Njideka Udochi
Medical Director Millennium Family Practice
President Millennium Health Group
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Answers for Cornell Black History Month
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Njideka: The Little Girl Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Saved from Death
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Nigerian Medics Making Waves in the Diaspora
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You cannot truly become all that you want to be if you do not push yourself a little bit more every day.

ABDOMINAL PAIN, A RED HERRING FOR MULTISYSTEM INFLAMMATORY SYNDROME IN CHILDREN (MIS-C); A CASE REPORT
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A Case Report by Njideka Udochi, MD, MPH, FAAFP, AAHIVS*, Hazel Jones Parker, DNP, CRNP, AAHIVS and Melonie Owusu, BSN, RN
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Today, we’ll be talking about the 30-yo’s guide to investing for retirement. The reason behind this is that ordinarily, investing is something that should be done with brains and caution. You can’t just rush into it with guns blazing, expecting things not to backfire. They probably will if you go in with the wrong attitude. However, as complicated as normal investing is, investing for retirement is a bit more tasking.

You need to be extra careful to protect your money so that you don’t lose your retirement and end up frustrated after work. So, how do you go about investing for retirement? Let’s see.

Understand why you’re investing

The chances are that you know what you want already. But, just to be on the safe side, you need to know why you’re making investments in the first place. Are you trying to spend your retirement travelling the world? Do you want to launch a business? Or do you just want to complement your pension? Your money requirement based on this answer will determine how much you need to invest.

READ MORE: https://newsbreakersonline.com/how-to-begin-investing-for-retirement-the-30yos-guide/

The chances are that you’ve probably not heard of being mindful, much less why you need to become more mindful. To break things down a little, being mindful essentially involves allowing yourself to experience your own life or the world around you better. It leads to a calmer, more relaxed and put together mind.

Becoming more mindful can happen in any number of ways, including meditation. However, not everyone is skilled at this, and it can be a bit tiring if you’re not used to it. That’s why we’ll be sharing alternative means to become more mindful as you go about your daily activities:

Take a walk

Walking, in itself, is a great form of therapy. Apart from exercising your body, it frees you up from all the limitations of the four walls you live or work in. So, if you're looking to become more mindful in your daily life, it might be a great idea to take a walk, regardless of the distance.


Live in the moment

You won’t realize how much you’ve been missing out on until you do this. But, try it for a few minutes at a time. Don’t think about the past. Don’t think about anything you want to do in the future. That includes even the meal you’ll be eating in the next two hours. Just live within the moment you’re in and allow yourself to exist peacefully without worries or regrets.

READ MORE: https://newsbreakersonline.com/how-to-become-more-mindful-in-your-daily-life/

Depending on how you choose to see it, you could say that a place of business is a place that is utterly void of emotions. As such, there shouldn’t be any need for resolving conflict at work. However, this isn’t entirely true.

While the office is largely a place for business, emotions can get involved too. When that happens, conflict can arise, and if you have conflict, you’ll have to learn the process of resolving conflict at work.

Not to worry, though. You really don’t have to look too far. We’ll be showing you the steps required in resolving conflict at work.

Embrace conflict

Where two or more people are present, it is inevitable. Don’t live your life or go about your day thinking that things will always be rosy because they wouldn’t. So, while you’re at work, expect conflict to happen. Don’t go around looking for it. But, when it happens, don’t get too flustered about the other person taking offence or offending you because it’s perfectly normal. The only thing to do at this point is to calmly evaluate ways that you can resolve it when it comes up.

READ MORE: https://newsbreakersonline.com/five-tips-for-resolving-conflict-at-work/

The decision to take a break in a relationship isn’t always the easiest to make. It usually comes after a series of negative events have occurred, and you now doubt the importance of your relationship as well as its sustainability.

Nevertheless, if your relationship has been a cause for worry for a while, then you might need to take a break. You just need to remember that you shouldn’t take a break at the slightest opportunity you get, as that can ruin the relationship. Instead, try to look out for the following signs. When you notice them, you definitely need to get a breather.

You’re moving too fast

When you’ve only just met the lady a month ago, and now she’s talking about moving in with you just because you both shared a nice kiss once, it’s definitely a sign that you both need to chill out.

READ MORE: https://newsbreakersonline.com/five-indicators-that-you-may-need-to-take-a-break-from-the-relationship/

Bad social habits are those things we do that can be particularly annoying to those around us. They demonstrate a lack of etiquette and show that we’re not quite as cultured as we should be. Needless to say, they affect how we’re perceived by everyone around us and can affect our ability to make new friends and whatnot. As such, it is important for us to avoid certain bad social habits.

