Adonmu (Our Beauty)

Tell us about yourself  My Name is Ojoma Ahmed, from Kogi state, a mum of 2 kids. Until recently, I have been just an IT professional (Business Intelligence) and then started an NGO about a year ago, and from that sprung a business idea. Tell us about your business, how did you start?  It’s interesting how life throws you lemons and you then make lemonades. My partner suffered a heart attack and I spent 3 months going in and out of hospital caring for him. Then I had an epiphany - a sudden realization that I needed to do something with my mundane 9-5 job and give back by developing my community.  I had a building project going on at the time, it was meant to house some family members, but I decided to use it as a training hub to offer free training to girls and young woman, then I started a community project to mechanize palm oil processing in my village, to support the women. Then it turned to a business Idea, I remembered my grand mum raised he...

Autism is a condition where a person is unable to communicate and interact with others. The person also shows some unusual behaviors that include repeating certain actions, such as shaking or nodding the head, rocking self, pacing or spinning around. Autism affects different people in different ways, it affects every race and every social class. There are over 100,000 reported cases, yearly, in Nigeria. Children with Autism find it difficult to understand what others think or feel, they find it difficult to express themselves with words or gestures. If the child is very sensitive, he/she may get troubled, or even pained, by sound, touch, smell or sights that others see as normal. Boys are 4 times more likely to be autistic than girls. Symptoms of autism usually begin to show around the first 3 years of a child's life. Even though a person with autism may find it difficult to communicate, he/she may excel in other areas like art, music, math or memorizing facts. Cause Th...

From the fruit of the Coconut Palm Tree, we press the pale-yellow oil known as Coconut Oil. The coconut got its name from Portugese and Spanish sailors who saw its resemblance to a face and called it "coco" which means head or skull. This was because of the three marking on the shell which resembled a human face. The coconut palm grows in tropical shorelines and thrives on sandy soil, abundant sunlight and regular rainfall. The fruit is fibrous with a hard shell on the inside, housing water called "coconut juice". The coconut is a nutritious source of meat, juice, milk and oil, that has nourished people all over the world for centuries. Coconut oil is pressed from fleshy white "meat" of mature coconuts. Process of Extraction 1000 coconuts weigh about 1440kg, and give about 170kg of coconut meat. This amount produces about 70 liters of coconut oil. There are basically two methods for pressing coconut oil from the fruit; the wet method and ...