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MY SECRET AFFAIR WITH MAMA BOLAJI. Every morning i will wake up and look forward to greeting her, she lived in our Neighborhood, light complexioned and always with a ready smile.  When she moved into the neighborhood, i assisted them that day in moving their things and she gave me some sweets that day and she gave me the warmest smile and a pat on my back with these words "thank you my dear". I felt a warm glow around my heart region and that was where it began. ( Kind words were hard to come by) Any day i greeted her, she would either say how are you my love or my dear? As that 11yr old boy i sensed in my small brain that she liked me and we have an understanding. I always greeted her like we were having a secret affair, i would make sure no one was around.  Until one day while i was playing with my friends on the street and she suddenly came out of her house to do some chores outside and everyone of us became uneasy, suddenly everyone lost interest in the "world scatte...

  Yam as we all know, except in the US where they sometimes call sweet potato yam is a highly fibrous vegetable with a great source of potassium,magnassium and antioxidants. It can be prepared in several ways which includes roasting, boiling, pounding, frying etc. It can be taken with egg source, peanut butter, vegetable oil,palm oil etc when boiled, roasted or fried soup when pounded, the list goes on. Benue yam??  What is so spectacular about this Benue yam that made it gain the status as being the best yam in Nigeria? A lot of people talk about it's great taste compared to yams from other regions. Thanks to the extremely fertile soil the state was blessed with. I believe there are other features which makes it standout. Feel free to drop them in the comment section below. In this article we are going to learn a low budget way of preparing yam and that is boiling.  So how do we boil our yams, first off you want to peel off the back, be careful not to get the peel allove...