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Bitter leaf is a plant of Acanthaceae family. Usually, you can find this plant growing wild in open places such as roadsides or fields. However, if you want to grow it on the back of your garden or on any available land, it will be a great idea. It is easy to plant and grow and has a very good effect on your body. The plant is believed to have found its way to Africa from tropical Asia. The bitter leaf is efficient as a medicine and despite its light bitterness, is quite tasty. Depending, on how you have this…

The national economic council (NEC) headed by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has constituted a 10-man working committee to address killings by herdsmen. The committee headed by Osinbajo has governors of Kaduna, Zamfara, Taraba, Benue, Adamawa, Edo, Plateau, Oyo, and Ebonyi as members. Abdullahi Ganduje, governor of Kano state, who stated this to state house correspondents at the end of the 84th NEC meeting which lasted four hours, said the committee would collaborate with the federal government to address impunity regarding killings and violence. The committee would work to ensure that all the perpetrators of violence were brought to book, he said.…

The Leicester Crown Court, United Kingdom, on Thursday convicted a Nigerian businessman, Walter Wagbatsoma, of money laundering. The English court sentenced him to a jail term of three and a half years. A Lagos State High Court in Ikeja had last year convicted him in absentia alongside his company of fuel subsidy fraud. According to the Lincolnshire Police website, Wagbatsoma’s conviction in the UK, was based on investigation by Lincolnshire Police Economic Crime Unit under Operation Tarlac. The investigation was said to have revealed that over £12m was stolen from public agencies, including hospital trusts, housing associations and councils in…

A Federal High Court sitting in Warri, Delta State, has ordered oil giant, Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited, to pay the people of Odimodi Federated Communities and the Forcados Community in Burutu Council Area of the state N1.430 billion over the 1998 oil spill which destroyed the communities’ means of livelihood. In a judgment delivered by Honourable Justice Shitu Abubakar on suit No: FHC/WR/30/2013, the judge held that there were evidences that about 40,000 barrels of crude oil spilled into the Atlantic Ocean criss-crossing seven states including Lagos and Delta from a ruptured Mobil’s 24-inch pipeline at Idoho in Akwa Ibom…

Popular South Africa-based Prophet Shepherd Bushiri known for his flamboyant lifestyle) has been arrested on the suspicion of drug trafficking. The Malawian-born man of God, who gave Maserati Levante car on December 25 as a birthday gift for his five-year-old daughter, Israella, has wealth estimated at $150 million. According to Texas-express.com, Prophet Bushiri of Enlightened Christian Gathering Church (ECGC was reportedly arrested on Friday, January 12 at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York. The controversial clergy man, who has been released on a $100,000 (N36.3 million) bail, would be assisting the New York police in investigating the 10 kg…

Scent leaf has distinctive smell and taste, sometimes unpleasant, fragrant or sweet. It is called efirin (Yoruba), nchanwu leaf (Igbo), nton (Ibibio) and daidoya (Hausa). Efirin, daidoya, nchanwu or scent leaf, whose botanical name is Ocimum gratissimum, is a tropical plant species that belongs to the family of Labiatae. It is usually a homegrown shrub used mainly as spices for cooking delicacies due to its unique aromatic taste. Scent leaves are high in calcium, phophurus, iron, potassium, carbon and vitamin A. The scent leaves have fragrant smelling and this is a medicinal plant. The shape is branched at the top,…

Kwara State Governor, Alhaji Abdulfatah Ahmed Wednesday dissolved the state executive council with effect from January 18, 2018. Secretary to the State Government, Alhaji Isiaka Gold, who made the announcement in a statement issued in Ilorin, the state capital on Thursday, said Special Advisers, Senior Special Assistants and Special Assistants have also been sent packing. Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed, according to the statement, directed the Commissioners to hand over to the permanent secretaries of their various ministries, assuring citizens that additional measures have been put in place to sustain government business pending the reconstitution of the state executive council and appointment…

Outbreak of Lassa Fever involving three persons has been reported in Nasarawa State, the Medical Director of Federal Medical Centre, FMC, Keffi, Joshua Ndom, has said. Ndom who stated this in Keffi, Wednesday, announced that the hospital had taken the patients’ blood samples for test to ascertain whether or not they had the disease. According to Ndom, “the patients have been separated from other patients. There are three suspected cases and we have taken adequate measures to tackle the situation, because the health of the people is our concern. “I want to use this medium to appeal to patients and…

Passersby were seen heaping curses on an unknown person for abandoning a baby who later died on a dumpsite at Ikoku Junction, Port Harcourt City Local Government Area of Rivers State, Wednesday. Residents of the area said they woke up Wednesday morning to see the baby, wrapped in a white cloth, abandoned in the middle of a refuse dump in front of St. Thomas Anglican Church, Mile 2, Diobu. Some of the onlookers, who spoke to Vanguard, expressed sadness with the attitude of the person that abandoned the baby. One of them, a lady, who identified herself simply as Charity,…

Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State has reiterated the need for Nigeria to remain united in order to move forward and compete favorably with other nations of the world. Bello, who said Nigerians must resist the present urge for war, said those fanning the embers of disunity were doing so for “selfish and egocentric reasons.” He said the nation could benefit immensely from its diverse geography and culture, urging Nigerians to avoid statements capable of “tearing the nation apart”. The governor said: “We are all brothers and sisters brought together by God to make Nigeria great. Nigeria can only benefit…