Top 6 foods that keep you feeling full

Research has shown that eating an apple 20 minutes prior to eating a meal reduces the amount you eat during that meal.
How full did you feel after your last meal? Did you get a sense of sustained satisfaction or did you find that hunger pangs got you reaching for a snack just a little while later? The good news is there are certain foods that have qualities that rate high on the immediate satisfaction scale (or satiety index) so they make you feel fuller quicker, and keep you feeling full for longer too.

Seven Reasons Why She Won’t Sleep With You

According to some very questionable statistics, it takes a woman only 30 seconds from meeting a guy to know if she’s ever going to sleep with him
I say ‘questionable’ because let’s face it, women are known for changing their minds faster than you can say ‘quick’. I do think the statement has some merits though, because women are approached by a lot of guys, and over the years, it begins to take them lesser time to come to the conclusion of whether or not he’s worth their time, plus we got that other thing called ‘female intuition’.
So why do women feel the need to make up their minds in a hurry? Well, perhaps our ever-ticking biological clock is constantly reminding us to pick a mate and make babies already and we honestly don’t have the time to deal with the dude with no prospects, *shrugs*, I don’t know. What I do know is this- we do not want to get in bed with every human with a man-hood that asks, and once the guy does not do something to attract us into thinking about a possibility of a romantic relationship, then, well…..on to the next one.
So how do girls make this decision in such short time? Here are 7 reasons

No BIS On BlackBerry 10

BlackBerry (BBRY) announced at yesterday’s launch that the new smartphones based on the BB10 platform will not support the BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS).
It became apparent as Rory O’Neill, Vice President of Product & Channel Marketing at BlackBerry, was answering questions related to the BIS service on the BB10 phones and on BB 7 based smartphones.
O’Neill explained that the BB10 smartphones will not come bundled with BIS nor support it. The only service to run on BlackBerry’s infrastructure will be BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) and some enterprise related applications.

NFF Offers Eagles $15,000 To Beat Cote d’Ivoire

The Nigeria Football Federation members largely see the Sunday match against Cote d’Ivoire as the biggest obstacle to landing the trophy when the final match is played on February 9. As the build to the game continues, the NFF officials have reminded the players that they would not go back on their pledged to dole out $15,000 to each player if they are able to beat an Ivorian side inspired by Didier Drogba and African Footballer of the Year Yaya Toure.

The Eagles or Elephants of Cote d’Ivoire will face the winner of the quarter final match between hosts South Africa and Mali at the next stage.

Little Chinese Boy and Python Lived Together For 12 Years

13-Year-Old Boy and Python in Dongguan Have Lived Together for 12 Years, Boy and Python Sleep in One Bed

Most people would be afraid when seeing a snake, but not the boy A Zhe in Dongguan who is only 13 years old. Ever since he was a few months old, he’s been sleeping in the same bed with a python. The relationship he has with the python not only leave people amazed, but also inspired: Any animal in nature can be friends with humans.

Nigerian girl left disfigured after acid was thrown in her face as she walked home

20 year old Naomi Oni was disfigured for life when a unknown person wearing a niqab threw acid in her face as she walked home from work on Sunday December 30th in Lodge Avenue Dagenham, east London.

Naomi told The Evening Standard that she was on her way back from work when  she heard someone behind her. She explains:

Farouk Lawan,charged,remanded in Prison custody

A Nigerian court on Friday ordered that lawmaker Farouk Lawan be held without bail following a charge that he solicited a $3 million bribe from an oil baron while probing corruption in the oil industry.
The Lawan affair became front-page news in Nigeria when the story emerged last year.
Lawan, once known as a graft-busting legislator, pleaded not guilty to the charge that he demanded a bribe from Femi Otedola, head of Zenon Oil and Gas, in exchange for removing the firm’s name from a damning final report.
Last year, Lawan led a parliamentary committee which uncovered $6.8 billion (5.0 billion euros) of lost revenue between 2009 and 2011 in Nigeria’s fraud-ridden fuel subsidy programme.
Co-defendant Boniface Emanalo, the secretary of the committee who is accused of receiving $120,000 from Otedola, was also remanded after pleading not guilty.

FG files corruption charges against Farouk Lawan over Otedola bribe

The Attorney-General of the Federation has finally filed charges against Farouk Lawan and Mr. Emenalo Boniface for allegedly collecting bribe from Femi Otedola. The case has been assigned to Justice M.N. Oniyangi of the FCT High Court.

See the charge papers sent to me by Festus Keyamo Chambers after the cut...

Update:Appeal Court Affirms Death Penalty For Lagos Preacher Reverend King

An appeal court sitting in Lagos has affirmed the death penalty for Chukwuemeka Ezeugo, the notorious Lagos preacher popularly known as “Rev. King”.
A panel of judges at the court today said the lower court acted in the interest of justice by sentencing the preacher to death.

EFCC arrests 20 internet fraudsters in Benin

 Press statement from EFCC...

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested twenty suspected internet fraudsters. The arrest which was carried out in a joint operation with officers of the 4 Brigade of the Nigerian Army, Benin, followed intelligence report on their activities. They were nabbed in a surprise raid on their Cyber office tucked in an old building located on Siluko Road, Benin City.

At the point of arrest, the fraudsters had in their possession forty five (45) laptops of different make, twenty eight (28) telephone sets, eight (cool internet mobile modems and one Nissan car with registration number USL 375 AG.