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What Is Sleep Paralysis?
Sleep paralysis is a feeling of being conscious but unable to move. It occurs when a person passes between stages of wakefulness and sleep. During these transitions, you may be unable to move or speak for a few seconds up to a few minutes. Some people may also feel pressure or a sense of choking. Sleep paralysis may accompany other sleep disorders such as narcolepsy. Narcolepsy is an overpowering need to sleep caused by a problem with the brain's ability to regulate sleep.

When Does Sleep Paralysis Usually Occur?
Sleep paralysis usually occurs at one of two times. If it occurs while you are falling asleep, it's called hypnagogic or predormital sleep paralysis. If it happens as you are waking up, it's called hypnopompic or postdormital sleep paralysis.

What Happens With Hypnagogic Sleep Paralysis?
As you fall asleep, your body slowly relaxes. Usually you become less aware, so you do not notice the change. However, if you remain or become aware while falling asleep, you may notice that you cannot move or speak.

What Happens With Hypnopompic Sleep Paralysis?
During sleep, your body alternates between REM (rapid eye movement) and NREM (non-rapid eye movement) sleep. One cycle of REM and NREM sleep lasts about 90 minutes. NREM sleep occurs first and takes up to 75% of your overall sleep time. During NREM sleep, your body relaxes and restores itself. At the end of NREM, your sleep shifts to REM. Your eyes move quickly and dreams occur, but the rest of your body remains very relaxed. Your muscles are "turned off" during REM sleep. If you become aware before the REM cycle has finished, you may notice that you cannot move or speak.

Who Develops Sleep Paralysis?
Up to as many as four out of every 10 people may have sleep paralysis. This common condition is often first noticed in the teen years. But men and women of any age can have it. Sleep paralysis may run in families. Other factors that may be linked to sleep paralysis include:
-Lack of sleep
-Sleep schedule that changes
-Mental conditions such as stress or bipolar disorder
-Sleeping on the back
-Other sleep problems such as narcolepsy or nighttime leg cramps
-Use of certain medications , such as those for ADHD
-Substance abuse.

How Is Sleep Paralysis Treated?
Most people need no treatment for sleep paralysis. Treating any underlying conditions such as narcolepsy may help if you are anxious or unable to sleep well. These treatments may include the following:
Improving sleep habits -- such as making sure you get six to eight hours of sleep each night
Using antidepressant medication if it is prescribed to help regulate sleep cycles
Treating any mental health problems that may contribute to sleep paralysis
Treating any other sleep disorders, such as narcolepsy or leg cramps.

What Can I Do About Sleep Paralysis?
There's no need to fear nighttime demons or alien abductors. If you have occasional sleep paralysis, you can take steps at home to control this disorder. Start by making sure you get enough sleep. Do what you can to relieve stress in your life -- especially just before bedtime . Try new sleeping positions if you sleep on your back. And be sure to see your doctor if sleep paralysis routinely prevents you from getting a good night's sleep.

Source: https://www.webmd.com/sleep-disorders/guide/sleep-paralysis

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Truly, one can say he is on his own. A country where religion, drug addiction, nepotism, has become the opium of the people, this won't yield much.


Mohammed Bouzhazi protested against unemployment by setting himself ablaze in Tunisia, this led to series of protest against Ben Ali's 23 years reign. Sparking revolutions to change the status quo. I could hardly say same for my country.


Is Nigeria worth dyeing for?

heendrix:
indeed and all those crying loud in the UK n US over tax this tax that. are not omo onile abi? kwantinu deceiving yourself. the thing you should say is they re enjoying what they paid for in full

You enjoy something when you pay for it.... or are you saying they're not reaping the benefits of these amenities?

You can never compare the rates if you've been there. Go to Ghana close by, one can pay for almost 300k when converted to Naira but the electricity is there no one is complaining, only working on cutting the tariffs. Here we don't get what we pay for, believe me!

One needs to spend on anything to improve life example calls and data. People are paying to get first hand information to better themselves, since the world has gone electronic.

