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Aliyu4190
Suarez Discloses He Was Forced Out Of Barcelona
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Suarez: I Was Forced Out Of Barcelona Because Of Messi

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Oct 10, 2020 11:41 AM
Suarez: I Was Forced Out Of Barcelona Because Of Messi

Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez has claimed Barcelona forced him out of the club because of his close relationship with Lionel Messi.

Suarez, 33, joined Atletico Madrid last month in a deal worth £5.5million after six successful years at the Catalan club.

Barcelona justified his departure as something of a cost-cutting measure to reduce their wage bill having taken a large financial hit during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Messi was outspoken about the nature of Suarez’s departure, saying the striker was ‘thrown out’ by the club.

And now Suarez has now suggested the real reason he was forced out of Barcelona was because he was too close to Messi, who had tried to leave earlier in the summer.

“There are a lot of contradictions [in Barcelona’s version of events],” Suarez told ESPN.

“I would have looked for a solution if it was a financial problem and if it was a sporting issue I could have understood. It is not clear to me why they took the decision they took.

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Udken
Francisca Orhega Lashed Out The People Of Benue For Not Honouring Her Enough
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Super Falcons player, Francisca Ordega, has lashed at the people of Benue State
for not celebrating her enough.
Ordega said she was disappointed that after making Benue people proud for over
ten years, they didn’t accord her the kind of honour they gave BBNaija ex-
housemate, Kiddwaya on Friday.
Ordega said, “Hmmm Benue my people, have been making you guys proud for the
past ten years till now and have never received this kind of home welcoming.
Does that mean I am not love/love by my own people? Just curios and some
people will be asking what you are giving back to the society or your state really?
Or sit it because I am a woman. I see you all oo wow and mind you don’t come
here and sit rubbish.”
"Hummm Benue my people, have been making you guys proud for the past
10years till now and have never received this kind of home welcoming. Dose that
mean am not loved/love by my own people?? Just curious...and some people will
be asking what are you giving back to the society your state really Or Orisit
because am a Woman ? see all of you ohhhhhhh... Wow and mind you don't
come here and spit rubbish cos I will give you back.. Privacy Share to Story"
Her post attracted some PDP loyalists who are currently dragging her on social
media.
Meanwhile, IDOMA VOICE recalled that Ordega was alongside Ogenyi Onazi
honoured last week by the Benue State Government.
https://www.idomavoice.com/2020/10/super-falcons-player-francisca-ordega-
blasts-benue-people-for-not-honourng-her-like-kiddwaya.html

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Joey1234
How To Start Grasscutter Farming In Nigeria
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Grasscutter farming is gaining popularity in Africa for good reasons. Greater Cane Rat popularly known as Grasscutter belongs to the rodent family and is very closely related to the porcupine, almost look alike except that porcupine is bigger. The spiny fur on the back and rounded nose distinguish Grasscutter from true rats. It reaches a length of about 720 mm when fully matured. Grasscutter farming can make you at least N3million per year if you take it serious.
Grasscutter is one of the animal that is extremely suitable for commercial rearing.

After reading this article, you need between 6 – 12 months to make at least one million naira in this business. If not, then something is wrong with you somewhere. So, let’s get down to business and see how Grasscutter farming works.

Grasscutter farming is highly profitable, more profitable than you imagined. The meat is widely consumed allover the West Africa region and beyond, making it one of the top 10 animals whose meat is in highest demand in the market. A market ready Grasscutter is sold between N4,000 to N5,500. Five hundred Grasscuters in a year could earn you between N2 Million to N2.75 Million.

The animal reproduces very quickly and in good numbers. A fully grown female Grasscutter after gestation, carries the pregnancy for 140 – 150 days and deliver about twice a year. Each pregnancy produces average of four to seven young ones. Sometimes up to ten, that means one female Grasscutter could produce 8 – 20 other Grasscutters in a year.

It grows big and very fast too. Grasscutter is one of the biggest rodent in Africa. A fully mature female or male that is ready for market weighs between 3.5kg for the female and 4.5kg for the male. While measuring 45cm to 60cm in body length. The standing height is between 25 to 30cm. The body size of a fully grown male is about the size of a nine inches block..

A good number of Grasscutter is consumed yearly but most of them still comes from the wild through hunters who goes into the bush to hunt for them but usually not easy to catch, making the animal meat very scarce in the market.

GETTING STARTED IN GRASSCUTTER FARMING

Colony â€“ Grasscutter lives in colony, two mature male doesn’t live together. Therefore, start with a male and few females together. A colony should consists of one male and three to four females. Your capacity determine how many colony you wants to start with. A small farmer may start with one or two colony, with the arrangement of one male and 3 females in each colony.

