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Sleeping with lights on makes you gain weight -Study

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A recent study has linked an increased risk of weight gain and obesity to keeping the lights switched on while sleeping. In the study published in the journal, JAMA Internal Medicine, the scientists wrote that sleeping with the television or the lights in the bedroom switched on was positively associated with gaining five kilogrammes, or 11 pounds, over a five-year period among women. A senior author, Dr Dale Sandler, said, “There was a 17 per cent chance of gaining five kilogrammes after we adjusted for confounding factors. In addition, there…

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Customs officer promotes self to Deputy Comptroller General

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Nura Dalhatu, an Assistant Superintendent of Customs (ASC1), was arrested on Monday, for promoting himself to the rank of Deputy Comptroller General, and then invading and the office of the Controller General of Customs (CGC) Ahmed Ali, to take over as the new boss at the Nigerian Customs Headquarters, Abuja . Dalhatu allegedly claimed to be carrying out a presidential order. A source said: “As he came in, officers were saluting him because he was wearing that rank. Sometime in May, he had posted on his Facebook wall that he…

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2019 Presidential election: INEC has server, staff testify at tribunal

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Three officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday, maintained that results of the February 23 presidential election were electronically transmitted to a central server. This is even as a witness, Mr. Mohammed Tata, alleged that he was compelled under duress to sign the presidential election result in his polling unit. The three INEC officials, who took turns to testify before the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja, separately, explained that information captured with the Smart Card Reader machines, were transmitted to the server, using a code they…

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Ecobank empowers customers through Wealth Creation

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Ecobank Nigeria Limited, has reiterated it’s commitment towards supporting businesses to achieve sustainable wealth passed down from one generation to another, through its advisory arm. This was made known by the Managing Director, Mr. Patrick Akinwuntan. Akinwuntan, said this at the weekend, during a breakfast session organised for its premier banking customers in conjunction with its Securities, Wealth and Asset Management (SWAM) in Lagos. He said Ecobank was committed to having regular sessions to educate its premier customers on ways to ensure their businesses outlive them and successfully transit to…

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Siblings arrested for kidnapping 88-year-old father

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Imo state police command has arrested two siblings, Chinaza Nwogu and Emeka Ejike, for conniving with one Emmanuel Sunday to kidnap their 88-year-old father, Louis Njoku. The Force Public Relations Officer, Frank Mba, said, “I am at the Imo State Police Command at the instance of the Inspector-General of Police”. He narrated the pathetic development of two siblings, who teamed up with the would-be husband of one of them to abduct their 88-year-old father. “Chinaza, who wants to get married to Emmanuel, teamed up with her brother, Emeka, to kidnap…

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Senator Abbo granted N5m bail, pleads not guilty to assault charge

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The Nigerian Police Force yesterday, arraigned Senator Elisha Abbo was before a Magistrates’ Court in Zuba, Abuja, on an assault charge. The lawmaker pleaded not guilty when the one count charge was read to him. After his plea was taken at the dock by Senior Magistrate Abdullahi llellah, he was granted bail to the tune of N5 million. The police had filed criminal charges against Abbo for assaulting a woman at an adult sex toy shop in Abuja after a video of the incident went viral last week. The development…

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Pastor arrested for raping, impregnating teenager

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A pastor, Pope Paul, has been arrested by men of the Lagos State Police Command, for allegedly raping and impregnating a 15-year-old girl at his place of residence in the Igando area of the state. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Bala Elkana, in a statement on Sunday, said the mother of the victim discovered that her daughter was pregnant after she brought her to live with the suspect in Lagos. He stated that the victim, during interrogation, said the suspect was responsible for the pregnancy, adding that he started…

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Ruga controversy: Defend your lands, Ooni, Soyinka, tell Nigerians

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Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, the Ooni of Ife, and Nobel laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, have called on Nigerians across state demarcations to defend the sanctity of their ancestral lands against usage for Ruga cattle settlements. The call was contained in a communiqué issued on Sunday to document highlights of last Thursday’s meeting between the monarch and Soyinka at the latter’s home in Idi-Aba, Abeokuta, Ogun State. The meeting focused on the state of the nation. Oba Ogunwusi and Soyinka made the call just as the Southern and Middle Belt Leaders’ Forum…

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Lagosians condemn Sanwo-Olu’s N41.4m donation to Super Eagles

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The $5,000 donated to each Nigerian player for the Round of 16 victory over the Indomitable Lions of Cameroon at the ongoing Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt, by the Lagos state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has been condemned by Lagos residents. The governor made the donation, which amounts to $115,000 (N41.4m) for 23 players in the team, excluding the technical crew and support staff, during the half time pep talk with the players. It was learnt that Sanwo-Olu made the donation as part of efforts to help revive the Eagles chances,…

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Niger Delta agitators to FG: Build RUGA in Sambisa Forest

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Niger Delta Agitators yesterday, advised the Federal Government to utilise the large expanse of land at the Sambisa Forest for the contentious Ruga settlement project. The agitators, in a statement jointly signed by Gen. John Dukku and others, maintained that the RUGA settlement plan by the government was in tandem with alleged plot to Fulanise and Islamise the entire country. The agitators, who frowned at the threat by the Coalition of Northern Groups (CNG), which issued a 30-day ultimatum to President Muhammadu Buhari and the Federal Government to implement the…

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