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BREAKING: NYSC To Introduce Biometric Thumbprint For CDS Meetings

BREAKING: NYSC To Introduce Biometric Thumbprint For CDS Meetings

Be informed that the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has concluded plans to be using Biometric system during Community Development Service (CDS) meetings.
This was revealed by an NYSC official in Lagos State.
According to the official, the new system is to combate 'ghost corpers'.
The biometric thumb printing will be done every week during CDS meeting. The NYSC ID card will be needed for thumb print, and failure to thumbprint for up to two times in a month is an automatic knock-out for monthly clearance.

Four Habits That May Be Affecting Your Brain Health

Four Habits That May Be Affecting Your Brain Health

A number of everyday habits ranging from skipping a morning work to those numerous bedtime snacks can have a serious impact on your brain health. Here are the common habits that may be speeding the decline of your brain health.

You Drink Too Much

As far as your brain is concerned, there’s a big difference between enjoying a glass of wine with dinner and consuming a lot of bottles. A study conducted in 2012 at Rutgers University used rats to model “moderate to heavy drinking” defined as a blood alcohol level of 0.08 percent.
The production of nerve cells in the brain’s hippocampus (the region involved in certain types of learning) of the drunk rodents dropped by almost 40 percent. In the long term this type of behavior could have an adverse effect on learning and memory.

Failing To Care For Your Heart

Heart health is directly connected to brain health. You usually know what’s good for your heart is good for your brain. If your heart is stressed and strained and your brain is not getting proper blood flow, it’s going to age more rapidly.
A 2017 study in JAMA Neurology found that middle-aged individuals with vascular risk factors such as hypertension or diabetes were more likely to develop dementia as they got older.

Failing To Walk

Normal aging brings brain changes that slow cognitive function as some brain regions shrink, communication between neurons may decrease, blood flow in the brain may lessen, and inflammation could increase.
However, certain daily habits may accelerate this brain aging—and there is something you can do about that. Physical activity, managing the risk factors for cardiovascular disease (i.e., high blood pressure, diabetes, smoking), getting sufficient sleep, are all good for other health reasons and may be helpful for the brain.
Additional practices such as staying socially active, treating depression, and avoiding excessive alcohol consumption may also be beneficial for your brain health.

Failing To Protect Your Ears

Hearing loss is linked to dementia. A 2011 study by Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the National Institute on Aging found that senior citizens with hearing loss were “significantly more likely to develop dementia.”
It’s possible that the strain of struggling to hear could overburden the brain or that hearing loss could lead to social isolation, which is an acknowledged risk factor for dementia. Protect your hearing as best as you can.

FG to announce figure of minimum wage, as Tripartite Committee completes assignment

FG to announce figure of minimum wage, as Tripartite Committee completes assignment

Ayuba Wabba, Nigerian Labour Congress(NLC) President, has said the Federal Government will soon announce the new minimum wage as the Tripartite Committee completes its assignment for onward submission to President Muhammadu Buhari.
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Trade Union Congress (TUC) and the United Labour Congress (ULC), had on Sept. 26th, embarked on a warning strike on a new minimum wage after a ,meeting with FG ended in  a deadlock but suspended the strike on Sept., 30th.
Speaking with Journalists in Abuja on Monday, though refused to make know the figure arrived at by the Tripartite Committee on the new National Minimum Wage, he however assured workers that all has been concluded as regards the signing .

“I want to assure workers that all has been concluded and will be passed for signing within the week.

“I also want to appreciate the Organised Private Sector, Manufacturers Association of Nigeria and Nigeria Employers Consultative Association (NECA) for their l to pay the new minimum wage when it is signed into law.”"

My Son Mikel Hasn't Called Me In 5-years, Kidnappers Think He Sends Me Millions - Dad Opens Up

Pa Michael and son, Mikel
While speaking in an exclusive interview with DailyTrust, 74-year-old Chief Michael Obi, the father of Super Eagles Captain, John Mikel Obi, who recently regained freedom from kidnappers for the second time, shared his terrifying 5-day experience, and reasons why Mikel rarely comes home.
Here are excerpts from the chat;

You recently regained your freedom from kidnappers. Can you share your experience?

I was travelling home for a family meeting, early evening, in Enugu. I’d just reminded my driver to stop at the Ninth Mile to buy Okpa in case I fall asleep. Not quite long after a checkpoint, we heard gunshots ahead of us, so we stopped. My driver reckoned it was armed robbers, and tried to reverse the car.
But another car from nowhere blocked us from behind, and the people within came and dragged us out. The kidnappers were six, well-armed and masked. They assaulted us, and dragged us into the bush. We walked for many hours, and when I complained that I could not continue, they beat me again. Eventually, they told my driver to carry me on his back. But after a while, he also got tired and dropped me.
We walked into the bush for what seemed like the whole night, until the next morning. I asked them what they wanted from me, and that was when they told me they wanted N100 million. We communicated in Hausa, and some broken English. I told them I could not afford it, and they said they heard that my son sends me N50 million to me bi-weekly. We started to negotiate, and they threatened to kill me. I told them I only had N2 million in my bank account.
When I noticed they were serious, I told them I could give them N5 million. We agreed on that sum, but they later refused, insisting on N50 million. I finally pegged it at N10 million.
Two days later, they brought out my phone to call my son Tony, and I told him what was happening, and asked him to go to my bank. But when they went there, the manager was not on seat, so my other son, Ebele, who is the goalkeeper for Heartlands of Owerri, contacted Mikel. That was how the ransom was made available.

How did they treat you when you were with them?

We slept on the ground, and for the five days we were with them, there was heavy rain for three. It drenched us under a tree. It was only once that they brought us Okpa and pure water. Miraculously, I was never hungry. My thoughts were on how to get home safe.

Your son Mikel paid the recent ransom. What’s your relationship like?

It is an issue, but we don’t know what to do. It’s over five years now without a phone call from him to me. But he communicates with his mother. There is nothing I have not done to fix it. God has told me that I should not feel hurt. When we start to talk about it, I say, ‘Well, as long as I see him on TV, doing great, no problem’.
But some people say he called you recently
During the just-concluded World Cup, one or two days to one of their matches, we spoke. He called his mum, and she told me that Nchekwube (Mikel) was on the phone and I told him that God will see him through. I prayed for him. That’sit.
When he first joined Chelsea, my people in Anambra were very happy that God has blessed their son, and when he came to Abuja, they prepared very well with the hope that he will come to our hometown. They even made some magazines. It was grand. But he didn’t come. It was a shameful thing to me, as a father. He once told his brother that sometimes he picks his phone to call me, but something tells him not to.

Have you met your grandchildren, the twins, yet?

Sometime last year, he was to bring them so that I could name them, he said he would. But he didn’t. His other colleagues frequent home, so I don’t understand.

Do you encourage him to invest at home?

Isn’t that why kidnappers are targeting me? Because they think the money he makes, he ships it to me to make investments.