The mom of 3 gave this propose even as meting out six critical guidelines of marriage to married couples on microblogging platform, Twitter.
Pastor Tolu Odukoya-Ijogun, the primary daughter of past due famous clergywoman, Bimbo Odukoya, has taken to Twitter to propose married couples to have intercourse regularly.
The mom of 3 gave this advocate at the same time as allotting six critical regulations of marriage to married couples on microblogging platform, Twitter.
Sharing an admonition she obtained from her father, Tolu asserted that s*x is a forex and if one does now no longer spend it at domestic, they’ll sooner or later spend it elsewhere so couples have to prioritize sex.
She tweeted,
“When in a wedding have masses of s*x. A couple now no longer napping may be very dangerous. My father as soon as said ‘s*x is foreign money, in case you don’t spend it at domestic you’ll spend it elsewhere’ Mr and Mrs, spend your foreign money at domestic. Truth: s*x is like wine, it receives higher with time.”
She additionally suggested married couples to prevent competing with every different, and additionally exercise forgiveness due to the fact unforgiveness is a most cancers that could spoil a wedding.
Read the final policies below,
“Rule 1: When in a wedding Stop Competing! isn’t always a competition. Her achievement is your fulfillment, His achievement is your fulfillment. You’re each supposed to supplement every different now no longer compete towards every different.
Rule 2: When in a wedding your roles are fluid now no longer fixed … It’s like being in a band… Today you would possibly sing the lead vocals and the following day you is probably a backup singer… Just do your function well… Your companion is relying on you to deliver…
Rule 3: When in a wedding you’re each there to serve every different. In this aspect of the world, girls are mandated to serve their men… Sir, it’s far each ways, as I pour into you, your pour into me.. you can’t provide what you don’t have… You are BOTH withinside the carrier industry.
Rule 4: When in a wedding, sure choose your battles however please argue; optimistic disagreements are key to knowledge every different higher… You are 2 extraordinary people with running brains, battle is certain to happen…Sometimes disagree to later agree, we want Passion.
Rule 6: When in a wedding forgive. Unforgiveness is most cancers, You want to nip it withinside the bud earlier than it kills your love. If it’s tough to permit go, virtually approach you don’t have closure… Keep speaking approximately it. My Mother as soon as said “Marriage is two forgivers dwelling together”
What is age? A simple question but not that easy to answer. ‘Unmasking Age’ addresses it using data from a series of research initiatives referring to later life. This is supplemented by material from various different sources together with diaries and fiction. Drawing on an extended profession in social research
Age is the interval of time between the day, month and year of birth and the day and year of occurrence of the event expressed in the most important completed unit of sun time such as years for adults and children and months, weeks, days, hours or minutes of life, as appropriate, for infants under one year of age.
The concept of age describes how old a person is at a specific point in time. It is defined as the measure of the time elapsed from date of live delivery to a specific point in time, usually the date of collection of the data
Is 50 taken into consideration “old”? When do we stop being considered “young”? If people could choose to be any age, what would it be?
In a sample of 502,548 net respondents ranging in age from 10 to 89, we tested age differences in aging perceptions (e.g., how old do you feel?) and estimates of the timing of developmental transitions (e.g., when does a person turn out to be an older adult?). I found that older adults reported older perceptions of aging (e.g., choosing to be older, feeling older, being perceived as older), but that these perceptions were increasingly younger than their current age. The age to which individuals hope to live dramatically increased after age 40. We also found that older adults placed the age at which developmental transitions took place later in the lifestyles course. This latter effect was more potent for transitions regarding middle-age and older maturity compared to transitions involving young adulthood. The current study constitutes the largest study to date of age differences in age perceptions and developmental timing estimates and yielded novel insights into how the aging process may affect judgments about the self and others.
