A new book by royal biographer, Angela Levin has claimed that Prince Harry was dating Sarah Ann Macklin when he met and started dating Meghan Markle.
In the book entitled Harry: Conversations with the Prince, Levin says Harry and Sarah Ann met at a private party, where they swapped numbers and exchanged some texts,”But it turned out to be just a fling.”
Prince Harry is said to have gone out on multiple dates with Sarah Ann who models for Burberry, Dolce & Gabbana and Ralph Lauren.
The allegations are coming at a time when Prince William is also linked to another woman while he’s married to Kate Middleton.
While at the Queen’s birthday (Trooping the Colour) Meghan reportedly put on a brave face despite already knowing about the allegations.
Levine said Prince Harry and Sarah Ann, “met a private party, he took her number and bombarded her with texts.”
Complaining of an unsatisfying sex life? Do you know how your habits might be killing your erection.
7:00 A.M. Wake up exhausted If youre too busy to snooze, its your erection youll lose. Its a terrible rhyme, but the science is airtight. Even in younger men, less than five hours of shut-eye per night could slash daytime testosterone levels by up to 15 percent.
9:00 A.M. Ride your bike to the office Bicycle seats can kill boners, especially narrow saddles. The pressure on the perineum-the real estate between the anus and genitals-can damage erectile tissue, argues Irwin Goldstein, M.D., director of San Diego Sexual Medicine.
10:00 A.M. Pop pills for a nagging knee Multiple studies have found that the consistent use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (like Advil and Motrin) is related to decreased testosterone levels, ED, and loss of desire. See a doc or physical therapist, already.
3:00 P.M. Skip the gym Activity is an erection preserver, says Helle Gerbild of Aalborg Universitys Center for Sexology Research in Denmark. Its also a reviver: 40 minutes of at least moderate exercise four times a week for six months may improve erectile problems.
10:00 P.M. Forget to brush your teeth If you dont brush and floss for your smile, do it for your penis. Periodontal disease can make you more likely to suffer from ED.
10:15 P.M. Watch TV in bed Use it or lose it is true, but it doesnt take much to see improvement. A 2007 Finnish study found that men who had sex just once a week-compared with, well, men with any amount less than that-were 50 percent less likely to have ED. Three-times- a-week guys were 80 percent less likely to have it. The blood flow that a boner brings prevents scar tissue that can cause ED.
Senator representing Imo West District in the National Assembly, Rochas Okorocha, has denied involvement in the intrigues that denied Southeast the House of Representatives speakership.
Recall that Emeka Nwajiuba, lawmaker for Ehime Mbano/Ihiteuboma/Obowo federal constituency, had accused the former governor of working against Igbo lawmakers in the speakership race.
Reacting in a statement yesterday, Okorocha’s Special Adviser on Media, Sam Onwuemeodo, not only denied the allegation but queried how Nwajiuba arrived at the conclusion.
The statement read: “Hon. Emeka Nwajiuba of the Accord Party (AP) has, for some days now, done a lot of publications in the media accusing the former governor of the state and the senator representing Imo West, Rochas Okorocha, of being responsible for the loss of the speakership of the House of Representatives by the Southeast.
“Nwajiuba, however, did not state how he arrived at that faulty conclusion, except his contention that the former governor did not allow primaries to take place for the state chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC) for the 2019 election.
“He did not also explain how, because it was the national headquarters of the party that handled the primaries of APC in the state, both the one Ahmed Gulak truncated and the second exercise.”
The Senator said it was unimaginable for him to have supported Nwajiuba for position of House of Representatives’ Speaker.
“It would have been unimaginable to believe that the president would adopt a member of Accord Party for such position, no matter the relationship, and even when his matter is at the Appeal Court.
“So, accusing Rochas Okorocha of being behind his failure to succeed with his name-dropping strategy this time was just a cover-up,” the statement added.
For many years, digital has impacted on several business fields. Like many other sectors, real estate has also been affected by this digital transition or revolution. The digital era has transformed buying methods but also ways of working. What impact is digital having on the real estate sector?
An in-progress (r)evolution
Could we still design a real estate project today without Internet? Even in Africa, sellers, buyers and investors are now extremely well-informed through the Web. However, less than ten years ago, the Moroccan real estate market, for example, was dominated by ads without photos and summary descriptions which appeared in the “classified” sections. The reader then had to somehow dissect these.
