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15/06/2024

Top 5 biggest black-owned factories in Africa 2024, ranked by revenue, are:

1. Dangote Group (Nigeria🇳🇬) - Owned by Aliko Dangote, Africa's richest man, the Dangote Group is a multinational conglomerate with interests in cement production, sugar refining, flour milling, and other industries. It has an estimated revenue of over $20 billion.

2. Bidco Africa (Kenya🇰🇪) - Bidco Africa is one of the largest manufacturers of consumer goods in East Africa, producing cooking oil, detergents, soaps, and other products. It has an estimated revenue of over $1 billion.

3. Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing (IVM) (Nigeria🇳🇬) - IVM is Nigeria's first indigenous automobile manufacturing company, producing a range of vehicles including cars, buses, and trucks. It has an estimated revenue of over $500 million.

4. Econet Wireless (Zimbabwe🇿🇼) - Econet Wireless is one of Africa's leading telecommunications companies, providing mobile phone services, broadband, and related products. It is owned by Strive Masiyiwa and has an estimated revenue of over $400 million.

5. Olam Nigeria (Nigeria🇳🇬) - Olam Nigeria is a subsidiary of Olam International, a leading agribusiness company in Africa. Olam Nigeria is involved in the processing and marketing of agricultural products including cocoa, cotton, and cashew nuts. It has an estimated revenue of over $300 million.

Source: Africa is home business center

15/06/2024

If milk is wasted, it becomes yogurt. Yogurt is more valuable than milk. If it gets any worse, it becomes cheese. Cheese is more valuable than yogurt and milk. And if grape juice turns sour, it turns into wine, which is even more expensive than grape juice. You're not bad because you made mistakes. Mistakes are experiences that make you more valuable as a person. Christopher Columbus made a navigation error that led him to discover America. Alexander Fleming's mistake led him to invent penicillin. Don't let your mistakes depress you. It's not practice that makes perfect. It's the mistakes we learn from that make perfect!.

Credits to whom it may concern .

04/06/2024

Sister needs advice

22/05/2024

Jamaican sprinter and the world fastest 100m race record holder Usain Bolt converted the village of his parents into a modern town with contemporary facilities.
It all started when Usain Bolt wanted to buy a house for his parents in the city. Shockingly, the parents rejected the idea stating that, they don't wanna leave the village. They don't wanna leave their neighbours and friends behind.

Bolt thus decided to modernise the village by building social infrastructure such as school, recreational facilities, health centre and playground for children in the village to make it more habitable for all.

He makes lives better not only for his parents but everyone in the village, microcosm
Borrowed

19/05/2024

Congo armed forces repelled an attempted coup d'etat involving Congolese and foreign fighters on Sunday morning, a DRC army spokesperson said in a televised address..The army announces the arrest of American mercenaries.

10/05/2024

Step-by-Step Guide to Making Liquid Fertilizer

1. Collect Organic Material
organic material

Gather organic waste, focusing on plant-based materials. Kitchen scraps (excluding meat and dairy products), yard waste like grass clippings and leaves, and even weeds can serve as the base for your fertilizer.

2. Prepare the Container
Place the organic material in the container, filling it up to about halfway. The size of the container will depend on the quantity of fertilizer you wish to make, but a standard 5-gallon bucket is a good start.

3. Add Water
Fill the container with water, covering the organic matter. Rainwater is ideal due to its purity, but tap water will suffice if left to sit for a day to allow chlorine to evaporate.

4. Fermentation Process
fermate organic waste
Seal the container with its lid, leaving it slightly ajar to allow gases to escape. Stir the mixture every few days to oxygenate it and facilitate the breakdown of materials. The fermentation process can take anywhere from two weeks to two months, depending on temperature and the materials used. You’ll know it’s ready when the mixture smells earthy and the solids have largely broken down.

5. Strain the Liquid
Once fermentation is complete, strain the liquid into another container, removing the solid waste. The resulting liquid is your concentrated liquid fertilizer.

6. Dilution and Application
Before applying the fertilizer to your plants, dilute it with water to prevent nutrient burn. A general ratio is 1 part fertilizer to 10 parts water, but this can vary based on the concentration of your mixture. Apply the diluted solution directly to the soil around your plants.

Benefits and Considerations
fertilizer on a tomato plant
Eco-friendly: This method recycles waste into a valuable resource, reducing landfill use and chemical runoff.
Cost-effective: It utilizes readily available materials, saving money on commercial fertilizers.
Nutrient-rich: The final product is teeming with essential nutrients, including nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium.

Embracing this ancient method of making liquid fertilizer not only supports sustainable gardening practices but also connects us with the timeless wisdom of nurturing the earth. By transforming everyday waste into a valuable resource.

