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Nutritional And Pharmacological Benefits Of Eating Okra

Nutritional And Pharmacological Benefits Of Eating Okra

October 7, 2019 2:20 am

Okra, also known as lady’s fingers, bamia, bhindi or gumbo, is a plant of the tropical and warm climates that produces edible green pods. The slightly immature pods are handpicked and prepared in different ways to compliment the traditional diets of many cultures. Okra (Abelmoschus esculentus) is believed to possess an abundance of health benefits, and there is ongoing research into its potential to help manage diabetes.

Get to know this popular vegetable and learn how to choose and use its seedy pods to preserve their rich nutritional value.

10 Health Benefits of Eating Okra

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Five NYSC Corps Members Bag Extension Of Service Year

Five NYSC Corps Members Bag Extension Of Service Year

October 4, 2019 3:56 pm

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has ordered five corps members in Sokoto State under Batch C Stream 1 to repeat/extend their service year for violating various rules.

The coordinator of the scheme in the state, Philip Enatonme Enaburue, disclosed this to newsmen in his office in Sokoto on Friday.

He said that four out of the five corps members will have their service extended for two months for absenteeism, while one is to repeat the service year for absconding.

He further stated that out of a total of 1,181 corps members that were discharged, 20 will have to go …

Charles Anazodo Blasts Tiwa Savage For Not Saying ‘Hi’

Charles Anazodo Blasts Tiwa Savage For Not Saying ‘Hi’

October 4, 2019 11:34 am

On-Air Personality and football commentator, Charles Anazodo; and superstar singer Tiwa Savage have engaged in tweet war, with each person’s supporters taking sides.

Trouble started when Anazodo called out Tiwa via a tweet:

To which the video musician responded:

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344-Year-Old Tortoise, Alagba Dies After Brief Illness

344-Year-Old Tortoise, Alagba Dies After Brief Illness

October 4, 2019 7:45 am

The 344-year-old tortoise in the traditional ruler of Ogbomoso’s palace, popularly known as ‘Alagba’, has passed on.

Mr. Toyin Ajamu, the Private Secretary to Oba Jimoh Oyewunmi, Soun of Ogbomoso, confirmed this to reporters on Thursday in Ogbomoso.

The dead tortoise attracted several visitors both from Nigeria and abroad to the palace.

Ajamu said that the tortoise, whom he described as the oldest in Africa, died on Thursday during a brief illness.

He said the tortoise would be greatly missed not only by the palace household but everyone who came in contact with it during its lifetime.

“Alagba lived in …

Meet The Nigerian Neurosurgeon Who Does Free Operations

Meet The Nigerian Neurosurgeon Who Does Free Operations

October 4, 2019 4:54 am

Neurosurgeons are known as skilled operators. But straddling surgeries across two continents? That’s a different skill entirely.

Dr. Olawale Sulaiman, 41, is a professional neurosurgeon and spinal surgery and chairman for the neurosurgery department and back and spine center at the Ochsner Neuroscience Institute in New Orleans. He lives in Louisiana, but splits his time between the US and Nigeria, spending up to 12 days each month providing healthcare in the country of his birth — sometimes for free.
Born in Lagos Island, Lagos, Sulaiman says his motivation comes from growing up in a relatively poor region.
“I am one
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Isaac Promise, Former Nigerian Football Captain, Is Dead

Isaac Promise, Former Nigerian Football Captain, Is Dead

October 3, 2019 5:12 pm

Nigerian international football star, and a former captain of the national team, Isaac Promise is dead. His death was announced by his US football club, Austin Bold FC.

The 31-year-old was said to have died on Wednesday, October 2, with no specific cause of death stated by the club.

A post on the club’s official website by the club’s Chairman, Bobby Epstein, said, “The greatest loss a team can suffer is not on the scoreboard, it’s the death of a fellow teammate.

“It’s with shock and grief that we acknowledge the sudden death of Promise Isaac.

