The Imo State Deputy Governor, Jude Agbaso has denied resigning from over allegation of bribery by a panel of the state house of assembly. Mr Agbaso was reported to have resigned from office last week
for allegedly receiving N458 million bribe from a contractor, Joseph Dina engaged by the state government to construct the Sam Mbakwe road in Owerri, the state capital.
The deputy governor said he has not received any notice of impeachment from the state house of assembly and has not resigned from office as reported by a section of the media.
Some local newspaper had on Saturday reported that Mr Agbaso has officially tendered his resignation letter as Deputy Governor of the state.
The Imo State House of Assembly had last week served an impeachment notice on the deputy governor who is said to have fallen out of favour with Governor Rochas Okorocha.
Recall that Governor Rochas was given the governorship ticket of All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) in 2011 after he was alleged to have paid off Martin Agbaso, the elder brother of the deputy governor who was the party's flag- bearer in 2007 and was known to be the leaders of the party in Imo State.
Apart from paying heavily to buy APGA ticket from Mr Agbaso, Governor Rochas was made to accept to have Mr Agbaso's younger brother, Jude as his deputy, a condition he accepted without hesitation. Political analysts had predicted then that the marriage with the Agbbasos would be very brief.
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Monday, March 11, 2013
Friday, March 8, 2013
Borno state governor fires back at Goodluck Ebele Jonathan
Governor Kashim Shettima of Borno State yesterday told President Goodluck Jonathan that it is the responsibility of the Federal Government to unmask the brains behind the Islamic sect, Boko Haram.
He had the support of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) and a former Minister of Police Affairs, Dr. Ibrahim Lame.
They are unimpressed by the President’s claim that government is not disposed to granting the sect members amnesty because they are faceless and are not different from ghosts.
The President spoke in Damaturu, Yobe State on Thursday at the start of his visit to Yobe and Borno states, the hotbed of Boko Haram’s insurgency.
However, Governor Shetimma at a meeting with President Jonathan in Maiduguri yesterday insisted that government owes it a responsibility to find who the sect members are.
He said this is not a time to be stiff or go down to the distraction on the Boko Haram crisis.Only a political solution, according to him, can solve the Boko Haram crisis, adding that without negotiation with Boko Haram leaders, the nation risks facing an endless war of attrition.
His words: ”We must know and accept that peace is not something we just wish for; it’s something we have to make ourselves. It is a gift we offer to ourselves; we do not do a favour to anyone by charting the course of peace because trouble is mobile. It steadily comes to our safe homes when we fail to share efforts to stop it from breathing in the very far.
“Life is a continuum for the resolution of conflicts. As John F. Kennedy rightly posited, ‘Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate’.
“Unless we want to engage in an endless war of attrition, it would be defeatist to foreclose any discussion with the sect, especially with the moderate elements of Boko Haram.” The governor asked Jonathan to consider a political solution to the Boko Haram menace.
He added: “We are convinced beyond any doubt, like I had said, that the ultimate resolution of this crisis lies in the resort to a political solution.
“ Without prejudice to the use of other solutions, we must be ready to embrace the spirit of dialogue and negotiation to end this dark phase of our life as a nation in general and Borno State in particular.”
He also suggested change of tactics through the use of technology to tackle insecurity in Borno and other places.
Shettima said: “While we thank the Federal Government as we look forward to the continued intervention to contain the insurgency in our state and other affected states across the country, I wish to appeal that more efforts should be geared towards the deployment of cutting edge technology so that rapid success may be attained.
“The widespread deployment and use of CCTV cameras, devices for the detection of arms, ammunitions, bombs and explosives will go a long way in ameliorating the situation.”
The governor asked the Federal Government to initiate a Marshall Plan for the North-East, like it did for Niger Delta, to address the scourge of poverty fueling insecurity in the region.
