Report: Anti-Semitic incidents in U.S. up 86 percent in 2017

Volunteers help clean Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery in University City, Missouri on February 22, where vandals toppled nearly 200 headstones on February 20. A report released Monday by the Anti Defamation League said incidents of assault, vandalism and harassment of Jewish people and institutions in the United States increased in the first quarter of 2017. Photo by Bill Greenblatt/UPI 

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April 24 (UPI) -- Anti-Semitic incidents in the United States, including vandalism and assaults, increased 86 percent in the first quarter of 2017, the Anti-Defamation League revealed Monday.

AMERICAS Barack Obama returns to public life today

Barack Obama

Barack Obama is to give his first major public speech since leaving the White House today, returning to the city where he began his political career.

Ebonyi bans consumption of Coke, Sprite, Fanta at events

Ebonyi State Governor, David Umahi, on Tuesday banned the serving and consumption of Coke, Sprite and Fanta at government functions in the state.

TRENDING 18-year-old girl commits suicide, boyfriend kills self 2 days later

Tragic story: 18-year-old Mercedes Shaday Smith killed herself inside her college dorm room in Columbia, Kentucky on Thursday, April 20 while her boyfriend,

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18 WONDROUS BENEFITS OF PEPPER FRUIT DENNETTIA TRIPETALA

 PEPPER FRUIT

Plants have remained an integral source of food and nutrients for both humans and animals. We simply cannot survive without them! Interestingly, they are so close to us for our usage but unfortunately, we sometimes fail to acknowledge and utilise these plants properly as we ought to do. These plants contain several chemical compounds essential for the metabolic functioning of our body systems. Some of these plants provide us food, nutritional values and health benefits while some provide us with no nutrients and could even be toxic to human health.

Dogara seeks probe into deaths of football fans in Calabar

Mr Yakubu Dogara, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, has urged the state government to conduct a thorough investigation into the circumstances surrounding the death of soccer fans in Calabar.