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Problems of skin bleaching

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The practice of seeking materials which are usually chemicals to lighten the colour of the skin is known broadly as bleaching.</div>
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This practice is often put to good use 
when it helps to remove or lighten skin pigmentation caused by birth 
marks, or some old injury that increases the amount of melanin in the 
local area of the skin. The result is that the skin is made lighter with
 the removal of the extra melanin.</div>
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It is called skin lightening, a pervasive
 practice among the dark-skinned races of the world. For many years, it 
was also a nearly exclusive preserve of the women with many of them 
engaging indiscriminately in the practice. In this century, however, men
 are increasingly participating in the practice. While some of these 
chemicals have been found useful in removing unwanted skin pigments, 
some others are not so safe. The safety profile of some of them has been
 questioned at many fora. That has added to the controversy surrounding 
their use among women and among certain ethnic groups.</div>
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There is a lot of evidence to support the
 suggestion that bleaching may be a harmful process. Among the poor, 
what is frequently available are cheaper products that contain 
hydroquinone and mercurious chloride, both of which are harmful. The 
latter contains a heavy metal, namely mercury, which is slowly absorbed 
in the system with no hope of eventual excretion. A slow poisoning thus 
results with permanent injury to the kidneys, the brain and the heart. A
 failure of any of these organs has no hope of repair except by having 
an organ transplant. Even so, the brain cannot be transplanted. That is 
not to mention the initial damage to the skin that reduces its quality 
and its ability to protect the individual from simple injuries and 
microbial invasion.</div>
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On the other hand, it is often 
frustrating to have to suture skin lacerations in the emergency room of a
 woman who has bleached her skin red or pink in an effort to become more
 attractive. The wounds take longer to heal and the eventual result of 
such healing is poor. The scars are less satisfactory and such skin is 
also less like to heal primarily. The overall result is very 
unsatisfactory, and this applies to those wounds that do not get to be 
compromised further by bacterial infection. When an infection takes 
root, it is difficult to control and to treat and the eventual healing 
can cause some hideous scarring. Some have had to endure limb 
amputations because the infection they had could not be controlled and 
their lives were in grave danger.</div>
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As a result of these fears, hydroquinone 
was banned in Europe for many years and although it is available again, 
it is strictly a controlled substance available only on the prescription
 of a doctor. In many nations of Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, 
these products are available with less ethical controls and so can be 
assessed by all who have the relatively little sums of money that can 
provide them with it.</div>
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In Nigeria, a series of tests conducted 
on common skin lightening creams showed that they caused mutations in 
bacteria and were possibly carcinogenic. This is very sobering news 
indeed for all those people who engage in skin bleaching that if it is a
 practice they want to continue with, then they need to move away from 
these cheap substitutes to the better products that are free of toxins. 
Those products are much more expensive though, because of the costly 
ingredients that go into their production. There is a huge market for 
such products among the wealthy Asian nations of Japan, South Korea, 
Singapore and Taiwan and many of them originate in Europe. The average 
man or woman in sub-Saharan Africa who has less disposable income, but 
wants to appear lighter all the same, is condemned to continue using the
 cheap, toxic products available to their economic bracket.</div>
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In the end, it is of vital importance to 
use any bleaching cream wisely by following the instructions very 
carefully. Do not overdo its application because you believe that the 
results will be faster to arrive and do not engage in mixing different 
products because you are not schooled enough to determine what chemical 
interactions could occur between these compounds. When such interactions
 do occur, they may be severe enough to cause skin damage over and above
 what the manufacturer intended. This creates a scenario that 
complicates the management of any lesion that affects that kind of skin 
and certainly increases the challenge of taking care of it.</div>
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Also, some of these products are probably
 carcinogenic. In other words, they have the ability to induce the 
formation of certain types of cancer, and this has to be a very negative
 legacy arising from a desire to change one’s looks and perhaps become 
more beautiful. It is a supreme irony of the modern age that while the 
dark-skinned races want to increasingly become “white,” the Caucasian 
woman desires to acquire a tan in the sunny beaches of Africa, Asia and 
the Caribbean in order to get a shade darker and appear healthier.</div>
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On the whole, it is wise to note that 
these creams are mostly in use to deal with certain types of skin 
diseases; to remove the skin stains caused by chronic liver disease; 
aging; or the effects of using oral contraceptives on the skin. The 
wholesale skin bleaching which many women and increasingly men indulge 
in today must be seen in the context of the wider health risks they 
engender as very damaging potentially. It is thus a practice that needs 
to stop or in the alternative have the people who believe in its 
usefulness to scale up their involvement by investing their money in 
proven products with an acceptable safety profile. Such products are 
more expensive without a doubt but the increased cost pales into 
insignificance when compared to the ruinous legacy of enduring a leg 
amputation or of dealing with cancer or of funding an expensive organ 
transplant. As the maxim goes, a word is enough for the wise.</div>
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Caleb varsity’s day of violent protests