He said: ”Pursuant to this partnership, we call on the Federal Government to immediately engage all stakeholders and initiate the process of articulating a comprehensive blueprint for addressing the scourge of poverty and deprivation in Nigeria.
“I specifically enjoin the Federal Government to come up with a Marshall Plan for the North-East geo-political zone in the same way it did for the Niger Delta to tackle the twin menace of poverty and insecurity. Integral to that Marshall Plan should be the recharging of the dwindling Lake Chad, the water resource which has the potential of positively transforming the lives of more than 30 million people spread on the shores of the region.
“As you are no doubt aware, the challenge of insecurity of the scale we have been confronted with in the last three years or so can constitute a huge distraction to governance. The unfortunate insurgency spearheaded by the Jama’atu Ahlis Sunnah Lidda’awati Wal Jihad, a.k.a Boko Haram has left in its wake a heavy toll of death and destruction.
“Hundreds of human lives have been lost while hundreds of millions of naira worth of property have been destroyed, not to mention the unquantifiable loss occasioned by the crippling of businesses and other economic activities.”
The governor’s view is shared by former Minister of Police Affairs, Dr Ibrahim Lema,who says President Jonathan’s dismissal of Boko Haram and its members as ghosts is nothing short of failure of leadership.
Dr.Lame, responding to the President’s statement, told The Nation on Thursday night that it is the responsibility of those leading the country to find out the brains behind the destruction of lives and property in various parts of the North and deal with the problems they are creating.
“Do not say this people are faceless; they are not faceless. They live among us and, therefore, it is the responsibility of leadership to find out who they are and try to see what solution it can provide,” he said.
He added: “I don’t know why Nigerians want to believe that they are faceless. Are they not Nigerians like us? How can people in government say that the people who are killing and destroying lives and property are faceless? I cant understand it.
“To me, that is failure in leadership. Anybody who commits crime must be identified and brought to justice. It is abdication of responsibility for anybody to say this people are faceless; they are not. They are Nigerians; they live in Nigeria; they don’t live in the moon. So, find them, listen to them and address the problem. That, to me is leadership.”
He is in support of the calls by the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar 111, and the Committee of Northern Elders for amnesty to Boko Haram members as part of the efforts to restore peace to the North.
His words: ”I support the idea of amnesty for Boko Haram. It is a wonderful suggestion. When you are losing over 3000 people in a single area, you need to understand that amnesty can help to stop it. It doesn’t matter whoever is being killed.Whether Muslims or Christians, we are all Nigerians.We must protect the lives and property of Nigerians and if amnesty will help, I think we should encourage it.
“ Leadership must identify itself with the issues at stake. Leadership must not claim it will not do anything; leadership must be able to sit down and understand what the problem is. And I believe that dialogue is necessary . We have to dialogue with the people. I believe in that and I also believe that some of the remote and immediate causes of the issues that brought about the situation must be addressed.
“The issue of inequality, the issue of youth unemployment, the issue of the economy and the issue of transparency in leadership must be addressed because what is happening is people see their leaders living in affluence, abusing the privileges given to them without anything happening to them. It is a serious issue and people don’t seem to have anywhere or anybody to address this issue.”
He praised the 10 All Progressives Party ( APC) governors for identifying with the people of the Northeast, saying their recent visit to Maiduguri is what the people want from their leaders.
“ I think this is what the APC governors are trying to say: that look we want to assure you that we are going to be accountable, we are gong to listen to you and put ourselves in your position. If you look at other societies, that’s is what they do. Immediately there is a crisis or problem like that, the leadership will quickly enter there and solve it,” he said.
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) asked government not only to find the sect members, but should bring all the warring parties in the land to the negotiation table.
It welcomed the call by the Sultan for amnesty for Boko Haram suspects.
Spokesman for the ACF, Mr. Anthony Sani, said: ”I do not think the Sultan meant amnesty without conditions.
