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  • Why 100% fruit juice is important in your diet

    The first step on the journey of wellness is a balance in our diet which is achievable by evaluating and taking advantage of readily available and affordable nutrient fillers. Experts have recommended the regular consumption of fruits as a key ingredient to providing important nutrients for overall health and wellness. Achieving the recommended goals of five fruit portion per day can be challenging and become hindered by availability, convenience, and affordability.

    This is what makes fruit juice a smart choice since it is a delicious and nutritious way to consume a range of exciting variants of whole fruits every day. 100% fruit juice has no added sugar, but contains only the naturally occurring sugars found in the fruit from which the juice is squeezed. When included as part of your healthy diet, 100% fruit juice can help meet recommended daily goals for fruit intake because it is a nutrient-dense drink that provides vitamins, minerals (folic acid, thiamine and magnesium) and beneficial plant nutrients like polyphenols. It is also vital to educate yourself on facts that will help you select a healthy product made from real fruit and not some concocted chemicals mixture.

    The first place to start is to go with time tested and trusted brands and whilst also paying attention to the nutrition facts on the label. Be careful to check that ‘100% fruit juice’ is clearly written on the packaging. In the Nigeria market, one well-known 100% fruit juice time tested and trusted brand is Chivita 100%. It is recommended for its supreme quality, purity and taste. In order to get real value for your money, always ensure that your fruit juice contains no preservatives or artificial colours.

    According to a nutritionist with Healthyliving International, Folakemi Adeyemi, consuming 100% fruit juices with no added sugar can reduce calories associated with added sugar without compromising quality nutrition. “Globally, products with added sugars have come under severe scrutiny because they are believed to provide what is mostly referred to as empty calories without adding nutritional benefits. The natural sugar in fruit juices come with vitamins, minerals, and antioxidant. They are a convenient way to reach your daily fruit intake recommendations,” she stated.

    Fruit is a must-have for an everyday balanced diet, and 100% fruit juice is a convenient way to enjoy a portion of fruit when one fails to eat enough whole fruit and vegetables for healthy living. So, whether your favourite fruit is out of season or not readily available, you can reach out for convenience and healthy choice of your favourite fruit in 100% fruit juice.

  • Nigeria to earn fresh $6.35b in taxes, royalties

    The push by the Management of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to increase crude oil production and grow the nation’s revenue profile gained momentum with the closure of $875.75m alternative financing deal for the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company (NPDC) operated OML 65 through the Funding and Technical Services Agreement with CMES-OMS Petroleum Development Company (CPDC).

    A statement by NNPC Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Mr. Ndu Ughamadu, explained that NNPC Chief Financial Officer, Mr. Umar Ajiya, disclosed that the project, which scope cuts across exploration, development, production and provision of facilities with incremental first oil targeted for Q4 2020, was estimated to have potential reserves of 800 million barrels of oil equivalent (mmboe) with an ultimate recoverable reserve of 244 mmboe and cumulative production of 44mmboe from the Abura Main and Abura SE fields.

    Ajiya explained that over the project’s life, it was expected to generate over $6.35bn in taxes and royalties to the Federation to support Government’s medium to long term economic development agenda

    Speaking at the closing meeting with the financing partners in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Ajiya, described the contractor financing model as an innovative approach by NPDC to funding its operations in response to the challenging economic environment, saying the approach would fast-track the development of NPDCs under-developed assets.

    He informed that the project was expected to ramp up production at OML 65 from 900barrels per day to 60, 000 barrels per day with average production over field life at 40,000 barrels per day.

    Throwing more light on the financing strategy, the CFO explained that the package entailed comprehensive financing solution that addresses the complex issues involved in growing NPDC’s production, minimizes its cost of capital, and maximizes its value preservation, adding that it also strikes a balance between risk and reward which gives investors a rate of return that is commensurate with funding a brownfield project which has significant exploration risk.

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    He said the expectation was that this collaboration between NPDC and CPDC would translate in real terms to the efficient execution of the scope of activities for the optimal development of the OML 65 Asset within cost and schedule, whilst maximizing value to all the stakeholders.

    He said it was projected that the collaboration would enhance operational and financial performance strictly guided by the pre-agreed Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) which remains critical for determining incentive payment due to CPDC.

