Google Nigeria on Thursday said the top three trending people in Nigeria
in the first half of the year are Peter Obi, Vladimir Putin and Bianca
Ojukwu.
Search trends information is gotten from Google data based on what Nigerians have been searching for and asking Google.
Google
processes more than 40 000 search queries every second. It translates
to more than a billion daily searches and 1.2 trillion searches per year
worldwide.
Ghana has officially confirmed two cases of the Marburg virus, a highly infectious disease similar to Ebola.
Sule Lamido, former governor of Jigawa state, has said Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State is a responsible man with some youthful exuberance.
A man has dumped his wife for giving birth to twins for the fifth time.
President Muhammadu Buhari has said that the medical manpower needed to curb medical tourism in the country will soon be realised.
Speaking on Monday July 18 at the groundbreaking for the construction of the Administrative/Senate Building, College of Medicine building and Principal Officers Quarters at the permanent site of the Federal University of Health Sciences, Otukpo (FUHSO) in Otukpo, Benue State, Buhari who was represented by the Minister of Education, Prof. Adamu Adamu, said he's impressed that the university’s management had hit the ground running and has no doubt that the desired impact of producing high-level medical manpower as well as curbing medical tourism will be achieved in no distant time.
The Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has reacted to a throwback video of his running mate, Yusuf Baba-Ahmed, calling for the killing of LGBTQ members.
Baba-Ahmed was a Senator when the anti-gay bill was being considered in the Nigerian Senate. While making his own contribution during plenary in 2014, Baba-Ahmed opined that such ''elements'' should be killed in the society.
Festus Okoye, commissioner for information and voter education of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said the commission is still in talks with the Central Bank of Nigeria over storage of electoral materials.
Speaking in an interview with Channels Television on Monday July 18, Okoye said the commission has never had any issue with the CBN since the partnership started, but owing to “current circumstances”, an alternative would be found.
A bride has sadly been shot dead at her own wedding ceremony after a stray bullet from celebratory gunfire hit her in the head.
Mahvash Leghaei, 24, got married at Firuzabad in Iran when a guest, who is believed to be a cousin of the groom, fired his unlicensed high-powered hunting rifle. The bullet reportedly went straight through her skull and also injured two male guests at the event.
More evidence is needed to rate the effectiveness of cassava for these uses.
Many people only see a person’s blood type as important when it comes to giving blood or receiving a blood transfusion. However, some argue that eating a diet specific to a particular blood type may offer health benefits.
A naturopath called Peter D’Adamo popularized the idea that a diet based on blood type could help a person achieve good overall health and reduce the risk of developing certain diseases.
However, research on the effects of a blood type diet is scarce, and the studies available have not proven its effectiveness. For example, the authors of a 2014 studyTrusted Source concluded that their findings did not support the claims that a blood type diet provides specific benefits.
A 2013 review of data relating to the blood type diet also found that no evidence is currently available to verify the benefits of this eating plan.
In this article, we explain why some people believe that their blood type should influence their diet. We also look in more detail at the proposed benefits of eating for the O positive and negative blood types and discuss which foods a person following this diet should eat and avoid.
A diet rich in fruits and vegetables has been scientifically proven to provide numerous health benefits, such as reducing your risk of several chronic diseases and keeping your body healthy.
However, making major changes to your diet can sometimes seem very overwhelming.
Instead of making big changes, it may be better to start with a few smaller ones. And it’s likely more manageable to start with just one thing, rather than all of them at once.
This article discusses 25 small changes that can make a regular diet a little bit healthier. Just remember you don’t need to try to do them all at once. Instead, you may want to add these changes into your life over time.
