Renegades in the kitchen
Amazing world of male cooks
By TESSY IGOMU
Wednesday, July 1, 2009

From afar, a titillating aroma pervades the atmosphere, causing the stomach to quiver with hunger. An attempt to trace the source of the ‘unsettling’ whiff leads you to a restaurant besieged by Okada riders and other artisans. A few minutes at the place, you’ve made a startling discovery: | Read more

• Those who beg lack intelligence, says crippled cobbler
• Things fall apart
• Uncommon love
• Total war
• SADI’s big treat for Shuwa Arab kids
• Day Anambra community went agog for Annie Okonkwo
• Emissaries of death and distress
• From Epe, good tidings for fish lovers
• Mile 2 ECOWAS Park
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• A day on the Snake Island
• Kidnapped
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• ROAD TO NOWHERE Nigerians groan over non-
• Bitter pill for amiable teacher
• Bad roads torture Amuwo-Odofin residents
• When judges, lawyers dropped wigs for women
• Daniel’s commissioner blesses Ifo council residents
• Big twist in missing girl’s tale
• A day at sea with US Marines
• Evans’ literary manna for Lagos pupils
• Afribank’s lifeline for charity homes
• ‘Life is no fun on the refuse dump’
• ‘We’re building estates to create jobs’
• Better life for Iba residents
• …As Spring of Life Church turns 10
• Fresh e-trends from library eggheads
• Waiting for the flood
• Royal drums rumble in Orlu
• Lagos Mosquito Town wears new look
• Deep sighs from a frustrated lady
• Waiting for the flood
• When Kano cops bid farewell to top crime buster
• Showers of pain
• In two years, Fashola has revolutionized Lagos roads
• Controversy over missing girl
• New web site rebrands Nigeria
• Methodist clerics offer hope for troubled world
• War against road accidents
• Double trouble
• Windstorm devastates Cross River communities
• Big boat for fishers of men
• When prayers rained on Igboland
• Tension grips Ogun communities over toll gate
• Memories of BOI implosion
• Group soothes accident victim’s pains
• Demolition fever grips Lagos community
• Agege traders lament demolition squad’s visit
• From Ireland with passion for Lagos slum
• Orji’s wife shocks blind widow with new home
• Day council boss dazzled cops
• Cleric showers love on the under-privileged
• No respite yet for Lagos crumbling buildings
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• Why Aniocha South is working, by council boss
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• Day Egba kings, chiefs turned prayer warriors
• When Customs chiefs exchanged batons
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• Adedipe’s day of cheers and garlands
• It’s a shame that Nigeria relies solely on oil –ICT expert
• Journalist ravaged by breast cancer
• LCC restates commitment to Lekki highway
• Cancer of the eye Girl’s family seeks N3.5m
• Group educates women on fibroid
• Fears over deregulation
• Oyo: Portrait of a thrilling town
• Wicked fire unleashes hell on Lagos family
• Fresh breeze on Jigawa roads
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• Day ANCOR ship berthed in Lagos
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• When council boss dazzled Yaba residents
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• ‘How we’ll spend 2009’
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• Fashola pledges more exciting times
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• A cleric’s call for national rebirth
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• When Nigerians marched against corruption
• Uma Ukpai’s crusade bathes Uyo with miracles
• …How youngsters plan to celebrate yuletide
• Day Igbo group set Kaduna agog
• In Borno, solar energy to the rescue
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• Day Igbo group set Kaduna agog
• Christian group seeks unity among churches
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• When Tessy and Isaac walked down the aisle
• Cleric battles auto company over Ford car
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• Back on the beat
• A walk against child abuse
• Anxiety over Lagos bridges
• Olokun’s carnival of culture and colour
• …As Ndigbo marks cultural fiesta in Lagos
• Rage of the bulldozers
• A day at the peoples’ parliament
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• ‘Our ordeal with heavy trucks’
• CLOSE SHAVE ... How hospital’s security guard
• Oshiomhole’s day with Benin flood victims
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• When Ekiti stood still for Fajuyi
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• Kicked out
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• How policemen, LASTMA officials cause chaos on Mile 2 bridge
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• Each day, I feel like committing suicide
• ‘Why Egypt supports Arabic language in Nigeria’
• Maiduguri’s metamorphosis
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• ORCO’s redemption songs for the needy
• Ikeja’s day of rage
• Back from the dead
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• How to rid Nigerian cities of criminals, by US-based expert
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• Danger!
