Talebearing24- The Key to A Great Story

The key that beckons for questioning when something very unpleasant happened is not who, where, when, what, to whom, how but…I wonder why many people are so curious and inquisitive about what does not matter most when asking questions during investigation. The major focus might be on the place of the incident. People would like to know the locality, the state or even the country where such ugly incident has happened purposely because of their visitation for confirmation and recording for futuristic uses. Some people would go extra miles to the place of the incident in order to make money out of it without considering the risk at hand.
Some would be asking, who are the people involved? Their tribes, the state and even the country where these people, the perpetrators came from will be of great importance to them during investigation and questioning for certainty. Not for anything but because a particular set of people are known for notorious activities over the time. So, this would quickly help to jump into conclusion without much ado.
Many people would be after the time when such thing happened without being aware despite the fact that they were much around then and even very close to the place of the incident whereas the news of the ugly incident did not reach them in time which caught them unaware. People would think that those who were asking for the time of incident were sympathizers but not knowing that they were doing that for their own selfish gains.
People who were affected in the unpleasant incident were also put into consideration. How many people were injured or dead in the course of the incident? What is degree of their injury? Were they discharged after first aid to their various homes? How many people were referred to the hospital for further treatment? How many people died at the spot, on the way to the hospital or in the hospital? All these questions and many more would be found at the lips of the investigators for record purposes and statistical analyses.
With all these above-mentioned points, the key to a great story that beckons for questioning is nothing but why? Why did it happen? What was the reason behind this happening? What were the perpetrators looking for or what was their gain from the incident? This particular point helps to further the investigation to really know the root cause of the incident in order to find a lasting solution to it or prevent its recurrence in future.
If there is no smoke, there wouldn’t be fire. Every incident emanates from a source. And every problem has a solution but it depends on the methodology and procedures followed in tackling the problem. A round peg cannot be put in a square hole. A solution to a problem can be sorted out and applied to put an end to a problem thereby preventing someone from continually asking the question why? Any story that does not answer the question why is incomplete.

Talebearing24- Nutrition -The Concluding Part in MRNIGERCAD

(i). Saprophytic nutrition: This is the type of nutrition in which certain organisms called the Saprophytes feed on dead and decaying organic materials on which they grow. The enzyme so secreted is able to digest some portions of the substrate outside the body of the saprophyte by a process called extracellular digestion. Examples include fungi such as rhizopus, mushroom, mucor, toadstool and penicillium.

(ii). Symbiotic nutrition: This is the type of nutrition in which two organisms of different species called symbionts live together and derive nutrients of food from each other. In this case, both organisms gain from such association and none is harmed. This type of nutrition is called symbiotic nutrition while the association between the two organisms in which both derive benefits is called symbiosis. Apart from nutritional benefits, the symbionts can derive other benefits like protection, shelter and reproduction during such association. Examples include bacteria and root nodules of leguminous plants, Algae and fungi in a lichen, sea anemones and hermit crabs, termites and protozoa living in the gut.

Algae and Fungi in Lichen

(iii). Carnivorous or Insectivorous nutrition: These are equipped with devices for trapping, digesting and absorbing nutritive compounds from the bodies of the insects and other small organisms. They have green leaves which help them to carry out photosynthetic nutrition. Examples include Sundew (Drosera), Bladderwort (Utriculara), Pitcher-Plant of the Nepenthes and Sarracenia, Venus fly-trap (Dionaea muscipula), the butterwort (Pinguicula).

Pitcher

Talebearing24 - A Day with Death.

