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Researchers have found that eating a hearty meal in the morning, rather than the evening, may help combat the effects of polycystic ovary syndrome — a major cause of infertility.

The underlying cause of PCOS is unknown, but the condition is associated with hormonal imbalances, leading to missed or absent periods, which, in turn, can make it hard for women to conceive.

Many women with PCOS are also found to have abnormal insulin levels, or are “insulin resistant,” which means they don’t respond to insulin normally. This then leads to higher than normal levels of testosterone in the blood, which disrupts the menstrual cycle.

Reducing insulin with weight loss or medication may improve fertility; however, these are not good options for slim women. So, the researchers wanted to see if the timing of meals led to a better control of insulin in women with PCOS.

Researchers asked 60 slim women with PCOS to eat 1,800 calories each day for 12 weeks. One group of women was asked to eat most of their calories at breakfast, the other group was asked to eat most at dinner. By the end of the study, half of the women in the breakfast group had ovulated at least once, compared to a fifth of †ђξ “dinner group”, which suggests improved fertility.

Although these results are encouraging, †ђξ study was only small and, despite the blood results suggesting improved fertility in the “big breakfast” group, we don’t know whether this actually resulted in improved chances of †ђξ women becoming pregnant.

www.punchng.com/healthwise/boost-fertility-with-big-breakfast/

Researchers have found that eating a hearty meal in the morning, rather than the evening, may help combat the effects of polycystic ovary syndrome — a major cause of infertility.

The underlying cause of PCOS is unknown, but the condition is associated with hormonal imbalances, leading to missed or absent periods, which, in turn, can make it hard for women to conceive.

Many women with PCOS are also found to have abnormal insulin levels, or are “insulin resistant,” which means they don’t respond to insulin normally. This then leads to higher than normal levels of testosterone in the blood, which disrupts the menstrual cycle.

Reducing insulin with weight loss or medication may improve fertility; however, these are not good options for slim women. So, the researchers wanted to see if the timing of meals led to a better control of insulin in women with PCOS.

Researchers asked 60 slim women with PCOS to eat 1,800 calories each day for 12 weeks. One group of women was asked to eat most of their calories at breakfast, the other group was asked to eat most at dinner. By the end of the study, half of the women in the breakfast group had ovulated at least once, compared to a fifth of †ђξ “dinner group”, which suggests improved fertility.

Although these results are encouraging, †ђξ study was only small and, despite the blood results suggesting improved fertility in the “big breakfast” group, we don’t know whether this actually resulted in improved chances of †ђξ women becoming pregnant.

www.punchng.com/healthwise/boost-fertility-with-big-breakfast/

nicetboy: nne dis ur make up nawa o

I now see d reason d man stares at her. D make up nah one in town

How can a small girl of this tender age dress like a professional harlot; him no get mama for house? That's what it means!

Dyt: Huh?
*in my warri accent*
D thing still dey happen?
Shoooo
Do I even remember d dude sef
Nottin to linger for mehn

lol! How u go remember when guys just dey lem u. Dem too plenty for ur hand..."+"

Ukonuandrew: I beg, dey shold wait smal, my sis weding is on 19/10. My schol (A.B.U Zaria) wl start exam at resumption. Na beg I de o!

guy! u re really funny! what a selfish desire!

The Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) struck a new deal last night.
This happened at a three-hour close-door meeting at the State House in Abuja between Vice President Mohammed Namadi Sambo and the leadership of the union.

Speaking to State House correspondents after the meeting, ASUU President Nasir Isa Fagge said the union had got a message from the government and would meet its members “and get back to the government”.
Fagge, however, refused to dis-close the details of the new “message”.

On whether there is a possibility of calling off the strike soon, he said “as a good messenger”, he would only report back to “the larger ASUU”.
Also speaking, Supervising Minister of Education Nyesom Wike, who was at the meeting, assured that the strike would soon end as the government was ready to resolve all the issues that led to the industrial action.

Also at the meeting were the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Com-mission (NUC), Professor Julius Okojie, as well as Vice Chancellor of the Bayero University Kano, Professor Abdulrasheed Abubakar, and his counterparts Isaac Adewole of the University of Ibadan and Hamisu Muhammed of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi.
Former ASUU presidents Dr Dipo Fasina and Dr Abdullahi Sule-Kano were also in attendance.

source: http://dailytrust.info/index.php/news/5953-fg-ASUU-strike-new-deal

Almost every food has its own side effect then, what else shall we eat again? No be small thing.