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• Living on the precipice
• Mothers from hell
• BIG SHAME
• Oriental endorsement
• Pastor’s day with the downtrodden
• Revolt in the land
• Day of football in UNIOSUN
• Okogie takes Catholics to task at NEC meeting
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• Sunny day for thunderstorm victims
• Day students marched for Gov. Orji
• DEATH TRAP
• Metamorphosis of Tejuosho
• Ride for life
• PFANN’s confab sets agenda for Nigeria
• TIME TICKS
• All eyes on Zuma Rock
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• Season of starvation
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• FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN
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• Church offers free medicare
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• Day Ijaw women united to end crisis in the Niger Delta
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• HELPING HANDS
• How man hypnotised me and stole my car – Driver
• BABY AFTER 19 YEARS
• Fury on the road
• Cultural fes
• Parable of mustard seed
• TO FASHOLA IN TEARS
• Community cries out over bad road
• Testimonies on marble
• Our lives, our woes
• Ball of fire
• Day the world came to Queensland
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• Time to celebrate
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• BIG TREAT
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• TRIUMPHAL ENTRY
• Pomp as UBA unveils Issele-Uku office in Delta State
• Looming disaster
• Ubulu-Uku indigenes thrill Lagos with culture heritage
• BRIDGE OBASANJO BUILT
• Tears, pains as 3 buildings go up in flame
• Arabian night
• DEATH TRAP
• Under rain and sun, Latter-day Saints clean up Nigeria
• Milk of kindness from Soroptimists
• BIZARRE
• Day youths learnt about evils of illegal migration
• TEARS AND PAINS
• GOD BLESS THE KING
• Bad roads cut off Iganmu
• It’s celebration time
• ANGRY COMPATRIOTS
• Open access
• NGO moves to empower youths
• VIGIL FOR THE NIGHTMARE
• Face-off
• Tears for Polo Park
• Succour for flood victims
• LOOMING DANGER
• Magic of LEEMP
• Wazobia honour for Wema Bank
• Rotary Club bags international award
• HIGHWAY TO HELL
• Bishop oterai’s day of joy
• PRIMITIVE FURY
• MIRACLE BABY!
• Spiritual tonic
• Testimony galore as church celebrates anniversary
• TEARS ON THE PLATEAU
• UNICEF sends off two staff members
• Succour for motherless triplets
• DISASTER WAITING TO HAPPEN
• Spiritual reception for Fashola at AUS
• Pomp as new prison officers pass out of school
• THIS IS TERRIBLE!
• Tragedy waiting to happen
• Miracle baby
• Refugees at home
• RAIN OF TEARS
• Operation rescue Lagos-Benin road
• People’s parliament
• Kids, schools put smile on faces of underprivileged
• HELL WAY
• Bulldozer rolls over Lagos community
• Innerwheel empowers widows
• BRIDGE OF DEATH
• Bus rapid trauma (BRT)
• Earth tremor at Naval headquarters
• FEAST FOR THE GODS
• Benue wears new look
• Artefacts beautify Calabar
• Day Pastor Odukoya taught men importance of embracing Christ
• SORROW AND TEARS
• Even as roads are in bad condition, good ones are destroyed for cables in
• Halleluyah as Igwe of Catholic Church is installed
• Benue wears new look
• DAY OF RAGE
• From pothole to crater
• Quareeb family celebrates 8th anniversary in style
• Brothers at war
• ONE, TWO, THREE
• Down but not out
• Church gives prisoners hope
• Smiles as LDS Charities donates boreholes to three Lagos communities
• HARD TIMES
• Igwe seeks end to human rights abuse
• Journalists fight AIDS
• ‘A man’s encounter with strange voices’
• THIS BOY HAS A DREAM
• Pomp as Ansar-Ud-Deen sends off Tinubu
• DEATH TRAP
• Even as Obasanjo bows out of office, his wife mounts the throne
• Mu’azu’s parting gift to Bauchi
• TEARS AND PAINS
• Stranded Bakassi indigenes shout
• In black outfits, women mourn election fraud
• The world of tanker drivers
• Yar’Adua ’ll soon have a befitting Presidential lodge in Katsina
• A community’s headache
• At last, Enugwu-Adazi gets Obi
• First time voters... and the veterans
• Home for Mother Theresa
• ONE ARM ORPHAN
• New deal for discharged prisoners
• Imoga community reels under neglect
