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Daily Habits That Are Killing You From waking up to going to bed, there are daily tasks that we perform and they involve tons of things that we do over and over again. It is our routine that decides a lot for us. Some become our habits, bad and good both that we carry with ourselves. However, yes, old habits die hard but take a moment here and read about the common habits that have some serious consequences. This list may make you want you to reconsider a few things. 1. Watching too much TV Yes, Netflix is great and the shows on it are the best but do you know a person watching TV more for than three hours a day doubles their risk of early death? American Heart Association cardiologist Nisa Goldberg said, “Watching television is a passive, sedentary activity, and certainly people who do it for hours are not paying attention in terms of their lifestyle and in terms of their diet.” The blood vessels stiffen which leads to cholesterol build-up with a sedentary lifestyle. 2. Ha...

Bundles of Rs 2,000 notes showered from building in Central Kolkata In a shocking and bizarre incident reported from West Bengal, bundles of Rs 2,000, demonetised Rs 500 and Rs 100 notes were showered from a building in Central Kolkata on Wednesday afternoon when officials from the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence reached the office of a private firm to conduct a search operation. The office, which reportedly dealt in export-import business, was located on the sixth floor of a building in Bentinck Street, Kolkata. The registered name and address of the office have been identified as Hoque Mercantile Private Limited, Room 601, MK Point, 27 Bentinck Street, Kolkata. Much to the surprise of bystanders, currency notes in denominations of ₹100, 500 and 2,000 were showered from a commercial building in Central Kolkata on Wednesday evening. Loose notes and bundles of various denominations -- ₹2,000, ₹500 and ₹100 -- were thrown from one of the floors of the building on 27, Bent...

Nigeria's Borders To Remain Closed Except… The Federal government has given conditions that ECOWAS Member States must adhere to before re-opening its border, including that the ECOWAS states must respect the Rule of Origin for imports. Mr Geoffrey Onyeama, the Minister of Foreign Affair, made this known on Monday in Abuja while briefing newsmen following an Inter-Ministerial meeting Preparatory to the Tripartite Anti-Smuggling Committee Meeting of Nigeria, Benin and Niger. He said that the conditions were spelt out by the country’s inter-ministerial committee to protect the nation’s economy by stopping dumping. Onyeama listed other conditions to include that any import coming into Nigeria must retain its original packaging from the country of origin. “There should be no modification whatsoever to the packaging on those goods imported into an ECOWAS member state destined for Nigeria. “So, with the original packaging, they must be escorted from the port directly and trans...

Activist says Nigerian SSS offered him a bribe to stop protests A political activist, Deji Adeyanju, has accused the State Security Service of offering him a bribe to shelve a protest demanding the release of Sahara Reporters publisher, Omoyele Sowore. Mr Adeyanju on Tuesday in Abuja displayed N1 million cash he said was offered to him by agents of the SSS. The activist led several other protesters to the headquarters of the SSS in Abuja on Tuesday morning. The demonstrators have been asking the SSS to comply with a federal court order for Mr Sowore to be released from custody. Mr Sowore was last month granted bail by the Federal High Court in his ongoing trial for alleged treason and defamation of President Muhammadu Buhari. He met the stringent bail conditions on November 6, but the SSS has declined to release him. Mr Sowore’s lawyer, Femi Falana, said the SSS had been plotting to file additional charges against Mr Sowore in order to continue justifying his remand in cust...

Nigeria: Another Yellow Fever Outbreak Kills 10 in Bauchi A disease suspected to be Yellow fever has killed 10 persons in different communities of Ningi Local Government Area of Bauchi State. Two health workers working at the Tipchi Primary Health Care Centre, have been infected with the disease which affected communities of Tipchi, Deru, Sabon Gari, Tudun Wada and Barawo, all of which are under Burra District in Ningi Local Government Area, Daily Trust gathered. One of the affected health workers at the Tipchi Primary Health Care Centre, who does not want be named, said; "As I am talking to you I am also affected by the disease. I am currently at home with high fever, I cannot go to work. My female colleague is also down with high fever." He said the outbreak started almost four weeks ago and the centre reported the issue to the local government primary health care department. "We reported the outbreak to the immediate past director of primary health care in...

