MORE babies will be conceived today than any other day this year, a new research has revealed.With the average gestation period for a baby being 40 weeks December 11, exactly 40 weeks prior to September 16, has been labelled as the most fertile day of the year.

December is also the most popular month for conceptions, as 9 per cent of babies are conceived then and the 10 most popular birthdays in the UK are all in September.The United Kingdom’s national birth records show that September 16 is the most popular birthday in the UK.Scientists said that winter is a more fertile season than summer because sperm quality is higher in the cold.

People also have more sex in December than other winter months because of festive partying and end-of-year happiness.Famous people born on September 16 include the actor Mickey Rourke and the singer Katie Melua.

The statistics were compiled by Lovehoney, Britain’s biggest online seller of sex toys, based on established scientific studies. Lovehoney co-founder, Neal Slateford said they were expecting a huge boom in sales prior to December 11.

He said: “December is always one of our busiest month as couples treat each other at Christmas.“Everyone is increasingly doing their Christmas shopping online – who wants to go out to the shops when it is pouring down and there are queues at the check-outs?

“So we are expecting a big surge ahead of December 11, the most fertile and sexiest day of the year, when I guess a lot of broody couples will be staying in and having a good time!”

Bath-based Lovehoney compiled the statistics as it celebrated record sales in 2012, thanks to Fifty Shades of Grey for which it has developed the official range of pleasure products.

Turn-over shot up by a third, driven by a record demand for toys such as the silver balls featured in the E L James trilogy.

The police in Lagos yesterday, arraigned five women suspected to be commercial sex workers and four men accused of patronising them.The defendants were charged with prostitution, unlawful gathering, breach of peace and loitering before an Ojokoro Magistrates’ Court.They are: Emeka Chukwuma, 28; Paul Okon, 26; Fabian Sunday, 26; Shedrach John, 30 and Angel David, 27.

Others are: Destiny Moses, 30; Chinyere Mbadiwe, 27; Gift Okon, 29, and Edith David, 27.All of the defendants, however, pleaded not guilty to the four-count charge.Magistrate K.O. Ogundare granted each of them bail in the sum of N100, 000 and a surety each.

The prosecutor, Insp. Clara Olagbaiye, said that the defendants committed the offences on Nov. 4 at the Wisdon Bar Hotel, Ikotun/Igando Rd. at 8.30p.m.“The nine of them gathered unlawfully and conducted themselves in a manner likely to cause breach of peace, “ she said.

She said that the women were loitering and soliciting for sex, while the men were some of their customers.The court adjourned the case till Jan. 11.

The Registrar of the National Examinations Council (NECO), Prof Promise Okplala says the Council has introduced the use of customised answer scripts for its examination.
Okpala told reporters on Tuesday, in Abuja that the customised answer scripts would  tackle the challenge of hoarding of remnants of answer scripts by invigilators.
He said such “left over scripts’’ are then sold by the supervisors to fraudsters who engaged in various forms of examination malpractice.
“The Nigeria of those days is not possible in 2012. They (Examination fraudsters) have so many ways of cheating and we, on our part are always coming out with ways to counter them.
“These customised scripts appear alike, but every paper has a unique secret code. So if you use the answer script for English Language, for instance, to answer Biology, we will fish you out,” he said.

The Registrar explained that the secret code was only known to three people and would only be revealed to the invigilator an hour before the examination.
“So we want to let the public know, especially those that are engaged in examination malpractice, do not bother to write outside the hall because your script will be fished out.”
He said part of the measures put in place to secure examination papers were cancellation of “sleeping places’’ , where papers are kept in overnight custody at police stations, banks and even palaces of chiefs in the community.
He said that papers were now kept in a single location, and that is NECO’s state offices, where security had also been tightened.
Okpala said the papers were then transported as early as 5 a.m. on the day of the examination to the examination centres by the many vehicles that were stationed there.
“That is why we have shifted our examination time to 10 a.m. because by then we estimate that the papers would have reached all the centres within the state.
“That has led to an increase in the cost of our logistics, because during full operations, we use as many as 400 vehicles and drivers would be paid allowances,” he said.
Okpala said the foregoing, as well as printing examination questions in batches, had also helped to minimise leakage.
“Most importantly, we do not joke with our staff welfare to prevent inducement by dubious people who offer them `kola’.”
The Registrar who attributed malpractice to lack of preparation on the part of students, urged parents and teachers to prepare candidates for examinations well ahead of time.
“This is all due to the fact that students are not well prepared and so do not have confidence in themselves.
“Let us go back to the roots and make sure we prepare candidates who will be eager to go into examination halls, because nobody seeks for support in a game one can win clean,’’ he advised.
Courtesy NAN

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An Australian radio station Tuesday pledged at least Aus$500,000 (US$523,600) to help the grieving family of a nurse duped by a royal prank phone call, after coming under sustained scrutiny over the hoax.
Nurse Jacintha Saldanha, who fielded the hoax call from Sydney station 2Day FM to London’s King Edward VII Hospital, was found Friday after apparently committing suicide.
The Indian-born mother-of-two put the call through to a colleague, who divulged details of the recovery of Prince William’s pregnant wife Kate from severe morning sickness.
The station initially suspended all advertising after the death but said it would resume Thursday, with all profits until the end of the year given to an “appropriate fund that will directly benefit the family of Jacintha Saldanha”.
The amount donated would be at least Aus$500,000, it said.
“We are very sorry for what has happened,” Rhys Holleran, chief executive of Southern Cross Austereo which owns the station, said in a statement.
“We hope that by contributing to a memorial fund we can help to provide the Saldanha family with the support they need at this very difficult time.”

