Talebearing24 - Father And Daughter Escape Death, As Truck Crushes Their SUV

Two occupants of a Toyota Highlander SUV, Fidelis Omoruyi and his daughter, Omon, cheated death on Wednesday, as a tyre-laden truck crushed their vehicle in Benin, Edo State.

The accident which occurred along the Akpakpava Road, by First East Circular Junction, was attributed to a bump at the middle of the Road.

Many at the scene of the accident described the survival of the occupants of the SUV as miraculous. Omoruyi said they stopped at a transport firm by the junction to deliver a parcel when they suddenly heard a loud noise as the truck crashed into their vehicle.

An eyewitness, Osasu, condemned the poor attitude of the agency responsible for the maintenance of roads in Benin, saying that the bump which allegedly caused the accident has caused many others

Talebearing24 - Part Of Benefits Of Entertaining Your Visitor

I once heard of a very pious lady by the name of Fidh-dhah who lived in a certain village. This woman, Fidh-dhah, was rapidly gaining fame as word of an amazing phenomenon among people. Although we do not visit women, due to the necessity to investigate and ascertain the reality and authenticity of this rumour, I took a group of people and travelled to her village.
 
On arriving in the village and making enquiries, the people of the village informed us that Fidh-dhah possessed a female goat that yielded both milk and honey. Hearing this, we bought a brand new bowl and proceeded to her home.
 
On arriving, we greeted her with salaam and said, “We wish to witness the barakah (blessing) of your goat.” Fidh-dhah obliged and gave the goat to us. After receiving the goat, we began milking it and as it was reputed, both milk and honey flowed from the teats of the goat!
 
After enjoying the milk and honey, we asked Fidh-dhah to tell us the secret to the special barakah (blessing) she and her family enjoyed from the goat. In response, she mentioned the following story:
 
There was a time when we were very poor and possessed nothing except a small she goat. When ‘Eidul Adha arrived, my husband, who was a pious man, said to me, “We own nothing except this she goat. Let us sacrifice it for ‘Eid in the name of Allah Ta‘ala.” I replied, “Don’t slaughter it as we need it. Allah Ta‘ala has not made it necessary for us to sacrifice an animal for ‘Eid in circumstances of such poverty.”
 
Coincidentally, a guest arrived on that very Day of ‘Eid and we had no food with which to entertain him. I thus said to my husband, “Allah Ta‘ala has instructed us to honour our guests by entertaining them and seeing to their comfort. Let us slaughter this she goat for our guest.” As my husband prepared to slaughter the goat, I said to him, “You should slaughter it outside the house, behind the wall, so that the sight of its slaughter does not distress our children and cause them to cry.”
 
My husband thus took the goat and made his way out of the yard to slaughter it. However, while he was meant to be slaughtering it, I saw the goat jump onto the wall and re-enter the yard. Thinking that the goat had escaped, I went outside and saw that my husband had already slaughtered our goat and was now in the process of skinning it! I exclaimed to him, “How strange! Another she goat, resembling our own, has entered our yard!” Hearing this, my husband said, “Perhaps Allah Ta‘ala has granted us a goat which is better.”
 
Whereas our first goat yielded only milk, this second goat yields both milk and honey! This special barakah which we enjoy was granted to us on account of us honouring our guest.
 
Fidh-dhah then advised saying, “This goat grazes in the pasture of the heart. If you sow goodness and righteousness in your hearts, it will graze on good and its milk will accordingly be wholesome and good. Conversely, spoiling your hearts and filling them with filth and muck causes the milk of the goat to spoil and turn bad. Therefore, ensure that you guard your hearts from evil, then everything will be of benefit to you.”
 

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).

Talebearing24- He Reaped What He showed

In a remote village of Amackpu, once lived a man whose name was Ofuchi Nwosis. Ofuchi was a palm-wine tapper and he lived with his family and step brother in homesteads built on the land they inherited from their father. The name of Ofuchi’s step brother was Nduibisi. Ndubuisi was a farmer and he had a son called Nnaji named after his own father. Ofuchi had three children who were all male.These two brothers built their huts at the two extremes of the land handed over to them by their father. When their father was about to die, he called Ofuchi and took the right hand of his brother, Ndubuisi, handed it to Ofuchi meaning Ofuchi should assume responsibility over his step brother.
This was the last assignment the old performed on earth. He said: ‘’if your brother has offended you, forgive him. In him, you have a partner and somebody to rely on; a bunch of broom is always very difficult to break. Be in unity and plan no evil against each other’’. Soon after uttering these words, he surrendered to the cold hands of death.The final words of the old man guided Ofuchi and Ndubuisi’s behaviours towards each other for a number of years. They preferred to live closer to each other, building their huts on the same piece of land their father left behind for them.
They both got married. The name of Ofuchi’s wife was Nne while the name of Ndubuisi’s wife was Ifeoma.Nnaji, Ndubuisi’s only child was growing up in the same compound with the three male children of Ofuchi. When he was old enough to start schooling, he was registered in the school that his other brothers were attending. However, Nnaji was very brilliant at school. He was more brilliant than the three children of Ofuchi. He came out top in every examination in the school and so he was loved by his teachers.
He was so brilliant that he was given double promotion and soon after enrolling in school, he was in the same class with the second child of Ofuchi.There was a time that Nnaji’s teachers in school followed him home to encourage his father to endeavour to send him to the only secondary school which was about five kilometres from their village after the completion of his primary education.The recognition of Nnaji’s brilliancy began to create animosity and envy at home. Ofuchi decided to give a gap between his wife and that of his brother.
It was at this period that Ofuchi remembered what he was told concerning his mother’s death. He was told that his step brother’s mother was responsible for the mysterious death of his mother. He therefore decided to take revenge on Ndubuisi by killing his only child, Nnaji.He thought of a plan of poisoning Nnaji since his children and Nnaji ate together as family. He went to the house of the herbalist to collect poison. On the day he had planned to execute his diabolical plan, his wife had prepared the food of the children as usual before going to the market. Unknown to her, Ofuchi went to put poison in the food he thought Nnaji would eat since he was always the first to arrive from school.
On this day, Nnaji was a bit delayed at school and Ofuchi’s first child, Ike was the first to arrive home hungry. He picked the food and hurriedly ate it. Soon after, Ofuchi and his wife arrived and met Ike holding his stomach crying for help. The people in the village heard the noise and rushed into the house, Ofuchi could no longer hide his emotion. He started crying, recounting how he went to procure poison from a herbalist to kill Nnaji, his step brother’s son. The villagers were comforting him, trying to hold him but his brother demanded that he should not be comforted because ‘’he reaped what he showed’’.