Tips on dating someone older than you If you find yourself attracted to members of the opposite sex who happen to be older than you, fret not because you are not alone. According to studies and surveys carried out over the years by different groups, unconventional relationships where two partners have a big age gap between them are becoming more popular. They say that love is blind and sometimes, people fall in love with someone much older than them. There are many tips that can help you understand the dynamics of such a relationship if you are currently dating or are interested in someone older. Here are some essential ones just for you! 1. Don’t be intimidated When you are dating someone older than you, you will probably feel a little intimidated at first by their success, stability in life, maturity and other aspects that come as you age. Don’t run away just yet. Remember that they are human and that they don’t have life figured out completely just like any other person....

Fresh Xenophobic Attacks In South Africa.  Three Nigerians have been injured in fresh xenophobic attacks in Mpumalanga Province, South Africa, PUNCH reports. This comes less than a week after a Nigerian, Ikenna Otugo, was reportedly stabbed to death by unknown persons in Empageni, South Africa. President of the Nigerian Union South Africa, Adetola Olubajo, confirmed the attacks, saying the incident began in the early hours of Tuesday. He said, “The Department of Home Affairs, which is like our own Ministry of Interior that deals with immigration and citizens’ issues, is in the (South African) parliament briefing the parliament on migration today (Tuesday). “While that was going on, there was an attack on foreign nationals in Witbank area of Mpumalanga Province and there are some locations mainly in Extension 10, even the police commander there was giving a warning to foreign nationals to be careful. “Though no death has been recorded so far, there have been loss of prop...

Pregnant Cat Hung To Death By Drunk Men.  In yet another gruesome incident of cruelty, a pregnant cat was hung to death in front of a house in Thiruvanathapuram, following which a case has now been registered. The incident occurred on Sunday at a house in nearby Palkulangara which was being used as a recreation club by some people for consuming liquor and playing cards, news agency PTI reported. On the basis of a complaint filed by Parvathy Mohan, Campaign coordinator for Federation for Indian Animal Protection organisation and Latha, Kerala secretary of People for Animals, police have registered an FIR for cruelty against animals. The incident came to light after Parvathy Mohan narrated it on her Facebook Post. The animal rights activists, according to news agency PTI, have alleged that the club members had the other day after consuming liquor killed the cat, by hanging it, for fun. Though police were informed, they had initially refused to register a case, as per the ...

Man Kills Lover's                      Husband. Kamal Singla (31) had roped in his driver Ganesh Kumar (27) in executing the killing after promising that he would be paid Rs 70,000, they said. Parts of the body were recovered from Alwar more than eight years after the killing. Efforts are being made to trace the remaining body parts which the accused had scattered along a 70-km road stretch across two districts in Rajasthan and Haryana. The DNA test of the bones and tissue found at Alwar will be done to establish the identity, police said. According to police, on March 23, 2011, Ravi Kumar went missing. His father lodged a police complaint in which he said that Ravi left his house along with his wife Shakuntala to meet his brother-in-law in Delhi's Samalkha. He, however, did not return, following which a case was registered at Kapashera police station. Shakuntala said when they were on their way to Samalkha, her ...

Restaurant gets license to sell human flesh RESTAURANT IN NEW YORK GETS GOVERNMENT APPROVAL TO SELL HUMAN FLESH AS MEAT Where else but New York City? A newly opened restaurant within the city limits is boasting the nation’s first license to serve human flesh on the menu. The restaurant, simply called SKIN, received a license after petitioning the state and federal governments over laws against cannibalism. “As a species, we are at the top of the food chain, and the only meat left to tackle was other humans,” said SKIN owner Mario Dorcy, a 4-star Michelin chef. “We battled long and hard to be able to serve human meat in our restaurant, and the government finally conceded that were were in the right.” Dorcy says that he has been fighting cannibal ordinance laws for over 10 years, and was finally given the green-light after he promised that the meat that was used would only come from people who had donated their bodies specifically to his restaurant, knowing full well that the...

Twitter's political ad ban raises one big issue Twitter will ban all political advertising, the company’s CEO has announced, in a move that will increase pressure on Facebook over its controversial stance to allow politicians to advertise false statements. The new policy, announced via Jack Dorsey’s Twitter account on Wednesday, will come into effect on 22 November and will apply globally to all electioneering ads, as well as ads related to political issues. The timing means the ban will be in place in time for the UK snap election. Twitter had previously implemented rules and restrictions for political advertising. The announcement comes as Facebook is embroiled in a controversy over its decision to exempt ads by politicians from third-party factchecking and from a policy that bans false statements from paid advertisements. Dorsey explained the motivations behind the change in a lengthy Twitter thread that appeared to include several references and responses to the con...