• Human rights amazon
• KINGS OF THE ROAD
• Executive corps member
• Pomp, praises as Muslims turban faithful
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• Akera community rolls out drums for Daniel, others
• Group puts smile on faces of war veterans
• Pomp as Kanuri communty turbans new Sarkin Kasuwa
• FRIEND OF LUNATICS
• The rich also cry
• Pomp as kids showcase culture
• Yabatech bubbles for WAPOGA
• Ladies’ night
• Fashanu trains youths on tyre protection
• Spiritual alliance
• War game
• Day of rage
• Another kunta kunte
• John Holt empowers bike riders with Riding Academy
• YemKem’s Pathfinder Hotel lights up Ekiti
• TRIPLETS
• Old couples’ day
• Lions roar in Abeokuta
• Hospital for cars
• If I’d kept quiet, I’ll be dead now • HIV positive student graduates from NIJ, finds
• Rotary club storms Badagry with gifts
• At 70, this man is still single
• Silent philanthropist
• Pomp as Igbo, Hausa honour Fashola
• Water, water everwhere
• Good news for bread lovers
• Bad road gives estate residents migraine
• City of garbage
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• New king born
• Operation keep Lagos clean
• FRIEND OF BABIES
• MUM, I’M SUFFERING
• Uga showcases culture at Obuofor festival

• Lady car doctors
• Pomp as Ijebu-Jesha honours Awoyinfa
• FIRE FOR FIRE
• Agony of a mother
• Fuel fire: One month after, residents still in agony
• New year eve disaster
• CRUEL FATE
• Better life for rural people
• For your eyes only
• Disabled with difference
• ARMY OF OCCUPATION
• Life under Carter Bridge
• Eminent elite visit SOS village
• Angels on wheels
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• LOVE BOAT
• With red caps, Igbo paint Ibadan red
• Celebration time at Assemblies of God
• Day Lagos stood still for Orsu people
• WEDLOCK OF GODS
• Pomp as Enyiogugu showers sons, daughters with award
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• Obosi people thank God in style
• GLORIFIED GHETTO
• ADC plane crash survivor thanks God
• FESTAC residents give Guru Maharaji quit notice
• Day Liz Benson mesmerized Lagosians with God’s word
• SUPERMAN
• Erosion eats up Ekwulobia
• Day IWF honoured philanthropists
• First beaten, twice shy
• Toast to refugees
• Fanfare as Customs moves to improve image
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• New king is born
• All for humanity
• Group puts smile on faces of kids suffering from cancer
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• For Liberian refugees, it’s time to go
• Prayer as Cardinal Okogie dedicates church
• His people’s servant
• ROAD TO POWER
• Rotary amplifies vision of Okota residents
• All for the less privileged
• Encomium as friends see off man of God
• Fear of evil day
• Ugwunagbo people unite in style
• Soldiers display combat skills in Lagos
• Unmasked
• NIGHTMARE
• Pain, anguish on Benin-Ore road
• Measles: Mass immunization kicks off in Lagos
• American evokes slave trade memory
• MODERN DAY EDEN
• He came home to bury his mum and became king
• Day law students went to battle for Akande’s sake
• Even in death, Bimbo Odukoya speaks
• HOME-BOUND
• Cruel fate
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• A free splash of medicare
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• Ecomiums as Mbang clocks 70
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• Lagos drivers unveil corporate office
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• INCREDIBLE
• Day Nigeria, Switzerland signed the dotted lines
• Rousing reception for ANLCA’s new boss
• International revival for Nigeria over 2007
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• Evening tragedy
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• Day Bayelsa stoodstill for AIDS
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• Road unions raise alarm on plans to take over motor park
• RCCG parish marks six years with pomp and ceremony
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• Damsels jostle for ‘Igbo face’ 2006
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• Funfare as church holds harvest thanksgiving
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• HUMAN CARGO..