Most importantly Nigerians pay more especially when the government is too inept and clueless in attending to their needs.
Nigerians pay for almost everything, electricity, water, information, food, security. In fact the more we pay the more the government makes it even more difficult. In a good economy you pay less and gain more, enjoying the privileges of your motherland, not Nigeria.

We dey suffer for everything, even to celebrate we must suffer..., Fuel scarcity continues to score hard trick while we pay for what is ours and paying more at that.

chynabesty:
well spoken bro but since this system is not in place now would you allow other regions to do same as North?

The answer is NO, that's why I said we must work hard to end it. Making the status quo more complex is not helping matters.
INEC should come up with better policies and technologies as short and mid term strategies, and should stop giving us excuses that they were threatened. Were they threatened from the field to their offices? Or were reports not made on the experiences and progress of work by their field officials to either cancel or abrogate these under aged voters?

One of Nigeria's problem is the lack of an organized and proper data system. Where all her citizens at birth, death or pro-life are well registered. Its more than a census, a regularly updated system where we can tell how many people were born yesterday, today or in 2017; how many people died in 2017 or today ; how many persons turned 18 in 2017; how many people are unemployed or lost their jobs; how many people are within 65 years and above if we want to offer special assistance for the aged.
We need to know these things, without it we either over estimate or under. It bids my imagination when the govt comes up with figures in their budget.
With these properly documented data, we can know what we need and how much we need and for whom.
If the southern parts of the country start under age voting it won't bode well for the country, we should at best work to end this precedence. By law of nature, the south ought to have more population because all tends to move where there is water and green, if you observe the western countries bothering Nigeria, you will notice that their southern parts are more populated than their norths except Nigeria. But one can also argue that the north predominantly Muslims who by culture and religion encourage large extended families will amount to a large population.

My point, except we have a proper data base system, these problems will continue to linger sake for better technologies and policies to curtail this menace.

Politicians keep playing with the lives of our people, while we keep shut.
It is not my people.

Seriously, I don't know what to make of this post.

But with post like this, all I can say is that its pitiable and sad too. The post makes no sense at all, because the current status quo speaks well enough save for our sentimental fundamentalism, ethnic and religious bigotry.


I pray we start this nation afresh.

Shehu Sani, the senator representing Kaduna Central has revealed why Northern elders are quiet on the incessant killings of innocent Nigerians in the North.

The lawmaker who has continued to voice out on the killings of Nigerians in different parts of the country said most political elites from the North were quiet just to avoid being tagged or labelled, ”anti Buhari or anti federal government.”

Sani said with their continuous silence, the elites have succeeded in saving their neck while the neck of the masses are massacred.

He wrote on Facebook, ”Most political elites from northern Nigeria are not loudly speaking out against the mass murder going on in northern Nigeria, perpetrated by Bandits, armed Herdsmen or organised Criminal gangs out of fear that they may be tagged or labelled as anti Federal Government or Anti President.

”The elites save their necks by their silence and the necks of the masses are continuously slaughtered.”

Source: http://dailypost.ng/2018/02/18/northern-elites-cannot-speak-killings-shehu-sani/

This was written by Henry Boyo in 2005, fast becoming the norm.


