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10 COMMANDMENTS FOR WOMEN ON FOOD. Written by Beulah

You may ask what is my particular interest in the subject matter of food and women, I perceive that God didn't make a woman to be a cook because Adam as a bachelor was eating before Eve came, taking the fact that they ate fruits without having to cook, it appears to my mind that Eve took over that department of Adam's life when she came, she determined what was good and edible for Adam as they discovered all sorts of food available in the garden.

My conclusion is drawn from the fact that when she brought the forbidden food to Adam and said she had taken it and it was good for food, Adam did not argue, it seems she had passed the test of efficiency at determining what was good and edible for food over the time,so he took it hook line and sinker without hesitation.

Over the time, women have been entrusted with food affairs and to tell you the truth the whole of mankind owes the women folk sincere appreciation for taking care of our men and children, a strange trend that we now notice is a generation of lazy,not willing to learn or perhaps not taught women who are disasters in the kitchen arena.

My standing to write on the subject matter of cooking is premised on the fact that the kitchen is not a strange place to me, with all sense of modesty and humility, I am single and whole not wanting in that department,thanks to my sweet mother and encouraging father, he was a cook per excellence that his wife was always on her toes.

Do you know that simple matters can cause big troubles, have you heard that misunderstanding over food can break down marriages, when a woman begins to put boiled yam inside the freezer for her husband, such a man has entered the proverbial one chance.

Now back to the matter, first it was the use of household staffs ranging from maids to chefs and later with the advent of fast foods and all that, it appears that our generation is fast loosing the responsibility of making home made foods and a chunk of them have become noodle-lised (permit my usage).

Before you crucify me for not addressing men on the issue of food and longer throat, please wait for season two, I am only being courteous with the women first syndrome without any attempt to provoke good women out there who cook so well that men bite their fingers, let us make the following points clear:

1. If you don't know how to cook well, be candid with yourself and set into action to learn;

2. If a man allows you to cook for him, take it as a sign that he loves you not that he loves food, mama Basira's and Ose Oloun are doing well in town supplying the need of men;

3. The difference between home grown food from a beloved woman and a general market of wild cooking for hungry men is too wide to imagine;

4. The congenial atmosphere engendered by a wife who satisfies her man and builds his stomach infrastructure cannot be compared to anything;

5. It is still true that the way to a man's heart is his stomach, cook well till your man blesses you, God honours his prayers over you;

6. Never be carried away by his professed love for you, when the die is cast in marriage, the real man wants to eat good food on the dinning table;

7. Never assume that your husband will be the same like your father, they are two different people, learn to embrace his peculiar needs;

8. Good cooking is a true and tested way to bring your man home any day;

9. Whatever he likes to eat, if its not injurious to your health, try and make it;

10. Never, Never,Never give him just anything, it is wickedness, all that a man gains from his labour primarily is what he eats in his mouth.

Conclusively, to all ladies out there who are praying that their husbands will not like food, you had better start preparing,God knows how to answer such prayers the other way around.

Watch out for season 2 

*A or B*

A is for Jah
B rests with me
Nobody gets my A
Except it is God's will

You can read all you want
You can study all night
But except you know God's will
You will never get my A

My B is simple
Your money or your body
The B becomes yours
Only if you made a C

Tick tack says my watch
Right now make a choice
Which do you really want
A or B?

(Thanks for reading. How did it get to you- especially if you've schooled or are schooling in a Nigerian tertiary institution?)

RIP to the Munroes!

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Tribal marks, my ID card- Obasanjo

Former president Olusegun Obasanjo on Monday collected his electronic National Identity Card from the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), after spending over 10 minutes to activate the card as well as its inbuilt applications.

Obasanjo, who in his characteristic manner of throwing banters, noted that not many people know that he has three identity cards.

The former president listed his international passport, the National
Identity Card and his Owu tribal marks (six-line incisions on each side of his cheeks) as his means of identification.

Obasanjo, who spoke at his mansion on the Presidential Hill Top Estate, Abeokuta, Ogun State, when the management and officials of the NIMC brought the card to him, also asked how much of the functions inherent in the e-card would be beneficial to the people in his Ibogun village and at what cost to them.

He said,” Not many people know that I have three identity cards. The first is the international passport, the second is National Identity card and the third is my tribal marks. It is not funny that I’m collecting the National Identity card at a time that I’m unemployed and unemployable.

Nation

'Chibok girls have been married off,' says Boko Haram.

A man claiming to be Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, said the more than 200 girls kidnapped by the sect six months ago had been “married off” to its fighters, contradicting Nigerian government claims they would soon be freed, AFP reports on Saturday.

Nigeria’s military said it killed Shekau a year ago.

The insurgents usually give a copy of their videos to the French news agency about a day before they are posted online. The latest is likely to raise doubts about whether talks between a Boko Haram faction and the government in neighboring Chad will secure the girls’ release, Reuters says.

The man claiming to be Shekau also denied there was a ceasefire pending talks, and said his group was holding a German hostage kidnapped in Gombe in July.

Gunmen, widely assumed to be linked to Boko Haram, kidnapped the teacher from a technical college.

“We have married them off. They are in their marital homes,” AFP quoted Shekau as saying of the girls kidnapped from a secondary school in Chibok, Borno State, in April.

“Don’t you know the over 200 Chibok schoolgirls have converted to Islam? They have now memorized two chapters of the Koran.”

Shekau’s denial of the ceasefire appears supported by the violence that has occurred since the government announced it two weeks ago. It also raises doubts about the actual influence of Danladi Ahmadu, the man with whom the government is negotiating.

Nation

Total curfew imposed in Adamawa

Worried by the continued attacks on parts of Adamawa State, the government has imposed a curfew on the whole state.

The curfew announced on Saturday by the Secretary to the State Government Mr Ibrahim Welye is an extension of the existing curfew in some parts of the
state.

Welye said in a statement that the curfew would now commence from 9pm to 5am daily.

Those on essential services and with permit would allowed to carry out their duties during the curfew.

“All citizens and security operatives are please advised to comply strictly with these directives,” it stated.

NATION

Stalkers in the Vineyard

Like chameleon,
They take advantage of your oblivion;

Walking up to you
Like a friend who stands true;

Look closely and see them with daggers
They've been chosen to function as stalkers;

They praise you like a guru
Standing in your way as you aim for uhuru;

When your land seems green
They become hidden spikes eyes have never seen;

The man in-charge, they stand in call
Feeding him with your every flaw;

They crave for fame they merit not
Using you to pave the way for their lot;

Like dogs, they run after the bishop
Their tongues are tools in Lucifer's workshop;

Their heads always bowed like a humble chicken
Watching for the next one, whose spirit to weaken

They see themselves as part of the makers
But in the vineyard, they are mere stalkers

Your ministration, they size
Your commendation, they fry

They are holier than you and you
A mindset they coined as they grew

Look out for them because they daily approach
Your privacy it is, they daily encroach.

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