Drinking hot tea can increase the risk of esophageal cancer, especially if you are a heavy drinker or smoker, a new study has found.

But even those who don’t touch alcohol or cigarettes appear to have a higher risk, researchers warned, but they stressed more tests are needed to assess how damaging it could be.

The new study done by scientists in China found drinking tea heated to over 65C (149F) was associated with a five-fold increased risk for esophageal cancer when combined with excessive drinking or heavy smoking.

The Chinese scientists said the link was ‘biologically plausible’ as thermal injury caused by the hot tea to the gullet lining impairing its ability to act as a barrier to harmful toxins from alcohol and smoking.

The student, who was said to be a new student, had been declared missing on January 25, 2017, after leaving her hostel to celebrate her birthday with some male friends at a popular bar in Ozoro, the administrative headquarters of the Isoko North Local Government Area.

Our correspondent gathered that the victim had left her apartment that Thursday with her mobile phone and had promised to return after the birthday party.

She never returned alive.

PUNCH Metro learnt that her remains were discovered in an open space close to a secondary school along Owhelogbo Road in Ozoro, with one of her breasts, eyes, heart and private parts removed by her killers.

A friend of the deceased’s roommate, who did not want to be identified, told our correspondent on Monday that the Science and Laboratory Technology National Diploma I student was dating one of the Yahoo boys.

The source said, “When her roommate didn’t see her around 7pm on the day she went for the party, she called to know her whereabouts and she (Happiness) said she was in Oleh and would soon return home.

“Her roommate called repeatedly around 9pm, but her number didn’t connect. The same thing happened the following day. It was at that point that the roommate raised the alarm that she was missing.

“Family members and friends had been searching for her until last Friday when her mutilated body was found along Owhelogbo Road.”

A hostel mate, who also confirmed the incident, said the deceased’s roommate had been arrested by men of the Delta State Police Command for interrogation.

The Public Relations Officer of the institution, Mr. Boniface Ogarayan, could not been reached for comment, as his two telephone lines indicated that they were not available.

Also, the state Police Public Relations Officer, Andrew Aniamaka, said he had not been briefed on the killing as of the time of filing this report.

Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello, has appealed to Nigerians to re-elected President Buhari in 2019. In a statement released by his director General on Media and Publicity, Kingsley Fanwo, Governor Bello said the re-election of President Buhari in 2019 is in “the best interest of Nigerians”.

According to the governor, it is taking a lot of efforts to “rescue the country from the deep pit of economic mess” which previous administrations put it.

The statement reads: “We were here during the previous administration, and we saw what our country went through. Revelations in courts and from anti-graft agencies have shown us how bad the country was exposed to economic woes. President Muhammadu Buhari came and has continued to do his best to sanitise the country and relaunch it on the map of international reckoning. It takes more time to rebuild than to destroy. For our President to have achieved this much is magical and laudable. In the interest of Nigeria and Nigerians, President Buhari should continue to lead our country beyond 2019”.

The governor added that with the visible progress Nigeria has made in recent times, President Buhari will easily win in the 2019 election.

“Nigerians have continued to show their solidarity with the President. He will easily win again in 2019”.

Governor Bello said those opposed to President Buhari’s re-election were only exercising their fundamental right to freedom of expression and are not necessarily speaking the minds of millions of Nigerians who were at the receiving end of bad governance, corruption and terrorism before the rescue mission of President Muhammadu Buhari.

Recall that Governor Bello and six other APC governors, visited President Buhari on January 12th at the state house to urge him to seek a second term.

A new report claims that Imo state indigenes use the mot condoms than any other state in the whole of Nigeria.

Maureen Zubie-Okolo, a monitoring and evaluation specialist with United Nation Children’s Fund (UNICEF), stated that Imo state tops the chart in use of condoms in South-western states.

She disclosed this when she unveiled the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey to newsmen in Enugu, last Friday.

According to her, among the South East states, Imo has the highest figure which is 75.9%.

She said Imo is closely followed by Anambra who has 66.0% and 57.6% for Enugu while Abia and Ebonyi states are the states with the least amount of condom usage, with Abia having 53.5% and Ebonyi having 27.5%.

The official further explained that Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey was carried out in 2016/2017 by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) in collaboration with UNICEF and it is used to assist the government in policy formulation.

A seven-year-old boy, Wisdom Adefemi yesterday said his father, Olusegun Adefemi sexually abused his three-year-old sister, Favour, five times.

Wisdom also accused his father of attempt to penetrate him and his five-year-old brother, Godspower, through the anus.

He gave graphic details of the alleged incident during a chat with The Nation at the police headquarters, Ikeja, alleging that their father physically assaulted him for refusing to give in.

Wisdom said: “My daddy slept with Favour from here (pointing at the private part of his sister.) He put her on the ground and then he did it. It was not once, it was five times.

