I Surprised Myself, Nimatullahi, Ingenious Royal Birthday Cake Maker Confesses

February 9, 2022

How is it possible for anybody to design a birthday cake portraying the full and true picture of as giant and elegant as a palace of an elegant and unique King of, say Ebira land? Even Mrs. Nimatullahi Oyiza Salihu, who designed it for King Dr. Ado Ibrahim (CON), the Ohinoyi of Ebira land, who celebrated his 93rd birthday with pump and pageantry on February 7, 2022 admitted that she surprised herself: she thought she could not do it when a prominent title holder, His Highness, the Talba of Ebira land, Alhaji Hamza Usman approached her to do it.
In this short interview she granted ebirareporters.com, Nimatullahi narrated how it all happened:
Q: May we know you?
Ans: Sure, I am by name Salihu Nimatullahi Oyiza (Mrs). I am the Creative Director of Cakes and Chills. I am a a final year undergraduate at the University of Ilorin, Kwara State. I’m studying Chemical Engineering. I am Ebira by tribe and from Adavi Local Government Area of Okene, Kogi State.

Q: How long have you been in the baking business?
Ans: Professionally, I have been in this baking business for just over two years.

Q: the Royal Ohinoyi’s cake sold out your creativity, tell us what inspired you to the style?
Ans: in my wildest dream, I never imagined that I will make that so soon, but Alhaji Hamza Usman, the Talba of Ebiraland contacted me for the royal castle cake. I told him I will try, but he and I said: “No, Make It Happen!” He gave me the dimensions and specifications and also financed the project. So, I did make it.
Alhaji Usman has been my mentor for a while now, and the first job I did for him was for Ohinoyi’s 92nd birthday last year, and I think I might have impressed him so much more that he contacted me again.
Q: How long did it take to bake that cake?
Ans: The modeling of sugar art started about four weeks to the event, and cakes were baked five days to the event.
Q: Did you at any point have fears or doubt your ability to meet the expectations?
Ans: Yes, I had doubts at every point of the process, even till the moment I set it up. I still felt I did not do justice to it, until I started seeing positive comments.
Q: What was the reaction of the King and how did you feel about it?
And: I could see and feel the joy on His Royal Majesty’s face, and that gave me a relief which kept me smiling uptil this very moment.
Q: How do you feel seeing your work go viral on social media?
Ans: It was not expected wallahi, I never thought of it, and I was not really prepared for it. I am still in shock, but Alhamdulillah.
Q: Tell us about Cakes and Chills.
Ans: Cakes and Chills is a baking industry that makes exquisite yummy cakes, deserts and chops for all occasions and events.
Q: How can you be reached for works, and do you deliver only in Kogi state?
Ans: I make deliveries to other states, and can be contacted via:
WhatsApp: 08167367716
Instagram: CakesandChills
Facebook: Nimatullah Bint Salihu
Q: Any words for the new admirers of your work out there?
Ans: Have absolute faith in God. Whatever one does, be your best and always remain humble, be outspoken and do not live in your fears.

3 Distinguished Nigerians Bag National Award, Go Home With N10 Million Each

Editorial staff

February 9, 2022

Three Nigerians, adjudged to be outstanding in their fields of studies over the years, have been conferred with the Nigerian National Order of Merit (NNOM) Award for the years 2020 and 2021 by President Muhammadu Buhari.

The awardees, Dr. Oluyinka Olurotimi Olutoye, Medicine (2020); the late Professor Charles Ejike Chidume, Science (2020) and Professor Godwin O. Samuel Ekhaguere, Science (2021), went home with N10 million each.

According to citation, from the statement by the Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on media and publicity, Femi Adesina today, February 8, Professor Olutoye, recipient of the 2020 NNOM Award for science, is credited to have led a team which performed ground-breaking surgical procedures on foetuses before they are born.

The statement said that in 2016, in a feat that has been hailed as the first by an African, Professor Olutoye performed a surgical procedure on a foetus with sacrococcygeal teratoma, which is a tumour that develops before birth and grows from a baby’s tailbone.

It said that Olutoye received his medical degree at the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife) in 1988 with distinctions in anatomy and pathology, interned at the Lagos State University, before proceeding to the United States for specialised training in surgery.

He is currently the Surgeon-in-Chief at the Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, United States.

The statement said that Prof Chidume, recipient of the 2020 NNOM posthumous Award for science, was the Acting President of the African University of Science and Technology, Abuja before his demise on October 7, 2021.

