15 types of sex you have in your 20s

by Emma Grey

When you received that copy of “Oh! The Places You’ll Go!” for your college graduation, the well-meaning relative who presented it was probably thinking of your intended career path (or the four others you’ve tried since) or the cities where you might live. But as many 30-somethings looking back can attest, your 20s often involve experimentation of another variety as well. Between the ages of 20 and 30, your life is probably going to involve a decent amount of sex. And since this is the decade of exploring your options, that sex tends to be anything but uniform.

Here are 15 types of sex that you probably have had (or will have) during your 20-something years:

**Disclaimer: Some of the following can happen simultaneously.**

‘Gangnam Style’ Now Most-viewed YouTube video of All Time

South Korean rapper Psy (M) doing his hit ‘Gangnam Style’ 

Congratulations, Internet.

"Gangnam Style," the unlikely smash hit by South Korean rapper Psy, has surpassed Justin Bieber's "Baby" to become the most-watched YouTube video of all time.

The video--featuring Psy's meme-ready dance moves--has racked up more than 815 million views since it was uploaded to YouTube on July 15. Bieber's "Baby," which has been watched more than than 803 million times since it was posted in February 2010, reports The Sideshow.

"#GangnamStyle just became the most watched video @YouTube!" Psy (real name: Park Jae-Sang) tweeted on Saturday. "#History."

A Matter of Life (1): The Genesis of Assisted Conception and Blocked Fallopian Tubes

Blocked Fallopian Tubes

By Olumide Alexandre

This educational series was adopted  from the autobiographical account of the world’s first test-tube baby – a feat that was earlier achieved in 1978 by the  2010 Nobel Laureates’ in Medicine and Physiology for their 34-year long success story that has now brought smiles to over 4million families worldwide.

The Challenge

The life changing question that nurtured a series of inventions and innovations in reproductive medicine was asked during a ward round where one of Mr Gwillim’s medical students at St. George’s Hospital in London would champion the science of Assisted Reproduction Technology. The seed of invention sprouted in the following conversation that ensued with a patient during a ward round:

Mr. Gwillim (Consultant Gynaecologist):

“…but if the egg cannot descend down the Fallopian tubes because these are obstructed in the first place, none of that (process of conception) can happen.”

Patient (with an astonishing look):

Smoking 'Rots' Brain, Says Study

Smoking is believed to affect the mind as well as body

Smoking "rots" the brain by damaging memory, learning and reasoning, according to researchers at King's College London.

A study of 8,800 people over 50 showed high blood pressure and being overweight also seemed to affect the brain, but to a lesser extent.

Scientists involved said people needed to be aware that lifestyles could damage the mind as well as the body, reports the BBC.

Their study was published in the journal Age and Ageing.

Researchers at King's were investigating links between the likelihood of a heart attack or stroke and the state of the brain.

Data about the health and lifestyle of a group of over-50s was collected and brain tests, such as making participants learn new words or name as many animals as they could in a minute, were also performed. They were all tested again after four and then eight years.

Nigeria Records $35.44 Billion Forex Inflow

 Euro, Dollar notes

Obinna Chima
 
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has disclosed that a total forex inflow of $35.44 billion was realised by the country as at June this year, compared to $28.85billion as at the end of June 2011.

The central bank stated this in its Economic Report for the first half of 2012, posted on its website Thursday.

This, according to the regulator, reflected rise in crude oil receipts and autonomous inflows. However, forex outflow dropped relative to the level in the corresponding period of 2011.

“The exchange rate was relatively stable during the first half of 2012. The demand pressure moderated at the forex market owing to the intervention by the bank and the increased supplies from autonomous sources,” it explained.

The report also showed that total federally-collected revenue (gross), at N5.577 trillion in the first half of the year, was 15.1 and 17.2 per cent higher than both the proportionate budget estimate for fiscal 2012 and the actual revenue in the corresponding period of 2011, respectively.

Oil revenue also contributed 78.1 per cent and non-oil revenue accounted for the balance during the period under review.

Reducing the Scourge of Poverty, Creating New Economic Spaces (1)

President Goodluck Jonathan

By Oluwasoromidayo George

Many say poverty is a curse, if this is the case then quite a number of Nigerians are living under a great burden.
Nigeria is a country blessed with abundant natural resources; while agriculture is said to contribute over 45 per cent of Nigeria’s GDP and provide employment for 90 per cent of the rural population, it is oil that tops the list of these largely untapped resources andaccounts for a large part of the country’s income. The agriculture sector is still largely undeveloped.

