#Okoy Talks

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This is nutmeg cookie, they’re shared between a friend and me! Yknow the trope of like, cookie run characters being cursed to be evil or being cursed to be corrupted, right? This bad boy! Is cursed to be good! And he fucking HAAAATEESSS IT. but he’s cursed to be good so he can’t do SHIT and must help poor old ladies get their cats out of trees

There’s another oc that I’m cooking (haha) in the background but I haven’t drawn them yet. Meatloaf cookie. Deranged fuck who looks like they would murder you and eats raw meat. Probably tastes vile

OH MY GOD i am eating them i love the concepts so much

cursed into doing good? oh my god now THAT is a subversion!

i have to spoil more oc lore and say that fried shrimp cookie of kraken fortune crew has a equally funny and energetic grandma....her name is shrimp okoy cookie and shes an old lady with an attitude so energetic for her old age that literally other old cookies cant stand her. plus she goes by her motto, which she would always tell little shrimpy before sleep, "remember shrimpy! everything's legal as long as there's no crème soldiers around!" (yes thats a reference) SO I CAN ABSOLUTELY IMAGINE SHE'D ABUSE THE KNOWLEDGE OF NUTMEG'S CURSE TO GET HIM INTO HELPING HER WITH THINGS 😭😭 and getting her pets out of trees

also meatloaf cookie sounds so mf cool omg

[thisismeracing]

hii i hope ur having an amazing weekend! happy vegas gp <3

can i pls request a filipino reader dating carlos hcs (like what u did w the charles hcs) we fili cs55 girlies need more. we yearn for more 😭🙏

i looove ur work pls never disappear from the face of tumblr🧎‍♀️

hi, baby! happy vegas gp!!! <3 here you go! hope you like it *mhwa*

CARLOS DATING A FILIPINO GIRL | CS55

Warnings: mentions of food; tooth-rotting fluff; mentions of family members; not proofread.

A/n: Just a quick reminder that there are many shades, experiences, and backgrounds when it comes to Filipinos and their culture, what I am writing does not resume everything, but rather brings a piece of it to the table. <3

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This man LOVES to hear you speaking Filipino. Most of the time he doesn't understand a thing, but he loves the sonority of it. It becomes a thing to read for when he's anxious. He'll pick Filipo books based on the cover or he'll stash his favorite titles but in Filipino and you'll read for him while playing with his hair;

Maybe that's how he learns a few words, by listening to you. So when you travel to meet your family, he knows the basics, and he even praises your dad on the cooking;

Speaking of food, Carlos becomes obsessed with Filipo's cuisine. What do you mean Pandesal is literally bread with salt but tastes like heaven and melts like clouds in your mouth? (He'll definitely say 'pandesal' with a Spanish accent and you think it is the most adorable thing);

His favorite dish is probably Okoy. But he loves Filipino soups and stews and will ask for them when he's sick (your nana told him she made it for you when you were young, and now he wants to experience those small things too);

Since there's Spanish influence in a lot of traditions, you both like to read a bit more about where it came from and how it used to be;

You took him to the Philippines during the Pahiyas Festival, and Carlos kept pointing to all the colors and things and saying how beautiful it looks;

There was a wedding in your family a few months into the relationship and since Sainz had already met your family they invited him. He stays glued to your side the first moments and asks a few questions that get your ears perked up, like if he could wear a Barong Tagalog or if it would be disrespectful if there could be a traditional wedding between a Filipino and a person from a different country and so on;

In the second half of the party, Carlos disappears with your siblings and cousins, to dance and make small talk with your family;

He'll definitely catch the bouquet and give it to you with the biggest smile on his face;

Carlos will suggest the Philippines as your next vacation destiny and even hint about a honeymoon somewhere there.

[shenxcole]

"Independence Unveiled"

In your first year or freshman year in college you will encounter the word "Independence", being dependent on yourself not with others nor your family. As a first year and soon to be in my 20's I managed to handle some things on my own just like money. This year or the past year 2023 make me realize that money can be indeed your happiness, you can buy things you need such as things for yourself, go to places with friends, and buy foods you want.

(Gala with friends- Mang Inasal)

I make my first money last year September that's when my Tita gave me my first salary in helping them with their business, it's 300 pesos for 3 days 100 pesos per day. Although it's not that big, I was happy because in my vacation time or when me having break from school I get to have something to do and at the same time I can help and gain money from it.

My Tita's business is more likely about foods, dishes and the all time favorite and their signature "okoy" they also have lumpiang shanghai and toge. As low as 10 pesos you can afford toge and okoy, for Shanghai five pesos each and for the dishes 60 or 70 for each order. People become their loyal customer as we sell affordable foods and of course because the ones selling was like to talk and be friendly to her customers (she's my Tita-Ditse). The business was the primary source of income in the family.

(Okoy, one of our dishes and the best seller among them)

We usually make the selling or pagtitinda 4 times in a week mainly Thursday to Sunday. Thursday and Saturday in the market of Pulilan, Friday on the Bocaue market and Sunday on Soldier of Christ also in Pulilan. But because I have class most of the time when I am free that's only the time when I can go with them and In this second sem I got my free time or free day in Thursday and the weekends.

I will start my day by waking up most of the time 4:30 or 5:00 in the morning to fix myself, brush my hair, brushing my teeth, etc. and to help haul things that will be used for selling just like the okoy mixture, the vinegar for okoy, and different dishes. Then after we will leave immediately to go to the market (Thursday and Saturday) and will haul again to our place (in the market), things will be arranged and cooking will begin immediately. I am the one assigned on cooking the "okoy" alongside with my sister and my cousin. In cooking the okoy we are using two woke, the first woke for the okoy that been mold from saucer to be not direct on heat then after a minute when the okoy rise from the oil the okoy will be transferred to the another woke to be fully cooked. Most of the time we start 5 in the morning and end after or before lunch, we have our own transportation so it's not a problem anymore.

(A picture of me cooking "okoy" in a Thursday set, also watch my first ever Vlog about it here check the link: https://youtu.be/bgrkrcixdu0?feature=shared, enjoy!!)

Although the work occupied most of my rest day I still able to find time to rest and enjoy. And as a first year whom have also needed money it help me a lot, I have extra money for lunch or even gala's with my friends, I can also have extra money to be lend to my friend when she run out of money, or I can use it when time comes and money is really needed such as projects or activities. That's why using my free day to work and earn money is better rather than just stay at home and do nothing, I can help them and at the same time earn money that I can use for my living, it's a win win situation but it is in you what situation you should take to win.

(A pabasa program for kids in Gk Village , A successful activity of BSED 1-B)

[deyzalee]

Dear God,

Thankful and blessed today. I woke up late because its my day off. I drank my vitamins. I ate Satti for brunch. The taste is different and I just finished it. I scrolled my social media accounts, chatted my family and friends. I was full. I called Mama and Papa via google meet and we talked a lot. I also played cooking fever. Janette borrowed money to me. Instead of 2000 aed I just lend her 1000 aed. Our chit chat ended and I prepared myself for workout. I did 30 minutes indoor bicycle and 1 minute planking. I watched random vlogs. I freshen up and prepared myself for 1 hour duty. I read few pages of the Bible. I arrived at Saif’s house safely. I cared and monitored my patient with the help of Ate Carme and you Oh God. I did cortex. We had a little chit chats with Ate Carme. 1 hour duty ended and I arrived home safely. Our AC inside the room is damaged. The technician came but they can’t fix it. Ate Carme gave okoy. I drank my medicines and did self and skin care routine. Have mercy on us Oh God. Guide us always to the right path. Remove sickness, danger and negative things in our life. Answer our prayers in your perfect time. Thank you and I love you God.