“I will in no way be an vintage man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.”– Francis Bacon
Walking through a birthday card aisle offers plenty of reminders about how aging is something to avoid. Life begins at 40. Fifty is the new 30. Although these cards often represent tongue-in-cheek ways of helping the recipient feel better about aging, very little is known about how both perceptions of age and estimates of the timing of developmental transitions differ by age. Is 50 “old”? When do we stop being “young”? If individuals could choose to be any age, what age would they be? The current study examines age differences in aging perceptions (e.g., how old do you feel?) and estimates of the timing of developmental transitions (e.g., when does someone become an older adult?).
Perceptions of getting old
In the current study, we operationalize aging perceptions as evaluations individuals tie to different ages by reporting (a) the age they would like to ideally be, (b) the age they feel like, (c) the age they hope to live until, and (d) how old other people think they are. To date, most research has focused on lifespan differences in and consequences of (b), which researchers refer to as subjective age. There is a huge literature documenting the antecedents and outcomes of subjective age that highlights the roles of subjective health, age-group reference effects, gendered experiences, and aging attitudes. The preponderance of research suggests that adults tend to report feeling younger than their chronological age (e.g., up to 20% younger) and this effect increases with age. Reporting a younger subjective age is associated with a wide variety of benefits for health and well-being. However, feeling younger is not the only aging perception that changes throughout the lifespan. There are also corresponding shifts toward youth for how old people think they look, what their interests are, and the activities they like to engage in.
Why does a shift toward affiliating with youth happen more as people age? Insights from the age-group dissociation effect provide a potential explanation. In short, people attempt to psychologically dissociate themselves from stigmatized groups (i.e., older adults). When stigmatized outgroups are salient, people engage in avoidance-oriented behavior. Motivations underlying the age-group dissociation effect can be identified in the evolutionary psychology literature. For example, inclusive health cues motivate individuals to prefer helping younger relative to older adults in times of need. Likewise, individuals often associate older adults with weakness, resource waste, and viable publicity to infectious disease—all of which lead to higher levels of stigma.
Previous research has identified many antecedents and outcomes of the age-group dissociation effect. For example, openness to experience and less conventional gender ideologies is probably shielding elements for well-being among people present process difficult and uncertain age transitions. Further, age group dissociation can protect individuals from the deleterious effect that negative age stereotypes have for older adults’ self-esteem. Some of the distancing techniques that older adults employ include identifying with middle aged adults and even directing their attention away from other older adults.
In sum, older adulthood is an identity that carries significant stigma, and individuals become increasingly closer to assuming this stigmatized identity as they age. When people become older adults, they could view themselves as becoming part of a group to which they have held bad attitudes toward their whole life. In general, individuals are motivated to create mental and physical distance among themselves and stigmatized outgroups. In this case, one way in which people can enhance this distance is to identify with younger age groups, whether that be through selectively reporting feeling younger than they are, reporting that others understand them as being younger, or choosing a younger ideal age to be. By extension, young people might record a relatively older subjective age given their desire to affiliate with a more desirable group.
There is also a sense that an individual’s reference group modifications as they age. For example, younger adults who compare themselves to other younger adults are not likely to distort their subjective age because teenagers are not a stigmatized group. However, adolescents and older adults share a motivation to identify with more extraordinarily seemed age groups and thus distort or shift their perceptions of aging. Nevertheless, even in the context of age-group dissociation, older adults, being closer to the end of their lives, may push their ideal life expectancy to an older age from a motivation toward self-preservation. Indeed, multiple research have shown that older adults increase their ideal-age-to-live-until as a way of elongating horizons in the face of mortality. Some researchers have also hypothesized that older maturity might serve as a reminder of mortality—triggering protective, life-elongating protection mechanisms to mitigate the tension that arises from these reminders.
Given research on the age-group dissociation effect in which people try to psychologically distance themselves from older adults, we hypothesized that, in comparison to more youthful adults, older adults might report (a) ages that they ideally would really like to be which are older, albeit a while which might be more and more more younger than their chronological age, (b) older subjective ages, albeit ages that are increasingly younger than their chronological age and (c) being perceived by others as older, albeit increasingly more youthful than their chronological age. Younger adults will document age perceptions towards their chronological age due to the fact younger adults aren’t stigmatized in the identical way that older adults are. Given studies on self-preservation and mortality reminders, we also hypothesized that older adults would report an older ideal age to live until.