Our monetary authorities have laboured assiduously in the past few days to advance a case for the introduction of the N1,000 note at this stage in our economic history, especially, when older and more vibrant economies elsewhere maintain a comparatively, much more compact currency denomination profile. The instrument of money serves universally as a store of value, a means of exchange and a unit of account. But the issue of currency denomination in each country is a factor of economic management in response to apparent domestic realities in the areas of liquidity, inflation and culture. In general terms, a country with an endemic liquidity problem (that is, unrestrained cash availability) will ultimately experience an uncomfortably high level of inflation as productivity will inevitably lag sluggishly behind the propensity for monetary expansion. In other words, you will have too much money chasing too few goods and one would require larger sums of money to make dwindling purchases. In those countries where the banking and savings culture are undeveloped, there is a greater propensity to hold substantial amounts of liquid cash to meet day to day expenses as well as for business transactions. The cash culture will be further encouraged where the people are suspicious of the security of the banking institutions for the custody of their hard earned cash! Large denomination currency notes will be a significant feature in such economies. On the other hand, in the UK, United States and most countries in the developed world where liquidity and inflation are properly managed in a developed banking culture, the largest currency denomination remains the 100 unit note and primary currency units continue to be relevant for consumer and business transactions. It may be appropriate at this juncture to evaluate the merits and demerits of high currency denominations without the primary unit of coins (that is, kobo) in a domestic economy. The obvious and singular merit of large currency denomination is the facilitation of carriage and movement of large sums of money. The huge amount (not real value) of money required for day-to-day transactions in an economy such as ours can be consolidated in high value notes and thus make carriage on one's person or the movement of large sums of cash less cumbersome and obvious. The CBN is yet to articulate any other advantage than the merit of portability for the introduction of the N1,000 note and minimum of N5 coins when progressive countries are embracing e-currency. On the other hand, a ready list of disadvantages of the adoption of large currency notes and the withdrawal of the primary unit of kobo rush for recognition:
* To begin with; the removal of the primary unit of kobo from the system means that consumer goods and transactions have to be conducted with a minimum value and in multiples of N5, as change would not be available for commodities priced for less. Though shares and stocks, for example, may be priced for 50k and N1.00, such currency units will no longer officially physically exist! In effect, this arrangement can only increase the general price level and fuel inflation when multiplied into millions of transactions everyday throughout the country. We may contrast this scenario with the currency system in developed economies where consumer and other commodities are still priced with a primary currency denomination (cents and pence) as legal tender. Indeed, a 20 cents differential can be a significant market advantage in the pricing of competitive consumer goods in these countries! One may wonder what would happen at our petrol stations on the commencement of the new policy. We would no longer talk of fuel prices in terms of fractions of naira, such as 49.50 per litre of kerosene or petrol as a motorist would only be able to purchase defined quantities of fuel which would require no spillover of change in return. In view of the minimum available currency denomination of N5.00, some cynics may argue that the new policy only seeks to legitimise the obtuse and fuel pump attendant friendly system that is already in place in our culture.
* The introduction of large denomination currencies such as the N1,000 note, may also work at cross purposes with government's intention of transforming our heavy dependence on cash transactions. The convenience of keeping larger sums of money under the bed at home and in personal safes as a result of our cash-based economy will further weaken the banking culture and adversely affect the development of a savings culture. This would in turn reduce the level of savings and consequently adversely affect the investment climate in the country! * Large currency denominations may also be rightly considered to be a boom to the criminal minded as cash robberies would be more lucrative and the loot easier to hide! In other words, the new policy may actually encourage and fuel the crime rate in the country.
* The illegal exportation of the naira, especially for illicit trans-border trade will be facilitated by the availability of large naira denominations. The impact of this leakage on the value of the naira and governments attempt to curb the importation of banned goods will certainly be against the interest of our industries and our economy.
* The stake will be higher for the various naira forgery syndicates when the larger naira denominations are introduced. The impact of such scams on the naira value and the attendant dislocation on the economy may become an additional burden on an already pulverised and disoriented populace. * The large numerical nominal values of even simple transactions will make general accounting more cumbersome and unwieldy as most transactions will now be denominated in thousands and millions of currency units. This may be a daunting prospect for our children and our largely 'innumerate' populace in the rural areas. The additional accounting time and space required to make simply daily entries and returns in thousands and millions, and the consequent increased administrative costs would be a covert demerit of the introduction of large currency denominations. It will be obvious from the above that the disadvantages consequent upon the introduction of large currency denomination certainly outweigh the apparent and real advantages of this policy. In this event, why is the CBN eager to embrace such an uncertain future? The decision is more worrying when we observe the trend across the border in our sister nation Ghana, where large denominations have wrecked havoc on the economy. The primary currency unit of coins (Pesewa) has since become irrelevant for settling transactions in Ghana in the last 30 years. The currency denomination profile in Ghana now includes 1,000, 2,000, 10,000 and N20,000 cedi notes; meanwhile, the cedi has depreciated from parity to a current rate of $1 = 9,000 Cedis or N130. How did Ghana's currency get to this sorry state of affairs such that the N20,000 cedi note is just about $2; a path to inflation and poverty, which our own monetary authorities are obviously intent on treading?!! The answer is the failure to accept the relationship between a rapidly depreciating exchange value of a currency and the consequent need for larger cash sums for simple daily transactions. In other words, a rapidly depreciating currency will require higher denominations of currency to avoid the need to use a wheelbarrow to carry cash for such mundane activities as shopping for domestic grocery; we recall for instance the relatively 'high value' of the N20 note when it was introduced. You could buy four new car tyres, for example, with the N20 note and feed a small size family for a week! The exchange rate of naira against the dollar at that time was about N1 = $1. The introduction of higher denominations of N50, N100, N200 and N500 has closely followed the history of naira depreciation against the dollar. Nigerians are being called upon to work harder and produce more with each depreciating value of naira - a clear road to the pits of slavery for our people. In the event that the 'hope of revival of the nation's economy', the NEEDS programme has projected further depreciation in the value of the naira, we may be realistic to expect the introduction of the N2,000, N5,000 and possibly N10,000 note in the next 5-10 years, if our monetary authorities continue to adopt the current framework of monetary policy which demands that our export earnings in dollars be first unilaterally converted will continue to generate increasingly bloated liquidity with the more dollars we earn and the greater will be the need for larger and larger currency denominations and the naira in your pocket will give you less and less real value. If we are to go the path of Ghana, we may soon be paying N1,000 for a bottle of coke! *Boyo is a company executive in Lagos.