It said that the works of the late Professor, a globally renowned Professor of Mathematics, encompass several fields, including Nonlinear Functional Analysis, Nonlinear Operator Theory and Differential Equations, Nonlinear Optimisation.

He bagged his bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka in 1973, M.Sc in Mathematics in 1977 from the Queen’s University Kingston, Ontario, Canada and Ph.D in Mathematics from the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States.

For Professor Ekhaguere, recipient of the 2021 NNOM Award for science, the statement said that he is a professor of Mathematical Physics.

It said that he created and pioneered the theory of Quantum Stochastic Differential Inclusion (QSDIs) that has greatly improved the entire Science Community’s understanding of those pathological quantum systems whose governing equation involves discontinuous coefficient.

Prof Ekhaguere holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Physics from the University of Ibadan, 1971, DIC in Mathematics Physics from Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, UK in 1974 and Ph.D. in Mathematics Physics from University of London (Bedford College), London, UK in 1976.

The Chairman NNMA Governing Board, Professor Aku announced that recipients of the prestigious award bestowed by Nigeria on its citizens for creative, intellectual and academic contributions that are of national and global importance receive a cash reward of N10 million each.

The recipients of the award are divided into four areas- Medicine, Science, Engineering and Technology, and the Humanities, including Education and Culture, Prof Aku said.

Reps Working On Bill To Raise Educational Qualification Of Aspiring President, Others

Editorial staff

February 9, 2022

Nigeria’s House of Representatives has passed for second reading, a Bill seeking to raise educational qualifications for people seeking to be President and Vice President, Governor and Deputy Governor, Federal and State Legislators in the country.

The document titled: ‘A Bill for an Act to Review the Qualifications for Certain Political Offices and For Related Matters’ is being sponsored by Omowumi Onanuga (APC, Ogun).

Presenting the general principles of the Bill, the sponsor said that the new legislation is not targeted at stifling interest of Nigerians in politics.

Onanuga said that the race for political offices in Nigeria has become very “fierce and intense,” due largely to low qualifications for such offices.

“If passed, the Bill will place more value for political offices. Offices affected by this Act are very strategic, with high influence in nature”, she said.

Onanuga argued that the proposed legislation will also place more value for the offices of President, Vice President, Governor and Deputy Governors and other political offices in the country.

“If a managing director of a company is required to possess a university degree, the occupant of a political office is also required to possess requisite qualifications.”

The House, presided over by Deputy Speaker, Ahmed Idris Wase, unanimously adopted the Bill through a voice vote and passed it for second reading.

Ohinoyi Ado Formally Receives Ebira-English Dictionary

Greenbarge Reporters

February 8, 2022

King Abdul Rahman Ado Ibrahim, the Ohinoyi of Ebira land in Kogi State, yesterday, February 7, 2022, formally received the first ever Standard Ebira-English Dictionary at his Azad Palace Okene, during the celebration of his 93rd birthday. The book was presented by the chairman of the production committee, Prince Emma Omadivi (backing the camera right), and the Author of the book, Yusuf Ozi Usman (backing the camera left), supporting him.

King Ado, Ohinoyi Of Ebira In Kogi Turns 93

Greenbarge Reporters

February 7, 2022

The first class Ohinoyi (King) of Ebira land in Kogi State turned 93 years old, celebrating it with unusual birthday cake.

Hundreds of Ebira people both at home and in Diaspora, including the Chief Imam of Ebira land, Sheikh Abere, thronged his Azad Palace, adjudged the best in Africa, in Okene, capital of Okene Local Government today, February 7, to pray, sing and dance for the longevity of the King.

– the birthday cake –
The birthday cake was designed by a young lady, Miss Ni’imat, in the shape of his wonderful palace.
Editor-In-Chief/CEO of the Greenbarge Media and Communications Ltd, publisher of Greenbarge Reporters online newspaper and hardcopy magazine, Yusuf Ozi Usman, reports that the Queen was so impressed with the birthday cake design that she gave N250,000 to the young lady.
According to the Greenbarge Reporters online boss, all the traditional rulers around the local governments in Ebira land, including the ones from neighbouring states attended the ceremony.

– from right: Chief Imam Abere, Dr. Godwin and Yusuf Ozi Usman at the occasion-
The Ohinoyi, who is the acting chairman of the Council of Traditional Rulers in Kogi State, used the occasion to receive the first ever Standard Ebira-English Dictionary, which was authored by Yusuf Ozi Usman.
The President of the Ebira sociocultural group across the world; Ebira Peoples Association (EPA), Dr. Oyibo Godwin, coordinator of Ebira studies at the Federal College of Education (FCE), Okene, Pastor Lawal Ozovehe; chairman and secretary of the production committee, Prince Emma Omadivi and Abdulrahman Salawu Adavize witnessed the formal presentation of the Dictionary to Ohinoyi.
Ohinoyi Ado Ibrahim, whose father, King Atta Ibrahim Onoruioza was the first officially recognised central ruler of Ebira land, has been on the throne since June 2, 1997. He will be celebrating a silver jubilee this year.