Developmental transitions
The exact age at which older adulthood starts is hotly debated in the social and developmental psychology literature. Different fields and researchers use different indices—biological indices. cognitive indices, anticipated years left to live or ancient standards —for determining what makes someone old. Like aging perceptions, the perceived timing of developmental transitions depends on where people are in the life course. For example, older adults tend to report that older adulthood happens at a later age relative to younger adults. Indeed, a current Pew survey further replicated this effect, showing adults 18–29 believe that a person becomes old at age 60, whereas middle-aged respondents believe that a person becomes old at age 72; respondents aged 65 and older believed that a person becomes old at age 74. Longitudinal studies of middle-aged adults suggest a similar effect—that individuals “elongate” the age range that one is considered a middle-aged adult as they live through this period themselves.
When on Thursday, September 8, 2022, Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II passed on into ancestor-hood, I was not particularly moved. I like England. I schooled and worked there and those years were some of the best of my life. The English people are by far some of the most decent peoples on planet Earth.
However, I am rather indifferent about their monarch. I did not like or dislike Queen Elizabeth II. The only thing I can think of that I admire in her is her stoicism. Her ability to take pain and pleasure with equanimity. She is the epitome of duty and a stiff upper lip.
But I doubt that I bothered much about her and her goings on. I was just aloof.
So, while I was not one of those mourning, it was not because I had some grudge against the House of Windsor. No. It is just that the House of Ginuwa (the first Olu of Warri), mattered more to me than Buckingham Palace.
The above not withstanding, I was absolutely mortified by the hideous and historically inaccurate things that were said about the Queen and her family by a Nigerian woman living in America, whose name I will not dignify by mentioning.
I later got to find out that this woman has other issues, which made me understand her bitterness better, though I still vehemently reject her indecorous words.
She was one of the people who famously celebrated the death of TB Joshua and called him all sorts of unprintable names when he died. So it is no big surprise that she has turned her vitriol in the direction of the late Queen.
And so now, let me tackle what the death of Queen Elizabeth II reveals about Biafra. It shows us as a people not aware of our history, and because we are not aware of our own history, we have distorted it, such that propaganda and pseudo history has been orally passed down from one generation to the other, feeding unfounded bitterness that is destroying those who harbour it, and having no effect on those against whom they are embittered.
That is why some people believe they were just sitting down minding their business and Hausa people came to fight them (all Northerners are Hausa to some people) because they hate them. There was absolutely no provocation, or igniting events that preceded the Nigerian Civil War. Hausa people just woke up on the wrong side of the bed and for some strange reason decided to pounce on the people of Eastern Nigeria.
But of course, that is not what happened. However, because we do not write our history, and even worse, we have refused to teach it in our schools, there are millions of people who believe this version of events. In fact, they swear by it.
One fellow named Uche Nnaya even tweeted at me that the Igbos of Southeast Nigeria had a right to rail against the British monarch and the rest of Nigeria, because “you can’t push people to the wall and dictate how they react.”
Really? But do those who hold such views not know that some other persons were FIRST pushed to the wall? Uche’s response will also justify how those who were first pushed to the wall reacted.
We cannot keep holding grudges as if other people do not have their own grudges that they have let go for the peace and unity of this country called Nigeria.
My great uncle, Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh, was shot and killed in the street by Major Chris Anuforo on January 15, 1966. Ironically, I went to school with Anuforo’s son. Should my people carry that grudge forever?
Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa was shot on the street like a common criminal by Major Emmanuel Ifeajuna. Ifeajuna tried to deny it, and claimed that Alhaji Balewa died from an asthma attack, until his body was taken to LUTH and examined by the then minister for health, Dr. Moses Majekodunmi. It was established that the body was riddled with bullets in a front page story in Daily Times, written by Segun Osoba, who later became the Governor of Ogun. He is still alive.
