There Are Some Foods Doctors Wont Eat, See Why

Good nutrition is key to a long and healthy life. Here, medical pros reveal what they forego when it comes to food.

Bacon: Bacon is full of fat and cholesterol, and the nutritional value is very minimal. It is probably one of the worst foods on the planet. When you look at its content, it is pure fat and cholesterol. It is a processed food, with no exact benefits, but carries with it all that is bad for a diet – chemicals, salt, and fat.

Breads or pasta: They both present three problems: They are high glycemic index, they are not whole foods (man-made), and they are tremendously addictive.

Boxed cereals: They are full of sugar and often unhealthy grains. Rather than having cereal for breakfast, a dose of healthy fats and protein will start your day off right. Have boiled or poached eggs with greens, sardines on gluten-free crisp breads, or half an avocado sprinkled with salt or spritzed with lemon.

I’m Excited About My New Job

Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan’s Minister of Finance & Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, on Monday, expressed joy over her new job to join the board of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, founded by Bill and Melinda Gates.


Okonjo-Iweala
The former finance minister, had also announced that she will also be joining US investment bank, Lazard’s sovereign advice division.

Okonjo-Iweala who tweeted via her Twitter handle, @NOIweala said: “I’m excited to join GAVI to immunize 300 million more children in the next five years and save 5 million to 6 million more lives.”

We Skip Meals To Survive In Russia

Failure of the Federal Government to pay the allowances of Nigerian students on the Bilateral Education Agreement scholarship in Russia exposes the beneficiaries to frustration, TOLUWANI ENIOLA writes

SAMUEL Adewale’s dream to study in a good university came true in 2013 when he received a letter of admission from the Don State Technical University, Rostov on Don, Russia.

After writing a series of tests and interviews, Adewale’s joy knew no bounds when the Federal Scholarship Board announced his name along with other students granted the Bilateral Education Agreement Scholarship Awards.

He said, “When I learnt that I won the scholarship, I felt really excited. I never thought that I would be awarded a scholarship, since I knew studying outside the shores of Nigeria cost a lot of money. Against this backdrop, I must appreciate the Federal Government’s gesture.”

But the twist to this development is government’s failure to pay his allowances. It has caused him suffering and hardship.

Nigeria has BEA for undergraduate and postgraduate studies with Russia, Cuba, Morocco, Algeria, Romania, Ukraine, Turkey, Egypt, Japan, Serbia, Macedonia, China and Mexico.

Under the arrangement, the Federal Government pays for the upkeep of the students, while the country where the scholarship award is tenable, provides the tuition.

The tough times that Adewale and 371 other Nigerian students on the BEA scholarship now face in their various universities in Russia, due to unpaid rents and other allowances, make them to wonder whether the exercise is targeted at punishing him.

We Urge Nigerians To Consume Local Food

  
A group of researchers have  urged Nigerians to consume made-in-Nigerian foods and fruits as most of them contain ingredients and nutrients that can serve as medicine in the body.

The call came as the organisers of the 2015 HERBFEST unveiled activities to mark this year’s herbs, health foods and Natural Products Expo billed to hold next month.

They also cautioned  against consumption of imported food products as many may have been contaminated in the process of shipping the products into the country.

Speaking in Lagos to herald this year’s Herbfest with the theme: “Food as Medicine: Utilisation and sustainable Exploitation of African Medicinal Plants and Natural Products”, a professor of Pharmacognosy and CEO, Bioresources Development Group, BDG,Prof. Maurice Iwu, said foods like bitter kola, coconut oil, zobo, bitter leaf, Moringa oleifera, tomato, sour sop, African bush mango, among others are essential for the body.

Iwu who regretted that Nigerians do not eat enough  of these foods, said his outfit developed dietary supplements based on these same local foods for managing chronic diseases like diabetes, hypertension, prostate cancer, erectile dysfunction, HIV, etc.

We Don’t Copy PSquare

Tumininu Laolu-Ogunniyi, aka Vavavoom is one of the Afro Hip-Hop duo, Skuki, behind the hit song, Peteru. He speaks about their musical career

What have you and your brother been up to lately?

We recently began a tour of Nigerian schools and it is going on well. We started at Ibadan, and we have visited four schools already. We are on a break now and we will resume in October. We are also working on our album which should be released at the end of the year. We are planning a concert which we plan to host by the end of the year and we intend to shoot a movie as well. Also, we are ambassadors for Nairabet.

Does your interest in movies clash with your music career?

No, it does not because they can both be classified as entertainment. It is equivalent to an artiste who is also interested in designing clothes. All he should do is balance the time for both passions. If I am on set for a month, I will have to cancel music events or shows.

How did you feel when you won the Headies X-Rated award?

It was an awesome experience. We were a bit new in the industry and were not sure if we would excel. We came to Lagos from Ibadan, where we were raised. We deserved it and we knew we were on the right path.

Buhari is a Liar and Has Deceived You

Nigeria’s military on Saturday claimed further gains in its counter-offensive against Boko Haram, but the group’s shadowy leader Abubakar Shekau dismissed the talk of success as “lies”.

Army spokesman Sani Usman said troops destroyed more rebel enclaves and camps in the restive state of Borno, which has been worst hit by the six-year Islamist insurgency.

“The fight against the terrorists in the northeast is gaining successful momentum, with most of the camps falling to the Federal might,” he said in a statement.

A total of 62 people were rescued from around the town of Gwoza, which last year Boko Haram declared the headquarters of its caliphate but which it lost control of in March.

Some 77 men, women and children, most of them “haggard, dejected and obviously malnourished”, also arrived in the town of Bama on Saturday, Usman said.

One man picked up said he had his right hand cut off by militants in their Sambisa Forest stronghold in Borno last year, he said, adding that eight Boko Haram suspects surrendered to troops.

Governments Should Not Pay Wassce Fees

In this interview with MOTUNRAYO JOEL, a former Head of Economics Department, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Prof. Abayomi Adebayo, gives an insight into various issues in the nation’s education system

Do you share the view of some educationists that Nigeria’s education sector seems to be on a slow pace to recovery?

Every one is saying our education standard is deteriorating. I believe their assumption is based on the poor performance of candidates in this year’s West African Senior School Certificate Examination and National Examination Council, especially in English language and Mathematics. They also measured their perceived drop in education standard based on the employability of graduates from higher institutions. I do agree that anyone, who graduates from a good university, should be employable. Some educationists even say education was better in the past. But at that time, many of our parents were prepared for white-collar jobs. They weren’t forced to do entrepreneurial courses. Many of them were prepared to become teachers. They also got jobs in various ministries. Some weren’t even interviewed for those positions. We must understand that the competition in the market wasn’t as tough as what youths face today. I believe our population has widely increased. I attended a public school when those schools were good, not like what we have today. I believe lack of supervision, bastardisation of the education system by politicians and all kinds of popularity programmes have crippled the sector. Private schools, on the other hand, are doing well. In public schools, the sense of commitment is missing. The first thing we need to do is to stop incessant interruption from political visions. These visions are undigested and are there to create problems. I describe them as interrupted and untested political visions. Constant change in our school curriculum has also caused our education system to deteriorate.