Suya for appetizer? Enjoy it with orange juice..

Suya

Many Nigerians love suya.
It is delicious and can be enjoyed by both the young and the old. You get suya by roasting fillets of the best parts of beef, dabbed in the  Suya spice.
It is also very easy to prepare, the most important thing is the suya spice which is made with a unique blend of kuli kuli, although some people make use of groundnut or peanut, ground ginger, assorted types of peppers, stock cubes, ground dry onions and salt.
Ingredients
•Suya spice
•Beef
•Onions
•Fresh tomatoes
Preparation
•Cut the beef into very thin fillets.
•Thread the fillets of beef on the suya sticks. (optional)
•Using a cooking brush, rub some groundnut oil on the threaded fillets of beef.
•Spread  the suya spice in a wide dish and dab the threaded fillets of beef in the spice so that the beef takes up as much of the spice as possible.
•Put the spiced beef in a flat plate, cover with a thin plastic and leave to marinate for one hour.
•Set your oven to preheat for about 10 minutes.
•Place the beef flat on the oven rack and put in the oven to roast.
•After some minutes, flip the beef to roast the underside as well.
• Leave till it is fully done.
•Dress it with sliced onions, tomatoes and cucumber if desired.
Orange Juice
Serving suya with orange juice gives an appealing satisfaction. It’s very healthy and delicious too. It helps in the digestion of the suya meal or any other meal.
Ingredients
•Oranges
•Sugar syrup
•Water
Preparation
•Peel and cut the oranges in two parts, extract juice out of the oranges with a juice extractor.
•Add sugar in a boiling water to make sugar syrup. Be careful not to use too much water.
•Add the sugar syrup into the orange juice and pour water. Make sure the water is the amount required to get the desired taste.
•Refrigerate and serve cold or with ice cubes.

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Ade-Ojo’s new love

Michael Ade-Ojo

One of Nigeria’s most successful entrepreneurs, Chief Michael Ade-Ojo, who founded Elizade Motors, has a new found interest that is very dear to his heart. Over the years, he has been celebrated for his fascination for Toyota cars but this time around, his interest has strayed from automobiles to making movies.

Recently, he invested several millions of naira in a movie which has a script woven around an Afrobeat legend. Shot by an award-winning cinematographer, Ade-Ojo’s designer daughter, Deola Sagoe, is playing a major role in the movie. coolio!!

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Students don’t want us to end strike – ASUU

ASUU president, Fagge

The Academic Staff Union of Universities has said it is continuing its nationwide strike on the advice of university students.

In a telephone interview with SUNDAY PUNCH, the President of the union, Dr. Isa Fagge, said  students were tired of the incessant industrial actions by the university lecturers due to the Federal Government’s failure to implement the agreement it had with ASUU since 2009.

Fagge said the union had decided to heed the advice of the students to continue the strike until the Federal Government fully implemented the agreement.

“Our students have come out to say they don’t want us to call off the strike until the Federal Government answers us, because they don’t want us to call off now and later we go back to strike again. So, we are heeding the advice of our students,” he said.

On the complaint by the Federal Government that it lacked the funds to implement the agreement, Fagge said it was not all about money, noting that government did not need funds to start implementing some parts of the agreement.

“There are issues and agreement they can implement without money. Why don’t they begin with those ones?” he asked.

He added that it was unfortunate that the government had pulled out of dialogue with ASUU, stating that the union would not be intimidated.

He said, “Now, government has pulled out of the dialogue. We thought we were the ones going on strike, but now government has also gone on strike.”

Last Thursday, university students under the auspices of the National Association of Nigerian Students reportedly staged a peaceful protest in Ado-Ekiti and flayed the Federal Government for failing to honour the agreement it had with ASUU since 2009.

The students, who were from public universities, threatened to disrupt activities of private universities, adding that the government was not bothered about their plight because children of government officials were studying either in private universities or studying overseas.

The university lecturers began an indefinite strike on July 1 and have been demanding full implementation of the agreement ASUU had with the Federal Government in 2009, which among other things include the UNESCO-recommended 26 per cent budgetary allocation for education. However, the government said it could not implement the agreement, and is seeking re-negotiation.

The Federal Government, last Wednesday, accused ASUU of being unrealistic by continuing its nationwide strike and asked it to rethink its demands, considering other commitments government has.

The Minister of Information, Labaran Maku, who gave government’s position on the strike when he briefed journalists at the end of the weekly meeting of the Federal Executive Council, said apart from security, education was one of the sectors the government had expended a lot of money on.

