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7 Untold Health Benefits Of Pap (Akamu / Ogi / Eko)

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This article contains the health benefits of pap. Pap, also referred to as Koko, Ogi, or Akamu, in the Nigerian Hausa, Yoruba, and Igbo languages, respectively, is just a local staple food produced from processed whole corn grains like guinea corn, millet, and maize.

Pap is widely drinking across all ages, essentially because of its nutritional values and easy digestion.

Traditionally processed pap includes the same bitter taste and smells. This makes many people hate the consumption of this all-rich food. Modern processing of pap like that way of Andrey’s Fresh Pap present pap in various variants with lasting refreshing flavor and taste that’s more inviting for many to drink.

Nutritional Content of Pap

Research shows that pap is full of essential nutrients such as potassium, vitamins ( A, C, B1, B3, B5, riboflavin), selenium, phosphorous, folic acid, magnesium, zinc, and chromium. It also contained high amino acid-like lysine, isoleucine, tryptophan, valine, phenylalanine, and leucine. One serving of pap is approximate to has 152 calories.

  • What are the health benefits of pap?
  • How long does it take PAP to digest?
  • How can I speed up digestion?
  • What is Ogi made from?

How long does it take PAP to digest?

Once you eat, it takes around six to eight hours for food to enter your stomach and small intestine. Food then enters your large intestine (colon) to absorb water, digestion further, and finally, remove undigested food.

How can I speed up digestion?

  • Eat less meat.
  • Drink more water.
  • Eat more fiber.
  • Drink yogurt.
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What is Ogi made from?

Ogi is just a traditionally fermented food manufactured from cereals like millet, maize, and sorghum and often drinking by adults and infants in Africa, especially, West African countries, including Ghana, Ivory Coast, and Nigeria.

Listed below here are the health benefits of pap:

1. Lowers cholesterol

There’re two major cholesterin varieties within your body, like lipoprotein [LDL] and HDL [HDL]. The previous, LDL, is often considered ‘bad cholesterin because of the proven fact having an associate degree significantly more than it within your body would maybe cause plaque to produce in your artery walls, and then blood circulation a problematic factor. This could maybe also result in excessive strain on the center and would maybe even cause high vital signs, attack, and stroke.

On the aspect, pap has a decent level of magnesium, zinc, Cr, and several potent properties that lower the degree of ‘bad cholesterol within your body.

2. Regulates vital sign

Pap is an excellent supply of metallic elements and has zero levels of metallic elements, making it a perfect food for people with a high vital sign and people who need to maintain a healthy vital sign or avoid developing cardiovascular disease. Another advantage of taking potassium-rich foods such as pap is that it aids in change the effects of metallic elements within your body as conjointly easing tension in your vas walls, thereby protecting you against myriads of health problems that could have to sprout forth.

3. Good Source of Energy

The millet, maize, and guinea corn kernel’s major chemical element is starch, which gives around 72 to 73 percent of the kernel weight. Other carbohydrates are simple sugars found as sucrose, fructose, and glucose in amounts different from 1 to 3 percent of the kernel. Pap, therefore, is a wonderful source of carbohydrate contained in the starch that is needed by the body to produce immediate and adequate energy.

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Carbohydrate-rich foods such as pap don’t just help the body with energy but also stimulate mental alertness and facilitate the metabolism of fat for energy.

4. Easy to digest

Pap is super easy to digest and gives immediate energy. Its high water content lets the body easily remove unwanted elements and substances by increasing the rate you urinate. It’s, therefore, most convenient and perfect for convalescence people recovering from sickness.

Pap can also be perfect for those who have digestive conditions, like irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), irritable bowel disease (IBD), or a sensitive stomach, as it doesn’t irritate or cause disruption of the digestive system.

5. Highly beneficial for nursing mothers

In Nigeria, pap is preferred to nursing mothers soon after delivery since it includes a high level of energy, water, and various other elements that promote the easy and adequate flow of breast milk for lactating mothers. It also aids in regaining strength after suffering from one sickness or the other.

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Osun monarchs will support Adeleke for second term — Oluwo

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Osun monarchs will support Adeleke for second term — Oluwo

Osun monarchs will support Adeleke for second term — Oluwo

Oluwo of Iwo, Oba Abdulrosheed Akanbi, on Tuesday, said royal fathers in the state were in support of Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke, for a second term in office.

This was as the governor declared that his administration had recorded success in the areas where opposition party members did not give him a chance to succeed.

Oluwo and Adeleke spoke in Osogbo at an Inter-religious service held at the state secretariat, Abere, to usher in the government and the state into the new year.

Oba Akanbi, who lauded the governor’s efforts to improve infrastructural amenities in the state, further said “Governor Adeleke is the driver of the Osun government, and by this, it is imperative for everyone regardless of political divides in the state to continue to support the administration to succeed.

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“Governor Ademola Adeleke, I’m declaring on behalf of other traditional rulers in the state that we’re fully in support of your government and its continuation for a second term in office.”

