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 Many people are alone when they suffer a heart attack, without help,the person whose heart is beating improperly and who begins to feel faint, has only about 10 seconds left before losing consciousness. However,these victims can help themselves by coughing repeatedly and very vigorously. A deep breath should be taken before each cough, and the cough must be deep and prolonged, as when producing sputum from deep inside the chest. A breath and a cough must be repeated about every two seconds without let-up until help arrives, or until the heart is felt to be beating normally again. Deep breaths get oxygen into the lungs and coughing movements squeeze the heart and keep the blood circulating. The squeezing pressure on the heart also helps it regain normal rhythm. In this way, heart attack victims can get to a hospital. Tell as many other people as possible about this. It could save their lives!! A cardiologist says If everyone who sees this post shares it to 10 people, you ...

A tanker conductor tries to steal diesel from a oil tanker at a filling station in Delta state, along Asaba Onitsha express way, Nigeria. He lost his life in the process. The tanker Conductor was alleged to have gone inside the tanker with his Jerry cans, but unfortunately suffocated while he got inside the tank, he suffocated and died. It took the intervention of officials of the Delta State Fire Service who cut open a part of the tanker and brought him out from inside the tank.

President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday accused the Obasanjo and Jonathan's administration of wicked manipulations by encouraging corruption in the oil sector. Buhari said he was disappointed at the way Nigeria’s oil industry had been handled since he left office as a former petroleum minister and as a military Head of State in 1985. President Buhari blames the past democratic administrations for the current situation in which Nigeria is forced to spend billions of naira annually on subsidies for petroleum products. He said he was sure that there would not have been any need for the huge subsidies currently being paid to importers if the development of the country’s domestic refining capacity and petroleum products distribution network had kept pace with national demand. “They (past administrations) allowed the infrastructure to collapse so that their cronies can steal by bringing in refined products from overseas.”

President Muhammadu Buhari orders the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission to address public outcry over huge salaries and allowances of members of the National Assembly, the chairman of the commission, Elias Mbam, said on Tuesday that Senators and members of the House of Representatives will now earn less than N1 million by the end of next month. President Buhari chided the Revenue Mobilisation, Allocation and Fiscal Commission FC for approving excessive remunerations for some political office holders, and urged the commission to seek a proper interpretation of its powers and address the public outcry against the unreasonably high payments. President Buhari also warned that severe sanctions will be visited on any individual or organisation that violates the directive on the payment of all national revenue into the Federation Account. President Buhari spoke a week after the details of the federal lawmakers' salaries and allowances were published, a publication...

T he bat’s tongue, at 8.5 centimeters (3.3 inches), is 150 percent the size of its body. The root of the tongue, which is up to twice the length of its other Anoura brethren. It's the longest tongue of any mammal. The bat was found as part of an 18-month-long expedition in Madidi National Park in Bolivia. Since June, scientists have been combing the 7,300 square-mile park for new species.

One million people in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea volunteers to defend North Korea if war breaks out with the South. According to the country’s state media "young people across the Democratic People's Republic of Korea are turning out in the sacred war for defending the country with their faith and will to annihilate the enemies". North Korea has mobilized a large number of submarines and doubled its artillery units along the border. A defense ministry spokesman from the South has said an unprecedented number of submarines, thought to be around 70 percent of the North's total fleet, had left their bases and disappeared from Seoul's military radar. Inter-Korean relations have been strained since the deadly sinking of a South Korean warship in 2010, which Pyongyang denied responsibility for. Tensions sparked up again this month after two South Korean soldiers were wounded by land-mines along the border. The North denied laying the mines but d...