In the first quarter of this year 2012, the National Bureau of Statistics said that the percentage of Nigerians living in abject poverty – those who can afford only the bare essentials of food, shelter and clothing – rose to 60.9 per cent compared with 54.7 per cent in 2004.

“NBS estimates that this trend may have increased further in 2011 if the potential positive impact of several anti-poverty and employment generation intervention programmes are not taken into account”. They said poverty in Nigeria may have risen to 71.5 per cent. Although billions of dollars have been pumped into the county as aid by multilateral agencies and other donor organisations, majority of Nigerians still wallow in abject poverty.

Sanusi’s Economic Therapy

Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi

No matter how offensive, how unpopular, how  controversial, you can always trust Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi , the CBN governor to speak his mind. He courts controversy. And he has swum  through many rivers of controversy.

And during the week, he struck again, this time at Warri,  during the Capital market retreat, where he called for the sacking of 50 per cent of the nation’s work force, scrapping of the Local Government Councils,  so that the economy can be sustained. Mr CBN Governor, I strongly disagree. I wonder how a public servant of his status and knowledge can even contemplate the idea. While I agree that more fiscal discipline need to be applied in managing our resources, and concerted efforts be made to tackle leakages, wastages and outright corruption in the service,  the way to  a stronger economy cannot be in halving the workforce.

That is the kind of suggestion IMF will give. It is the height of senseless capitalism to want to recoup all the money, have a swathe of burgeoning bank account, but not have peace. Does Sanusi understand that there is a direct correlation between crime and employment? It is bad enough that the labour market is spilling out angry and frustrated youths, yet it will be worse for the society to have the youths’ fathers, uncles and mothers now sacked. The end result will be like administering a drug that will kill both the disease and the patient. Kai Mallam, think again!!!! 

Culled: thisdaylive.com

Hacking Scandal: Leveson Recommends Tougher Controls for British Media

UK Prime Minister, David Cameron

Omololu Ogunmade with agency reports

After almost one year of full-scale enquiry into the events leading to the phone-hacking scandal in the United Kingdom, Lord Justice Leves on Thursday submitted his report. The panel was set up by Prime Minister David Cameron to examine the question of standards and ethics in the media industry in the country. 

In his report, Leveson recommended the introduction of the first press law in Britain since the 17th century – proposing that a statutory body such as Ofcom should take responsibility for monitoring an overhauled Press Complaints Commission (PCC).
This, he suggested, will cause the British media to be more conscious about the ethics of the profession, which could ultimately lead to the protection of the rights of the citizenry.

The proposal – made despite the fierce opposition of some conservative stakeholders in the industry such as Fleet Street, to the introduction of the statute – is designed to reassure the public that newspapers are subject to an effective and independent regulator to prevent a repetition of phone hacking or other scandals.
In the 56-page executive summary, Leveson said the purpose of the legislation was “not to establish a body to regulate the press”.  But he warned that if newspapers were not prepared to join a revamped PCC, it would be necessary to force Ofcom to act as a “backstop regulator”.

A New Consciousness to Art

Paintograph and Paintocast-A New Consciousness and exploratory exhibition of mixed media and prints by Kunle Adeyemi was recently held at the Quintessence Arts Gallery, Ikoyi, Lagos. The visuals on display presented experiments, techniques and processes of artworks produced during the artist’s exploratory research at Abraka. Mary Ekah writes

“Paintograph and Paintocast” Kunle Adeyemi said, is a vocabulary he generated during his research for a PHD programme in Delta State University, Abraka.  “As the Whiteman has generated oil painting, water colour, acrylics and the rest of them. I believe that we actually have the same wherewithal to look at our world, particularly from the local content and generate some ideas, vocabulary and structures and that is actually what I have come up with. So, Paintograph and Paintocast is a synergy between painting, printmaking and sculpture. Before now, all these were different genres of art but right now I am saying that there should not be any boundary any longer.

“So I have actually created an avenue for the boundary to be broken. And there is no regret about it because this is our time and we need to postulate some of these things so that the generation coming would be able to take it up from there. I am actually working on an existing framework. However I stand on that framework and I know that the next generation will equally work on this same framework that we are building now”, he explained his new concept, he explained his work to THISDAY.

Making Nigeria Work

Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo

THE WAY WE ARE: Ideas for a Better Nigeria by Jonas Odocha; Eagleman Books; 2012; 265pp

One has lost count of the number of books published in recent times on the subject of Nigeria and the challenge of building a strong, united and prosperous nation. So when I was asked to review a new book, The Way We Are: Ideas for a Better Nigeria, on the same subject, I was not enthusiastic. However, a close look at the book and its content compelled me to read it and I am glad I did. This 265-page book of 27 chapters held me spell-bound for two days. The book is illuminating and of profound relevance to the present moment. It is a gripping read and should be made available to every Nigerian and to lovers of Nigeria. 

