WARNING: ENERGY DRINKS ARE DANGEROUS TO YOUR HEALTH!

A study last year showed that energy drinks can change heart rhythms. A team of researchers at the University of Bonn in Germany scanned the hearts of 17 people an hour after they’d consumed an energy drink. They found the left ventricle of the heart, which pumps blood around the body, was contracting harder after the drink. Frane’s public health agency has said young people who drink energy drinks are at risk of sleep disorders, daytime drowsiness and developing addiction to other substances.

MYSTERY OF THE WAIST BEADS AND MODERN SEXUALITY

Bebedi! Owanbe! Bebedi! Owanbe! This is a short question and answer chorus sang by little children while at play. The objective of the song is to find out who, in the group, has the biggest and most beautiful backside. waist beadsSo, as each of the young girls step out to the middle of the circle, the leader of the game asks, Bebedi, and the others answer in the chorus, Owanmbe. The girl in the middle then shakes her backside, now called twerking, for the others to judge. Naturally, the one judged most endowed of the group wins the game. Such is the importance attached to the female bum, especially in the African continent.

HELP! MY BROTHER IS BETRAYING HIS BEST FRIEND

My elder brother is currently having an affair with his best friend’s girlfriend, who is also a close friend. My brother confided in me and I don’t want to confront her about it. She would get angry with my brother for telling me what they did if she knew, and I’d feel bad about spoiling the friendship between them.

HOW POLICE KILL 2 HERDSMEN OVER N50

ADAMAWA State would have witnessed another crisis on Friday but for the quick intervention of the Adamawa State Police Command, which quickly arrested two Police officers over alleged murder of two Fulani youths in Toungo Local Government Area of the state. The two policemen allegedly shot their victims over an argument on N50 bribe in front of the local government headquarters at 5p.m.

LAGOS ACCUSES JONATHAN OF RUNNING GOVT WITHOUT ANY LEGACY

Lagos State Government yesterday said President Goodluck Jonathan and his vice; Namadi Sambo has ruled the country for four years without any legacy to show, even as it accused Sambo of lacking in facts on the economic viability of the state.

HOW CAMEROON BOMBS BOKO HARAM AND KILLS 41

Nigeria’s neighbour, Cameroon, has launched air strikes against Boko Haram terrorists for the first time, killing no fewer than 41 Islamist militants after the large force of jihadists crossed the border and seized a military camp at Ashigashiya, the government said. Cameroon’s Minister of Information, Issa Tchiroma in a statement in Yaounde, yesterday, said the coordinated assaults on five towns and villages showed a change in tactics by

MY WATCH AND OBASANJO EXCEPTIONALISM

Olusegun Obasanjo is one of the most influential Nigerians alive or dead. As a soldier, dictator, national leader and a permanent actor in our political process, Obasanjo is an important part of Nigeria’s post-independence historical trajectory. His role through it all has been quite dramatic, often akin to a fiction more than reality. Within his constituency of sycophants, he was once touted as the “founder” of modern Nigeria, especially during the orchestrated campaign for his self-succession in 2007.

POPLICE ACCUSE 22-YR-OLD VARSITY DROPOUT OF KILLING FATHER

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested 22-year-old Oluwaropo Tifase, for allegedly killing his father, Moses Tifase, in the Mile 2 area of the state. Source learnt that Oluwaropo, who is the fifth child and only son of the family, had had clashes with his parents in the past over financial issues. According to the police, Oluwaropo, a suspected cultist, was rusticated from a university in Ondo State, a few years ago for some cult-related offences.

MECHANIC STABS MAN FOR PINGING WHILE DRIVING

A mechanic, Olajide Olaniran, has stabbed a 34-year-old man, Julius Joseph, for allegedly pinging on the road while driving in the Ijaiye area of Lagos State. Source gathered that Joseph was returning from a bank in the area to withdraw money when Olaniran, who was in a Toyota Corolla, blocked the road and accused him of pinging and driving. It was, however, learnt that Joseph was checking an alert he received on his phone when the incident occured.

GLASGOW EBOLA PATIENT TRANSFERED TO LONDON FOR SPECIALIST TREATMENT

An NHS worker who has been diagnosed with Ebola after returning to Glasgow from Sierra Leone is on the way to specialist facilities in London. The woman, who had been working in Sierra Leone with Save the Children, has been in isolation in hospital in Glasgow since Monday morning and is currently in a stable condition. She flew back to the UK via Casablanca and London Heathrow, arriving at Glasgow Airport at around 11.30pm on Sunday on

BAKASSI: REFUGEE FATHER USES DAUGHTER AS COLLATERAL FOR N600,000 LOAN

Apart from hunger and ill health ravaging the camps of displaced Bakassi indigenes, TEMITAYO FAMUTIMIuncovers the story of a 12-year-old girl whose refugee father has pushed into servitude In the dusty village of Akwa Ikot Eyo Edem, Akpabuyo Local Government Area of Cross River State, Edet Okon sat down in front of St. Mark Primary School. Sitting cross-legged on the concrete floor on one of the blocks of classrooms he now calls his home, the 40-year-old father of three leaned forward to exchange pleasantries with this correspondent.Okon’s immediate family members and 963 other households had fled their ancestral homes in Efut Obot Ikot in the ceded Bakassi Peninsula in March 2013.

FEDERAL GORVERNMENT OWES 70,000 WORKERS THREE-MONTH SALARIES

No fewer than 70,000 civil servants in 30 Ministries, Departments and Agencies of the Federal Government have yet to receive their three months’ salaries. The Secretary-General of the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria, Mr. Alade Lawal, made this known   just as investigations by The source revealed that states like Osun, Oyo, Benue and Plateau are owing their workers between three and four months’ salaries.

MY CERTIFICATES ARE WITH MILITARY, BUHARI TELLS INEC

A former Head of State and the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the 2015 general elections, Maj.Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), has told the Independent National Electoral Commission that his academic qualifications and credentials are with the military. A visit by journalists to the headquarters of the commission on Monday in Abuja revealed that Buhari’s

OBASANJO & BUHARI PLANNING INTERIM GOVT — FG

The Minister of Police Affairs, Jelili Adesiyan, on Monday, said a plot by former President Olusegun Obasanjo and the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) to form an interim government has been uncovered. The minister said this in Lagos at the launch of a book titled, ‘Watch the Watcher,’ written by an activist, Yinka Odumakin, in reaction to Obasanjo’s controversial book, ‘My Watch’.