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Residents of Mushin area of Lagos are still living in an atmosphere of fear after Sunday’s mayhem in which their homes were looted and a man was allegedly killed.

Saturday PUNCH visited the area on Wednesday to see what has changed since the incident, but observed that many of the residents are afraid that the hoodlums who carried out the attack might soon come back as they reportedly promised.

Some of the residents, who told our correspondent their stories, insisted the perpetrators, who they said numbered more than 50, came from Akala Street, Mushin.

Ike Olu Street was the most affected area. There were still remnants of shattered vehicle windscreens, house windows and burnt vehicles on the street when our correspondent visited.

The residents told Saturday PUNCH that the hoodlums went from house to house about 1.30 am on Sunday, robbing, looting shops and smashing cars before fleeing when they noticed police presence.

The looting hoodlums came back after they had initially fled, Saturday PUNCH learnt.

More looting was recorded during their second coming, it was learnt. It was during that period that they reportedly burnt the vehicles they had already smashed.

At least eight vehicles were said to have been burnt down. Our correspondent counted five burnt vehicles that had not been taken away by their owners.

A youth in Fadeyi, Monsuru Olayiwola, who had been reported to be one of the masterminds of the attack, told our correspondent he knew nothing about the matter.

He said, “I read in a newspaper report that I was wielding a pump-action rifle during the mayhem. That is a blatant lie.

“It was a ploy by the criminals responsible to implicate me. I was at Ikorodu overnight during the mayhem and a lot of people can attest to this. I have not been in that particular part of Mushin for three years because of the violence of the youths in the area.”

A resident of Fadeyi, Wale Ayodele, told our correspondent that the hoodlums were suspected to comprise area boys and cult members.

He said, “We were very shocked when it was reported that the attack was carried out by youths from Fadeyi. This is not the first time this kind of attack would be blamed on Fadeyi boys by Mushin youths.

“Go to the street where the attacks took place and the residents themselves will tell you where the hoodlums came from.”

Tunde, a resident of Ike Olu Street, said the hoodlums announced their presence by shooting and smashing the windos of parked cars.

He said, “They smashed anything in sight and went from house to house, robbing people of cash, telephone sets, televisions, generators and even clothes.

“They destroyed some of the furniture I had been contracted to make for someone. But I fared better than some other people on this street.”

But another resident, who identified herself simply as Florence, said she narrowly escaped being gang-raped by about 15 men, who kicked down the door of her apartment.

Florence said, “I have no doubt that the men moving about the street, robbing and attacking people were up to 70 because the ones who came into my room were up to 15. There were other groups in other apartments at the same time.

“They kicked down the door and demanded money and my phones. But I was begging them that I had nothing in the house.

“I thought they would move on to other houses if I told them that. But some of them suddenly pulled down my trousers and wanted to rape me. I started begging and quickly dipped my hand into a place where I had saved N40,000 and handed it to them.

“I begged them to let me go. I told them that was all I had. I was lucky they left after that.”

Another resident, who pleaded anonymity, lost his commercial buses to the hoodlums.

He said, “I’m just a mechanic and I have a shop on this street. I’m not a resident of this street. I got to the workshop on Monday morning and saw the burnt carcass of my bus.

“I told the driver to always park the bus in front of my workshop every night. These hoodlums have destroyed a good source of money for me. To add to my woes, I have not finished paying for the bus because I’m paying on an instalment plan.”

Our correspondent learnt that a driver with a new generation bank has been arrested in connection with the burning of a vehicle during the mayhem.

The unidentified driver was said to have taken the official vehicle of his boss, a new Toyota Corrolla, home after the close of work the previous Friday.

It was burnt by the hoodlums where he parked it. The burnt car was still on the street when our correspondent visited.

Each of the residents had one thing or another to tell our correspondent, as he moved round the area.

A hairdresser said the door of her shop was kicked down and the hoodlums took away her generator.