Plant & Garden.
Borrowed

04/05/2024

If you travel by air a lot, beware of overly friendly chatty seat neighbors. The older lady comes and sits next to me inside the plane. She asked me to help her put her bag in the overhead luggage compartment, but a gentleman sitting across quickly came through. (I am not very tall, and the overhead luggage compartment is something I try to avoid at all costs).

Immediately, she sits down, she strikes up a conversation. She was very pleasant and well-spoken, so we chatted all through the flight to Dubai. Suddenly, when the pilot announced that we were now proceeding to begin our descent into DXB, my good friend 'developed' stomach pains. Me with my good heart, I pressed the steward's button, and the stewardess came to find out what the problem was. I told her my seat mate was not feeling well. And this lady, she suddenly began to address me as 'my daughter.'

The stewardess told me that there was nothing they could do except give her some painkillers and wait until we landed. The pilot announced that we had a medical emergency on board and advised us all to stay calm. My new friend was crying and sweating like crazy, and she refused to let go of my hand... everyone assumed we knew each other.

So we landed at DXB, and the same gentleman who helped put up her luggage in the overhead compartment removed her luggage. But as he removed the luggage, he advised me to distance myself from this lady and make it clear to the cabin crew that we were NOT traveling together. He was a godsend!

So indeed, the cabin crew came and asked me if we were related; I categorically told them we had met on the plane. I didn't know her at all. So we began to deplane, and as I said goodbye, she kept begging me to carry her handbag. I was so torn... but the gentleman looked me in the eye and emphatically shook his head. He passed me a note telling me to let the cabin crew handle her.

So I exited the aircraft and left my 'new friend' to wait for the wheelchair and be handled by the cabin crew, feeling very guilty. As we waited for our luggage to come through, I heard this commotion. My 'new friend' was running, trying to escape the cabin crew, having gotten out of the wheelchair! She left the stewardess with her handbag and just ran towards the exit with the rest of her hand luggage! Luckily, the airport police were faster than her. They got hold of her and brought her back in handcuffs.

This lady starts calling out to me... "my daughter... my daughter!.." how could you do this to me..... that's when I caught on. She was carrying drugs, and she was trying to implicate me! Luckily for me, the gentleman who had helped her with her luggage came forward and told the airport police that me and her had just met on the plane. The police took my passport and asked her to reveal my full names if it was true we were traveling together.

By God's grace, I had not even told her my first name! I was still asked to follow the police to a little room where I was questioned extensively. Where did I meet her?... where did I board... where did she board? Etc... And my luggage was extensively searched and dusted for fingerprints. They dusted all her luggage, and my fingerprints were not found anywhere on her luggage or on her handbag!

I was let go with advice never ever to touch anyone's luggage either in flight or at the airport. So from that day, I don't care how much luggage you have, you will deal with it yourself. I will not even offer you a trolley to put your luggage on! Your luggage... your problem.... is my policy. And if you can't reach the overhead compartment, and I am the nearest person, please call the cabin crew because all I will do is give you a blank stare and then look away!

A lesson to glean therein for intending air travelers: Written by - Paul Odofin and revised by John Orimbo✍🏽

04/05/2024

04/05/2024

Conjoined twins Abby and Brittany Hensel spotted out for the first time after wedding to army vet Josh Bowling — see the ring
Borrowed

02/05/2024

My husband came home and met his friend in our house eating (I served him food when he came cos each time he come to visit my husband I serve them together
But this time around he came when my husband had gone out) My husband walked in with a heavy face and just greeted us like he was forced to greet us. He went straight to the room and didn't come out.

I excused myself and left his friend still eating, wen I got to the room I met my husband on the bed.
I asked if he didn't see his friend and why he is here all alone.
The next thing I heard was gbasgbos on my face💔😳
Daniel what did I do? He gave me another fried slap😭 and he began to rain insults on me as to why I gave his friend food and sat comfortably gisting when he was away.....
I could say a word, he pushed me and walked away.

I over heard him telling his friend he was going out that they will see tomorrow. I couldn't come out to even clear the dishes until his friend left.
He came back this morning and wen I asked where he slept, he asked me to leave his house if I can't stay with him without asking where he's coming from starting from today.
I'm not just confused but blank, I don't know if I should talk to him about his friends visit or b mute or just leave.
Pls help me out💔
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28/04/2024

China invents a battery that lasts for 50yrs without charging

26/04/2024

A beer company was hiring a taster, Someone to taste the beers before they are taken for selling. So they placed adverts and one afternoon, my friend walked into the manager's office asking to be employed.