    On CPDC’s right to provide technical services, the CFO listed the field of consideration in this regard to include: drilling and completion services; building capacity and technology transfer; generating employment opportunities for youths with attendant positive multiplier effect on the nation’s economy, among other considerations.

  • Wines fuelling kidney, heart diseases, says manufacturer

    Most Nigerians are suffering heart and kidney diseases for consuming wines and other alcoholic beverages made for extremely cold countries.

    Chief Executive Officer (CEO) JAMEK Beverages James Iweh said many of the high priced brands were tested in German labs and found to be too harsh for persons resident in Nigeria.

    He stated this at the opening of a new distribution outlet along Ago Palace Way in Okota, Lagos at the weekend.

    Noting that JAMEK was in the business to serve Nigerians quality drinks, Iweh said it was not surprising his company was the sole importer of German brands including Dr. Zenzen and premiere producers of NAFDAC approved cocktail concentrates, wine quality wine and spirits.

    “Our wines are produced to soothe our weather because we make it in compliance with best recommendations. There are so many wines in Nigeria today that are too harsh because of the hot weather but if you drink JAMEK wine, you will see how smooth it is because it won’t gives you headache or heartburn.

    “Germany where we produce our wine is known for not compromising when it comes to quality. Our wines may not be the same price with other wines in the market but we are after the quality of the product and not the quantity.

    “Again whenever I want to produce any wine, I get sample of different wines and take it to Germany and we analyze it, I can tell you today that there are some spirits that people drink in Nigeria that are made for countries whose whether are cold. If I want to produce any spirit, I will make sure it won’t harm your health by giving you heartburn or work against your kidney,” he said.

    According to him, until the people understood the quality, texture and quantity of alcoholic beverages they should consume, they will continue to expose themselves to health hazards.

    Iweh, a discharged soldier, said his passion for winery made him leave the army, adding that he was in the business to deliver quality against most practitioners whose sole motives was profit.

    Noting that drugs and alcohol abuses were a global challenge, Iweh said they were driven by lack of self control by individuals who do not understand they should drink responsibly.

    “Alcohol is good for the body when you drink responsibly. It prevents brain disease and it blows away fats surrounding your heart. But when it is abused, it has damaging effect on the kidney. That is why at Jamek, we produce more of non-alcoholic fruit wines. Our fruit wine are fermented for 21 days to extract all traces of sugar as against the 17 days others do their,” he said.

    On how the company would check adulteration of its products, he said they were using top-notch technology and the double-cork approach.

    He said: “There is no way JAMEK wine will be imitated and we won’t know when we see it. I have an app in my phone and if I enter any wine store and scan a bottle of my product, I will see the barcode, otherwise, it is fake.

    Again, our products are very protected as the corks are doubled and it can never be faked in Nigeria.

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    “I am the franchised owner of all my products because they are all NAFDAC rated and we do what we call Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP), by inviting NAFDAC to be part of the production and that is why they also investigate the companies that produce for us.

    “JAMEK Cocktail is the first ever approved wine by NAFDAC in Nigeria. It is made up of mango and other fruits.

    When you talk about cocktails, you talk about content that is refined and concentrate not flavored. “Concentrate drink is different from flavored drink because it’s pure fruits and NAFDAC did not belief this and they told me they are going to prove whether the cocktail is fruit concentrate.

    “So in 2015, NAFDAC travelled to Germany to visit the company that produces it and there they saw mangoes and other fruits being brought in and produced fresh without adding any sweetener. That was when they approved the cocktail and gave us a number, making it the first cocktail that will ever be approved in Nigeria.

    “I am into wine business not just because of making money alone but also to produce what will be of great health benefits to human body as well as creating jobs for people,” he said.

  • ‘I stole two-month-old baby out of desperation to have male child’

    A 39-year-old lady, Mercy Momoh has been arrested by the operatives of Ekiti Police Command for allegedly stealing a two-month-old baby in Ado-Ekiti.

    Momoh, who hailed from Edo state, was arrested on Saturday at her residence located at Odo-Aremu area, along old governor’s office in the state capital.

    The baby was stolen from his mother, Mrs Funmilayo Sunday on Friday around 1pm at the State Secretariat.