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<i>Caleb University was recently embroiled in a violent students’ protest that paralysed academic activities, writes </i>TOBI AWORINDE</div>
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With the March 20, 2014 protest by Bowen 
University students still fresh in mind, not many would have thought 
that such violent demonstrations peculiar to public institutions, would 
soon play out in yet another private university.</div>
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But three weeks ago, a similar incident 
occurred at the Christian Caleb University, situated in Imota, Lagos 
State. It was barely two months after that of Bowen.</div>
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Whereas Bowen students had protested 
inadequate amenities and constrictions placed on them by the school, 
Caleb University undergraduates were protesting matters bordering more 
on religion.</div>
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In a dramatic event involving the 
school’s student affairs officer, male students went on a rampage after 
two Muslim students were refused the same privilege enjoyed by 
Christians on campus to pray in their respective ways.</div>
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According to separate accounts by 
students of the institution who witnessed the incident, the event was 
only a trigger for frustrations that they had been going through, with 
regard to the school rules.</div>
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A 100-level male student, who preferred to remain unnamed, told <i>SUNDAY PUNCH</i>
 that the students were tired of all the “strict rules” the school had 
given them and complained that as a result, they do not have social 
lives.</div>
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He said, “It was sometime around 5pm on 
May 14. What happened that Wednesday afternoon was a proof that they had
 taken us as their slaves.</div>
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“Our student affairs officer came to the 
male students’ hostel with a security officer and a hall administrator. 
They were moving from room to room, inspecting the hair and beards of 
male students and ordering those they thought should shave to do so.</div>
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“He then entered the room of two Muslim 
students who were praying. When he came in, he started talking to them. 
But, as one would expect, they did not stop their prayers to answer him.
 Because it is a Christian school, the man got angry.</div>
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“He started beating them. Then he took 
their prayer mats. He told them he was going to suspend them for two 
weeks. The men he came with also beat them. That was what got the male 
students angry.”</div>
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He added that the students were angry at 
being treated like children and that they all came out of their hostel, 
shouting angrily that they would not allow their colleagues be suspended
 after the beating that they had already received.</div>
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He stated that officials of the school had done a number of things to upset them before that incident.</div>
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The fresher said, “After they had been 
told they were suspended, in anger, the students went about destroying 
property and school records.”</div>
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He said a male student mounted stones at the entrance of the school, so no one could go out or come in.</div>
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He added that the dean of the college 
later came out to confront the students, in company with the dean of 
student affairs and the chief security officer.</div>
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“They started talking to us, not even 
listening to anything we were saying. The boys then got angry, because 
they were talking to the officials and were ignored.</div>
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“They started breaking things in the 
hostels, destroying doors, windows and computers. They went to the 
female students’ hostel too to destroy property. They destroyed things 
everywhere on campus, including the church,” he said.</div>
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While noting that Muslim students in the school had not previously been warned against prayers, the student told <i>SUNDAY PUNCH</i>
 that other things that the students were upset about included water 
shortage, poor electricity supply, and the process of obtaining permits 
to exit the school premises.</div>
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“Sometimes, there won’t be water. We 
would have to buy water sachets to have our bath. When they find that we
 are not dressed according to the school rules, they would still punish 
us, when we don’t have water to wash our clothe.</div>
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“Also, they don’t give us sufficient electricity; some of the fans in the hostels aren’t working.</div>
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“We are given only two permits in one 
