Oha soup is a traditional dish for the South East regions of Nigeria. It`s similar to the bitter leaf soup, but the crucial element of Oha soup recipe is
the Ora leaves. Ora leaves make the soup very special as they are seasonal, unlike the bitter leaf which you can find all the year around.


How to cook Oha soup?

It`s almost unbelievable that one simple ingredient can make so much difference in the soup. Nevertheless, it`s true; the Ora leaves can entirely change the taste of the soup.


Oha Soup Ingredients:

•One teaspoon of Ogiri Igbo
•Two Stock Cubes
•Crayfish, salt and Chilli pepper to taste
•Stock Fish or Dry Fish
•Assorted beef
•Three cooking spoons of Red Palm Oil
•Eight Small corms cocoyam
•Ora Leaves


Preparation of Oha Leaves:

Oha is a unique vegetable that can`t be
substituted in the Oha soup recipe. If you don`t have cocoyam corms, then you can
substitute it with cocoyam flour or potato flour.

Ogiri Igbo is optional in this recipe. Still, it adds the traditional taste to Oha Soup!


Set up your cooking:

•Grind Chili pepper and crayfish in the separate bowl.
•Wash and Boil the Cocoyam until it`s soft. The Corms should be pound into the paste.
•Cut Ora leaves into tiny pieces with your fingers!


Oha soup cooking directions:

•How to cook Oha soup?
•Boil the cow tripe (shaki).
•Stockfish and dry it in the one litre of water.
•Wash the Beef and add it to the pot with the cow tripe. When the meat is done, you can add two stock cubes and continue cooking for five minutes.
•Add the Cray Fish, Ogiri Igbo and Chili pepper and cook for ten minutes.
•Add the cocoyam paste and palm oil.
•Cover the pot and cook the soup until the
cocoyam paste vanishes. You can add more water if the soup is too thick.
•Add Ora leaves and cook for five minutes.
•Add salt to taste.


The Oha soup is ready!
You can serve it with Pounded Yam, Amala, Semolina Fufu, Gari or Cassava Fufu.

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Life was sweet back in the days. Remember my mum beating me times without number and I'll always repeat it