[kamiokoy]

people finding my old fanart it’s so embarrassing omg

[simpforchuchu]

AAH HELLO HI I JUST READ YOUR FANFIC ABT SANZU W/ A TURKISH READER (it's my fave fic of all time AND YK IVE BEEN TO A LOT OF FANDOMS,U GET THE CROWN 👑) AND I'D LIKE SOMETHING WITH MIKEY AND RINDOU TOO PLEASEEEE 🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️🙇‍♀️ (bu fandomda bir türk,hele de düzgünce yazan bir fanfic yazarı türk bulmak aşırı zor o yüzden şuan kraliçemizsin bizim azınlık için,yazmaya devam et çok ama çok yeteneklisin <333)

Rindou x Turkish reader

A/n: Ayy merhaba jxjdkx Öncelikle güzel iltifatların için çooook teşekkür ederim, sırıtıp duruyorum bu mesaja jxkdkd Sizleri burada görünce çok mutlu oluyorum iyi ki varsınız 😊 Bir ara unutmazsam Mikey için de yazarım, unutursam istek at hallederiz xjmdkx Şu an ikisini yazmak zor geldi çok istek birikmiş 🤗🥰🥰 Sorry for the grammer or spelling mistakes.English is not my main language so...

Thank you and love you 🥰

Warnings: none

"Come on. I can't believe you're my brother."

Rin glared at his older brother and went back to his game. It was school lunch break and Ran was trying to persuade him to talk to the girl he liked.

Unlike him, his brother was an introvert. Moreover, the fact that the girl was a foreign student made things difficult. But Rindou liked the girl so much that he began to become more and more quiet.

"If you don't, I will"

He got up from the table with a grin, Rin grabbed his brother's arm and sighed.

"Okay, but you won't laugh. You won't make stupid jokes or I'll break your arm when we get home tonight."

Ran grinned and shook his head, and Rin stood up and walked over to the girl sitting alone on the bench.

"Hi there"

The young girl lifted her head from the paper she was scribbling and looked at the boy in front of her and continued drawing without saying anything.Rindou was looking at her in surprise while Ran was trying to understand what had happened.

Rin spoke angrily:

"Do you stare the person when they greet you in the country you come from?"

The young girl angrily put the pen down on the table and spoke confidently.

"No. But if the person thinks he's a dick just because he can beat someone, we rather not answer him"

Rindou was a little upset that the new girl had already found out who he was. He didn't want her to be afraid of him, he really liked her and now it looked like he had lost all his luck. The young girl picked up her pen again and was about to draw when Rin took the pen from her hand and looked at the girl.

"If you know who I am, aren't you afraid?"

The young girl laughed and stood up from the row and stood in front of Rindou.

"Fear? I'll knock 5 of them down like you in one punch."

While Rin looked at the young girl in shock, she stepped out of the row and left the classroom without looking back. As soon as she left, Ran's laughter was heard from the back row.

“Please marry her! Even I might be in love with her right now, Rin!”

Rindou furiously threw the pen at his brother and left the classroom. ...

...

After school, Rin turned his head and rolled his eyes at the sound he heard walking home with his older brother. While thinking about a fight again, his eyes widened when he saw the person fighting and he threw the bag and ran there.

"You !"

Y/n looked at him and bent down to free herself from the incoming punch and shouted at him. "Hey stupid gangster, how do you think you can help a little bit?"

While Ran was laughing, Rindou knocked down all the children she was fighting with and looked at the young girl. The young girl did not seem impressed, on the contrary, she looked angry.

"Are you okay ?"

"Oro you okoy? I just said help, not take all the fun yourself."

As Rin looked at her in surprise, Ran gave a small laugh and y/n shouted at him too.

"Hey stupid braid, what are you laughing at there?"

"Did you tell me kiddo?"

Ran and y/n looked at each other angrily, Rindou sighed and interrupted.

"First, please don't fight with my brother, you can't win. Second, I never understand why you're so aggressive. I was just trying to help."

Y/n stared at the other for a while and sighed. "Fine, thank you. I guess you're not that bad, huh?"

Ran looked at her with a mocking smile, but y/n didn't react. The young girl held out her hand to Rindou and smiled.

"Y/n, I'm from Turkey and it's a bit of a challenge because it's a new country. I wasn't even thinking about being friends with gangsters, but Tokyo seems like a city of gangs. So, let's be friends."

Ran whispered in a low voice as Rindou offered a small smile

"He doesn't want to be your friend stupid-"

Rin kicked his older brother and shook the young girl's hand. This could be a good start.

[jamie-tartts]

tagged by: @buchcnan​ tysm love!

rules: bold the statements that apply to you, italicize your aspirations, then tag nine people.

AIR

i have small hands / i love the night sky / i watch small animals and birds when i pass them by / i drink herbal tea / i wake to see dawn / the smell of dust is comforting / i’m valued for being wise / i prefer books to music / i meditate / i find joy in learning new truths from the world around me

FIRE

i don’t have straight hair / i like to wear ripped jeans and overalls / i play an organized sport / i love dogs / i am not afraid of adventure / i love to talk to strangers / i always try new foods / i enjoy road trips / summer is my favorite season / my radio is always playing

WATER

i wear bracelets on my wrists / i love the bustle of the city / i have more than one set of piercings / i read poetry / i love the sound of a thunderstorm / i want to travel the world / i sleep past midday most days / i love dimly lit diners and fluorescent signs / i rewatch kids’ shows out of nostalgia / i see emotions in colors not words

EARTH

i wear glasses or contacts / i enjoy doing the laundry / i am a vegetarian or vegan / i have an excellent sense of time / my humor is very cheerful / i am a valued advisor to my friends / i believe in true love / i love the chill of mountain air / i’m always listening to music / i am highly trusted by the people in my life

AETHER

i go without makeup in my daily life / i make my own artwork / i keep on track of my tasks and time / i always know true north / i see beauty in everything / i can always smell flowers / i smile at everyone i pass by / i always fear history repeating itself / i have recovered from a mental disorder / i can love unconditionally

tagging: @jamesbvck​ @jakegyllenhaals​ @chloexmorningstar​ @awstark​ @oscar-isaac​ @okoie​ @nellie--crain​ @noorasaertre​ @lavndertown​ @crispsevans​ @crypticavengers​ @wintersrgeant​ + anyone else who wants to do this! xx

[tywvin-archive]

below the cut are various tags i was tagged in!

rules: repost and answer the 20 questions and tag 20 people you want to get to know better

i was tagged by @rcbbstark​ tysm franzi!! <33

tagging: @lilttlebird​ @gabannas​ @leejordan​ @lesbianathene​ @helenstroy​ @zenik​ @thisbes​ @lokiofasgcrd​ @sirius

NICKNAMES: john, leni, lennister, ele

HEIGHT: 5′3″? 5′4″? i’m short you get the idea

ORIENTATION: bi

FAVOURITE FRUIT: apples or granadines i’m so basic ik

FAVOURITE SEASON: winter!!!!