“Considering the fact that this is not a conventional war on which type the use of force has not been successful and because leaders anywhere in the world have not succeded in the use of force, hence the clamor for dialogue.
“And because leaders of Boko Haram may be afraid to show themselves for dialogue out of fear, the Sultan may be suggesting an offer of amnesty in the hope of encouraging the leaders of Boko Haram to come out for the dialogue without fear for their lives.
“That is to say, the Sultan may be saying in his own way that the government needs to go beyond rhetorics and do something practical in order to make the leaders of the sect show their faces.
“Mr. President may be right when he says the government cannot dialogue with a faceless group. Yet he cannot say it is not the responsibility of the government to find a way of bringing leaders of the sect into the negotiation table, however difficult.
#culled from nigerian news update
He had the support of the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) and a former Minister of Police Affairs, Dr. Ibrahim Lame.
They are unimpressed by the President’s claim that government is not disposed to granting the sect members amnesty because they are faceless and are not different from ghosts.
The President spoke in Damaturu, Yobe State on Thursday at the start of his visit to Yobe and Borno states, the hotbed of Boko Haram’s insurgency.
However, Governor Shetimma at a meeting with President Jonathan in Maiduguri yesterday insisted that government owes it a responsibility to find who the sect members are.
He said this is not a time to be stiff or go down to the distraction on the Boko Haram crisis.Only a political solution, according to him, can solve the Boko Haram crisis, adding that without negotiation with Boko Haram leaders, the nation risks facing an endless war of attrition.
His words: ”We must know and accept that peace is not something we just wish for; it’s something we have to make ourselves. It is a gift we offer to ourselves; we do not do a favour to anyone by charting the course of peace because trouble is mobile. It steadily comes to our safe homes when we fail to share efforts to stop it from breathing in the very far.
“Life is a continuum for the resolution of conflicts. As John F. Kennedy rightly posited, ‘Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate’.
“Unless we want to engage in an endless war of attrition, it would be defeatist to foreclose any discussion with the sect, especially with the moderate elements of Boko Haram.” The governor asked Jonathan to consider a political solution to the Boko Haram menace.
He added: “We are convinced beyond any doubt, like I had said, that the ultimate resolution of this crisis lies in the resort to a political solution.
“ Without prejudice to the use of other solutions, we must be ready to embrace the spirit of dialogue and negotiation to end this dark phase of our life as a nation in general and Borno State in particular.”
He also suggested change of tactics through the use of technology to tackle insecurity in Borno and other places.
Shettima said: “While we thank the Federal Government as we look forward to the continued intervention to contain the insurgency in our state and other affected states across the country, I wish to appeal that more efforts should be geared towards the deployment of cutting edge technology so that rapid success may be attained.
“The widespread deployment and use of CCTV cameras, devices for the detection of arms, ammunitions, bombs and explosives will go a long way in ameliorating the situation.”
The governor asked the Federal Government to initiate a Marshall Plan for the North-East, like it did for Niger Delta, to address the scourge of poverty fueling insecurity in the region.
He said: ”Pursuant to this partnership, we call on the Federal Government to immediately engage all stakeholders and initiate the process of articulating a comprehensive blueprint for addressing the scourge of poverty and deprivation in Nigeria.
“I specifically enjoin the Federal Government to come up with a Marshall Plan for the North-East geo-political zone in the same way it did for the Niger Delta to tackle the twin menace of poverty and insecurity. Integral to that Marshall Plan should be the recharging of the dwindling Lake Chad, the water resource which has the potential of positively transforming the lives of more than 30 million people spread on the shores of the region.
“As you are no doubt aware, the challenge of insecurity of the scale we have been confronted with in the last three years or so can constitute a huge distraction to governance. The unfortunate insurgency spearheaded by the Jama’atu Ahlis Sunnah Lidda’awati Wal Jihad, a.k.a Boko Haram has left in its wake a heavy toll of death and destruction.
