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http://ift.tt/2sjujZ0 PHOTO: Alcohicthinkagain *Strokes may cause increased preference for alcohol, researchers find Getting drunk before your 15th birthday nearly doubles your risk of an early death, new research reveals. Those who get inebriated at a young age are 47 percent more likely to die prematurely, a study found. Researchers believe early drinking may increase a person’s risk of suffering a life-threatening alcohol abuse disorder in later life. Lead author Dr Hui Hu from the University of Florida, United States, said: “Early onset of drinking and drunkenness are associated with alcohol use disorders and therefore may play a role in elevated alcohol use disorder-related mortality rates.” Other experts add excessive alcohol-consumption at a young age can increase a person’s ‘risk-taking behavior’ and lead to mental health issues. Young women who binge drink increase their risk of developing type 2 diabetes in later life, experts warned earlier this month. Drinkin...

http://ift.tt/2sSvuLY Ndume Six months after his suspension, former Senate Leader Mohammed Ali Ndume, has vowed not to apologise as a condition for his recall. Ndume, who represents Borno South Senatorial District, disclosed this at a meeting with his constituents in Abuja. This followed a report last week that the Senate had asked him to apologise before his suspension could be lifted. He said: “For now, there is nothing for me to apologise for. The move for apology was actually made, but I did not do anything to warrant such. Though, I have no problem with an apology, it could only be done when one has committed an offence. “The issues that I raised, including the importation of car have been put to rest. The certificate issue has also been put to rest, because I initiated them. Perhaps if I did not, they may have lingered.” Ndume was suspended for alleging that an exotic car owned by Senate President Bukola Saraki, was purchased with forged customs papers. He also all...

http://ift.tt/2pnbbn7 FRSC Boss, Boboye Oyeyemi. PHOTO: nigeriannewsservice.com The Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Boboye Oyeyemi, has said the official rate required for acquiring a three years duration driver’s licence remains N6,350. Speaking in Lagos over the weekend at a capacity building seminar for journalists, Oyeyemi, who was represented by the Assistant Corps Marshal and the Zonal Commanding Officer, Lagos and Ogun, Sheu Zaki, said motorists must fight for their rights to ensure they are not over-billed. This is coming as most applicants raised concerns that the agency has made the process complicated and tedious. “The official rate of driver’s licence as set by the Joint Tax Board (JTB) is N6,350. Anything order than that is not acceptable, so people should endeavour to fight for their rights,” Oyeyemi said. The Corps Marshal said the agency has also introduced a five years duration of the licence, which could be procured for N10,350 to meet th...

http://ift.tt/2sSVtmS Evans (left) paraded with six other suspects yesterday “I was into auto spare parts importation but lost all my money, over N25 million, when customs seized my goods. From there, I relocated to South Africa, where I started peddling drugs. But along the line, my business partner shot me and passed me off as dead. I recuperated, returned to Nigeria and decided to start kidnapping rich men for ransom.” These were the words of notorious kidnap lord, Evans, whose real name is Chukwudi Dumeme Onuamadike, and who was paraded yesterday at the Lagos Command Headquarters, Ikeja, by the police spokesman, Jimoh Moshood. Also paraded were six of his alleged gang members: Felix Chinemerem, Nwosu Chikodi Chukwuma, Suoyo Paul (Sudo), Ikenna Emeka (Nwana), Uchechukwu Amadi and Ogechi Amadi. According to Evans, he started his kidnapping escapade under notorious China, admitting to have been among the members who attempted to kidnap the owner of Young Shall Grow Mot...

http://ift.tt/2qVV9WU PHOTO: Hope for Nigeria Amid exponential growth in city’s population, a former Lagos government official last week revealed that the absence of National Spatial Physical Planning Policy framework has burdened States and local councils with the task of urban planning in the country. The former Permanent Secretary in Lagos State Ministry of Urban and Physical Planning, Ayo Adediran who made the submission at the 5th Urban Dialogue programme titled:”Dialectics of Urban Planning in Nigeria” organised by the department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Lagos, called for a review of planning statutes with sustainable subsidiary legislations. He acknowledged the urgent need for governments at all levels to embark on preparation of appropriate development plans and reform of the land use law and land rights to ensure positive planning and effective development control. Adediran stressed that issues of climate change, smart develo...

