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You may be more anxious Perhaps when you're stressed out, sex is the last thing in your mind. But it may assist to reduce your anxiety. Sex in reaction to stress seems to lower the quantity of hormones that your body releases. And an active sex life can make you happier and healthier, helping to maintain anxiety at bay as well. Your blood pressure could rise Sex appears to assist maintain down your blood pressure. When you consider what it does, that makes sense: it adds a bit of aerobic and muscle-building practice and can relieve anxiety and make you feel better. Both can assist to maintain your figures where they need to be. Your immune system might become weaker Weekly sex appears to boost your immune system compared to those with less frequency. Part of the reason may be that it increases concentrations of immunoglobulin A, or IgA, a germ-fighting substance. But here, more isn't always better. People with sex more than twice a week had reduced I

Effective from Thursday, August 29th this year, the United States Embassy in Nigeria says Nigerians applying for tourism, student and business visas will pay an extra $110 (N40, 700) to collect their visa if granted. This is apart from the fee for the N59, 200 visa applicatuon. According to a declaration issued today by the Embassy on 27 August, candidates requesting the L1 Visa (job permit) will pay an additional N112, 100 if offered visas while those applying for H4 Visa (dependency / spousal) will pay an additional N66, 600. For Nigerians, the US Embassy has embraced the N370/$1 rate that is greater than both the official rate and the black market rate. The Embassy claims the reciprocity-based increase was made. It lamented that Americans wishing to enter Nigeria were being requested by the Nigerian government to pay exorbitant VISA charges and they took the choice to raise theirs after all attempts to make the federal government decrease the fee proved abortive.

On the first night of the US Open, Serena Williams defeated Maria Sharapova to win the first round. The 37-year-old American with 23 significant singles titles took only 58 minutes to humble Sharapova 6-1, 6-1 in the U.S. Open first-round game at the Arthur Ashe Stadium on Monday night (August 26) After the game, Serena Williams, who lost to Naomi Osaka at the same Stadium in the 2018 U.S. Open final, addressed the audience in her interview with ESPN. Thank you for helping me, "she said." I said it once, but here I have had a lot of hard games and a lot of hard losses, but coming out tonight makes it all worth it. "Sharapova, 32, who this year was plagued by accidents, said:" This is a very distinct chapter in my life. It was never. But about four months ago I came through a shoulder operation. It's a fairly large deal to discover myself playing at a U.S. Open night game with individuals excited about the matchup. I'm luck

Nigerian female athlete, Blessing Okagbare was disqualified at the 12th African Games in Rabat after a false start in the 100-meter women's semi-finals heat 1. She was disqualified at the starting block to beat the weapon. It was an enormous deception for the hopeful Nigerian medal who had won heat 3 of the first round of the event with a moment of 11.53 seconds earlier in the day.  Okagbare was already looking forward to the Prince Moulay Abdellah Sports Complex finals on Tuesday before the incident. “This is disappointing. I was already looking forward to appearing in the final, but this is disappointing. I know my fans are disappointed and if you know me, you know i don’t just show up. I show up and i am also there. Today didn’t go as planned but, lesson learned and gratitude given to God for my journey so far.Sometimes the blessing is not always about what’s given but what He takes away” she said.  The heat was won by Marie Ta Lou o

A judge discovered Johnson & Johnson liable for fueling the opioid crisis in Oklahoma on Monday, August 26th, and ordered the healthcare business to pay $572 million to remedy the destruction inflicted on the country and its inhabitants by the outbreak.  The landmark decision of Cleveland County District Judge Thad Balkman is the first to hold a drugmaker guilty of the failure of years of liberal opioid dispensation that started in the early 1990s, sparking a nationwide epidemic of death and addiction overdose. Since 1999, over 400,000 individuals have been killed by overdoses of painkillers, heroin and illegal fentanyl. “The opioid crisis has ravaged the state of Oklahoma and must be abated immediately. As a matter of law, I find that defendants’ actions caused harm, and those harms are the kinds recognized by [state law] because those actions annoyed, injured or endangered the comfort, repose, health or safety of Oklahomans,” Balkman wrote in the decisio

IPOB members were found in Japan awaiting the arrival of President Buhari to attend the 7th International African Development Conference in Tokyo. Yesterday evening, 25 August, President Buhari left Abuja for Japan. Remember that IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu gave his Japanese members a directive to disgrace President Buhari just as their counterparts in Germany disgraced former senate vice president Ike Ekweremadu on 17 August.  See the following pictures of IPOB members in Japan below.

Forbes ' 2019 ranking of the world's highest-paid music women is out, and Taylor Swift has secured the top place The "Me!""After earning a whopping $185 million pretax over the past year, singer takes the top spot on Forbes ' list, putting her ahead of runner-up Beyoncé and Rihanna. Most of the income from Swift came from her Reputation Stadium tour, according to People. The tour, running around the world from May to November 2018, earned a $266 million U.S. record and was probably her most successful to date tour. Runner-up Beyoncé's $81 million comes mostly from last year's On The Run II stadium tour, along with her live album and Netflix movie, both called Homecoming. Rihanna's $62 million in third on the list. Most of her latest income come from Fenty Beauty, which she introduced in 2017 is the popular cosmetics line. See all the highest-paid females of this year in music below: 1. Taylor Swift - $185 million 2. Be