How smartphones and social media are changing Christianity Many Christians are turning to apps and memes to express their faith instead of churches – and it's raising intriguing questions about the future of the world's largest religion. By Chris Stokel-Walker 23 February 2017 When the Reverend Pete Phillips first arrived in Durham nine years ago, he was ejected from the city’s cathedral. He had been reading the Bible on his mobile phone in the pews. Phones were not allowed in the holy place, and the individual who accosted him would not believe that he was using his phone for worship and asked him to leave. “I was a bit miffed about that,” says Phillips, who is director of the Codec Research Centre for Digital Theology at Durham University in the UK. “But that was 2008.” Next year Durham Cathedral will have been standing for 1,000 years. But its phone policy is now up to date. “They allow people to take photos, to use phones for devotional reasons – whatever they want to do,” says Phillips. “The attitude has changed because to restrict people from mobile phone use now is to ask them to cut their arm off.” This more relaxed approach to phones is not the only tech-related update the Church has undergone in the past few years. The rise of apps and social media is changing the way many of the world’s two billion Christians worship – and even what it means to be religious. The Reverend Liam Beadle became Yorkshire’s youngest vicar when he took up his role at St Mary’s Anglican Church in Honley, a village of 6,000 people five miles south of Huddersfield. He runs his parish’s Twitter account. A colleague runs the church community’s Facebook profile. The Bishop of Leeds, the Right Reverend Nick Baines – who is the head of Beadle’s diocese – was one of the first bishops to start a blog and is known in the church as the “blogging bishop”. But Beadle contrasts the Church’s approach to social media with its reaction to the printing press. “The difference between then and now is that with the invention of the printing press we were proactive,” he says. “With the advent of social media, I think we are being reactive, we’re jumping on the bandwagon.” The mobile phone Bible is now replacing the book Bible The ubiquity of smartphones and social media makes them hard to avoid, however. And they are changing the way people practise their religion. Faiths are adopting online technologies to make it easier for people to communicate ideas and worship, says Phillips. “But that technology has shaped religious people themselves and changed their behaviour.” Many people scrolling through their phones in Christian churches are probably looking at a Bible app called YouVersion, which has been installed more than 260 million times worldwide since its launch in 2008. Similarly popular apps exist for the Torah and Koran. “One of the first things Christians did with the computer was to put the Bible into digital formats,” says Phillips. Those digitised Bibles then made their way onto phones. “To some extent, the mobile phone Bible is now replacing the book Bible.” According to the company behind YouVersion, people have spent more than 235 billion minutes using the app and have highlighted 636 million Bible verses. But reading the Bible in this way could be changing people’s overall sense of it. “If you go to the Bible as a paper book, it’s quite large and complicated and you’ve got to thumb through it,” says Phillips. “But you know that Revelations is the last book and Genesis is the first and Psalms is in between. With a digital version you don’t get any of that, you don’t get the boundaries. You don’t flick through: you just go to where you’ve asked it to go to, and you’ve no sense of what came before or after.” Quite how interacting with the Bible in bite- sized nuggets might affect people’s views of it is now being explored by researchers like Phillips. The way religious scriptures are read can influence how they are interpreted. For example, studies suggest that text read on screens is generally taken more literally than text read in books. Aesthetic features of a text, such as its broader themes and emotional content, are also more likely to be drawn out when it is read as a book. In a religious text, that distinction can be crucial. “When you’re on a screen, you tend to miss out all the feeling stuff and go straight for the information,” says Phillips. “It’s a flat kind of reading, which the Bible wasn’t written for. You end up reading the text as though it was Wikipedia, rather than it being a sacred text in itself.” When you read the Bible on a screen you end up reading the text as though it was Wikipedia Some think that overly literal interpretations of religious texts can lead to fundamentalism. If you take Genesis as an account of six days of creation, for example, you will need to believe that science is wrong, says Phillips. Yet at the same time, a separate strand of Christian practice is booming, buoyed by the spread of social media and the decentralisation of religious activity. For many, it’s no longer necessary to set foot in a church. In the US, one in five people who identify as Catholics and one in four Protestants seldom or never attend organised services, according to a survey conducted by the Pew Research Centre. Apps and social media accounts tweeting out Bible verses allow a private expression of faith that takes place between a person and their phone screen. And the ability to pick and choose means they can avoid doctrine that does not appeal. A lot of people who consider themselves to be active Christians may not strictly even believe in God or Jesus or the acts described in the Bible. “A new kind of mutated Christianity for a digital age is appearing,” says Phillips. “One that follows many of the ethics of the secular world.” Known as moralistic therapeutic deism, this form of belief is focused more on the charitable and moral side of the Bible – the underlying tenets of religion, rather than the notion that the Universe was created by an all-seeing, all- powerful leader. This new form of religion was first described by sociologists in 2005, but it has been supercharged by the internet and social media. “People are looking for a more personalised religious experience,” says Heidi Campbell at Texas A&M University, who studies religion and digital culture. People are looking for a more personalised religious experience “Millennials prefer this generalised picture of God rather than an interventionist God, and they prefer God to Jesus, because he’s non-specific,” says Phillips. “He stands behind them and allows them to get on with their own lives rather than Jesus, who comes in and interferes with everything.” Sharing Bible verses on social media lets worshippers find their own readings rather than sitting through ones chosen by a priest every Sunday. Bible verses are also subject to popularity contests, where their acceptability to a wide audience can dictate their spread. The most popular Bible verses bookmarked, highlighted and shared on social media via YouVersion’s app are frequently those which reflect the secular and inclusive ideals of moralistic therapeutic deism. Many concern things like personal struggles or dealing with anxiety, for example – rather than promoting the glory of God. Pick-and-mix religious beliefs are not new. But it is easier than ever to fashion an individualised faith. “The internet and social media help people to do it in more concrete ways,” says Campbell. “We have more access to more information, more viewpoints, and we can create a spiritual rhythm and path that’s more personalised.” And that includes bringing sacred figures into memes. Story Time Jesus – where classical religious iconography is overlaid with bold text that describes religious verses in colloquial language – became a viral meme in 2012 and has remained popular since. Others include Bunny Christ and Republican Jesus. Many of these memes may have started as jokes, but they are being used to spread religious ideas too. “People are using memes as a way to provoke debate about religion and affirm beliefs,” says Campbell. “You can’t meme a theological truth in depth but you can summarise the essence to draw people’s attention, using them as teasers.” That applies to tweeting too. There are churches around the world that encourage their congregations to live-tweet sermons. It’s a source of friction, however. A few years ago a UK cathedral started live- tweeting its services. “There were questions about how appropriate it was,” says Beadle. “I think the jury’s still out on that one. There probably is a case to be made that if you’re on Twitter you’re not engaging as fully as when you’re not on Twitter.” The jury is still out on live-tweeting services On top of that, there are concerns that a series of short tweets is not an appropriate way to represent complex and subtle concepts. “When you’re talking in 140 characters or a seven-second video, you’ve got to condense things,” says Campbell. “The tendency is to stereotype or simplify messages. It’s not just about using the tools but treating the tools with the respect they need.” Which is perhaps why Durham Cathedral was so circumspect about Phillips and his phone back in 2008. Even so, religion of all hues – not just Christianity – is becoming less about the preacher in the pulpit, she says. “Digital is all about two-way communication. People come with a certain expectation of what a community looks like and what freedom they’ll have, and religious institutions need to either adapt to that or be an exception.” If nothing else, organised faith is good at adapting – Christianity has been reinventing itself for nearly 2,000 years. Smartphones and social media are just the latest developments to force a change.

