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Millions of people are familiar with it - snoring. The number one annoyance in the bedroom at night. About one in two men and one in four women of middle age or older snores in their sleep. Previously dismissed as just an annoying disturbance of the peace, snoring is now recognized as a serious sleep and health disorder. These nightly lapses in sleep can even be life-threatening! Now there's a revolutionary helper that immediately improves nasal breathing and can thereby prevent snoring. Let's start from the beginning. When snoring, loud breathing noises occur in the upper airways during sleep. A full 70 decibels — as loud as a passing truck. That's the sound many people fall asleep to. The causes of snoring are based on anatomical bottlenecks such as swollen tonsils, polyps, a curved nasal septum, or an excessively long uvula. Men over 50 years old, especially, snore. As many as 60 to 80 percent in this age group are affected. What are we talking about? It i...

A teenage girl (name withheld) at Aboru high school, Iyana Ipaja area of Lagos, allegedly killed a security guard who tried to rape her on Saturday. Bala Elkana, the Lagos police spokesperson said on Sunday that Babatunde Ishola, the 49-year-old security guard was stabbed to death by the 16-year-old girl at his residence at Ogundele street, Aboru. The young girl is a SS3 student of Aboru high school and resides on Olalemide Street, Aboru. According to a police statement, the teenager went to the house of the deceased on Saturday “to help him fetch water as he was living alone”. The late Ishola was a friend to the suspect’s father and she had always been helping him with house chores. Elkana said “while she was helping out with the water, on 7/3/2020, he attempted raping her and she picked a knife from the room and stabbed him.” When the Oke Odo Police Station received the report, the corpse of the man was found lying in his pool of blood, the police said. “The corps...

Twitter has used a new policy to identify misleading content for the first time on a post retweeted by US President Donald Trump that appeared to show Democratic Party rival Joe Biden endorsing his re-election. The social media platform has struggled with removing deceptive and abusive content in the past, but has also faced accusations its curbs have suppressed some political views. Last week it announced moderators would begin flagging media that had been “deceptively altered or manipulated,” the same day it announced an expansion of a ban on hate speech. A clip posted by White House social media director Dan Scavino appeared to show Biden telling a crowd: “We can only re-elect Donald Trump.” The footage was later retweeted by Trump and had been viewed nearly six million times by Monday. But the video cropped the end of Biden’s sentence — made during a recent campaign speech Missouri state — where he was discussing the need for party unity in the wake of a bruising pri...

Brazilian football legend Ronaldinho did not deliberately use a fake passport and should be released by authorities in Paraguay, his lawyer said. The two-time world player of the year and his brother Roberto, who was detained with him, spent their third night behind bars in the capital Asuncion on Sunday after using forged travel documents to enter the country. Their Brazilian lawyer Sergio Queiroz said he would ask for the pair to be released and allowed to return to their home country when they next appear before a judge on Monday. “Ronaldinho did not commit a crime because he did not know that the passport they gave him was faked,” he said. Queiroz said that prosecutors had agreed that the footballer had acted in good faith and the decision by a judge to order their detention was unwarranted. Ronaldinho, considered one of the greatest footballers of all time, was the star of Brazil’s 2002 World Cup win and played for Paris Saint-Germain, AC Milan and Barcelona, among...

Two men appeared in Magistrates’ Court in Ikorodu, on Friday for allegedly beating up a police officer while performing his lawful duty. The police charged Ukuagbu Kenelta, 31, and Chukwubuiko Ukewgbu, 25, with four counts of conspiracy, felony to wit malicious damage, assault and conduct likely to cause breach of peace. The defendants pleaded not guilty to the charges. The prosecution counsel, Sgt. Mary Ajiteru, told the court that the defendants committed the offence on Feb. 25, at about 5 p.m. in Ipakodo police station, Sekunmade road, Ebute area of Ikorodu. Ajiteru alleged that the defendants beat up ASP Ameachi George, attached to the Ipakodo police station. She said the defendants willfully and unlawfully damaged one plastic table worth N3,000, property of the Nigeria Police Force Ipakodo division. The prosecutor added that the defendants also conducted themselves in a manner likely to cause breach of peace by shouting violently, creating fear in people. Ajite...

The Police in Lagos have arrested three suspects alleged to have been responsible for the removal of a human skull from a cemetery for ritual purposes. A statement issued by DSP Bala Elkana, the Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO) in Lagos State on Sunday, said policemen from Area ‘E’ Command, Festac arrested the suspects. Elkana named them as: Dauda Tijani, 42; of No. 23, Omomwunmi St., Orege Ajegunle; Olawale Shodolamu, 70; a herbalist and Seun Falana, 37; a staff member of Trinity Cemetery in Ajegunle. He said that Tijani was intercepted at Alakija Bus stop along the Lagos-Badagry Expressway by the police, who found on him a black polythene bag containing a human skull. “The suspect confessed that he was sent by the herbalist, Shodolamu, to collect the skull from a cemetery’s attendant. “The herbalist claimed that he bought the human skull from Falana at the sum of N10, 000 only. “The suspected herbalist usually grinds the human skull together with other substan...

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control says 23 suspected cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19) have been identified in Edo, Lagos, Ogun, FCT and Kano states, out of which one was confirmed positive “index case” with no death. NCDC Director-General, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, disclosed this while speaking with newsmen on Sunday in Abuja, adding that as of March 7, there was no new confirmed case of COVID-19 in the country. NAN reports that this was the eighth national situation report, following the confirmation of the first case of COVID-19 disease in the country on February 27, 2020. Ihekweazu said a total of 219 contacts were identified, including contacts from hotel, workplace and healthcare workers. “No new contacts have been reported in Lagos and Ogun states,” he stressed. He said the confirmed case was clinically stable at the designated treatment facility for COVID-19 at the Infectious Disease Hospital, Yaba, Lagos. He reiterated that a multi-sectoral national Emergency Op...

The management of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko (AAUA) has issued a two-week break following the death of two students of the institution. A 200-level student, Temitope Patience, died of Lassa fever on Thursday while Olakunle Matthew of the department of Biochemistry was shot dead by suspected cultists on Friday. According to the Acting Registrar of the institution, Opeoluwa Akinfemiwa, the loss of the two students dealt a heavy blow on the school management. In the condolence statement sent to PREMIUM TIMES on Sunday, the registrar narrated events that led to the demise of the two students. “On admission of Miss Temitope Patience AYEDUN, a 200 Level of the Department of Educational Management, at the University Health Centre, the Medical Personnel tried their best to manage her until she was referred to the Federal Medical Centre, Owo where she was intensively managed before she died on Thursday, 5th March, 2020.” “The news of the death of Mr. Olakunle Matthe...

The Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) has said it will ensure that justice is done to all parties concerned following an alleged assault on a commercial bus conductor by one of the LASTMA officers at Maryland on Saturday . The General Manager of LASTMA, Mr Olajide Oduyoye, in a statement issued by the authority’s Public Relations Officer, Mr Olumide Filade, gave the assurance on Sunday while reacting to the trending video of the alleged assault. The video showed a LASTMA official allegedly assaulting a commercial bus conductor after he had been apprehended. The statement said, “The attention of the management of the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority (LASTMA) has been drawn to a video trending online of a LASTMA officer having an altercation with a commercial bus conductor at Maryland, Lagos on Saturday, 7th March, 2020. “The rules of engagement for the agency officials in relating with the members of the public does not include being physical with traff...