FAVOURITE FLOWERS: poppies, carnations, sunflowers, and dandelions (are those even flowers?)

FAVOURITE SCENT: rain, lavender, the sea, new books, new stationery

FAVOURITE COLOUR: dark green and navy blue! and pastels

FAVOURITE ANIMALS: it used to be dolphins but i guess it’s cats now. i also really like horses and bulls for some reason? and lions because lannisters, you know

COFFEE, TEA OR HOT CHOCOLATE: all three? i can’t choose tea

AVERAGE HOURS OF SLEEP: it ranges from 0 to ~5 to 11, it’s either one of those three, no in between

CAT OR DOG PERSON: cat

FAVOURITE FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: tywin lannister + brienne of tarth + jorah mormont + leia organa + han solo + indiana jones + asha the iskari + torwin + inej ghafa + kaz brekker + jesper fahey + bilbo baggins + sherlock holmes + many more but i’ll make it way too long

NUMBER OF BLANKETS YOU SLEEP WITH: one in summer and 2+ in winter

DREAM TRIP: greek islands, japan, route 66, south america

BLOG CREATED: march/april 2018!

# OF FOLLOWERS: 1.5k

RANDOM FACT: i can’t stand william shakespeare even though i have to admit (painfully so) that he is an absolutely amazing writer

i was tagged by @ladymargeary thanks! <3

tagging: @casterlys @polydeuce @barbara-minerva @okoie @dracoluciusmalfoys @maiaroberts

name - john

star sign -  capricorn

height -  162cm? 163cm? idk anymore

put your library on shuffle; what are the first 4 songs that came up?

hot n cold - the baseballs

no more lonely nights - paul mccartney

jailhouse rock - elvis presley

red balloon - never shout never

grab the book nearest you and turn to pg 23, what’s on Line 17? a moment before, she had seemed to need counselling from me

ever had a poem or song written about you? i wanna say yes because i think so but i can’t remember so nope i guess

when was the last time you played Air Guitar? i don’t usually play air guitar so, months ago

who is your celebrity crush? elvis presley

what are 1) a sound you hate, and 2) a sound you love

forks scratching on a plate

storms

do you believe in ghosts? kinda?

how about aliens? ABSOLUTELY

do you drive? not yet

if so, have you ever crashed? nope

what was the last book you read? i’m currently reading the last namsara by kristen ciccarelli the last one i read was utter crap so i’m not even listing it

do you like the smell of gasoline? hell yes

what was the last movie you watched? get out

what’s the worst injury you’ve ever had? i had a serious illness when i was little but i think that doesn’t count as an injury so, i guess that time i bumped my head into concrete floors and almost passed out i fainted so hard i started trying to solve equations in my head to see if something had gone wrong. idk why? i’m horrible at math, there are other times but not really feeling like mentioning them

do you have any obsessions rn? s t a t i o n e r y & organization

do you tend to hold grudges against people who’ve done you wrong? whoops yeah

In a relationship? mentally? yes. physically? hells no, keep them away from me

tagged by @rcbbstark​ & @nancynwheeler! thank you <3

rules: we’re snooping on your playlist. set your entire music library on shuffle and report the first 10 songs that pop up. then choose 10 victims!

save us - paul mccartney

don’t stop me now - queen

black hole (liar liar) - never shout never

say say say - paul mccartney ft michael jackson

talking in your sleep - the romantics

twenty flight rock - eddie cochran

i need a dollar - aloe blacc

mine - bazzi

chasing pavements - adele

dancing in the street - martha reeves & the vandellas

tagging: @leiaaorgana @murmuroftheland @polaroids @sirius @kazrietveld @shcdebarrow @dovageidys @hwppers @aragohn @peterparkarr

my top 5 ships!

tagged by: @daeneryn​ tysm <3

television:

1. jaime & brienne (got)

2. jorah & daenerys (got)

3. cersei & the iron throne (got)

4. jake & amy (b99)

5. emily & sylvia (the handmaid’s tale)

+ sherlock & watson from the bbc series

books:

1. achilles x patroclus (tsoa)

2. ari & dante (aaddtsotu)

3. jesper & wylan (soc)  

4. sherlock & watson (conan-doyle)

5.  asha & torwin (iskari)  

superheroes:

1. steve & tony (marvel)

2. steve & diana (wonder woman)

3. steve & loki (marvel) liza told me about this ship and... wow i love it

4. wade & vanessa

5. wade & colossus

disney:

1. mulan & li shang (mulan)

2. moana & the sea (moana)

3. tiana & naveen (tiana)

4. ariel & moana (i really want gay mermaids okay)

5. mufasa & sarabi (the lion king)

tagging: whoever feels like doing it!

rules: answer 20 questions so your followers can get to know you better, and tag 20 other people you’d like to know better.

I was tagged by @marttell, thanks feli! <3

name: john

nicknames: answered above

zodiac sign: answered above

height: answered above

languages spoken: spanish, english, and a tiny bit of portuguese

nationality: spanish

favorite fruit: answered above

favorite season: answered above

favorite scent: answered above

favorite color: i’ve already answered this 34649846 times so! have some palettes (just like feli did bc i’m an unoriginal bitch)

favorite animal: answered above

favorite fictional character: answered above

coffee, tea, or hot chocolate: answered above

number of blankets you sleep with: answered above

when your blog was created: answered above

favorite subject: greek! oh i love greek damn

currently watching: i’ll probably start some new shows! but idk which ones yet

favorite band: the beatles

instruments played: i could play a bit of guitar but i think i’ve forgotten everything i knew

favorite book: The Song Of Achilles - Madeline Miller

I’m tagging: whoever wants to do this!

[mastcomm]

Anthony Enahoro: Buhari’s phoney pardon, Obasanjo and all that

Pa Anthony Enahoro: received posthumous phoney pardon from Buhari

By Peter Enahoro (Peter Pan)

Older heads within the Enahoro clan know sufficient about political state pardons to not get excited by it.

It’s not a pension annuity, not a struggle ornament or a medal for distinctive providers to society. You don’t even get to have a handshake with the President.

What’s to have fun?

You don’t get a State Pardon for smoking a pipe in church. It’s a must to have been in jail or had your popularity wrongfully dragged via hell. You’re then informed, “your sins are forgiven you” and it’s possible you’ll not have sinned in any respect, as we’re at present witnessing within the case of my late brother, Tony versus President Buhari’s pathetic propaganda machine.

I’d thought controversy surrounding the announcement of President Muhammadu Buhari’s so-called posthumous state pardon for Professor Ambrose Ali and my brother, Chief Anthony Enahoro, would have subsided by now.

I famous the studied silence on the federal government facet concerning Tony’s properties. Greater than thirty years after the properties had been seized, what’s their seemingly standing at the moment? I do know that one of many properties (on Amodu Tijani Shut, Victoria Island, Lagos) handed from the desk of late Admiral Akhigbe when he was Lagos State Governor, to Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar’s possession when he (Akhigbe) was Chief of Employees in Abdulsalami’s authorities.

I believed, wrongly, it will develop into self-evident that there was nothing to pardon Tony for as social media and different printed commons exploded.

After which Buhari.

What introduced him into this? Staggering sleepless nights? A conscience revolt? A fast session with a Senegalese marabout maybe? I puzzled why Buhari’s feeble propagandists needlessly trapped him in a political manoeuvre trailing again to Edo State and a dissembling rivalry between Governor Godwin Obaseki and Adams Oshiomhole, who’s a political godfather in his personal thoughts.