Having said that, it’s really not quite possible to avoid something you don’t know. That’s like swinging an ax at a tree in the dark. So, we’ve taken out time to get together the bad social habits you shouldn’t be found with. They are:

Sending unsolicited lewd pictures to female friends

Compared to everything else on the list, this is perhaps the worst thing you can do. Not only is it considered an extremely bad habit, but it's also considered sexual harassment, and it can get you in a lot of trouble if you get caught. That is beside the amount of discomfort it can cause the recipient. No matter how close you think you are, never send these types of pictures to your female friends, especially without consent.

READ MORE: https://newsbreakersonline.com/bad-social-habits-you-must-always-avoid/

Much of the world, as we know it, exists outside our rooms and houses these days. Almost everyone who wants to experience it or advises you to experience it constantly lectures you about how you need to go out more for you to enjoy life. But, the truth is that you’re an introvert. As much as you’d like to head over to the beach or grab a bite at the restaurant, you’d much rather stay at home and enjoy some fun indoor activities.

The only problem is, with everyone constantly having fun outside, you might start to think that there really is nothing interesting for you to do indoors as an introvert. Well, luckily for you, we can confidently say that that’s untrue. There are tons of fun indoor activities that you can get right into as an introvert. In this article, we’ll be showing you some of them.

Indoor Photography

If you have a flair for excellent images that are as captivating as they’re narrative, you can take a step into the world of pictures. If your passion once drove you to buy a professional camera, that’s great because it’ll help you take excellent pictures. But, if you do not quite have the financial buoyance to handle a professional camera right now, that’s fine too. After all, there’s an entire segment of photography dedicated to taking pictures with mobile phones alone. You can explore that area.

Admittedly, taking pictures indoors might be a tad difficult, considering that you don’t have so much of the sun’s natural light. But who says you can’t step outside your room into your compound to take these pictures? Who says you can’t even get a few photography lights and turn one of your rooms into a studio?

The best part is that you don’t even need another person to take these pictures. You could simply take pictures of common household items or even dabble into food photography. Then, teach yourself to edit them and make them look uncommon and extraordinary. Afterwards, you can choose to share with the real world.

READ MORE: https://newsbreakersonline.com/three-creative-and-fun-indoor-activities-every-introvert-will-enjoy/

You might not know this already, but being a good listener goes beyond just staring at your speaker and watching him or her talk. It involves a number of other activities and verbal/nonverbal cues that help to assure your speaker that they have your attention.

Being a good listener is just as important to communication as talking itself. In this article, we’ll be giving you a couple of tips to help you become a great listener, whether it’s at work or at home.

Listen with your whole body

There are certain things that you do with your body when you are listening, and you’re interested in the conversation. They include leaning in towards the person if you’re sitting at a table. Alongside that, you should also nod when you agree and use hand gestures to show you’re following the conversation. Not only is it polite, but it is also reassuring.

READ MORE: https://newsbreakersonline.com/how-to-be-a-good-listener/

Your child’s individuality is the part of their personality that stands them out. It is what makes them unique. It is a combination of their interests, experiences, talents, understanding of the world, and virtually everything else. In essence, it is what makes them themselves.

This individuality is something that you really cannot afford to toy with because it is what will help your child to have a level of mental independence later in life such that s/he can make valuable decisions. So, how exactly do you encourage your child’s individuality? Let’s see.

Support them more than anyone

Realistically speaking, you don’t know how much everyone else is supporting them. So, you really can’t tell when you’re supporting them more than anyone. But, the main point we’re trying to pass across here is that you should support your child as much as possible. When they achieve anything new or create something, make them feel happy about it. That way, they’ll realize their ideas are good enough and won’t be inclined to just copy someone else’s. 

READ MORE: https://newsbreakersonline.com/how-to-encourage-your-childs-individuality/

Sometimes, a lazy day is just what you need. Especially when you’ve spent the entire week working yourself to the bone, you need to relax a little bit. But, what happens when that lazy day becomes a lazy week? Or a lazy month? Or a lazy year? Yeah, we don’t think it’s pleasant either. That’s why you need to learn how to overcome laziness.

If you don’t overcome laziness in its early stages, you might end up remaining that way forever, never really being able to do or achieve much. So, how do you overcome laziness? Let’s find out, folks!