 Maureen Akowe, lost her 4 month old baby to her dog. It was gathered that the baby and the nanny was driven in the mother’s car alongside with the dog to a popular supermarket along Okpanam Road, Asaba, Delta State, Nigeria. The baby's mother left the baby, the nanny and the dog inside the car and went for shopping at the supermarket for the baby’s upkeep. While she was busy shopping, the dog allegedly made straight for the little baby to eat her up while the nanny screamed for help but all to no avail. The shouts by the nanny attracted two security personnel at the supermarket to the car but by the time the security men arrived the scene,  the baby had been bitten severally on the stomach by the dog, leaving the baby in a pool of blood. The baby was taken to a nearby hospital along Nnebisi Road, but it was too late by the time they got to the hospital as the baby, the woman’s first child, had already died. The nanny while speaking with newsmen said, “Madam asked us t...

 The Indian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Ajjampur R. Ghanashyam, has revealed how former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs Diezani Allison Madueke, failed to sign a long-term agreement with his country. He said Diezani prefer to use intermediaries, who collected $14 billion annual deal. He further said that Nigeria was the only country which used intermediaries in its oil deals with India. “From other countries, when we buy oil, whatever we want to pay, we pay to the Ministry of Finance of that country. In Nigeria, we pay to intermediaries. We would like to be dealing directly with the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). It’s not a good thing. Why should we go through intermediaries?

   The Returning Officer for Abia North Senatorial district, Dr. Ihekweaba Chukwugoziem said he refused to sign a fake result presented to him by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. Dr. Ihekweaba made this statement before the National Assembly Tribunal, where he testified as a witness in the petition filed by the candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Chief David Ogba Onuoha-Bourdex against Senator Mao Ohuabunwa of the PDP.  Dr. Ihekweaba  said he refused to declare the result of the election based on the falsified data presented to him. He also said after he had examined the results and discovered huge anomalies, he refused and resisted the continuation of the examination of the remaining three local government areas. “Pressure was brought on me to sign and declare the results as presented with all the manipulations in them, and I refused, insisting that the right thing should be done by concluding the examination of the rest of the local governm...

The presidency has disclosed that an official portfolio was yet to be assigned to be Aisha, the wife of President Muhmmadu Buhari, hinting of a possible scrapping of the First Lady’s office and likely renaming it as Office of the Wife of the President.The Presidency stated this while reacting to allegations in some Nigerian media that the wife of President Muhammadu Buhari has moved into the First Lady’s office in the Aso Villa.According to a statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Mallam Shehu Garba, the presidency described allegation as false, and that there was nothing wrong if Mrs. Buhari makes use of the office space reserved for the First Lady, and that she  had not done so in her capacity. The Presidency aslo stated that the era of the First Ladies issuing oil wells and licenses has gone. “President Buhari promised that there would be a clear difference between the role played by his wife during his tenure and that play...

A tweezer shaped molecule could offer a more effective method for preventing the spread of HIV and hepatitis C through seminal transmission. The molecule, CLR01, has already proven successful in tests and mice and zebrafish. Positive results in early trials has led an international team of scientists at the University of Pennsylvania and Germany’s Ulm University to suggest the molecule could effectively prevent HIV transmission as a vaginal or anal gel. CLR01 has been shown to not only destroy HIV particles but to also block the development of amyloid fibrils polymers in semen. These tenacious fibers, which help make HIV so infectious, are formed when normally soluble proteins assemble to form insoluble fibers resistant to degradation. The team behind the molecule study believes CLR01 will be particularly effective because it can launch this two-pronged attack against HIV. The molecule destroys the HIV virus membrane without impacting other benefitial membranes in the patient’s bo...

 Over 16 members of ISIS are said to have tested positive for the virus after raping two Moroccan women held by the terrorist who had the disease.The infected militants are now being held in quarantine after being diagnosed in al-Mayadeen city in the eastern Syrian province of Deir ez-Zor. The leadership of Islamic state are planning to assign suicide attacks for its militants who are tested positive with AIDS,’ according to reports. Most of those infected are foreign militants. The women are believed to have fled to Turkey in fear of being executed. This incident has caused widespread panic among the group's leadership which will assign suicide attacks for militants who tested positive with HIV.