A resident, Mrs. Rachael Adepoju, lost her savings and telephone sets to the hoodlums who came into her house, wielding guns, broken bottles and machetes.

Another resident said they threatened to kill two people in her house if she did not hand over her belongings.

A man next door was brutally beaten because he was not fast enough when he was handing over his belongings.

“They are cult members,” a resident, Fatai Owolabi, told our correspondent.

“Everybody on this street is aware that there has been a long-standing feud between members of the Eiye Confraternity and .

“I don’t know who is accusing who, but we heard that one said the other was responsible for the death of two of its members. Anytime there is a problem, they use the opportunity to loot, rob and unleash mayhem on residents,” he said.

Saturday PUNCH learnt that the men responsible for the mayhem were suspected to be those vending hard drugs and Indian hemp in Mushin.

Spokesperson for the state police command, Ngozi Braide, had on Sunday said some suspects had been apprehended in connection with the case.

It is not clear how far the investigation had gone as Braide’s phone line indicated it was switched off when our correspondent contacted her on Wednesday.


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Nigerian troops fighting Boko Haram insurgents in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states may have been bolstered by United States drones stationed in Niamey, Niger Republic.

The Nigerian government had deployed thousands of troops to the three states after President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in their territories on May 14, 2013.

A top intelligence official, who declined to be named due to the sensitive nature of the issue, told Saturday PUNCH that US drones had been spying on Boko Haram bases in the forests and plains around Nigeria’s borders with Niger, Chad and Cameroon.

The source said this was part of assistance provided by the US Government, in its bid to destroy terror bases in West and North Africa.

The security official did not, however, give further details of the spying mission as well as other aspects of US military assistance to the campaign against Boko Haram.

“Yes, it is true. We have got assistance from the United States, including what you mentioned,” he stated.

US President Barack Obama had in February announced that 100 American troops were being sent to the drone base in the Nigerien capital.

The drones had been deployed in missions against Islamist extremists in Mali but may their area of coverage may have now been extended to cover Niger’s border with Nigeria.

Nigerien President Issoufou Mahamadou had told the Associated Press in January that his government invited Washington to send surveillance drones because he was worried that the country might not be able to defend its borders from Islamist fighters based in Mali, Libya or Nigeria.

“We welcome the drones,” Mahamadou said in an interview at the presidential palace in Niamey. Citing the “feeble capability” of many west African militaries, he said Niger and its neighbours desperately needed foreign help to track the movements of guerrillas across the Sahara and Sahel, an arid territorial belt that covers much of the region.

“Our countries are like the blind leading the blind,” he said. “We rely on countries like France and the United States. We need co-operation to ensure our security.”

The Predator drones in Niger are unarmed, US officials said, though they have not ruled out equipping the aircraft with Hellfire missiles in the future.

The US Embassy in Niamey, Niger Republic did not respond to an email on the matter.

When contacted, spokesman for Nigeria’s Defence Headquarters, Brig-Gen. Chris Olukolade, denied any collaboration with the US in the campaign.

He said, “This is solely a Nigerian planned operation and we are doing it our own way. This operation is our own and we are doing it in line with best practices. It is Nigerian designed and executed.”

Meanwhile, Nigerian security agents may join the ongoing investigation of two British men, who hacked a soldier to death on Wednesday in Woolwich, United Kingdom.

The two British-born suspects of Nigerian origin, Michael Adebolajo, 28, and Michael Adebowale, 22, are under guard in hospitals after being shot and arrested by police after the murder of 25-year-old Afghan war veteran Lee Rigby on Wednesday in Woolwich in broad daylight. They have not yet been charged.

UK detectives are trying to determine whether the suspects had links to militants in Britain or overseas.

Sources familiar with the investigation have said no sign has emerged so far of direct links between the attack and the Boko Haram insurgency.

British investigators are looking at information that at least one of the suspects may have had an interest in joining Somalia-based Islamist rebel group al Shabaab, which is allied to al Qaeda and Boko Haram, a source with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.