Source The Guardian
https://www.proshareng.com/articles/Opinion-&-Analysis/Merits-and-Demerits-of-High-Currency-Denominations/341

What is this one saying? His statement rigs of nothing but ethnic colouration and religious inclination.

How can media tag a suspect they do not know? They should say its Book Haram or Fulani Militia? The ones happening in central and southern Nigeria has been tagged to Herdsmen and evidentially found to be true.

Instead of you to call out the perpetrators and those who are suppose to be at the helm of curtailing this menace, you're talking media.

While all these happened where was Abdullazeez Yari? Was he not opening his teeth in Daura, has he come out to address the people and to tell them what his govt and that of Buhari is doing?

The FAB three

The truth is that Nigerians are always wicked to themselves.. everyone is looking for excessive gains during these periods. Cost of transportation will sky rocket to places you've been travelling to all year.


The government has failed to proffer long term measures to these problems, each year, each season it keeps coming back like a cockcroach.

Even to celebrate we can't do it in peace.

[quote author=Nesso post=62577196][/quote]Not all of them are

Not a single English referee.

and a third party taking photos.

What is wrong with the Buhar's led administration? What is wrong with the Nigerian Army? When has the army started giving out vaccines?

I just tire for this country. Everything is wrong

Atiku2019:
Nice Writeup

Try and reply me

Atiku2019:
Let's Go There my President come 2019

I have a preposition for you. I sent you a mail, you didn't respond. Just quote me so I'll know you're interested. Its important

Considering all the odds, I think Ronaldo will take the award home. Deservedly!

Atiku2019:
Thanks Boss

Hello man we share the same vision with you on atiku 2019, I'm waiting to hear from you please send me your direct email or contact . Best regards

Peace is priceless.

You'll never walk alone.......D' kop
Lemar and VVD signings will make a good summer transaction.

You are from Nigeria, Buhari is your President, Yahaya Bello is your Governor, And Arsenal is your team. God, why do some people love suffering?

You are from Nigeria, Buhari is your President, Yahaya Bello is your Governor, And Arsenal is your team. God, why do some people love suffering?

You are from Nigeria, Buhari is your President, Yahaya Bello is your Governor, And Arsenal is your team. God, why do some people love suffering?

lefulefu:
na d hips get u

You sabi