Girl, 13, gets burnt after charging phone falls in her bath. The 13-year-old girl screamed out in pain after the phone sparked in the water, prompting her mum to run into the bathroom. The Dutch girl was pulled out of the bath by her mother, who called the emergency services when her child was clear of the bathtub. When paramedics arrived at the home they punched the girl in the sternum in a successful bid to wake her up. She spent two days in hospital where she later received surgery to help heal the deep burns on her hands and stomach. The unnamed teenagers lucky escape has inspired doctors at Vrije Universiteit Medical Center in Amsterdam, where she was treated, to write about the dangers of using phones in the bath. "Risks of electrical devices in household use are underestimated," they wrote in the Journal of Medical Case Reports. "Although products are thoroughly tested and certified, they pose a great danger if used inappropriately. "A severe elec...

Serial Killer And Rapist Sentenced To Death Serial rapist and murderer ‘Cyanide’ Mohan Kumar was on Thursday sentenced to death in the rape-and-murder of an anganwadi worker in a south Karnataka village.  The VI additional district and sessions judge Syedunnisa had convicted Mohan of rape and murder on Tuesday (October 22) and pronounced the sentence on Thursday. Mohan killed the anganwadi worker, who hails from Balepuni village of Bantwal taluk in Dakshina Kannada district, in October 2005. The death sentence will be executed if the Karnataka high court confirms it. According to The Hindu, the present case is the 17th being tried against serial killer and the fourth in which he was awarded the death sentence. The Karnataka high court overturned the death sentence in two of the previous cases, reducing the sentences to life imprisonment and five years of rigorous imprisonment. In the third case, the HC confirmed the death sentence. He has been convicted in all 17 cases,...

14-Year-Old Girl Raped and Killed in Shamli In a tragic incident, the police have reported on Tuesday that a 14-year-old girl was allegedly raped and strangled to death in Shamli district According to Circle Officer Rajesh Kumar Tiwari, the girl's body was found in an agricultural field in Kailshikapur village, which comes under the jurisdiction of Gahripukhta police station, on Monday evening. He said it appeared that she was strangulated to death with her "dupatta" after rape. Based on a complaint lodged by the girl's parents, the police launched a probe into the incident. In the complaint, they said their daughter had gone to bring lunch for her father and since then, she had been missing, Tiwari said. The teenager's body was sent for postmortem, he said, adding that a case was registered in the matter. This is not the first time a heinous crime against minors came to the fore. Last month, a 12-year-old girl was sexually abused for over ...

Rapper Cuts Finger in Live-Stream Video In the video, Li insisted he was wronged and subjected to unbearable cyberbullying. He did not show the moment he cut off his finger but displayed his injured part on the screen, the report said. A Chinese rapper cut his finger off during an online live-stream video to prove his innocence in alleged sex scandals, official media reported on Wednesday. The short live-streaming video on Monday showed Li Jingze, 24, saying that he would cut a part of his little finger to “prove a clear conscience” in response to rumours about alleged sex scandals accusing him of being involved in sexual relations with female fans, state-run Global Times reported. Li, also known as Beibei, is a member of the hip-hop group Honghuahui or GDLF MUSIC based in Xi’an, China’s northwest Shaanxi Province. In the video, Li insisted he was wronged and subjected to unbearable cyberbullying. He did not show the moment he cut off his finger but displayed his injured pa...

Tax Officials Find Rs. 4.25 Crores On Congress Leader Over Rs. 4 crores in cash was found by Income Tax officials during raids at multiple places linked to former Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister G Parameshwara and his associates since yesterday, officials said this morning. Rs. 4.25 crore in cash has been found till now from various premises that were searched, officials said. Around 30 places linked in Bengaluru and Tumakuru linked to the senior Congress leader were searched. The tax department is continuing with the searches this morning as well. The raids are in connection with an alleged multi-crore tax evasion case linked to medical entrance exams, officials said. In coordinated raids, more than 300 Income Tax officials searched premises linked to two prominent Congress leaders in Karnataka - Mr Parameshwara and former MP RL Jalappa. The raids are being conducted based on a tip-off that medical seats were being sold at the rate of Rs. 50 lakh to Rs. 60 lakh for undeser...