A senior State Security Service official told one of our correspondents on condition of anonymity on Thursday that although a request had yet to be received from UK authorities, security agents would be ready to aid the investigation of the alleged killer’s possible links to Boko Haram and other terror groups.

He said it was still early for such a request to be sent to Nigeria but noted that the agency was following developments on the matter closely.

Attempts to obtain comments from the SSS spokesperson, Ms. Marilyn Ogar, were unsuccessful as she did not respond to calls to her phone.

Deputy Force Public Relations Officer, Mr. Frank Mba, asid, “We will not discuss that. Talk to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.”

Spokesman for the British High Commission, Robert Fitzpatrick, declined to comment on the matter. He said since British Prime Minister, David Cameron, had issued a statement, there was nothing more to add.

Also speaking, Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman, Ogbole Ahmedu-Ode, said, “Those two are of British nationals but of Nigerian ancestry. I am not aware of any request from the British Government on their roots in Nigeria.”


Source:- http://www.punchng.com/news/us-drones-spy-on-boko-haram/

Nigeria’s Supreme Court on Friday in Abuja ordered that the ring leader of a notorious armed robbery gang, Mr. Salisu Isiaka, who has been terrorizing the people of Kwara state and giving them sleepless nights, is to die by hanging for stealing handset.

In a unanimous decision, the apex Court restored the decision of the High Court which had earlier sentenced Isiaka to death
by hanging.

The convicted armed robber had pleaded not guilty at the trial court and had contested the death by hanging judgment passed on him.

Dissatisfied with the death sentence thrown at him by the High Court, Isiaka appealed the sentence at the Court of Appeal. He recorded a temporary reprieve at the appellate court as the death by hanging sentence was set aside and his release from prison custody was also ordered by the court.

His joy was however short-lived as he soon ran into yet another trouble.

Trouble started for Isiaka on the 27th of August, 2009, in the evening hours when one Mulikat Abdulkareem was allegedly attacked by Isiaka who was armed with a cudgel with which he hit his victim on her head several times until she was dispossessed of her handset.

Luck however ran out on him when the police who were on patrol in the area got a distress call and raced to the scene.

He was shot on the leg by the police but he managed to escape to a nearby house from where he was arrested by the police.

After his arrest a search was conducted on his person and the same Nokia handset just stolen from the victim as well as the cudgel were recovered by the police.

This prompted the challenge of the Court of Appeal’s decision at the apex court which restored the high court death by hanging sentence on the handset thief.


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The Chief Priest of the Ombatse cult group in Lakyo, Nasarawa South Local Government Area of Nasarawa State, Ala Agu, on Wednesday said that security men that invaded the community were ordered by the state governor, Alhaji Tanko Al-Makura, to kill him.

The 76-year-old Agu, popularly called Baba Lakyo, spoke with journalists on Wednesday at Lakyo during a visit of Senator Solomon Ewuga (Nasarawa North Senatorial District) to the community.

The chief priest, who spoke through an interpreter, said the security operatives did not come to arrest him, but to kill him “and cut off my head and take it to the governor.”

“It is the governor that asked the people (police officers) to come here and arrest me, cut my head and take my head to him.

“When they came, because they were themselves drunk, my god did not allow them to come to me and they died on the way.

“The question I asked is, ‘has the governor ever invited me and I refused to go?’ If am invited, I will go. But he sent people to come and kill me and to destroy Lakyo as a whole. That is just what it is.”

Al-Makura had rushed to the Presidential Villa, Abuja on May 8, 2013 to brief Vice-President Nnamadi Sambo on the security situation in the state, saying that 20 policemen were killed in Lakyo by cultists.

The governor had said that members of Ombatse laid ambush and killed security agents sent to arrest the members in their shrine.

On Wednesday, Baba Lakyo said that he had never been invited by security agencies, contrary to reports that the police invaded the village after he shunned their invitation.

The chief priest said that he was willing to honour any invitation either by the governor or the police.

