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The YourTango Experts share their best marriage advice. ·          If your goal is to have a satisfying marriage with longevity, make sure you are accountable for the part you play in the relationship — good or bad. When you are in denial about your part in the relationship then you are no better than a child flinging sand at another child in a sandbox. When you take responsibility for your part in the marriage, only then will you be able to connect with your partner in a mature, intimate way. - Carin Goldstein, LMFT  ·          Research consistently shows that touching more creates a stronger bond by releasing oxytocin. Hold hands, rub shoulders, hug, kiss, give high-fives or even fist-bumps or bottom pats. When you give a quick hug or kiss, try to lengthen it to at least 5 or 10 seconds for more effective results! - Lori Lowe, MA ·          Learn how to agree to disagree. No two people agree on everything, and that's okay, but it's important to be okay with ea

Would you like to: Decrease your risk of disease? Feel better physically and mentally? Look better? Help avoid injuries? Keep doing activities you enjoy throughout your life? Regular physical activity will help you do these things. Physical activity is essential to prevent and reduce risks of many diseases and improve physical and mental health. It can even help you live longer—research from the American Journal of Preventative Medicine indicates that regular exercise can add up to five years to your life. Physical activity also keeps you in shape so you can enjoy leisure activities and safely perform work and home chores. It offers great mental and social benefits as well. The Lancet released a series of studies that attribute positive outcomes to physical activity, including “a sense of purpose and value, a better quality of life, improved sleep , and reduced stress , as well as stronger relationships and social connectedness .” On the other han

Primary Components of Fitness The four primary components (also known as the components of health related fitness) that are important to improved physical health are as follows: • Cardiorespiratory capacity is the ability of the body to take in oxygen (respiration), deliver it to the cells (circulation), and use it at the cellular level to create energy (bioenergetics) for physical work (activity). In fitness, we also refer to cardiorespiratory capacity as aerobic capacity. This capacity includes aerobic endurance (how long), aerobic strength (how hard), and aerobic power (how fast). Some of the long-term adaptations of cardiorespiratory training are: decreased resting heart rate, decreased risk of cardiovascular disease, improved endurance, increased stroke volume and cardiac output. • Muscular capacity refers to the spectrum of muscular capability. This includes muscular endurance (i.e., the ability to apply force over a long period of time or to complete repeated mus

House of Representatives yesterday called on the Federal Government to imme­diately declare a state of emer­gency on unemployment. This is as the House also re­solved to take steps in amending the Immigration Act to provide stiffer punishment for violations of immigration laws with the view of protecting the Nigerian worker. These resolutions by the House followed a motion enti­tled “call for a state of emergen­cy and legislative intervention in the unemployment crisis in Ni­geria” sponsored by the House leader, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila and 78 others. For the full story, check The Union newspaper.

A member of the Lagos State House of Assem­bly, Hon. Jude Idimogu has distanced himself from text messages being circulated on his email, facebook and other social media platforms, ask­ing people to pay money to a certain doctor’s bank account or send a credit card to his email, saying it was the hand work of mischief makers and scammers. According to the lawmak­er, scammers on October 21 hacked his email address and facebook sending messages to his friends to the effect that “I made a trip to Addis Abba and unfortunately my niece had a fatal accident yesterday night and needs to undergo surgery which needs N85, 000 to start her treatment. Can you lend me some quick funds that you can afford for now and I will give back as soon as I get back. For the full story, check The Union newspaper.

The Nigerian version of Dear Mandela is rendered in Pidgin with short video modules. There was also a screening of the documentary on the building of the floating school via the rebel architecture of Kunle Adeyemi. T he trip to Makoko started out as a mystery. There was a text mes­sage from my friend Toni Kan, the writer and newly-minted brand ambassador of Samsung Note5, that I should keep the evening of Friday, October 9, free for an engagement. Further text and email messages in­formed me that I should get to MRS filling station at the Adekunle end of Yaba, Lagos by 5.30 PM for the trip to the Makoko floating school for the screening of the award-winning docu­mentary Dear Mandela. I had happy company in the white-bearded sep­tuagenarian taxi driver who took me to the Adekunle axis, a personification of the dignity of labour, who gave me the history of WEMA Bank and pointed to the house of the founder of the bank at the end of the street. Toni Kan and his personable busi­ness