This was an incorruptible gentleman. He lived a very ascetic life. Materialism was FAR from him. He was an author. His book, Shaihu Umar, was the first novel written in Hausa. He surrounded himself with Southerners (in hindsight, was that a mistake?). His best friend was Matthew Mbu. Should the Tafawa-Balewa family and the people of Bauchi, where he was from, hold a grudge forever?
I could go on and on and list the people killed on January 15, 1966, and the identities of their killers, but that would just be reopening old wounds. These are historical facts, which some people deny and pretend as if the Civil War happened in a vacuum.
So, please let us stop pretending as if the late Queen Elizabeth II came to Nigeria and ignited a war. The Nigerian Civil War was ignited by a series of unfortunate events that began with the cold blooded murder of 22 people from the Northern, Western, and Mid Western regions by people of mostly Eastern region origin, which led to a counter coup by Northern Nigerian military officers on July 29, 1966, and the unfortunate pogrom of 66-67.
Many people now spewing vitriol against the late Queen Elizabeth II for her alleged role in the Nigerian Civil War conveniently forget that between August 9, 1967 and September 20, 1967, Biafran forces invaded and occupied the Midwest region, and named Albert Nwazu Okonkwo, as military Governor of the Midwest. A number of non Igbo speaking Mid-Westerners lost their lives during the Biafran occupation of the Midwest.
After the Midwest was liberated by forces led by colonels Murtala Muhammed and Benjamin Adekunle, more Mid-Westerners, this time those linguistically linked to the Igbo (especially in the Asaba axis), were killed. Please research it before you insult me.
I need to add that the killings by the liberating forces were worse than the killings of the Biafrans, and should truly have been declared war crimes.
Yet, in that same Midwest, we accepted Nigerians of Southeast origin back after the war. We did not seize their properties in the abandoned property saga that occurred in the Port Harcourt area and its environs. We let bygones be bygones.
The truth of the matter is that If the January 15, 1966 coup had never happened, it is most unlikely that the Nigerian Civil War would have occurred. The perpetrators of that coup opened a Pandora’s Box that the rest of Nigeria are still suffering from today!
There was wild jubilation all over Nigeria after that coup, because Nigerians believed it was a patriotic and nationalistic coup. Then the names of those killed were announced over the radio, and it was discovered that only people from the North, West and Midwest were killed, but NOBODY from the East was killed, whereas the vast majority of those who carried out the coup were from the East.
That is the remote cause of the Nigerian Civil War. We will remember it. We will also teach it to our children, so that it does not reoccur.
So, to just keep nursing grudges and reopening old wounds will do no one any good. You can bully others into submission, but you cannot do it to Reno Omokri. I know history and I am a meticulous record keeper!
It is only those who are ignorant about how the British government works that will blame the late Queen for the actions of the British government. She was a titular and ceremonial head of state, whose actions were limited to appointing the candidate who has won election directly or indirectly as prime minister, and declaring open the parliament. She was a symbol. She was not the initiator of the policies of the British government.
And even the British government are not to blame for the Nigerian Civil War. We must learn to take responsibility for our own actions. That war was the result of the ill advised January 15, 1966 coup.
The coup itself was led by Majors Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu and Ifeajuna. It was executed by the following persons:
Of these seven people, only one, Adewale Ademoyega, was non Igbo. The rest were all Igbo, although Major Nzeogwu was what was referred to at that time as Midwest Igbo (later colloquially referred to as Bendel Igbo and now as Delta Igbo). Major Donatus Okafor’s mother was Tiv. However, his father was Igbo.
Incidentally, some Igbos unwisely try to deny that Nzeogwu was Igbo, and call him ‘your South-South’ brother. Unknown to them, the more they do this, the more they make non Igbos feel that those specific Igbos who say they have learned very little since the civil war.