Although Lakyo is peaceful, besides the sight of burnt vehicles used by the security men, Agu said he was unhappy with what happened and was apprehensive of what might befall him afterwards.

Ewuga toured Lakyo community, and led reporters to the home of Agu, which represents the “shrine” of the Ombatse.

Agu however denied ever forcing people to join the group through any initiation or drinking of concoction.

“I am grateful for your coming, Senator. I am very, very grateful for your coming. Even if the Senator did not come here, I had intended to go and see him in his house but since he is here, I am very grateful,” he told the senator.

Agu also said that he was in a nearby village when the incident took place only for him to come back to be informed that the governor sent people to come and kill him.

Asked whether the incident had anything to do with the politics of the state, he said, “If you are talking about politics, it does not bother me. I don’t even understand Hausa language. Politics is not for me because I am not a politician. Politics is for politicians but I hear that the time for politicking has not even come.

“If I ever opened my mouth to force anybody to take oath, God should punish me”.

He said that Ombatse was an association of Lakyo boys into which nobody was forced to belong.

He said he was ready to honour any police invitation but insisted that nobody had invited him.

According to him, it is even more saddening that he is being linked to the incident, especially when he knew nothing about what happened to the policemen.

But Al-Makura on Wednesday dismissed Agu’s claim that he was never invited for any meeting.

The governor, who spoke through his Chief Press Secretary, Mr. Iliya Aliu, in a telephone interview, said it was on record that the head of the cult group did not honour several invitations extended to him.

He said, “It is not true that he was never invited. The Emir of Lafia who is the Chairman of the Nasarawa State Council of Chiefs invited him, he refused to honour it.

“Are Eggon, who is the chief of his area invited him, he refused; the Police, the SSS all invited him before this incident but he refused to honour any of them.

“His followers attacked and killed people in Asakiyo Alago; they went to Arga Migili, Kwadere and did the same.

“No responsible government will sit by and watch such things happen without taking action.

“It was after he refused to answer all of these invitations that the state security council met and decided that he should be arrested.

“Even their name, Ombatse, means it is our turn. Their turn for what?

“In any case, no matter the grievance, no individual or group has the right to kill innocent security officials.

“He and all those responsible must face the consequence of their action.”

The President of the Egon Cultural Development Association, Mr. Chris Mamman, said the only way to get to the root of what happened at Alakyo was for the Federal Government to set up a judicial commission of inquiry.

Ewuga said he decided to tour the affected area as a matter of national responsibility, saying he needed to see things for himself since he is also an Eggon man even though it was not within his senatorial district.


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1

Look at your zipper. See the initials YKK? It stands for Yoshida Kogyo Kabushibibaisha, the world's largest zipper manufacturer.

2

40 percent of McDonald's profits come from the sales of Happy Meals.

3

315 entries in Webster's 1996 Dictionary were misspelled.

4

On the average, 12 newborns will be given to the wrong parents daily.

5

Chocolate kills dogs! True, chocolate affects a dog's heart and nervous system. A few ounces is enough to kill a small sized dog.

6

Ketchup was sold in the 1830's as a medicine.

7

Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the other at the same time.

8

Because metal was scarce, the Oscars given out during World War II were made of wood.

9

There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos.

10

Leonardo da Vinci invented scissors. Also, it took him 10 years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.

11

Bruce Lee was so fast that they actually had to slow a film down so you could see his moves. That's the opposite of the norm.

12

The original name for the butterfly was "flutterby"!

13

By raising your legs slowly and lying on your back, you can't sink in quicksand.

14

Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

15

Dentists recommend that a toothbrush be kept at least six feet away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the flush.

16

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

17

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than the entire Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

18

Marilyn Monroe had six toes on one foot.

19

Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but was talked out of it by her doctor.

20

The three most valuable brand names on earth: Marlboro, Coca-Cola, and Budweiser, in that order.

21

To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, prick your fingers into its eyeballs. It will let you go instantly.

