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The average teenager’s diet mostly consists of what we known as junk food, but new research suggests that adolescent girls who ate more of certain fruits and vegetables had a lower risk of developing breast cancer. Harvard School of Public Health doctors took their time to look at how fruit and vegetable consumption in adolescence and early adulthood affected cancer risk later on in life. They found out that teenage girls who had the highest fruit consumption during their adolescence – about three servings per day compared to a half serving – had a roughly 25 per cent lower risk of breast cancer diagnosis by middle age. According to the scientists,  there are certain fruits that lowers risk of breast cancer. Apples, Bananas and Grapes are singled out  followed by oranges in early adulthood. These fruits are packed with fibre and high in flavonoids – antioxidants that fight cell damage. Some of the produce is also high in vitamin C. Meanwhile, Amer...

The average teenager’s diet mostly consists of what we known as junk food, but new research suggests that adolescent girls who ate more of certain fruits and vegetables had a lower risk of developing breast cancer. Harvard School of Public Health doctors took their time to look at how fruit and vegetable consumption in adolescence and early adulthood affected cancer risk later on in life. They found out that teenage girls who had the highest fruit consumption during their adolescence – about three servings per day compared to a half serving – had a roughly 25 per cent lower risk of breast cancer diagnosis by middle age. According to the scientists,  there are certain fruits that lowers risk of breast cancer. Apples, Bananas and Grapes are singled out  followed by oranges in early adulthood. These fruits are packed with fibre and high in flavonoids – antioxidants that fight cell damage. Some of the produce is also high in vitamin C. Meanwhile, Amer...

President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed the commitment of his administration to lifting Nigerians out of poverty. President Buhari, who made this known on Tuesday when he declared open the Katsina State Economic and Investment summit in Katsina, described employment as ``the quickest way to escape poverty’’. He, however, said that for that transformation to occur, every player, including the Federal Government ``must do his best’’. ``Employment is the quickest way to escape poverty. And we must lift our people out of poverty"

Minister of state for Petroleum Resources and Group Managing Director of NNPC, Ibe Kachikwu, says the Federal Government will be coming up with a new policy for the Petroleum sector within the next few days. Speaking during the second town hall meeting organised by the federal ministry of information and culture in Kaduna state yesterday May 10th, Kachikwu said the new policy will allow petroleum price products to swing along the line of the international market. Industry experts say the new policy will allow oil marketers determine how much they will sell their products while the Federal Government will continue to subsidize the products at all NNPC fuel outlets.

In line with the Legislative Agenda approved by the Senate, the President of the Senate yesterday has announced the intention of the Senate to inaugurate an independent Transparency and Delivery Commission to review and improve the oversight systems and tools of the Senate. The Commission will be led by a working group consisting of a world leading research institution and a partner institute in Nigeria and will be advised by an internationally acclaimed anti-corruption expert. The independent Commission will work closely with the Senate and the Senate Committee on Anti- Corruption & Financial Crimes to draw up a robust oversight scheme and strengthen the internal structuring and capacity of the National Assembly to fulfil its role as an anti-corruption institution. The Commission’s work will be two-fold. Initially it will concentrate on analysing the processes and tools by which the Senate and the National Assembly in general can, using its legislative remit, assi...

The minister of labour and employment, Dr Chris Ngige, has described as legitimate the call by labour for a review of the national minimum wage and said the federal government is carefully studying it in order to give an appropriate response. The minister made the disclosure while receiving the executive members of the Organisation of Trade Unions of West Africa (OTUWA) yesterday in Abuja. Ngige said: “The other day, labour requested increased wages for workers and they have only done what they are supposed to do. Therefore, nobody will quarrel with them. At the appropriate time, we shall all sit down because what the labour is asking is for the re-negotiation of an existing Collective BargainAgreement (CBA). And every CBA-based agreement is subject to re-negotiation at any given time that any of the partners requests it,” he said Ngige debunked the notion that whenever labour makes such a demand, it means that the workforce is at loggerheads with th...

The Gupta family have reportedly bought a R448- million residence in Dubai, complete with 10 bedrooms, 13 bathrooms, a double grand staircase, nine reception rooms and space for 11 cars. City Press on Sunday wrote that villa L35 in Dubai’s Emirates Hills situated in 'Dubai’s most expensive post code' was to be the Guptas’ new house. When the property was first listed in 2015 for 110 million dirham (R448 million) it made the news as one of the most expensive house in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) at the time. Below are some of the images that were circulated when the property went on sale. Picture: Knight Frank