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Health / Re: 2 Brothers Who Injected Themselves With Dangerous Chemicals For Big Biceps by Eggcelent(m): 4:59pm On Feb 09, 2018
Outrageous!

Their Commitment To This Path - Incredible As It May Seem - Is Quite Commendable. Many Have Desires, Few Have The Discipline To Actualise Them

These Brothers Have Matched Discipline With Desire
Travel / Re: Must-see Historical Buildings When You Travel Around Nigeria by Eggcelent(m): 1:26pm On Feb 09, 2018
Cocoa House, Ibadan;

National Theatre, Lagos;

Benin Wall, Edo State;
Politics / Re: Man Who Helped Campaign For Buhari In 2015 Has Had A Dramatic Change Of Mind by Eggcelent(m): 3:23pm On Feb 08, 2018
Where Is Proof That He Actually Campaigned For GMB Pre-2015 General Elections?

Anyone Can Jump On Bandwagon Of Fallen Approval Rating Of Mr President (Any Politician At That), To Curry Some Favours/Cheap Popularity
Career / Re: Man Uses Pure Water Nylon To Make Bags, Shoes, Rain Coats & Others In Lagos by Eggcelent(m): 3:20pm On Feb 08, 2018
A Good Try

Hope He/We Can Build On It & Make Better Products Using Same/Similar Materials

At Least, The Environmental Nuisance Caused By Water Sachets Will Be Largely Taken Care Of

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Politics / Re: Breaking: 7 Injured As Suspected Herdsmen Attack Travellers In Delta by Eggcelent(m): 3:16pm On Feb 08, 2018
Lies

People Like You Are Doing Worse Than The Herdsmen By Spreading Falsehood & Hatred Among Nigerians

Don't Think You Will Go Unpunished

MODs Need To Pull Down This Thread Immediately, Please

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Politics / Re: Jagaba Adams Dumps APC For PDP by Eggcelent(m): 3:13pm On Feb 08, 2018
Nigeria's Problem Is Not About APC/PDP.

It's About Qualitative Leadership At All Levels

Hence, There Is Nothing To Celebrate In This News Cos Either Way (APC/PDP), We Are Far From Producing Revolutionary Leaders In This Country

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Politics / Re: Wike Playing Politics With Benue Killings – APC by Eggcelent(m): 3:08pm On Feb 08, 2018
He Is A Politician Who Is In Government

Hence, It's No News For Him To Play Politics Associated With Governance

Rivers People Will Let The World Know In 2019 Gubernatorial Elections, Whether Or Not They Agree With Wike's Brand Of Politicking

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Crime / Re: Fulani Herdsmen With Machine Guns Caught On Camera - Aroms Aigbehi by Eggcelent(m): 3:00pm On Feb 08, 2018
If This Guy Is Invited To Give Information About Where & How He Came About This Video, I Hope He Will Make Himself Available & Not Start Sensationalising Mere Invitation By Security Agencies

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Health / Mcdonald's Fries Cures Baldness - Scientists by Eggcelent(m): 10:01am On Feb 07, 2018
A cure for baldness may have just been found in the most unlikely of places, according to scientists in Japan - who think the answer could lie in your McDonald's meal.

Yep, believe it or not you read that right. According to the study, there's a chemical used in McDonald's fries that could help hair regrowth.

The scientists managed to regrow hair on mice using what they've referred to as a 'simple method' using human stem cells, which generated fresh follicles capable of sprouting new hairs.

Within days the mice had furry backs and scalps, and after these preliminary experiments it's thought that the same technique could work in people.

The Japanese team first had a breakthrough after they managed to produce 'hair follicle germs' in their lab for the first time. These are the cells that fuel follicle development, and because they've never been regenerated before are considered the 'Holy Grail' of hair loss research.

Turns out the secret was to use dimethylpolysiloxane, the same chemical that's found in McDonald's fries - which is added for safety reasons to prevent cooking oil from foaming.

Professor Junji Fukuda of Yokohama National University, said: "The key for the mass production of HFGs was a choice of substrate materials for the culture vessel.

"We used oxygen-permeable dimethylpolysiloxane (PDMS) at the bottom of culture vessel, and it worked very well."


Billons of pounds are spent on hair loss treatment each year, but hair follicles have never been created in this way before.

Fukuda said: "This simple method is very robust and promising.

"We hope this technique will improve human hair regenerative therapy to treat hair loss such as androgenic alopecia (male pattern baldness).