A bodyguard crashed his boss's uninsured 1 million pounds super car into railings after accidentally pressing down on the accelerator while moving his seat, he claims. Andy Danso, 43 lost control of the Pagani Zonda as he drove the vehicle back from its MOT on behalf of Chinese business Jen-Te Chen, also known as Kenny. Pagani Zonda is regarded as one of the world's most desirable fast cars. The bodyguard has been fined 1,000 pounds after been convicted of driving without due care  and driving without insurance 

Expert close to kim Jong-Un's regime says the conflict between the South and North could go Nuclear. He said the choice is up to the Americans. The North does not want a war, but South Korea and the US want war. So we will destroy their forces in an outside North Korea. He said the North Korea already has more than 100 nuclear warheads."Yongbyon facility has 100 nuclear war heads, including hydrogen bomb. He also said North Korean behavior correspond with American aggressive behavior. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has already ordered his troops onto a war footing from 8.30am today after his government issued a 24 hours ultimatum to Seoul to halt anti-Pyongyang propaganda broadcasts or face military action. South Korean Vice Defense Minister Baek Seung-joo said it is likely the North fires at some of the 11 sites where the loudspeakers are set up on the South's side of the Demilitarized Zone separating the countries.Tension escalated yesterday when North Korea fir...

Four students hacked a teenage boy with a machete and buried him alive before two attackers had sex near his shallow grave, police said. The group plotted the gruesome murder of Jose Amaya Guardado for two weeks, digging the grave and hiding the machete in woods near their Florida university campus. Jonathan Lucas, 18, Christian Colon, 19, and Kaheem Arbelo, 20 were arrested and confessed to the crime last week, Miami-Dade police said. A fourth suspect, Desiray Strickland, 18, was arrested and charged on Wednesday. The victim attempted to fight off his attackers but was outnumbered and beaten with the machete until he died, police said. The teenager was then made to lay in the grave where he died and the suspects attempted to burn him to conceal evidence. Strickland and Arbelo stayed behind and had sex, while Lucas and Colon returned to campus. Guardado's body was discovered three days later by his brothers, who saw feet in a burned area and alerted police. It was believed tha...

A bodyguard crashed his boss's uninsured £1m supercar into railings after accidentally pressing down on the accelerator while moving his seat, he claims. Andy Danso, 43, lost control of the Pagani Zonda as he drove the 214mph vehicle back from its MOT on behalf of Chinese businessman Jen-Te Chen, also known as Kenny. Pagani Zonda is regarded as one of the world's most desirable fast cars. The bodyguard has been fined £1,000 after being convicted of driving without due care and attention and driving without insurance.

Mavis Amponsah, a 41-year-old Ghanaian filed a request for asylum as soon as she arrived in the country in December 2013. She said she had been in a relationship with another woman in her village for more than two decades. Her father who acted as the tribe leader, as well as her community, ‘objected to this’, according to Haaretz. Mavis Ampons Mavis Amponsah claimed she was forced to leave her partner behind in Ghana, and while she said she was waiting for her partner to join her, the committee said she didn't act on her alleged preference. The committee said Mavis Amponsah did not attempt to meet or date any women, and this is contrary to what might be expected of someone fleeing persecution for a sexual preference . Israel is the most friendly place for Gays in the Middle East. In Ghana, homosexuality is punishable by up to three years in prison. Mavis Amponsah said her partner and her were assaulted twice in Ghana and that she cant return because she fear for her life...

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 South Korea has fired dozens of shells across the border into North Korea in retaliation for rocket attack from the North. A ministry spokesman said South Korea had detected the trajectory of a rocket fired from the North Korea side along a western section of the border shortly before 4pm. "Our military in response launched dozens of rounds of 155mm shells towards the site from which the North Korean military launched the rocket artillery," the ministry stated. "We have strengthened our military readiness and are closely watching."