month. One permits the students to be out of the school and return 
before the end of the day. The other allows students to be out of school
 for a maximum of three days. Clearly, they don’t want us to have social
 lives,” he said.</div>
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He added that the students did not have a student union government.</div>
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Another 100-level student, who spoke to <i>SUNDAY PUNCH</i> also on the basis of anonymity, said he witnessed the event.</div>
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He said, “When the student affairs 
officer came to the male students’ hostel, he entered a room in the 
hostel and he saw two Muslim students praying. He asked them to stop. 
But, being Muslims, they wouldn’t stop until they were done with their 
prayers. So, they didn’t answer him.”</div>
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He stated that the school official then yanked their prayer mats from under them and asked them to write down their names.</div>
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“He told them that he would suspend them.
 Other students came out from their rooms to see what was happening, 
when the noise began to grow.</div>
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“Soon after, students blocked the 
entrance of the hostel with big stones. They said no staff member would 
leave the school. Later some officials came and wanted to apologise for 
what the man did.</div>
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“The students said they did not want 
anyone but the student affairs officer’s apology. I have never heard 
about such a rule since I joined the school in January. Since I came in,
 I have often seen Muslims praying,” he added.</div>
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According to the student, at noon the 
following day (Thursday), the Visitor to the school, Dr. Oladega 
Adebogun, ordered all students to leave the school campus by 3pm and 
police officers were invited to ensure compliance.</div>
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“They (the school) sent text messages to 
each student’s guardian, asking them to pay N100,000 or N50,000 in 
damages (males and females, respectively),” he said.</div>
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The student noted that the incident 
marked the first time the official would come to the hostel, adding that
 the hall administrators do not disturb Muslim students when they pray. 
According to the freshman, students were not fond of the student affairs
 officer.</div>
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He said, “No student likes him. On the 
same day of the riot, he had threatened a female student with suspension
 in my presence, because she was waiting for another staff member 
outside her office.</div>
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“At the same setting, he threatened me as well with suspension because he felt my hair was not cut low enough.”</div>
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He said though fellow students had often 
told him to ensure his hair was kept low at all times, he had not 
received a copy of the school handbook, despite having paid. He also 
complained about the school’s strictness in the area of religion.</div>
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“Each student gets 100 points when he is 
admitted into the school. Every time he misses church service, 10 points
 is deducted. When all his points are exhausted, the student is 
expelled.</div>
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“The points are not meant for attendance 
at church services alone. It is also used as a means of punishment. Once
 a student is caught doing something unacceptable by the school’s rules,
 the school subtracts points,” he said.</div>
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According to the Public Relations Officer
 of the university, Ms. Olusola Emiola, investigations are ongoing and 
until the rightful offenders are identified and sanctions meted out, 
“nothing will be said by the authorities on the incident.”</div>
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On May 15, the day the school was 
forcefully closed, the institution’s Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Ayo Olukoju,
 stated that the action of the students prompted the “temporary 
vacation.”</div>
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He had said, “We have rules and 
regulations in the school and all the students agreed to abide by them. 
These rules are in the student hand-out. Before now, we have been 
applying appropriate sanctions against students who default in any of 
these rules.</div>
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“We wanted to enforce one of such 
sanctions on Wednesday before this crisis escalated. The crisis has 
nothing to do with religion. It has nothing to do with being a Christian
 or a Muslim.”</div>
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Olukoju noted that the religious link to the crisis was a “mere pretence,” adding that the school would reopen on June 2, 2014.</div>
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“I Have Made N60m Touring 20 States In Nigeria” — Oritse Femi

