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The single best thing smokers can do to reduce chances of developing smoker’s cough and prolong their lives, is to stop smoking, says a health expert, Professor Dame Sally Davies. She said people should not ignore “smoker’s cough” as it could be a sign of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which is incurable.

Hat-trick hero Chisom Chikatara, midfielder Usman Mohammed and defender Orji Kalu have pushed for starting shirts with Nigeria’s Super Eagles at the CHAN on the strength of their displays against Niger, officials have disclosed. Chikatara came off the bench in the 58th minute to replace the hugely ineffective Tunde Adeniji and he showed his class with three well-taken goals and could even have scored more against Mena.

When you meet someone for the first time, do you put across a good impression? According to Presence, a new book by Harvard Business School professor Amy Cuddy, people assess you on two main criteria when they first meet you: 1. Can I trust this person? 2. Can I respect this person? Your level of trustworthiness, or warmth, is the most important factor in how people initially perceive you, Cuddy says. However, many people mistakenly believe that the second factor, characterised as competence, is more important.

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump received the endorsement Tuesday of conservative firebrand Sarah Palin, giving the billionaire businessman a potential boost less than two weeks before Iowa's kick-off caucuses. "Media heads are spinning," the former vice presidential candidate said after taking the stage at a Trump rally at Iowa State University. "This is going to be so much fun."

The Supreme Court stepped into a boiling political dispute over immigration Tuesday, setting up a likely decision in the middle of a presidential campaign marked by harsh rhetoric about immigrants. The justices agreed to review whether President Barack Obama, acting without congressional approval, has the power to shield from deportation up to 5 million immigrants living in the U.S. illegally and make them eligible to work without fear of being rounded up.

Tragedy struck on Monday as armed robbers shot dead a security guard, identified only as Kayode, in front of the Ibafo Police Division. Kayode, a member of the Oodua People’s Congress, was among residents who responded to the distress call of a couple abducted by the robbers in their Landcruiser SUV.

The police in Lagos have arrested a 39-year-old trader, Chinwe Abasi, for allegedly brutalising a 12-year-old boy, Chinedu Okorie, with hot water in the Apapa area of the state. Our correspondent learnt that Abasi, a mother of two, who hails from Nnewi, Anambra State, allegedly poured hot water on the boy because he collected N100 from a neighbour to buy a pair of socks to wear to school without the woman’s knowledge.

The Attorney General of the Federation and Minister for Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami (SAN), has said the present administration will not spare judges who are found to be corrupt. Malami said unlike in the past when indicted judges were only sent on compulsory retirement, any judge found culpable in the new dispensation risked criminal prosecution and forfeiture of assets as additional consequences.

There was panic yesterday in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, when former militants stormed the major streets to protest alleged unpaid amnesty stipends. For over three months, the ex-militants have been protesting the unpaid stipends.

The final burial rites of late Nollywood actor, Mr Onwuzurike Onyehidelam popularly known as Dede One Day have been released. The actor cum comedian died last year, December 15 in Abia State. He worked that day before developing challenges in his health and finally succumbing to high blood pressure. According to information released by the bereaved family, Dede One Day will be laid to rest on Saturday, February 13, 2016. 

                       A woman was allegedly made to walk naked through the streets of New York after claims her husband caught her messaging other men. The shocking video shows the woman in a towel before the man eventually pulls it away, exposing her body to everyone on the street...

Whether you feel like you’re stuck in a dead end relationship because of your partner’s sexual orientation or you have had your doubts from the beginning, knowing your boyfriend is gay will save you a lot of time, trouble and stress. Many girls stay in relationships with gay boyfriends without realizing it. While there’s nothing wrong with it – each of us is trying to create lives that feel right to us – it’s critical to be honest with one another. Before confronting him, check out these possible signs your boyfriend may be gay. 1. He claims he doesn’t like and understand gays

  A jealous boyfriend stabbed to death his ex-girlfriend and a fellow college athlete she was with in her off-campus bedroom and killed himself thereafter, apparently with the same knife.

An Arsenal fan walked up the aisle in full Gunner garb recently after getting the approval of his wife. "My wife is from Woking and she is awesome," he wrote on Facebook. "She let me get married in my full Arsenal kit! Maybe I just got lucky." In another post, the man wrote: "It's like I won the FA Cup and found the best woman in the world ever." See another photo below.