Facebook Rolls Out New Feature After deprioritizing news in the News Feed and pivoting to video, Facebook is officially back in the news business again. The social media giant is rolling out Facebook News to select audiences in the US starting today, carving a dedicated home screen tab out of its digital real estate for users to explore their news interests directly within the Facebook app. “Facebook News was built to bring people closer to the stories that affect their lives,” the company said. “We’ll continue to learn, listen and improve News as it rolls out more broadly.” The company’s plans for a news service became concrete in CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony before the US Congress, during which he labelled News as “a big initiative around news and journalism where we’re partnering with a lot of folks to build a new product that’s supporting high-quality journalism.” This is materializing as a partnership with a number of big publishers, including The Wall Street Journa...

Modi Threatens To Kill Himself. In a setback to Nirav Modi, a UK court yet again rejected a bail plea of the fugitive diamond merchant on Wednesday despite an offer of an "unprecedented bail package", which included 4-million pounds in security as well as house arrest akin to those imposed on terrorist suspects. The 48-year-old fugitive diamond merchant, who is fighting extradition to India on charges of nearly USD 2 billion Punjab National Bank (PNB) fraud and money laundering case, was produced before Chief Magistrate Emma Arbuthnot at Westminster Magistrates' Court here for his fourth attempt at bail. Dressed in a white shirt and blue sweater, Nirav Modi was taken back to Wandsworth prison in south-west London and will next appear via video link before the same court on December 4. "The past is a prediction of what might happen in the future," said Judge Arbuthnot, as she concluded that she remains unconvinced that he would not interfere with ...

Facebook testing a meme creating App Facebook’s testing out its latest bizarre spin-off app aimed at recapturing its youthful audience — in this case, a meme creation app called Whale. From what we can tell, the purpose of the app is to make meme creation easier by packaging together stock images and basic photo-editing tools. You can apply filters, crop, add emoji and stickers, and “share to social media and message threads right from the app,” according to the app’s description. The creator of the app is listed as “NPE Team from Facebook.” According to The Information, this is the name of an internal testing group at Facebook called New Product Experimentation. It’s also got two other apps available, called Aux and Bump, both of which appear to be aimed at students. It’s not available to everyone yet — at time of writing, it’s only available in the Canadian App Store. And even if eventually sees wider release, there’s no telling whether or not it’ll last. While Facebook’s...

Whatsapp's Got 5 New Features Recently The dark theme has become a trend these days. Whether it's your computer or your smartphone, the demand for a dark theme is high. This is the reason why almost all leading software companies including Google has jumped in to be a part of this trend. WhatsApp, the most widely-used instant app is no different. The rumours of WhatsApp working on dark mode has been doing rounds for a while now and there are chances that it could debut on the app soon. But the dark mode is not the only much-awaited feature to come on WhatsApp. The chat company has recently added several other important features to the app with an aim to improve the user experience. Here is a list of top 5 features that have made it to the app recently or are underworks. -- Group invite with better control: WhatsApp made a small but very effective change to its group privacy feature recently. The app has replaced the "Nobody" option with "My contac...

WhatsApp dark mode is 'about to launch' You may have heard that previous generations of innovators landed on the moon, invented vaccines which saved billions of lives and brought about huge social change by allowing women to control their fertility. Now, of course, the greatest minds of western civilisation are busily working on new app features and we’re glad to report that one of the most anticipated upgrades looks set to launch soon. We’re talking about WhatsApp dark mode – an option that changes everything by turning the app interface dark. You might think this was a tiny, insignificant upgrade which will do nothing but bring gloom to your chats with friends. But it will, erm, help your batteries last a bit longer and give WhatsApp a nice new look. It might even protect you from eyestrain when you gawp at your iPhone whilst laying in a darkened bedroom. WhatsApp has included a new ‘dark wallpaper’ in a beta version of its software, the code detectives at WABetaI...

Nigeria court annuls break-up of ancient Kano Emirates  A High Court in Nigeria’s north central Kano State has nullified the creation of four additional Emirates in the ancient city. The presiding judge, Justice Usman Na’abba, on Thursday ruled that due process was not followed in the creation of the Emirates. Governor Abdullahi Ganduje in May this year controversially announced that he was breaking up the over 200-year Kano Emirates. He went on to carve out four more Emirates and appointed first-class Emirs for each. Despite lawmakers in the state legislature voting for the breakup, a last minute court order to halt the creation was dismissed by the governor claiming he had not received the order. After decades of having a central traditional, religious role of Emir of Kano, Kano now had five Emirs for the Kano, Rano, Gaya, Karaye and Bichi Emirates.Most analysts held that the governor by the move sought to limit the powers and influence of the current Emir of Kano, Mo...