http://ift.tt/2sSsWxL US player Michael Bradley (R) vies for the ball with Mexico’s Javier Hernandez during their 2018 FIFA World Cup Concacaf qualifier football match in Mexico City, on June 11, 2017. The match ended 1-1. PEDRO PARDO / AFP Michael Bradley scored a spectacular long-range goal as the United States battled to a 1-1 draw with rivals Mexico in their 2018 World Cup qualifier on Sunday. Mexico’s former Arsenal striker Carlos Vela cancelled out Bradley’s sixth-minute chip to give the hosts a point which saw them extend their lead at the top of the CONCACAF standings to six points. The USA, who made seven changes from the team which beat Trinidad & Tobago in Colorado last Thursday, are level with second-place Costa Rica on eight points but trail on goal difference. The top three teams in the six-team round robin competition qualify automatically for next year’s finals in Russia. The tone for a frenetic first half at the Estadio Azteca was set in the opening mi...

http://ift.tt/2p6OlDW • Again, Arewa leaders urge Igbo in Kaduna to ignore eviction order • Lalong, group say quit notice lacks morality, unwarranted A United States (U.S.) District Court for the District of Columbia has granted leave to 10 Biafran plaintiffs to sue Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff, Gen. Tukur Yusuf Buratai, and 13 others for complicity in the 2016 torture and extra-judicial killings under colour of Nigeria law to retaliate for peaceful Biafran protests against ethnic or religious oppression. Brought under the Torture Victims Protection Act and Alien Tort Claims Act Complaint, the plaintiffs are seeking millions of dollars as damages to compensate for their grievous losses and suffering. The suit, John Doe, et al vs. Tukur Yusuf Buratai et al, with Civil Action No. 1:17-cv-01033, has been assigned to United States District Judge Ellen S. Huvelle, who was appointed by President William Jefferson Clinton. The court further ruled that the “plaintiffs alleged that...

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http://ift.tt/2sahJuw Medical Director of the state Specialist Hospital, Dr. Laraba Bello, disclosed this when she took the Executive Director of Victims Support Fund (VSF), Prof. Sunday Ochoche, round to injured victims admitted in hospital./ AFP PHOTO / STRINGER Death toll from Wednesday’s Maiduguri multiple bomb blasts and Jiddari Polo Boko Haram attacks have risen from 18 to 23, after emergency rescue teams evacuated 86 victims to University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH) and State’s Specialist Hospital for medical attention. Medical Director of the state Specialist Hospital, Dr. Laraba Bello, disclosed this when she took the Executive Director of Victims Support Fund (VSF), Prof. Sunday Ochoche, round to injured victims admitted in hospital. She said out of the 32 patients evacuated from the blast scenes, two died on Friday, adding that 23 were discharged, while 29 are responding to treatment for injuries ranging from multiple fractures, trauma and loss of blood from ...

http://ift.tt/2odZJhL Olisa Agbakoba Twenty-four years after the botched June 12, 1993 presidential election, which was presumed to have been won by the presidential candidate of the defunct Social Democratic Party (SDP), Chief MKO Abiola, regrets still rent the air, as prominent Nigerians insist the country’s fortunes still plummet. Former President of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA), Olisa Agbakoba, spokesman of Afenifere, Yinka Odumakin, Executive Secretary, Nigerian National Summit Group, Tony Uranta, and member of the 2014 National Conference, Wale Okuniyi, yesterday, lamented that the expected results from the struggle have remained unrealised.    Speaking ahead of tomorrow’s 24th anniversary celebration, Agbakoba, who said he was not totally disappointed with the June 12 struggle because it eventually led to the exit of the military from government added, “that is not to say I am happy because the situation in the country today does not justify the risk, danger...

http://ift.tt/2sada38 Real Madrid President; Floretino Perez As local and global politics became more complicated at the weekend, I would like to shift some focus to some equally significant success factors in the organized private sector that we often ignore. What else shall we write about local politics without ethics? The more you look at what is happening to the resurgent ‘Biafran Dream’, for instance, the less we see! Just as observers were scratching heads over what to do with the Biafra conundrum, like a bolt from the blues came a toxic quit notice to the Oriental brothers to leave the North. The notice, clearly an assault on Nigeria’s constitution has triggered a spate of other more toxic statements from other youth and elders’ organizations in the South. Unto a section of the South South, in 2018 will be born a new Republic called RONDEL, Region of Niger Delta, for instance. Nigeria is “on the brink again” on the eve of June 12 anniversary – of the day General IBB’s gover...