I used to be irritated that official Twitter account stated Buhari pardoned “5 convicted folks”. Tony was not convicted, he was indicted. I believed the error was a matter of literacy and left it at that. Later, I used to be glad attorneys agreed with me.

If Tony had been alive, he would have rejected Buhari’s phoney pardon.

I do know this as a result of I used to be immediately concerned in a situation that will have offered alternative for Tony to have a one-on-one secluded assembly with departing President Ibrahim Babangida in 1993. The matter of his properties certainly would have been on the agenda. Tony turned down the possibility. If a gathering occurred he wished it “on impartial floor”. That scuppered it.

Tony steadfastly maintained his innocence. He would do nothing that threatened to compromise his dignity, akin to accepting unsolicited favours.

He met with President Obasanjo on intervention by our cousin, the late Tony Anenih. No one in uniform had executed worse than Obasanjo to humiliate Tony and attempt to destroy his political picture.

An end result of their assembly in Abuja, to which Obasanjo grandly despatched a airplane to fetch him from Benin, was then President Obasanjo’s provide that Tony ought to nominate 5 candidates for political appointments. Tony didn’t increase the difficulty of his sequestered properties. And he didn’t nominate anybody for a job with Obasanjo. He was a proud man to the final. God bless his soul.

The primary anniversary of “June 12” was arising. Abacha’s Authorities had intelligence about deliberate widespread demonstrations. I took a message from Abacha regime to Tony in Port Harcourt, the place he was in jail detention. I ought to inform Tony it had been determined to launch him on situation he gave his phrase he wouldn’t take part an indication or subject statements.

I ended over in Benin to take his eldest son, Ken, with me. Ken delivered a transferring message from his mom. Tony’s response was easy. He wouldn’t give an enterprise he was unsure he may fulfil. He was prepared to stay within the solitary floor flooring room within the College of Port Harcourt campus with its completely shut curtains the place he had been briefly transferred when his well being deteriorated within the jail cell he shared with two others. That was the brother I had.

His political enemies got here to know that behind that exterior allure was a person of robust resolve.

Buhari’s curious pardon is just not the primary merciless turmoil surrounding Tony and State Pardons.

There was the “Queen’s Pardon” within the years previous Independence.

Chief Awolowo had named him for Ministerial appointment in his Western Area Cupboard within the fifties. The then Governor of Western Area, Sir John Rankin, refused assent as a result of Tony had not been granted the Queen’s Pardon for the three phrases of imprisonment he’d served as an offending journalist.

The costs for which he stood trial had been clear reduce. The primary time was for a wartime remark in assist of a employees’ strike for pay rise. Tony criticised the unwisdom of elevating the Governor’s wage simply then. He was jailed 9 months.

The second time was when addressing an indoor viewers in Burutu he urged the police to refuse to shoot at demonstrators. The sentence this time was eighteen months.

The third and closing British conviction was when he turned up at Glover Memorial Corridor in Lagos to listen to his Zikist Motion associates current their ready paper titled “A Name to Revolution”, which was timed to be learn concurrently at chosen rallies throughout Nigeria.

In line with the organizers, Dr Nnamdi Azikiwe after whom the Motion was named had promised to chair the rally. When it grew to become apparent he wasn’t going to show up, twenty-five-year-old Tony Enahoro, lately out of a second time period in jail for sedition, was summoned from the viewers and invited to take the chair.

As quickly as the primary speaker started to learn the seditious doc, plain-clothes policemen mounted the rostrum, arrested all on it and took them to lockup. In courtroom, the decide rejected the lawyer’s plea that Tony had no foreknowledge of the paper’s fiery content material and despatched him to the cooler for six months.

Processing the request for Queen’s Pardon was procedural. No lobbying of a Buckingham Palace cabal. And the Queen, who’d by no means dedicated an act of treason by overthrowing a democratically elected authorities, didn’t count on her praises to be sung by Tony’s household.

Tony was serving a ten-year sentence (decreased from 15 years) when the “Revenge Coup” that took Gowon to energy blew up in our faces in 1966. He was launched and pardoned by Gowon in whose Cupboard he served for 9 years. Gowon appointed him Commissioner for Data and Labour and later Particular Duties, making him the civilian politician closest to the seat of energy.

It was a sign of how effectively the 2 received on collectively on private phrases.

To be a favorite civilian in a navy regime promotes you to a lion’s den. It additionally implies that outdoors of that dangerous enclosure there are lions on the prowl able to eat you to your error, akin to when you neglect you don’t have a gun. People who carry facet arms have the primary and the final say.

Tony had three issues for which he wanted to look at his again. The least of those was hypothesis that the primary post-military rule chief can be an ethnic minority. A proponent of Tony’s candidacy was J.S. Tarka, the outstanding Center Belt minorities chief.

A second downside was Muritala Muhammed. This got here out of Gowon’s frequent use of Tony as emissary on international missions. It could have began as a result of apart from Normal Yakubu Gowon who was Head of State, Tony Enahoro’s identify was arguably essentially the most simply recognised internationally within the Cupboard, notably within the UK.

Tony fled Nigeria having evaded arrest that will have led to a cost of treasonable felony. The thought was to develop into the general public face of the Opposition Motion Group overseas. He moved from Ghana to Eire which had no extradition treaty with Nigeria. England would have been the extra appropriate base, for causes of nearer ties.

Pals and British political sympathisers had been assured by authorities that he may reside advert conduct his illustration freely in England.

Tony arrived quietly in London. The third night time Scotland Yard detectives got here and took him away to Brixton Jail awaiting extradition to Nigeria to face a cost of treasonable felony.

Nigerian authorities attorneys had found an previous regulation below which the British authorities was obliged to repatriate a fugitive Dominion or Empire citizen sought by his nation to face trial.

British public opinion was outraged by the way of Tony’s arrest. Newspapers cried foul at what they judged a grimy trick that lured Tony to Britain.

Tony’s attorneys argued that the cost was political, that their shopper wouldn’t obtain a good trial.

The federal government’s attorneys countered strongly that Nigerian courts could possibly be British. The judges and magistrates graduated in Legislation in Britain. They wore black capes and had been adorned in wigs.

Tony was repatriated. When he was sentenced to 15 years imprisonment the uproar within the British Parliament led to a overview of the Fugitive Offender’s Act. Not is a Commonwealth fugitive sought by his nation robotically repatriated. There should be a courtroom trial and if there’s a trace of political motive the request shall be refused. Tony’s ordeal did that.

Dr Okoi Arikpo was Commissioner for Exterior Affairs nevertheless it was Tony who led the Federal delegation to Addis Ababa to face Ojukwu. It was Tony that led the crew for peace talks with a Biafra illustration in Kampala.

The Civil Warfare reached a stage at which it grew to become strategically very important to knock out Uli airstrip, Biafra’s solely remaining outlet to the world. Britain was reluctant to provide lengthy vary weapons essential for the operation.

British Prime Minister Harold Wilson, who had an uncomfortably small majority in parliament had issues inside his Labour Celebration and throughout the aisle in parliament over the Federal Authorities’s dealing with of the struggle.