Use your strengths to make up for your weaknesses

Sometimes, the only reason you’re reluctant to do something is that you feel like you don’t have the capacity to do it. For example, a student who is bad at mathematics will avoid reading the subjects at all costs. If you’re that type of person, you can use the strengths you have to make up for your weak points. For example, you can use your strength in other subjects or courses to boost your overall grades.

READ MORE: https://newsbreakersonline.com/how-to-overcome-laziness-in-6-practical-steps/

Impostor syndrome is that feeling deep within you that makes you believe that you’re inadequate. It usually comes along after you’ve spent so much time and effort trying to achieve something. When you eventually get there, you’ll hear a voice telling you that you merely got lucky and you’re not worthy of what you got.

By all means, impostor syndrome is a bad thing as it tends to make light of your efforts, thus, discouraging you from making more efforts. As such, it is important that you deal with it if you don’t want it to affect your success. In this article, we’ll be sharing a few tips to help you do just that.

Understand the signs

You can’t handle the problem when you don’t know the signs that indicate that it’s there. So, first try to understand the signs of Impostor syndrome. It could come in any number of ways, including:

- Feeling lucky instead of genuinely happy about the effort you put in.
- Being unable to accept praise even though you deserve it.
- Being unable to confidently state what you can do because you’re afraid you’re lying.
- Constantly apologizing even when you haven’t done anything wrong.
- Underselling yourself at every turn.

Knowing these signs will definitely help you to cure the larger problem.

READ MORE: https://newsbreakersonline.com/how-to-deal-with-impostor-syndrome/

In many African homes, we don’t really see the importance of getting a pet. Even if we do, we mostly just get dogs, keep them outside and use them as security animals to scare away anybody who has any particularly unsavoury thoughts towards us. 

But, what if we told you that these little furry creatures could do more than provide a bit of security? What if we told you that they’re great companions and they’re even good for your health too? Would you believe us and consider getting a pet, or would you need to be shown first? The latter? Alright then. Let’s look at five reasons you should consider getting a pet in your life.

They can help to improve your mental health

Of course, you can’t have a conversation with them. At the very least, you might talk to them and get stares, but they can’t respond to you in the way that normal humans do. But, these pets can still help to provide a bit of support for your health.

They can do this by being your companion. Your dog, for example, is and will always be there for you. Apart from going out with you every once in a while, they’ll always be around you to keep loneliness at bay. Alongside that, they give you the responsibility of caring for them, which is a healthy distraction from the things that bother you. Finally, they’re incredibly cute!

READ MORE: https://newsbreakersonline.com/why-you-should-consider-getting-a-pet/

Being a highly sensitive person isn’t particularly strange. As a matter of fact, hundreds of thousands of people around the world are incredibly sensitive to a vast number of things. While it isn’t necessarily bad, it isn’t particularly good either.

On the bright side, a highly sensitive person can easily detect when emotions are amiss in a car, among other places. On the dark side, however, they can also get very upset by the slightest things and lose their cool. So, are you a highly sensitive person? Let’s find out.

Violence affects you a lot

Usually, most people don’t like to see violence portrayed on screen or even in real life. However, they’ll often get over it and watch the movie anyway, especially if someone else is there with them. However, as a highly sensitive person, you might be incredibly disturbed by violence, no matter who is there with you. For some people, it's so bad that it gives them sleepless nights.

READ MORE: https://newsbreakersonline.com/top-five-signs-that-youre-a-highly-sensitive-person/

Especially when you’re living a bit of a distance from the girl you like, texting is one of the best ways for you to reach out to her. It allows you to have lighthearted conversations while getting to know each other better without necessarily digging too deep into your personal details. Even if you do choose to get a bit closer, you can do it via text too. But you can’t get anywhere with her if you don’t improve your texting game.

Of course, you think that you don’t need to improve your texting game with her right now because everything seems peachy. Trust us, it’s not, and you might need more work than you think you do. Here are a few tips to help you in that direction.

Open the conversation reasonably and originally

We must admit, some of the pickup lines of the internet are pretty funny. Their wordplay is usually good enough to squeeze a few laughs out of you. But not all girls like these pick up lines because they seem rather unoriginal. So, if you’re starting, be simple, reasonable and original.