Valindazz:
I can't wait to pass out next month

like u know wetin deh my mind, posted to kwara but deh enugu deh make my money. Who Nysc epp? Biometric nonsense

The All Progressives Congress, APC, Youths
Renaissance has insisted that President
Muhammadu Buhari is the head of the
current administration.


The group, therefore, warned those referring to the government as ‘Osinbajo administration’ to stop forthwith.


A statement by Collins Edwin, National
Secretary, APC Youths Renaissance, noted with dismay the “attempts by some Nigerians and their collaborators in the media to create crisis of confidence and severe the smooth working relationships between President Muhammadu Buhari and the Acting President Yemi Osinbajo
through unnecessary praises and accolades”.


It said since President Buhari left Nigeria for London in January, prominent Nigerians and organisations had formed the habit of making superficial praises of the successes achieved by the APC-led Federal Government under the watch of President Muhammadu Buhari, in which Professor Osinbajo is standing-in for him
in Acting Capacity.


“We are using this medium to educate these professional merchants of conflicts that there is nothing like Osinbajo Administration in this regime, but the Buhari Administration.

“Hence, whatever successes achieved by
anybody, whether by Professor Yemi Osinbajo or any of the Ministers serving under the four-year mandate given to our great party by Nigerians, the credit should go to the Buhari Administration.


“We will henceforth view anyone who still
indulge in this balonious habbit of making
sycophantic praises and ascribing credits to an individual against the administration as unveiled enemy of the Nigerian people who do not want peace in our leadership”.

The Nigerian Government, through the
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), has sealed up the premises of Yuan Dong (YDEC) Ponzi scheme over illegal investment operations in the country.


Head, Corporate Communication of SEC, Mr Naif Abdussalam, in a statement on Sunday in Abuja, said the closure was to end unlawful activities of the company against unsuspecting investors.


“Investments in the scheme range from a
minimum deposit of N10,000 to a maximum deposit of N240,000.

“The investment period of the scheme is pegged at a minimum of 30 working days to a maximum period of 10 months with offer of interest rates on short and medium term basis.

"The company promises a daily profit of N80 and N2,400 depending on the category of investment,” he said. Abdussalam disclosed that the commission’s investigations showed that the company also enticed its customers with payment of bonuses should they convince more investors to invest in the scheme.


He said that the commission had established that the company’s activities also constituted a breach of the Investment and Securities Act (ISA), 2007.


“Furthermore it was discovered that contrary to their supposed existence in over 20 locations across the country, the company only has functional offices in Asaba, Kano and Abuja.


“The promoters of these illegal operations have been arrested by the Nigeria Police Force and are undergoing interrogation.
“The Commission wishes to notify the investing public that the company is not licensed to carry out investments business of any type and as such its operations are illegal,” he said.