Nowadays, this technological breakthrough enabled by digital and social media, is bringing both visibility and an audience. In addition, supply and demand has naturally turned to digital, which is not only transforming the real estate agent business but also the customer experience.
Digital technologies: a real opportunity for real estate agents
Real estate has been disrupted by many transformations of real estate agencies’ working methods. When we talk about digital transition, we naturally think of the emergence of mobile applications and websites. Real estate has been hit hard by the arrival of these new purchasing channels.
Social networks also have a key role to play in the digital strategy of real estate agencies. They have become real media for agencies. They allow text and visual content to be highlighted, making publication of real estate ads much clearer. If we take the Moroccan example again, the population there is ultra-connected. Moroccans spend more than 2.5 hours on social networks daily, according to a recent survey by Hootsuite & We are Social.
A changing profession
In addition to these opportunities, digital is revolutionizing the real estate agent profession.
With digital, the real estate agent can manage more properties. Moreover, it can help them to reach a much wider audience.
Both these parameters are encouraging real estate agents to radically change the way they work. They must now be almost permanently contactable and be reactive. Research shows that the leading group of real estate portals in emerging countries, 78% of consumers buy from the first agent who responds – hence the importance of answering e-mails in under 5 minutes.
At the same time, digital is creating tougher competition; potential buyers and tenants can now be in touch with more than twenty agents simultaneously. This increased competition is forcing real estate agents to transform themselves to be able to respond at any time, manage more properties and be more reactive than ever.
Digital publishing and ad management applications & tools are there to support real estate agents in this transformation. They are an answer to this revolution. The real estate agent business is a nomadic trade and these apps allow ads to be published from anywhere and at any time. Finally, these apps also offer messaging services that allow users to interact instantaneously with them and thus they can be as reactive as possible – one example is the recently launched Mubawabi app.
Customer experience in the real estate industry has changed dramatically
Digital is now an integral part of the purchase or lease of real estate property, whether it is new or old.
In real estate, digital offers users a much better experience. It allows them to see the plans, exact location and a complete description of the property, as well as the prices and availability of the project. Today, virtual visits are gradually becoming a reality; thanks to digital’s progress, we can now visualize a future house or flat in 3D.
We are witnessing a transformation of the real estate agent profession, as they are taking advantage of new technologies for a better experience with their customers and prospects.
Digital is transforming the real estate sector. The job of all people revolving around the real estate agency is completely different. In short, this new reality is enabling professionals in the sector to train, reinvent themselves and review their business methods to strengthen their advisory role in the face of enlightened consumers and an industry that continues to evolve.
Yul Edochie, a popular Nigerian Nollywood actor took to his Instagram page that he is now born again after surviving a ghastly motor accident.
The actor further said on his Instagram page that he shall live to testify to the goodness of God.
He said, someone said to him that the accident must have really shocked him but in his response to that,he said shocking was an understatement that the accident rather reset his brain to factory settings.
Actor Yul Edochie said “God gave me a second chance. I am a new man in Christ now, I am born again.
”Don’t wait till it happens to you. follow Christ today”.
President Muhammmadu Buhari on Tuesday signed the Polytechnic amendment and another bill into law
Buhari assented the Polytechnic Act Amendment Bill as well as the National Institute for Security Bill.
Concourse News recalls that the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) on Wednesday appealed to Buhari to sign the Polytechnic Act (Amendment) Bill to address many challenges confronting the sub-sector.
ASUP stated that all observations cited by the President during the Eight Assembly had been rectified, corrected and transmitted, adding that the bill had passed through all legislative processes as all observations initially made by the President had been addressed.
• Years of unhealthy eating habits caused David Myers’ weight to top out at more than 350 pounds.
• After experimenting with the keto diet and taking up running, in addition to other healthy habits, he’s now lost more than 130 pounds to date.
• Myers says his next goal is to run a 10K and eventually work his way under 200 pounds.
David Myers was tired of being tired all the time. He’d always been a bigger guy, though people told him he carried the weight well. “I would say I was fat and they would reassure me-I never thought I needed to change my ways at all,” he says. Myers, 27, who works as a high school math teacher in Turlock, California, says the low point-as is so often the case-arrived when Myers saw pictures of himself, and realized the truth about how much he’d let himself go. At the time, he weighed nearly 360 pounds, and it suddenly became clear that the time to start eating better and exercising was long overdue. “That was heartbreaking,” he says. “It was then that I decided to make changes.” Here’s how Myers got healthy.
