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According to Duncan Smith, luck is great, but most of life is hard work. Today, we bring excerpts from the inspiring interview of a resilient and creative baker. Please sit back, grab your popcorn and enjoy. BACKGROUND My name is Ugese Oryiman Emmanuel, born into the family of Hon. Thomas Ugese of Vandeikya Local Government Area of Benue State. EDUCATION I had my Primary and Secondary education at Benue State University Staff School and Wantor Model College, Adikpo respectively. I proceeded to University of Mkar-Mkar, where I graduated with a bachelor's degree in Food Science and Technology. This has kept my passion intact and the zeal to do more has always been my desire. WHAT INSPIRED YOUR JOURNEY? Well for me, I really loved cakes right from time because, I remember while growing up I always got a cake on every birthday whether I was celebrating or not. Fast forward to my days in secondary education, where I started making garri cakes (LOL). And with YouT...

Influencing Products You Don't Use Should Be Made Criminal Offence -Actor Ugezu Nigerian Film director and actor Ugezu J. Ugezu, popularly known as Mr Surplus has said influencing products without using that particular product should be made a criminal offence. An advice he claims will help checkmate some ills in the society and heal the land. According to the director, social media influencers need to be cautioned from influencing products that they do not use personally. Ugezu said, “One of the many ways to start healing our land. Let it be made a criminal offence for influencers to boldly influence people to use what they are not using. This, in my considered view, will checkmate many things.” Credit: Instagram | ugezujugezu

I didn’t break my new husband’s home, Mercy Aigbe insists "My husband is a Muslim and he is allowed to have more than one wife. I did not break his marriage to Funsho.” . . . Popular actress, Mercy Aigbe, has rubbished insinuations that she was the spoke that crashed the wheel of her new husband, Kazeem Adeoti, aka Adekaz’s marriage to his first wife, Funsho. A photo shared by her former husband, Lanre Gentry, which went viral on the Internet showed the both of them with Adekaz and Funsho at a party. However, in a terse message sent to Saturday Beats, Aigbe stated that Gentry and Adeoti were never friends. She said, “They were never family friends as speculated by Funsho and what is been peddled on social media. The picture (in question) was taken in 2013 during Adekaz’s fortieth birthday, and I was still married to Gentry then. I attended the event with my then husband. My husband is a Muslim and he is allowed to have more than one wife. I did not break his marriage t...