Abdussalam advised the public to exercise due diligence and caution in the course of making investment decisions. He said valid licence of lawful operators could be obtained on the commission’s website by
members of the public to confirm the licences of firms they intend to carry investment activities with.

somehowpenis:
Since this pope took over I don't even understand Catholic Church again, this pope is just not like others before him, he seems to be a pope of the world first before the Catholic Church

where are u from? U need brain surgery as soon as possible

darfay:
Oga Pope you are just a man like me and not the Holy Spirit so na your opinion be that

I guess not. The brains of ur generations both past, present and future joined together cannot reach half of his brain

Opakan2:
Ipob flat-screens shey una don hear?

you can't be hate filled hypocrites and still claim to be catholics

must u mention ipob in ur comments, it makes u look stupid even when u are making sense

wunmi590:
I have never regretted being a true Roman Catholic, and I do my responsibilities as a devoted Catholic.

BTW: I know Seun would be the one to push this thread to front page,because anything atheist is his food.

#IamProudToBeARomanCatholic

hahhahahahaha, funny u guy. Rep Roman catholic, proud to be one

Toro4u:
i think the yorubas can rule this country more better compared to any other tribe, i know wailers will come wailing but this is my fact.

No English phrase like "more better", grammatically wrong. Use "far better" instead.

Meanwhile u are entitled to ur opinion and u can be forgiven.

darknetcom:
can this mullato just shut the fvck up??

we are not voting a mullato to president in nigeria...

the mutant can forget the idea...

if the fool want to became president,the thing can try it in america,europe or south africa...

but surely not in nigeria..
becoming senator was already a mistake enough..

who is dis grammar murderer?

Yyeske:
I think you need to use that quickly.

Our compatriots are being killed and you're saying nothing about it.


MTN and other SA companies go hear am soon

liv am bros, na Buhari brother he be

5. Nicolas Anelka Former Chelsea striker Nicolas Anelka is a devoted Muslim who has visited Mecca to perform the Holy Pilgrimage.

4. Abou Diaby Abou Diaby is a French professional footballer who currently plays for French club Marseille and he has also played for Premier League club Arsenal.


The 30-year-old is also a devoted Muslim
who has done the Holy pilgrimage many times.

3 Mesut Ozil Arsenal star Mesut Ozil is one of the best midfielders in the world, and the German professional footballer is also a Muslim who has visited Saudi Arabia many times to perform the yearly Hajj exercise.

2. Emmanuel Adebayor Former Arsenal striker EmmanuelAdebayor was born into a Christian family on February 26, 1984,
but the Togolese international changed his religion to Islam and he gave his reasons for him to have done so.

However, the lanky forward has exemplified a good character of a devoted Muslim as he has gone to Saudi Arabia to perform his Hajj exercise.

The game of football is arguably the most
watched and supported sport in the world as hardly would you see an environment or country where the round leather game
is not being played.


Footballers are the major characters in the game of football, and here we bring you some who are devoted Muslims and have gone all the way to Saudi Arabia to serve their creator Allah.


1. Paul Pogba
Going by his name, many fans would not believe that Manchester United star Paul Pogba is a Muslim. The player has been to Saudi Arabia to perform the Hajj exercise which is expected of every Muslim who can afford the cost of going to Mecca from their country.

thebadmus:
. Some people talk like chicken and it affect their generations because they get them killed like a fowl

what else does ur religion know if not to kill and kill, nonsense

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1.7 million candidates have registered for the 2017 UTME


JAMB has pledged to make sure the
examination centres are increased. Only 1,561,443 candidates sat for the UTME
in 2016.


Prof. Ishaq Oloyede according to official figures, about 1.7 million candidates are expected to sit for the 2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).


The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and
Matriculation Board (JAMB), Ishaq Oloyede while speaking to journalists at the Information and Communication Technology Retreat on Tuesday, February 14 in Abeokuta, Ogun state revealed some facts.


According to the registrar, the board is planning to increase its Computer Based Testing (CBT) Centres in order to the make examination exercise far better.


Speaking on the number of candidates, he said: “We are expecting 1.7 million candidates to sit for JAMB this year and we want to make sure we satisfy them within a week or thereabout.’’


Mr Oloyede also said while he could not guarantee a hitch-free examination, the innovations being put in place “will send some illegal operators, who are defrauding candidates in the past, out of business.’’


His words: “Frankly, I cannot promise a hitch-free examination because we are testing certain things.


“We are changing certain things; we want to question the status quo and we expect a fight back by interests that will be trampled upon." Speaking on the state of the board, he said: “We are going to be as flexible as humanly possible; we are not promising hitch free examination."