The manager tried to figure out how he could drive him away but couldn't come up with an idea, so he decided to give him a trial. He ordered his secretary to give him a glass of wine 🍷

He took a sip and said, "It's Red wine, Varietal, three years old, grown on rift valley, matured in steel containers."

"That's correct!" The manager exclaimed, "Well give him another one let's see." So he was given.

He took a sip again and said, "It's Guinness, a combination of barley, roast malt extract, and brewers yeast brewed around Thika road in Nairobi, Kenya 2 years ago"

"Incredible!" said the manager.

Now the manager went closer to the secretary and whispered to her saying, "Go get some of your urine in a cup let's see if he will get that."

So my friend was given the cup of urine. He took a sip, turned to the manager and said, "Female urine, 26 years old, 2 weeks pregnant and if I'm not given this job, Sir I will tell your wife who is responsible for the pregnancy"

both the manager and the secretary fainted.

My friend got the job.🚶🏼‍♂️🚶🏼‍♂️🚶🏼‍♂️🚶🏼‍♂️🚶🏼‍♂️🚶🏼‍♂️🚶🏼‍♂️
Borrowed

17/04/2024

Living Abroad and Building for Caretakers to Enjoy, The Wisdom of the African

I recently argued that many caretakers looking after the properties of those living abroad are the true owners or beneficiaries of these properties.

Usually, an African will erect a beautiful house back home while living abroad and then another person called a caretaker will be employed to live in the house, enjoy the house and watch over the house every day.

The legal/actual owner visits once a year for about 2-3 weeks to enjoy the property. The caretaker enjoys it every day.

Interestingly, the caretakers enjoy the property right from completion, when everything is fresh and beautiful. The legal owner may finally return home 10 or 15 years later, if lucky, to enjoy the remnant of the property; when style, taste, and beauty have all diminished.

Why? Because we are told this is what we ought to do. Build back home when you are never there, spend your money on things far away from you, for others to enjoy.

Even if I was not a minimalist, I couldn’t also see any good reason why a person with a family size of 3 or 4, wife and a child or two children, would build a 9-bedroom house in Africa; leaving about 6 rooms empty all the time to be occupied probably by the ghosts of their ancestors. Obviously a wastage in having a 9-bedroom family house, that the rooms are never used by the family, and the cost of maintenance is always a financial drain or another waste of resources.

You wouldn’t go and buy 10 doughnuts in the morning and just eat 3 and throw away the 7, simply because you can afford them. So why do the same with buildings?

I know someone who is building a 12-bedroom house in his village as his personal residence and this has taken 9 years so far, he is still on it. In the meantime, he is renting a small room in the US and he says he will one day leave to go back home to live in his mansion. He may die in US. Currently the design of this mansion is even outdated, and he has at least 5 years more to complete based on the pace.

In 2018, a certain young man, 43 years, died in the USA from a heart attack while asleep. It was 3 days after his death that he was found. He too was living in a small room, working 16 hours a day for 6 days and putting all his monies into building a 9-bedroom house back home on a piece of land he bought. When he died, his family/wife sold the house. It was too big for them to even maintain if it was completed. This was not also completed.

A lot of Africans abroad indeed build houses back home to create a certain impression of themselves or just to show off, and while doing so, they forget to live in the moment thinking they will one day, when on pension or old, go and enjoy these houses.

Who is an old man or woman going to impress? At 65 and over, you will be frail, battling to live each day and no one will care. How many people really live to enjoy anything beyond the pension age? At age 65 or 70. What would you be doing with a 12-bedroom residential house? In fact, how are you going to climb the stairs at that age?

When white people get old, they sell their huge houses to downsize, but we seem to want to live like rats when young and energetic, and then live like kings and queens when we are about to die.

While we must plan for the future, we must do so prudently and with the wisdom that today is all we really have, the future is a probability. Don’t grossly neglect your now because of a probability; tomorrow.

Invest in your future but do so while living a meaningful and balanced life today.

14/04/2024

The UK condemns Iran's attack against Israel.

14/04/2024

Germany stands with Israel

14/04/2024

Last few hours in Israel.

14/04/2024

President Biden promises support to Israel.

14/04/2024

Israel responded to the attack.

14/04/2024

Iran confirms striking Israel military bases

12/04/2024

The demand for Toyota Probox/Succeed in Jamaica has driven up prices due to the popularity of modifications like sunroofs, moonroofs, body kits, and custom rims. This niche market presents an entrepreneurial opportunity in Uganda for savvy individuals to tap into the modding hustle, offering after-market upgrades to clients willing to pay a premium for standout vehicles.