Two points had been particularly discovered unpalatable: third Marine Commando’s commander “Black Scorpion” Adekunle’s unscrupulous order to his troops to “shoot something that strikes and something that doesn’t transfer.”

The opposite was a crazed bloodbath in Asaba by Federal troops below the command of Murtala Muhammed whose two disastrous makes an attempt to land troops in Onitsha had been expensive in lives misplaced. British Intelligence had been unimpressed concerning the whisky and marijuana as effectively.

The British wished the 2 males relieved of their command to ease issues for Wilson, so the federal government may significantly think about supplying the requested weapons.

This was the message Tony introduced again from London.

For those who don’t just like the message shoot the messenger.

Phrase will need to have reached Muhammed that redeployment was a definite possibility. It was a measure of his energy and indiscipline that he took off to hometown Kano, to go and sulk in the midst of a struggle. In the meantime, kudos for Tony was his delegation’s success in persuading Moscow, the place George Kurubo, former Chief of Air Employees was a useful ambassador, to offer the weapons that shot down Ulli.

Tony grew to become a marked man with the Muhammed camp.

Extra was to comply with.

It got here quickly sufficient within the particular person of Aremu Olusegun Obasanjo. Uncouth the place just a little finesse would have higher served his function, OBJ is a bully who doesn’t neglect, doesn’t forgive. He then was Federal Commissioner of Works and Housing.

What set him on a collision course with Tony was that the Minister of Data had full duty for the Second World Black and African Pageant of African Arts and Tradition, a mouthful identified merely as Festac.

Crucially, realisation of Festac Village was in Tony’s purview.

He was in London having problem attempting to barter a mortgage of priceless Emotan bust, image of the pageant. The British Museum feared that Nigeria wouldn’t return the stolen Benin artwork treasure.

It was within the midst of this consideration that Obasanjo rang from Rome to say he had organized for Tony to carry talks with a constructing firm that specialised in prefabricated housing. Prefab would scale back the price of constructing Festac Village. And sooner too, so was the proposition.

How previous was Obasanjo when African American Firm (Afamaco) gave prefab bungalows a reputation to not keep in mind in Nigeria? Successful report made “Afamaco” a synonym for sham. There was no actual enthusiasm for Obj’s concrete slabs.

Though Tony thought it impolite that Obasanjo didn’t seek the advice of him earlier than committing him to fulfill the Italians, he despatched his Everlasting Secretary – future Governor of Bauchi State, Tartari Ali – to Rome.

By and by, Commissioners had been popping out of a Cupboard assembly, Obasanjo stated in a raised voice from behind Tony, “Chief-I-arranged-for-you-to-meet-some-people. You despatched any individual else!” It was a rebuke and Tony replied in variety, “You organized a gathering for Rome; with out asking my plans. I despatched my principal adviser.” You discuss like that to Obj? Haven’t you learn his memoir, “My Command”. He singlehandedly gained the civil struggle. Effectively, nearly.

Murtala took his revenge on the person his “revenge coup” of 1966 helped make Head of State and Commander-in-Chief. He overthrew Gowon. Fact be informed, it was a populist coup. Gowon had been lengthy in workplace, in a rustic the place folks love change for the sake of change.

Gowon was in Kampala attending an OAU Summit. His crew was gathered round him when Muhammed was talked about as the brand new chief. Tony blurted, “What?! That mad man?” The suspicion was that champion of the “talakawa”, Aminu Kano, gave his fellow Kano son, Murtala, an account of who stated what.

Murtala was charging about like a raging bull, with outpouring of coverage bulletins that happy his city constituents baying for retribution in need of bloodshed on Gowonites. That was the ambiance by which a Federal Property Investigation Panel was appointed. With Muhammed and Obasanjo heading the regime was there any shock that Festac was a serious goal of curiosity?

Tony had returned from Kampala assured he had nothing to concern. Nevertheless, sure Press feedback indicated that some particular person or individuals had been briefing negatively in opposition to Festac, suggesting a marketing campaign.

The hostility was evident when Tony appeared earlier than the Panel. He was requested, “Chief, what number of financial institution accounts do you will have overseas?” Tony stated the query shocked him. He went on that he’d learn statements within the Press stated to be by authoritative sources near the Panel claiming he had a number of international financial institution accounts.

These had not been denied.

He’d anticipated to be confronted with these ‘international financial institution accounts’. The very query what number of accounts he had presumed he had any. He felt the Panel had already reached its conclusion on him. The listening to was a present.

Authorities didn’t launch the Panel’s report. As an alternative it printed a White Paper by which it claimed the Panel indicted Tony.

Tony had nevertheless seen the unique report. He knew what it stated. What the Panel acknowledged was, “Chief Enahoro refused to cooperate with the Panel”. On that foundation, he challenged the federal government to publish the unique.

He was at residence in Benin when safety operatives arrived from Lagos to conduct a seek for what they stated was a secret doc. They didn’t discover no matter they had been searching for.

On to Lagos in handcuffs they took him to Ikoyi Resort the place they knew he stored rooms. They discovered the report along with his annotations in ink. The searchers weren’t glad along with his clarification of how the key state doc got here into his possession. They took him to Moloney Road Police headquarters for continued interrogation.

Three weeks later a decide ordered his launch on his spouse’s petition for habeas corpus. He nevertheless was rearrested outdoors the courtroom and brought again to Police Hq. This time his spouse, Helen, went straight off to see Gen. Musa Yar’Adua.

Hours of ready paid off. The Quantity Two man in Obasanjo’s navy administration known as up Inspector-Normal of Police M. D. Yussuf. Why was Chief Enahoro re-arrested? Orders from the highest man, the IG retorted. If the courtroom says he ought to be discharged so it ought to be, stated Yar’Adua overruling the boss.

Helen reported she was on the door when Yar’Adua stopped her. “Madam, please inform Chief to attempt to see the Head of State.” Yar Adua claimed he as soon as requested why there was all of the palaver with Chief Enahoro and quoted Obasanjo saying it was being sorted, including, “go away it to us Southerners.”

Tony was extra upset concerning the allegation that he had acted corruptly than concerning the reality his properties had been seized. He insisted they had been properties he acquired earlier than his serving within the Federal Authorities. I believe although deeply damage, he believed it was solely a matter of time earlier than the folly can be uncovered. He was fairly content material to go away protests within the fingers of his buddy and lawyer, Kessington Momoh.

Obasanjo had been vindictive.

His letter ordering Tony to vacate his Ministerial quarters was brusque and callous. I personally have a philosophy that if a brute writes a impolite letter be impolite again!

Tony stored his public profile cool, the ache and embarrassment was contained within the letter he wrote solely to his sister and brothers. He categorically denied he’d executed something to disgrace us. He laid the blame for the pernicious assaults on his particular person, on the toes of Obasanjo. He stated he’d thought lengthy and exhausting why. He may suppose solely of Obasanjo’s disappointment at not securing Festac Village for his Italian associates. Set the damage apart, there didn’t look like a menace that the Property Investigation Panel’s indictment can be taken to the subsequent degree: i.e., prosecution.

The 12 months I returned to experiment with resettling in Nigeria was when President Babangida’s govt returned property seized by Muritala/Obasanjo regime. I knew nothing of this. It was a very long time after the Gazette announcement {that a} buddy at golf requested if I knew why my brother was excluded from “the generosity”.