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Breaking News: Police Attack IPOB Protesters In S/Africa

Breaking News: Police Attack IPOB Protesters In S/Africa

October 3, 2019 12:11 pm

South African police opened fire on Biafran protesters who took to the streets in a peaceful protest against the fake Buhari that is occupying Aso Rock.

There has been what can best be described as a barbaric and disgraceful attack against peaceful IPOB protesters today by the South African Police. The sovereign leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu took to his social media handles to lament and decry this ugly and distasteful development, which according to him has paled white apartheid regime into insignificance in terms of brutality and incredulity.

He said: “We hereby place it …

Nigeria Loses ₦5trillion Yearly To Oil Theft, Reps Lament

Nigeria Loses ₦5trillion Yearly To Oil Theft, Reps Lament

October 3, 2019 8:09 am

The House of Reps have resolved to set up an ad-hoc committee to ascertain the quantity of oil stolen on a daily basis and the people responsible for the theft within the country. 

The Reps decision followed the adoption of a motion on oil theft in Nigeria moved by Hon. Chukwuma Umeoji who represents Aguata federal constituency, Anambra State.

Hon. Umeoji had stressed that Nigeria loses about ₦5 trillion yearly from oil theft, an amount which the government desperately needs to finance the budget.

READ ALSO: Federal Government’s Domestic Debt Rises By ₦1.26tn

The lawmaker noted that about 22 million …

Zimbabwe's President Pleads Patience Amidst Economic Crisis

Zimbabwe’s President Pleads Patience Amidst Economic Crisis

October 3, 2019 6:46 am

Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has pleaded for time and patience to bring the country’s economy back from the “dead”, as his government faces blame for surging inflation that evokes dark days under late former leader Robert Mugabe.

Hopes that the economy would quickly rebound under Mnangagwa, who took over after Mugabe was deposed in a coup in November 2017, have faded fast with Zimbabweans grappling with acute shortages of fuel and electricity as well as soaring prices.

In a state of the nation address in the Parliament of Zimbabwe on Tuesday – a speech boycotted by the main opposition Movement …

Doctors To Face Charges Over Death Of Pregnant Woman

Doctors To Face Charges Over Death Of Pregnant Woman

October 2, 2019 5:09 pm

Two doctors with Federal Medical Centre, Asaba, have appeared before the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria Tribunal, to answer charges of gross professional negligence.

The doctors, Iyiola Adewale and Adigba Onodjohwoyovwe, are accused of gross professional negligence which led to the death of a patient in their care.

The prosecuting counsel, Mr Nasiru Aliyu, told the tribunal on Monday in Asaba that the defendants while on duty on March 7, 2017, negligently handled one of their patients, a pregnant woman, Mrs Rita Uchebuego, now late.

According to the prosecutor, they allegedly failed to attend to her as appropriate for

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Simple Blood Test To Detect Diabetic Complications Early

Simple Blood Test To Detect Diabetic Complications Early

October 2, 2019 9:24 am

An international team of scientists developed a new blood-testing method to detect earlier and more accurately if diabetic patients had developed life-threatening complications like heart disease and kidney failure.

The paper’s co-corresponding author, Zhang Wei, associate professor of cancer epidemiology and prevention at Northwestern University, said.

The study published in the journal, Clinical Chemistry, described the revolutionary new technology that used just a few drops of blood for testing.

“This discovery is going to revolutionise how quickly and non-invasively we can identify potentially fatal complications in the hundreds of millions of diabetic patients worldwide,” Wei said.
It is the latest

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Nigerian Man Died Of Immigration Hunger Strike - Japan

Nigerian Man Died Of Immigration Hunger Strike – Japan

October 1, 2019 11:52 am

Japanese immigration authorities said Tuesday a Nigerian man who died in detention in June starved to death while on hunger strike, in the first officially acknowledged case of its kind.

“An autopsy has found the man died of starvation,” an official at the Immigration Services Agency told AFP.

The man in his forties, whose name has been withheld, died on June 24 after falling unconscious at Omura Immigration Center and being taken to a hospital in southern Japan.

He had been on a hunger strike for at least three weeks to protest being detained by immigration authorities for over three …

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