You mentioned that you’d always been a bigger guy. What was the biggest contributor to your weight gain growing up?
When I was younger, my dad would be working all day and my mom would be doing things with her friends. Naturally, I would be playing games and eating. When I was about eight or nine I was placed into foster care, jumping around a bit before settling with a family. I’m Caucasian male who was placed with a Mexican family. The food was incredible and there were no restrictions for eating. Once I know something tastes good, I will not stop eating until it’s gone. That package of cookies? That bag of chips? I will continue to eat until there is no more, and that did not help with the weight gain.
Around age 15, my mom got a divorce and I just kept eating, and became even less active. Eventually, at age 16 and weighing around 270 pounds, I got a job at Taco Bell. From there, over the next few years I ballooned into the mid-300s. After a few years working there, I lost my job and my home. I went to live in the back of a thrift store that a friend owned. I would work in the store to cover rent, and was constantly eating liquor store frozen burritos, so that was not helping my nutrition at all.
Eventually, when I was on the cusp of 21, a friend of mine, Chester Moon, allowed me to live with him rent-free as long as I went back to school. I would say he’s the reason I am successful to this day career-wise. However, my diet was poor. I’d eat massive amounts of pasta and fried chicken. My later college years were my highest weight. Eventually, in my last two years of school, I began working on my weight.
What were some of the biggest challenges that your weight posed once you eclipsed 300 pounds?
I felt awful. Getting up stairs was a struggle, getting through day-to-day tasks was miserable. I wouldn’t want to move or get up. I’d just sit around. I was at my heaviest at 360 pounds-I was about 21-22, and I stayed at that weight for years. I always remember being tired. I couldn’t keep my eyes open when playing games anymore and I was constantly taking naps.
Take us through some of the changes that you made to get healthier. How’d you go from frozen burritos to a diet and exercise plan that you could stick with consistently?
Like most people, I believed weight loss started in the gym, so I began to incorporate walking a mile or so a day. I also tried taking advantage of the gym at my college. The biggest change was cutting out soda entirely: I haven’t had a soda in about six years-except for the one day a year I’m allowed to. It’s an agreement my wife and I have where the only time we can drink soda is easter weekend.) I would say that I tried and failed many different diets in my early twenties. I did manage to drop down to the 290s with small changes, but working out and eating right would always falter.
So what changed? What was your turning point?
The bulk of my weight loss happened in the last few years, after meeting my wife. It wasn’t anything she did or said, but until then I never really thought of a future and why it mattered. When we got together I was 290 pounds, and she was this gorgeous Latina woman who I couldn’t believe was interested in me. As we got to know each other, I realized more and more that life is worth living. Having had a troubled past, I was just coasting through it.
So I started watching a bit more what I ate. I cooked more at home to impress her. After we both moved in together about two years ago, we started really taking food seriously and counting all our calories. I started out eating 2000 calories a day, and as of today I’m down to about 1685. I track everything that goes into my body, and I measure and weigh it all.
While we were getting wedding ready in January 2017, I decided I wanted to run a 5k. She was a cross country girl and was used to long distances, so she helped keep me going. I signed up for a the Modesto Marathon 5k and began training using Aaptiv, which is like a personal trainer in your ear. I was mainly just running four or five times a week. I would incorporate weightlifting here and there, but mainly was just running.
Most people can’t stand the thought of running every day when they first start out on a new workout plan. How’d you manage to stay motivated?
Prior to the last year, I stayed away from running like it was the plague. I would lift weights at the gym and get routines from friends of mine. The thought of not being able to be active with my wife and future kids is what keeps me motivated. I want to be able to run around and play with them without being tired all the time. I see the progress my wife and I have made and I don’t want it to go to waste.
Did you experiment with any diets during the process?
In June of 2018, we decided to give keto a shot, and since then, I think my weight loss is primarily a result of the ketogenic diet. I’ve been doing keto for about a year now, and for the first time in my life, I hit my long term goal of weighing 220 pounds. Keto has been helpful to follow, but at the end of the day, it really comes down to a caloric restriction. I’ve now lost more than 140 pounds. It feels unreal to have lost so much weight.
