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Has anyone used powdered okro before? Just got a packet from the shop and wondered how it is prepared. It is whitish in colour.

You give people fish, they get hungry soon, looking up to you again, it is a subjugation. You teach them to fish and they are free for life. When will we tell the difference?

Condolences Bro!

eleko1:
What do u want to use biabia for?Rather think how to maximise UR POTENTIAL/If U are a student,concentrate with ur acada not keeping biabia that U'll get tired off

Op is probably a teenager. Please focus on the important things in life, someday you'd wish you didn't grow any beard.

There's nothing extra to do, life just goes on normally.

Burying is probably the most effective way of disposal if you're in Nigeria. In the West they have disposal facility although the cosmetic industry often request them to use in body creams.

gabriel212:
good morning.
Thanks for your advice but do u have an hospital around ikeja?

Sorry I live/work in the UK, but there are sure enough good hospitals around where you live.

Every Nigerian man above the age of 40 years should have their prostate health checked yearly. This consists of a digital rectal examination (DRE) carried out by a doctor and a blood test called PSA. You can optionally add ultrasound scan of the prostate (KUB USS). Our people are so poor at checking their health. People will service their cars but not their bodies. There are other health checks to do once you are 40 (this includes women too). Do not wait for symptoms to develop. Be proactive. That way we will blame the next door neighbour or some old witch in the village less for untimely deaths. I am more than happy to advice further if you have any specific concerns.

Hi all, does anyone know an African/Nigerian restaurant in the Leeds area please? Or someone who does Nigerian dishes privately? Thanks.

A true legend. He ticked his boxes, did his bit, hope we do ours also. Rest on great man of God!

Walk bro, walk!

A workman deserves his wages. You do not muzzle an ox when it treads the grain.

Yeah, painful. Didn't realise he was 72 though. I guess we could say he ran his race well.

Not advisable.

He may have had a silent undiagnosed heart condition. Did they do an autopsy to find out? Certain of the condition run in families especially males, so autopsy worthwhile. Everyone should get a basic ECG soon as they can and perhaps every 5 years till age 40, then yearly afterwards.

I remember. .. Painful.

Prostate

If the man claims the woman is not his daughter, a simple DNA test will resolve the issue.

@OP, you have heard, the ears are self cleansing, you do not need to clean the ears. What we say here is "nothing smaller than your elbows should go in your ears". Leave the ears alone!

It is safe to use. Like someone has mentioned, depending on storage, medicines may be useful up to 6 months beyond the stated date of expiry.

Ideally, everyone (yes, men and women) should sit to pee or poo!.

Botswana just concluded another peaceful, free and fair elections without rancour or violence. They've been doing it since 1966! It can be done in Africa. I hope Nigeria will do same for a change come 2015. We wait. We watch.

Once lost £10 to an ATM, did not bother complaining as loose change; happens everywhere. A family member once withdrew £80 but took the card and not the cash (lots of stress), went back immediately, met one oyibo woman there who denied seeing any money, she obviously helped herself to it I guess!

Cow suckling a Fulani boy!
(From Metropole magazine).
Pictures by Sunday James

This is very impressive. I'm sure the price will reduce with time.

I marvel at these comments. Its either a display of utter naivety or stupendous ignorance. Where do people think the data base of their electronic records are held anyway? Do you have a mobile phone (especially a smartphone), an email address, an ATM card and the like? Do you hold an international passport? Travelled abroad, especially to any of the so called first world country? Drive a car manufactured 2010 and beyond? Then they already have the records. This card favours you by consolidating your information in one place at your point of access; but them? They already have the information if you have done any of the bit I mentioned earlier! Looks like a lot of folks are in deep slumber!! Its too late to want to be anonymous. Like a boss of mine once said, ''its not about being raped (figuratively), its about making the experience as pleasant as possible.''

Nephilims are the products of fallen angels and (human) women. Many of them were the giants of those days. Unfortunately there has been a lot of mingling such that you, yes you reading this, may very have some nephilim genes in you. Hence people may get born with 6 digits. The corruption of the human and animal DNA persists. Read transgenetics. And genetic modification of food as an indirect vector of genetic modification in man. Some have even suggested vaccines may be a vehicle for genetic modification (read Ebola vaccine, SARS vaccine, Swine flu vaccine etc). Bottomline is there is a whole lot more than meets the eye. Whatever you do, find an ANCHOR for your soul for the times ahead are troubling times indeed!

The mythological figures and gods in our folklores e.g. ebora, anjanu and others (every tribe has them), are actually either fallen angels or nephilims. In modern western culture, they call them aliens. They are gonna be more manifest soon. You'd wake and see myriads of 'spaceships' in the sky. If less than 1000 cases of Ebola has caused the panic we've witnessed, think about what this will cause worldwide!
The saying becomes apt, 'those who think they stand should take heed lest they fall...'

The best bet is oil- olive oil, peanut oil, vegetable oil. It suffocates the insect. Water not so advisable as infection may ensue.

Whatever our black sisters do with/to their hair, whatever it is the reason for their choices, they should please remember there is an 'epidemic' of TRACTION ALOPECIA (google is your friend) in the black women community, and that can be very difficult to treat. 'Nuff said!

I would ordinarily not want to comment on this matter as quite rightly I do have a conflict of interest. If not for anything, cant the government consider that this is a measure that has not worked in the past? How do you use the same method and expect a different result? A prominent military leader who spearheaded this same move in 1985 ended up dying a totally preventable death because doctors were on strike (again) when he took ill in his hometown. Don't we ever learn? The doctors' demand are not unreasonable if we truly know them well. Even in the UK where I work, when I tell folks I work 48-56 hours a week, they are aghast. Nigerian doctors, especially in residency work much longer. When I was a resident, my kids hardly saw me (sad I know). Several times I was so busy at work- saving lives- I actually forgot to pick them up from school (very embarrassing!).
Having said that, it is still very sad that strikes remain endemic in our health sector. If it is about pay, the government can look at what obtains in the healthcare systems we want to be like and do what they do. Pay parity information are in public domain( 'google is your friend'). Beyond pay, I think the citizenry should mount a sustained pressure on the government at various levels to improve the system. Doctors need tools to work with. In terms of structure, there is room for compromise by all groups. In the UK, hospitals are not headed by doctors but they are in Canada and many US hospitals. The UK however has an office of Chief Medical Officer for the country who is always a doctor, the equivalent of surgeon-general in the US. They are usually public health physicians.
At the end of the day I think it is up to Nigerians what they want. If you want a health system like the UK/USA, then do what they do. But I think just bickering about it all day wont help anybody! And sacking/suspending resident doctors is a big retrogressive action by this government whoever may have advised it.