Info Digest Nigeria

17/09/2026

Specie of the day - Ginger (Zingiber officinale)

Yoruba: Atale
Hausa: Chitta

Ginger is a flowering plant whose rhizome, ginger root or ginger, is widely used as a spice and a folk medicine. It is an herbaceous perennial that grows annual pseudostems about one meter tall, bearing narrow leaf blades. The inflorescences bear flowers having pale yellow petals with purple edges, and arise directly from the rhizome on separate shoots.

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16/09/2026

Bitter Leaf (Vernonia amygdalina)

Yoruba: Ewuro
Igbo: Onugbu
Hausa: Shuwaka

Shrub native to tropical Africa whose bitter leaves are used both as a vegetable and as medicine...

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15/09/2026

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14/09/2026

Specie of the day - Turmeric

Yoruba: Ata ile pupa

Turmeric, or Curcuma longa, is a flowering plant in the ginger family Zingiberaceae. It is a perennial, rhizomatous, herbaceous plant native to the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia that requires temperatures between 20 and 30 °C and high annual rainfall to thrive. Plants are gathered each year for their rhizomes, some for propagation in the following season and some for consumption or dyeing.

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13/09/2026

Specie of the day - Aloe Vera

Yoruba: Eti erin

Aloe (; also written Aloë) is a genus containing over 650 species of flowering succulent plants. The most widely known species is Aloe vera, or "true aloe". It is called this because it is cultivated as the standard source for assorted pharmaceutical purposes. Other species, such as Aloe ferox, are also cultivated or harvested from the wild for similar applications.

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12/09/2026

Specie of the day - Neem (dogonyaro, Indian lilac, nimtree, margosa)

Azadirachta indica, commonly known as neem, margosa, nimtree or Indian lilac, is a tree in the Mahogany family Meliaceae. It is one of the two species in the genus Azadirachta. It is native to the Indian subcontinent and to parts of Southeast Asia, but is naturalized and grown around the world in tropical and subtropical areas. Its fruits and seeds are the source of neem oil.

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11/09/2026

Specie of the day - Moringa oleifera (a.k.a ben tree, drumstick tree etc)

Moringa oleifera is a short-lived, fast-growing, drought-resistant tree of the family Moringaceae, native to northern India and used extensively in South and Southeast Asia. Common names include moringa, drumstick tree (from the long, slender, triangular seed-pods), horseradish tree (from the taste of the roots, which resembles horseradish), ben tree (for its oil), or malunggay (as known in maritime or archipelagic areas in Asia).

It is widely cultivated for its young seed pods and leaves, used as vegetables and for traditional herbal medicine. It is also used for water purification...

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09/09/2026

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09/09/2026

Did you know that Aidan Fruit is Known as Soup Perfume (Prekese) in Akan Language of Ghana

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