Riddle of the day

Well I've been stuck on this riddle for weeks.lol anyone know the answer??

Are you getting enough sleep?

The amount of sleep a person needs depends on many factors, including age. For example, in general:

• Infants require about 14-15 hours a day.
• Teenagers need about 8.5-9.5 hours on average.
• Most adults need 7 to 9 hours a night for the best amount of sleep, although some people may need as few as 6 hours or as many as 10 hours of sleep each day.
• Women in the first 3 months of pregnancy often need several more hours of sleep than usual.

However, experts say that if you feel drowsy during the day, even during boring activities, you haven't had enough sleep.

Sleep Deprivation Debits

The amount of sleep a person needs also increases if he or she has been deprived of sleep in previous days. Getting too little sleep creates a "sleep debt," which is much like being overdrawn at a bank. Eventually, your body will demand that the debt be repaid. We don't seem to adapt to getting less sleep than we need, while we may get used to a sleep-depriving schedule, our judgment, reaction time, and other functions are still impaired.

Culled from: webmd

Gunners jubilate as late Podolski goal gives Wenger a spectacular birthday present

A late Lukas Podolski goal gave Arsenal a dramatic 2-1 win over Anderlecht in the Champions League on Wednesday evening.

The team was in low spirits after Andy Najar's 71st-minute header gave Anderlecht a deserved lead in the Group D Champions League encounter.

But Anthony Vanden Borre hit the post and Anderlecht wasted other late chances, for which they were made to pay.

Kieran Gibbs first drew Arsenal level in the 88th minute, volleying home at the back post, before Podolski rifled in from close range in the 91st minute.

Chancel Mbemba Mangulu could not clear Alexis Sanchez's cut-back and the rebound fell invitingly to the Germany international, who sent the away fans wild with a simple finish from four yards.
Source:goal.com

To all my football fans: Who do you think were the top performers in tonight's match??

I think Chambers was definitely one of them.

The comments section is open for discussion :)

Kanye West gushes over wife, Kim on twitter

Reality star, Kim Kardashian-west turned 34 on Tuesday and family and friends took to social media to wish her a happy birthday.

Kanye west also sent a loving message to his wife and only person he follows on twitter:

"Happy Birthday baby! Thank you for being the dopest wife & mom!"

"Sometimes I feel like just saying 'I love you' isn’t strong enough to express how much I love you..."

Kanye, 37 and wife plan a private celebration.

WHO to get Ebola serum in weeks and start vaccine tests in Africa by January

The World Health Organisation has announced its plans to begin testing two experimental Ebola vaccines in west Africa by January 2014, and may have a blood serum treatment available for use in Liberia within two weeks.

The UN’s health agency said it aimed to begin testing the two vaccines in the new year on more than 20,000 frontline health care workers and others in West Africa.

credit: guardian

House of Reps okays creation of 10 new states in Nigeria

Source:Vanguard

DEPUTY Speaker of the House of Representatives, Bayero Nafada, who is also Chairman of the ad-hoc Committee of the House of Representatives on Review of the 1999 Constitution, yesterday, said that the National Assembly would create 10 new states, with five from the North and five from the South, by next year.

Nafada also said Nigerians should expect an amended 1999 constitution with landmark modification, in May, 2010.
The Deputy Speaker, who was fielding questions from National Assembly reporters, however, said the electoral reform would not authorize Nigerians in the diaspora to vote in the forth-coming elections.

The House of Representatives had, Tuesday, amended 44 clauses of the 1999 constitution after the Senate had done same last March.

According to the Deputy Speaker, the two chambers of the National Assembly would form a joint-conference committee for the harmonization of amendments passed by each House.

He said: Each chamber would pick about five each from its constitutional review committee to form the conference committee. That task cannot take more than two days.

Transmission of amended constitution

After the harmonization, we would transmit the amended constitution to the 36 States Houses of Assembly of the Federation. Before now, we have been meeting with the leadership of the Speakers’ Conference of Nigeria and the seven governors representing the Governors Forum in the review of the constitution led by Governor Gabriel Suswam of Benue State.

All of them have assured us that it would take only one day for the states to vote either to reject of endorse it. The States Houses of Assemblies are not to alter or add anything new to what the National Assembly had sent them.

They are just expected to vote on it, and when we have two-third of the 36 states voting in favour of the amendments, we would then bring the amendments to the third reading at the Senate and the House of Reps.

If the amendment passes third, it automatically becomes a law, and the amended constitution stands. This is the only law that does not require the assent of the President. It starts and stops here at the National Assembly.

On the creation of new states, Nafada said the National Assembly had agreed that due to the strong agitation for more states, and considering the genuine fact of most of the demands, new states would be created before the end of the current assembly next year.

He said: The creation of new states is not as rigorous as the amendment of the constitution. The Governors Forum and many powerful interest groups have been inundating us with these demands.

There are suggestions that five new states should be created from the North and five from the South, and we are taking that suggestion very seriously. But others are asking that four be created for the North and four for the South, we are also studying it.

He did not, however, gave any hint on which states the proposed ones would be carved out of, but noted, there is no running from the fact that new states would be created next year.

The deputy speaker told newsmen that the Review of the Electoral Act would kick-off next week, stressing: We, as a committee, have since finished our work and have submitted to the House. But, by next week, we would commence debate and voting after the consideration of the report, just as we have done on the constitution.

Asked if the new Electoral Act would empower the millions of Nigerians in the diaspora to vote in future elections, he said No, adding: We have weighed the benefit and cost of the exercise and we all agreed that the cost was far above the benefit.

Therefore, "we are not going to change that clause in the electoral act to allow Nigerians abroad to vote. And I understand that the Chairman of the National Electoral Commission, INEC, is trying to carry out pilot voting for Nigerians in four countries. If he tries that, he would be doing so against the law, and he must be ready to bear the consequence"

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