 North Korea fired shells at South Korean troops along the countries western border in the latest flare up of cross border violence.  It is not clear if there were any injuries or damage from the shelling.   South Korean military official says that the North Korean military opened fire at around 4 p.m. (0700 GMT) on the western front. Media reports did not say what weapons were used. South Korea had not fired back, Yonhap reported. North-South relations have been particularly strained after Seoul accused Pyongyang of planting landmines that exploded this month, wounding two South Korean soldiers. South Korea responded to the attack by restarting cross-border propaganda broadcasts via loudspeakers that had sat dormant for nearly a decade. North Korea denied the attack, and last week threatened all out military action of justice to blow up all means for anti-North Korean psychological warfare if South Korea did not immediately stop the broadcasts. Tensions regularly flare...

The Kremlin has agreed to supply the powerful S-300 surface-to-air missile system to Iran. There has been speculation over whether Russia will sell Iran three or four divisions’ worth of missiles. The defensive missiles fly at six times the speed of sound and are capable of of intercepting aircraft up to 125 miles away or ballistic missiles at much closer ranges. Moscow lifted its own voluntary embargo on selling the system to Tehran in April after progress in nuclear talks.

Shocking details emerged at the inquest into the deaths of 21-year-old Jonathan and little Patrick and Thomas O'Driscoll. The twin boys Patrick and Thomas O'Driscoll were stabbed 40 times each by their brother who then took his own life. One stab penetrated one of the twins to a depth of 7cm. Helen and her husband Thomas had traveled to Waterford to buy the twin boys a handmade miniature wagon.They had been collected from school by adopted brother Jonathan who brought them to a local park before knifing them to death.   Jonathan O'Driscoll with his twin brothers Patrick and Thomas

Israeli authorities says two separate attacks by Palestinian radicals has injured an Israeli child and a soldier. Police spokeswoman said Palestinians threw rocks at an Israeli car near Jerusalem lightly injuring the driver and a 2-year-old girl. The Israeli military later said a soldier was wounded when Palestinians threw an improvised explosive device at a patrol close to Jerusalem in the West Bank. A spike in violence has erupted since a firebomb attack killed a Palestinian toddler and his father last month by suspected Jewish extremists.Since then, there have been several Palestinian stabbing attacks on Israelis and a firebombing of an Israeli car.

Former world boxing champion Roy Jones Jr. asked Putin for a Russian passport to visit his fans. American former world boxing champion Roy Jones Jr. has asked Russian President Vladimir Putin for Russian citizenship over a cup of tea. The odd exchange happened during Jones's visit to Crimea, which Russia annexed last year and where the 46-year-old boxer and rapper will take part in a show this weekend. During meeting with president Putin, which was interpreted by an interpreter, Jones asked Putin how the Russian president got into combat sport.   "I was fourteen. I liked fighting," said Putin. "I started learning our Russian national fight, sambo (abbr. for defense without weapon), then I moved to judo."  Putin said sport "helps develop one's character". The conversation then moved on to the subject of Jones' citizenship. "I want to ask you about maybe having a passport to go back and forth so that I can do business," sai...

The Group Managing Director of the NNPC said that the corporation would operate an open accounting system that would allow public scrutiny of its books.He said that the new NNPC of his dream would be a corporation anchored on the foundation of transparency, adding that transparency must be the watchword of every staff. He urged the staff of the corporation to break away from the old culture and bring creative solutions to the numerous challenges facing the corporation. The GMD said with the kind of change he had in mind, the staff could not afford to continue with `business as usual` mentality. The NNPC boss said that President Muhammadu Buhari would not ask him to do anything shady just as he himself would not ask any staff to carry out any unlawful duty. The NNPC boss said he would assign auditors to do proper forensic audit with a view to revealing the full state of the corporation. He promised to revisit old processes that enhanced efficient operations and urged the sta...

