So much in the days gone by, even strangers could travel from one locality to another without worrying about a place to sleep and food to eat in Africa. That was ones the level of hospitality in Africa.
However as villages grow to become town and towns to become cities,this long cherished value appears to be on the decline. Food is one of man's basic need, and most people prefer the food of their native land. So today, many visitors book into hotels and spend time perusing menus of meals they hope will be as appetising as promised in print.
In Africa it is only the wealthy and the relatively few others who have had the opportunity to travel abroad, who have acquired an appetite for foreign food. The majority of African people eat traditional food, which consists of Fufu, plantain, cocoyam, cassava and so on. These are usually served with sauces of which there is a great variety.
In most countries in Africa, you'll discover that all the big hotels specialized in foreign meals. Only few serve good quality African food. The queue to eat in such restaurants are so long that bookings well in advance have become a prerequisite.
In Abidjan African dishes were virtually absent from the menus of most of the luxurious hotels and restaurants. In Banjul on the other hand, there was wide variety of African food, though the African restaurant lacked the authentic African atmosphere,and the best hotels and restaurants serve European food almost exclusively.
When questions are asked, some hoteliers were reluctant to discuss the lack if African food in their restaurants. The general rationalization was that, their restaurant are international. But few international restaurants in other parts of the world serve even one dish of African food.
Another response was:'Most of our customers are European so we have to prepare European food'. But this is not tenable; vistors to China or India are served with Chinese or Indian food. In fact, those Indians, Chinese and other people who travel to other countries of the world, establish restaurant and promote the dishes of their people.
As the cities of Africa grow rapidly, in many cases people's home become situated far away from work. To dash to and fro during the lunch hour break is so wearisome that many Africans now eat in restaurants in the city. Here lies, a strong reasons for catering to a demand that is thoroughly African.
Furthermore,too many restaurants in Africa buy and use imported foods,though they are almost always full of chemical preservatives and do not taste as good as the natural products since they are usually canned, salted or frozen. Imported food also creates a drain on the economy of developing African countries and their meagre budgets, and deprives indigenous farmers of markets for their produce.
The most salient reason at this stage of our development is that the neo-colonial practice of making developing nations dependent on foreign goods. This helps to keep developing countries unindustrialized, powerless, and perpetual sources of raw materials dependent on external markets for finished products.
The situation is so bad that even Ghana and Nigeria Airways serve mostly European food to passengers.
It is time to change these trends. Africans and Europeans who insist on foreign meals should eat in foreign restaurants abroad;but while in Africa they should dance to rhythm of our drums.



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By LAWANI MIKAIRU
There was panic yesterday at the Murtala Mohammed
International Airport, MMIA, Lagos as a Nigerian, who
had already been cured of Ebola Virus Disease in Sierra
Leone arrived aboard Royal Air Maroc.
The ebola victim, Mr. Theophilus Onnakhinon, was flown
from Sierra Leone by the airline while his younger
brother, Mr. Chinedu Eroka was said to have absconded
from the Sierra Leonean authorities. It was not however
clear why Eroka absconded.
A source close to the Port Health at the Lagos Airport
confided in aviation reporters yesterday that the victim
had already been treated of Ebola virus in Sierra Leone
and cured of the disease by the health authorities of that
country after some weeks in their custody.
The source who doesn’t want to be named as he was not
allowed to talk to the media on the issue said that the
victim was assisted into the country by the Nigeria’s
consular officer, Mrs. T. Mohammed.
According to the source, the consular officer
accompanied the victim into the country in order to
avoid stigmatization by the Nigerian health officials and
other authorities at the airport.
On arrival in Nigeria, the victim was immediately handed
over to the Port Health officials at the Lagos airport who
immediately isolated and quarantined him.
As at the time of filing this report, the victim was said to
still being observed by the Port Health officials.
The source said that the essence of his being
quarantined in the country was for the Nigerian officials
to also check his health status and confirm that he was
free of the disease before being released to the public.
The source said, “It is true that there was Ebola scare at
the Lagos airport today, (yesterday) but the fact is that
the victim had been cured of the disease in Sierra Leone
before being assisted into Nigeria by our consular officer
in that country and immediately he landed, he was
handed over to the port health authorities who
immediately carried out checks on him and isolated him
from the other passengers.
“But, the truth is that we just want to recheck what has
already been done by the Sierra Leonean authorities. You
know, we cannot take chances again in the country. I
can assure you that the situation is under control.”
However, the Port health services at the Lagos Airport
have declined to comment on the issue and directed our
enquiry to the Ministry of Health.