22 people were killed during the coup, including
1. Abubakar Tafawa Balewa 2. Ahmadu Bello 3. Ahmed Ben Musa 4. Hafsatu Bello 5. Ahmed Pategi 6. Samuel Ladoke Akintola 7. Festus Okotie-Eboh 8. Brig. Samuel Ademulegun 9. Brig. Zakariya Maimalari 10. Col. Ralph Shodeinde 11. Col. Kur Mohammed 12. Lt. Col. Abogo Largema 13. Lt. Col. James Pam 14. Lt. Col. Arthur Unegbe 15. Sergeant Daramola Oyegoke 16. Mrs Latifat Ademulegun 17. Zarumi Sardauna 18. PC Yohana Garkawa 19. Lance Corporal Musa Nimzo 20. PC Akpan Anduka 21. PC Hagai Lai 22. Philip Lewande
As is clear from the list above, none of them were from the then Eastern Nigeria.
After the coup, Major General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi took over. Rightly, or wrongly, the rest of the nation felt that a coup carried out by overwhelmingly Eastern officers, and of which the victims were entirely non Easterners, and which supplanted a Northern minority leader (Tafawa-Balewa), with an Igbo leader, (Aguiyi-Ironsi) was a set up.
However, Major General Aguiyi-Ironsi’s promise to try the coup plotters placated the rest of the country. Sadly, the plotters were jailed, but were never tried. And the immediate cause of the July 29, 1966 counter coup was when rumours circulated that the coup plotters had been receiving full salaries in jail and were to be promoted.
These are facts that we all should address, rather than blaming the late Queen Elizabeth II for a war she did not cause, nor had anyway of stopping. And if we do not learn from our history, there is every possibility that another war might erupt in Nigeria.
The Biafrans inflicted a very harsh occupation on present day Rivers, Cross Rivers and Akwa-Ibom, as well as present day Delta and Edo before they were flushed out by federal forces. The Bayelsa area escaped the brunt of Biafran occupation due to the fight back from Isaac Adaka Boro. They invaded Ore and hundreds of soldiers and civilians died. There is still a Yoruba proverb about the amount of people that died in Ore. Ask a Yoruba person to tell you the meaning of ‘o le ku ija Ore.
We have all forgiven and moved on. Yet, you want to reopen these old wounds and make them cancerous by blaming Queen Elizabeth II 50 years after the war?
And when you point this out, the very same people castigating the late Queen will accuse you of creating ethnic tension? Do you want to be victims and victors at the same time? Leave the woman and her family to grieve in peace. By celebrating the Queen’s death, you are giving Nigeria a very nasty reputation that will affect all of us and not only you. We cannot afford to be seen as a nation with anti British and American sentiments, when we are not able to get a better deal from China and Russia.
This is the tale of the primary oil war, which changed into fought withinside the nineteenth century, withinside the vicinity that have become Nigeria.
All thru the nineteenth century, palm oil turned into rather sought-after via way of means of the British, to be used as an business lubricant for machinery. Remember that Britain become the world’s first industrialised nation, so that they wanted sources consisting of palm oil to hold that.
Palm oil, of course, is a tropical plant, that’s local to the Niger Delta. Malaysia’s dominance got here a century later. By 1870, palm oil had changed slaves as the principle export of the Niger Delta, the location which changed into as soon as called the Slave Coast. At first, maximum of the exchange withinside the oil palm turned into uncoordinated, with natives promoting to people who gave them the nice offers. Native chiefs together with former slave, Jaja of Opobo have become immensely rich due to oil palm. With this wealth got here impact.
However, a number of the Europeans, there has been opposition for who might get preferential get entry to to the rewarding oil palm exchange. In 1879, George Goldie shaped the United African Company (UAC), which changed into modelled on the previous East India Company. Goldie efficiently took manipulate of the Lower Niger River. By 1884, his business enterprise had 30 buying and selling posts alongside the Lower Niger. This monopoly gave the British a sturdy hand towards the French and Germans withinside the 1884 Berlin Conference. The British were given the region that the UAC operated in, covered of their sphere of have an impact on after the Berlin Conference.
