process for dividing the country. All those things are alien to the constitution.

“If willingly, we want to talk about constitutional amendment, then people can bring up various issues.

“Today, the creation of Biafra Republic is not feasible. The (Indigenous People of Biafra) boys have the right to express themselves but they do not have any right to engage in destruction of property, raping women or setting up a Biafran intelligence service.

“No country will allow that to happen. I am an Igbo man before being a Nigerian and I have no regrets being an Igbo man. I have lived outside Igbo land so I understand Nigeria. I sincerely want to say and maintain what I have said earlier that Biafra as a country is not an issue now.

“The issue is for the Nigerian government to give us justice and fairness. When some Igbo people cry of marginalisation, I tell them that if they go to other parts of the country, the people there are also crying because the story is the same. There is a wall between the rich and the poor.

“We don’t have any war of dialect or language. The rich people should start having a human face so that we can move the nation forward.

“I will not tell you a lie. Nnamdi Kanu did not agree with me at all on my views about his activities. I did most of the talking throughout the two hours and ten minutes that I stayed with him.

“I told him many stories about life especially some of the stories that the Ikemba Nnewi (Odimegwu Ojukwu) told me when he was alive and also explained lot of things to him based on my experience in life but didn’t agree with me.

“I had to cut short my journey when I heard what was happening between his boys and the military. I returned to the country on September 14 and came straight to Abia State on the 15th to make sure that we talked to the IPOB boys so that they would stop what they were doing and allow peace to reign.”

Source: DailyPost

A 300-level Law student of the University of Benin (UNIBEN), Elizabeth Omanjie died in an autocrash, which also claimed the lives of her parents.

A Memo from the School’s SUG Public Relations Officer, reads;

*NOTICE FROM THE OFFICE OF THE PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER*
STUDENTS UNION GOVERNMENT
2/10/2017

The STUDENTS UNION GOVERNMENT, University of Benin regret to announce the passing unto glory of one of our sisters, Elizabeth Omanjie a 300 level student from the Faculty of Law, aged 19. She died along side her parents in a fatal motor accident.

It is our prayer that her gentle soul rest in perfect peace. Amen
On the same note, we pray that God will guide and protect UNIBEN STUDENTS.

Ehiabhi GOODNEWS
(GOODNEWS UNIBEN)
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