In the wake of the death the company suspended all prank calls across its network and cancelled the show which ran the segment.
But the station remains under renewed pressure to fully explain how its royal prank call was cleared to air after the shattered hosts said they were not ultimately responsible.
In an emotional public appearance Monday, 2Day FM presenters Mel Greig and Michael Christian said that while they made the call to the hospital, the hoax was vetted by others without their involvement.
“It’s not up to us to make that decision (to air). We just record it and then it goes to the other departments to work out,” said Greig in an emotional interview with Australia’s Nine Network.
Christian added: “There’s a process in place for prank calls or anything that makes it to air, and you know, that’s out of our hands.”
Media pressure is growing in Australia for the network to fully explain how the segment made it to air, with the Sydney Daily Telegraph claiming senior management were “dodging responsibility”.

In an online report, the ABC’s Europe correspondent added: “Some of the British media is asking the question, well, we still don’t know who ultimately made that decision.”
Holleran has said the station called the London hospital five times to discuss what it had recorded before going to air.
Under Australian regulations, the permission of anyone bearing the brunt of a radio prank must be sought before the call can be broadcast.
But the hospital denied on Monday that anyone within its senior management or media unit were contacted.
Holleran has insisted the appropriate checks were conducted before the pre-recorded segment was broadcast, and defended the presenters in an interview Monday with Australia’s Ten Network.
The stunt was vetted by lawyers before being aired but no one else involved in the decision has been named.
The case has triggered demands for tougher regulation of the electronic media although Australia’s press regulator, the Australian Communications and Media Authority, has not commented on whether the station broke any rules.
Saldanha’s “devastated” husband and teenage children made an emotional public appearance for the first time Monday outside Britain’s Houses of Parliament, speaking through lawmaker Keith Vaz, whose family is also from India.
“This is a close family. They are devastated by what has happened. They miss her every moment of every day,” said Vaz, alongside Benedict Barboza and the couple’s children aged 14 and 16.
“They just want me to say that they are extremely grateful to the public here in the United Kingdom and throughout the world who have sent them messages of condolences and support following the death of Jacintha, a loving mother and a loving wife.”
The family later visited the King Edward VII Hospital, which is launching the memorial fund for them.
Courtesy AFP

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South Africa’s former President Nelson Mandela is being treated for a lung infection, it was revealed as he spent his fourth day in hospital today.
The announcement came as Mandela’s wife Graca Machel said her husband was losing his trademark “spirit and sparkle”.
A statement from current President Jacob Zuma’s office said today: “Doctors have concluded the tests, and these have revealed a recurrence of a previous lung infection, for which Madiba is receiving appropriate treatment and he is responding to the treatment.”
Mrs Machel told a South African television news channel: “I mean, this spirit and this sparkle, you see that somehow it’s fading.
“To see him aging, it’s something also which pains you. You understand and you know it has to happen,” she said.
Mr Mandela’s grand-daughter Ndileka told the same news channel that the anti-apartheid icon has come to accept his condition.
She said: “He has come to accept that it’s part of growing old, and it’s part of humanity as such.”
“At some point you will be dependent on someone else, he has come to embrace it.”
The pair’s comments are the first official remarks by Mr Mandela’s family since the former President was rushed to hospital on Saturday.
Courtesy The Sun

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A man who was wanted for allegedly defiling a juvenile in Zimbabwe and escaping twice from police custody reportedly turned into a baboon when he was arrested by members of the Neighbourhood Watch Committee.

The man has been on the run for the past two months. It is alleged that on 2 December he returned to the area pretending to have forgotten his ‘sins’. The fuming villagers reportedly teamed up and proceeded to his place baying for his blood.

A reliable source said: “When people arrived at his homestead, he locked up himself in one of the bedroom huts. Villagers wanted to teach him a lifetime lesson and set him as an example to other would-be rapists therefore they broke down the door to get him. Ndlovu, realising that villagers were baying for his blood, confessed his sins, asking for forgiveness and promised to hand himself over to the police.”

Some fuming villagers did not tolerate or listen to his pleas and started meting instant justice on him. Fortunately, members of the Neighbourhood Watch Committee came to his rescue and stopped the mob from taking the law into their own hands.

“When the villagers were busy beating up Ndlovu, police officers arrived and stopped them saying they were arresting him. The villagers tried to convince them that it was high time they disciplined the man since police had failed, but they took him away,” said the source.

On their way to the Police Station, it is alleged that the man turned into a baboon sending three Neighbourhood Watch Committee members scurrying for cover.

“You know the villagers were surprised to see the three policemen running as if someone was chasing after them. They even failed to stop and we followed them to their homesteads to ask what had happened on the way. What we heard was unbelievably, despite talking to them separately, their story was the same,” said the source.

One of the Neighbourhood Watch Committee members Nkosilathi Dube confirmed the incident saying: “I have never seen a person turning into a baboon but he did when we were taking him to the police station as he was being accused of rape. As we were walking, we realised that it was only the three of us and a baboon, that’s when we ran away without saying a word.”

We all know that weird things happen in Africa generally, but a man turning into a baboon have never been heard of before. Do you believe this story? Is it possible or impossible for a human being to turn into a baboon even if he is using jazz?