22

The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

23

The "pound" (#) key on your keyboard is called an octothorp.

24

The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.

25

Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

26

The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.

27

Dreamt" is the only word in the English language that ends in "mt".

28

It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

29

In Chinese, the KFC slogan "finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".

30

A cockroach can live for 10 days without a head.

31

We shed 40 pounds of skin a lifetime.

32

Yo-Yos were once used as weapons in the Philippines.

33

Mexico City sinks abut 10 inches a year.

34

Brains are more active sleeping than watching TV.

35

Blue is the favorite color of 80 percent of Americans.

36

When a person shakes their head from side to side, he is saying "yes" in Sri Lanka.

37

There are more chickens than people in the world.

38

The thumbnail grows the slowest, and the middle nail grows the fastest.

39

There are more telephones than people in Washington, D.C.

40

The average four year-old child asks over four hundred questions a day.

41

The average person presses the snooze button on their alarm clock three Times each morning.

42

The three wealthiest families in the world have more assets than the Combined wealth of the forty-eight poorest nations.

43

The first owner of the Marlboro cigarette Company died of lung cancer.

44

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair.

45

The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.

46

Our eyes remain the same size from birth onward, but our noses and ears Never stop growing.

47

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.

48

A person will die from total lack of sleep sooner than from starvation. Death will occur about 10 days without sleep, while starvation takes a Few weeks.

49

Chewing gum while peeling onions will keep you from crying.

50

The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows.

51

When the moon is directly overhead, you weigh slightly less.

52

Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never telephoned His wife or mother because they were both deaf.

53

A psychology student in New York rented out her spare room to a Carpenter in order to nag him constantly and study his reactions. After Weeks of needling, he snapped and beat her repeatedly with an axe Leaving her mentally retarded

54

"I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language

55

Colgate faced a big obstacle marketing toothpaste in Spanish speaking Countries because Colgate translates into the command "go hang Yourself."

56

Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.

57

"Bookkeeper" is the only word in English language with three consecutive Double letters.

58

Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left handed People do.

59

The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every Letter in the English language.

60

If the population of China walked past you in single line, the line Would never end because of the rate of reproduction

61

China has more English speakers than the United States.

62

Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.

63

Each square inch of human skin consists of twenty feet of blood vessels.

64

An average person uses the bathroom 6 times per day.

65

Babies are born with 300 bones, but by adulthood we have only 206 in our Bodies.

66

Beards are the fastest growing hairs on the human body. If the average Man never trimmed his beard, it would grow to nearly 30 feet long in his Lifetime.

67

According to Genesis 1:20-22, the chicken came before the egg.

68

The longest place name still in use is: Taumatawhakatangihangaoauauotameteaturi- Pukakpikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu - a New Zealand hill.

69

If you leave Tokyo by plane at 7:00am, you will arrive in Honolulu at Approximately 4:30pm the previous day.

70

Scientists in Australia's Parkes Observatory thought they had positive Proof of alien life, when they began picking up radio-waves from space. However, after investigation, the radio emissions were traced to a Microwave in the building.

71

Wearing headphones for an hour increases the bacteria in your ear 700 times.

72

More than 40,000 parasites and 250 types of bacteria are exchanged during a French kiss.

73

Men can read smaller print than women, but women can hear better.

74

Coca-Cola was originally green.

75

The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

76

The name of all the continents ends with the same letter that they start with.

77

There are two credit cards for every person in the United States.

78

TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.

79

Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!

80

You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

81

It is impossible to lick your elbow.

82

People say "Bless you" when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.

83

It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

84

The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest tongue twister in the English language.

85

If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.

86

Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history. Spades - King David, Clubs - Alexander the Great, Hearts - Charlemagne, Diamonds - Julius Caesar.

87

111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321

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If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle.

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If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle.

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If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

91

Question - This is the only food that doesn't spoil. What is this? Ans. - Honey

92

A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

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A snail can sleep for three years.

94

All polar bears are left handed.

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American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.