Contrary to the positions of some people in the northern region, a group from the zone, Transformation Agenda Solidarity Forum, has said that President Goodluck Jonathan is free to contest the 2015 presidential election.

Leader of the forum, who is also a former chairman of the Federal Character Commission, Alhaji Muhammad Gwaska, who spoke with reporters in Abuja on Tuesday, said the constitution still allows the President to contest for another term.

Gwaska said it was erroneous for anyone to claim that because President Jonathan was sworn-in after the death of late President Umaru Yar’Adua and again after he won the 2011 election, he was already into his second term.

He said Jonathan had only contested the presidential election only once and was automatically qualified to run in 2015 if he so desires.

He said, “Let me tell you and let me tell every Nigerian that we have a constitution and we must respect the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

“What I know is that under the constitution of this country, a person who elected is president will serve the first tenure of four years and at the end of that if members of his political are willing they could still urge him to contest for another four years, and that is the second tenure.

“He will contest general election along with other candidates who are sponsored by other political parties.

“If at the end of the general election he emerges victorious then it means Nigerians have given him opportunity to finish his second tenure making it a period of eight years and that makes it conclusive.”

Gwaska added that “We want everybody to understand that in 2010 President Jonathan had to take over because of the death of his boss and under the constitution once the president dies the vice president takes over.”

He maintained that the debate over the eligibility of President Jonathan was unnecessary and stressed that taking over and completing the tenure of a deceased elected public office holder was not the same as a new mandate.

“The first time he (Jonathan) contested election on his own as Goodluck Ebele Jonathan was on the April 16, 2011 and he won the election. He got sworn in on May 29, 2011. So, from May 29, 2011 President Jonathan started his first tenure as President of Nigeria which means he is now qualified, I repeat, qualified if he wants to contest election in 2015.

“If the good people of Nigeria accept and vote for him, that will wind up his eight years as his own personal mandate from Nigerians,” he said.

On the issue of zoning, Alhaji Gwaska said that was the arrangements of the respective political parties and had nothing to do with the Nigerian constitution.

http://www.punchng.com/news/jonathan-can-contest-in-2015-northern-forum-2/

Former minister of steel, Chief Paul Unongo, in this exclusive chat with our correspondent in Makurdi, denies any crack within the northern political family. Unongo who is the vice-chairman of the Northern Elders Forum said the battle for 2015 presidency will be dominated by the political strength of the North. Excerpts:
The political family of the northern region appears not to be speaking with one voice unlike before; what is responsible for this seeming division?
There has never been a time that the North spoke with one voice. As far as politics is concerned, since pre-colonial, colonial and during the civilian administration, the North has always spoken with many voices as they should.
There was always a J.S Tarka and an Ahmadu Bello who spoke with different voices and there were never times they spoke with one voice. But in political action, whatever they determine to do, they somehow sit down and manage to do it. Serious people in politics never tried to muzzle up opinion by playing hard for everybody to be singing praises.
Even during the agitation for independence, the north said they were not ready for independence at the time the west and south-east wanted it and that is because the north are never frightened people that they are democratic. This does not stop the north from being traditionists, they have sound values.
In your estimation, how long have these cracks existed?
I’m denying the crack. There is no single crack within the north over the years. We only have different opinions and as long as we remain political animals, we will continue to have diverse views. The beauty of democracy is to be able to harness all these various points of view, project the direction of where we want to go and try to move the majority to the attainment of that goal. There was never a uniform voice in the north.
What solution would you proffer to mend the broken fences in order to reunite the north against the 2015 struggle for presidency?
There is no internal democracy in the PDP; the party does not give room for discussion. We must all be compelled to speak one voice. They make people act one way such that everybody must sing Halleluiah to Jonathan. I don’t have fixed rules but I play politics. Collectively, the north feels it has had a raw deal; we feel we have been left behind.
We feel that we have been manipulated to put people in power and once in power, they have agenda that even in party budgetary allocation, what comes to us (19 northern states) is far below expectation. We have learned and we have matured; we are prepared to implement democracy. We predict that now that we have learnt this from them, we can dominate political power blocs because we always produce the majority.
Do you think we will ever have true democracy in this country?
True democracy implies transparency; it implies respect for human dignity; it implies proper election when one vote is one vote, two votes are two votes; when a person beats you with one, it’s one. Is that what is obtained in your country today?
They deceive themselves that writing constitutions and changing them will solve their problem because they are cowards; it will not. Look at the system we have. When I used to go to school in this country called Nigeria 60 years back, as a small elementary kid, to us one plus three always made four and four was lower than five.
But today only 35 human beings run the fate of this country and allow camera to record the thing they call an election. At the end, these chief executives that are supposed to drive and institutionalize and solidify the democratic process said Amaechi scored 19 and Jonah Jang had 16 votes. Not a single person complained at the venue as shown in the camera, there was no fight and everybody was happy.
How do you exonerate yourself from the crisis which is within your party?
They don’t believe in party politics in PDP. When we formed the PDP, we had ideological orientation in our heads. When we formed the PDP, it was a liberal democratic party. PDP was supposed to be based on the principles of liberal democracy. I registered the party with a hundred thousand naira.
Let’s have two parties that are big, a little to the left, a little to the right and stop canvassing for votes from Nigerians on the basis of our tribes. We should start canvassing on the basis of principles of governance.
If we become government, we will use liberal democracy as our philosophy. We will use the interest of the majority as our principle of action. We will provide for the ordinary people that are not powerful, we will fight poverty not with mouth but doing physical things like empowering them, making facilities like health, water, electricity available to them without taxing them.
They took my ideas; they took two copies of what I had already presented to INEC. That night, one of them produced a car and they put one person. Unfortunately for them that person was my cousin. They gave him a brand new station wagon. He drove all the way to Kano and gave a copy of the document to Abubakar Rimi, begging Rimi that he should run to Abuja to go and register their own thing also called PDP.
At last, we had a dialogue and agreed on a philosophy since they were all the heavy weight and I saw my former president and vice president in that formation, I just thought not to fight them. I wanted the politics of, not consensus but democratic politics. I made it clear that If we agreed on the principles of PDP which I have already formed, I would prepare to surrender the name. I told them what I wanted to be was to be chairman of the party do that I can direct it ideologically.
However, they consolidated the fact that they didn’t want me in the formation but assured me that when we get to conference, they would make me chairman. Because I was from Benue State, Benue citizens felt I was inferior to Solomon Lar.
What is your take on the newly registered APC’s moves to wrest power from PDP in 2015?
APC can be a formidable party if they want to be. It is just that the young men being paraded in Nigeria as leaders don’t know politics. What they have seen is the military kind of politics of opposition. Politics in real sense is perceived interest generated by leadership of political interest which is the only basis of political actions.
I don’t think that far, because I have no confidence. Are they different from the people in PDP? They are the same people who are bonding, going round and round trying to make formations to wrest power from PDP.
The question is that if they wrest power, are they likely going to be committed to the ordinary people? Are they going to be committed to ideological orientation to allow properties to develop? Are they going to give us freedom or will they do the same thing that our party is muzzling everybody now?
If APC brings programmes that appeal to the ordinary people of Nigeria; if the APC stands out tall to work for the impoverished Nigerians who nobody has worked for; if APC articulates on principles, the easiest party to defeat would be PDP, because they are brute. They should also know how to protect their votes.
Do you support the call on President Jonathan to re-contest in 2015?
No, I don’t just support people. I have a programme. You would have asked, is Mr President implementing my programme and would I help him to improve? They want the president to hear that I support you so send me money. I cannot sell my conscience by telling him in advance that I’m going to support him when I don’t know his programme. I like some of the things he’s doing. I don’t like some of the things he’s doing, unless I dialogue with him. I’m not a kid. I belong to an organization known as Northern Elders Forum. We a political organization, we want peace, stability and the progress of Nigeria, particularly, northern Nigeria.
If there is peace and stability in the north which is 2/3 of Nigeria, there will be peace and stability in the rest of Nigeria. Therefore, I’m loyal to the Northern Elders Forum where I hold the position of the deputy leader and also double as spokesman. Whatever decision is taken by the Northern Elders Forum as to whom we should submit all support for as the president of Nigeria; we know that person will win.

http://dailytrust.info/index.php/politics/5077-north-will-produce-majority-votes-for-2015-presidency-unongo

Dillish Mathews, the lady who the $300,000 prize in the just concluded Big Brother Africa reality show has not met her dad before. Her mum was impregnated by a man who was on peacekeeping mission in their country and somehow she lost contact with her then boyfriend.
All efforts to locate the man had failed as Dillish’s mother said her former lover stopped replying her letters and she don’t even know which country to go to look for him.
But now that Dillish has won $300,000, this man has come out to claim he is her father:

Few days after Dillish granted an interview saying she is looking for her father, this man, a Kenyan, is claiming he was the one who impregnated her mum and that Dillish is his biological daughter.
Is this man for real or he is just after her money?

he Nigerian Association of Hospital and Administrative Pharmacists (NAHAP) has said there are about 17,600 registered pharmacists in the country, giving a ratio of 1 pharmacist to 12,000 Nigerians.
Chairman of association, Pharm. Yakubu Maji-Isah, who made the revelation at the recently held 15th Annual Scientific Conference of the body, said the figure contrast sharply with the World Health Organisation (WHO) recommendation of 1 pharmacist to 2,000 people.
He called on regulatory bodies to synergize towards open drug markets through enforcement of ban on sale of drugs in the open, motor parks and buses as such drugs may be poisonous and injurious to the unsuspecting public.
Dr John Alfa, Director Pharmaceutical Services at the National Assembly, Abuja who presented a keynote address at the occasion, called for adequate budgetary provision as well as training and retraining for pharmacists in Nigeria adding that the safety of medicine is concerned with the risk benefit ratio which is supposed to be low.
He said the conference assessed the role of the pharmacist because quality of medicine is essential as any adulterated drug is considered not safe but toxic to the patient.
In her remarks, Dr. Asuelinmen Celina, said the theme of the conference “The Role of Hospital and Administrative Pharmacists in Providing Safe Medicines for Nigerians” is apt considering the challenges of ensuring that safe, efficacious and cost effective drugs are delivered to Nigerians.

http://dailytrust.info/index.php/news/4648-nigeria-has-1-pharmacist-to-12-000-citizens

I first met Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd) at a press conference in 2010; he made quite an impression on me. He was at his charming best that night until moderators called for one last question. Then, I asked why he insisted on the contradiction of using the title of “General” while trying to be a civilian president.

My question was to probe if, by holding up his military title, he was passing a message about the kind of president he would be.

Buhari dropped all affability and responded in a rather offended tone,

“Because I earned it!”

He added he was not one of those who promoted themselves in the army without merit; it was deserved. I felt his response was rather arrogant, although later, I had a rethink. Maybe, his insistence of being a “General” was an honest self-presentation. That Olusegun Obasanjo expunged “General” from his titular achievements does not mean someone else should do it.

The second time I had to ponder Buhari’s “honesty” was while reading his 70th birthday interview in The SUN. It was shocking to read his justification of the decree with which his regime used to execute three young men. After so many years, Buhari still refuses to admit that his method of applying the law was wrong — morally and judicially. I was disturbed by Buhari’s sense of morality and wondered if, again, he was being his honest self, was arrogant, or he is simply a man who doesn’t think about things. By the way, after reading that interview, whatever respect and support I had for him whittled down.

Since then, I have read many articles about Buhari. His admirers talk endlessly about his “unimpeachable integrity” while others argue otherwise. Both sides have merits because, truly, Buhari is a bundle of contradictions. It is a shame that there has not been any engaging scholarship that has studied him –or other past leaders — in depth. What we have dotting our landscape are largely hagiographies written by hungry scribblers in need of quick naira notes. Nigeria is that kind of a place where intellectual jerks sit amidst the ruins of once upon a glorious university to write “bitter truths” about which ethnic professor was the first to climb to the moon with a ladder.

The Buhari personality deserves critical historical analyses. He is consistently sold as an honest man, one austere to the point of martyrdom; that his incorruptibility makes him the perfect candidate to cure the cancer of corruption that has practically eaten up Nigeria. But these promoters consistently fail to answer why Buhari who has never touched public funds has no problems mingling with corruption czars in Nigeria? The man has contested presidential elections thrice; it will be nice to know who his campaign sponsors are and what they do for a living. If he ever becomes president, will he throw the book at them and have them probed for corruption? If he decides to overlook their past, will that not mean he has to do same for the corrupt elements in the PDP too? These are no easy answers, I admit, but they are necessary to challenge the myth that he can solve Nigeria’s corruption problems.

Speaking of honesty, why is Buhari prepping for 2015 presidential race when in 2011 he announced he was contesting the third and final time? If he cannot stand by his own word now, how can he do so if he becomes president and he is faced with very complex situations that will tax his integrity?

I am definitely aware that Buhari has the constitutional right to run as many times as he chooses. He is donning his Messiah toga again even though his candidacy on the APC ticket signifies desperation and opportunism on his part and stagnation on his party’s. He is like an old masquerader who insists on doing the same energetic traditional dances on old trembling legs. His aides say he is above God in the PDP imagination but this is patently delusional. What reason does anyone have to fear Buhari?

If we take away the image of the incorruptible leader from him, what really is left? Does his contribution to national issues –from the questions of corruption to Boko Haram to federalism to electricity to poverty to Niger Delta to all that afflict us — show that the man has a higher grasp of issues more than President Goodluck Jonathan (who, by the way, still remains as clueless as ever)? If we compare the rhetoric of Buhari in 2003 with that of 2007, 2011 and 2013, are we likely to come off with the picture of a leader who has been seasoned by time? One who has –within the span of 10 years — improved on his understanding and articulation of the many problems of Nigeria? Or, all we will see is a man who rides the horse of war-against-corruption to death because he does not have more vibrant ideas? (Personally, I wonder if Nigerian leaders are corrupt because they lack the necessary foresight they need to perform or they fail to perform because their imagination is quenched by corruption?)

Mine is by no means a trivialisation of the endemic nature of corruption but if we analyse issues more carefully, is Nigeria’s problem wholly that of corruption? How come Asian countries manage to make progress despite the corruption in their systems? Is corruption Nigeria’s problem or something actually worse but manifests as such? The underlying sentiment of turning Buhari into a magic bullet is based on isolationist thinking that fails to situate a complex problem in proper context.

If Buhari himself will be honest with himself, he should own up that he is not what Nigeria needs, at least anymore. His 2015 candidature will be more of a distraction from main issues in a way that will allow incumbent forces a leeway back to power. Of course he can play a major role but his talk of if-my-party-fields-me-I will-contest is more of a forked tongue oratory than actual humility. It will not hurt him to admit that what Nigeria needs is not a man with a good image but someone who has a vision, and the energy and charisma to drive it; and that he is just not that person.

http://www.punchng.com/opinion/viewpoint/the-honesty-buhari-needs/

To say that the recently concluded special convention of the Peoples Democratic Party was a burst is an understatement. When the commotion began, my first thought was that “the PDP is putting on a show to devein and defang the opposition.” But the more I watched what was going on, the reality began to sink in: the President and his wing in the party were losing it.

For the President, the convention did not go as planned: Many of the pre-planned outcomes were not achieved. For instance, the media reported that President Goodluck Jonathan and his devotees failed in their effort to get other members to toe the party line; and that the disenchanted elements within the party outsmarted the President in substantive areas. In the end, therefore, he came out of the convention weak, drained and depressed.

The primary purpose of the convention was (a) to elect candidates into vacant positions in the National Working Committee of the party; (b) to come up with short and long term strategies in terms of the 2015 elections; (c) to share and or confirm who gets “what, when, and how” in terms of appointments, contracts, and monetary allocations; (d) to reconfirm President Jonathan as the party’s supreme leader; and (e) to rubber-stamp his wishes.

To be sure, items b and c are usually done in private. But the PDP is so confident of its supremacy it does not care much for secrecy anymore. When you’ve been in power for this long, arrogance and hubris begin to set it. Regrettably, the opposition has been in disarray for a while and unable to truly give the PDP a run for its money.

One of the most disingenuous parts of the whole episode was the excuse given for former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s absence. According to one of Obasanjo’s many assistants and gofers, Mr. Tunji Akinosi, “Obasanjo was down with cold.” Not cold and flu, but the common cold! He went on to say that it would have been “odd and embarrassing for the former president to be at the convention with the condition.” But hours after Jonathan was thoroughly embarrassed, Obasanjo visited a fallen Jonathan.

Although my sources have yet to tell me what transpired between the former and current President, their body and facial language said it all. To that you add the body and facial language of Mrs. Patience Jonathan who seemed lost and confused and spent. Obasanjo knew that Jonathan would be humiliated. He knew. His absence was deliberate. By being absent – and later rushing to the Presidential Villa – he wanted to drive home a point: “You need me!”

After all, for months on end, Jonathan and his proxies have been acting as though they did not need the former president. They tried to excommunicate him. They tried to make him irrelevant. And they also tried to turn the party against him. But Obasanjo is as tricky as a fox. He understood power. And he knows how to use it – especially within the Nigerian setting. He may not be that refined and sophisticated, but he is smart and clearly understands three things better than many of his contemporaries: Politics, power and Nigeria’s demons.

Hedrick Smith in The Power Game (1988) said, “Power is the ability to make something happen or to keep it from happening. It can spring from tactical ingenuity and jugular timing, or simply from knowing more than anyone else at the critical moment of decision.” That is Olusegun Obasanjo. Just as his refusal to show up at the PDP convention was long planned, his appearance at Jonathan’s side within hours of his inglorious defeat was also planned. Jonathan now understands that he cannot do without Obasanjo.

The reality is that Jonathan could have been his own man. Really, he could have been. But he is not. His is not because he does not like and or understand politics. He does not understand how the world works. You could say he is too good and too decent for Nigerian-style politics. He is naturally calm and amiable and gentle and monk-like. And he would have contributed more as a village chief, as a college professor or as a bureaucrat. Those who forced him into politics and who forced politics on him did him a disservice.

As the President of the Republic, and as the leader of his own party, how could he show up at a planned convention without being in charge of the known and unknown variables? No one should have been able to move, sit or stand without him knowing. He and his men and women should have been in charge of every single detail. But they were not. But instead, they allowed a former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar, and some state governors to control the beat and the rhythm of the convention. The former vice-president must have balls to do what he did. Big balls!

The buzzword is that “Jonathan is finished…the PDP is finished.” I do not think so. Not yet. It is way too early to count the President and his party out of the 2015 elections. Nigeria is a country where anything can happen, and stranger things have happened in the 53 years history of the country. In this instance, what happened on August 31 may simply be a “lovers’ quarrel,” in which case the trio of Obasanjo, Jonathan and Atiku can still make up for the sake of the party (not necessarily for the sake of the country). All the President needs do is to make some concessions.

In the end, therefore, I do not see the PDP splintering into factions. If it splits, it’ll lose. And no sane organisation loves losing power and the billions of dollars, along with the trappings of office that come with being in power. It is therefore in its best interest to have a common front.

So, this is what is likely to happen: The party will hold a secret meeting much the same way the American Mafia held a meeting in the Apalachin, New York home of mobster Joseph Barbara, on November 14, 1957. On that occasion, Mafia bosses from Italy, Canada, the US and elsewhere showed up to iron out their differences.

But here is a caveat: if the Obasanjo and Atiku wings cannot reconcile their differences – or if both camps believe Jonathan is a liability — then, they will have no choice but to dump him. But if he remains on the ticket and wins, well, many of his opponents, especially Governor Rotimi Amaechi, would be hounded by the EFCC or he’ll have to go into exile as soon as he drops his hat in 2015.

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mumumugu: Rommantic or ruggedic

all of the above!!!!

By OPEOLUWANI OGUNJIMI

When the name ‘Ruggedman’ is mentioned the picture that comes to mind is that of a hard-faced, tough-talking and mean gangster rap star, but the Ohafia, Abia State-born rapper is anything but that as he reveals in this telling chat with Weekend Groove. Excerpts:

What have you been up to lately?

I have been working on the singing sensation I just signed to my label, Rugged Records label. His name is Mbryo. I believe he’s the next act to blow from Nigeria. And we have been recording tracks for his album. I’ve also been on a promotion/introduction tour around Nigeria to introduce him to the industry and my fans.
Rugged Man

Rugged Man

Mbryo is multi-talented. He writes, sings, plays guitar, drums and piano. So in order to introduce him into the industry, I released a joint album in December 2012 with him titled ‘Money Making Music’ which has songs like ‘Push’ featuring Terry G, Mbryo’s ‘Remote’ and lots more. He’s already getting heavy rotation. He has recorded songs with Olamide and Waje.

Is that why you retired from music so early so you can face production?

I didn’t retire. I just slowed down a bit so I can concentrate on my record label. The Mbryo project is the reason you haven’t heard a new song from me but I already have new songs with Wizboy, 2face, Wande Coal, TM 9ja and Vector to mention a few. My birthday is in September so, expect a song on that day.

What about your fashion outfit? Much hasn’t been heard of it lately?

My clothing line called 20th September Wear is work s in progress. I have done fashion shows and parties to showcase it but I’m still on it. Presently, I’m doing my research because I’m interested in putting out everyday clothing, not fashion show/runway clothes. That’s why I’m taking my time.

So are you throwing a birthday party?

Last year, I said I wasn’t going to throw a party but I ended up celebrating a week-long and in five different clubs. So I can’t say yes or no yet. But I will always thank God for an additional year on the date.

Which song do you intend dropping on that day?

I haven’t decided which one I will be releasing yet. I’m even still going to hit the studio before then so, it just might be the newest one with ‘Reminisce’.

So your label intends to work with just rap acts like you?

My label isn’t just for rap artistes. Mbryo is an R n B singing sensation. He is the first to get officially signed to Rugged Records

Most of your posts on Twitter reflect activism. Are you also an activist?

I have always been a critic. Remember the Ehen part 1 that I featured Nomorloss? It was the song that changed the face of Nigerian music and it was a constructive criticism which paid off in the long run because the outcome of that movie is what a lot of new age artistes are enjoying now. I am ever ready to lend my voice anywhere it will have a positive impact.
Ruggedman

Ruggedman

How do you explain your love for soccer too?

I can’t just explain the kind of passion I have for football. But all I know is that I have loved soccer for so long as I can remember. As a kid, I remember watching Big League Soccer and reading hot shot Hamish comics. I have also been a Manchester United fan since 1986.

Why Man U?

I think it was love at first sight between Manchester United and I just clicked.

[b] You seem not to be the romantic type?

Says who? I am very romantic when I’m with the right woman. Just like love and marriage, romance isn’t something I throw around.

I remember one St. Valentine’s day. I went to see my Val but I didn’t meet her at home. I tied a rose(a real one not plastic) to her door and wrote my initials on a paper. When she returned and saw it, she knew I was the one who put it there.

The incident that made me put my romance in check happened years ago too on another St. Valentine’s day. I bought loads of gifts and fifteen cards because I don’t like getting just one. I even booked an hotel room for dinner and all. All she did was say “you shouldn’t have done all these!” She didn’t even bring me a card. After that, I put a leash on my romance. She has to be worth it before I show her that side of me.

Can’t imagine a girl doing that to almighty Ruggedman.

No. At that time, it was just the start of my career. I hadn’t even recorded Baraje.

So how do you feel having experienced the other side of love?

I learnt that life goes on no matter what, and you need to know who you do things for.

Does that mean you don’t have anyone in your life?

Right now I don’t have anybody in my life. It’s been my work and me for a while now. Although it feels somehow sometimes, especially when I see couples out and about . But I find solace with the thought that the right person is out there for me.

So it means wedding bells isn’t ringing any time soon?

I guess so but I’m very happy it’s ringing for others and I pray their union stands the test of time.

But is it so hard to find the right woman?

I guess it is sometimes especially now that vanity rules. You find it hard knowing she is with you for you or your status.

It’s like you’ve really had hard times with ladies.

Not at all, the ladies love me and I love them right back. It’s getting the right one for me that’s the issue. A while ago, Bisi Ibidapo-Obe looked at me and said “Rugged, it’s not a curse but before you find a babe for you, it will be difficult.” She said I’m a fine man, successful artiste and so, women will come and it will be hard to know who is who. Now I understand what she meant but God is in control.
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Why did you fire Mode 9 to ‘Go get another job’, have you any axe to grind with him?

I didn’t say that to Mode 9,bloggers put up that headline from what I said generally about music and entertainers. If you ever read my story,even I said “when I started I was tired of mediocrity being celebrated and I was left with two options: either to fight for the music I love or to get another job. And I decided to fight for it,hence Ehen Part 1 featuring Nomoreloss was born. That was 2002,this is 2013.

So no beef with Mode 9?

I don’t have time for musical beef. I can do a track if it is needed to clear a wrong perception of me, but to start exchanging words with another artist at this stage? No way man!

What’s your view of music being churned these days?

Too many wishy-washy music that do not last more than 2 months on the airwaves. Sweet? Yes. Content? Definitely below average. But it seems they are doing it and getting away with it because the masses enjoy it. What this means is that the chances of this generation making songs that will be evergreen are very slim.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/08/i-can-be-very-romantic-if-ruggedman/

By Princewill Ekwujuru

The Association of Fast Food and Confectioners of Nigeria, AFFCON, an umbrella body of Quick Service Restaurants, QSR in Nigeria, said it contributes an annual revenue of N200 billion into the growth of the economy.

AFFCON among other things said its members have also paid over N1billion to various tiers of government in taxes and levies.

The President of the body, Mrs. Bose Ayeni, disclosed this while addressing newsmen on the forthcoming inaugural National Conference of the association with theme: ‘The Role of Fast Food Business in the Global Economy,’ which is scheduled to hold in Lagos, by September 4, 2013.

Speaking on the role the fast food industry plays in Nigeria, Ayeni said that the industry employs over 500,000 workers at processing and retailing levels, in addition to paying over one billion naira to the various tiers of government in taxes and levies.

Stressing the prime position food occupies in human existence, Ayeni said: “Food is at the top of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. That buttresses the primacy of food in human existence. Life is not sustainable without food. With AFFCON, food becomes an experience to anticipate, enjoy and cherish, presented always in a cosy and hygienic environment.”

Ayeni who said that the Nigerian fast food industry is a significant contributor to the Nigerian economy, with an estimated annual revenue of N200 billion, and pays over N1 billion to the various tiers of government in taxes and levies has a massive growth potential and is dominated by some 100 small-to medium –sized indigenous brands with over 800 outlets spread across have potential to become big given the right environment to thrive.

The president who among other things complained of the challenges bedeviling the industry, said top on the list is inadequate power supply, whilst pointing out that about 30 percent of the gross profit made by the fast food companies is used to service power supply.

She went further to say that next is the multiplicity of taxes and levies. “This is compounded by the overlapping functions of several regulatory agencies. These overlapping functions and a lack of coordination amongst such regulators lead to heavy financial burden on fast food companies. She however pleaded with government to ensure that the different regulators have distinct roles that do not overlap.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/08/fast-food-contributes-n200bn-to-economy-annually-affcon/

GOMBE — Officials of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, have arrested 22-year-old Mohammed Inuwa of Herwagana quarters, Gombe for attempting to rape an 80-year-old blind woman, Malama Hannutu Baba.

The Gombe State Commander of NSCDC, Mr Joel Khestossen said, Tuesday, that the suspect was arrested on August 23.

Khestossen said the suspect was charged to Kasuwan Shanu Magistrates’ court and later remanded in prison custody on the orders of the magistrate.

According to him, the suspect gained entry into the blind woman’s house under the pretext of looking for one Kabiru Sani, a student of the Federal College of Education (Technical) Gombe.

He said: “When he entered the house, there was nobody, as everybody had gone to the mosque except the blind woman.

“When she heard his footsteps, she asked who the person was and the suspect did not talk but quietly went and grabbed the woman.

“He started struggling with her as he tried to force her to have sex with him.

“Unfortunately for him, the woman’s grandson, Malam Mohammed Baba, returned from the mosque and discovered what was going on. He raised an alarm which attracted people to the house.”

He said the people overpowered the suspect and handed him over to NSCDC.

He appealed to the public to always report such cases to the appropriate security authorities for necessary action.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/08/man-22-docked-over-attempt-to-rape-80-yr-old-blind-woman/

fuckluv: Aboki Boko the name sweet die

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where is Mr. Aboki now? if Nairaland is like facebook, i would have posted this on his wall......

check it here it has been posted before:
https://www.nairaland.com/1416878/afrocandy-invitation-stirs-debate-nairalander

poshdiva: OP I understand your view. People are different. I have a friend who doesn't kiss because she finds it disgusting.


To every man his own

she be reptile? or the guy's mouth dey smell....

Symphony007: I have always found couples wether dating or married showering together just plain disgusting and going too far. Shower time for every human is suppose to be one the the most private of times? Why invite someone to share that salient moment with you, showers are private. The body is private. I'll fight with any girl i date or marry that suggest we do it. I just hate it so much and i know i am not alone. If you don't agree with me, luminate me on what you gain by showering with your partner.

guy! you are not yet ready for marriage. i can do that 1000 times a day with pleasure......

Nah boko haram photo Mr. Aboki put for him profile self.

ichommy: MRS Aboki will do

i fink that will be better...

Mr Aboki don dey popular be dat oooooooooooooo......