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Two people have died from fireworks injuries amid New Year celebrations in Germany, but the country avoided a repeat of the mass groping in Cologne from 2016, amid heightened security and efforts to protect women from sexual harassment. In the Brandenburg region outside Berlin, the dpa news agency reported Monday that a 35-year-old man died after igniting fireworks, and a 19-year-old suffered fatal head injuries after he set off a homemade device. Police in Cologne reported seven cases of sexual harassment, while Berlin police reported 10 and seven arrests as several hundred thousand people celebrated at the city’s Brandenburg Gate.…

Former President Barack Obama is the most admired man in the United States and has been for the past 10 years, according to a Gallup poll released Wednesday. For the 22nd time, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is the most admired woman. The poll found that 17 percent of respondents declared Obama as the man they most admired, with President Donald Trump in second place with 14 percent. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was named the most admired woman with 9 percent of respondents, just surpassing the 7 percent who chose former first lady Michelle Obama. A quarter of…

Cholesterol is made in your liver and has many important functions. For example, it helps keep the walls of your cells flexible and is needed to make several hormones. Like anything in the body, too much cholesterol or cholesterol in the wrong places creates problems. Like fat, cholesterol does not dissolve in water. Instead, its transport in the body depends on molecules called lipoproteins, which carry cholesterol, fat and fat-soluble vitamins in the blood. Different kinds of lipoproteins have different effects on health. For example, high levels of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) result in cholesterol deposits in blood vessel walls, which…

The founder and General Overseer of Mountain of Fire and Miracles Ministries Worldwide, (MFM), Dr. Daniel K. Olukoya, has released 35 prophecies for the year 2018. Olukoya tagged 2018 as “My Year of Extra-ordinary turn around” and took his text from Psalms 110:1 and Galatians 6:9. Olukoya urged Christians to be more prayerful this year as there will be “death of rebellious leaders and kings, political confusion, great fall for corrupt people. Here are the prophecies below. 1. Year of terrible attack on marriages 2. Year of wild infirmity attack 3. Spiritual weakness would be a tragedy 4. Fingers would…

President Muhammadu Buhari has appealed to enterprising Nigerians, unemployed graduates, able-bodied and literate men and women with ideas not to wait for employment from government or the Organized Private Sector. Buhari, who made the appeal Monday in his 2018 New Year message, noted that “Great nations are built by enterprising people who turn their hands to anything that circumstances dictate.” He, however, blamed cabal for creating the current fuel scarcity in the country, and pledged to stop the blackmailers from doing so again. According to him, “The consequence was that not many could travel and the few who did had…

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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has remitted additional N3.6 billion to the nation’s treasury. The Registrar of the Prof. Is-haq Oloyede said this on Tuesday during a meeting with Executives of Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COESU) in his office in Bwari, Abuja. He said the N5.2 billion earlier sent to the treasury was not the total money the Board actually transferred to the government. Prof. Oloyede said “more monies generated from the sale of 2017 admission documents were transferred”, adding that “the Board had so far remitted N7.8 billion to the treasury”. Earlier the COESU National…

Prof. Wole Soyinka, Nigerian Nobel laureate has derided President Muhammadu Buhari administration for taking the patient and long-suffering queues in urban centres caused by the current fuel crisis in the country for a ride. DAILY POST reported last week that a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Sunny Onuesoke had described Prof. Wole Soyinka, Prof. Pat Utomi, Pastor Tunde Bakare, Femi Falana and others as hypocrites for keeping mute as scarcity of fuel continues to bite harder across the country. But in reaction, Soyinka called on the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration to end the current fuel scarcity in…

Carrot, daucus carota, is a well- known household vegetable. Carrot is native to Eurasia and northern Africa. It belongs to the umbelliferae family of plants, and grows up to 80cm high, with tiny leaves. Both the plant and the root are referred to as carrot. A biennial plant [lasts only for two seasons], car-rot grows very well in its first season and stores a surplus of food in its root, which becomes big, fleshy and large and orange coloured due to the presence of carotene. In the second season the root becomes woody and less nutritious and delicious. As early…

Police in Slidell, Louisiana, have arrested a man who allegedly helped scam people out of thousands of dollars in “Nigerian prince”-style email schemes. Michael Neu, 67, is charged with 269 counts of wire fraud and money laundering. In a Facebook statement on Thursday, police described him as a “middle man” who conned victims into giving up their money in phone and online scams. Neu is accused of wiring some of the money he helped obtain to “co-conspirators” located in Nigeria. The police department did not immediately return a request for more specifics on his alleged role. “Nigerian prince” scams are a type…