There was a man, Okonkwo who lived in a village called Obudu, an outskirt of a popular city. This village had rivers at its boundaries where many palm trees were grown. This environment enabled Okonkwo as a palm wine tapper to carry out his job successfully. From history, Okonkwo’s father was also a palm wine tapper during his lifetime. Okonkwo had a wife and two children; male and female. The elderly one was male of seven years of age while the female was just four years. Rebecca had a delay of childbirth. She gave birth to Peter, the first child after ten years of their traditional marriage in the village.
Her husband patiently stood by her with the hope that they would be eventually given a child by God. Exactly ten years after their marriage, Rebecca was pregnant and delivered a baby boy named Peter while after three years, she also conceived and gave birth to a female child, Sarah. What Okonkwo faced while looking for a child before he finally got Peter made him cherish children and show affection to them. Okonkwo was very down to the ground likewise his wife. He was also generous to humanity in his vicinity. Whenever he went to farm, he would bring season fruits, roasted corn and roasted yam for the children in his neighborhood.
This made the children to know his arrival time from the farm. Okonkwo went to the farm three times in a week; Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. When he was about to arrive on any of these days, they would gather together waiting for him with the hope that something would surely come from him. As they sighted him coming with his bicycle, they would be shouting ’’Okonkwo!’’ ’’Okonkwo!!’’ And he would give them whatever he brought from the farm. Weeks after weeks, months after months, years after years, this had become a norm. His humility made the people of the village to like him while his generosity earned him a widespread popularity among the children of the village including their parents.
His name was found at the lips of the children and even the toddlers. The good news of Okonkwo as a good man had gotten to the ears of the village head that had planned to invite and give him a Chieftaincy title during their incoming festival. The festival was fast approaching and the people concerned in the village had started preparing for it to make it a success. The small villages under this village had sent their representatives to the village head to know their contributions as usual. Messages had been sent to the indigenes of the village living far and near to remind them of the incoming festival that used to be a memorable one every year.
Okonkwo in his mind planned to tap enough palm wine for the festival when it was one day to it because of its freshness. Everybody was preparing. When it was a week to the festival, the village head sent a message to him. He went to see him thinking in his heart that the village head wanted to ask him to tap palm wine for the festival but when he got there, the story changed and he was highly astonished when the news of becoming one of the chiefs was disclosed to him which would be formally announced and celebrated during the festival. He showed his appreciation and left for home.
A day to the festival, what a fateful day! Okonkwo carried his sack bag and mounted his bicycle while heading towards the farm as planned to tap enough palm wine for the talk of the village festival coming up the following day. When he got to the farm, he fetched all the palm wine settled in the gourds tied to the neck of the palm trees for four days purposely because of the festival. He was hurriedly fetching the palm wine because of the time and wanted to leave the farm early. In the process, one of his legs missed the rope and he fell from the tree.
He became unconscious immediately he landed. There was nobody around on the farm to come for his rescue. After some minutes, his condition became worse and went into coma. Children had gathered as usual expecting the arrival of Okonkwo but when it was two hours they had been expecting him without his return, it sent a signal to their parents because that was very unusual of him, immediately they raised an alarm. The able men in the village assembled and started tracing him into the farm because it was late already around 7:00pm in the evening.
As they were going farther into the bush towards the rivers, they kept signaling at him making a sound ’’ooooh’’ ’’ooooh’’ to know his exact location on farm but to no avail because he could not respond until one of them saw him at a distance under the tree lying flat and incapacitated and quickly called the attention of the other men to what he saw. They noticed he was still breathing but could not respond to any action. He was quickly rushed to the village and laid him on a mat in front of his house. The news of his tragedy was widespread like a burning bush in the dry season.
Children were crying while adults were unhappy for something like this to have happened at that time when the festival was few hours to take off with all the preparations on ground. He was breathing but his eyes were closed. They were talking to him but he was not responding. All efforts to make him talk to them proved futile. That was the night that the Okonkwo’s wife knew truly that the people of the village loved her family. Okonkwo did not open his eyes throughout the night.
The sad news got to the village head and he instantly sent four of his messengers and two of his chiefs for their supports and sympathy. Some people left in the middle of the night to their various abode and started gathering when the first cock crowed at dawn. When it was some minutes to 8:00am in the morning, Okonkwo opened his eyes and began responding little by little. He was given water to drink while sitting and asked to rest his back on the wall. He gradually regained his strength but he couldn’t stand on his own.
People were relieved because there was hope then unlike before he couldn’t respond. One of the messengers went to relay the new development to the village head which made them to commence the festival proper. After few hours, he was fit to talk and thanked everyone for their candid supports at that trying time. When he was asked to explain how it happened, he said; he couldn’t remember anything but the only thing he could remember was that he saw death on his journey of coma. What a coincidental tragedy!

