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Health Gist: Why men sleep after sex

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Some people have described sex as one of the sweetest things on earth, and even if it is stressful and requires a lot of strength to do, especially for men, it is a rigorous exercise many people would gladly undertake over and over again. Though, it is no secret that many men nod off straight after sex, some women also sometimes feel sleepy after sex but the phenomenon seems more pronounced in men. To women, the obvious sign of complete ‘shutdown’ by men moments after a passionate encounter is practically frustrating, and could be accompanied with a loud buzz of snoring. Scientists have given men the perfect excuse for feeling sleepy after sex: ‘they just cannot help themselves, and not that they are just selfish.’ It is easy to think that men sleep off after sex because they are tired, but findings have shown that it goes beyond that. Scientists have said that men really do need to sleep after sex when they climax because their brains become flooded with sleep-inducing ...

Nigeria Newspaper Headlines - August 16, 2014

PUNCH • NMA protests resident doctors’ sack, dares FG • UN to feed one million in Ebola-hit countries • Obi resigns a s APGA BoT chairman • Nigerians tricked into selling kidneys in Indian hospitals share horrible tales • Ebola: health workers scared, flee hospital • Ebola crisis may last six months –MSF • Police arraign five over N3.2m oil theft • Lagos gets 18-hour uninterrupted power supply –BPE • OAU reopens August 24 • Ebola patients receiving adequate attention – LASG • Five family members found dead in Abeokuta • Minimah, IG deny APC accusation at Ekiti tribunal • Daniel wasn’t our member – PPN • Unemployment: ITF to focus on skill acquisition • Osun sets up anti-Ebola committee

The Love Affair

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Join Ayokunle and friends this Sunday, August 17, 2014 at the Main Auditorium, Unilag, Lagos, Nigeria as they serenade you and i. Time: 5:00pm Ministering: Titee Oloyede, Kenny Orilogbon, GRTM, Mayowa, Princess, IBK.

Man nabs for sleeping with dog in Edo

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The Edo State Police Command has arrested a 19-year-old boy in Iguosa community, Ovia North East Local Government Area, for allegedly having sex with a dog. The young man, identified simply as Osagiator, was said to have taken the dog to an uncompleted building where he had sex with it. It was learnt that earlier, the residents had gathered at the palace of the head of Iguosa community when the news of the incident spread within the length and breadth of the area. A resident in the community, George Ogbonmwan, while narrating how the teenager was caught, said he had saw the suspect with the dog and had thought that he wanted to steal it.

#Ebola: Hunters crys out, Accused Goodluck Jonathan

The National Hunters’ Association of Nigeria (NHAN) has accused the Goodluck Jonathan government of us ing the Ebola virus outbreak to harm its business. The group said things have been hard for its members, ever since the government told Nigerians to by stop eating bush meats, monkeys and bats, animals which are believed to be carriers of Ebola. While addressing journalists in Lagos on Tuesday, 12 August, the association made a statement saying that they are gradually loosing their main source of livelihood. Chief Ishola Olasehinde, the president of the group, said the directive is unfair to hunters who help in safeguarding the country’s borders against terrorist attacks. He said, “We hunters are the ones who protect the country’s borders from being invaded by nomads from Mali and Lake Chad. If not for our activities in the forest, Boko Haram members would have taken control of many cities in the country. This is not the way the government should reward us.” He also added that once t...

Patrick Sawyer's wife writes - ‘Why my husband came to Nigeria’

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In defense of her late husband, Mrs Decontee Sawyerr, widow of Late Patrick Sawyerr, the Liberian man who came into Nigeria with the deadly Ebola virus, has said her sick husband risked all to come to Nigeria because he believed so much in the health system here & wanted to be properly diagnosed and treated. She explained her thoughts on her facebook wall and also took a swipe at the Liberian President, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who called out her late husband recently in a CNN interview. What she wrote below... "Good day my Facebook friends and FAM. I hope all is well with you.  Thank you   for all of your kind words and support for me and my family. You strengthen me more than you realize. According to an article written on Ava's birthday (August 10) by Sabrina Tavernise of the New York Times , "...in another Liberian newspaper, The New Dawn, which cited footage from a   security camera   in the airport in Monrovia, Mr. Sawyer behaved strangely as he wai...

Ebola: 21 persons isolated in Enugu

This is official. Lagos is not the only state in Nigeria that has been hit by the deadly Ebola Virus Disease; Enugu has become the next in line. Twenty one persons out of the 198 so far quarantined because of the virus are in Enugu, says the Minister of Information, Labaran Maku. Maku told State House correspondents after the Federal Executive Council meeting  in Abuja on Wednesday that Enugu came into the picture because one of the nurses that treated the American-Liberian, Patrick Sawyer, shunned medical advice and travelled to the city. Sawyer, the index case of EVD in Nigeria, died on July 25 in an Obalende, Lagos hospital five days after he arrived in the country.