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                        The Diabetes Association of Thailand has come up with a campaign created to show how much sugar can cause gaping wounds and decomposition of body tissues.The images show how eating too much sugar can harm the body by showing gaping wounds made out of sweets.The images were released to stop people from eating too many treats,which can trigger diabetes.Pictures courtesy:Diabetes Association of Thailand.More photos below.                                                                   

               According to sources,Batch A members of the National Youth Service Corps {NYSC},who passed out yesterday,trooped to the streets of Yenagoa Bayelsa State,to protest the state's government inability to pay their transport allowances.It was gathered that the corps members took their grievances to the Government House after receiving their discharge certificates.But the Commissioner for Information and Orientation,Mr Jonathan Obuebite,reportedly addressed the protesters.Obuebite said the government was zealous at promoting the interests of corps members in the state.He said their allowances would be paid in full adding that the money had been approved by the government.Also addressing the protesters,the Zonal Inspector,Ajike O.E assured them that their money would be given to them in cash by today at the zonal office Ynagoa.But of the corp members,Alfred Ivanson who served in Brass Local Government Area said he could not travel to reuni...

                                                            Musician Taylor Swift graced the cover of Vogue magazine,May 2016 issue but like seriously,she looked unrecognizable on this covers.She captioned all the Vogue pictures ''This my favorite cover i've ever gotten to be a part of.Thank you Vogue and Mert Alas and Marcus Pigott!''.You like?.More photos below.                                                                                                                            

                  The Gover,who spoke at the First Quarter 2016 Town Hall Meeting today,the third in the series,held at the Ikorodu Town Hall,Ikorodu,assured residents that once the MoU is signed,worrk would begin on the 4th Mainland Bridge,which according to him,would go a long way to boost the economy of Lagos East Senatorial District.He said ''Many investors have shown interest in the actualization of our dream for the 4th Mainland Bridge which will run from Ajah to Ikorodu to Isawo and berth at Ojodu,Ikeja back to the Ibadan expressway.By the grace of God,we will sign an MoU and commence action before May 29''.He said investors have equally shown interest in the redevelopment of the fish market to an international Fish Market and the redevelopment of inner roads in Epe and Ibeji-Lekki.Governor Ambode said the intention of his administration is to ensure that no part of the state is left undeveloped,expressing optimism that the Lagos East ...

                Today makes it two years exactly when the missing Chibok school girls were adopted from their school in Borno,by members of the Boko Haram Islamist terrorist group.A new video that surfaced yesterday,showed some of the girls not all,looking matured {all grown up} and some of their parents have identified them as their children,raising hopes and global calls for efforts to find them.A video obtained by the U.S network CNN was shown to three mothers of the girls.About 15 featured in the new video,saying they were from the Government Girls Secondary School in Chibok and pleading with the Nigerian government to cooperate with Boko Haram on their release.The girls said they were being treated well but wanted to go home and be with their families.Rifkatu Ayuba and Mary Ishaya said they recognized their daughters,Saratu and Hauwa,in the video,while a third mother,Yana Galang,identified five of the missing girls.A CNN spokesman said the ne...

                Today thursday Gover of Lagos state Akinwunmi Ambode,held his third Town Hall meeting at Ikorodu Town Hall Agog,where important matters will be discussed and is an opportunity for Lagos citizens to meet and discuss with him one on one.The Governor also said on tuesday that the Ajasa Command Road in Agbado Oke-Odo Local Council Development Area {LCDA} area of the State would be completed in the next five weeks,just as he assured that the Abesan Estate link road connecting Aboru from Agbelekale would equally be completed before the end of the year.Governor Ambode,who gave the assurance while on an unscheduled inspection tour of on-going projects around the axis,said the dual carriage Ajasa Command Road would be completed with functional street lights,drainage system,walkways and road median.Addressing multitude of residents who gathered to receive him at Command axis of the road,Governor Ambode said the transformation of the road,whi...

                      Twenty police officers of various ranks have been sanctioned for misconduct between November 2015 and March 2016.CSP Abayomi Shogunle,the officer in charge of the police Complaint Response Unit {CRU} disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria {NAN} in Abuja yesterday wednesday.Shogunle explained that the sanction followed complaints received from members of the public during the period under review.''In the report we released in the first 100 days an up till now,about 20 officers of different ranks have been sanctioned across the country.They have gone through the various disciplinary procedures in the force and it will be counterproductive if i start mentioning the names of such officers''.Shogunle said between January and March,the unit received and processed 1,054 complaints from across the 36 states and FCT.Giving the breakdown,Shogunle stated that Lagos state tops the complaint chart wi...