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The Inspector-General of Police, Solomon Arase, says most herdsmen that cause trouble in Nigeria are foreigners, specifically from the neighboring countries of Mali and Chad. According to him, cattle rustlers are able to gain entrance into the country with their cattle as a result of the porous borders. Arase spoke during an interactive session with farmers and other stakeholders in Ondo State, which was held at the Officers’ Mess in Akure, the state capital on Friday. The IGP, who paid a courtesy visit to the state and the neighboring Ekiti State on the same day, said Nigerian herdsmen were law abiding, not notorious. Arase said, “We should also know about the history of migration. Most of these herdsmen are not Nigerians. They are people from Mali, Chad, who came into our system. So, that is why we have to be very careful. Our borders are very porous. Predominantly our own herdsmen are law abiding people. “But when people come from outside with their cattle, we sho...

Butterflies in your stomach, a racing heartbeat—you probably remember those symptoms well from your first middle school crush. As an adult, they're actually your body's subtle clues that you're falling in love (or lust, at least). At the start of a relationship, a series of truly fascinating chemical reactions occur throughout your nervous system and hormones. From the first time you meet to climbing under the sheets, here's what's happening to your body as you fall in love. Being in love is like a drug addiction Kesha wasn't too far off when she described love as a drug, according to a 2010 study conducted at Rutgers University. Researchers concluded that falling in love is much like the sensation of feeling addicted to drugs with the release of euphoria, including brain chemicals like dopamine, oxytocin, adrenaline, and vasopressin. Kat Van Kirk, PhD, a clinical sexologist and licensed marriage and family therapist, says these chemicals are released thr...

The Dangote Group, yesterday launched 20,000 hectare rice production scheme, aimed at making the country self-sufficient in rice production and food secure by the year 2018. Speaking at the flagging-off of the scheme at Hago Fadama kafin-Hausa local government area of the state, the state governor Alhaji Badaru Abubakar Badaru said, the project was part of his government’s commitment to improve agriculture and industrialise the state for job creation and poverty eradication. “Right from my inaugural speech, I made it clear that, agriculture was one of my government cardinal points and we are ready to collaborate with private investors in achieving the desire goals. The project we are launching today is one of the numerous projects we intend to embark in collaboration with private investors from within and outside the country, and we have already signed memorandum with many of them,” the governor said. The governor assured Dangote Group of the state government’s support in ma...

President Mamnoon Hussain told students that it was a Western tradition and conflicted with Muslim culture. His remarks came after a district in north-western Pakistan banned Valentine's Day celebrations. Valentine's Day is popular in many cities in Pakistan, but religious groups have denounced it as decadent. Earlier this week, the local government in Kohat, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, told police officers to stop shops from selling Valentine's Day cards and items. Kohat district is run by a religious political party and borders Pakistan's conservative tribal areas. Meanwhile, the Peshawar local council also passed a resolution to ban celebrations of what it called a "useless" day. Kohat district administrator Maulana Niaz Muhammad told the BBC Urdu: "Valentine's Day has no legal grounds, and secondly it is against our religion, therefore it was banned." While giving cards and flowers was not in itself a bad thing, linking this to a sp...

In early trade, the benchmark Nikkei 225 fell as much as 5.4%. By the close, it had recovered slightly, but was still down 4.85% to 14,952.61 points. That was below the psychologically important level of 15,000 points and its lowest close since October 2014. Friday's losses end what has been a turbulent week of trade for Japan. The index has shed more than 11% over the trading week, which was short because of a public holiday on Thursday. Big exporters in Japan were hurt on Friday as the dollar fell to a 15-month low against the yen. A stronger yen against the dollar hurts Japan's exporters, as it makes their products more expensive to purchase overseas. Toyota finished Japan's trading day down 7%, while Honda lost 5.5% and Nissan shed 5.8%. Overnight, benchmark indexes in London, the US and Europe posted sharp declines amid continued worries about oil prices and over the strength of the global economy - particularly the outlook for the world's largest econo...