26/02/2024

The parent administered discipline in response to the child's theft of Ksh500. While recognizing the importance of discipline, this was excessive.

15/02/2024

Woman sentenced to life imprisonment for killing family members for insurance payout

According to Zimoja ( Newsletter) , in January 2019, Keletsang Martha Motladile hired inkabi to kill her cousin and was never caught. She received a lump sum from an insurance payout and two months later in March of the same year, she had her sister and her nephew killed, again with the intention of cashing in on insurance payout. She received R347 000 lump sum from that. But her reign of terror came to an end weeks later when she was arrested together with a hitman. On Tuesday, the High Court of South Africa Free State Division, sitting in Bloemfontein sentenced her and the hitman, Molefi Molise, to life in prison for the murders of her three relatives.

Senokoatsane said that the investigations also proved that the hitman was paid an amount of R29 000 for the murders of her relatives.

13/02/2024

[2024 Global Korea Scholarship for Graduate Degrees (Embassy Track)]

The announcement for the 2024 Global Korea Scholarship for Graduate Degrees has been released.

Please check the link here for detailed information:
https://overseas.mofa.go.kr/ug-en/brd/m_10288/view.do?seq=759498&page=1

12/02/2024

TikTok often provides superficial content that appears deep, offering glimpses of therapy, stories, advice, and lifestyle. However, it lacks true substance and fails to bring about meaningful change in one's life, offering only a facade of depth.
What do you think?

12/02/2024

Happy birthday H.E Bobi Wine the Uganda visionary leader! May this year bring you joy and renewed determination as you prepare for the challenges and triumphs ahead in 2026.

08/02/2024

𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐁𝐮𝐬 𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠

Shock and grief engulfed passengers on a link bus REG No. UBG 040H after their yet-to-be identified driver died as he was driving from Kampala to Kasese.

According to passengers, the deceased reduced speed on highway before he later stopped on the roadside & died.

08/02/2024

This is a picture of the interior of an Aeroplane in 1930...

I don't know what you are inventing, don't wait for a Perfect product before you launch.

Launch and grow...

Start without shape or form... Start not knowing the full picture... Start while you are still afraid of taking the first step.... Anything can happen when you start but nothing can happen if you don't start.

This picture inspires me always. I hope it inspires you too.

06/02/2024

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14/11/2023

Stroke has a new indicator! They say if you forward this to ten people, you stand a chance of saving one life. Will you send this along? Blood Clots/Stroke - They Now Have a Fourth Indicator, the Tongue:

During a BBQ, a woman stumbled and took a little fall - she assured everyone that she was fine (they offered to call paramedics) ...she said she had just tripped over a brick because of her new shoes.

They got her cleaned up and got her a new plate of food. While she appeared a bit shaken up, Jane went about enjoying herself the rest of the evening.

Jane's husband called later telling everyone that his wife had been taken to the hospital - (at 6:00 PM Jane passed away.) She had suffered a stroke at the BBQ. Had they known how to identify the signs of a stroke, perhaps Jane would be with us today. Some don't die. They end up in a helpless, hopeless condition instead.

It only takes a minute to read this.

A neurologist says that if he can get to a stroke victim within 3 hours he can totally reverse the effects of a stroke...totally. He said the trick was getting a stroke recognized, diagnosed, and then getting the patient medically cared for within 3 hours, which is tough.
>>RECOGNIZING A STROKE

11/11/2023

COPIED:

Have you ever thought about this?
In a hundred years, in 2123, there will be none of us, not even our relatives and friends.
Strangers will live in our homes that we built with a lot of effort and failure. They will have all the stuff we have or throw it in the dustbin. Even the car, for which we spent a fortune, will be lying somewhere in a dump.
Our descendants will not remember us and only a few will know who we were. Who among us knows their great-grandfather?
After death, they will remember us for a few more years, then we will be just a portrait on someone's bookshelf (if at all).
A few years later our photos and actions will be forgotten.
We will not live in the memories of anyone anymore.
If you just stopped to think about it one day, you might understand how pointless it is to work for more and more.
If we thought and understood that we are just a dot in the history of mankind, let alone the earth or the universe, we would certainly look at our lives and other people differently.
We always striving for more and more and no time for what really matters.... the moments and the relationships.
If we thought about and spent more time HERE AND NOW, we would really enjoy life.
We would enjoy walks we never had time for.
We would love a hug. We would enjoy kisses from our children...the moments that really count, but we ran out of time. Those would certainly be the most beautiful and best moments to remember and imprinted deep within ourselves.
This is how we would fill our lives with joy.
But now we fill it with greed, intolerance and hate.
There is still time.
Think about it.