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Blood sugar levels are very sensitive, especially to diabetic patients. A spike in sugar levels could lead to fatigue, increased urination and thirst. On the flip side, if monitored too closely, blood sugar levels could get too low and can cause weakness, lack of coordination and dizziness. It’s very important to keep a healthy balance and these are some of the ways you can achieve that.

Eat Wholegrain Foods

Eating wholegrain foods or foods made from whole grain is extremely helpful for maintaining sugar levels. Foods like oats, wheat and corn have a high fibre content and this helps keep the stomach full thereby increasing the interval between the next meal. This generally results in a lower sugar content, although, these foods are still carbohydrates and will ultimately increase your sugar content a little bit. They should be consumed moderately unless the subject has a low sugar content.

Snack on Nuts

Walnuts, groundnuts, almond nuts and other members of the nut are great for controlling blood sugar. They contain healthy fats that slow down the body’s absorption of sugar. However, it’s important to be careful with nut consumption especially for people with low sugar content.

Do Not Drink On An Empty Stomach

Most people hear doctors and health professionals mention this but do not know the reason why. When the body consumes alcohol, blood sugar drops for at least 24 hours because the body is trying to get rid of it. Before drinking alcohol make sure you’ve eaten first because sometimes symptoms of low blood sugar like dizziness and lack of coordination could be mistaken for drunkenness.

Do Not Miss Meals

This goes without saying but needs to be mentioned for emphasis. Skipping a meal can cause serious imbalances in your sugar levels especially when it’s breakfast. Eating healthy three times a day will help keep sugar levels balanced.

Eat Your Veggies

Always make sure you don’t skip your vegetables. They contain fibre and healthy nutrients that are essential for maintaining sugar levels and general well-being. Source: guardian

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Renowned entrepreneur and co owner of Cabal Entertainment Obi Asika in an interview with TheCable Lifestyle said that singer Wizkid failed to show up for the ‘Made in America’ concert despite being billed to perform.

He spoke to TheCable Lifestyle during a Copyright Society of Nigeria (COSON) event at the Protea Hotel, Lagos.

Asika spoke about his relationship with Jay-Z’s Roc Nation and how he was singlehandedly responsible for their breaking into the Nigerian entertainment scene.

However, he said that Wizkid missed out on a huge opportunity by not showing up for Jay-Z’s 2017 ‘Made In America’ concert.

“I’ve had a ten-year business and personal relationship with Roc Nation. I’ve been bringing them to Nigeria since 2011,” he said.

“They’ve come to conferences here in Nigeria and they’ve engaged in many things here. They also gave a publishing deal to another company here.

“They recorded a song with Wizkid a year ago. The company paid him to write the songs.

“Roc Nation actually put Wizkid on ‘Made in America’ this year and we were pretty upset he didn’t show up, which is bad for him. These are opportunities that are given to people. Tiwa Savage and Maleek Berry were there but Wizkid wasn’t.

“I’m happy he is on Coachella this year though. These are huge platforms. The whole objective for these artistes is to get on a tour. Wizkid toured with Future last year in North America and Europe.

“If he has some good music that comes out this year as well, he creates more opportunities for himself. It means he can become a touring artiste in Europe and North America as well.

“The transition is to go beyond the hit record,” he said.

Asika also spoke about his new business venture, Cabal Entertainment, and what it entails.

He said, “Cabal is not a record label. It is an entertainment platform. We just happen to have an artiste-relationship with Omawumi [Megbele]. She put out an incredible album, she took a different direction with a Jazz focus.

“Cabal has a global distribution and publishing agreement with Roc Nation. So the company is more of a strategic place, not a label per say.

“Even with Storm Records I never really did just label. We did television and live events. So Cabal has to do with platforms and programming.”

As to if he would work with other artistes, he said, “We do all the time but the truth of the matter is that for me is more about projects than the artistes.

“We were always about that, even with the record label,” he said.

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The attacks, which took place between Tuesday and Wednesday, occurred while the dust was yet to settle on herdsmen attacks on some Benue communities early in the year, which resulted in the death of about 70 residents.

Many other people were said to have been injured in the Taraba incidents while scores of other people were displaced after their homes were torched by the invaders.

