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No Excuse, Keep your Diet going! I’m sure it’s ok to say there’s a lot of tension out there as a result of the Covid-19 Pandemic and it’s gradually dragging our attention and making us deviate from doing it right just because we want to eat for pleasure. The truth is it shouldn’t take so much to do it right with food. The major factor and question surrounding what you eat are: • how do you eat ? • what you eat ? • and why you eat it ? Well in this Pandemic it might be easy to ignore this (3) three factors cause we might  be too concern with eating just anything! Which is so wrong!!! Trust me you can still self isolate and eat right. Do not just eat that food cause you home all day and you need to eat. Do not mess up that diet you have been on for long just because you home! You might just be headed for a long term incubated fat that will be hard to burn out...   Now do this right: Make a line up of all the food you have and make sure it consists of: • ...

Finding You 4 Ben had collected my number that day. It had taken a while. Me trying to play hard to this guy that made me feel excited all over. And him? Whatever he was thinking that day, I have no idea. He had texted me a simple message “hi”. I had stared at it for a while thinking of a proper response. I replied with “hello” after three hours. Then I had laid on my bed thinking what his next message was going to be, he hadn’t texted that day and the next day when he had, I had rushed towards my phone like it was Santa with my Christmas gift. It had been him asking how I was and how my Saturday was going to look like. Ben and I had started hanging out after a while. Thinking about it, I don't we made plans to. It just happened. For a while it was just as friends.  Honestly, I had been confused. I had thought he was interested in me romantically, and there he was treating me like a sibling. But then it had changed with the “do you have a boyfriend” question. I was excit...

COVID-19 WAHALA!!! In the face of the recent events, i.e. the covid-19 pandemic, Nigerians are literally staying safe ooo.... Come and see people with different types of face masks and hand gloves!!! You will see one fine slay mama, makeup on fleet with face mask and hand gloves. The fear of covid-19 is the beginning of safety!!! Basically all discussions have been centered on the coronavirus. Trust Nigerians to turn everything to a business opportunity. Some people have even started hand sanitizers factory in their houses. Even ordinary disposable face masks have become gold.  That is how one sister with gloves who was sharing tracts tried to give me one, I just told her "sister,  I would have collected this from you o, but because of your gloves I won't ". I know we are all trying to stay safe and all but please stay safe and protect others too. Don't wear gloves for the whole part of the day, then try to give someone with that same hands still in gloves. We...

HOW TO NOT JUST SURVIVE BUT THRIVE? We've been asked to practice self isolation and social distancing, the question now is "How do we not just survive but thrive?" A lot of people are ready to just let this "opportunity" in the guise of a bad situation slide and half of them just want to scream "boredom" on social media. What we should be doing with this time is to increase our skill set, becone become at our current trade, find more efficient ways to offer services, focus on the aspects of your job that you aren't excellent in and tgen "practice, practice, practice, practice and practice some more. We could use some online apps in our quest for knowledge, apps like Udemy and YouTube are very useful as e-training platforms. Life will not remain the same, you have to position yourself for people to patronize you after this plague. For fashion designers, sketch, sew, look for different trends, try out new things online. The world i...

Autocare with Damilare Brake System Brakes are one of the most important control components of a vehicle. They are required to stop the vehicle within the smallest possible distance and this is done by converting the kinetic energy of the wheels into the heat energy which is dissipated into the atmosphere. Requirements of A Good Braking System (i) To stop the vehicle in the shortest possible distance and time. (ii) To control the vehicle speed while moving on plain roads and hills. (iii) To work equally well on fair and bad roads. (iv) To ensure that the pedal effort applied by the driver is not much, thereby reducing the inconvenience for the driver. (v) To work efficiently in all weathers (vi) It should have very few wearing parts. (vii) It should require little maintenance. (viii) Brake, when applied should not disturb the steering geometry (ix) There should be minimum sound when brake is applied. Types of Brake 1. Foot Brake: Foot brake is one of the most ...

*THE CORONA EFFECT* You can see the literal fear in everybody's eyes. The world is in a frenzy given the recent turn of events to which it has never been accustomed.  Maybe, the world has experienced a shutdown of this magnitude before but not without the direct hand of a supernatural being and that was in ancient times if one may say. Here, however is a shutdown in modern times that has never been experienced before. Even science shirked at the first instance admitting the novelty of the situation confronting it. The harbinger of an untimely exit is what faces the respective governments of the world with regards to their citizens. Think about it. What could have caused such powerful outbreak, string enough to melt the world in every ramification. Socially, we are distancing ourselves from each other. Physically, everyone abhors contact at the moment. Mentally and educationally, we are challenged by this novel virus. Emotionally, we are left distraught. Economically, all sect...

Stay Safe, Keep your food safe too! Food Safety Food safety are food hygiene practices and measures taken to ensure the safety of food from production to consumption. Food can become contaminated at any point during slaughtering or harvesting, processing, storage, distribution, transportation and preparation.                            Safety  Rules 1.  Wash hands with soap and water before handing any food item. Cooked or raw. 2.  Sanitize cooking surfaces Cooking surface should be washed with hot, soapy water or even with Vinegar.       3. Clean sweep refrigerated foods once a week       At least once a week, throw out refrigerated foods that should no longer be eaten. Cooked leftovers should be discarded after 4 days 4.  Keep cooking appliances clean Clean the inside and the outside of appliances. Pay particular attention to buttons and handles...