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out hits upon hits has said his story has changed and things are now 
better for him.<br />
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Speaking with a Punch reporter, Oritse Femi said 
he charges N3m per show and he could do 20states in a row, making him 
earn about N60m per brand concert. Here is how he explained it in his 
own words;<br />
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“Things have definitely changed. Nowadays, I don’t 
charge less than N3m to perform at a concert. Sometimes the concerts are
 funded by multinational companies and we have to tour 20 states.<br />
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Multiply N3m by 20 states and you will understand what I am saying. The situation has indeed improved”.<br />
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He bagged 4 nominations at the just released<br />
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: Man Gets Accidental Vasectomy After Doctors Operate On 'wrong Site'

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A British man undergoing a minor operation was given a vasectomy by mistake.<br />
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Doctors have tried to reverse the blunder, but the victim faces an anxious wait to see if he will be able to have children.<br />
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The
 Telegraph reports that the incident occurred at Royal Liverpool 
University Hospital, which is affiliated with the National Health 
Service, Britain's public healthcare system.<br />
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The man had gone in 
to surgery for a minor urological procedure, but doctors carried out an 
operation on the “wrong site”. They could now face a six figure 
compensation claim.<br />
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"We can confirm a patient who was scheduled 
to have a different minor urological procedure was wrongly given a 
vasectomy," RLUH medical director Dr. Peter Williams said in a 
statement.<br />
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"We have apologized unreservedly to the patient and we
 are offering him our full support. We greatly regret the distress this 
has caused him," Williams said.<br />
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The man has not been identified and the NHS trust has refused to disclose his age because of patient confidentiality.<br />
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Although
 vasectomies are considered a permanent form of birth control, it is 
possible to reconnect the tubes that are severed in the procedure.<br />
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The success rate of reversing a vasectomy is generally between 40 and 50 percent, according to the Houston Fertility Institute.</div>

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Top 10 Countries With Most Expensive Police Cars

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rovers and lambogini's these nations sure do know how to threat their 
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used in special events but in countries like dubai, it's the normal 
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D'banj wins 'Best Selling African Artist' at 2014 World Music Awards

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D''banj won 'Best Selling African Artist' award at the 2014 World Music Awards which took place <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1004127937" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ">on Tuesday</span></span> 27th of May at the Salle des Etoiles in Monte Carlo, Monaco. 
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Sudan Authorites To Free Meriam Ibrahim, Who Is On Death Row

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<strong>An official of the Sudanese Foreign Ministry informed that a woman and a mother of the newly-born daughter, <a href="http://news.naij.com/67102.html">sentenced to death by hanging for abandoning Islam</a>, would be freed in the coming few days.</strong><br />
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<strong>* Meriam Ibrahim and Daniel Wani Wedding Photo, 2011.</strong><br />
Meriam
 Yehya Ibrahim Ishag, who gave birth to her second child being in 
custody on May 28, 2014, Wednesday, will not be executed because, 
according to the under-secretary of the ministry, Abdullahi Alzareg, 
Sudan was a country committed to protecting the women and that 
guaranteed freedom of religion.<br />
Khartoum has bowed to pressure 
put up by the U.K., other Western countries. Previously, the 
international community condemned the death penalty for Meriam, 
threatened to stop financial aid to Sudan, in case the judgement would 
not be reconsidered.<br />
The 27-year-old woman, whose father was a 
Muslim, was raised as an Orthodox Christian. She got married to a US 
citizen born in South Sudan, Daniel Wani, in 2011, according to 
Christian traditions.<br />
However, according to a Sudanese court, Ms 
Ibrahim must be regarded as a Muslim, as Islam had been the faith of her
 father. The court paid no attention to the fact that Meriam’s mother 
was a Christian and that the Muslim father was absent during convict’s 
childhood.<br />
The court had annulled her Christian marriage and 
sentenced her to 100 lashes for adultery because the union was not 
considered valid under Islamic law.<br />
The woman, however, refused to
 renounce her Christianity and, thereby, was sentenced to death by 
hanging for apostasy. The court further delayed the execution for two 
years, in order to allow Ms Ibrahim to give birth and to nurse the baby.<br />
The Islamic law, Shari’a, is in force in Sudan since 1980s.<br />
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 case sparked heated debates on the issue of converting from one 
religion into another, and whether abandoning the Islamic faith should 
be punished.<br />
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Brazil to declare no-fly zone over World Cup stadiums