Adeleke, in a statement by the spokesperson to the governor, Olawale Rasheed, said his administration had broken the jinx in critical areas and proved that people could experience good governance despite all odds.

The statement quoting Adeleke further read in parts, “My predecessor deliberately added petrol to the fire by laying several bobby traps before he left office. Nobody expects solutions from us. The thoughts of detractors were the expectation of failure.

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“But because we have a God who does not fail his beloved ones, doors open where none exist. The governance space witnessed policy innovations and implementation which provide answers to knotty state policy questions.”

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Badagry festival: Foundation tasks federal government, Lagos on cultural tourism

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Africa Renaissance Foundation (AREFO), a non-governmental organisation, has urged the Lagos State and federal government to tap into the Badagry Diaspora Festival (BDF) to boost cultural tourism in the state.

Babatunde Mesewaku, the President of AREFO and organiser of the festival, made the appeal on Sunday at the 2021 edition of the Badagry Diaspora Festival in Badagry.

Newsmen report that the festival was held at the Palace of Akran of Badagry, Aholu Menu Toyi 1.

Mr Mesewaku said the festival was organised to show the world that Badagry was blessed with a different culture, heritage, and history.

“Culture and festival are products of tourism, if one wants to develop tourism especially in Lagos State, cultural tourism is the key and this is what we are doing in Badagry.

“We are doing this at the local level in order for the federal and Lagos State governments to see the potential and tap into it.

“Badagry people contribute money for the celebration of the festival yearly because of the importance they attach to the preservation of cultural heritage compare to other places,” he said.

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Mr Mesewaku, the former Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture, said the festival started as a community programme named Ogu Festival and changed to Badagry cultural festival.

“The festival came into existence as the awareness of our cultural and historical significance to the global world. We realised that in the past during the slave trade, various global communities like Dutch, English, Brazilian, French, and Portuguese were all in Badagry involved in the slave trade business.

“They were in close commercial collaboration with Badagry people especially the quarters in the town. So, we realised that it is important for us to explore the historical significance of this to Badagry and the world.

“Badagry, being an ancient port, a market for sales and transportation of slave, we decided to explore the importance of this legacy and make good out of it,” he said.

He said that the festival is an avenue for Africans in the Diaspora to come and experience their culture, tradition and then reconstruct their history and identity.

According to him, the festival has shown that Badagry is a port of culture significant for Nigeria and for the Diaspora too.

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“We have over eight quarters here in Badagry with different cultural outfits, so if the Diaspora people come to us they will see varieties of the cultural heritage of Badagry,” he said

In his remarks, the Akran of Badagry, Aholu Menu Toyi 1, urged the people to ensure the festival becomes a global festival.

He urged residents to support the organisers of the festival in order to keep the 20-year-old festival alive.

The Akran commended the Arewas, Ndigbo, and other tribes who came to celebrate the festival with them.

The festival began its humble beginnings in 1999, as a remembrance of the slave trade era and the significance of the town in the era. In 1999, AREFO organized the first Badagry Festival. Throughout the years, AREFO has spent hundreds of hours organizing the festival and has been instrumental in evolving it into the festival that we know today.

NAN reports that the festival featured Badagry royal carnival, Zangbeto carnival, Ogun Badagry dance, and Obatala and Aje festival.

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No argument over ownership of Benin artefacts – Oba of Benin

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The Oba of Benin Kingdom, Omo N’Oba N’Edo Uku Akpolokpolo, Oba Ewuare II, has declared that there is no dispute over the ownership of numerous Benin artefacts taken from the palace of the royal family in 1897 during the British invasion of the kingdom, which are now scattered across Europe, the United States and other parts of the world.

The monarch stated this when he received in his palace, the Chairman of DAAR Communications, High Chief Raymond Dokpesi, who paid a courtesy visit on him on his birthday and the fifth coronation anniversary, where he commended the efforts of the Oba in bringing back the artworks.

Oba Ewuare II said: “The fortunes are behind you in all your efforts to ensure that all the artefacts that were taken away from here are brought back and restored.”

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The Oba also dispelled speculations that some of the works were not taken from the palace but elsewhere, just as he commended the federal government and the Director-General, National Commission for Museums and Monuments (NCMM) for their support to get the artefacts back.

While commending Dokpesi for taking the lead in private broadcasting in Nigeria despite the unfriendly environment, the Oba revealed that Cambridge University in the United Kingdom, which his father, Oba Erediauwa, attended, would soon return some artefacts in its custody to Benin.

According to him, “We hear that some researchers in Germany have stated that some of them were produced here; some were produced there, and so on and so forth, but where are these here and there? Were they outside the Benin Empire? Where they outside the Benin Kingdom? Were any of the artefacts produced outside the Benin Kingdom? If they were all produced in the Benin kingdom, why would any researcher try to say some were taken out of Benin Palace and some were taken from elsewhere? All elsewhere or wherever they are talking about, are they not all under the authority of the Oba of Benin? Are they not all under the Benin Empire?”

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He said the planned museum to house the artefacts would be domiciled in a building opposite the palace.

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