I confessed my ignorance. However I did suppose why would they try this? Right here we go once more.

My informer stated, “I’m certain Chief is aware of the correct folks, however he refuses to do the correct factor.” Mafia script. He will need to have seen The Godfather.

Tony knew I’d made the acquaintance of Vice-President Augustus Aikhomu. It will have been very in contrast to him or any of my brothers to ask me to intercede. If I proposed it, fantastic.

My mother and father handed on throughout my first sortie in exile. Perhaps by means of compensation for not being at both funeral I travelled to go to their graves as incessantly as I may throughout a four-year stint in Nigeria. On one among my visits, I used to be returning to Lagos and coming as much as Admiral Aikhomu’s walled compound within the coronary heart of Irrua City, I made a decision to make an unplanned cease for a fast “hey”. It was Boxing Day. Coming into the lounge I recognised solely three faces among the many Vice President’s visitors: Cousin Anenih, Chief Tom Ikimi and Edo State Governor Oyegun. Strangers all put me on my guard.

I used to be thrown when Aikhomu stated to me, “Ah, Peter you’ll reside lengthy. We had been simply speaking about you and your brother. Why he has by no means supported us. He goes previous my home each day on his approach to Uromi. He has by no means stopped by to say hey.”

I couldn’t say one thing jokey immediately, which might have been my choice, so I stated the very first thing that got here into my head: “Admiral, he may say you’ve by no means invited him.”

Aikhomu pressed his case: “He calling doesn’t want invitation. You suppose Tony Enahoro can be on the gate and anyone will cease him?”

I requested to make use of the telephone. I known as Tony, informed him the place I used to be and narrated the proceedings precisely as had occurred. He agreed with my reasoning that the Vice President had by no means invited him to his residence. At my request Tony agreed to say this to the VP himself.

My understanding was that they’d by no means beforehand spoken.

Aikhomu was visibly thrilled on the finish of their temporary chat. He took a be aware pad and wrote, “Owanlen, you already know you might be at all times welcome in my residence”. Owanlen, actually “sensible man” is an on a regular basis Esan tackle to an older man, therefore its connotation, respectfully is, “My Elder”. Aikhomu was beaming disarmingly. He took the telephone and dialled a quantity. IBB was on the different finish. He was scheduled to go to Benin as a part of a tour earlier than stepping apart.

Aikhomu stated to him, “Once you come to Benin I’ve an enormous shock for you. I’ve Peter Enahoro right here. You’ll meet Tony Enahoro one on one. Simply the 2 of you. You’ll ask why he by no means supported us.”

I delivered the be aware within the sealed envelope to Helen. Tony was having a nap. I informed Helen the content material. She was happy. Naively the difficulty of the properties had not been on my thoughts.

Not one bit.

I ended by Tony’s the subsequent morning. Chief Olu Akpata was presiding over the bottle of gin he stored in Tony’s home for a refreshing after golf, as a result of he was now not allowed it at residence. I received a tongue lashing from him. “You’re a silly boy,” Chief Akpata swore at me.

“You introduced an insulting letter from Aikhomu. He says your brother ought to come to his home. It’s he who ought to come right here and apologise for the nonsense they’re doing.”

On the time a 24-hour surveillance examine was posted in entrance of Tony’s compound in Benin. The black Peugeot salon quantity adopted him wherever he went.

Tony tried to mitigate my sin. “Pete since will probably be the primary time of assembly I believe it ought to be on impartial grounds. It may be in your own home after I’m in Lagos.”

It took me two days to summon the braveness to name the Vice President.

A gathering wasn’t going to occur, I informed him. He laughed. “Don’t fear,” “We all know your brother. Once I didn’t hear from you, I knew what will need to have occurred.”

After Tony handed on, my late brother, Christian, was introduced in by Tony’s kids to assist out. He was appalled by what he noticed in what I described because the Obasanjo Papers. Christian recommended the 2 of us as elders of Tony’s start household ought to petition President Jonathan, urging him to order the return of Tony’s properties to his kids.

President Jonathan referred the petition to a standing committee, Civil Service fashion.

The committee wrote to us in language solely Civil Servants that means to frustrate are able to. We went no additional. My perception is that our petition was laid to relaxation lifeless below a heap of bureaucratic claptrap.

Copies had across the identical time gone to the Governors of Lagos and Edo States soliciting their assist. Governor Fashola of Lagos was extremely supportive, mentioning specifically Akhigbe’s extraordinary cheek the way in which he disposed of it to his buddy, Abdulsalami Abubakar.

Adams Oshiomhole was Governor of our residence State. We anticipated the little man to behave large and take a lead in defence of Tony. He didn’t even acknowledge receipt of our protecting letter. It’s an irony that by a flip of destiny his identify is linked with a backroad to the working controversy over a pardon that ought to by no means have been related to Tony.

Oshiomhole is in a bitter feud with incumbent Governor Godwin Obaseki. Oshiomhole has delusions that he can fill the boots of godfather of Edo State politics at present too large for him.

In your goals Obaseki tells him.

Considered one of Obaseki’s methods to be able to crush his rival is to safe the assist of Esan land. There Oshiomhole deprived himself when he selected to construct a 3rd college in Edo State : further to Federal-owned Uniben in Benin Metropolis, and State-owned Ambrose Ali College In Ali’s Ekpoma hometown, in Esan heartland.

Oshiomhole’s challenge is positioned immediately reverse his home off the North-bound freeway exit of Auchi City. It’s a huge instantaneous development in an space that features Iyanmho, Oshiomhol’s start place; a hamlet so reclusive when three or 4 are gathered they make a crowd.

The tertiary establishment implies that all the primary Edo State clans every now has a college they will acclaim their very own. However it has been expensive for Ambrose Ali College which noticed its assets thinned down as funds went to the founding of Iyanmho.

Two years in the past, at a public celebration in reminiscence of Ambrose Ali in Ekpoma, Obaseki made two pledges to a cheering crowd: 1) He would pump the city’s college with new funding; 2) He would combat to his toe nail for State Pardon for Ambrose Ali.

Ali was sentenced to 100 years imprisonment in 1984, on conviction allegedly for misappropriating N983,000. It was a interval of shaming historical past in Nigeria’s judicial course of. Ludicrously lengthy jail phrases had been spewing out of courtrooms inspired by madcap Decrees and fascistic rhetorics of the navy authorities.

What had Ambrose Ali executed mistaken?

He was Governor of defunct Bendel State. A grateful contractor provided him a “sprint” following conclusion of a street challenge. Ali refused the largesse and directed the insistent contractor to contribute it to his social gathering, UPN, led by Chief Obafemi Awolowo. The courtroom’s judgement was that he ought to have had the cash refunded to govt coffers.

Ambrose Ali had no cash when he died. He got here out of jail a damaged man. He had misplaced his sight. His jailers will need to have identified he was strolling to his demise the day he left jail. It’s a pity the State can’t be despatched to jail when it does this to a person.

I’ve not succeeded find out how Tony’s identify got here to be included within the State Pardon checklist. As I’ve clearly proven he was not convicted by the Panel.

Earlier than getting down to write this, not being a lawyer, I took the precaution to ask the opinion of a realized buddy:

“Is a Panel of Inquiry/Administrative Panel and subsequent confiscation of properties a conviction below the regulation that requires a pardon?”