“Hundreds of human lives have been lost while hundreds of millions of naira worth of property have been destroyed, not to mention the unquantifiable loss occasioned by the crippling of businesses and other economic activities.”
The governor’s view is shared by former Minister of Police Affairs, Dr Ibrahim Lema,who says President Jonathan’s dismissal of Boko Haram and its members as ghosts is nothing short of failure of leadership.
Dr.Lame, responding to the President’s statement, told The Nation on Thursday night that it is the responsibility of those leading the country to find out the brains behind the destruction of lives and property in various parts of the North and deal with the problems they are creating.
“Do not say this people are faceless; they are not faceless. They live among us and, therefore, it is the responsibility of leadership to find out who they are and try to see what solution it can provide,” he said.
He added: “I don’t know why Nigerians want to believe that they are faceless. Are they not Nigerians like us? How can people in government say that the people who are killing and destroying lives and property are faceless? I cant understand it.
“To me, that is failure in leadership. Anybody who commits crime must be identified and brought to justice. It is abdication of responsibility for anybody to say this people are faceless; they are not. They are Nigerians; they live in Nigeria; they don’t live in the moon. So, find them, listen to them and address the problem. That, to me is leadership.”
He is in support of the calls by the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar 111, and the Committee of Northern Elders for amnesty to Boko Haram members as part of the efforts to restore peace to the North.
His words: ”I support the idea of amnesty for Boko Haram. It is a wonderful suggestion. When you are losing over 3000 people in a single area, you need to understand that amnesty can help to stop it. It doesn’t matter whoever is being killed.Whether Muslims or Christians, we are all Nigerians.We must protect the lives and property of Nigerians and if amnesty will help, I think we should encourage it.
“ Leadership must identify itself with the issues at stake. Leadership must not claim it will not do anything; leadership must be able to sit down and understand what the problem is. And I believe that dialogue is necessary . We have to dialogue with the people. I believe in that and I also believe that some of the remote and immediate causes of the issues that brought about the situation must be addressed.
“The issue of inequality, the issue of youth unemployment, the issue of the economy and the issue of transparency in leadership must be addressed because what is happening is people see their leaders living in affluence, abusing the privileges given to them without anything happening to them. It is a serious issue and people don’t seem to have anywhere or anybody to address this issue.”
He praised the 10 All Progressives Party ( APC) governors for identifying with the people of the Northeast, saying their recent visit to Maiduguri is what the people want from their leaders.
“ I think this is what the APC governors are trying to say: that look we want to assure you that we are going to be accountable, we are gong to listen to you and put ourselves in your position. If you look at other societies, that’s is what they do. Immediately there is a crisis or problem like that, the leadership will quickly enter there and solve it,” he said.
The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) asked government not only to find the sect members, but should bring all the warring parties in the land to the negotiation table.
It welcomed the call by the Sultan for amnesty for Boko Haram suspects.
Spokesman for the ACF, Mr. Anthony Sani, said: ”I do not think the Sultan meant amnesty without conditions.
“Considering the fact that this is not a conventional war on which type the use of force has not been successful and because leaders anywhere in the world have not succeded in the use of force, hence the clamor for dialogue.
“And because leaders of Boko Haram may be afraid to show themselves for dialogue out of fear, the Sultan may be suggesting an offer of amnesty in the hope of encouraging the leaders of Boko Haram to come out for the dialogue without fear for their lives.
“That is to say, the Sultan may be saying in his own way that the government needs to go beyond rhetorics and do something practical in order to make the leaders of the sect show their faces.
“Mr. President may be right when he says the government cannot dialogue with a faceless group. Yet he cannot say it is not the responsibility of the government to find a way of bringing leaders of the sect into the negotiation table, however difficult.
#culled from nigerian news update
Naija runs girl pt2
hey!!!TGIF !sure y'all having fun.here is a lil some thing something to me you learn and laugh;click on the link below and enjoy:
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Tuesday, March 5, 2013
You and Your Health
Today, you will learn 7 reasons why you should eat
more frequently to effectively lose excess fat.