“He wanted to do my own from the back but I refused. He wanted to do Godspower too. When we refused, he started beating us.”

Parading the suspect, Police Commissioner Edgal Imohimi said he was arrested on February 2, at 6, Ipakan Street, Ijede, after an official of Lagos Neighbourhood Safety Corps (LNSC), Adekoya Sesan reported the incident.

But the suspect, denied the allegation, insisting that he was innocent.

According to him, the allegations against him were shocking, wondering what could have prompted it.

Adefemi said: “I am shocked at the allegations. I am innocent. I have never done it and I will never do it. I heard that my children accused me.of raping their sister. They never said it before me.

“I thought that they would bring them before me and ask them so that I can hear it from them directly but the police did not.

“You should know they are children and can be lured with biscuit or sweet to say anything. I do not know where that came from. I know I usually beat my kids when they do wrong. I do not think that is an offence because I would want my children to grow up badly.

“Their mother left over a year ago and since then, I have been with them. I do bricklaying job sometimes, other times, I work as a conductor to provide our daily bread.”

The police boss said Adefemi separated from his wife over alleged spousal abuse.

Imohimi said: “He inflicted grievous injury in the private part of the child as a result.of forceful penetration. Two older siblings of the survivor were not luckier as Olusegun Adefemi regularly abused by beating them with cane each time they resisted him from penetrating them.theoufh their anus.

“The girl has been taken to Mirabel Medical Centre for examination and treatment while her siblings have been placed in temporary home. The suspect would be charged to court at the end of investigation.”

President Buhari today signed an Executive Order 5 that will improve local content in public procurement with science, engineering and technology components.

The Executive Order is expected to promote the application of science, technology and innovation towards achieving the nation’s development goals across all sectors of the economy.

The president, pursuant to the authority vested in him by the constitution, ordered that all ‘‘procuring authorities shall give preference to Nigerian companies and firms in the award of contracts, in line with the Public Procurement Act 2007.’’

The Executive Order also prohibits the Ministry of Interior from giving visas to foreign workers whose skills are readily available in Nigeria.

It, however, notes that where expertise is lacking, procuring entities will give preference to foreign companies and firms with a demonstrable and verifiable plan for indigenous development, prior to the award of such contracts.

In the proclamation entitled ‘‘Presidential executive order 5 for planning and execution of projects, promotion of Nigerian content in contracts and science, engineering and technology,’’ the president also directed Ministries, Departments and Agencies to engage indigenous professionals in the planning, design and execution of national security projects.

It adds that ‘‘consideration shall only be given to a foreign professional, where it is certified by the appropriate authority that such expertise is not available in Nigeria.’

Here are pictures of a private jet reportedly owned by the former president of the Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor.

The jet was apparently, given to him as a birthday present from his church members in 212.. and according to reports, the jet is currently lying dormant at the International airport in Lagos.

The jet is reportedly faulty and has been parked because no one has been using it.

Chiamaka Nwangwu, a young lawyer, has cried out for justice over what she allegedly suffered in the hands of policemen attached to 3-3 Division, Nkwele Ezunaka, near Onitsha, Anambra State, recently.

Chiamaka alleged that policemen beat her up, tore her clothes and smashed her phone after inflicting injuries on her. In her words, the cops brutalised her on the orders of the Divisional Police Officer in charge of the station, Regina-Jane Mbanefo, a Chief Superintendent of Police, whom she accused of first slapping her.

The incident, which reportedly occurred on January 22, 2018, has already gone viral on the social media, with different groups calling for the head of the DPO.

However, the DPO has said that she did nothing wrong. She described the lawyer, Chiamaka, as the aggressor, adding that her accuser later concocted stories to pull her down.

Narrating her ordeal to Daily Sun, Chiamaka said she went to the station on the prompting of her colleague in Abuja. The colleague had called and pleaded with her to visit the station and help his younger brother, who was detained and was about to make a statement, after he was allegedly beaten up by his landlord and some youths.

She said: “When I got to there, I met the young man making a statement at the IPO’s office. I approached him and asked him what exactly happened and he narrated everything to me. He told me that his landlord came and made a statement against him on the night of January 21, and I was also informed by his parents that his landlord had been with the DCO1 since 6am. I went to the office of the DCO1 and saw a man wearing a brown native dress. I didn’t even know that he was the landlord. I politely briefed the DCO1 and he told me that the police were investigating the matter, and we got talking from there. He also told me that, if I was not satisfied with their investigations, I could transfer the matter to the State CID or Area Command.

“I also called the DCO2, met him outside and asked him if the DPO came to work that day. He told me that the DPO was not around that morning but might come to work later. I called my mom on the phone and told her about the matter that I came for. As soon as we finished speaking on the phone, I came in and saw the young man I came for behind the counter. I signalled to him, and he told me that the IPO and DCO1 asked him to stay there. I went out again to make some calls, came in again to meet the young man complaining that the part of his body where he was beaten by his landlord was seriously oozing out puss and disturbing him.

