BY ADEBAYO ADEMUWAGUN: HOW DID NIGERIANS START SAYING ''UP NEPA!!''? | WE INVESTIGATE

Children often scream “Up NEPA!” when electricity supply is restored in their neighbourhood. This is quite prevalent in Lagos and other places in Nigeria.

“We used to scream like that too when I was a kid,” says John Ogbu, a young man. “So now that I observe kids doing the same thing today, I just wonder if things have always been this way.”

25 BEST SNACKS FOR WEIGHT LOSS

1) Hard-boiled eggs with sriracha sauce To improve thyroid function—the gland manages growth and metabolism—look no further than a low-calorie, low-fat hard-boiled egg, suggests registered dietitian Amy Shapiro. If you like spice, drizzle your snack with sriracha sauce. “It contains capsaicin, a compound found in chile peppers that helps burn calories and fat,” says Karen Ansel M.S., coauthor of The Calendar Diet

11 WAYS TO BOOST YOUR ENDORPHINS

1) Chocolate. Unwrap, enjoy, and repeat, because cocoa contains mood-boosting substances such as phenethylamine, an organic compound that gives your body an endorphin boost, and theobromine, a chemical that suppresses pain so you can feel more pleasure, according to somestudies.

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BRITISH ROCK SINGER AND MUM-OF-TWO IN SYRIA FIGHTING FOR ISLAMIC STATE

This is the face of a British mother who has fled her home country to fight for Islamic State in Syria.

Mum-of-two Sally Jones is thought to be a former rock singer in her 40s from Chatham, Kent, who was once the lead guitarist in a 1990s girl band.

But she now lives in the Syrian town of Raqqa- using the name Umm Hussain al-Britani or Sakinah Hussain - after converting to Islam, and taking up IS' fanatical views.

BLACK MUM GIVES BIRTH TO WHITE BABY

When the midwife presented Catherine Howarth with her new baby, she was convinced she’d been given the wrong child.

The little boy was completely white – whereas new mum Catherine has the dark black skin of her Nigerian heritage.

For even though baby Jonah has a white father, doctors say the chances of him being white too were an incredible one in a million.

MEET THE MAN BORN WITH HIS HEAD UPSIDE-DOWN

A man born with physical disabilities so severe his head is UPSIDE-DOWN has defied the odds to become an inspirational public speaker.

Claudio Vieira de Oliveira, 37, was born with his neck is folded back on itself, as well as badly deformed legs and almost no use of his arms and hands.

GRANDFATHER STABBED TO DEATH IN NOTTING HILL WAS EXECUTED AS HE FLED HIS ATTACKERS

A music promoter was "executed" in a smart London suburb neighbourhood after popping into a bar to chat with a friend, it has emerged.

Detectives are hunting two men after granddad Anthony 'Tony' Charlery was stabbed in the throat on Portobello Road in Notting Hill late on Friday night.

The 59-year-old had briefly been into the Mau Mau bar to greet a friend moments before he was brutally knifed in the throat, leaving him bleeding to death in the street.

BY ODUNAYO AGBENIYI: MY SEPTEMBER WISH

Bring back our girls

Eliminate ebola virus in Africa

Arrest Boko haram and their sponsors

Peace in our land, especially in the north-east Nigeria

Power to be stable in Naigeria

Peace in Gaza/Israel

LUCRATIVE NATURE OF STAND-UP COMEDY IN NIGERIA

Comedy is regarded as one of the best sources of amusement, laughter and joy in the world. Foreign stand-up comedians like Kevin Hart, Jamie Fox, Chris Rock, the late Robin Williams, Jerry Seinfeld, and George Carlin, amongst others, are extremely famous across the world and can be said to be among some of the richest entertainers also. Stand-up comedy has become a source of livelihood for several Nigerians. Even those who are really not that funny have managed to carve a niche for themselves. ADERIBIGBE TOLULOPE, writes.