Jonas Odocha has a compelling style that draws the reader like magnet. But perhaps what is so amazing about the book is that, though the subject matter – Nigeria and the challenge of nationhood – is a serious one, the reader derives great pleasure going through the book. This is largely a result of the author’s style: a combination of humour and a type of native intelligence that I have encountered only in few writers who have written about the same subject. Some of the issues the author analyzes with remarkable competence are the climate of insecurity, violence and the culture of mediocrity that have beclouded and arrested Nigeria’s development; the failure of leadership at different levels in the country; the acts of injustice inflicted on Nigerians, especially Ndigbo, before the civil war, during the war and since after war; and the bewildering periodic and meticulously planned massacres of people of different religious or ethnic origins.

Life in Lagos Island

Living in posh Lagos neighbourhoods such as Ikoyi, Victoria Island, Lekki and Ajah comes with its thrill and challenges. Bennett Oghifo highlights some of these

Many people in Lagos dream of living a high society lifestyle which is apparent on the Lagos Island but it remains a tall dream for a good number. Famous for being a bustling hub of commerce, coupled with the tall and luxury apartments therein, living as well as doing business on the Lagos Island is considered a status symbol. It is meant for the movers and shakers of the society and it is comparable to living in any major European or first world country.

Lagos Island is home to numerous world-class shopping plazas, clubs, supermarkets, pharmacies, fashion houses, boutiques, saloons among others. With its classy and serene environment, most of the residents describe Lagos Island as being quiet and peaceful. According to Temitope Oladotun, a real estate valuer that lives in Ajah “Lagos Island has one of the lowest crime rate in the state. It has a very well educated and enlightened group of residents.” Speaking on the beautiful environment and structures on the Island, Emeka Nduba, an architect, explains that illegal structures do not spring up easily on Lagos Island especially Lekki area of the Island with the present transformation of the road networks. He added that the resident associations which are conservative quickly rise to save the situation and put a stop to construction of any illegal structure.

Single Parenting: Living with the Trend

Family sketch (Artwork)

In today’s society, for too many people, the two-parent family norm is fast losing its appeal; with numerous adults preferring the single parenting system for personal reasons, despite its challenges. Ebere Nwiro examines the trend

“Yes, I grew up with my mother. I was just four years old when my dad walked away from mother. I was crying as he left, because he had just given my mother the beating of her life. The condition in which he left us just after bringing us to Lagos for the first time impacted my upbringing and changed the outcome of both my mother’s life and my own forever”.

Ms. Uzoamaka Aniegbu, narrated her ordeal of growing up with a single parent and becoming one herself, “We went from a sophisticated and comfortable life to living in one room apartment in Orile a place in Lagos State Nigeria, it was a very terrible experience growing up I must tell you.”

My mother who wasn't well educated and had never worked had to start up all sorts of petty businesses so as to cater for me and my younger brother.  We could barely pay the rent, life was very difficult compared to what we were used to.

Commuters Worry over Falling Standard of BRT

Commuters inside BRT bus

The idea of introducing the Bus Rapid Transit system BRT was to improve the quality of commuting for Lagos residents without stress. It has always been hectic and appalling. However, commuters now worry over the falling standards in this once comfortable means of transportation. Ebere Nwiro writes

Before the Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) was introduced in Lagos, there was the use of the 18-seater mini buses and the Molues, which are the big buses converted from trucks that were designed to accommodate from 44 to 50 passengers per trip. The molue buses, though designed to convey 50 persangers, are known to convey close to 100 passengers many of who are squashed together and those without seats are packed into the aisle or hang on the doorway. Commuting on these tightly-seated buses was an experience one would not want to have twice because they were always crowded and filthy.

More than anything else, the drivers of the molue buses and their conductors were notoriously known to be unrepentantly overbearing. The buses themselves usually have loud horns which these drivers use at will to discourage and annoy other road users with their trademark rough driving.

Chelsea Regret Handling of Clattenburg Racism Accusation

John Mikel Obi talking with referee, Mark Clattenburg

BBC

Chelsea say they "regret" the way they handled their accusation that referee Mark Clattenburg used racial language at midfielder John Mikel Obi.

The Blues also regretted the subsequent "intense media scrutiny" faced by Clattenburg and his family, reports the BBC.

The allegations were dismissed by the Football Association and the police dropped their own inquiry.

A Premier League, Match Officials Board and Chelsea statement said: "It is time to draw a line under this incident."

Culled:Thisdaylive.com

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