Another Fire Outbreak In Lagos For the past three weeks, a fire outbreak in Lagos has become a recurring incident as fire guts a shopping mall called Super Plaza in the Surulere area of the state. A video of the incident circulating on social media shows people around the burning building. One of the people speaking in the background of the video says firefighters have come around to put out the fire. The Super Plaza on Akerele Street in Surulere area of Lagos was gutted by fire on Wednesday, with valuable merchandise destroyed. The plaza, formerly known as Super Cinema, accommodates many shops and churches including Fountain Hall, Dominion City Worship, Omega Fire Ministries, Textiles and Fabrics, Bureau de Change and Gift Gallery, among others. Director-General of Lagos Emergency Management Agency (LASEMA), Dr Oke-Osanyintolu, said that preliminary investigation conducted on-site indicated that the fire resulted from an electrical surge in one of the shops before escalati...

Nigeria: PDP senators reject Bayelsa, Kogi election results Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Caucus in the Senate yesterday rejected the outcome of the Bayelsa and Kogi states’ governorship election. The Senators, led by the Minority Leader Enyinnaya Abaribe, announced the caucus’ position at a news conference in Abuja. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) had declared the candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) – David Lyon and Governor Yahaya Bello-winners of last Saturday’s Bayelsa and Kogi governorship elections, respectively. Other PDP Senators with Abaribe during the briefing include Senators Sahabi Yau, Matthew Urhoghide and Philip Aduda. Abaribe said: “We totally reject the pronouncement made by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and we are worried about the trend of what happened in those elections. ”The outright intimidation and killings of Nigerians during the elections; we know that those results were not a true reflecti...

Chauffe entre le président de Nigeria Buhari et son vice-président Refus de délégation de pouvoirs, dissolution d’institutions sous tutelle du vice-président, …. Autant d’indices pour déduire qu’entre le chef de l‘État nigérian Muhammadu Buhari et son second Yemi Osinbajo, le torchon brûle. Avec quelles conséquences? Muhammadu Buhari est depuis le début de ce mois en séjour privé à Londres. Si les raisons ne sont pas encore révélées, ce voyage n’est pas sans rappeler le protocole auquel s’est toujours soumis le chef de l‘État nigérian en matière d’exercice du pouvoir en son absence. Dès les premières heures de son premier mandat (2015-2019), c’est le vice-président Yemi Osinbajo assurant l’intérim, qui était doté de tous les pouvoirs lorsque le chef de l‘État était hors du pays pour des missions officielles ou privées. Mais aujourd’hui, Buhari semble expérimenter une nouvelle donne. Très récemment, par exemple, c’est le chef de son cabinet, Abba Kyari qui l’a suivi dans la ...

Whatsapp Releases New Feature.  WhatsApp Is Now Letting Users Know When A Message Has Been Forwarded Too Many Times. The new feature is part of WhatsApp's efforts to curb how misinformation spreads on its platform. In an effort to curb the spread of misinformation on its platform, WhatsApp on Thursday introduced a new feature that makes it easier for users to know when a message they receive has been forwarded multiple times. When a user receives a message that has been forwarded among users more than five times, such as chain messages, it is now labeled with a double-arrow icon. Previously, the messaging app showed a single arrow to indicate a message was forwarded. In addition, if users try to forward a message that has already been forwarded multiple times by other users, WhatsApp will note that the message will be marked as "forwarded many times" before it is sent out. Similarly to all other messages sent on WhatsApp, the number of times a certain mess...

Pastor Confesses To Raping Church Member Pastor Sunday Egbo of Christ Mercy Ministry, Ajuona Obukpa, in Nsukka Local Government Area of Enugu, has confessed to raping one of his church members, Ukwueze Ifebuche Blessing, and an attempt to do money ritual. Egbo, who was paraded alongside 36 other suspects at the Enugu Police Command headquarters, was said to have invited his victim for a prayer session when he had the carnal knowledge of her. Punch reports that Egbo asked the victim to come along with the picture of her sick brother for prayers. Narrating how the suspect committed the crime, the state Commissioner of Police, Ahmed Abdulrahman said Egbo had on Saturday, September 9, 2019, took the victim to his house on her arrival, after which he brought out a magic stone, threatening to kill her should she raise an alarm. Abdulrahman stated that Egbo ordered her to remove her clothes, but the victim refused and the pastor slapped her and tore her clothes and raped her. “Egb...