Talebearing24- Nutrition In MRNIGERCAD Part 1

Nutrition is the ability of a living organism to feed while the chemicals taken in by the organism during this process is referred to as nutrients. Examples of these chemicals include Nitrogen, Carbon, Oxygen, Phosphorous, Hydrogen, and Chlorine to mention a few.Ingestion is the process of taking in the food substances into the body while egestion is the process of passing out of the undigested food particles from the body of a living organism through anus. Injection is the insertion of needle and syringe into the body.
Modes of Nutrition
All living organisms are capable of carrying out different modes of nutrition. However, the mode of nutrition can be group into two major classes referred to as autotrophic and heterotrophic nutrition.
1. Autotrophic Nutrition: This is the type of nutrition in which organisms are able to manufacture their food. Organisms which can manufacture their food are called autotrophs.Autotrophic nutrition is further divided into two groups. These are holophytic or photosynthetic nutrition and chemosynthetic nutrition.
I. Holophytic (Photosynthetic) nutrition: It is the type of nutrition in which all green plants are able to manufacture their own food making use of Carbon dioxide and water in the presence of sunlight. This process is called Photosynthesis. The green plants derive their energy for making this food from the sunlight which is trapped by Chlorophyll. Examples of organisms that exhibit this process include flowering plants, Spirogyra, Euglena etc.
II. Chemosynthetic nutrition: It is another mode of nutrition in which certain bacteria are able to synthesize organic compounds from simple inorganic materials such as carbon dioxide, water, ammonia or nitrite to manufacture their food. The energy used for the synthesis comes from the oxidation of the inorganic materials or chemicals; hence the process is called Chemosynthesis, e.g. Nitrosomonas, Nitrobacter.
2. Heterotrophic nutrition: This is the type of nutrition in which the organisms cannot manufacture their foo but depend directly or indirectly on plants(autotrophs) for their food. Organisms which cannot manufacture their food are called heterotrophs. Most animals, fungi, protozoa and some bacteria belong to this group.
I. Holozoic nutrition: This involves the feeding on other organisms or solid organic substances synthesized by green plants. The organisms ingest, digest and assimilate these food substances into their bodies. Examples of organisms that exhibit holozoic mode of nutrition are:
(a) Carnivores like cats, dogs, lions etc. that feed on flesh
(b) Herbivores like sheep, goats, rabbits etc. that feed on plants
(c) Omnivores like man, pig etc. that feed on both flesh and plants/vegetables
d. Scavengers like vultures that feed on dead animals
II. Parasitic nutrition: This is the type of nutrition in which certain organisms feed on another organism in order to derive nourishment from it. This mode of nutrition is called parasitic nutrition while the association is called Parasitism. Parasitism is an association between two organisms, usually of different species in which one called the parasite gains from the association while the other called the host is harmed or suffered losses. Examples include Tapeworm, plasmodium, ticks, bugs, dodder (plant), mistletoe (plant) etc.
Animal parasites are classified as endoparasites and ectoparasites.
I.Ectoparasites:- These are parasites which live on (outside) the body of their hosts where they derive food and shelter from e.g. flea, bedbug, and tick.
II. Endoparasites:- These are parasites which live inside the body of their hosts such as man and other animals. Examples include Tapeworm (host- pig and man), Liverfluke (Fasciola hepatica, host – sheep), Filaria (Wucheraria brancrofti, host – cattle, sheep and goat), Guinea worm (Drancunculus medinensis).