    It was gathered that the suspect tricked the baby’s mother, Funmilayo Sunday, to follow her to the State Secretariat under the guise to help collect some relief materials being given by government to flood victims.

    The suspect, on getting there, sent the baby’s mother to help her procure recharge card but ran away with the baby before the arrival of the woman.

    The command spokesperson, Caleb Ikechukwu, who confirmed the arrest to journalists on Saturday in Ado-Ekiti, said investigation is still on going to unravel the proper situation.

    He said: “It is confirmed that the woman who stole Two-Month-Old baby has been arrested by the operatives of the Ekiti Police Command.

    “The suspect is Mercy Momoh, a 39-yr-old lady from Edo State. She was apprehended through intelligence made available to the police and would be prosecuted after conclusion of investigation.

    “Investigation is still on going. More details will come to reveal what really transpired.

    “The Nigeria Police would no longer reveal to the public the means which they effect the arrest of criminals because criminals these days now always take advantage of such information.

    “And acting on that information on how they can be arrested they now devise other means of carrying-out their nefarious act without being arrested.

    “All I can tell you is that the woman that stole the infant baby has been arrested and investigation is still ongoing

    “We call on members of the public to be careful when dealing with strangers. The suspect was apparently nice to the victim, that was why she got the baby easily. Citizens should not be carried away by kind strangers”, Ikechukwu said.

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    But, a Police source who spoke on condition of anonymity with The Nation said the police were informed of the incident by the mother of the baby on the same day, at about 4.30pm.

    She disclosed that the police detectives immediately swung into action, and on a tip off, traced the suspect to her residence, where she was arrested around 11pm, on Saturday.

    According to her, the suspect confessed that she stole the baby because of her dire need of a male child.

    She claimed that due to her inability to bear a male child, her husband got married to another woman and may likely throw her out of the house”, he said.

    The source added that the Commissioner of police, Amba Asuquo, has directed that the matter to be thoroughly investigated without delay, and necessary action taken for justice to prevail in the case.

  • Keystone Bank promotes climate action, sustainability

    Keystone Bank Limited has committed to strategically align its business with the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change.

    By signing the Principles for Responsible Banking, Keystone Bank joins a coalition of 130 banks worldwide, representing over $47 trillion in assets committing to taking on a crucial role in helping to achieve a sustainable future.

    Taking place at the start of the UN General Assembly, the official launch of the Principles for Responsible Banking marked the beginning of the most significant partnership to date between the global banking industry and the UN.

    “The UN Principles for Responsible Banking are a guide for the global banking industry to respond to, drive and benefit from a sustainable development economy.

    “The Principles create the accountability that can realize responsibility, and the ambition that can drive action,” said UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres at the launch event, attended by the 130 founding signatories and over 45 of their CEOs.

    Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Inger Andersen explained that a banking industry that plans for the risks associated with climate change and other environmental challenges cannot only drive the transition to low-carbon and climate-resilient economies, it can benefit from it.

    “When the financial system shifts its capital away from resource-hungry, brown investments to those that back nature as solution, everybody wins in the long-term,” Anderson noted.

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    Executive Director Keystone Bank Limited, Yemi Odusanya, said the institution is convinced that only in an inclusive society founded on human dignity, equality and the sustainable use of natural resources can our clients, customers and businesses thrive.

    According to Odusanya: “By signing up to the Principles, we commit to “using our products, services and relationships to support and accelerate the fundamental changes in our economies and lifestyles necessary to achieve shared prosperity for both current and future generations.

    “The Principles for Responsible Banking are supported by a strong implementation and accountability framework.

    “By signing them, Keystone Bank commits to being transparent on both our positive and negative impact on people and planet. Keystone Bank will focus where it has the greatest impact – in its core business – and set, publish and implement ambitious targets to scale up positive and address any negative impacts in line with global and local goals.

    “Keystone Bank believes that business can and should be an effective steward of our planet as well as a force for good in society at the same time a generator of wealth for shareholders and stakeholders.

    “We recognise that the success of our business, and the sustainability and survival of our planet are tightly aligned with the Principles for Responsible Banking.

    “As industry leaders we are committed to implementing the Principles for Responsible Banking in our business and practices and to being an effective ambassador for these principles with others in our industry and beyond.”