No fewer than nine people were cruelly killed in separate attacks in Gishiri, Dooshima and Danwaza villages of Taraba State while another attack by the herdsmen on Karmen village, Ibi Local Government Area, left the traditional ruler, Zaki Gabriel Ukovur, dead.

Eleven people, including women and children, were feared killed in Wukari and six others in Gassol.

The Taraba State Broadcasting Service (TSBS) had reported yesterday that two people were killed on Tuesday when gunmen attacked Donnada village in Lau Local Government area where a mass burial of more than 68 persons took place.

The caretaker chairman of Ibi Local Government Council, Bala Bako, who confirmed the attacks and killings to newsmen in a telephone, said the killers operate on the same network as the Fulani gunmen who attacked Logo and Guma local government areas of Benue State in the New Year, killing about 73 people.

In Ibi Local Government Area, Bako said, the gunmen struck when the people of the area had gathered for a security meeting.

He explained that worried by incessant attacks by Fulani militants and other security challenges, the people had converged to seek a solution, but the meeting had hardly begun when some Fulani marauders emerged from the bush and launched a deadly attack on the people.

Bako said: “We are having security challenges in Ibi Council, and we have been making efforts to ensure that all the ethnic groups in our domain accommodate one another and live together peacefully.”

“The chief (traditional ruler) of Ibi was able to set up a committee that was sitting to find a lasting solution to the problem. It was in one of the meetings that the Fulani gunmen attacked and killed the monarch.”

“The people had gathered and were waiting for us for the security meeting when suddenly an armed Fulani man emerged and started shooting. The local chief was killed during the attack.”

Despite wielding guns, eyewitnesses said, the attackers used sticks to hack the monarch to death in a gruesome manner.

“It was dreadful,” one resident said.

The council chairman said he mobilized security men who went and evacuated the corpse.

Bako shares the same view with Benue State governor, Samuel Ortom, that the killer herdsmen invaded Taraba from Nasarawa State.

“We share a border with Benue and Nasarawa states, and most times, these Fulanis cross over from Nasarawa to attack and go back.”

“We are trying to close all the routes they have been using to attack us.”

“The killings in Dooshima and Gishiri, near Sarkin Kudu, were also done by the group which attacked Benue.”

“On their way back to Nasarawa, they have been killing anyone they meet on the way,” he said.

Confirming the attacks in a telephone conversation with our correspondent yesterday, Taraba State governor, Darius Ishaku, said some communities were being attacked by herdsmen in the state even as he spoke.

“How can you be killing people because of grasses or cows?” he wondered.

“Yesterday, they attacked and killed innocent people in Taraba without provocation. Today, an hour ago, they attacked some communities and killed people. Is that how people should continue to be killed?”

“The killings by Fulani herdsmen in some parts of the country is more than the feud between farmers and cattle pastoralists.”

“It is a drive for territorial control, and we need to protect the people. We must protect the country.”

Ishaku yesterday insisted that the “Open Grazing Prohibition and Ranches Establishment Law” has come to stay, as unprovoked attacks and killings by Fulani militants have continued unabated after mass burials of 73 persons in Benue and 68 in Taraba State.

The governor urged the elite in Taraba State to join hands and eschew the temptation of playing politics with the security and economic well-being of the masses.

Members of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria are in court challenging the anti-open grazing law which comes into enforcement January 24.

The Taraba State Chairman of the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association, Sahabi Tukur, told newsmen that the state government has not put in place measures to ensure that herdsmen have a smooth switch from their traditional open grazing to ranching, which he said is a more challenging system of rearing cattle. According to him, ranching requires a commitment of huge sums of money to acquire land and develop infrastructure for the benefit of the animals.

He said: “The timing of the law is wrong because it fails to carry all the major stakeholders along, and the government has also failed to provide some of the basic infrastructures to enable the herdsmen key into the idea of ranching.”

“We have few days to the take-off of the law and not even a single foot of land has been allocated for ranching. So, what do you expect the herdsmen to do?”

Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State told a delegation of All Progressive Congress (APC) governors who visited him in Makurdi that all is still not well in the state despite assurances from the federal authorities about boosting security.

“We thank God that peace is gradually returning to the state but there are still pockets of challenges here, we know the challenges will soon be over because our people are always alert to give useful information to security operatives around,” he said.