Thai police said that two other men seen in CCTV footage near the scene of the bomb blast that killed 22 people, including one Briton at the Erawan shrine in Bangkok are also suspects. It brings the number of suspects police have said they are actively looking for to three. Police spokesman said that two men seen in grainy closed-circuit television footage, one dressed in red and one in white, are now suspected along with a man in a yellow t-shirt who police suspect planted the bomb. A sketch of a man in yellow has now been released and is believed to be part of a network.

  Laverne Cox born May 29 1984 is an American actress, reality television star, television producer,and LGBT advocate best known for her portrayal of Sophia Burset on the Netflix television series Orange Is the New Black.  She is first openly transgender person to be nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in the acting category,[and the first to be nominated for an Emmy Award since composer/musician Angela Morley in 1990. On June 26, 2015 she became the first openly transgender person to have a wax figure of herself at Madame Tussauds.  

A two-headed calf born in Peru has divided villagers wondering if it is a good or a bad omen from God. Some believe that the calf was sent by the almighty as a warning over all the evils in the world. But others believe it was a mythical birth and the cow must have gone through a swamp when she was on heat for it to happen. Others claim it is the result of environmental pollution due to mining in the region. The young animal cannot feed itself because its two heads are so heavy and unable to lift them. It two heads are fully formed, has two noses, two sets of eyes and two mouths. It does not have the strength to stand up and it been fed milk through a bottle by the farmer.  An official of the Agricultural Agency, tried to calm the fears of villagers. He said the birth defect could have been caused by the use of antibiotics during the gestation period or that it could be a congenital defect that happened during pregnancy. He further denied it could be a result of environme...

  Actress Yvonne Craig, known for playing Batgirl in the original 1960s Batman TV series, has died aged 78. Craig Yvonne played Batgirl as Barbara Gordon in 26 episodes and also starred in Star Trek as Marta, a green Orion slave girl intent on killing Captain Kirk. She died from complications brought about from breast cancer that had metastasized to her liver.

Well what do you know, BlackBerry perhaps wants to prove that the company still has a hunch. The company is planning to release it’s first Android powered device code-named, “Venice”, according to many reports that have gone viral across the web. So, BlackBerry Venice is reportedly a touch and type smartphone, featuring a QWERTY slider keyboard. The piece of device features a 5.4 inch QHD display, powered by the hexa-cored Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 chipset @1.8 GHz, having 3 gigs of RAM. The phone will feature an 18 MP primary camera while there will be a 5 MP front facing camera.

19 year old Ciera Swaringen has a rare condition called Giant Congenital Melanocytic Nevus, which leaves almost her entire body covered with mole-like birthmarks.  She recently graduated from high school in Rockwell, North Carolina. She said she learnt to brush off negative comments and remember that most people stare and say cruel things because they're not used to seeing someone with my condition. People in my town don't bat an eye when they see me now, as they know me. But if I go somewhere new, it's not so easy.' She says she still get comments from people, particularly teenage boys. 'They say things like, 'You look like you're dirty, take a wash'. But I'm so proud to be different and, at the end of the day, we all have something about us that's unusual, whether it's on the inside or the outside, she said.

A regional court in Russia sentenced an Estonian officer to 15 years in prison. Russian security officials alleged that Eston Kohver, a decorated officer in Estonia’s security police, slipped into Russia last September with thousands of euros, audio equipment, and a pistol to carry out an undercover operation.  Officials in Estonia, a member of NATO, said that Russian security operatives kidnapped Kohver in a cross-border raid using stun grenades and jamming equipment and dragged him back to Russian territory, where he was arrested. Kohver’s arrest came during heavy fighting in eastern Ukraine between the Western-allied government in Kiev and pro-Moscow rebels. Eston Kohver abduction came days after President Obama visited Estonia’s capital, Tallinn, to reassure Estonians that the United States would protect them in case of a Russian attack. A joint investigation between Estonian and Russia’s Federal Security Service suggested the case may not be linked to politics, b...