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President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan will tomorrow, Thursday, October 30 pick up the PDP nomination form for the 2015 Presidential elections.
This was made known in a statement signed by Reuben
Abati Special Adviser to the President (Media &
Publicity)
The President in the statement thanked all Nigerians,
members of the PDP, friends, associates, and all groups
who have been urging him to seek a second term in
office.
The statement read thus
“President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan will tomorrow,
Thursday, October 30 pick up the PDP nomination form
for the 2015 Presidential elections.
President Jonathan thanks all Nigerians, members of the
PDP, friends, associates, and all groups who in sincere
appreciation of the achievements of the administration
in the last four years, have been urging him to seek a
second term in office.
President Jonathan is greatly encouraged by the
overwhelming outpouring of goodwill and support, as
well as the confidence of the generality of Nigerians in
his ability to continue to transform the country for the
good of all of its people.
The President is also grateful to all the persons, groups
and communities who have sent donations, and made
pledges to assist him to pay the required N22 million for
the PDP Presidential Nomination Fee and Expression of
Interest Form.
He acknowledges, and accepts with immense gratitude,
the following donations and pledges that he has
received from a broad section of Nigerians:
1. Mr. Kennedy Ikenna Odoeme – N5, 000
2. Mr Ezemagu Sunday Nnamdi – N10, 000
3. PDP Governors – N22 Million
4. Transformation Agenda of Nigeria (TAN) – N22m
5. Ogbia LGA Stakeholders, Bayelsa state – N5m
6. Otuoke Community Stakeholders – N2m
7. Brass LGA Stakeholders, Bayelsa state – N50, 000
8. Bayelsa State PDP Stakeholders- N5m
9. Northern Youths Forum – N2m
10. Central Market Traders Union, Kaduna State – N1m
11. PDP Stakeholders, Zaria LGA – N500, 000
12.PDP Stakeholders, Yobe State – N500, 000
13.PDP Stakeholders, Kaduna State- N2m
14. Miyetti Allah Kautal Hore – N5m
15. The Goodluck Support Group, Gombe State – N1m
16. Adamawa State PDP Stakeholders – N3m
17. Ebonyi State PDP Stakeholders- N2m
18.Kogi State PDP Stakeholders – N5m
19. Rivers State PDP Stakeholders – N5m
20. The 2015 Project – N1m
21.Team Goodluck, Ondo North Senatorial District – N5m
22. Middle Belt PDP Women Support Group for GEJ 2015
– N500, 000
23. King David Generation Foundation, Jos – N200, 000
24. Behwong Weneng Yere Duk, Jos – N200,000
25. Redemption 3 Youth Organization, Plateau State –
N500, 000
26. Plateau State Indigenes Association, Abuja –
N300,000
27. Gombe Youth United for Goodluck Ebele Jonathan
2015 – N500, 000
28. Gombe Youth Vanguard for PDP- N500, 000
29. Yamahu/Deba Goodluck Support Group – N200, 000
30. Coalition of Gombe Support Groups for Goodluck
Ebele Jonathan – N2m
31. Hinna Youth Coalition for Goodluck – N500, 000
32. Nigerian Women Pray for Jonathan – N1m
33. National Association of Widows – N100, 000
34. National Council of Women Societies – N500, 000
35. Female members of the PDP Board of Trustees –
N500,000
36. Joint Association of Persons with Disabilities –
N100,000
37. National Association of Market Women – N500, 000
38. Community Awareness and Development Network –
N1 m
President Jonathan assures the donors that he will
continue to do his utmost best at all times to fully
justify the great confidence they have placed in his
leadership.”

GEJ till 2019..

You and I...one direction
the day I fall in love.....James Ingram nd Dolly parton
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manutdadex:
definetly Tesojue by reminence!! Wa fe ku laleyi!!?

definitely if ur in-laws should hear dat song dey will cancel d wedding and take their daughter away

boombay:

you are just too dull

ok

wow!! wonderful inspiring!! motivating!!...BTW

dis won't make FP cuz nobody is comparing some silly outfit.

these are the type of people we ought to celebrate not some #weedAddicts

LordEmperoris1:
Brain teaser. Answer this question if you are wise...You lost ur N50 and someone picked it and later comes to purchase something of N10 at your shop and u gave the person back the balance of N40 without knowing that the money belongs to u. Please can someone with sharp brain tell
me how much u're loosing?.
Let's see those with sharp brain

#50

dis nonsense will make FP

Yomieluv:
Awon Eiye Aiye.

u mean dis

politricks:
i am tired of all these kind of useless topics on frontpage

me too

davdandam:
Remove those comments and see nairaland fall. ....the diversity of everyone here makes it fun. Besides first to comment sha and bro it's not about age

that's Wat makes d whole tin interesting

wow!!
omo ur #Goons plenty o
HBD to you.

hmm...the Rap god is 42..

adeolacrown:Are you seeing anyone romantically?"

girlfriend:"No, I'm not," she replied.

adeolacrown:"Good. Please keep it that way. Because I
intend to ask you to marry me.

davido going places wizkid smoking weed on instagram

12.Richardkings is high on wet weed

Aliens
scientific Fiction

olu77:
But, come to think of it, if only that barstard Shekau had been aborted

Perhaps there would av been another terrorist sent from the pit if hell to terrorize Nigeria...

why call for abortion when you can use condom
people who go abortion and doctors who carry out abortion #GodisWatchingYouInHD.

don't know what dis confused old men are looking for...

Folksyharry:
I teach math in my PPA and matrices and determinants is among the topics I'm supposed to teach but I can't find it in the textbooks that were given to me by the school.
Pls I need someone to recommend a textbook that I can use to teach the students the topic so that I can tell the principal the right textbook he needs to buy.
I didn't learn futher math nor anything related to the topic when I was in the secondary school so I don't know which further math textbook has the topic but I can solve problems on it because I offered two courses that treated it extensively.

for matrice you can try Comprehensive Maths (ss1-3)combined and for determinants you can only find that in a further Maths textbook