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Butterflies taste with their feet.

97

Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

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In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

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On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

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Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.

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Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

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The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

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The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

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The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

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Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over million descendants.

106

The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

107

Most lipstick contains fish scales.

108

And finally 99% of people who read this will try to lick their elbow.



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Liquid H2O is the sine qua non of life. Making up about 66 percent of the human body, water runs through the blood, inhabits the cells, and lurks in the spaces between. At every moment water escapes the body through sweat, urination, defecation or exhaled breath, among other routes. Replacing these lost stores is essential but rehydration can be overdone. There is such a thing as a fatal water overdose.

Earlier this year, a 28-year-old California woman died after competing in a radio station's on-air water-drinking contest. After downing some six liters of water in three hours in the "Hold Your Wee for a Wii" (Nintendo game console) contest, Jennifer Strange vomited, went home with a splitting headache, and died from so-called water intoxication.

There are many other tragic examples of death by water. In 2005 a fraternity hazing at California State University, Chico, left a 21-year-old man dead after he was forced to drink excessive amounts of water between rounds of push-ups in a cold basement. Club-goers taking MDMA ("ecstasy" have died after consuming copious amounts of water trying to rehydrate following long nights of dancing and sweating. Going overboard in attempts to rehydrate is also common among endurance athletes. A 2005 study in the New England Journal of Medicine found that close to one sixth of marathon runners develop some degree of hyponatremia, or dilution of the blood caused by drinking too much water.

Hyponatremia, a word cobbled together from Latin and Greek roots, translates as "insufficient salt in the blood." Quantitatively speaking, it means having a blood sodium concentration below 135 millimoles per liter, or approximately 0.4 ounces per gallon, the normal concentration lying somewhere between 135 and 145 millimoles per liter. Severe cases of hyponatremia can lead to water intoxication, an illness whose symptoms include headache, fatigue, nausea, vomiting, frequent urination and mental disorientation.

In humans the kidneys control the amount of water, salts and other solutes leaving the body by sieving blood through their millions of twisted tubules. When a person drinks too much water in a short period of time, the kidneys cannot flush it out fast enough and the blood becomes waterlogged. Drawn to regions where the concentration of salt and other dissolved substances is higher, excess water leaves the blood and ultimately enters the cells, which swell like balloons to accommodate it.

Most cells have room to stretch because they are embedded in flexible tissues such as fat and muscle, but this is not the case for neurons. Brain cells are tightly packaged inside a rigid boney cage, the skull, and they have to share this space with blood and cerebrospinal fluid, explains Wolfgang Liedtke, a clinical neuroscientist at Duke University Medical Center. "Inside the skull there is almost zero room to expand and swell," he says.

Thus, brain edema, or swelling, can be disastrous. "Rapid and severe hyponatremia causes entry of water into brain cells leading to brain swelling, which manifests as seizures, coma, respiratory arrest, brain stem herniation and death," explains M. Amin Arnaout, chief of nephrology at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

Where did people get the idea that guzzling enormous quantities of water is healthful? A few years ago Heinz Valtin, a kidney specialist from Dartmouth Medical School, decided to determine if the common advice to drink eight, eight-ounce glasses of water per day could hold up to scientific scrutiny. After scouring the peer-reviewed literature, Valtin concluded that no scientific studies support the "eight x eight" dictum (for healthy adults living in temperate climates and doing mild exercise). In fact, drinking this much or more "could be harmful, both in precipitating potentially dangerous hyponatremia and exposure to pollutants, and also in making many people feel guilty for not drinking enough," he wrote in his 2002 review for the American Journal of Physiology—Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology. And since he published his findings, Valtin says, "not a single scientific report published in a peer-reviewed publication has proven the contrary."

Most cases of water poisoning do not result from simply drinking too much water, says Joseph Verbalis, chairman of medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center. It is usually a combination of excessive fluid intake and increased secretion of vasopression (also called antidiuretic hormone), he explains. Produced by the hypothalamus and secreted into the bloodstream by the posterior pituitary gland, vasopressin instructs the kidneys to conserve water. Its secretion increases in periods of physical stress—during a marathon, for example—and may cause the body to conserve water even if a person is drinking excessive quantities.

