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A new study conducted in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, has made a shocking new revelation on married woman especially the pregnant ones.  File photo According to a study led by author and professor of medicine, Christopher Olopade, who is a family director of international programmes at the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Medicine, the use of clean-burning ethanol stoves, as against kerosene stoves, can reduce hypertension and cardiovascular risk in pregnant women. The new study conducted in Ibadan, Oyo State, revealed that pregnant women who were used to using kerosene stove had lesser chances of developing high blood pressure when they switched to ethanol stoves. In report titled,  ‘Randomised Controlled Ethanol Cookstove Intervention and Blood Pressure in Pregnant Nigerian Women’ , researchers stated that the frequency of developing hypertension and diastolic blood pressure were decreased in pregnant women who cooked with ethanol, rather than...

Nigeria’s number 1 Ponzi scheme, MMM Nigeria, is back. This is according to a statement issued by the official Twitter account. “This is to officially inform you that MMM Nigeria is open for business a day earlier than promised! Let’s go there Nigerians,” the post said. This time around the Russian Ponzi scheme is back with new conditions, which includes encouraging its members to use bitcoin for transactions. Upon resumption, the scheme says its members will now be able to pay and receive money in bitcoins, the digital currency. MMM cites bitcoin’s steady growth in value as a reason for participants to adopt the currency.  “In a month, not only 30 percent will be added to your initial amount, but, it can increase itself due to Bitcoin price growth,” MMM’s letter to its participants partly reads. Last week, MMM promoters issued instructions to its participants whose accounts were frozen, to perform “Promo Tasks: A New Tool for MMM Community Development.” In the MMM m...