                         Minister of Information,Lai Mohammed has said Nigerian state governors, ministers, business leaders, public officials and bankers allegedly stole $6.7 billion in public funds in seven years. Mohammed told reporters in the capital, Abuja, that some 1.34 trillion naira ($6.72 billion, 6.15 billion euros) was allegedly stolen between 2006 and 2013,Pm News reports .. See a breakdown of the alleged theft,

A 70 -years-old man, Mutairu Afolabi, on Monday sought the dissolution of his 36 years marriage to Monsurat, 60, over alleged bleaching and conversion of his wife to Christianity. Afolabi told the court that as an Imam his wife’s conversion from Islam to Christianity as brought him shame. He said that the marriage was consummated in 1980 and produced four children, from age 20 to 33.

                    The police in Lagos State are investigating an alleged rape of a Primary five pupil, Zainab (pseudonym) by a gang of five men in the Bariga area of Lagos State.

                                     50 Cents unleashed his fury on Meek Mill... lashing out after Meek dropped a diss track calling Fifty out for filing bankruptcy. Fifty posted a photo of Meek's face in a feaces emoji with the caption, "LMAO Hey s*** head, your career is already over. you better focus on getting Nicki pregnant so you can at least get child support girl."

              Squabbles over legal representation for Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), on Monday, stalled his trial for alleged treason at the federal high court, Abuja. Vincent Obetta, Kanu’s lawyer, who has represented him since the beginning of his trial at a lower court, was not in court, but another lawyer, Ifeanyi Ejiofor, who claimed that he had been hired to represent the IPOB leader, showed up.

     A scorned wife took revenge on her husband's mistress in a shocking way,by throwing her from a bridg. The violent footage, which was posted to Liveleak, was allegedly captured in Brazil.The mistress who was screaming,tried in vain to hold on to a gate but was dragged by her hair along the road.

A 21-year-old footballer, Samuel Owawu, has been stabbed to death by a suspect, Adebayo Hammed, in the Ifako Ijaiye area of Lagos State, while jogging. PUNCH Metro learnt that Owawu, who was a goalkeeper for Ifako Ijaiye United (FKJ United), was allegedly attacked by a gang led by Hammed, aka Eiye, on Friday because the footballer reportedly refused to give them money.

A Leader of the defunct Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND), Chief Government Ekpemupolo, has explained why he has not appeared in court on the alleged N34 billion fraud, for which an order of arrest was issued on him. Ekpemupolo, in an open letter to President Muhammadu Buhari, said he has nothing to do with the matter in court. He blamed his refusal to appear in court on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), its lawyer Festus Keyamo and some ex-Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members, who defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC).

The new chief executive officer of MTN Nigeria, Mr. Ferdi Moolman has said the N1.04 trillion ($5.2 billion) fine imposed on the mobile operator by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) is actually 95 per cent of its annual turnover, noting that paying it in its entirety could fold the network. NCC had in late October 2015 fined MTN Nigeria N1.05 trillion for not deactivating 5.1 million pre-registered subscriber identification module (SIM) lines discovered on its network. Speaking with media at the weekend, he acknowledged the tough operating environment MTN has found itself.

Experts have recorded remarkable feat in the treatment of about 300 hole in the heart patients, using a pin-hole technique (angiogram), without any scar on the chest. Ventricular septal defect (VSD) is a hole between the pumping chambers of the heart, which, traditionally can be closed by open heart surgery, which involves opening of the chest, by-pass-machine and closing the hole surgically.

The Federal Government on Saturday begged investors in the private sector to desist from sacking workers at the moment, stressing that the country’s economy is in a critical stage. According to the government, the sack of any employee will have serious negative effect not just on the retrenched employee but on the larger economy.

Commercial banks are back in the business of foreign currency (dollar) transfer after the Central Bank (CBN) lifted restrictions on such transactions. The banks can now transfer foreign currency in customers’ domiciliary accounts to their local and international business partners subject to a daily cumulative limit of $10,000.