Breeding â€“ Grasscutter is kept 100% for the meat, it has to grow well and healthy in other to be profitable. To achieve this, a new farmer must lay emphasis on the choice of breeding stock. Each colony must have a very health male. The male is the engine of reproduction, a healthy male makes a healthy stock. While selecting the male, pay attention on the well being, good weight gain in male animals is a very important factors that determine how healthy it is.

In any case, both the male and female stock you are selecting for breeding purpose must be healthy. While a healthy, strong, agile male animal should be selected for breeding programs, if the female is not genetically healthy too, it will also affect the breeding stocks. To ensure that you achieve the best possible result, both has to be healthy.

Grasscutter Pen â€“ Grasscutter don’t like sleeping where they eat! If you are providing them house you must put this factor into consideration – either cage or house, you must provide steeping place and dinning and playing place.

They can be breed either in a properly build cages or in a house specially designed for them. Grasscutter is sensitive to good habitat, for a colony (1 male and 3 females) the dimension of the cage should be 180cm in length, 60cm in width and 45cm in height. Build your cage that way, separate for each colony.

If you are using walled pen or house, make sure you build it in such way that the place they eat must be separate from where they sleep. Also the production building must be designed to protect the animals from excess temperature and humidity.

The biggest enemies for Grasscutter are Snakes and Soldier Ants. Make sure their house are built is a safe place and you must also be wary of human thieves. To protect them from the invasion of soldier ants, you may pour black engine oil around their houses, especially at night during raining season mostly.

The floor should be overlay with dry soft grasses to protect their feet from being hurt and to provide them soft cushy play ground condition.

FEEDING THE GRASSCUTTERS

Grasscutter is a herbivorous animals meaning their source of food is basically from the bush, that’s why they are more comfortable in the bush where their foods could easily be found. Their major food is Elephant or Napier grass. They also love Sugar cane and most farmers use sugar cane mainly for their feeding, Guinea grass, Gamba grass, Congo grass.

According to experience farmers, Hygiene and good feeding are the most important factors for successful, profitably Grasscutter farming. You can also fatten the male with broiler’s finisher or broiler starter’s feed to help attain market weight within short period of time.

The animal also like Gliricidia sepium, herbaceous legumes like Stylo (Stylosanthes gracilis) and Pueraria phaseoloides. The root and pitch of oil and coconut palms, bark of the anacardium and fruits such as half ripen pawpaw, plantain, pineapple, mango etc are their delight. Food crops such as groundnut, rice, maize, grain legume, tubers like cassava, sweet potato e.t.c also make part of their food.

They take their water mostly from the field and go to the river during the dry season only. But when domesticated, you can give them water by adding some attractant to it. Cane rate it should be noted does not dig a hole and cannot climb a tree either, he further stressed.

Grasscutters can also be fed with formulated concentrates like pellet as well as other processing by-products like wheat bran, corn bran, groundnut, soya, oilseed, cotton seed cakes, brewer yeast, grain legume pods, brewers’ grains, maize shucks and cobs, brewer’s yeast etc as feed supplements.

Grasscutter don’t like cold environment.  The rooms or cages where you keep them must neither be too cold nor too hot. Environment that is suitable for human is considered suitable for Grasscutters.

Weaning time â€“ With good, adequate feeding, the grasscutter kids can be weaned between four to eight weeks. But as a family, they can be with the mother for four months. The kids can be separated from the mother between five to seven months and place with a male to mate with them.

The weaned animals can be mated at the age of between seven to eight months from birth. Indefinite mating is expected to have taken place when the weaned male Grasscutter is seven months old and the female is eight months. The indefinite mating period is 140days. But if after 160 days of separation from the male, there is still no sign of pregnancy , then it should be taken back to the male for proper mating. Usually there should also be an extra male that can serve the same purpose.

THE MARKET FOR GRASSCUTTER

The market like I stated earlier is very big. Grasscutter meat or bush meat is probably the most desirable animal meet in the market. Everyone loves it and it sells very fast. Big restaurants uses it to prepare high priced delicacies. Full meat of a mature Grasscutter goes for N4,500 in the market and the market women who trade on it are always in demand of it.

Most people in the city couldn’t buy the meat because it’s very scarce, so no amount of Grasscutter you produced that can’t be sold within days. It will take combined efforts of thousands of farmers to fill the need for bush meat in the market in Africa right now.

Grasscutter is a fast reproducing animal and starts mating with 7 months after birth. It gives birth twice yearly and produce 4-7 at a time. That means, if you have 100 females that gives birth twice in a year, you would be having 900 to 1,500 in your farm within just a year! Such number will bring you nothing less than N5 Million when they are matured for marketing.


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Iwungha
Student Caught On Video Shot Dead By Police Officer During Protest In Oyo State
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It is very sad weekend for the people of Oyo state as a young Nigerian student has been confirmed dead, after being allegedly shot by the police during Endsars protest in Ogbomosho.