If the president looks within our governance cycles, he will see why some Nigerians are unruly B y the turn of the day, the circus would have run its course. We all would have been very well entertained and life, as they say, would go on in eternal motion but achieving not much movement. We like entertain­ment and that seems to be reason we were once described as the happiest people on mother earth, and later, as the most Champagne-consuming people. In all, we love entertainment. And in the frenzy of it, we lose focus on seriousness. Once in a while, we pretend to be serious but end up the same way we started. As I watched the senate ‘screen’ nominee “noisemakers”, my thoughts fell back on the circus, the puppets and the puppet masters. I see our “ministers”, some with impec­cable qualifications and records of delivery appearing, one after another, to gladly, and without recourse to the bastardization of their image and quality, accept the tag “noisemaker”. Most of the names on

Mr Kurt Seifarth, Regional Agricultural Counselor in Nigeria for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, on Thursday restated his government’s commitment to supporting Nigeria in the development of her agriculture sector. Seifarth disclosed this to The Union in Lagos on the sidelines of a one-day interactive conference with Nigeria’s retail food business operators. The U.S. official said that his government had concluded arrangement to assist more Nigerian farmers in “priority areas” so far identified by Nigerian government. “From my experience around the world, all countries are developing their agricultural resources based on their priorities. “And Nigeria is amongst those countries that have the possibility of being a very strong agricultural products producer. For the full story, check The Union newspaper.

Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has said the steps taken by the federal government to raise tariff on importation of rice into the country would boost local production and encourage local farmers. Governor Ortom said this yesterday in Makurdi when officials of the Federal Government of Nigeria/International Fund for Agricultural Development, IFAD, Value Chain Development Programme, VCDP, led by the Country Programme Manager of IFAD, Atsuko Toda, paid him a visit. He said Benue under his administration is set for agriculture revolution noting that if the state which is reputed as Food Basket of the Nation enters into partnership with organizations like IFAD it would be able to feed not only the country but also Africa. For the full story, check The Union newspaper.

CONGO Voters in Congo Republic have overwhelmingly backed a change in the constitution that will allow President Denis Sassou Nguesso to run for a third consecutive term, the results of a referendum showed on Tuesday. Sassou Nguesso has ruled the oil-producing nation for 31 of the last 36 years and the constitutional change makes it possible for the 71-year-old to win a further sevenyear mandate at an election due next year. More than 92 percent of voters in Sunday’s referendum supported the change and turnout stood at 72 percent of the more than 1.8 million registered voters, according to figures from the electoral commission. More than 1.2 million people voted in favor of the change, while around 102,000 rejected it, the commission said. The turnout figure was immediately disputed by the opposition, which had called for a boycott of the referendum. For the full story, check The Union newspaper.

.. .Unregistered Sim Cards: Reps Investigates NCC, Telecom Operators H ouse of Representatives yesterday summoned the Central Bank Governor (CBN) Mr. Godwin Emefiele to appear before its commit­tee on Banking and Currency to explain to it why there is a directive by the CBN for Ni­gerians to disclose their Bank Verification Number (BVN) to every Bureau de Change upon transaction. This resolution by the House followed a motion en­titled “motion against prolif­eration of Bank Verification Numbers” raised as an urgent matter of public importance and sponsored by Hon. Dan- buram Nuhu. He noted that the effort of the CBN to stabilise foreign exchange market by making it compulsory for all Bureau de Change to have the BVN of all customers in the bid to stem money laundering will make financial records easily accessible to dubious people. For the full story, check The Union newspaper.

T he Acting-Head of Ser­vice of the Federation, Mrs. Winifred Oyo-Ita, has advised permanent secre­taries in the Federal Civil Service to prepare for the new dawn, adding that the time has come for new in­novations, better efficient and proactive attitudes to en­hance better service delivery. Oyo-Ita, who stated this in her inaugural address to an extra-ordinary service wide meeting of the Federal Per­manent Secretaries, said it is a collective responsibility of all officers to protect the image of the service, ensure public confidence and trust in the system, otherwise the service will be left out of the scheme of things. For the full story, check The Union newspaper.