I Went Through Psychological Trauma With COVID19 Infection – FCT Minister

Greenbarge Reporters

February 7, 2022

Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Malam Muhammad Musa Bello has narrated the experience he went through for three weeks, when he was diagnosed with COVID-19 on December 31, 2021.

“I thank God Almighty that I took the first and second doses of the COVID vaccine, because on the 31^st of December 2021, I was tested positive for COVID-19 and even though I was told it was mild, I know what I experienced.

“Although I was not hospitalized, I was quarantined in my residence for three weeks because subsequently, even after taking the medication, I tested positive twice.

“It was the third time that I got a negative result. If I had not taken the first and second doses, probably what has happened to many of my dear ones would have happened to me.

“I tell you, even the mildness of the disease was something else because it hits you in many directions.

“When I had it, no matter how strong I felt during the day, for about 15, 20 minutes around 6pm, when I’m seated, I just drop asleep and then after 15 minutes, I’m able to turn up again.

“This is aside of the sore throat, the headaches and all the weakness you get, especially in your joints. I had to change my course of medicine after the first 10 days.”

“For three weeks, I was not productive. I didn’t go out of the house, I never had a chance to do my work and the multiplier effect was tremendous because even now, I’m just trying to cope, to clear all those files that I was not able to handle when I was under quarantine.”

The Minister thanked the Federal Government for ensuring the availability of the vaccines for Nigerians, advising residents of the Federal Capital Territory to get vaccinated because the vaccines save lives.

“I tell you, from the figures I get from our Public Health Department, a hundred percent of the deaths that we experienced in the FCT during the last few weeks as a result of COVID-19 were from those who were not vaccinated. So, the thing is that for those that are vaccinated, chances are that their cases will be mild, like my own case.

“So, my message to us is let us all get vaccinated. For those who have been vaccinated for the first and second dose, I advise them to go for the booster.

“I will take all the recommended shots because I don’t want to go through what I went through again.”

The Secretary for Health and Human Services of the FCTA, Dr. Abubakar Tafida said that a total of 433,000 people in the FCT have taken the first dose and 286,000 have had the second dose and so far, about 12,000 have taken the booster shot.

Dr. Tafida said that since the 30^th of November when he assumed office as the Secretary for Health, a total of 16 deaths had occurred as a result of COVID-19 and none of the victims had been vaccinated.

ICPC Arraigns Amaechi Over $150,000 Fraud

Greenbarge Reporters

February 7, 2022

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Othera Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has docked a former Secretary General of the Athletic Federation of Nigeria (AFN), Amaechi Akawu, over his alleged complicity in a $150,000 fraud.

Akawu was arraigned by the Commission before Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court 5, sitting in Abuja, on allegations of corruption, bordering on money laundering and fraudulent diversion of public funds.

ICPC had filed a 10-counts charge before Justice Ekwo, in which it accused the former Secretary General of diverting monies released by the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) for the successful hosting of the CAA Grand Prix Competition in Delta State, popularly known as 2017 Warri Relay Competition.

The offence was allegedly committed in July and August 2017, when Akawu, on multiple occasions, fraudulently diverted funds from the Federal Ministry of Youth and Sports Development into personal use. He is alleged to have had other fronts receive the money.

His actions, according to the Commission, violated Sections 1 (a) and 16 (1) (d) of the Money Laundering Prohibition Act, 2011 and are punishable under relevant Sections of the same Act.

Akawo entered a not guilty plea when the charge was read to him. His counsel, Emmanuel Aghedo, moved his application, praying the court to grant him bail on liberal terms.

Counsel to ICPC, Mashkur Salisu, who did not object to the bail application, however urged the court to grant him bail on stringent terms that will ensure he stands his trial.

Justice Ekwo, admitted him to bail in the sum of N15 million, with one surety in like sum.

The judge ordered that the surety must have landed property within the Federal Capital. And that the accused must deposit his international passport with the court registry.

The matter was then adjourned to 16th, 17th and 18th May, 2022 for hearing.