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• Day stranded passengers battled ...
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• Trouble looms over planned ...
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• Anglican voice on parade
• ZIP UP: These ladies have vowed not to marry
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• Cross River donates wheelchairs to the disabled
• Enugu just like huge construction site
• WORLD BANK TO THE RESCUE
• Catholic students wage war against social vices
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• Rotary's new king mounts the throne
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• The week honours 4 govs
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• Bachama kingdom toasts to peaceful co-existence
• Council teaches people how to make money from waste
• Young professionals initiated into IFBPW
• Day Richard Brandson danced Owambe better than Yorubas
• UNOY celebrates Nigerian youths
• How Jalingo flood swept hundreds of lives away
• Niger boat mishap: Counting the losses
• ‘I am finished’
• Isienyi-Ukwu Amakama: Village where bees are guards
• Muslims blame government for poor hajj operation
• Village head sells shrine, eats akara then hangs self
• Bad roads overwhelm Uyo
• Day Obasanjo’s son queued at land registry
• Ooni hosts Lagos children
• Celebration as Islamic leader turns 70
• Corps member puts smile on Imgbi residents’ faces
• Living with ghosts… Can you?
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• AWKA WONDERWind of transformation hits UNIZIK
• Ebonyi, Cross River communities clash
• NGO gives widows succour
• For refusing to surrender his land to Imo governor’s aide, this man
• Ondo gives perm secs instruments
• Pomp in Lekki as STC marks decade of excellence
• Move to restore FESTAC Town’s lost glory
• THE MAN DIED…Flood of tears as The Sun, relatives mourn Raymond
• Inner Wheel’s king mounts the throne with funfair
• Women, group defend beggers
• Day soldiers defied rain to maintain 143 years tradition
• FRIEND OF THE INSANE-
• Students paint UNILAG red with carnival
• School makes Mariri, Gurza theatre of war
• Ijesha bridge has fallen down!
• Friends, associates rally round Staphaine
• Home where youths sharpen their vision
• Fathers celebrate in style
• Institute expresses worry over collapsed buildings
• Succour to the weary
• How royal coup brought me to the throne
• Eight fight for Face of Eva
• Day 23 ‘Virgins’ developed wings
• Oluke community sheds hot tears over bad road
• UNUSUAL WELCOME-Nigerians tell new Indian envoy sins of his countrymen
• This man is hottest hair weaver in Aba
• Peep into Aba’s sacred place
• CBN, tenants fight over quarters
• FLOOD OF TEARS
• New road opens up Ijegun community
• LG gives schools facelift
• Day UNIPORT turned professors into students
• Egbema: One people tucked
• Honour for freight forwarder
• Residents cry out over bad road
• Ikono elders live in fear, send SOS to Obasanjo
• Mbaise moves closer to God
• Blind people spoil for war
• TASTE OF HELL
• Group showers Home with gifts
• How Gov. Adamu crossed the bridge
• Oba makes triumphant return
• NIGERIA’S OLDEST KING He is 90 and has ruled for 60 years
• Day Conoil turned Kaduna to dancing ground
• Demolition raises dust in Cross River
• All eyes on Aba as church’s temple opens
• Estate residents go to war over mortuary
• War on area boys: Soldiers confront Lagos street urchins
• Benue empowers grassroots with LEEMP
• Soccer arrests Brass youngsters
• INDIAN MAGIC
• Why accidents happen
• Train accident: No compensation
• LOOMING DISASTER: Fear of epidemic grips inhabitants
• Sharia or no Sharia, youth service is funin Zamfara
• Hope dries tears in Akassa
• You can live in a glass house and throw stone
• CULTURAL CARNIVAL
• FESTAC residents hit council below the belt
• Day of fun for NIPR members
• Things fall apart
• Western Union Money Transfer marks 10th anniversary in style
• Heaps of refuse, bad road give Agbara community headache
• Ilorin stands still for Mr. Speaker