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Nigeria has placed 53 customized gold plated iphones to mark the country’s 53rd independence anniversary

 
Profligate Nigeria never ceases to amaze about its debauchery. When the leadership is not procuring jets or armoured cars, or golden cutlery, it is wasting scarce resources on frills that have no impact on reducing one of the world’s worst poverty levels. The latest act in fund misapplication is about the order that Nigeria has placed 53 customized gold plated iphones to mark the country’s 53rd independence anniversary. The anniversary is scheduled for 1st October. The order by the Goodluck Jonathan administration will dent the National treasury by a princely sum of N662m. a typical gold plated i-phone a typical gold plated i-phone Reports said the government has placed the order with Gold and Co, a British luxury products company. Reports quoting 42-year-old Amjad Ali, a Bristol-born businessman based in Dubai said each of the gold-plated phones costs between £3,000 and £50,000, the sum of which comes to about N662m. “We will engrave them with the coat of arms, a shield and two horses,” he said, while referring to the Nigerian orders. In subsequent reactions, the company has denied that the order came from the Nigerian government. In a twitter exchange between the company and a Nigerian social activist, Henry Okelue (@4eyedmonk), the Dubai-based company denied its earlier claim that it got the order directly from the government, saying the order came from a private individual. “These have been ordered not by the government but by an individual who is gifting them to people there to celebrate the [53rd Anniversary],” the company’s twitter handle (@goldandco) tweeted at Mr. Okelue. The Federal Government has also reportedly come out to deny it ordered the phones. The President’s social media aide, Reno Omokri, tweeted that “Be advised that the story that the Nigerian Government has ordered 53 Gold iPhones is false. There is no truth to the story whatsoever.” The Press Secretary to the Minister of Information, Joseph Mutah, also denied government made the order. “We have never heard of anything like that. The story is utterly false and mischievous, there is no any order like that at least by this government,” he told Premium Times

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HOT POT OF SOUP as Police Arrest 4 Cows

 

Officials of the Lagos State Government in conjunction with the police taskforce have arrested four cows and 37 butchers for operating at an illegal slaughter slab at Otto Awori area of Badagry, Lagos, southwest Nigeria.
Officials of the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, with the taskforce, stormed the area on Tuesday and arrested the cows and suspects.
Four vans of butchered meat were also carted away to the Taskforce office at Alausa where the suspects would be arraigned in court. The four cows were taken to Agege Abattoir.
Chairman of the illegal butchers, Adewunmi Olaseun, said they normally slaughter about 20 cows on daily basis, adding that they also pay N18,000 levy to officials of the Lagos State Government and N5,000 to the Otto Awori Local Council Development Area, LCDA, on weekly basis.
He said the association did not know that they were operating at an illegal slaughter slab.
Olaseun said the meat being sold by the butchers was not contaminated, stressing that “the fact is that we also consume the meat at times. So, there is nothing wrong with the meat. We consume it. Our wives also consume it, so it is safe for consumption. We have the receipts of the payment made to the government in our office.”
When asked why they attacked government officials with charms, he said: “The charms on us were to protect us against armed robbers. We deal with money and we can’t allow robbers to kill us just like that. So, it is meant for protection against robbers.”
Another butcher, Ogundele Opeloyeru, said they had been operating in the area for the past 15 years, while corroborating his colleague’s statement that they pay weekly levy to the state government and Otto Awori LCDA.
“We are not aware that we operate illegal slaughter slab,” he said.
Senior Special Adviser to the Governor on Agriculture and Co-operatives, Mr Nuraini Funso denied that government officials collect money from the illegal butchers.
“There are certified veterinary doctors in the entire registered and approved abattoirs in the state and there is a lot of danger in patronising illegal slaughter slabs. The state government is doing enough to eradicate illegal slaughter slabs and abattoirs in the state .
“Residents had been equally warned to desist from patronising unregistered and unapproved abattoir. The state is very must concerned about the health of individuals in the state. We can’t afford to allow Lagosians to consume meat that are not screened.  They are not just ready to change. We have about eight slaughter slabs and over 200 refrigerated meat vans. They are just concerned about their pockets,” he explained.
Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives, Dr. Yakub Bashorun said government has declared zero tolerance for unwholesome meat distribution in the state, lamenting that those who operate illegal slaughter slabs do so without obtaining license from the government.
“They don’t have veterinary doctors to ascertain the health status of the animals before slaughtering them. They have been creating nuisance and we have to dislodge them. Ignorance is no excuse. They know they are operating illegal abattoir,” he stated.
Bashorun appealed to Lagosians not to patronize illegal slaughter slabs to purchase meat as such meat was not healthy for consumption.
He said  those arrested would be arraigned in court and that they would be made to face the music to serve as deterrent to others.

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