Day: January 9, 2019

Wife punish husband’s lover with house chores

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After catching them red handed in her home, a South African woman forced her husband’s lover to clean the house and wash bed sheets . According to South Africa’s Daily Sun, the wife forced the girlfriend to confess on camera and told her she had to compensate her by doing housework. First, she was given a cloth and bucket and told to scrub the floor. Then she was told to wash the bedsheets on which she had slept with the woman’s husband. “You want to be the woman of this house?…

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81-year-old ex-soldier jailed 25 years for murder

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81-year-old Richard Ogunboyo, a retired military man, has been sentenced to 25 years imprisonment by an Ado-Ekiti State High Court, for killing one Felix Esan. Ogunboyo, who was the head of a vigilante group in Iyin Ekiti, was said to have committed the offence on December 15, 2016, in the community. Justice Lekan Ogunmoye, in his judgement, said the charge of murder against the convict could not be substantiated, but a case of manslaughter was established.c “Considering his age and the discretion of the court, he is hereby sentenced to…

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FBN Money Market Fund gets ‘Aa-(f)’ rating from Agusto

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The FBN Money Market Fund has been given an ‘Aa-(f)’ rating by Agusto & Co. It said the rating assigned to the fund reflected its minimal to low exposure to downside risk (impairment to the net asset value) in the medium term, and would expire on November 30, 2019. According to a statement by the rating organisation, the FBN MMF has maintained low exposure to credit risk by investing in good quality assets with minimum credit rating of ‘Bbb’ in local currency. The statement said the fund had also kept…

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New drug suggests possibility of age reversal

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According to a new study, a drug that helps the immune system clear away old cells could restore youthfulness. The research suggests it may be possible to reverse the ageing process and could potentially pave the way for anti-ageing treatments that actually work. Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel investigated the way the immune system is involved in clearing away old, senescent (or, ageing) cells that are not completely dead but are irreparably damaged and barely functioning. Within weeks, those who received the team’s new drug had…

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INEC to deploy manual transmission of results in 2019 elections

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In line with the existing electoral act 2010 (as amended), there would be manual transmission of results in this year’s elections, this was made known by the National Commissioner in charge of Operations, Okechukwu Evans of (INEC) yesterday. He stated this while presenting the 2019 general elections guidelines yesterday in Abuja, adding that it is empowered by extant laws to use the smart card reader technology for accreditation during the forthcoming polls. It said it has residual powers under the 2010 Electoral Act (as amended) to adopt any accreditation and…

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