“A huge woman in native clothes, who I later learned was Jane Mbanefo, the DPO, became very aggressive and ordered me to leave the admin office. Note that I didn’t know their DPO and have never seen her before. It was my first time of coming to that police station. She started shouting at me, asking me my interest in the matter and who I was to tell the boy that I came for on the kind of treatment he should get. I was very shocked and embarrassed. I was angry and, on my way out of the admin office, the woman continued talking, insulting lawyers generally, telling me that she is equally a lawyer of 20 years.

“She slapped me and one of the handles of my recommended glasses got disfigured and fell off. Then other junior police officers joined her and beat me up mercilessly. My black gown was torn and I was stripped naked. I managed to get my phone out of my handbag to record a video of the scene, but one of the policewomen took the phone from my hand, smashed it and seized it. My middle finger was broken and I sustained internal injuries. People were watching outside, including the young boy that I came for as well as his mum and dad.
“I was detained at the police station and asked to write a statement. Another policeman slapped me and threatened that he would send his juniors to beat me up, before pushing me in the cell. Another policewoman, who had just come in then, slapped me and pushed me from the counter. She said she would have done worse if she were the other policewomen that beat me up.

“I was asked to write a statement; when my client’s dad brought my bag from the scene where the incident took place, I discovered that N5,000 was missing from my handbag. They also threatened to shoot me or poison me, if I slept in the cell till the next day. I made a statement and was thrown inside the cell for about six hours before my parents were contacted, with my NBA chairman and my principal. I later learned that the DPO fabricated stories against me, saying that I slapped her and took their walkie-talkie away.

“I was forced to write an apology letter afterwards before I could leave the cell. I was released after I wrote the apology letter thrice which the DCO dictated to me. The DCO2 was the person that dictated all the contents in the letter with the help of the female IPO in charge. I have never experienced this type of thing as a legal practitioner, and if something is not done, this impunity will continue. The police are meant to protect citizens and not to turn them into punchbags.”

A medical report signed by Dr. Okwusogu A.O., chief medical director, Onitsha General Hospital, revealed that Chiamaka sustained “bruised injuries on the anterior chest wall, myalgia, swelling and tenderness fourth right finger and has been placed on medications and treatment.”

But when the reporter contacted the DPO, Jane Mbanefo, she dismissed Chiamaka’s claims.

Her words: “I came back that day and met some people shouting at the counter section. They were quarrelling and when I asked what was going on, I was briefed that the tenant had issues with his landlord. When I told the policemen to give them papers to go for medical treatment first, the lawyer, Chiamaka, resisted and said that it was only her client that should be sent to the hospital. I scolded her, making her realise that she was not the one to dictate what would happen in a police station. Then I told my men to take her away.

“I told her to walk away from the station but she refused and the policemen began to push her away. She pushed a policeman and the woman fell down. It would have been riotous but the spirit came to me and I ordered that she should be detained. When they put her behind the counter, she went berserk like a mad person, snapping pictures all over the station with her phone.

“That was when I called the NBA chairman to ascertain whether such a person was actually a lawyer. The NBA chairman came with Chiamaka’s Principal. There was one other woman from FIDA and Chiamaka’s mother whom I learnt is a retired magistrate.

“All the parties present were summoned and they were the people that confirmed after hearing from us that I didn’t do anything wrong. They apologised on Chiamaka’s behalf but I demanded for documentary evidence as If I knew that it was going to be like this.

“Chiamaka tendered an apology letter and I didn’t beat her or touch her. If I had done what she alleged, the mother wouldn’t have allowed her to apologise. I’m surprised that she went out to the social media and began to malign me and also ganged up with some lawyers whom we have arrested before for criminal matters.

“So many people have been calling me over this but I’m not afraid. I’m answerable only to the Nigeria Police and nobody else. I have her pictures where she was writing freely in the station here. She just made up those stories. I’m not afraid and I cannot own up to something I didn’t do. Nobody forced her to apologise. If they insist, we can go to a native shrine to swear and I’m sure the oracle can kill her because she is guilty.

“Some of these young lawyers are not normal upstairs and I’m ready for them. I don’t have any case; this is just a gang-up. Even if they say they are going to remove my uniform, I tell them that they can’t do it, they don’t have such powers. I’m doing my job and if they don’t relent, this case can even take us to the National Assembly. I’ve not done anything wrong to anybody.”

Meanwhile, Chiamaka’s lawyer, Chukwunonso Akah of Alpha & Sigma Partners, and a human rights group, International Human Rights and Equity Defence Foundation (I-Ref), led by Justus Ijeoma, have petitioned the Inspector-General of Police in Abuja, demanding a thorough probe as well as sanctions on the DPO.

Source: Daily Sun