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The Brazilian Air Force will declare no-fly zones over World Cup stadiums to prevent terrorist attacks during this year's soccer tournament, but there's a catch: it can't shoot down intruders, for now.
By law, Brazil's military can only shoot at unresponsive civilian planes on drug trafficking routes near its borders, but not over densely populated urban areas where games will be played in 12 cities.
The Air Force is asking the Brazilian government to change the shoot-down law to allow effective defense of the air space during the 64 games of the June 12-July 13 global soccer tournament, said Air Force Brigadier Antonio Carlos Egito at a news conference on Friday.
In the meantime, the anti-aircraft guns to be deployed near the stadiums cannot be fired at a plane flying into a no-fly zone, said Egito, the military chief of air traffic over Brazil.
The Air Force and civilian aviation regulator ANAC announced that for security reasons commercial flights will not be allowed to land at eight airports that are within the 7.2 kilometer (4 nautical mile) no-fly radius around the stadiums.
The suspension will begin one hour before games kick off and last for 4 to 5 hours, though take-offs will not be restricted. They do not affect the country's main international airports.
The suspensions will mostly disrupt flights at Rio de Janeiro's domestic airport Santos Dumont and complicate the logistics of Brazilian carriers that have already sold 3,000 seats on flights that will have to be canceled.
PLENTY OF SEATS
The good news for soccer fans trying to follow their teams from one game to the next is that only 10 percent of seats have been sold on Brazilian domestic flights during the World Cup, ANAC president Marcelo Guaranys said.
Skyrocketing prices for flights during that period came down 25 percent in January from November levels, he said. Officials said that was because seats booked in blocks have been freed up by travel agencies seeing less demand than expected.
More than 600,000 foreign fans are expected to land in Brazil for the World Cup, joining an estimated 3 million Brazilians who will travel to games in other cities.
ANAC reported last week that renovation work is behind schedule at three major airports, Guarulhos in Sao Paulo, Viracopos in Campinas, which is 88 kilometers (55 miles) from Sao Paulo, and the airport of the capital, Brasilia.
To help reduce the crunch at airport terminals and aprons, the Air Force is lending its military bases for the arrival of VIP delegations and the 32 national soccer teams.
As an example of the heavy traffic to come, officials said Portugal's team will fly into Campinas, followed by a press plane with 200 journalists and four executive jets carrying their star player Cristiano Ronaldo and his family.
Civil Aviation Minister Wellington Moreira Franco told Reuters this week that Italy has been allowed to fly in and out of the Santa Cruz Air Force base near Rio to avoid traveling to the city's crowded airports.
Mexico, Bosnia and Costa Rica have also been authorized to use a military base near their training site in Santos</div>

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Top Ten Most Corrupt Police Forces In The World