The registrar also said that the major objective of the retreat was for stakeholders to critique the board’s processes, “because we will not want to continue in the wrong direction."


On expansion, he said the body plans to create new ICT facilities, and that prospective candidates, scholars, institutions and civil society groups were brought together to critique it. He explained: “This is to enable us harvest good ideas that can improve what we are doing.’’


Mr. Oloyede also said that JAMB would soon begin the sale of forms for the 2017 UTME, adding that the board was also working on the possibility of conducting a mock examination.


Meanwhile, JAMB has warned prospective
candidates, parents and guardians to dismiss reports that it had started the sale of the 2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

https://www.naij.com/1088380-jamb-set-cbt-centres-17-million-candidates-register.html

Heavance:
And people keep supporting these people by saying PDP did this for 16years, when it is simply a continuation.

I tire oo, people who spoiled an engine wanna repair it. Funny

Muslims deceiving themselves from time immemorial

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Pictures of an Indonesian woman being
brutally flogged has gone viral, sparking rage and severe backlash from across the world.


It is not yet clear what crime the unlucky
woman committed, but her merciless beating suggests it had to be a very serious offence under Sharia law.


The shocking part is that crowd cheered even as the woman collapsed as a result of the brutal battering.


The photos shows the woman being lashed with a cane by a masked and merciless man on an elevated stage as crowd watches appear to encourage the man to hit her even harder.

The unlucky woman can be heard screaming helplessly as a result of the piercing pain of cane strokes as she struggles to rub her back with every stroke. Some of those in the crowd can be seen filming and capturing photos of the disturbing scene using their phones.


The masked man, whose identity nobody knows for sure, continues to provocatively flog the woman near her back and across her shoulder blades for unknown alleged crime.


The woman dressed in white shirt and salmon coloured head scarf continues to scream as she winces on the stage in agony before she collapses and goes unconscious with the fifth stroke.


She is hurriedly carried away from the stage by three people who look like paramedics, wearing green and white clothes, to unknown location.


The incident soon hit the internet, provoking backlash from the likes of journalist and activist Tarek Fatah. “This is not Saudi Arabia or Iran. This is
Indonesia’s Sharia ruled Aceh province where they lash woman to entertain the public,” she says.


Ace is reportedly the only region of Indonesia that fully applies Sharia law.
The incident comes just a week after another Indonesian woman had received 26 cane strokes as her punishment for allegedly 'sleeping' out of wedlock, which is against Sharia law.


These sort of punishments are, however, not uncommon in Muslim countries, albeit amid growing protests from across the world. The latest incident only adds to a growing concern over gross violation of women rights in the predominantly
Muslim countries.

https://gossip.naij.com/1088084-crowd-cheers-muslim-woman-punished-public-infidelity-photos.html

pappyshun:
Nigeria is desperately in need of God's intervention...What actually is the problem sef?

Buhari, he's a curse

Hadar4328:
Op, have the courage to forget and accept the things you cannot change (Move on without guilt. it happens), the strength to change what you can (Find a way of intensifying your relationship adopting the 'Hot stuff' system with your main chick) and knowledge to understand the difference. It will reiterate itself until you toss out every feeling you have for her especially when you apparently seem unbridled in her company. Get more interactive with your new bae, snuggle up and get cosy.... Talk it out(not your sexcapades) like Lovers!

thank u so much bro

Please please please I need ur sincere advice.

I have a girlfriend whom I love so much, she's all I've ever wanted in a woman, the true love of my life. We started dating on october 2015 and we're stil together in love with each other.

But d girl I dated before her, Juliet by name, I've had sex with her 3 times since I started dating dis my girl. I don't know, I can't just explain.

I and Juliet separated after a little quarrel, but we are still in touch, we call each other, chat online. I didn't all dat love her when we were dating.

Whenever she comes to my house I find it difficult not to have sex with her. For d 5 times she has visited me since we separated, I've had sex with her 3 times.

I feel very guilty within me knowing I'm cheating on my girl. She trusts me so much and I hv betrayed her trust 3 good times.

I'm really confused, please I need advice.

I wonder who go deh operate those machines, na muslims weh say western education na crime abi na d aboki weh deh shine my shoe for Enugu go operate am? Though soon, one islamic group go come bomb everytin down. After all, Shettima their papa na terrorist on e own