The young man whose name and address is not revealed , happened to be a student of one of the Polytechnics in Oyo State. According to the video, they are students protesting against SARS incessant killing in the state, when the deceased was shot dead by police who came to stop them.

The video showed a group of people carrying the young man up and shouting, 'they just kill this one now. We are students doing a peaceful protest in Ogbomosho". From the video, one could see that there was no breath left in the young man.

Many people have reacted to the video that was posted on Twitter by a verified Twitter user. According to them, if nothing is seriously done, nigerian police would kill everyone. They therefore called on the president to end SARS with immediate effect.


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Emily27
12 IDEAS TO ACHIEVE POSITIVITY IN LIFE AND AT WORK
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Even with modern comforts and technology, life can often be a trying and difficult experience.
How one responds to the world around them is a large part of how they end up feeling about it. Those who choose to respond with negativity will more likely than not be in for more trying times. Those who decide to look at the world in a positive light will ultimately enjoy their day to day lives much more.

This being said, being positive is not something one simply chooses to be. It requires a mental paradigm and lifestyle change. Here we will look at 12 ways to achieve a positive mindset in life and at work.

1. Eat Healthily: A healthy body means a healthy mind. Those who decide to take care of themselves by watching what types of foods they ingest will feel better than those who do not. The first step a positive mind is feeling healthy.

2. Exercise: As stated above, a healthy body creates a healthy mind. Exercise serves various functions. For many, it functions as a period of decompression and stress relief. It also gives people something to work towards, allowing them to see progress every month. Being able to observe self-betterment inevitably leads to a healthier, more positive, mindset.

3. Don’t dwell on the negative: One of the worst things people do is focus on the negative aspects of some event or action. While it is impossible to insulate oneself from disappointment or failure it is possible to view every negative episode in life as a learning experience.

4. Surround Yourself With Positive People: It can be very difficult for people to cut toxic, negative, individuals from their lives. People who are committed to seeing the world through a lens of negativity will impede one from being positive.

5. Take Up A Hobby: Taking up a hobby or interest will make it easier for one to be positive. No matter what happens in one's personal or work life knowing that there is always something that will bring them joy aids tremendously in maintaining a positive outlook.

6. Get Enough Sleep: It is hard to function properly without the appropriate amount of sleep. For everyone it is different, some people need more while others need less. Generally speaking, people need around eight hours of sleep per night.

7. Consider Martial Arts: Martial arts have long since been recognized as something that builds character and a positive world view. It is, for this reason, children who undertake some form of martial arts generally grow up to be more positive, outgoing, and confident people.

8. Go On Hikes: Sometimes one needs to get away from the hustle and bustle of the concrete jungle and spend some time outdoors. The outdoors allows one to remove themselves from their day to day preoccupations and think more clearly about matters. The exercise, fresh air, and nature all help to increase positivity.

9. Engage In Reflection: Negative people are normally reactive; they don’t take a moment to stop and consider the reality of the events unfolding in their lives. Things are usually not as bad as they at first seem, and it only requires a little bit of reflection to come to this conclusion.

10. Engage In Artistic Expression: Many people find that playing music, painting, or engaging in any other form of artistic expression helps them properly manage their emotions and offers an outlet of release. Music is particular has long been recognized as therapeutic. Positive people almost always heavily enjoy music.

11. Take About Problems: Clinical psychology has told us that often the act of sharing is enough to make us feel better about a particular event or circumstance in our life. Negative people rarely share; they complain.

12. Perfect Posture: Posture is an often overlooked, yet extremely important, aspect of well being. Bad posture causes poor health, headaches, and lowers one’s body image. A good, upright, posture shows the world the individual is ready to take on any task or challenge that comes their way.

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Elolight
Pig Farmers Cries Out ... Nawa For Covid19 Oooo
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Saturday in Lagos, while speaking on trends in the agriculture sector since the coronavirus pandemic set in.

“We have been having issues selling our animals because of the closure of borders to our West African neighbours, owing to the COVID-19 pandemic.

“This has really affected us because we spend more on pig feeds, due to the hike in prices as well as poor sales.

“Our pigs are in high demand from our neighbouring countries, especially Benin Republic. Most of the pig farms in Southern Nigeria supply pigs to West African countries.

“Immediately the borders were shut due to COVID-19 it started affecting our sales because people no longer come to patronize us.

ALSO READ: Ogun pig farmers lose millions of Naira, call for government assistance

“Local pig farmers usually do not source for buyers because we are used to the buyers coming to buy from us in large quantities prior to this period.

“We sell the pigs at lower prices presently but spend more to feed them because demand for pork is currently low.”

Alabi also lamented what he described as low pork consumption by Nigerians, owing to cultural and religious reasons.

According to him, pig farming will boost the pharmaceutical industry if manufacturers start using pigs to make drugs.

He said there was need for a re-orientation on pork consumption because of the high nutritional content and benefits of pigs.

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