Here they are:
1. Your metabolic rate increases
Every other process that the body does requires
energy e.g breathing, thinking, beating of your heart,
creating new cells, even digestion. Some of the calories
in the foods you eat are burned off just to digest them,
so the net amount of calories absorbed is actually
less than the amount contained in the food.
2. You experience little or no binges (over-feeding)
and control cravings If you're eating every three hours,
you'll always feel very satisfied and hunger will rarely
be an issue because mealtime always comes around so soon.
The starving and stuffing pattern of eating sets you up
for uncontrollable cravings and massive binges later on.
When blood sugar plummets from long periods without food,
it's nearly impossible to control the hormonally created
hunger that follows.
You become ravenous. When you're this hungry, you couldn't
care less about eating lean proteins and complex carbs, you
just want food and you want it now!
3. Your blood sugar and insulin levels stabilize.
This is very, very and highly important for fat loss.
When you eat carbohydrates, they're digested and absorbed
into the bloodstream in the form of glucose (blood sugar).
This triggers the pancreas to release the hormone insulin.
4. Your energy levels increase
Here's one of the first benefits you'll notice from following
the MeltDfat Diet Plan eating plan; Your energy will skyrocket
almost overnight. Changes in your body composition will take
place slowly though steadily, but starting on the very first
week you begin the program, you'll get the instant gratification
of having more energy than you've ever felt before.
No more ups and downs; no more mid morning energy crashes;
no more late afternoon drowsy spells, just solid, steady,
high energy all day long and more energy for your workouts
too.
5. You help promote your muscle growth by regulating insulin
levels and providing a steady flow of amino acids into muscle
cells since frequent meals are anabolic.
6. Frequent meals are ANTI-CATABOLIC:
They help promote muscle growth by preventing muscle breakdown
(you stay in positive nitrogen balance)
7. You store less body fat due to smaller portions.
Eating small, frequent meals helps prevent you from
over-consuming calories through simple portion control.
You always gain fat from one single huge meal no matter
what else you do after that.
more frequently to effectively lose excess fat.
Here they are:
1. Your metabolic rate increases
Every other process that the body does requires
energy e.g breathing, thinking, beating of your heart,
creating new cells, even digestion. Some of the calories
in the foods you eat are burned off just to digest them,
so the net amount of calories absorbed is actually
less than the amount contained in the food.
2. You experience little or no binges (over-feeding)
and control cravings If you're eating every three hours,
you'll always feel very satisfied and hunger will rarely
be an issue because mealtime always comes around so soon.
The starving and stuffing pattern of eating sets you up
for uncontrollable cravings and massive binges later on.
When blood sugar plummets from long periods without food,
it's nearly impossible to control the hormonally created
hunger that follows.
You become ravenous. When you're this hungry, you couldn't
care less about eating lean proteins and complex carbs, you
just want food and you want it now!
3. Your blood sugar and insulin levels stabilize.
This is very, very and highly important for fat loss.
When you eat carbohydrates, they're digested and absorbed
into the bloodstream in the form of glucose (blood sugar).
This triggers the pancreas to release the hormone insulin.
4. Your energy levels increase
Here's one of the first benefits you'll notice from following
the MeltDfat Diet Plan eating plan; Your energy will skyrocket
almost overnight. Changes in your body composition will take
place slowly though steadily, but starting on the very first
week you begin the program, you'll get the instant gratification
of having more energy than you've ever felt before.
No more ups and downs; no more mid morning energy crashes;
no more late afternoon drowsy spells, just solid, steady,
high energy all day long and more energy for your workouts
too.
5. You help promote your muscle growth by regulating insulin
levels and providing a steady flow of amino acids into muscle
cells since frequent meals are anabolic.