Manchester City returned to the top of the English Premier League table with a 4-0 humbling of high-flying Crystal Palace at the Etihad, thanks to goals from Sergio Aguero (twice), David Silva and Fabian Delph. Chelsea came back from being 2-0 down at the Stamford Bridge, due to a John Terry own-goal and a Ross Barkley’s brilliant turn-around move, to force a determined Everton side to a 3-3 draw, though John Terry’s redemptive effort will be misunderstood by many as a controversial goal.

A Florida man yesterday shoved his mother to the ground after her dog ate his pot, according to cops who arrested the suspect for domestic battery. Mackenzie Freeman, 25, “became upset” early Tuesday morning “after his mother’s dog ate his marijuana,” a criminal complaint notes.

                           Nollywood actor, Charles Okocha who was hit by bullets from a mobile policeman’s gun at a wedding in Nnewi, Anambra State has explained his horrible experience and the grace God has had on him to keep him alive. It’s indeed a terrible experience no one will ever pray for. Here’s what he told Saturday Beats… “I stepped out of the wedding venue to receive a call and then walked into a bunch of fans that made some complimentary remarks. As I moved closer to acknowledge their love for me, a policeman who was around also walked to where we were standing and said that my movies always made him happy. He said as a mark of appreciation of my works and the respect he had for me, he would shoot into the air as a form of salute, even though I didn’t fancy the idea.

                            Each time a man connects with a woman sexually and releases his life form energy within her, he leaves a part of his information (DNA) in her birth canal. If she doesn't clean herself, his energy remain inside of her. That imprint can often create illusional sexual addiction to the individual.    When someone decides to have multiple partners, it can sometimes send mixed emotional signals within the inside of the body's vibration system. Women must be careful of different energies or spiritual forces polluting their internal temple. You are a  sacred doorway, where life is intended to pass through, respect yourself, use your gifts wisely! 

     A drug addict ate a wrap of heroin from a police interview table in a desperate bid to destroy police evidence.  Alan Timperley, 38, was being quizzed by Lancashire Police officers when they found the Class A drug concealed on his person. An officer placed the drugs on the table during his subsequent interrogation - but Timperley snatched the stash and swallowed it.

An Italian ship on Saturday morning reached the Sicilian port of Catania bringing 246 migrants to safety as well as the body of another after two rescue operations off the coast of chaos-wracked Libya, the coastguard said. The Dattilo ship had on Thursday and Friday rescued 131 and 115 migrants trying to reach Europe on two inflatable boats.

Freshly elected Taiwanese leader Tsai Ing-wen disappeared from China’s most popular social network on Saturday, with censors working swiftly to block any mention of the Beijing-wary politician as she stormed to victory on the island. The AFP reported that searches for “Tsai Ing-wen” and “Taiwan elections” on the Twitter-like Weibo network turned up a message that read, “According to relevant laws, regulations and policies, the results for this search cannot be shown,” a signal for words blocked by China’s army of Internet gatekeepers.

Alex Otti, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, had a job even many politicians would be envious of: chief executive of Diamond Bank. It is a job that comes with a lot of perks as is the practice all over the world. Otti was comfortable.  He had enough to spend and he could afford to give his kids the kind of education that will secure their future. But even in his comfort zone in highbrow area of Lagos, Otti was aware that there were millions of ‘Abians’, as people of his native Abia State are fondly called, who could only dream of the kind of life he has. Otti had to move out of that comfort zone and throw his hat into the ring.

KOLKATA: Behind bars since April 2009, a visually impaired person, sentenced to death twice by a Behrampore trial court, walked free last week after the Calcutta high court acquitted him. Babu Molla was accused of murdering a five-year-old boy, gorging his eyes out to transplant his own and even leading police to the murder weapon, a knife.

PALPABLE tension has engulfed Umuadara Umulogho community in Obowo Local Government Area, Imo State, following the abduction of two of the triplets of Mrs. Christiana Iroh, a widow by yet to be identified gunmen from her home in the wee hours of Wednesday. Narrating her ordeal the distraught mother, unable to control her tears, told Saturday Sun that about 1.30am of Wednesday, that the door of her house was smashed by armed young men, who gained entrance to her room where she was sleeping with her children.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has said that a former Chairman, Board of Trustees (BOT) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Anthony Anenih, benefited from the N400million allegedly received by the party’s spokesman, Olisa Metuh. EFCC accused Metuh of receiving the N400m from “an unlawful activity” of the immediate past National Security Adviser (NSA), Mohammed Sambo Dasuki.