Every hour, a healthy kidney at rest can excrete 800 to 1,000 milliliters, or 0.21 to 0.26 gallon, of water and therefore a person can drink water at a rate of 800 to 1,000 milliliters per hour without experiencing a net gain in water, Verbalis explains. If that same person is running a marathon, however, the stress of the situation will increase vasopressin levels, reducing the kidney's excretion capacity to as low as 100 milliliters per hour. Drinking 800 to 1,000 milliliters of water per hour under these conditions can potentially lead a net gain in water, even with considerable sweating, he says.

While exercising, "you should balance what you're drinking with what you're sweating," and that includes sports drinks, which can also cause hyponatremia when consumed in excess, Verbalis advises. "If you're sweating 500 milliliters per hour, that is what you should be drinking."

But measuring sweat output is not easy. How can a marathon runner, or any person, determine how much water to consume? As long as you are healthy and equipped with a thirst barometer unimpaired by old age or mind-altering drugs, follow Verbalis's advice, "drink to your thirst. It's the best indicator."


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Thank you all.

@charcoalblaq
why was she apologizing as regards the post she made here. At the meeting with them one of the things they said is that they wont be able to stay on the farm so they would employ supervisors who would live on the site and help monitor our investments. So what then do u make of this post which i am quoting:

We are currently in need of charcoal production supervisors from any of the following states Kogi State (preferably someone from kabba) Benue State, Niger State, Kaduna state or someone that knows any of these states very well.
Sex: Male

Educational Requirement: None but should be able to speak understandable English for easy communication.


Age is not a criteria.

Work hours are very flexible and you can work from wherever you are in Nigeria.


Starting Salary: N70,000

No need for CV's just call 08036958844


If you want to see all that went down on this thread pls check it here:

https://www.nairaland.com/1261524/charcoal-production-supervisors-needed-70k#down

So if you were in my shoes what would you think.

I never accussed them of scamming me pls read carefully before you make comments.

I just got a text message from the folorunsho guy after i refused to pick his calls:-

PLS PICK UP AND LETS DISCUSS WHY YOU CALL ME A SCAM. TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS? OUR FORMER FARMLAND ARRANGEMENT WHICH I HAD DISCUSSED EXTENSIVELY AT THE MEETING AND THE FACT THAT WE JUST MOVED TO SAID PRIVATE PROPERTY. OR IS IT MY FIANCE YOU ACCUSE AS A LESBIAN. I AM EXPECTING SOME PEOPLE THROUGHOUT THE WEEK SO I WOULD BE BUSY, I HOWEVER ADVISE YOU TO LAWYER UP, YOU JUST DEFRAMED A CHARACTER BUILT ON SWEAT AND TOIL AND YOU WOULD BE ANSWERABLE. ABOUT CALLING THE POLICE I ADVICE YOU DO, IF YOU CHECK THE OTHER THREAD WHERE I WAS BASHED YOU WOULD SEE ALL MY DETAILS INCLUDING THAT OF MY PARENTS, PLS MAKE YOUR MOVE, I ASSURE YOU I WOULD MAKE MINE AS SOON AS I AM DONE HERE.

The folorunsho guy just called me, trying to harass me and i promised him i would arrange his arrest next time he calls me. Everyone please take note. God bless you all.

You guys are not telling the truth, there is something fishy in all this.

personaldomest: Good morning all.

I apologize to my investors/potential investors, for my unprofessional behavior on the link/thread posted above. We are all humans, and can be pushed beyond our limit. I apologize once again.

Thank you all.

I had my doubts about this people that is putting together this charcoal investment stuff.