6. Frequent meals are ANTI-CATABOLIC:
They help promote muscle growth by preventing muscle breakdown
(you stay in positive nitrogen balance)
7. You store less body fat due to smaller portions.
Eating small, frequent meals helps prevent you from
over-consuming calories through simple portion control.
You always gain fat from one single huge meal no matter
what else you do after that.
FATHER TIES,LOCKS UP AND STARVED A 6 YEAR OLD FOR WITCHCRAFT
Culled from Punch
A 42-year-old father, Mr. Edet Etok-Akpan, is currently being quizzed at the headquarters of the Cross River State Police Command in Calabar for torturing his six-year-old daughter, Edidiong, as a result of a church prophetess’ pronouncement that the girl was a witch.
Edidiong was beaten by her father and locked up in a room with her hands, mouth and face bound for four days before she was rescued by neighbours.
It was learnt that Etok-Akpan started
beating her on February 19 after an unidentified prophetess in their
church told him that Edidiong was the witch responsible for the
stagnancy in his life.
Narrating her ordeal to PUNCH Metro
on Monday, Edidiong said after the beatings which lasted for some days,
her father on February 21 tied her hands with a cord and bound her
mouth with a piece of cloth.
She said, “He locked me in the inner room of our house and he never gave me food and never allowed me to go to school.”
The girl, who said she is in basic three
at Femos Nursery and Primary School located at 24 Etyin Abasi Street,
said she was becoming weak after days without food or water.
Luck, however, came her way on February
23, when another child, who lives with her parents in the same 42 Atakpa
Street, came to their veranda to look for broom and discovered her.
Giving details of how she was rescued, a
lawyer with the Basic Rights Counsel, Mr. James Ibor, said, “The girl
went to Edidiong’s veranda to look for a broom and heard the sound of
the girl like that of someone battling with her last breath.
“She looked through the louvers of the
window and saw Edidiong bound on the floor and raised the alarm. Her
parents and other neighbours rushed to the place and saw Edidiong bound
inside her apartment.”
Ibor said one of the neighbours called him and he in turn informed the police.
He said, “When the policemen and I got
there, we saw a crowd gathered outside. We were able to rescue the child
by breaking the door.
“The girl was very weak because she had
been without food for days and so we had to give her water first, then
after about ten minutes we gave her milk before solid food an hour
later.”
Ibor said the culprit and his wife had
locked up the girl in the inner room of their two-room apartment and
went to church, adding that the girl was presently living with her
grandmother in another part of the town.
The state Police Public Relations
Officer, Mr. John Umoh, said Etok-Akpan, who is from Akwa Ibom State,
had been arrested and would soon appear in court to answer charges of
felony.
He said, “To tie a small girl’s hand and
mouth and lock her in a room for some days without food is a grievous
offence, he shall soon appear in court.”
Umoh, a Deputy Superintendent of Police,
warned parents to always treat their children with care, adding
criminalities are increasing daily because parents had abandoned their
responsibilities to their wards.
He also said the police would visit the church where the father got the prophecy.
Monday, March 4, 2013
Below is what a new study is claiming. When you have a headache, leave all dem pain relief medicine alone and just turn to your partner for some good loving.*all smiles,wink wink*
If you're suffering from a headache, retiring to bed may be the best solution.
Sex can cure head pain, according to scientists – and venturing between the sheets may even be more effective than heading to the medicine cabinet.
More than half of migraine sufferers who had sex during an attack experienced an improvement in symptoms, the researchers found, and one in five was left without any pain at all.
One theory is that sex works by triggering the release of endorphins, the body’s natural painkillers, which act on the central nervous system to reduce or eliminate the headache.
‘Our results show that sexual activity during a migraine attack might relieve or even stop an attack in some cases, and that sexual activity in the presence of headache is not an unusual behaviour,’ the researchers said.
‘Sex can abort migraine and cluster headache attacks, and sexual activity is used by some patients as acute headache treatment.’