When the Brits were given the phrases they desired from different Europeans, they started out to cope with the African chiefs. Within years of 1886, Goldie had signed treaties with tribal chiefs alongside the Benue and Niger Rivers while additionally penetrating inland. This circulate inland changed into towards the spirit of verbal agreements that have been made to limition the organisation’s sports to coastal regions.
By 1886, the agency call modified to The National Africa Company and become granted a royal constitution (incorporated). The constitution accredited the business enterprise to manage the Niger Delta and all lands across the banks of the Benue and Niger Rivers. Soon after, the agency turned into once more renamed. The new call turned into Royal Niger Company, which survives, as Unilever, until this day.
To neighborhood chiefs, the Royal Niger Company negotiators had pledged loose alternate withinside the region. Behind, they entered personal contracts on their phrases. Because the (deceitful) personal contracts have been frequently written in English and signed through the nearby chiefs, the British authorities enforced them. So for example, Jaja of Opobo, while he attempted to export palm oil on his own, became pressured into exile for “obstructing commerce”. As an aside, Jaja became “forgiven” in 1891 and allowed to go back home, however he died at the manner returned, poisoned with a cup of tea.
Seeing what took place to Jaja, a few different local rulers started to appearance greater intently on the offers they have been getting from the Royal Nigeria Company. One of such kingdoms became Nembe, whose king, Koko Mingi VIII, ascended the throne in 1889 after being a Christian schoolteacher. Koko Mingi VIII, King Koko for short, like maximum rulers withinside the yard, turned into confronted with the Royal Nigeria Company encroachment. He additionally resented the monopoly loved through the Royal Nigeria Company and attempted to are searching for out beneficial buying and selling phrases, with mainly the Germans in Kamerun (Cameroon).
By 1894, the Royal Nigeria Company more and more more dictated whom the natives may want to exchange with, and denied them direct get right of entry to to their former markets. In overdue 1894, King Koko renounced Christianity and attempted to shape an alliance with Bonny and Okpoma in opposition to the Royal Nigeria Company to take again the exchange. This is enormous due to the fact whilst Okpoma joined up, Bonny refused. A harbinger of the successful “divide and rule” tactic.
On 29 January 1895, King Koko led an assault at the Royal Niger Company’s headquarters, which become in Akassa in today’s Bayelsa state. The pre-sunrise raid had greater than one thousand guys involved. King Koko’s assault succeeded in shooting the base. Losing forty of his guys, King Koko captured 60 white guys as hostages, in addition to lots of goods, ammunition and a Maxim gun. Koko then tried to barter a launch of the hostages in change for being allowed to selected his buying and selling partners. The British refused to barter with Koko, and he had 40 of the hostages killed. A British document claimed that the Nembe humans ate them. On 20 February 1895, Britain’s Royal Navy, beneathneath Admiral Bedford attacked Brass and burned it to the ground. Many Nembe human beings died and smallpox completed off numerous others.
By April 1895, enterprise had lower back to “regular”, regular being the situations that the British desired, and King Koko turned into at the run. Brass turned into fined £500 via way of means of the British, £62,494 (NGN29 million) in today’s money, and the looted guns have been back in addition to the surviving prisoners. After a British Parliamentary Commission sat, King Koko turned into presented phrases of agreement via way of means of the British, which he rejected and disappeared. The British right away declared him an outlaw and supplied a praise of £200 (£26,000; NGN12 million today) for him. He devoted suicide in exile in 1898.
About that time, another “recalcitrant King”, the Oba of Benin, changed into run out of town. The pacification of the Lower Niger become nicely and without a doubt underway. The instant impact of the Brass Oil War become that public opinion in Britain became towards the Royal Nigeria Company, so its constitution turned into revoked in 1899. Following the revoking of its constitution, the Royal Niger Company bought its holdings to the British authorities for £865,000 (£108 million today). That amount, £46,407,250 (NGN 50,386,455,032,400, at today’s alternate rate) turned into efficiently the fee Britain paid, to shop for the territory which became to grow to be called Niger
I even have simply back from a experience to Turkey, wherein I turned into on a pilgrimage to a number of the seven church buildings of Asia, additionally referred to as the seven church buildings of Revelations.