  • IBB charges the Igbos to promote Nigeria unity

    Former Military Head of State, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB) has charged the Igbos to work hard towards promoting the unity and indivisibility of Nigeria.

    He said that Nigerians, Igbos inclusive, should ensure they uphold the ideals of Nigeria’s founding fathers.

    Babangida stated this when he played host to the Igbo Delegates Assembly (IDA) from the 19 northern states and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja who paid him a courtesy visit at his Uphill residence in Minna.

    He challenged the Igbos to continue to allow their positive impact to be felt amongst host ethnic nationalities in the country urging them to use their spirit of enterprise to promote peaceful co-existence among Nigerians.

    “An indivisible Nigeria is very necessary and we must do everything possible to remain as one family though we differ in tribes and tongue.

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    “The indivisibility of the country is not negotiable and this we must all promote at all times. The Igbos have done well to keep Nigeria together.”

    The delegation led by its President, Chief Chikezie Okezie and the Eze Igbo of Minna, Eze Pampas Ngozi Wahiwe had earlier told General Babangida that the purpose of the visit is to congratulate him on his 78th Birthday and prayed God to continue to grant him strength and wisdom to offer advice that would help Nigeria in solving its challenges.

  • Shock as ladies identify ‘one chance robber’ in public

    Police in Ogun state have arrested one Abiodun Makinde, a suspected ‘one chance’ robber upon being sighted and identified in public by two lady – victims.

    Makinde is believed to be a member of a one chance syndicate that that terrorise commuters along Sango/Owode Idiroko road, Ogun State.

    His arrest followed a distress call by his victims – Gloria Edoh and Saidat Akinola, who reported that they were attacked and robbed when they boarded a taxi from Owode to Sango, but on getting to Olokopupo area of Atan Ota, two men they met in the car, suddenly pulled knives with which they forced them to give up their belongings.

    The Police Public Realtions Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, who made this known in a release, stated that while the sum of N37,000 was snatched from one, N480,000 was also forcibly collected from the other by the gang as well as techno phones before shoving their victims off the taxi and sped away.

    Abimbola, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), added that the two ladies managed to find their way to a hospital for treatment of the injuries sustained but while leaving the hospital, they unexpectedly sighted and identified Makinde as one of the robbery suspects that robbed them and quickly raised an alarm.

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    “The alarm they raised attracted the Divisional Police Officer, Atan Ota, Abiodun Salau; a Superintendent of Police(SP) who happened to be on patrol of the area with his men, hurried to the scene and arrested the suspect with help from members of the public.

    “On getting to the station, one woman (name withheld) who had earlier complained of similar incident also identified the suspect as one of the hoodlums who robbed and raped her on the 12th of September and made away with her pants.

    “The suspect has confessed participating in the two robbery incidents,” Abimbola stated.

    According to the Police Spokesman in the state, the Commissioner of Police, Bashir Makama, has directed that the suspect should be transferred to the Special Anti – Robbery Squad (SARS) for proper investigation.

  • Senior Naval Officer murdered in Kaduna military cantonment

    Decomposing body of a Senior Officer in the Nigerian Navy and Commandant of Command Secondary School of the Armed Forces Command and Staff College (AFCSC), Jaji, has been found in a well in a village close to the Jaji military cantonment, Kaduna State.

    The Officer identified as Commander Oluwayemisi Ogundana with service number NN/ 2367, was declared missing last Friday.

    She is however suspected to have been murdered by some known persons, including a staff of the college she presided over.

    Though, efforts to reach the spokesman of AFCSC, Major Umar proved abbortive, The Nation gathered that, two suspects, including a teacher at the Command Secondary School, Jaji and one other have already been arrested in connection to her murder.

    A source in Jaji told our Correspondent that, when the military officer was not seen, efforts were made to reach her via her telephone but it was discovered that the phone was left in her room which was locked.

    According to the source, “the door to her room was forced open because the phone was ringing inside the sitting room and efforts to reach her other numbers, failed”.

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    It was further learnt that blood stains were observed on her beddings and clothes as well as on the floor from the bedroom to the bathroom. Her vehicle, a Toyota SUV was also missing.

    It was learnt that authorities of the military in Jaji kept some of her immediate staff and family members under close observation which finally paid off when two persons were arrested in Zaria while trying to dispose of her car.

