A new study has revealed that women who smoke cigarettes may be at higher risk of developing menstrual pain. Compared to non-smokers, smokers in the study were more likely to suffer from severe menstrual pain and to experience a worsening of pain as the number of cigarettes they smoked per day increased. Exactly how smoking…
How Genes Affect Sleep Patterns
How much sleep you get each night may depend, to some extent, on your genes, a new study suggests. Scientists believe several aspects of sleep, including when and how long people sleep, are inherited to some extent. The findings suggest that certain genetic variations make a difference of a few minutes’ sleep a night. But…
CENCOD Holds Democracy Lecture
The 12th annual democracy lecture was held today at the Lagos Airport hotel Ikeja, Lagos. The lecture which had the title, “Democratization of Africa: Progress or Erosion,” looked into successive democratic governments in Nigeria from the beginning of the current dispensation in 1999. Gabrielle Lynch, lecturer in the department of politics and international studies, University…
Two Men Arrested over Death of Honduran Beauty Queen
The missing Honduran beauty queen and her sister were found dead on Wednesday, November 19, police said. The sister’s boyfriend and another man have been arrested in connection with the murder. The bodies of María José Alvarado Muñoz, the reigning Miss World Honduras, and her sister, Sofia Trinidad Alvarado, were found buried in a shallow…
Drama As Nigerian Celebrities Mark Halloween
Halloween has been known over the years as a day filled with candy, costumes and scary stories for many American children. Evolving from the ancient Celtic holiday of Samhain, modern Halloween has become less about literal ghosts and ghouls and more about costumes and candy. The Celts used the day to mark the end of…
First Heart Surgery on Foetus Performed in India
Doctors at a hospital in the southern city of Hyderabad have reportedly performed a heart surgery on a foetus in a 25-year-old woman’s womb. Nageswara Rao, the cardiac surgeon, said in Hyderabad that in a medical feat, the surgery was the first to be carried out in India. The doctors at Care Hospital said that…
Nigerian Designers Make African Fashion Awards 2014 Nominees List
Five Nigerians have been nominated for the 2014 African Fashion Awards. They include Omoyemi Akerele of Style House Files, Lisa Folawiyo of eponymous fashion label, Amaka Osakwe of Maki Oh, Favour Lucky & Imade Ogbewi both models from Isis Modelling Agency. It’s not just a Nigerian affair though as designers from South Africa, Ghana, Kenya and…
Kelly Lee Dekay, the Woman with a 16-inch Waist
It’s no stretch to say that Kelly Lee Dekay, a model went to extreme lengths to get an astonishing waist line. Continued use of a corset for seven years and extreme dieting slimmed Dekay’s waist down to a tiny 16 inches. That’s just one inch shy of Cathie Jung, who holds the current Guinness world…
Baring It All On Wedding Day
From time past, it has been a known fact that brides who wear white wedding gowns often go for conservative, virginal designs. But recent developments in the world of fashion are beginning to question this notion. Nowadays, things have changed and brides have come up with different creative designs just to stand out on their…
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