NORTH KOREA FIRED SEVERAL BALLISTIC MISSILES INTO THE SEA. (PHOTO).
North Korea fired several ballistic missiles into the sea Monday, South Korea’s military said, hours after South Korean and U.S. troops kicked off their large annual combined drills, which the North views as an invasion rehearsal. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said the missile firings, North Korea’s fifth missile launch event this year, were detected from the North’s Hwanghae province but gave no further details such as how far they flew. Earlier Monday, the South Korean and U.S. militaries began their annual joint military exercises, which are scheduled to last 11 days. The Freedom Shield command post exercise began after the South Korean and U.S. militaries paused live-fire training while Seoul investigates how two of its fighter jets mistakenly bombed a civilian area during a warm-up drill last week. The drills' start drew the condemnation of nuclear-armed North Korea, which issued a government statement calling the exercises a “dangerous provocative act...
According to a post on facebook,the gentleman seen in the photo above is a Nigerian/Anambra state citizen and he roasts corn in Dubai as a delicacy and sells them to passersby.In an exclusive chat with Anambra State Online media that Mr Obinna opened up on how he stated the business and the benefits .He says ''My name is Obinna,When i arrived Dubai and couldn't get a job,i decided to think out of the box on what to do to make a living and one day,while in a local restaurant,a man came and placed an order..When the waiter came with the order,it was Chicken With Mashed Potato and Grilled Corn but the corn was not roasted the native Nigerian way as we do with coals.That was when the idea came and i decided to give it a try.I contacted a local farmer who supplied raw corn for me and started roasting them close to my neighborhood across the street.At first,people who passed by looked at me with curiosity as they had never seen anything of its kind up until one man approached me and i gave him one corn cob to taste.He liked it and the following day,invited 4 of his friends who bought and even took some home''.According to Obinna,that day marked the beginning of his turnaround in the business.The business according to him is the first of it's kind in Dubai and in no time became a popular delicacy in the neighborhood with people especially Nigerians living there who want to have a taste of him on a daily basis''.When asked how much he makes as profit Obinna smiled and said ''The profits are not bad.I sell each corn cob for about 5 to 8 Dirham depending on the size and on a very good day,i take about 60 to 80 Dirham {22$USD} {8,000} home.'',he said.
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