He alleged continued threats by herders to unleash more terror on the people.

”Let me tell you that our people are still living in fear and under siege; living in fear because of the series of threat by Kautal Hore which started the threat since seven months ago, they are not mere threats,” Ortom said.

“We have evidence against them, what we are saying is that federal government should arrest the leadership of Kautal Hore.”

The delegation which was led by Governor Shetima Kashim of Borno State also comprised Simon Lalong (Plateau), Mallam El Rufai (Kaduna), Yahaya Bello (Kogi), Mohamad Abubakar (Jigawa) and Osun State deputy governor, Titilayo Tomori.

Governor Kashim commiserated with the government and people of the state over the recent killings but warned against attempts by “some political dinosaur from Abuja or any part of the country to cause unnecessary issues.”

Meanwhile, Police Inspector-General, Ibrahim Idris yesterday removed Mr. Bashir Makama as the Benue State Police Commissioner.

The immediate past Lagos State Police Commissioner, Mr.Fatai Owoseni was named as Makama’s successor

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The United States government shut down at the stroke of midnight Friday, halting all but the most essential operations and marring the one-year anniversary of President Donald Trump’s inauguration, Vanguard Nigeria reports.

According to Associated Press, last-minute negotiations crumbled as Senate Democrats blocked a four-week stopgap extension in a late-night vote, causing the fourth government shutdown in a quarter century.

Trump’s office issued a statement blaming opposition Democrats for the crisis.

AFP reported that spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said the Democrats’ insistence that the interim measure include protection for undocumented immigrants who arrived as children killed the deal.

“Senate Democrats own the Schumer Shutdown,” she declared, referring to the minority leader, New York Senator Chuck Schumer, who met with Trump earlier Friday.

“Tonight, they put politics above our national security, military families, vulnerable children, and our country’s ability to serve all Americans.

“We will not negotiate the status of unlawful immigrants while Democrats hold our lawful citizens hostage over their reckless demands,” she warned.

US federal services and military operations deemed essential will continue, but thousands of government workers will be sent home without pay until the crisis is resolved.

The slide toward closure lacked for high drama: The Senate vote was all but predetermined, and since the shutdown began at the start of a weekend, many of the immediate effects will be muted for most Americans.

Still, it comes with no shortage of embarrassment for Trump and political risk for both parties, as they wager that voters will punish the other at the ballot box in November.

Social Security and most other safety net programs are unaffected by the lapse in federal spending authority.

Critical government functions will continue, with uniformed service members, health inspectors and law enforcement officers set to work without pay. But if no deal is brokered before Monday, hundreds of thousands of federal employees will be furloughed.

After hours of closed-door meetings and phone calls, the Senate scheduled its late-night vote on a House-passed plan. It gained 50 votes to proceed to 48 against, but 60 were needed to break a Democratic filibuster. A handful of red-state Democrats crossed the aisle to support the measure, rather than take the politically-risky vote. Four Republicans voted in opposition.

Even before the vote, Trump was pessimistic, tweeting, “Not looking good” and blaming the Democrats who he said actually wanted the shutdown “to help diminish the success” of the tax bill he and fellow Republicans pushed through last month.

Democrats balked on the measure in an effort to pressure on the White House to cut a deal to protect “dreamer” immigrants — who were brought to the country as children and are now here illegally — before their legal protection runs out in March.

Trump watched the results from his White House residence, dialling up allies and affirming his belief that Democrats would take the blame for the shutdown, said a person familiar with his conversations but not authorized to discuss them publicly.

Predictably, both parties moved swiftly to blame one another. Democrats laid fault with Republicans, who control both chambers of Congress and the White House and have struggled with building internal consensus. Republicans declared Democrats responsible, after they declined to provide the votes needed to overcome a filibuster in the Senate over their desire to force the passage of legislation to protect some 700,000 younger immigrants from deportation.

Republicans branded the confrontation a “Schumer shutdown” and argued that Democrats were harming fellow Americans to protect “illegal immigrants.”

Trump had brought Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer to the White House Friday afternoon in hopes of cutting a deal. But the two New Yorkers, who pride themselves on their negotiating abilities, emerged without an agreement, and Republicans and Democrats in Congress continued to pass off responsibility.