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Researchers said Friday they had found an indigenous Amazonian tribe with the lowest levels of artery hardening — a portender of heart disease — ever observed. And while they hailed the group’s “subsistence lifestyle” as a heart-protecting factor, others cautioned against romanticising the community’s hand-to-mouth existence. Known as the Tsimane, the small forager-farmer community in Bolivia was five times less likely to develop coronary atherosclerosis (artery hardening) than people in the United States — where it is a major killer, scientists wrote in The Lancet medical journal. They pointed to the community’s low-fat, high-fibre diet and non-smoking, physically active lifestyle…

A former Governor of Enugu State, Mr Sullivan Chime, has confirmed that he has left the PDP. Speaking in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, on Friday in Enugu, Chime said that his decision to quit the PDP was because the party was “no longer in existence in the true sense of it’’. Chime said, however, that he had yet to join another political party, contrary to speculations that he had defected to the APC. He said that he was still making consultations to determine the political party to join, pointing out that his decision to dump PDP…

The following are some of the best ways to make sex sexier! • Help each other to undress! This needs no elaborate explanation, does it? • Exchange kisses. Believe it or not, many people (and this includes women) don’t kiss their partner when they’re having sex. Why? Perhaps because the positioning doesn’t allow for it or they are too eager to climax and feel that it might break the rhythm. Nevertheless, it is highly recommended that you try and kiss your partner during the act. It will only add to the experience. • Don’t jump the gun! While many people…

Interior Minister, Lt.-Gen. Abdulrahman Dambazau (retd) on Friday said 400 Nigerians are serving jail terms for various offences in South Africa. Dambazau said this at a joint news conference in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the visit of Nigerian delegation to South Africa. Dambazau and his Foreign Affairs counterpart, Geoffrey Onyeama, had on Monday led a delegation to South Africa over the incessant xenophobic attacks on Nigerians living there. He said he had a meeting with the South African Home Affairs Minister, during which he discussed general issues, particularly on migration. Dambazau said they also discussed Nigerians involved in…

Mobola Sadiq Nollywood actress Georgina Onuoha has pleaded with the Police authorities to release journalist and blogger, Kemi Olunloyo. Olunloyo was arrested and detained in a Port Harcourt prison for alleged defamation of Pastor Ibiyeomie of Salvation Ministries. There is no love lost between Onuoha and Oluloyo, with their attacks on each other on social media. However, on her IG post on Saturday, Georgina begged for Olunloyo’s release. She wrote… “A lot of people have been writing me about Kemi or HNN Africa arrest. Everyone knows my perception of her, her lies, falsehood and misinformation to the general public of…

Foreign Affairs Minister Geoffrey Onyeama said on Friday that Mr Ntia Thompson, sacked by the Ministry over whistleblowing, would be reinstated if actually his appointment was wrongfully terminated. Onyeama, who stated this in Abuja while fielding questions from newsmen on the issue, said that Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo had directed him to look into the matter. Thompson, an assistant director with the Directorate for Technical Cooperation in Africa, was sacked for allegedly exposing a fraud in his office. Thompson was said to have been sacked for allegedly raising an alarm that $229,000 and N800, 000 had been diverted by key officials…

Yeah, it’s Friday evening and you definitely look forward to a restful weekend. What better ways to enjoy it full-blast than to have unforgettable sex with that special someone this wonderful weekend! Here are eight fantastic ways to have great sex this weekend… • Watch romantic film together on bed and let things take a natural course from there! • Go to bed naked and snuggle up to your spouse. Psychologists say couples who sleep less than an inch apart, are more intimate than couples who sleep on opposite sides of the bed. • Stay off the social media this…

Manchester United have been fined £20,000 (23,000 euros, $25,000) after accepting a Football Association (FA) charge of failing to control their players during Monday’s fractious FA Cup quarter-final at Chelsea. United, who saw their hold on the trophy ended with a 1-0 defeat by the Premier League leaders, were punished for several of their players surrounding referee Michael Oliver and arguing with him over the sending off of Spanish midfielder Ander Herrera in the 35th minute. Herrera was given his marching orders for a foul on Eden Hazard seconds after Oliver warned United captain Chris Smalling his patience had worn thin…

Justice Rayo Taiwo of an Oyo State High Court sitting at Iyaganku, Ibadan on Friday sentenced four people to death for stealing a cell phone valued at N10,000. The four – Alaba Akinola, 30, Sarafa Babalola 25, Sola Kolawole, 27, and Ibrahim Gbedeogun 28 – were accused of armed robbery. The state counsel, Mr I. O Mojoyinola, said the defendants committed the crime on July 19, 2011, at Ayekale, Ibadan. Mojoyinola said the defendants robbed their victim of a cell phone valued at N10,000 on Oct. 16, 2011, at Gangansi at about 4.30 a.m. with guns and cutlasses. The offence…

Think the little details like grammar don’t matter when it comes to the big picture of running a business? Think again. A dairy business in Maine just learned this lesson the hard way. A group of the company’s drivers recently sued the business for overtime pay. And they won a huge settlement due to a missing Oxford comma. According to Maine law, workers who are involved in “the canning, processing, preserving, freezing, drying, marketing, storing, packing for shipment or distribution” of some food products are ineligible for overtime pay. But the drivers were able to successfully argue that the law…