I visited Smyrna (now called Izmir), Pergamum (now referred to as Bergama, and Ephesus (now called Efes).
Prior to this go to, I had visited Laodicea (now referred to as Laodikeia). There aren’t anyt any remnants of a number of the opposite church buildings, however I did get to look Cappadocia.
And then I went to Istanbul and the metropolis blew my mind. It turned into my 0.33 go to to Istanbul, however my first time staying at the Asian side.
Istanbul has a wealthy records that may likely carry you to tears. This town was referred to as Constantinople, and become the middle of orthodox Christianity, till on 29 May 1453, whilst it turned into conquered via way of means of the Muslim Ottoman Empire. Note I stated Muslim Ottoman Empire, now no longer Islamic Ottoman Empire.
The Ottomans have been Muslims, however they have been now no longer clearly Islamic. In fact, they even conquered the Arabs, and from the sixteenth Century to their liberation with the aid of using the British thru Lawrence of Arabia, Saudi Arabia become beneathneath Ottoman rule.
The fall of Constantinople and the Byzantine Empire intended that Cristian Europe not had a buffer towards Muslim (now no longer Islamic), enlargement into Europe, and one via way of means of one, European Christian town states and countries started out to fall one after the opposite.
And why did the conquest appear? It occurred due to the fact there has been no cohesion In Christendom (political Christianity). The Byzantines had been Orthodox. The Roman Catholic Church taken into consideration them rivals, instead of brothers. And the Balkan Christians could now no longer even assist them. Rather, they had been suspicious of them.
When the Byzantines had been beneathneath siege through the Ottomans, the Roman Catholic Church, in place of assist them, insisted that they have to first receive their dogmas (Trinity, Mary veneration, Christmas, purgatory, idols, the alternate from the fish because the real image of Christianity, to the pagan Ankh (disguised as a Cross) etc) as a circumstance for his or her assist. Out of desperation, the Orthodox Church voted to just accept the Pope’s terms, however the humans of Constantinople refused and rioted, as opposed to be given what they believed to be an adulteration in their religion via way of means of the adoption of pagan European doctrines masquerading as Christian doctrines.
There are approximately 20,000 of those pure, Orthodox Christians left in Turkey and I even have had the honor of preaching to them and getting to know from them.
A comparable loss of team spirit had in advance brought about the Islamic (now no longer Muslim) conquest of a lot of Spain in 711 AD, which caused 800 years of Islamic rule in Iberia.
And the Byzantines had been additionally partially guilty for his or her personal destruction. While the Byzantines had been busy constructing awe inspiring church buildings, basilicas, theatres and marble roads, the Muslim Ottomans had been razor centered on constructing a political motion and an army.
And after they have been ready, they descended at the Byzantines, and militarily defeated them, and now, all their awe inspiring church buildings, basilicas, theatres and marble roads belong to the Muslim Ottomans, and feature so belonged to them for nearly six hundred years.
Fast ahead to 2022, and the All Progressives Congress is imparting Nigerians with a Muslim-Muslim price price tag, of which Kashim Shettima, the Borno Governor below whom Boko Haram thrived and metastasised into the global terror institution that it now is, and once more below whom they invaded the Christian enclave of Chibok, due to the fact Shettima refused the Federal Government’s suggest now no longer to keep WAEC examinations at Chibok, is now assuring us that he can be in fee of protection, successfully making Bola Tinubu a puppet, if in any respect he’s elected.
If you do now no longer see parallels among what took place to Constantinople and the Byzantine empire and what the All Progressives Congress desires to serve Nigerians, then you definitely have glaringly now no longer been paying attention.
In the final seven years of just about demonic mis-governance with the aid of using the All Progressives Congress management of Muhammadu Buhari, we’ve visible a sudden, unapologetic and 0 sum like shutting of the authorities area to human beings of the Christian persuasion.