    Upon interrogation, they confessed to participating in the gruesome murder of the senior military officer and subsequently led the investigators to Agwanloyo by the railway inside an abondoned shallow well near the Deeper life Church in Jaji cantonment.

    It was learnt that the corpse of the murdered Naval officer was dismembered and put in a big sack before being dumped in the shallow well.

    The deceased was married with three kids, who are in their Lagos residence with their father.

  • Hotelier bags seven years jail term over N29m fraud

    A hotelier, Mr Jimoh Eleyele has been sentenced to seven years jail term by an Igbosere High Court of Justice, Lagos for defrauding a Saki, Oyo state business man to the tune of N29.5million

    Eleyele was arranged before Justice Kudirat Jose by the officials of Economic Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) on a seven count charges.

    The offences bordered on conspiracy to defraud, defraud and fraudulently obtained millions of naira from one Jimoh Oyesiji as the cost for facilitating the release of his good’s which were seized by Nigerian Custom service which the respondent (Eleyele) knew to be false in year 2015.

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    After about four years of legal proceedings, Justice Jose affirmed that the respondent , (Eleyele) and the second respondent, are guilty of all the seven count offences leveled against them, adding that the offences were contrary to sections 8(a) and 1(3) of the Advance Free Fraud and other fraud Related Offences Act No.14 of 2006.

    The judge thereby sentenced the accused to seven years imprisonment

    In his reaction shortly after the judgment, Counsel to the claimant, Mr Kunle Afolabi noted that despite the years the legal battle took, the judges have again rekindled the hope of the common man in the nations judicial system.

  • Obaseki’s former Aide petition Buhari over Edo crisis

    A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former Chief Press Secretary to Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo state, John Maiyaki has petitioned President Muhammadu Buhari over the lingering crisis within the party in Edo state asking him to intervene and address the issues before it is too late.

    In a letter to the President, Maiyaki said the President must fulfill his promise to address the issues in Edo state when the new cabinet is reconstituted, pointing out that party members in the state were getting more agitated over the delay in resolving the crisis.

    Maiyaki said “I write to refresh your memory, of the total breakdown of law and order in Edo state caused by the illegal and impermissible inauguration of the state House of Assembly under the administration of Governor Godwin Obaseki.

    “It can be recalled that pertinent to the dictates of the Nigerian Constitution/which states that, a sitting Governor shall upon the successful election of the state legislators, issue a letter of proclamation that will openly, in all fairness and transparency, invite the new lawmakers for the official swearing-in and ushering-in to state duties and functions.

    “But contrary to conventional practice, Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo States, perhaps motivated by other ambitions, undercut this popular and legal practice, and through shoddy means invited and compelled a number of the new lawmakers who were by a far degree, a minority representation of the people elected by Edo electorates, and coercively swore them in at the ungodly and nocturnal hours of 9pm to 12 midnight on 17th June 2019.

    “This negative development has since given rise to fierce contentions in Edo State as the marginalized lawmakers express their pains and disappointment at the devious exhibition of the governor. The consequent rancor came to epic decibel as the constituencies whose legislators were undermined reiterated their disaffection with the unfortunate turn of events.

    “Putting these activities in proper perspective, one finds the action of Governor Godwin Obaseki as unequivocally wrong, unwarranted and blatantly defiling the sanctity of the legislative arm of the state government.

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    “Worse, the directions given by the Federal Legislative Chambers, both from the Senate and House of
    Representatives, that the governor rescinds the process and issues a new letter of proclamation, hence, calling the legislators into service in the legal and upright way, has been flouted by the governor. In an ostentatious display of rebellion, Godwin Obaseki had gone ahead to obtain an injunction from a certain High Court in Port Harcourt, claiming to have his criminal inauguration validated.

    “My letter intends to remind you of your promise to look critically into the matter and arrest the situation when a new cabinet is formed and the Minister of Justice assumes office. I hope that your concerted actions help to contain the fracas that the imbroglio has set off.

    “The worst implication of Governor Obaseki’s errant action is that, if not checked, it will establish a precedence in the political history of Nigeria, and therefore create an official background for a future assault on the democracy we have strived to build for two decades now.

    “I remain hopeful while I anticipate your actions in response to this letter and towards the prevention of the death of our Nigerian democracy.”