My lawyer buddy is a cautious particular person. So, earlier than replying he consulted the opinion of a lawyer buddy who wrote:

“The truth that the household of Enahoro ignorantly accepted and swallowed a Greek reward doesn’t imply we will’t interrogate the correctness or in any other case of the so-called pardon.

“Pardon for what? Do you pardon an harmless man or lady not first convicted of any offence? I believe not.”

I used to be grateful for the free recommendation.

But I used to be touched, pondering of my brother, the youngsters, my nephews and nieces, cousins , grandchildren, daughters, and spouses – these are “the household of Enahoro” – inadvertently portrayed as a bunch of ignoramuses, who gave Buhari’s pardon a thumbs up.

No, they haven’t.

However I understood. Tony’s eldest surviving son, Eugene, signed an explanatory be aware that urged “appreciation” and he signed it “for and on behalf of the household of Late Chief Anthony Enahoro”.

My opinion as I expressed to everybody that contacted me urging repudiation was the right way to clarify that the declare was on behalf of Tony’ instant household solely – assuming he had obtained that authority.

In equity to the siblings, there are properties concerned.

That’s their inheritance; their entitlement. Sadly, entitlement incessantly evolves as free lunch whereas free lunch is rarely an entitlement.

If the Buhari cabal actually needs to honour Tony’s reminiscence it ought to erase the stigma of a dodgy indictment by restoring his professional properties to his kids.

*Peter Enahoro (Peter Pan), legendary journalist and columnist, wrote from the UK.

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Dear God,

Thankful and blessed today. All is well after my duty. I drank laban milk. All Praise to you Oh God for helping and guiding us always. We arrived home safely. I scrolled my social media accounts, chatted my family and friends. I drank my medicine. I slept and woke up with the help of my alarm. I prepared my food which is chicken nuggets and pumpkin okoy. I called Mama via google meet and I talked to Jako and Justin. I just knew that Jako have tonsillitis and not feeling well. Also Mama have a cough. Please heal them Oh God. I miss them so much. We also talked a lot with Mama. I have itchy anus right now, I really don’t know what’s the main reason. I bought medicine via call. Thanks to Life pharmacy for the great services. I received albendazole zentel. I had my indoor bicycle workout. I had my self and skin care routine. I ate okoy and I drank the zentel after. I read few pages of the Bible. I will drink my medicines. Have mercy on us Oh God. Guide us always to the right path. Remove sickness, danger and negative things in our life. Answer our prayers in your perfect time. Thank you and I love you God.

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Diamond Hotel Holds Filipino Food Festival at Corniche

Take a culinary journey around the Philippine archipelago as Diamond Hotel Philippines holds its Filipino Food Festival from June 2 to 12, 2017. Commemorating the nation’s upcoming Independence Day on June 12, the food festival will highlight a diverse regional spread at the Corniche for lunch or dinner buffet with dishes prepared by sought-after celebrity Chef Tatung Sarthou. Rediscover how the best of east and west found its way into Filipino cooking and prepare to excite your taste buds with an outstanding gastronomic feast dubbed as the "Philippine Archipelago."

The Hungry Kat was invited last June 2 to the opening day of Diamond Hotel’s Filipino Food Festival and it was a great opportunity to once again sample the expertise of Chef Tatung Sarthou, especially when it comes to indigenous cooking methods and his in-depth knowledge of Philippine gastronomy. The fiesta atmosphere starts immediately at the entrance which welcomes all its diners to this grand celebration. To spice up the celebration, Diamond Hotel Philippines will also be giving away two round trip airline tickets to Cebu as guests who spend a minimum of P5,000 nett at the buffet will be entitled to a raffle stub for a chance to win the prize.

Chef Tatung became a popular media personality as resident chef and host of Kwentong Kawali ni Chef Tatung on ABS-CBN and as an award-wining and best-selling author of Philippine Cookery From Heart to Platter. His work is not only recognized in the Philippines, but abroad, as well. In 2016, he was one of only two Manila-based chefs invited to speak at Madrid Fusión Manila 2016. This year, he was also the Philippines’ sole representative to the 15th Madrid Fusion Congress in Madrid, Spain, the first Filipino to appear on the main congress stage, where his presentation was much talked about. Chef Tatung’s passion is the avid search for the roots of Philippine cuisine, through which he rediscovers indigenous cooking methods, connects historical facts, and relishes anthropological insights that enrich the practice of his craft, making him not only an interesting culinary personality, but an important prime mover in the promotion of Philippine cuisine in his country and abroad.

Guests will find several of Chef Tatung Sarthou’s specialty dishes scattered around the different stations of Corniche’s lunch and dinner buffet during the Filipino Food Festival. You can start with some appetizers such as the Pakwan at Tuna Kilawin and the Embutido.

Another popular Filipino appetizer is the Shrimp and Vegetable Okoy dipped in vinegar.

I usually skip the appetizers at the buffet and head straight to the main courses so this is what I also did at Corniche. I just couldn’t wait!

Chef Tatung’s dishes were obviously the main attractions at the Filipino Food Festival and we are starting our journey up North with the Dinakdakan, an Ilocano delicacy made with grilled pork parts tossed in a calamansi dressing with onions and chili peppers. 

The Bringhe Pianggang (above) is a Kapampangan version of the paella containing rice, meat and seafood, while the Chicken Pastel (below) is a Filipino style chicken and vegetable dish with a thick and creamy sauce.

One of the favorites at Corniche’s Filipino Food Festival is the Hamonado, a Filipino-style pork dish cooked in pineapple. Filipinos really have a sweet tooth and this is marinated in sugar and pineapple juice resulting in delicious slices of pork.

The Kalderetang Buntot is a very familiar dish using oxtail instead of the usual beef cuts. This makes the meat more tender and flavorful.

The most interesting item that night would probably be the Chicken Pianggang cooked with burnt coconut paste. This classic Tausug dish from Southern Mindanao comes with grilled chicken cooked in coconut milk then flavored with a special spice mixture that includes burnt coconut. It’s a truly amazing dish which gives a really unique Filipino flavor.

The grill station also offers many meats and seafood options which you can choose and have cooked upon order. We all love our inihaw and you can choose from freshly grilled shrimp, squid, fish, pork, beef, and chicken,

Over at the carving station, no one will miss this Adobo Glazed Roast Beef served with fried camote, kalamansi, and adobo sauce. The outer crust gives a smoky flavor that complements the very tender beef.

Every fiesta comes with its own set of lechons so the Filipino Food Festival also offers their Lechon Belly Roll for all the pork lovers. Have your fill with endless servings of yummy lechon belly served with liver sauce.

The buffet at Corniche also comes with all the other stations like the Japanese Station, Chinese Station, Noodle Station, and the Fresh Seafood station where you can get your crabs, prawns, mussels, shells and more. Have it cooked in garlic butter for a better dining experience.

The Dessert Station also highlights its many Filipino delicacies like the Biko Latik and Suman Lihiya.

Other interesting items you can find at the desserts station are the (clockwise from top left) Salted Egg Brazo de Mercedes, Ginataang Halo Halo, Mango Pili Butter Cream Cake, and the Leche Flan.

Make sure to try the Champorado Mousse (below right) which transforms the traditional champorado into a creamy mousse cake. It even comes topped with dilis! Then end with delightful scoops of ice cream like their very popular Baked Cheesecake Ice Cream or the Filipino Food Fest variants including Ube Langka and Mangga Ice Cream.

