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Feb 19

CAN YOU DIE FOR LOVE?

On February 26, 2015, the body of a 26-year-old corps member, identified as Ernest, was recovered from his one-room apartment in Obubra, Cross River State of Nigeria after he reportedly committed suicide.

The young man, who was in love with a fellow female corp member, Chioma Okewuru, went berserk when the girl came back from her village over the weekend with a ring from a man she had promised to marry.

Ernest, who hailed from Edo State and an alumnus of the University of Benin, was posted to Cross River State in October 2014, where he met and fell in love with Chioma.

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Feb 16

Bashorun Gaa became the head of the Oyo Mesi during the reign of Alaafin Onisile. He was a brave and powerful man who was feared by the people of Oyo-Ile for his potent charms and supernatural strength. It was said that he had the powers to transform into any animal he wished.

Gaa was feared to the extent that he became more authoritative than the Alaafin who made him the Bashorun.

Gaa’s tyranny started in the days when Labisi was being prepared for the throne of Oyo. He killed the prince’s friends and silenced his supporters, thereby starting his...

...own rule, which he craftily did with the installation of puppet kings from whom he demanded homage. However, it was impossible for Bashorun Gaa to become the Alaafin as he bore no blood of Oranyan to claim the throne.

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Feb 14

MOTIVATIONAL MONDAY: HUSBANDS LOVE YOUR WIVES

American First Lady and wife of the 25th President of the United States, Ida Saxton McKinley (1847-1907) was epileptic and also suffered from mental depression until her death.

Suffering from epilepsy much of her life, she was totally dependent on her husband, President William Mckinley (1843-1901). Sometimes her seizures happened in public.

Nevertheless, the President responded to his wife's maladies with devotion and love.

President McKinley took great care to accommodate her condition. In a break with tradition, he insisted that his wife be seated next to him at state dinners rather than at the other end of the table.

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Feb 11

The Mbalatu women of Southern Angola and Northern Namibia are renowned for their incredibly long, braided hair which reaches to the floor. From the age of 12, the girls' hair undergoes a special treatment to drastically speed up hair growth.

First, they coat their hair in a thick paste made from the finely ground tree bark of the omutyuula tree mixed with fat. A few years later, this paste is loosened to make the hair visible. Fruit pips are then tied to the hair ends with sinew strings.

When girls reach the age of 16, long sinew strands that reach the ground are attached to the hair. In the same year, they undergo the Ohango Initiation ceremony, a living tradition with roots in the ancient past.

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Feb 10

Two of Nigeria’s leading politicians, Bola Ige and Funsho Williams were assassinated during Nigeria’s nascent Fourth Republic. While Ige was shot and killed in Ibadan on December 23, 2001, Williams was stabbed and strangled to death in his home in Lagos on July 27, 2006.

Bola Ige had been involved in controversies within his party, Alliance for Democracy (AD), which led to brows being raised at the then Deputy Governor of Osun State, Iyiola Omisore as being responsible for the murder because of their recent feuds.

President Olusegun Obasanjo quickly deployed troops to the southwest to prevent a violent reaction to the murder. Everyone arrested and tried in connection with Ige's murder including Iyiola Omisore were discharged and acquitted. The killers are yet to be found to this day.

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Feb 8

In 1952, Mallam Umaru Altine became the first elected Mayor of the Enugu Municipal Council. A post he held until 1958.

A Fulani cattle rearer from Sokoto, Mallam Altine, who was married to an Igbo woman, Esther Ozueh, was elected for two terms.

In his first term, he had run as an NCNC candidate but in the build-up to the elections for his second term, the NCNC asked him to step down for another candidate but he refused and was forced to resign from the NCNC.

Nevertheless, he ran as an independent candidate and defeated the NCNC candidate, D.T Inyang, by 117 to 53 votes. In fact, in his ward, he was returned unopposed.

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