I actually went for one of their meetings with potential investors, and the first thing i noticed was that in their M.O.U there were series of typographical errors and we asked them if this document was put together by a lawyer which they responded to affirmatively. Surprisingly, one of the persons in the meeting claimed he was a lawyer and told them he could help them put together another MOU which they subscribed to, this whole thing became suspicious after this development. I asked them series of questions and they seemed rather convincing in their response, i promised them i was going to put 500k (five hundred thousand naira)into the investment. The truth of the matter was that though i had the intention to go ahead with this investment, my spirit was not at rest wit the whole thing at all

I was in communication with them by mail for some days, where i asked them to upload video clips of their farm, they took time in doing that claiming they were having network issues. I watched the videos but i noticed in one the videos where Mr Folorunsho (one the the coordinators) was talking to someone on the phone (in yoruba language) that the oba (traditional ruler) has allocated some land to them for their operations, this was in contradiction to what they made us believe that the property they are working on is a private property.

Mr folorunsho and glory (personalmodest) told us they are engaged to each other for marriage. I wonder how come she is a lesbian and also organising lesbians for other "Rich Nigerians", pictures of that post is attached with her phone number posted on that thread.

I want to believe that these guys seem to be scammers and i want to implore moderators to look into this matter, to anyone who has put money into this, i am sorry to say you might have been scammed and for all those intending to put money into it what can i say, proceed at your own risk, a word is enough for the wise

I am also calling on E.F.C.C and the Nigerian Police to look into this matter

The coordinators of this investment are:-


FOLORUNSHO CHARLES (08081887295, 07014100262)

GLORY IGBEREASE (08036958844)

I guess this may not be their real names afterall.

http://www.topix.com/forum/world/nigeria/TP2NI4CRUCO5ACM89/p8 (link to the lesbian post)

so i guesss we can say let the looking begin......

How come no woman has made a comment so far

STARING at busty women can lengthen your life, scientists have proved.

A German study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, concludes that staring at women's breasts for a few minutes daily is better for your health than going to the gym.

"Just 10 minutes of looking at the charms of well-endowed females is equivalent to a 30-minute aerobics work-out," said author Dr Karen Weatherby, an expert on ageing.

The research team, led by Dr Weatherby, spent five years monitoring the effects of this unique discovery.

The men who were told to stare at bosoms daily had lower blood pressure and slower resting pulse rates and also decreased their risk of coronary artery disease.

Dr Weatherby explained: "Sexual excitement gets the heart pumping and improves blood circulation.

"There's no question - gazing at large breasts makes men healthier."

She also recommends that men over 40 should spend at least 10 minutes daily admiring breasts sized D-cup or larger.


http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/health/doctors-say-looking-busty-women-1107578

can it fly for N60k, serious buyer

are u in lagos?

wat is wrong with da fone.

what is your best price?

I just replied your mail, pls check and respond asap. Cheers!!!

@ personalmodest

I hope you have seen these stories, they are quite recent:-

http://m.ilorin.info/fullnews.php?id=1976

http://m.news24.com/nigeria/Business/News/Charcoal-production-is-illegal-in-Kwara-20130314

http://www.theheraldnews.info/kwara-warns-charcoal-producers-task-force-arrests-truck-loads

Hi all,

I have been using my honda accord 1998 model(babyboy) for a little over three years now and i would still love to use it for the next two years, i am planning on refurbishing (fine tunning) the engine, what do i need to do? Every advise would be highly appreciated.

i just sent you a mail now, hope to hear from you soon.

@benz33:- pls send me a business plan for your car wash biz as well as the other one. my add is ittkit@yahoo.com

@ aanu: thanks for your advice. I really appreciaate

@ymomoh:- I can see you are into a lot of businesses, like real estate, farming, helping people to get funds for business so how can i trust you....anyways thanks for your advice

@ eddiebruk: Thanks for your suggestion, can you pls drop your email adddress

N60k wont get it, if i wanted to sell for N60k i would have sold it since. I may be able to drop like 2k for you if you are still lucky to meet it by next week. Cheers!!!