A businessman, Malam Yahai, has been dragged before a magistrates’ court sitting in Garki LGA of Jigawa State by a 14 years old girl for allegedly raping and impregnating her. The 14-year-old is asking the court presided over by Magistrate Aliyu Roni of the Maigatarin Bawan Allah Village in Garki Local Government to compel the suspect to take responsibility of naming of the new born baby she delivered, including slaughtering a ram and providing clothes for her son.

                            Civil servants in Brazil say they have discovered the world’s oldest man - a 131-year-old dad-of-three living with a wife 69 years his junior. The Guinness Book of Records recognises 112-year-old Yasutaro Koide from Japan as the oldest person alive. And Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment, who died aged 122 in 1997, holds the record for the world’s longest living person.

   After rumours that the Traditional Council of Nigeria benefited from the $2.1 billion arms fund,the Oyo State traditional rulers have denied being part of it . The monarchs spoke through the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi III, in Oyo town, yesterday. While exonerating himself and other members of the council in the 33 local government councils in the state, the Alaafin, who spoke with members of the Nigerian Union of Journalists, NUJ, Oyo Council said,

A French court convicted a British ex-soldier Thursday of endangerment for trying to spirit a 4-year-old Afghan girl from a squalid migrant camp in Calais to family members in Britain, but dropped a tougher smuggling charge and handed him only a suspended fine. The conviction appeared to be a symbolic punishment and a victory for Rob Lawrie, who apologized for what he called an "irrational" move. His case epitomized the clash between the heart and the law amid Europe's record-breaking migrant influx.

An eye-popping and unprecedented Powerball jackpot whose rise to $1.6 billion became a national fascination will be split three ways. The winners' identities remain a mystery, but they bought their tickets in Florida, Tennessee and a Los Angeles suburb where even lottery losers were celebrating Thursday that such heady riches were won in their modest city.

                          I’m sure you’ve heard the common saying that ‘You are what you eat’ when talking about your skin, the quality of your look definitely reveals the quality of your diet. Not to spoil the show but, the foods you nourish your body with affects the way your skin looks, if you have a problem with your skin or if it comes out healthy, either way it’s advisable to watch what you eat.  Your food across the board will affect your skin, positively or negatively Hellofood.com.ng has gathered a list of the foods they said are the 7 worst offenders.

Acid attack survivor and activist, Laxmi has become the face of a new fashion campaign in India called “Face of Courage,” which challenges social perceptions of physical beauty and attractiveness. Laxmi was attacked by an older man and his friend, who poured acid on her face and arms after she refused his marriage proposal when she was just 15 years old.

The police have arrested a 40-year-old driver, Moshood Ekunsumi, for allegedly killing a police inspector, Stephen Nzerem, on the Apapa-Oshodi Expressway. The suspect’s conductor, who is at large, has also been declared wanted by the Nigeria Police Force in connection with the death.

Joe Allen scored in the 90th minute to earn Liverpool a point in a pulsating 3-3 draw with Arsenal at Anfield. Jurgen Klopp’s side went in front after 10 minutes when Petr Cech saved an Emre Can shot and Roberto Firmino controlled the rebound and fired low through a defender’s legs.

The United Kingdom has deployed 35 military personnel in Nigeria as part of ongoing efforts to train Nigerian Armed Forces to combat the Islamist terrorist group, Boko Haram. The personnel, who were drawn from the Second Battalion, the Royal Anglian Regiment, would provide infantry training for Nigerian soldiers to tackle the extremist group in the northeastern part of Nigeria.

      A heroic policewoman saved an hours-old baby who had been dumped in the woods, by breastfeeding her while paramedics arrived. Officer and new mum Luisa Urrea had been called to a remote forest after locals found the starving tot in the undergrowth with part of her umbilical cord still attached.

  The dad of a teenage girl who was gang raped in a New York park said he had no choice but to run away when his daughter was attacked.The unidentified man told how the thugs put a gun in his face and ordered him to leave the playground on Thursday night. After he fled his 18-year-old daughter was raped in a playground area in the run-down Brownsville part of Brooklyn.He said he felt the gang would kill him if he stayed and tried to fight. Speaking to ABC news, he said: