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Consumers of smoked fish are being advised to be wary and avoid cancers of the luciferin and the tongue.


Chief Consultant Radiotherapist and Oncologist, National Hospital, Abuja, Dr. Oyesegun Abdulrasaq, told the News Agency of Nigeria that smoked foods contain hydrocarbon.



He described cancer of the luciferin as, “A space between the mouth, esophagus and the pharynx (voice box).



“Luciferin is from the Latin word lucifer, ‘light-bringer,’ they are a class of light-emitting biological pigments found in organisms, which cause bioluminescence.



“The term is used generically to refer to any light emitting molecule utilised by a luciferase or photoprotein.”



The oncologist said, “When you smoke something like fish or meat, it becomes blackened, there is a lot of hydrocarbon in it, it is the hydrocarbon in it that is a cancer-causing agent.



“Eat less of smoked food, for it is not what you eat today that will give you cancer, it all depends on time of exposure.



“So, if you have been eating smoked food for 10, 15 or 20 years, that is the one that will give you cancer, but if it is once in a while, it might not be as dangerous.”

http://www.punchontheweb.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art201007204344826

http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/expired-food-just-nose-190200241.html

jamesversion:
Yea@ bold. I was with some farmers last week who were very happy a basin of garri is now sold for almost N12,000. They were pointing out to me how they sold a basin of garri for N2,500 in 2018. How garri business has become so lucrative due to rise in dollar and subsequent rise everywhere else.

Same land, same cassava stem for planting, same planting techniques with adherence to the planting season, yet, in a space of 6yrs, garri price have quadrupled.

Na we dey do ourselves.

landmark86:
Breaking down of the food
4 portion of Amala (4x100)= #400
Meat = #100
Ponmo = #100
Total= #600

The price are not bad just that the soup (ewedu) is a little bit small.

That's the present situation we Nigerians find ourself.

Renewed shege

illicit:
In Ibadan maybe 500

In Abuja, 1000

Ijaya123:
I went out to get lunch somewhere in Lagos today and this the food I bought for N600. That’s 4 portions of Amala with meat and ponmo.

I think a lot of food people are selling these days are over priced.

adenigga:
Source: https://punchng.com/Naira-drops-at-parallel-market-closes-900/$-official-window

BrandSpurNG:
SOURCE:https://brandspurng.com/2024/01/25/world-bank-projects-3-7-growth-for-nigerian-economy-in-2025/

2mercy:
*Says growth potential beset by worsening FX crisis, inflation, insecurity, others

*Forecasts naira to officially weaken to N1,171/$ by December

*Says manufacturing may be further constrained by FX shortages

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2024/01/26/standard-bank-report-predicts-increase-in-reserves-buoyed-by-domestic-oil-refinery-operation?amp=1

Elzazzi:
I will try and make this brief and please ignore the errors.

I was with my close friend yesterday evening. While we were chilling together, a call came in on his phone. it was his cousin that called telling what had happened and also seeking his advice. Now this is what happened, this his cousin has been dating this lady for about a year I think and he has already proposed to her and even took her to his parents and siblings. He also visited the lady family and did some introduction. Now April this year has been chosen for the wedding ceremony proper and a date has been fixed. This is where trouble started.

My friend cousin created a WhatsApp group for his wedding ceremony, he added all his friends and some of his classmates to this group so they can join hands and make his wedding day memorable. He posted his wedding IV to the group and some pictures of him and the lady, one of his old time classmate recognized her and immediately called him for a private meeting for urgent discussions.


He visited him the next day and this guy told him everything about his fiancée. How she used to be a stripper in Lagos clubs years back and how he and his friends had wild 3some with her. She used to base in Lagos as a call girl but relocated to Abuja and that’s where she met my friend cousin. After all these revelation this guy was in deep pain as he had already gone far with the weeding preparations. Of course his old time classmate advised him not to marry her, but this guy loves her so much and he is in a big dilemma of what to do next. As he thinking of leaving the country and go start life with her elsewhere.

Can such past truly be overlooked?

After my friend explained everything to me, I was just short of words but of course I advised he shouldn’t marry her. What advice would you give him in such a situation my fellow Nlanders ?

iLegendd:
The rule is:

A woman's past is the most important thing to a man.

A man's future is the most important thing to a woman.

Whoever goes against this will regret. If you marry a man with no future, you'll regret as a woman. If you marry a woman with a terrible past that you're already aware of, it will haunt you for life and you'll regret marrying her.

Peterpaul96:
Most Beautiful African Female Fans at the African Cup of Nations #AFCON and their Instagram handles.

African women are beautifully made by God 😘

Credit: Judelucan

Klass99:
K-quest

Nah.....that was common sense talking not me low blowing her relatives. I don't get how a grown woman will be so concerned about "what will people say?"

Younger me used to be consumed with such thoughts but older me has a screw them mentality and attitude, which has served me well. The OP needs to try it.

@ your last sentence, I plan to, I pray the universe aligns well with my hopes and dreams for 2024. Wishing you a fabulous year too.

saintbillion:
https://nypost.com/2024/01/25/news/porn-star-jesse-jane-and-boyfriend-found-dead-in-suspected-drug-overdoses-report/

ppogba:
I love your own perspective to this topic.
Well said sir.

Amaoforka:
Only you said what I just needed to hear

ednut1:
The richest Nigerians like dangote, otedola, atiku and many others stay abroad for a while every year. All their kids have dual citizenship and study abroad. The recent rich people are buying citizenship via investment in America and South America countries. Are they fools . This is Nigeria where one medical emergency equals death 99% of the time, one terminal illness wipes off all you money and assets, noise pollution from generators . A country where many people went to university and later became bitcoin trader or bag seller on Instagram . my advice to any youth is to japa if they can, get that second citizenship and come back if you want. Alot of people who refused to japa in 1980s are regretting as their 30plus kids are still stuck at home with them jobless or underemployed

Mindlog:
Were they truly "happily married" while still in Nigeria?

The Nigerian environment tends to subsidize a lot of unhealthy marriages and then tagged a "happy marriage".

A lot of things need unlearning but some are stuck in their ways... one said it was emasculating doing the dishes.😆😆😆

That reminds me of a draft dissertation of a Nigerian Psychology postgraduate student, I read and it was really insightful as it focused on the breakdown in marital relationships of some Nigerian migrants to the UK as the focus.

The project detailed how the UK system hits hard on Nigerian husbands who are so high on control and submission as the UK system deflates these. The researcher also brought up the demystification of income which counters many threads here that advocates a man should not let his wife know how much his income is but here in the UK, the wife knows it before it even reaches the man's account and the system forces the couples to be more open about their finances and they are forced to make joint decisions as it forces accountable leadership on husbands as against the lordship status, they "enjoyed" in Nigeria ....d person write many, many for the dissertation.😆😆😆😆

EBMedia:
A human right lawyer, Bolanle, has decried the high rate of divorce among ‘happily married' Nigerian couples after they relocate to the UK, IGBERETV reports.

He wrote on his Twitter handle;



https://twitter.com/BolanleCole/status/1657282890005196800?t=03ImUcp6y2jvwnJ8xWaP6A&s=19[/quote]Bump.

Smile4mee01:
I'm a single 39yr old Nigeria guy in diaspora trying to settle down and going to Nigeria to marry is not an option.

I'm an introvert who has been through some childhood trauma in my family and really fear marriage because of what I have seen and how bad it can be sometimes.

However, an old female friend and colleague of mine who we worked together in Nigeria and now in canada recently contacted me and she is also single and not had children. She is doing well for herself and now a citizen there while I'm not. A part of me is concerned about

1. Fertility : I desire children. However, can she have me healthy children @ 39. How many can she have? I discussed us trying for a child , she appears to want a.marriage first. But what gurantees do I have to have children.


Should I be concerned? I dont want to enter one chance.



Please I use God beg you, no insults just advice. Abeg. God bless you.

LegendHero:
Source: https://punchng.com/breaking-lagos-to-unveil-red-line-rail-february/

AtoningBlood:
I need your input people.

3 years ago, my dad sold our house without informing anyone of us. Meanwhile, we all had things left at home, including my mum's items. He never told us where some of those things are till date.

He sold that house and went to the village, he immediately started having issues with the village people. Fight today, fight tomorrow. Everyone in the village I heard now disrespect him due to how he reveal his secrets to anyone who cares to listen.

My dad wants to leave the village to go rent an apartment in another state. His financial responsibility has been on me alone. My siblings abandoned him.

He's being nursing the idea of leaving the village and never informed me. Last november I spent almost 2 million naira fixing solar power and inverter for him in his house at the village and immediately after that he started saying he wants to leave the village..

I told my dad never to relocate to the village yet, that he should wait till his is older as he is still agile and all his friends are in the state where we lived or around. He also gets contracts once in a while so I don't bear much financial burden. But no, he failed to listen and sold our house and left.

My dad wants me to cough out another 1M to rent a house, he wants it big, 3 bedroom. I told him to look for a 2 bedroom but he said where would visitors stay.

I am not even comfortable seeing him in a rented apartment, what would my cousins say, they would mock us. I have some of them who are very naughty. He is bringing shame in us.

We have two properties and my husband wants him to come and stay in one, I vehemently disagreed because he will be controlling us, some of my extended family members will come visiting him and carry the news to the village, as well as discussing my own family and I don't want that. They contributed to what is happening to him now. Through him, some of them will come to stay and I can not start what I can't continue with. So I told my husband to dead that idea fast.

He wants to leave the village latest by February. How do I convince him to get a 2 bedroom flat? 3 bedroom would mean 3 mattresses, and everything triple. My dad doesn't like anything less. All the expenses will be on me alone. My siblings don't care.

I can't turn deaf ears to his needs. I don't want him in the village and I hate to see him in a rented apartment but that is what it is now.

I need contructive advice especially those of us with retired parents, how do you relate with their needs? I told him to think of a small trade so he won't be idle like he's been since retirement and he is talking about setting up electrical pole business, I laughed. Sebi he wan rek me. Same way he did not manage hid wealth.

Klass99:
Tell him to sell the village house, like he did the town house and rent a 3 bedroom apartment.

You pay the piper (meaning you do the heavy financial lifting) yet you are allowing him dictate to you what kind of house to get. Can you not act like your siblings even a little to force him to adjust his attitude and expectations?

If I were you, I will not rent him a new place, he will stay in that village house where close to N2 million was spent installing solar power. You will continue to renew his rent each year if you let him leave the villa, do you have the means to sustain that? You go taya o!

Renting when he owns a house in the villa is not a wise use of money. A good father leaves an inheritance for his children's children, what is your own father doing? Financially wrecking you, like you rightly said.

Modified to add; You are too old to care and too old to be worrying about what your cousins will say or do. Screw them! Their opinions should be the least of your concerns, the preservation, wise use and multiplication of your resources should be your priority, or don't you have children of your own to take care of and plan for?

gamaliel9:
You need to find out where your interest lies, is it local or foreign stocks, crypto, bonds or treasury bills, mutual funds[i do not do them],

You need to know more, depending on your age and risk appetite....me, i do not consider all these things, i have a perpetual high risk
Read on your own, you will learn more.
read books by Robert Kiyosaki, etc

AfricaFactsZone:
According to the Henley and Partners Openness Index, eight of the world’s top 10 most open countries are in Africa, showcasing the continent’s remarkable hospitality.

This unprecedented level of openness challenges stereotypes and exemplifies a sense of unity and cooperation extending beyond borders, with 12 African countries ranking among the top 20 most open globally.


Henley and Partners, specializing in residence and citizenship by investment, recently unveiled its 2024 Openness Index, spotlighting Africa’s exceptional hospitality.

The forefront of this extraordinary ranking includes Burundi, Cape Verde Islands, Comoro Islands, Djibouti, Kenya, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and Rwanda.


All eight countries rank among the top 10 most welcoming nations globally.


These countries hold the top position on the Henley and Partners index, allowing citizens from an impressive 198 countries to enter their borders without imposing stringent visa restrictions.


Specifically, Burundi, Cape Verde Islands, Comoro Islands, Djibouti, Kenya, and Guinea-Bissau claim the six most open spots globally, followed closely by Micronesia and Maldives, preceding Mozambique and Rwanda.

Certain nations exemplify high openness criteria: a willingness to engage with people from various regions, hospitality, a desire to share their culture, a conducive and safe environment, and a respectable to thriving economy.


In essence, these countries boast a remarkably high openness index, serving as a key metric measuring a nation’s accessibility, receptiveness to global trade, ideas, and collaboration, reflecting economic, social, and cultural vibrancy.

Henley and Partners, renowned for residence and citizenship by investment expertise, regularly updates the Openness Index, ranking all 199 countries and territories worldwide based on the number of nationalities permitted entry without a prior visa.



Among the most open African nations, all eight share the top spot, allowing freedom of visitation for citizens from 198 countries, while Somalia and Togo also hold a commendable second position, accommodating visitors from 197 countries.

Continue Reading: https://africafactszone.com/africas-open-arms/

AfricaFactsZone:
The sub-Saharan African Diaspora black Jews in Israel is made up of four main groups:

1) Ethiopian immigrants, most of whom are from the Ethiopian Jewish community, the Beta Israel, but also a significant number of descendants of Christian Ethiopians with Jewish ancestry, called the Falas Mura;


2) African migrant workers and refugees;

3) Black Bedouin;



4) African-American “Black Hebrews,” who call themselves the African Hebrew Israelites.

Each group is made up of a different ethnic, religious, and social group, and they don’t talk to each other much. These groups, which are mostly black in a mostly white but multi-ethnic country, show how complicated and multi-faceted Israeli society is.

Ethiopian immigrants from the first and second generation of Black Jews in Isreal
Black Jews in Isreal - Africa Facts Zone



The 125,000 Ethiopian immigrants from the first and second generation make up the largest group of people from sub-Saharan Africa in Israel.

Since the 1980s, 80,000 Ethiopian immigrants have come to Israel in several waves, including two huge airlifts.


Between November 1984 and January 1985, 6,700 immigrants were brought from refugee camps in Sudan, where they had gathered after sneaking across the Ethiopian-Sudanese border on foot.

In May 1990, nearly 14,000 immigrants were brought from Addis Ababa within 36 hours.



Most of the people who moved to Israel before 1991 were from the Jewish Beta Israel community, which in Ethiopia was called Falasha in a derogatory way.

Read More: https://africafactszone.com/black-jews-in-isreal/

AfricaFactsZone:
Jesus was considered a Sun God because of the Ancient Egyptian Solar Worship symbolism embedded in Jesus’ mythological story suggesting that Jesus was the Sun incarnate.

In this entry we explore the reasons why Jesus can be considered a Sun God and how he fits within the wider context of mythology and religion.

Read More: https://africafactszone.com/jesus-is-a-sun-god/

AfricaFactsZone:
Africa is renowned for producing outstanding talents in various industries, including entertainment, sports, media, politics, and science.

To highlight these exceptional individuals, New African Magazine annually curates the "100 Most Influential Africans" list. The 2023 edition, as reported by a Nigerian news publication,

This prestigious list celebrates a diverse and inspiring collection of African men and women who have excelled in their fields.

These individuals are recognized for their excellence, innovation, leadership, resilience, and vision.

The list includes a wide range of professions such as politicians, entrepreneurs, industrialists, environmentalists, creatives, scientists, educators, and sports personalities.

Furthermore, the list mirrors the evolving trends and priorities in Africa, especially in the context of the challenges and opportunities that have arisen in the post-pandemic era.

This compilation serves as a testament to the significant impact these influential Africans have had both on the continent and globally.

Politics

Ibrahima Cheikh Diong(Senegal)

Dr Sidi Ould Tah(Mauritania)

President William Ruto(Kenya)

Tidjane Thiam(Côte D'Ivoire)

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala(Nigeria)

President Bola Tinubu(Nigeria)

Mamady Doumbouya(Guinea)

Nadia Fettah Alaoui(Morocco)

Tsitsi Masiyiwa(Zimbabwe)

Ousmane Sonko(Senegal)

Akinwumi Adesina(Nigeria)

Business

Didier Acouetey(Togo)

Bahija Jallal(Morocco)

André De Ruyter(South Africa)

Prof. Benedict Okey Oramah(Nigeria)

Riham ElGizy(Egypt)

Samaila Zubairu(Nigeria)

Simon Tiemtoré(Burkina Faso)

Ham Serunjogi(Uganda)

Karim Beguir(Tunisia)

Ralph Mupita(Zimbabwe)

Aliko Dangote(Nigeria)

Mohamed Kande(Côte D'Ivoire)

Ibrahim Sagna(Senegal)

Shola Akinlade(Nigeria)

Serge Ekué(Benin)

Jules Ngankam(Cameroon)

Hassanein Hiridjee(Madagascar)

Sim Tshabalala(South Africa)

Bernard Koné Dossongui(Côte D'Ivoire)

Coura Sène(Senegal)

Pascal Agboyibor(Togo)

Olugbenga Agboola(Nigeria)

James Mwangi(Kenya)

Science and Academia

Moungi Bawendi(Tunisia)

Nemat Talaat Shafik(Egypt)

Timnit Gebru(Eritrea)

Ismahane Elouafi(Morocco)

Chao Tayiana Maina(Kenya)

Anna Adeola Makanju(Nigeria)

Creatives

Ali Said Alamin Mandhry(Kenya)

Teju Cole(Nigeria)

DJ Snake(Algeria)

Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah(Ghana)

Omoyemi Akerele(Nigeria)

David Diop(Senegal)

Aïda Muluneh(Ethiopia)

Tems(Nigeria)

Pierre Thiam(Senegal)

Serge Attukwei Clottey(Ghana)

Bassem Youssef(Egypt)

Editi Effiong(Nigeria)

Burna Boy(Nigeria)


Continue Reading: https://africafactszone.com/2023s-100-most-influential-africans/

Obrigardo:
The former president thinks Obama is still in the White House and that Nikki Haley is Nancy Pelosi.

When will people take notice of his failing mental health?

Hurbashola:
Palm Wine Tapper Caught Trying To Smuggle Food For Kidnappers In A Farm Delta State

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGnW079Peic

A palm wine tapper was caught while trying to smuggle food and other items to kidnappers in a farm Abraka Delta state

Yesterday evening residents of abraka in delta state nabbed a palm taper on his way to smuggle and supply food and other items to kidnappers in a farm
Before he was caught by a group of boys in the area as they handed him over to police officers

Badadvisor:
Bro anambra men are the biggest simp in Nigeria no insult to my igbo brothers.
They really suck when it comes to female affairs. It's so sad, Last i visited enugu and spent about 6 months there girls always tag enugu boys as stingy because they hardly spend on random ladies anyhow even their lover. I thought that was a joke until i heard like 5 different girls saying they are scared of enugu guys that they are the king of scamming and most even defraud the ladies and dump them.
Almost similar traits with owerri guys.

Anambra men keeps disgracing the igbo race with their weak acts. Yeah they are genius in business affairs but when it comes to females they are the biggest simp.
Mummy mummy mummy Damn man.