"In fact, we have preliminary data that suggests human HFG formation using human keratinocytes and dermal papilla cells."

He continued: "These self-sorted hair follicle germs (ssHFGs) were shown to be capable of efficient hair-follicle and shaft generation upon injection into the backs of nude mice.

"This finding facilitated the large-scale preparation of approximately 5,000 ssHFGs in a microwell-array chip made of oxygen-permeable silicone.

"We demonstrated that the integrity of the oxygen supply through the bottom of the silicone chip was crucial to enabling both ssHFG formation and subsequent hair shaft generation.

"Finally, spatially aligned ssHFGs on the chip were encapsulated into a hydrogel and simultaneously transplanted into the back skin of nude mice to preserve their intervening spaces, resulting in spatially aligned hair follicle generation.

"This simple ssHFG preparation approach is a promising strategy for improving current hair-regenerative medicine techniques."

We'll leave the science to the experts, but ultimately if eating fried potatoes could benefit our health after all - well, we're all in
Sports / Re: Gary Lineker: Player Who Never Received A Yellow Or A Red Card In His Career by Eggcelent(m): 4:16pm On Feb 05, 2018
Impressive!

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Health / Re: 10 Foods & Supplements That Reverse Liver Disease by Eggcelent(m): 4:11pm On Feb 05, 2018
Educative

Thanks

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Family / Any Difference Between The Sex On Bb9ja & Ones We See In Movies? by Eggcelent(m): 9:37am On Feb 04, 2018
Yes, I Understand That Those In The Movies Are Scripted & Not Entirely. However, To The Minds Of Younger Ones - Whom Those Condemning Reality Shows Often Claim To Fight For - There Is No Difference Between What's Scripted & What's Real

Parents/Adults Feel Comfortable Watching Movies With Sex Scenes In Presence Of Their Children But Cry Blue Murder When Such Is Aired On BB9ja

I Have Never Watched A Full Episode Of BBja Since It's Inception. Hence, I Shouldn't Be Tagged Defending The Show. I Am Just Curious As To Hypocrisy Of An Average Nigerian & The Peculiar Way We Reason
Politics / Re: Nigerian Expresses How Difficult It Is To Get His PVC In The South East (pics) by Eggcelent(m): 8:55am On Feb 04, 2018
Why Is The Topic Saying "IN THE SOUTH EAST" When Screenshot Of The Tweet Clearly Indicates "FROM LAGOS, NIGERIA"

Why Do We Always Fan Embers Of Tribal Discord & Hate?

How Many Politicians Have We Seen/Heard Killed In All Needless Civil Disturbances We Bring Upon Ourselves?

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Business / Need A Loan In Port Harcourt by Eggcelent(m): 2:56pm On Feb 01, 2018
Anyone With Useful Information On Where A Short-term Loan (To Be Paid Back Within 3 Weeks) Of #50K Can Be Obtained Within Port Harcourt Should Kindly Avail Me Same.

Relevant Collateral Will Be Provided, Please

Thanks
Religion / Re: Top 10 Hilarious Names Of Nigerian Churches (photos) by Eggcelent(m): 6:33pm On Jan 30, 2018
grin grin grin

Hilarious

How To Identify A Witch Is Not Name Of A Church But A Program Theme

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Phones / Re: Do Android Devices Really Need Antivirus/anti-malwares? by Eggcelent(m): 6:30pm On Jan 30, 2018
Educative

Detailed

Helpful

Relevant

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Phones / Re: Do You Know That Google Names Its Android Versions Alphabetically? Take A Look by Eggcelent(m): 6:28pm On Jan 30, 2018
Educative

Thanks
Politics / Re: Reason Why Buahri Will Win In The Next Election by Eggcelent(m): 11:46am On Jan 28, 2018
grin grin grin

I Like The Originality Though I Don't Agree With The Analogy

I'm Of The View That Fall In Acceptance Rating Of This Administration Is, In Part, A Result Of PMB's Tendency To Take Long-term Approach To Growing The Economy

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Crime / Re: Man Kills Five-day-old Son Because He Couldn't Afford The Naming Ceremony by Eggcelent(m): 11:41am On Jan 28, 2018
Hmmmm

May God Save Us From Warped Thinking

There Are Several Options To Take If Indeed Money To Take Care Of The Child Was The Really Issue

