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  Like every other food stuff in this Buhari - Nigeria, the price of food stuff has sky rocketed. So much that to prepare a decent meal you need to spend a tidy sum on veggies. ( This depends on the part of the country you reside though). For veggies shopping, I use this three methods that are tested and trusted. 1. To buy in large quantity, it is adviseable to go to the open market very early in the morning when the wholesalers come to sell to the traders. You will get the veggies fresh and way cheaper. In fact, they will be begging you, na you go dey do shakara. 2. Buying in bulk during season and drying at room temperature. The goal is to eat healthy so dried veggies is better and healthier than no veggies at all. As long as you were the one or someone you trust dries in a  clean environment. You are good to good. This doesn't taste like the fresh one but for substitutes. It's a great one. 3. Substituting the expensive veggies with cheaper options. Cooking is all about exper

Puff Puff is a Nigerian snack popular in the western part of the country. It's also served as refreshment in parties and an important member of the small chop family. I made these delicacies last week and I posted it on a Facebook group and people won't stop commenting on how great they look. Some even begged me to share my recipe. So here is it: Ingredients *Two cups of  flour *Half cup of sugar *One spoon of yeast * One spoon  of Salt *Half cup of  warm water *Nut Meg *Pepper (Ground pepper or fresh pepper) Pre-preparation steps: * Sieve the flour to remove lumps and impurities * Make sure the ground pepper don't clog together to ensure a good mixture. * Cut fresh pepper into small pieces or pound. * Test the originality of the yeast by mixing with warm water. Cover it for 20 minutes and when you open it, you will see whitish latter on it which shows that the wheat has capacity to rise. Preparation procedure: *Mix the yeast with warm water, add sugar and continue to stir

Henceforth, on this blog, I will be celebrating young and promising Nigerians who are making impact in their various fields under the section of Personality Spotlight . For the first post, we are celebrating a young Nigerian police officer.                 Shun Sir!!! Every profession has  unique attributes that have been associated with it due to its practitoners or society. The Nigerian police force has been associated with almost everything negative. Does it mean that the entire police force is bad? No. Aren’t there hardworking and dedicated officers in the force? Of course, there are.         On duty ASP. Ifeanyi Godwin Nwoye is from Ebonyi state, a graduate of Ebonyi State university where he studied Agric Economics and Management. He has always had a passion for the police force and has desired to follow the steps of his elder sister who is a police officer.  He dreams came true in 2016 when he finally joined the Nigeria police force.  He has a driving force to bring about bette

       School is a scam for he who is a                        scammer – Frank Donga  The conference was organized by the faculty of social science, University of Ibadan. It started with a rendition of the Nigerian national anthem sung by the audience. A speech was given by the Dean of social sciences, he introduced the guest speakers which include: Dr Macaulay Babajide Milton a common wealth scholar and lecturer FUTA, Kenneth Okwor Esq. a Harvard scholar and lecturer, Nigerian law school, Adetunji J Lamidi, Vice President FCMB, and Kunle Idowu aka Frank Donga actor and comedian.. A citation was read on Dr. Macaulay Babajide Milton. Dr Macaulay began his lecture by asking the following intruguing questions which are normally asked by complacent students to justify their lackadaisical attitude towards education:  • Who first class epp?  • No be third class graduate dey employ first class graduate?  • The koko na to sabi perosn, I no fit kill myself.  • No be by CGPA na to dey street sm

I wish the article could be titled 'How to prepare Shea butter in ten minutes'. However, it's not possible or rather I don't know any quicker way to prepare Shea butter. What I know is the surest way to get your hundred percent natural Shea butter.  Ingredients :  Shea nut Water Equipment needed Bowl  Sieve Mortar and pestle   A sample of ripen Shea nuts Procedure: - Pick the Shea nuts from the tree or buy them. The Shea nuts  usually fall by June/July. They are gotten from the Shea fruit - Remove the hard shell by drying in the sun for  days and breaking them  or parboil the nuts and break them -Break the parboiled nuts into smaller pieces for ease of grinding preferably using a mortar and pestle -Grind into a smooth paste using engine ( some people wouldn't like to grind the Shea fruit because of its oily nature. So, another alternative is to pound with mortar) - Add water to the paste and sieve using a cloth sieve. If the weather is cold, it's advisable to u

Welcome to the last month of the year, it has been a hell of a year and like everyone else, I'm super excited we survived this year. Reading this shows that you are alive and even if that's the only thing you have achieved, it's more than enough! In light of the pandemic, job loss, anxiety and depression that we have faced this year, there is definitely light at the end of the tunnel.  Usually, every December, there are always jiggles of sales discount, amazing holiday deals etc. However, this December seems dry or maybe it's too soon to tell. Be that as it may, I have an amazing deal for you. Somebody say ' goodnews' scratch that, amazing news, in fact,  fantabulous!  This holiday you can order all your Christmas clothes, shoes, accessories from Akasbliss at a very subsidized rate, no third party needed! Lemme tell you a thing or two about Akasblissimport.  This is an online personal shopping platform owned by a Nigeria who resides in China, her name is Blessin

If you are a lover of books; fiction and non fiction especially those from African descent, I'm certain you must have come across the works of this famous Nigerian writer, Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche. Her works are always thought provoking, she writes the type of books that will make you question accepted societal beliefs. Zikora is a short story of a thirty nine year old woman who falls pregnant and is abandoned by the father of her child who was formerly in love with her.  We are introduced to the complicated life of Zikora as she lays on the hospital bed labouring to birth her baby. Through flashbacks, the story of her life prior to her pregnancy unfolds. She is a successful lawyer, an immigrant of Nigeria descent residing in America, who fell in love with a Ghanian lawyer Kwamme, they were so in sync with each other, shared same values and understood their individual culture; which were similar. Hence, it came as a big surprise to Zikora when her sweet, sophiscated boy friend aband