Scientists said how much sugar a woman eats while she’s pregnant may affect her future children’s risk of developing allergies and allergic asthma. According to a new study published in the ‘European Respiratory Journal’, previous research has linked asthma and high-sugar intake in kids themselves, this is the first study to show that mothers’ diets may also play a role. Allergies, also known as allergic diseases, are a number of conditions ca.......
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In the beginning, University of Maiduguri (UNIMAID) was largely unaffected when Boko Haram started carrying out its heinous activities in Borno State. At the height of its reign of terror, UNIMAID could be described as a safe haven, far removed from the incessant attacks visited on the North-East. It was free from the devastating din of bombs and blasts.
When many schools in Borno were shut down or destroyed, UNIMAID remained standing, majestic and delivering its mandate of providing higher education to Nigerians from all walks of life. This was after Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and governments in the North-East had estimated that over 1,500 schools had been destroyed in the region, including 524 in Borno State alone.
But all that has since changed. UNIMAID has been violated. The serenity, sanctity and sanity that are normal features of citadels of higher learning have since been to.............
https://newtelegraphonline.com/2017/07/incessant-boko-haram-attacks-unimaid/

The Vatican treasurer and Australia’s most senior Catholic figure Cardinal George Pell has been charged with sex offences in Australia.

The charges relate to alleged “historical” incidents, police in the state of Victoria said.

The allegations were made by more than one person, said Police Deputy Commissioner Shane Patton.
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Nigeria’s Yuonov Frederick Agah has been reappointed as Deputy Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) for another four-year term.
The Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Agah, who hails from Benue, was first appointed as Deputy Director-General of WTO in 2013 for a four-year term, which he assumed on Oct.1 that year.
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A newly-formed Nigerian militant group has withdrawn a threat to attack oil pipelines in the country’s oil-rich Niger Delta after a spate of incidents in 2016 plunged the country into recession.

Nigeria, Africa’s second-biggest economy, is heavily dependent upon its oil reserves, which account for a large share of GDP and more than 90 percent of the value of exports.

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As Nigeria joined the rest of the global community to mark the World Blood Donor Day, which is observed on June 14, stakeholders have called for voluntary blood donation to boost depleting blood banks across the country.

Despite the appeal for more people to donate, many lives have been lost due to shortage of blood products to transfuse into accident victims and other patients who suffer loss of blood.