Eight Medicinal Benefits Of Ginger Plus How It Helps Relieve Stress

If your stomach is churning with worry, the answer could be ginger. Stomach acid is crucial to human digestion and when we’re stressed its production can break down. According to Dietician Alice Mackintosh, ‘Ginger can help as it stimulates the taste buds, triggering digestive secretions. ‘Hot water with a slice of lemon and chopped ginger is an excellent way to stimulate digestion. Ginger contains a potent antioxidant, gingerol, which helps cleanse the harmful chemicals our bodies produce when we’re worried, so ginger can help psychological stress too.’ The drinks is also great at uplifting one’s mood and can banish all negative feelings. Packed with antioxidants, it has a whole range of health benefits so is the perfect Winter warmer. 1. Impedes Motion Sickness: Have a quick cup before traveling to keep the sickness and headaches at bay 2. Combats Stomach Discomfort: Great for digestion and aiding the absorption of food 3. Reduces Inflammation: Can ease joint inflamation and helps ease the joint soreness 4. Fights Common Respiratory Problems: Perfect for fighting off coughs and colds 5. Encourages Normal Blood Circulation: Not only does the drink help blood flow, it also can stop excessive sweating and fever 6. Remedies Menstrual Discomfort: One tip to relieve menstrual pains is to place a hot towel drenched in ginger tea on your stomach 7. Strengthens Immune System: Packed with antioxidants, it is a sure start to better health 8. Relieves Stress: Even one sniff of the drink can improve your mood Source: Daily Mail UK

GEJ's special adviser on job creation promises to create 5, 000 jobs

Ms Josephine Washima is President Jonathan's Special Adviser on job creation. There's a special adviser on job creation? #ohok! Anyway, Ms Washima today at a news conference in Abuja, promised to create at least 5, 000 jobs for people who are qualified. What she said below... Last week someone called me and was offering me 5, 000 job vacancies. We are going to have a website where people can upload their CVs. I don’t need to know you; I don’t need to know your face. Just go there, if you qualify for that job, apply for it and be sure that you will be called up for an interview. We are not bringing anything new. We are not trying to do something that has never been done before. But we are going to build on existing structure and strengthen the labour laws of this country in such a way that we will do away with bottle-necks. We don’t need anybody asking any Nigerians for a note to get a job from anybody. We will work closely with the National Bureau of Statistics to get appropriate data of unemployed Nigerians.

Snoop Dogg’s Son Tells Media To Mind Their Business As His Dad Teaches Him How To Wrap Marijuana

Snoop Dogg‘s (or Snoop Lion) son, Cordel Calvin Broadus has responded to the many criticisms raised by the pictures he recently posted on the social website, Twitter. The pictures showed Cordel and his 40-year-old father going through a weed-smoking lesson while in the studio. The pictures immediately caused a buzz on media platforms as many including popular show host, Wendy Williams condemned the act, more for his age. The 18-year-old rapper with stage name, Spanky Danky has since bared his mind concerning the controversies. In a series of messages posted on his twitter time line, Broadus gave a sound warning to press and the general public to desist from his affairs, adding that he should not be judged by those who do not know him,‘Wherever I’m going jus know that I’m smokin, I’m going I’m rollin I’m going IM Gone…I’m sooooooo stoned. I’m the nicest hippie dude but fuggggg if you don’t kno me leave me the fuc alone’ @SpankyDanky tweeted. Spanky Danky was recently offered the UCLA football scholarship which was rumoured to have been factored by his father’s fame rather than his knowledge of the sport.

Long queues for iPhone 5

Fans of Apple's smartphone queued overnight to be the first to get their hands on the iPhone 5 that goes on sale today September 21 in nine countries

Now the police is saying that dead child found inside the man's suitcase was actually the man's son. The man has been identified as an Abuja-based welder named Usman Inuwa and the dead baby as Goodluck Inuwa. Usman admitted killing the child but didn't say why other than the child's mother left them a few weeks before the murder. Neighbours think he might have killed the little boy by mistake or while high on drugs. The police are investigating. Truly sad!

Banana Can Prevent HIV Infection

Your favorite oblong fruit might be even healthier than you realized. According to The Gazette (Montreal) newspaper, a new study has found that chemicals commonly found in bananas are as potent in preventing HIV as two synthetic anti-HIV drugs. Researchers say the findings could lead to a cheap new component for applied microbicides that prevent intimate transmission of HIV. The miracle substance in bananas is called BanLec, a type of lectin, which are the sugar-binding proteins found in a variety of plants. Scientists have long been interested in lectins because of their ability to halt the chain reaction that leads to certain viral infections. In the case of BanLec, it works by binding naturally to the sugar-rich envelope that encases the HIV virus, thus blocking its entry into the body. "The problem with some HIV drugs is that the virus can mutate and become resistant, but that's much harder to do in the presence of lectins," said lead author Michael D. Swanson. "Lectins can bind to the sugars found on different spots of the HIV-1 envelope, and presumably it will take multiple mutations for the virus to get around them." Swanson and his colleagues noted that even modest success in developing BanLec into a womanly or BehindBased microbicide could save millions of lives. In fact, 20 percent coverage with a microbicide that is only 60 percent effective against HIV may prevent up to 2.5 million HIV infections in three years. Furthermore, a BanLec ointment would be much cheaper to produce and distribute than most current anti-retroviral medications that require the production of synthetic components. One thing's for sure: new ways of stopping the transmission of HIV are desperately needed. Condoms are effective, but they are often used incorrectly or inconsistently, and in many cultures and developing countries women are not always in control of their intimate encounters. The introduction of a cheap, long-lasting, self-applied ointment derived naturally from bananas could change all of that.

$17, 000 up for grabs in Face of Peace Africa pageant

AT a time when beauty pageants have almost lost their value, something new is on the offer as Face of Peace Beauty Pageant debuts in Abuja, Nigeria. The beauty pageant which will involve contestants that will champion the cause for global peace in Africa alt will include ladies within the age range of 18 to 25. The Face of Peace Africa Pageant is coming from the stable of Blu-Moon Imaginationz, a media and film production outfit in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, founded by Ify Concepta, a one-time runner up for Miss Imo and Miss Tourism. With her never giving up attitude to life, she went in and competed with 18 other girls to win Miss Peace Nigeria 2010. Unlike most beauty pageants, every contestant at the Face of Peace Africa Pageant will get to walk away with amazing prizes; the winner (Face of peace Africa 2012) will go home with $10,000, brand new car, 1 year movie contract with Blu-moon Imaginationz, 1 year Beauty routine with Bold and Beautiful plus a trip to Gambia. First runner up (Blu-moon model) will get $5,000, 42 inches Plasma TV, one year movie contract with Blu-moon Imaginationz, one year Beauty routine with Bold & Beautiful and a trip to Ghana while the second runner up (Blu-moon Image) will get prizes worth $2000, 27 inches Plasma TV, one year movie contract with Blu-moon Imaginationz, one year Beauty routine with bold & beautiful and trip to Obudu cattle ranch. Consolation prizes will also be available for other contestants in the pageant. According to Ify Concepta, the founder of the pageant, "Face of Peace Africa is a means by which we wish to contribute to Africa where crisis and chaos seek to destroy our continent; it is also an avenue to promote gender equality and empowering the girl child. Blu-Moon Imaginationz is committed to working closely with our customers’ personality and portfolio, understand what they need and bringing their dreams to reality." Emmanuel Eyaba, co-founder and MD at Blu-Moon Imaginationz further added that the pageant "seek to promote peace in Africa especially in Nigeria by emphasising honour and mutual respect which are qualities lacking in most beauty pageants obtainable in the country today