I won’t lie: It’s only until recently that I started to notice my body and the changes I’ve made. I still have a ways to go, but I’m making a ton of progress. I feel incredibly proud of my accomplishments, and I never want to bounce back to what I was before.
What are some of the other positive side effects you’ve felt as a result of losing the weight?
I gained a massive amount of confidence.Thankfully, my wife loved me when I was a big ol’ tubby bear, and so now with the weight loss I know she’s in it for who I am, which is an amazing feeling. I do notice that people are more willing to take me seriously when I speak, too. Getting in and out of seats and going up stairs is a lot more comfortable. Just being able to move in general. My sleep quality has gone up, although I still wear a CPAP machine to bed.
What’s your end goal? Do you have a specific weight you’d like to hit?
The next goal is to get under 200 pounds. I’d love to try and get into the 180s-I want to see if I can push myself that far. I’m also scared of being in maintenance mode. Since so much of my life has now been about losing weight, I’m not sure how to just maintain. I also want to run a 10k-I fell in love with running and it’s such an incredible sport. I was just able to go out and do a 4 mile run without stopping, so I’m making progress.
What advice do you give to people who are just getting started and have a challenging road ahead?
First, buy a food scale-it’s what I tell everyone. Download MyFitnessPal, find out how many calories you can eat, and create a deficit. The process of losing weight is simple: Eat less than you burn and you will lose weight. It’s incredibly difficult in practice, but the process is simple.
Next, stop focusing so much on exercise: Yes, it will help, but it probably shouldn’t be your first step. Weight loss truly begins in the kitchen and it is the hardest part. It helps when you realize that 30-minute run equates to just one or two donuts, and you decide it’s not worth it.
Lastly, I would say, enjoy life. Do not be too hard on yourself, or you’ll fail. You will mess up. You will have bad days. But mistakes and failures make you grow. If you are staying consistent overall, you will lose the weight and keep it off. Focus on building a better lifestyle for yourself rather than lowering the scale.
Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, has dissolved the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) and other transport unions in the state.
This was contained in a statement by his Chief Press Secretary, Kunle Somorin.
It named a 13-man committee to coordinate the activities of road transport trade unions.
The committee chaired by Barrister Sunday Olufemi Adeniyi, has Hon. Kunle Adeyemi, Hon. Afolabi Afuape, Mr. Aremu Babatunde, Hon. Olaitan Asekun, Mr Jokotade Taofeek Kashimawo and Hon. Kunle Mudashiru as members.
Others are Hon. Sule Abbas, Hon Razaq Adetokunbo (Legelege), Mr Lekan Oguntayo. Hon Yaya Fadipe and Hon. Kayode Fabiyi; Engr. Tunji Akinosi is to serve as the Secretary.
“The mandate of the Road Transport Associations’ Interim committee is basically to review the operations of the unions and make recommendations on how the unions could be better organised to support the developmental agenda of the state.
“The interim Committee is expected to educate and create awareness amongst the stakeholders in the sector on the need to ensure peaceful conduct at all times and avoid any activities that could undermine peace, security and safety of life and property in the state.
“The other terms of reference for the transport committee are to institute disciplinary procedures/actions against any conduct or behaviour that could undermine public peace and harness the revenue potential of the road transport for enhanced internally Generated Revenue (IGR) and identification and addressing of any issue(s) that may improve the overall performance of the transport sector in the State,” it added.
Also on Monday, the Governor constituted an ad-hoc Committee to coordinate the 2019 Hajj Operations for Muslim faithful performing this year’s pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina in the absence of a substantive Muslim Welfare Board.
The committee chaired by Imam Mufutau Majekodunmi, has Alhaji Abdul Gafar Orunsolu, Imam Rufai Sile, Alhaji Misbau Salako, Alhaji Tijani Hassan Ishola as members.
Others are Alhaji Tunde Oladunjoye, Dr (Mrs) Raheemat Oloyede Hon. Kamaru Oduntan and Alhaja Bisola Aliu.
Governor Abiodun also appointed Alhaji Abdul Yekin Arimyau Parakoyi as the Amirul Hajj for this year’s pilgrimage.
A Container has fallen on multiple vehicles at the Tin Can Island, Apapa Lagos.
It is not yet ascertained if there were any causalities, but at the time of filing this report, rescue operations are yet to kick off at the scene of the accident.