FEMI KAYODE: A MESSAGE FOR THOSE THAT HATE

I had an interesting experience the other day. After spending a good deal of the morning in an interesting and intellectually stimulating discussion with a very bright and pleasant Irishman about the right of the State of Israel to exist, I spent the afternoon in a heated and acrimonious debate with a very irate and extremist Israeli who believed that: ‘Blacks were slaves of Islam’ ; ‘Arabs are animals’ and that ‘Muslims were evil’.

In the morning, I was defending the Jews and the State of Israel with all the logic, passion, debating skills, historical knowledge, powers of persuasion and sincerity that I could muster and in the afternoon, I found myself vigorously confronting the excesses, religious bigotry, racism and sheer arrogance of a misguided Jew and the malevolent mindset and disposition that virtually, all extremist and right-wing Israelis suffer from.

AIRLINES, HOTELS REVENUES DECLINE ON EBOLA FEARS

Since the outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease in Nigeria on July 20, the revenue of airlines and restaurants in urban areas have continued to fall, OKECHUKWU NNODIM writes

Patronage of restaurants, hotels and airports in the country, particularly in states where the deadly Ebola Virus Disease has been confirmed, has reduced by about 50 per cent.

Airline operators, hoteliers and economists stated that since the virus was imported into Nigeria by the late Liberian-American, Patrick Sawyer, all had not been well with the respective sectors.

SUSPECTS: WE SHOOT TO FRIGHTEN NOT TO KILL

The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a gang of suspected armed robbers for allegedly robbing and snatching cars in different areas of the state.

Our correspondent gathered that the members of the three-man gang were Musibau Ayinde, Isiaka Afolabi and a man, identified simply as Baba Ibeji, who the police said was still at large.

SOURCE learnt that the gang members were arrested by the Special Anti-Robbery Squad on Monday, August 18 in the Ojuelegba area of Lagos,

ASSASSINS KILL UNILAG SECURITY CHIEF AT BEER PARLOUR

Suspected assassins have killed the Head of Operations, Security Unit, University of Lagos, Mr. Sunday Adejumo.

The 50-year-old was shot dead at a beer parlour on Oyenuga Street in the Akoka area of Lagos on Friday evening.

Our correspondent learnt that Adejumo on the fateful night was in the joint with three of his friends when some strange faces stormed the pub.

THOUSANDS FLEE TO CAMEROON AS BOKO HARAM CONSCRIPTS YOUTHS TO FIGHT NIGERIA

Following sustained Boko Haram attacks in the North-Eastern part of the country, thousands of Nigerians have been forced to flee their homes, swamping towns in the north of neighbouring Cameroon, authorities said yesterday. This came as Boko Haram terrorists, for three days, laid siege to Gamboru town, forcefully conscripting youths to fight both the Nigerian and Cameroonian troops. They were said to have killed those who resisted them.

DOG MEAT KILLS FIVE IN CROSS RIVER

FIVE  persons, a man and two of his children and two others were confirmed dead on Friday  in the village of Uchenyim , Wanikade, North Ukelle in northern Cross River State after eating the meat of a dog.

Reports from the area said the dog was fond of eating the eggs laid by native chicken in the Odareko-Uchenyim village and one of the villagers allegedly laced the eggs laid by his chicken with gamalin 20 insecticide 

WHY SETTLE FOR MR RIGHT WHEN YOU CAN HAVE MR. RICH?

There comes a time in a woman’s life when she has to decide who to settle with and make a go for him. Laila had once briefly engaged to her childhood sweetheart who took off with one of her close friends. Now approaching 30, she’s been involved with Joseph, a photographer who runs his own studio.  “He specialises in society events and sells photographs to most of these society magazines”, explained Laila.  “She’d taken so much time and money setting up his business that he didn’t give marriage a thought until he was convinced he could look after a prospective family.

MAN'S WICKEDNESS: EBOLA FROM LAGOS TO RIVERS S

When HIV/AIDS  was discovered in the US in the early 1980s, nobody believed it would reach a point that Africa would become the epicentre .The whites that were infected accepted their fate and ensured that they lived positively,informing anybody they were to have sexual contacts with about their health status, and ensuring that condoms were used correctly.