He Could Have Given The Child Out For Adoption For A Start
Romance / 10 Countries Where Government Beg Their Citizens To Make Love by Eggcelent(m): 9:26pm On Jan 27, 2018
This might sound ridiculous, but do you know that there are countries where citizens are being begged by the government to have more se’x? Have a look at the se’x-starved nations. There are few things more important than fertility in determining a nation’s future viability. Demographers suggest that a country needs a fertility rate of just over two children per woman to hit “replacement fertility”, the rate at which new births fill the spaces left behind by deaths. But because of certain cultural and economic forces, only about half of the world’s 224 countries currently hit replacement fertility
For those that dont, they encourage people or should I say their citizens to have se’x. Encouraging people to have se’x can involve strategies that range from highly explicit to downright bizarre.

Below are the list of countries;

1 – Romania
The 1960s in Romania were a perilous time for couples. Population growth flatlined, prompting the government to impose a 20% income tax for childless couples and to implement provisions that made divorce nearly impossible. The idea was: If you weren’t contributing to the communist state by creating future laborers, you had to contribute with dollars instead. The 1980s weren’t much better, however — women faced forced gynecological exams that were performed by “demographic command units” to ensure pregnancies went to term. When Romanian leadership changed in 1989, the brutal policy finally came crashing down. But at 1.31 children per woman, the fertility rate is still well below replacement.

2 – Denmark
if you aren’t going to have a kid for your own family, Danes are told, atleast do it for Denmark. No, literally, do it for Denmark. The small Nordic country has such a low fertility rate of about 1.73 children per woman that spies, Rejser, a Danish travel company, has come up with ingenious incentives to persuade women to get pregnant. First, it offered to provide three years’ worth of baby supplies to couples who conceived on a vacation booked through the company. Now it has come up with a se’xy campaign video titled “Do it for Mom,” which guilt trips couples into having kids to give their precious mothers a grandchild.

3 – Russia
Vladimir Putin once brought Boyz II Men to Moscow to rile men up right before Valentine’s Day. Can anyone blame him? As Tech Insider recently reported, the country is experiencing a perfect demographic storm. Men are dying young. HIV/AIDS and alcoholism are crippling the country. And women aren’t having babies. The problem got so bad that in 2007 Russia declared September 12 the official Day of Conception. On the Day of Conception, people get the day off to focus on having kids. Women who give birth exactly nine months later, on June 12, win a refrigerator.
4 – Japan



Japan’s fertility rate has been below replacement since 1975. To offset that decades-long trend, in 2010 a group of students from the University of Tsukuba introduced Yotaro, a robot baby that gives couples a preview of parenthood. If men and women begin thinking of themselves as potential fathers and mothers, the students theorized, they’ll feel emotionally ready to take a stab at the real thing.

5 – Singapore





Singapore has the lowest fertility rate in the world, at just 0.81 children per woman. On August 9, 2012, the Singaporean government held National Night, an event sponsored by the breath-mint company Mentos, to encourage couples to “let their patriotism explode.” The country has also placed a limit on the number of small one-bedroom apartments available for rent to encourage people to live together and, presumably, procreate. Each year the government spends roughly $1.6 billion on programs to get people to have more sex.

6 – South Korea



On the third Wednesday of every month, South Korean offices shut their lights off at 7 p.m. It’s known as Family Day. With a fertility rate of just 1.25 children per woman, the country takes any steps it can to promote family life — even offering cash incentives to people who have more than one child.

7 – India





India as a whole has no problem with fertility — the country’s ratio of 2.48 children per woman is well above replacement. But the number of people in India’s Parsis community is dwindling — it shrank from roughly 114,000 people in 1941 to just 61,000 in 2001, according to the 2001 census.
That problem led to a series of provocative ads in 2014, including one that read “Be responsible — don’t use a condom tonight.” Another, geared toward men who lived at home, asked, “Isn’t it time you broke up with your Mum?” The ads seem to be working: By the latest measure, the population has inched back to 69,000.

8 – Italy



With a fertility rate of 1.43 — well below the European average of 1.58 — Italy has taken a controversial approach to encourage citizens to have more kids. As Bloomberg reports, the country has been running a series of ads reminding Italians that time might be running out and that kids don’t just come from nowhere. “Beauty knows no age, fertility does,” one ad said. “Get going! Don’t wait for the stork,” another said. Couples haven’t responded positively to the guilt trip. Francesco Daveri, a professor of economics at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, has called the ads a failure.