READ MORE: https://newsbreakersonline.com/how-to-improve-your-texting-game/

In your relationship, have you ever noticed that the other person is always trying to make you feel bad for one thing or the other? Have you also noticed that even when you mean no harm in your actions, they sometimes blow things out of proportion and start making you look like the bad person? Does it seem like you’re constantly walking on eggshells, and you always have to apologize? If so, you’re in a textbook case of emotional blackmail.

It means that your partner is constantly turning your emotions around on you and making you choose between one thing or the other. Usually, it involves having you choose between them and something else you want to do.

We can't force you to leave a relationship that you've been committed to for several years. But, we can tell you how to handle emotional blackmail in a relationship.

Be honest with yourself

The first thing you need to do is to take a long hard look at the situation and try to determine what’s happening. Are you making excuses for the individual or are you actually in a relationship of emotional blackmail? If they keep making it seem like things are your fault and you have to be sorry all the time, the chances are that you’re being emotionally blackmailed.

READ MORE: https://newsbreakersonline.com/how-to-cope-with-emotional-blackmail-in-a-relationship/

Depression is a mental illness that robs us of our ability to experience the beauty and joys of the world. It makes us sadder and sadder over time until we can hardly remember the times when we were truly happy. If it happens to your child, you need to help your child through depression. 

This is because it could last a lifetime, and the longer it lasts, the worse it becomes. But you can’t exactly help your child through depression without taking any reasonable steps in that direction. So, here’s how to help pull your kid out of depression, or at least support them through it.

Get them help from a professional

No matter how much you want to help them, there’s little you can do unless you’re a professional. So, get your child help from a professional psychologist/therapist/psychiatrist. They’ll be in the best position to diagnose the situation and take a step by step process to solving the problem.

READ MORE: https://newsbreakersonline.com/how-to-help-your-child-through-depression/

In every office, there’s always that one person that’s hyperproductive. They’re hell-bent on getting things done, and they’ll never really let anything distract them from their primary goal. These kinds of people will spend several hours working and reporting. While their bosses usually love them, the truth is that a person like this is a workaholic.

It might equal more productivity, but ultimately, being a workaholic is bad for your health socially and physically. So, how do you stop being such a workaholic?

Set a strict schedule for yourself

You can’t aim to stop working when you shouldn’t be if there’s no schedule in the first place. Whatever schedule you set is what will distinguish your working hours from your resting hours. So, create one for yourself and make a conscious effort to stick to it. That’s basically the major way you’re going to stop being a workaholic.

READ MORE: https://newsbreakersonline.com/how-to-stop-being-such-a-workaholic/

Being a self-employed person is a great way to make money. It allows you to work for different clients at different points in time. What’s more is that you can choose how much money you want each client to pay you. If you’re confident in your skills and you’re truly valuable, this means that you can make a whole lot of money.

But, if you’re working from home as a self-employed person, there are certain things you’ll have to deal with. More often than not, some customers will make certain decisions and numerous demands that just wouldn’t sit right with you. During those times, you have to be very firm about certain things. The list is extensive, and it is largely dependent on your field. But, here are three major things you just have to be firm about if you want to add structure to your business:

Be firm about your pay

Please, don’t confuse firmness with being too rigid. Being too rigid can put you at a disadvantage in more ways than one. For starters, you’ll not be able to get any more than a specific set of clients. Alongside that, you’ll limit the amount of money you can make. So, no, you shouldn’t be rigid. You should be as flexible as is reasonable and even try negotiating.

But, and this is where it gets serious, set a bar for yourself. If you normally charge a thousand and you decide you won’t go less than eight hundred, be firm. If you continue making compromises, you’ll continue putting yourself at an earning disadvantage. Eventually, it will become hard to even increase your price because the customer will think you’re just being unreasonable and trying to cheat them. So, set a payment standard for yourself and don't go below that too easily.

READ MORE: https://newsbreakersonline.com/how-to-add-more-structure-to-your-business-as-a-self-employed-person/

Next to eggplants and peaches, the cucumber is one food that has many innuendos attached to it. But, what if we told you cucumbers much more uses and advantages besides being the subject of jokes in a conversation? Mind-blowing, isn’t it?

On a more serious note now. Cucumbers are foods that are packed with nutrients and water. Ordinarily, some people think that it’s a vegetable. But, science proves otherwise. 

Nevertheless, beyond eating it as a snack, adding this fruit to your daily meals is a great way to boost your health. From its antioxidants to the significant amount of water it has stored within its fibres, this fruit has much to offer your body. So, what are the health benefits of eating cucumbers?