As a way to promote Filipino artistry, there will be a live demonstration by Abel Iloco weavers and you can purchase the fabrics and other goods at the selling counter of Ylocos Heritage Arts and Crafts at the hotel's upper lobby. All these treats and more are available at Diamond Hotel’s Filipino Food Festival at Corniche for only P2,380 nett per person. Match your meal with a bottle of wine and get a 25% discount on their Wine of the Month. Make sure to drop by this week at Diamond Hotel and experience a culinary journey around the Philippine Archipelago!

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YAMANAKA JUNKO’S BIOGRAPHY.

NAME: Junko. Her name comes from kanji 純 (jun) meaning “pure” and average ending syllabe 子(ko) meaning “(female) child”, but it’s written in katakana: ジュンコ SURNAME: Yamanaka. ALIASES: “Kosui”. Her nickname derives from the sweet yet deadly scent she spreads. CLAN: Yamanaka. AGE: 22, post Fourth Great Shinobi World War. (5 years older than Konoha 11, in general). RANK: Jounin, promoted at 22, shortly after the war. OCCUPATION: Genin team leader, member of Konoha Intelligence Division, accredited spy. FACECLAIM: Kisaragi Okoi from Basilisk.

PHYSICAL ASPECT: Curvy and alluring in her body with a splendid face, it’s easy to tell she is one of the most beautiful girls in the village, less so is to understand that she is part of Yamanaka Clan: being Yamanakas usually blond-haired, it is quite confusing to see a Yamanaka brunette. Aside for this, Junko is an absolutely stunning woman which always manage to catch the eyes of men wherever she walks to. Her frame is solid, although curvaceous, perfectly shaped for a kunoichi who has no fear to engage mano-a-mano fights. Picture is completed by a pair of large, slanting, chestnut brown eyes and two full, plump, pink lipstick-coated lips.

PERSONALITY: Energetic and full of life, Junko is one who never let down when it comes to fun. She is witty and talkative and has no trouble interacting with people she barely knows; because of these qualities of hers, she often takes Ino’s place at the flower shop when the younger is busy with missions. She is determined and she never allow anybody to push her around, she only does what she wants or what she is called to do as a ninja. Although she may seem quite tomboy-ish during everyday life, she is actually a good seductress and she knows very well how to play her cards. Those chestnut eyes are surely a pair to be afraid of.

BACKGROUND: Born from the ugliest man in Yamanaka Clan, Yamanaka Torikabuto, whose family was famous for poison substances production, and one of the most beautiful women, Yamanaka Satomi, it was clear she was born to be a threat. Since she was a sweet baby girl with two big brown eyes she had found her way to get what she wanted: she fluttered her lashes and the world was at her feet. Her mother wanted her to become feminine and elegant as a true lady was supposed to be, but Junko never truly cared for Satomi’s teachings: she wanted to run, to feel the grass under her bared feet, she wanted to breathe the wildness of the forest she was born in. Torikabuto then suggested that, if she couldn’t be a courtesan, she could have made a great ninja. Her father’s intuition proved to be correct: Junko loved to be a kunoichi. Moreover, she excelled at both ninpo and seduction drills, as expected from a Yamanaka cadet. Her career was the average for a good kunoichi: part of a three-man-team specialized in information gathering, promoted to chuunin rank at the age of 15. After her promotion, she moved to Intel Division, specifically as a unit in Intel Acquirement department. For a few years she stayed into the Division and became a famous spy in Konoha, until the outburst of the Fourth War. Back to Konoha, she was promoted by Rokudaime to Jounin rank and started leading teams on her own, although Ibiki still recalls her for spy business. At the moment she is looking for a husband to settle with and have children.

JUTSUS & ABILITIES: From her paternal line she has acquired immunity to most natural poisons, principally flower-derived. Because of this she uses special belladonna lipstick and unguent which spread a delightful scent but are lethal to whom dares to kiss her skin. She has affinity with Wind and Fire. Aside for basic Yamanaka Hiden Jutsus, Junko has developed a jutsu which allows her a special kind of mind-reading: by looking at her target in their eyes she can learn things about their past, moving backwards from the present moment to the less recent happenings. List of jutsus Junko can perform: Basic Academy Jutsus (Clone Jutsu, Transformation Jutsu, etc.) Mind Body Switch Jutsu Mind Body Disturbance Jutsu Memory Sinking Jutsu Sensing Trasmission Katon: Hitsuke Katon: Exploding Flame Formation Katon: Flame Bullet Katon: Hiding in Flame Futon: Dust Cloud Futon: Gale Palm Futon: Wind Wall Futon: Vacuum Sphere TRIVIA: Junko’s favourite phrase is “there is more poison hidden in flowers than beauty hidden in a serpent”. Junko’s sexuality is hetero, while her romantic orientation is biromantic. Junko’s favourite activity is wild boars hunting. Junko’s favourite food is yakiniku grill. Her least favourite is salmon.

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Cross Rivers Governor Ought to Have Been Impeached - Buhari's Special Assistant

Cross Rivers Governor Ought to Have Been Impeached – Buhari’s Special Assistant

Barrister Okoi Obono Obla, is the Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Prosecution. He is  a human Right Activist and Anti-corruption crusader.He spoke to Emmanuel Ado,Host of Let’s Talkand syndicated Columnist,on the anti – corruption war, the continued stay in office of David Lawal the SGF,the penchant of the Cross Rivers State Governor to travel without handing over to…

[deyzalee]

Dear God,

Thankful and blessed today. I woke up very late because its my day off. I ate pumpkin okoy dipped in a vinegar. Also I ate kitkat chocolates. I lied on my bed, scrolled my social media accounts, chatted my family and friends. I am so happy because Jako and Justin slept in our house today. But Jako is not feeling well, so help Jako Oh God. I had my jump rope and freshen up after. I did my self and skin care routine. I called Mama via google meet and we talked a lot. Right now, I am about to sleep. I read few pages of the Bible. I will drink my medicines. Have mercy on us Oh God. Guide us always to the right path. Remove sickness, danger and negative things in our life. Answer our prayers in your perfect time. Thank you and I love you God.

[deyzalee]

Dear God,

Thankful and blessed today. All is well after our duty. Though we went home late because I needed help to change the circuit tube because I am not confident to change it alone. Thanks to Maam Ruffy, Sona and Gemaima. I ate banana and chapata with egg and cheese for breakfast. We arrived home safely. I finished doing my cortex and did IR. I drank my medicines. I slept until 5PM plus. I scrolled my social media accounts, chatted my family and friends. I made pumpkin okoy and strawberry shake for my dinner. I ate a lot. I rested for a while. I watched the videos sent by my teammates regarding the change of circuit tube. So help me God. I was a little bit frustrated when Maam Divya asked me for IR and Sir Jaimar talked to me again regarding the familiarization of the ventilator machine. Honestly I am not equipped and scared when it comes to trouble shooting of the machine. I prepared myself for indoor bicycle workout. While exercising, I watched youtube random videos. I had my self and skin care routine. I fixed the orders from brands for less and add it in my balikbayan box. I read few pages of the Bible. I will drink my medicines. Have mercy on us Oh God. Guide us always to the right path. Remove sickness, danger and negative things in our life. Answer our prayers in your perfect time. Thank you and I love you God.