It has long been thought that sex can trigger headaches.
But in the new study, reported in Cephalalgia, the journal of the International Headache Society, a team of neurologists investigated whether there was any substance to anecdotal accounts that it could actually ease symptoms of migraine and cluster, or one-sided, headaches.
In the study at the University of Munster in Germany, neurologists collected data on 400 patients with the two types of headache who had been treated over a two-year period.
They found that 33 per cent had made love during a headache. Of those, 60 per cent of migraine patients and 36 per cent of men and women with cluster headaches had an improvement in symptoms.
Men were more likely to benefit than women, with 36 per cent using sexual activity as a therapy for dealing with their headache.
Meanwhile, 13 per cent of women used sex to combat a headache. Of the migraine patients who saw an improvement in their pain, 19 per cent had complete relief of headache symptoms, 51 per cent experienced moderate relief and 29 per cent reported mild relief.
‘In total, 42.7 per cent of all migraine patients experienced at least 50 per cent relief, a response rate as high as in studies on acute medication,’ said the researchers.
Consultant neurologist Dr Nick Silver, of the NHS Walton Centre for Neuroscience and Neurosurgery in Liverpool, said: ‘This is a preliminary study, limiting conclusions that can be reached.
‘We can now say, however, that the excuse of “not tonight, I have a headache” may not be taken seriously by all sexual partners.’
Researchers say there are a number of possible explanations for the findings, including the release of painkilling endorphins during sex and changes in blood pressure that occur.
Scans have also shown that the hypothalamus region of the brain is active during a cluster headache, and the same area shows activity during orgasm.
If you're suffering from a headache, retiring to bed may be the best solution.
Sex can cure head pain, according to scientists – and venturing between the sheets may even be more effective than heading to the medicine cabinet.
More than half of migraine sufferers who had sex during an attack experienced an improvement in symptoms, the researchers found, and one in five was left without any pain at all.
One theory is that sex works by triggering the release of endorphins, the body’s natural painkillers, which act on the central nervous system to reduce or eliminate the headache.
‘Our results show that sexual activity during a migraine attack might relieve or even stop an attack in some cases, and that sexual activity in the presence of headache is not an unusual behaviour,’ the researchers said.
‘Sex can abort migraine and cluster headache attacks, and sexual activity is used by some patients as acute headache treatment.’
It has long been thought that sex can trigger headaches.
But in the new study, reported in Cephalalgia, the journal of the International Headache Society, a team of neurologists investigated whether there was any substance to anecdotal accounts that it could actually ease symptoms of migraine and cluster, or one-sided, headaches.
In the study at the University of Munster in Germany, neurologists collected data on 400 patients with the two types of headache who had been treated over a two-year period.
They found that 33 per cent had made love during a headache. Of those, 60 per cent of migraine patients and 36 per cent of men and women with cluster headaches had an improvement in symptoms.
Men were more likely to benefit than women, with 36 per cent using sexual activity as a therapy for dealing with their headache.
Meanwhile, 13 per cent of women used sex to combat a headache. Of the migraine patients who saw an improvement in their pain, 19 per cent had complete relief of headache symptoms, 51 per cent experienced moderate relief and 29 per cent reported mild relief.
‘In total, 42.7 per cent of all migraine patients experienced at least 50 per cent relief, a response rate as high as in studies on acute medication,’ said the researchers.
Consultant neurologist Dr Nick Silver, of the NHS Walton Centre for Neuroscience and Neurosurgery in Liverpool, said: ‘This is a preliminary study, limiting conclusions that can be reached.
‘We can now say, however, that the excuse of “not tonight, I have a headache” may not be taken seriously by all sexual partners.’
Researchers say there are a number of possible explanations for the findings, including the release of painkilling endorphins during sex and changes in blood pressure that occur.
Scans have also shown that the hypothalamus region of the brain is active during a cluster headache, and the same area shows activity during orgasm.
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