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Here are the 10 most corrupt police forces in the world.<br /><br /><b>10. Pakistan Police.</b><br />Pakistan’s
 police has been ranked among the most corrupt institutions in the 
country in a survey by an international anti-graft watchdog. Many 
citizens believe that the police is the most corrupt sector of the 
Pakistani government. Police brutality, extortion bribery and arresting 
innocent citizens are all crimes that have been committed among 
Pakistan’s police forces.<br /><br /><b>9. Russia Police.</b><br />Russian 
government is no stranger to corruption, especially within its police 
force. Within recent years, facts have surfaced about the corruption and
 crimes being committed by Russian police officers. Police brutality, 
extorting bribes and arresting innocent citizens are all crimes that 
have been committed among Russian police forces. In order to ensure 
monthly quotas and make ends meet, Russian police turn to corruption and
 bribery.<br /><br /><b>8. Sudan Police.</b><br />Sudan is one of the most 
corrupt countries for various reasons. Not only has their former 
president Oman Al-Bashir been indicted for war crimes and genocide, but 
this nation suffers from a corrupt police force. Sudanese police have 
been known to extort bribes from civilians in order to supplement their 
incomes. Police rarely file reports or investigate crimes, and often use
 violence and retaliation against people who complain about police 
abuses.<br /><br /><b>7. Afghanistan Police.</b><br />Afghanistan has had one 
of the most corrupt police forces in the world, and it seems like it’s 
only getting worse with time. Graft has made it impossible for Afghan 
police to improve and effectively do their job, but corruption is 
witnessed within the police force, as well. Afghan police have been 
known to extort money and inflict violence on civilians at police 
checkpoints around the country. Police also bribe civilians into paying 
them for their release from prison or to avoid arrest. Although police 
corruption has gotten slightly better with international efforts and 
retraining, it continues to suffer at the whim of governmental 
corruption and power.<br /><br /><b>6. Somalia Police.</b><br />The Somali 
police force is at No. 4 amongst the most corrupt in the world. This 
war-torn country continues to face great difficulties and people are at 
the greatest risk. The Somali police have been popular to be ineffective
 and crooked, because they are underpaid. Most of Somali police officers
 involved in steeling, extortion, bribery and they harass individuals to
 get money.<br /><br /><b>5. Iraq Police.</b><br />The Iraqi police have had a
 long history of corruption and, despite funds and retraining efforts, 
they’ve managed to maintain their corruption. Iraqi police continue to 
be highly sectarian and participate in kidnappings, ransom payments and 
bribery. They have proven to be ineffective at controlling terrorism 
efforts and protecting civilians in the ways they need to be.<br /><br /><b>4. Burma Police.</b><br />Burma
 ranked 4 amongst the countries with a troubled agency. Corruption among
 police force is most common here. The Burma police has been known to 
make victims pay for criminal investigations. They are popular for 
extortion money from civilians. Burma is ruled by a highly authoritarian
 military regime, therefore the Burma police and the rights of citizens 
are under direct hold of military.<br /><br /><b>3. Kenya Police.</b><br />Kenya
 ia at No.3 amongst the most corrupt police forces in the world. 
According to a recent survay report of Transparency International, the 
92 percent civilians of Kenya ranked their police as the most corrupt 
and many of them have paid a bribe to their police during the last 12 
months. Civilians are bribed into paying police for access to various 
services, like Customs, healthcare, education, police, registration and 
permits. They paid a bribe even on utility services.<br /><br /><b>2. Mexico Police.</b><br />Mexico
 hold second spot amongst the most corrupt police forces. One of the 
most troubled police and it continues to get worse every day. Crime is 
at an all-time high in Mexico City and border towns, but many police 
officers are only making it worse. Mexican police turn to corruption to 
find other means of money because the pay is low. Police will bribe 
criminals and extort tourists and have been known to give victims the 
option of “plata o plomo,” which means they can either accept a bribe or
 be killed. Mexican police also work with drug cartels to protect them 
and enforce drug trafficking. They often ignore reported crimes and do 
not investigate them, often imprisoning innocent citizens to cover up 
their dirty work.<br /><br /><b>1. Haiti Police.</b><br />World’s most corrupt
 police force is of Haiti. The Haitian police have negatively influenced
 society and Haitian culture with their unethical practices for quite 
awhile. In recent years, the Haitian National Police have violated 
various human rights and broken numerous laws, such as kidnapping, drug 
trafficking and police brutality. They have even resisted preventing or 
responding to gang-related violence. The lawlessness of the HNP appears 
to have died down slightly after the catastrophic earthquake in January 
2010, but only time will tell if it will stay this way</blockquote>
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