2023 Presidency: Igbo Women Promise Kogi Gov, Yahaya Bello, 25 Million Votes

Greenbarge Reporters

February 7, 2022

Yahaya Bello | Photo Credit: Premium Times

Some women from the Southeast geopolitical zone, have promised Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State, 25 million votes in his bid to win the 2023 election to become the President of Nigeria.

The women, under the aegis of Igbo Women Forum, said that they would do all within their powers, to mobilise at least 25 million votes for Yahaya Bello.

As a follow up to the promise, the group said that it would be holding “a mother of all rallies in Abuja” to declare support for the Governor of Kogi State.

A statement today, February 6, the group’s President, Lady Uju Obi, said: “among other qualities Governor Bello possesses, is his priority for the nation’s unity and security.

“Unlike other aspirants, Alhaji Bello has shown the capacity to quell the rising tide of terrorism, kidnapping and other criminal vices across the nation.

“Another trait that stands out about the Kogi State Governor is his national appeal as he is loved by most Nigerians – irrespective of religion, tribe and ethnicity.

“This isn’t surprising, as Governor Bello has carried everyone along in his government, not minding the usual sentiments.”

Lady Obi recalled that despite being a devout Muslim, Christians flock the Governor, perhaps the reason he built a chaplain inside the government house.

She said that at 46, Bello would represent a “paradigm shift from the era of old, tired and seemingly sick rulers.

“Bello isn’t just a youth, he has proven his mettle at the highest level and will need little time to hit the ground running.”

The Igbo women called on the All Progressives Congress (APC) to stop the idea of zoning its presidential ticket to the south.

They said in the South-East zone, most of the aspirants are selfish and have not done as much for the masses like Bello has done, especially, for women and youths.

The group vowed to rally round all the Igbo contestants, especially the delegates, to shun ethnic sentiment and support the best man for the job.

To them, Governor Bello is a God sent and the only man who can take Nigeria to the promised land.

Lies Financial Times Told About Nigeria – Garba Shehu

Greenbarge Reporters

February 7, 2022

Special Adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on media and publicity, Garba Shehu has correct the lies contained in the article: “What is Nigeria’s Government For,” by David Piling in the Financial Times of UK on January 31, 2022.

In a Letter to the editor of the newspaper, the Presidential spokesman said that the caricature of a government sleepwalking into disaster What is Nigeria’s government for, was predictable “from a correspondent who jets briefly in and out of Nigeria on the same British Airways flight he so criticises.

He recalled how the reporter highlighted rising banditry in Nigeria as proof of such slumber.

He said that what the reporter left out are the security gains made over two Presidential terms.

According to Garba Shehu, the terror organisation, Boko Haram, used to administer an area the size of Belgium at inauguration but that now, they control no territory.

“The first comprehensive plan to deal with decades-old clashes between nomadic herders and sedentary farmers–experienced across the width of the Sahel–has been introduced: pilot ranches are reducing the competition for water and land that drove past tensions.

“Banditry grew out of such clashes. Criminal gangs took advantage of the instability, flush with guns that flooded the region following the Western-triggered implosion of Libya.

“The situation is grave.

“Yet as with other challenges, it is one that the government will face down.”

Palestinian PM To Buhari: Please, Stay Healthy, We Need Your Wisdom

Editorial staff

February 5, 2022

PRESIDENT BUHARI BILATERAL WITH PALESTINE PM H.E MOHAMMED SHTAYYEH. 0A. L-R; President Muhammadu Buhari and The State of Palestine, Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh during a Bilateral meeting on the sideline of the 35th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the Heads and Government of African Union held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. PHOTO; SUNDAY AGHAEZE 5TH 2022

“Please continue to stay well and healthy, because we need your wisdom.”

This was the appeal by the Palestinian Prime Minister, Mohammad Shtayyeh, in a sideline meeting today, February 5, with President Muhammadu Buhari at the ongoing African Union (AU) in Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia.

Prime Minister Shtayyeh, who expressed appreciation to President Buhari for his leadership role in the continent, said: “your Excellency, we thank you for your wisdom. We need it more now.”

The Palestinian leader told Buhari that the situation in the Middle East, particularly relations with Israel, had deteriorated over the years.

Responding, President Buhari assured that Nigeria will continue to pursue peace and progress in Africa and other parts of the world, by consistently pushing for justice, fairness and inclusiveness in global affairs.

Buhari said the country remains unwavering in supporting democracy, development and good governance, particularly in ensuring the rights of individuals and institutions.

“As a country we are doing our best, and we will continue doing our best to ensure justice and fairness.”

The President assured the Palestinian leader that Nigeria will be consistent in pushing for peace and progress, while upholding the tenets of justice.

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