It promotes hydration

Right next to watermelons, it is virtually impossible for us to talk about cucumbers without mentioning the sheer amount of water it has stored inside. Did you even know that if you cut up this fruit and lay the cut side on a surface, it will drip water from the cut to form a small puddle? That’s a testament to the amount of water in this plant. With that much water present in it, eating cucumbers helps to improve your hydration levels.

READ MORE: https://newsbreakersonline.com/health-benefits-of-eating-cucumbers/

If you’re an introvert in Nigeria, it can be a bit hard to come up with date ideas. This is primarily because you don’t go out, and you hardly have any exposure regarding where the best spots are. Don’t worry too much about it, though. Even the most extroverted people don’t always know where to go because there’s a (financial) limit to how much they can explore at a time. 

Thankfully, just because you can’t think of any good date ideas doesn’t mean that they don’t exist. That’s why we’ve compiled this list for you. It’s not very long, but it’ll definitely help you decide what to do with your free weekend with bae.

See a 3D movie

Most of the time, when you go to the cinema, you’ll enjoy the (overpriced) popcorn, the (freezing) AC, and a huge screen to watch your movies on. The average guy rarely gives himself the extra treatment of seeing the movie in 3D, and that’s a whole different experience. So, you can both pick out a movie you would like to see together and then watch it in 3D. It'll blow you away!

READ MORE: https://newsbreakersonline.com/interesting-date-ideas-for-every-nigerian-couple/

It took several months of staying at home and pleading with ASUU. However, now, we can look back at those times and feel proud of how far we’ve come along. Now that all that is over, you still need to deal with the challenges that come with school, such as going broke as an undergrad. 

From your handouts to your textbooks and assignments, there are a lot of things that consume your money. Even if you're taking online classes, you still need to be wary of data costs, among other things. The worst thing you can do to yourself is to set yourself on the path to going broke as an undergrad by indulging in multiple unnecessary activities. So, how can you avoid going broke as an undergrad? Let’s find out.

Get a job

It can be hard to juggle school with a job. But, depending on how badly you need to avoid going broke as an undergrad, you need to get one. The best part is that the internet is chock full of job opportunities. As long as you have a valuable skill, you can even get a remote job, which is significantly easier to maintain than a physical one.

READ MORE: https://newsbreakersonline.com/how-to-avoid-going-broke-as-an-undergrad/

Let’s take a quick walk down memory lane, shall we? Think back to your younger days, before you started getting worried about how you can look younger. 

Do you remember how you really wanted to grow a few strands of facial hair just to look more mature? Do you remember that you once wanted to grow huge muscles just to look older and bigger? If so, think about yourself now. Do you have the same wishes?

Like most other men, you probably don’t. Right after secondary school, life shows you that there’s more to worry about than looking older and that you’ll get older eventually. Now, you seem to be aging at the speed of light, and you just need to look younger again. Not to worry, though. If you’re trying to look younger, we’ve got you covered.

Exercise regularly

Apart from the health benefits of exercise, this simple activity shaves a few years off your life. If you can exercise your way past your belly and your flabby arms, your skin will tighten up. This will significantly reduce the wrinkles on your body, and you’ll look much younger in no time.

READ MORE: https://newsbreakersonline.com/how-to-look-younger-on-a-budget/

More often than not, people confuse the act of setting goals with making resolutions. We’ll admit that they’re a bit similar considering that they both involve things that you intend to do in a year. However, the truth is that setting goals is a much more practical way to get to the destination you’re interested in getting in. That’s why we’ll be looking at the proper way to set goals for yourself.

Having read the topic, your mind is probably racing with questions as to what the proper way to set goals for yourself is. To answer that, we’ll say that it involves a series of actionable steps and processes. Don’t worry, though. The proper way to set goals for yourself isn’t particularly long, and it is something you can get done in as little time as possible. Here’s how you do it:

1. Set SMART goals

As you can probably tell from the use of uppercase letters, SMART is an acronym. It stands for specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. This is everything that your goals should be. Otherwise, the chances are that you might be wasting your precious time.

2. Write it down

Someone once said that those who write down their goals instantly place themselves ahead of the 97% of the population. This is clearly dependent on different factors, but the truth remains that if you set goals for yourself and write them down, you’ll be setting yourself up for success. Why? Because you’ll be constantly reminded of these goals such that you’ll always work hard to achieve them regardless of the circumstances.

READ MORE: https://newsbreakersonline.com/how-to-set-goals-for-yourself-properly/