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Eating suya increases death risk from nine major diseases -Study

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A new research has shown that eating roast beef and lamb, popularly called Suya in Nigeria, increases your chances of dying from nine major diseases. Red meat raises the risk of death from cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, heart disease and diabetes, scientists have found. Beef, lamb and pork also increase your susceptibility of stroke, infections and kidney, liver and lung disease. Yet, regularly eating white meat may reverse the damage, the researchers added. Those who frequently consume chicken and fish are 25 per cent less likely to die from various diseases…

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Mercy Aigbe’s husband released from prison, says seven days, seven nights in prison looks like a whole year

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Lanre Gentry, husband of Nollywood actress, Mercy Aigbe, has said that the government should improve prison facilities across the country, asking that “Is it that they’ve forgotten this people are still Nigerian citizens? “If I may say, government shouldn’t leave what they ought to do and start involving its selves in (domestic violence). Gentry made this statement after he was released from the Medium Prison, Kirikiri. He lamented that the Kirikiri Prison ought to be a correctional facility but instead, it is an overpopulated arena where people die every night.saying…

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90 Nigerians deported from South Africa

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90 Nigerians have been deported by the South African government yesterday for committing various immigration offences. According to DSP Joseph Alabi, the spokesman of the Lagos Airport Police Command, the deportees ,who were all men, landed at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos at about 3.30pm. He said they were brought back to Nigeria from Johannesburg aboard a South African Airways aircraft with registration number BBB712 He said : “This afternoon, about 3.30pm, 90 Nigerians were deported from South Africa for committing immigration-related offences. Some of them were alleged to…

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Minister of power declares that Consumers can buy electricity directly from Gencos

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Mr. Babatunde Fashola, the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, has declared that eligible power consumers are now free to purchase electricity directly from power generation companies. By declaring eligible customers, the minister has empowered the consumer to buy electricity directly from licensees other than the power distribution companies, a development that the Discos recently opposed. The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission on Friday stated that Fashola declared four categories of eligible customers in the Nigerian electricity supply industry on May 15, 2017, describing the declaration as a major policy directive…

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17-year-old turned to sex slave by father

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Folorunsho Oluwaseun, a 51-year-old incestuous father, who allegedly turned his 17-year-old daughter into a sex object, was on Friday granted a reprieve by an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court. Oluwaseun was released on N300,000 bail with two sureties in like sum after he pleaded not guilty to the charge. The 51-year-old electrician, who resides at 40, Popoola Str., Offin in Ikorodu, Lagos State, is facing a charge of rape. Police Prosecutor Clifford Ogu told the court that the accused committed the offence between Aug. 8, 2016 and April 2017 at his…

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Aisha Yesufu, BBOG co-convener, demands Buhari’s resignation

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Aisha Yesufu, a co-convener of the Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) group, has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to resign on health grounds. She advised the National Assembly to impeach the president if he fails to step down. “We need to take our country back, let the president resign, if he can’t resign, let the National Assembly do the right thing and let’s have another president. It is not about President Buhari, it’s about Nigeria, and right now Nigeria is suffering and we cannot continue to allow this,” Ms. Yesufu said…

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Three hours weekly walk can boost brain function, stave off dementia

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The Canadian team reports in British Journal of Sports Medicine has revealed that participants with vascular dementia who walked three hours per week for six months had improved reaction times and other signs of improved brain function. Vascular cognitive impairment, or VCI, refers to mildly impaired thinking or more advanced dementia that’s due to the same kinds of blood vessel damage seen with heart disease elsewhere in the body. “It is well established that regular aerobic exercise improves cardiovascular health and cerebrovascular health,” the study’s senior author Teresa Liu-Ambrose revealed.…

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Update: Four policemen arrested in Edo for handcuffing bus driver to van

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Four policemen attached to the Esigie Police Division have been made to face orderly room trial at the office of the Assistant Inspector General of Police in charge of Zone 5. They were arrested after pictures and video of their brutality against a commercial bus driver went viral. Their victim, Odozi Kester, was handcuffed to a police Hilux van and dragged on the ground until he fainted. The AIG, Zone 5, Abubakar Adamu, described the conduct of the policemen as unprofessional, which he said, did not depict the ethics and…

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One dead, scores trapped as building collapses in Lagos

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Scores of construction workers were trapped while one was reported dead when a three-story building under construction at Richard Abimbola Street, Ilasamaja, Lagos, collapsed, yesterday. Seventeen persons were rescued alive at about 7.15p.m., with rescue work still ongoing. Most of the workers were reportedly foreigners. The lifeless body of one of the workers was brought out from the rubble at 7.55p.m. Work was reportedly ongoing, when the building suddenly caved in at about 2p.m. The impact of the collapse affected a nearby church, but there was no one in the…

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Nollywood actress, Moji Olaiya is dead

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Moji Olaiya, Nollywood star actress has been reported dead. She was 42 years old. She was said to have died of heart attack in Canada, where she gave birth to a baby girl in March. The baby was her second child. Her first daughter is 18 years old. The beautiful actress, who had featured in many Yoruba and English movies married her second husband last year after her first marriage crashed in 2008. She was the daughter of highlife music legend, Victor Olaiya. She was born in February 1975. Share…

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