9 – Hong Kong





With a fertility rate of just 1.18 children per woman, Hong Kong faces the same challenge as many industrialized countries: Without enough young people to replace aging citizens, populations are dwindling and economic growth is slowing. In 2013, the country proposed giving cash handouts to couples to encourage them to have kids. The idea took its cue from Singapore, where parents receive a “baby bonus” of about $4,400 for their first two children and $5,900 for their third and fourth. But in Hong Kong, the plan never came to life.

10 – Spain



Fertility rates in Spain are creeping downward while unemployment is rising: About half of all young people don’t have a job. It’s the second-highest rate in Europe, behind Greece.
To combat the worrying trends, the Spanish government hired a special commissioner, Edelmira Barreira, in January 2017. Her first tasks are finding the myriad causes of the trend and devising macro strategies to reverse it . “We have a lot of work ahead of us,” Barreira told the Spanish newspaper Faro De Vigo
Business / Re: 10 Kinds Of People You Meet In A Bet9ja Shop by Eggcelent(m): 1:46pm On Jan 26, 2018
Original Write-up. Good One
Religion / Re: Why Jews Don't believe in Jesus by Eggcelent(m): 1:36pm On Jan 26, 2018
When It Comes To Spiritual Issues, It's Better Not To Try To Be Too "Sensible". Otherwise, What Makes The Spiritual Supernatural Would Have Been Taken Out

Meanwhile, Good Academic Efforts @ OP

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Business / Re: Take A Look At The Change This Driver Gave Me by Eggcelent(m): 2:45pm On Jan 25, 2018
Fiftwenty Naira!

Customised Naira Note..... For Those Who Know

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Politics / Re: To Win The Presidency You Only Need 2 Block Votes Northwest & Southwest by Eggcelent(m): 8:52am On Jan 23, 2018
Sarrki

Thank You For Making Political Sense

I Laugh When I Hear Some Nigerians Sitting In One Tiny Spot Within Nigeria Saying PMB Will Lose In 2019

Political Reality Is PMB Will Continue In Power Beyond 2019. Talk Is Cheap

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Politics / Re: Aisha Yesufu Lists Why Buhari Is Corrupt by Eggcelent(m): 8:47am On Jan 23, 2018
I Think Nigerians Like To Talk A Lot Without Backing It Up With Required Action

The Federal Government & PMB Can Easily Be Sued If Indeed Federal Character Principle Is Not Being Followed In Appointments.

Hence, I Will Advise Hajia Yesufu & Others Who Feel Appointments Into Federal MDAs Are The Major Reasons Behind The Nation's Malaise To Not Only Talk But Also Approach The Court

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Nairaland / General / Re: Court Orders Multichoice To Pay N6bn As Damages Over Copyright Infringement by Eggcelent(m): 8:38am On Jan 23, 2018
Good One

Impunity As It Concerns Copyright Infringement In This Country Is Not In Anyway Encouraging To Creative Talents

We Need More Of This Judgement.

And We Need To Do More In Fighting Intellectual Piracy
Romance / Re: Potential Male Birth Control Pill Developed From Arrow Poison by Eggcelent(m): 8:32am On Jan 23, 2018
Good One. I Hope The Research Reaches A Conclusive Stage To Enable Mass Production Of The Male Contraceptive

With That, Men Blaming Their Wives For Seeding Too Many Children Will Have No Excuse But To Take Responsibility Themselves
Art, Graphics & Video / Re: This Nigerian Artist’s Artworks Are So Realistic It’s Hard To Believe by Eggcelent(m): 6:19pm On Jan 22, 2018
Super Impressive!!!

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Art, Graphics & Video / Re: My Hyper Realistic Ballpoint Pen Sketch Of Someone Special To Me...check It Out by Eggcelent(m): 4:05pm On Jan 21, 2018
Lovely! Natural!!
Investment / Re: Bussiness To Start With 5k by Eggcelent(m): 10:58am On Jan 21, 2018
Sell Nylon Materials, Of Various Sizes, To Retailers Within Your School Environment
Crime / Re: How My House Got Burgled Over The Night, Check Out The Method...photos by Eggcelent(m): 10:55am On Jan 21, 2018
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And It's Good To Know That You & Your Neighbours Sleep So Deeply To Enable The Thieves Carry Out Their Activity. It's A Sign You Have Little To No Worries

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