Never withinside the records of this kingdom have we ever had the pinnacle of the executive (the President), the top of the Legislature (the Senate President), and the pinnacle of the judiciary (the Chief Justice of Nigeria), all Muslims. I imply the imbalance is unprecedented.
And you then definately visit the subsequent layer of authorities, that’s the navy and safety services. The heads of the Ministry of Defence, Army, Navy, Police, NSA, DMI, EFCC, DSS, DIA, NPS, NCS, NIS, NIA are all Northern Muslims. Where is the stability?
And withinside the midst of this, the All Progressives Congress desires to boom the quantity with a Muslim-Muslim price price tag? Think of the mental harm it’ll do to the minds of Christians. Even if it isn’t always uttered, it’s miles already clean that the All Progressives Congress sees us as a conquered those who do now no longer depend and who ought to receive their 2d magnificence citizenship fame with out elevating dust.
And do now no longer assume the All Progressives Congress will forestall at their Muslim-Muslim price price tag. Did the Ottomans forestall in Constantinople? No. They conquered the Arabs, who have been Muslims like them. They took Jerusalem. They moved into Europe. Greece fell to them. Then the complete Balkan Peninsula. Then modern-day Romania. And on and on till they took over Hungary and had been stopped on the borders of Austria.
If everyone had instructed you Imo, Ebonyi and Cross River could be All Progressives Congress states, might you’ve got got believed it? But there it’s miles.
Nigerians ought to open their eyes and prevent believing that it can’t occur here. Are we higher than Lebanon? Lebanon changed into the most effective solid democratic and multi non secular us of a withinside the Middle East, till the Christians there slept on their rights, and have been quickly beaten via way of means of big immigration from Islamic countries that made them a minority of their personal us of a.
What is to prevent the equal from taking place here? Tinubu and Shettima can open the borders Nigeria stocks with Niger Republic and Chad to alternate Nigeria’s demographics and make it not possible to vote out their birthday birthday celebration in destiny elections, in the event that they win in 2023.
I became in Bethlehem in 2018. The identical factor came about to that metropolis in which our Lord and Savour changed into born.
You see, records does now no longer repeat itself. Men repeat records and blame records for repeating itself.
Nigeria have to maintain its spiritual stability via way of means of respecting every religion and balancing our authorities and public sector. The Peoples Democratic Party respects that stability. The Labour Party respects it. But the Muslim-Muslim price price tag of Bola Tinubu’s All Progressives Congress does now no longer appreciate our non secular diversity. And a vote for Tinubu may also lead Nigerian Christians to the equal destiny of the historic Christians of Asia Minor (now called Turkey).
So, allow us to overlook our divisions and unite in opposition to this imbalance. Whether or now no longer you’re Roman Catholic, Anglican, Methodist, Baptist, Pentecost, Evangelical, Charismatic, Celestial, or another denomination I actually have now no longer noted here. No that people who need to whittle down your religion see you as one. Therefore, you higher additionally see yourselves as one. Or you pass the manner of the Byzantines.
May that by no means befall us in Yeshua’s Name.
Reno’s Nuggets
Before you purchase an iPhone 14 for a woman you aren’t married to, as a signal of your love, ask your self those three questions:
Do I even have a business? Do I even have a home? Have I ever sold my mother and father such an pricey present?
If you’ve got got 3 nos, then your present is an indication of your foolishness, now no longer a signal of your love! The first sacrificial giving wisemen make is usually to God. The 2nd is continually to their mother and father. But the primary sacrificial giving that a idiot makes is usually to his girlfriend. Why? Because instant pride is extra essential to him than limitless treasure!
I have taken pains to profile the traditional rulers in Nigeria particularly those in the South South , South East , South West and North Central Zones of Nigeria affected by the water resources bill and I discover that they are all well lettered . By my findings they all can read and write and are well exposed in life . From my findings , it is safe to say that our traditional rulers are literate enough to know what the devious and devilish water resources is all about .
Our traditional rulers cannot feign ignorance of the fact that the said evil bill has once again been introduced on the floor of the 9th Assembly after its rejection by the 8th Assembly .
Our traditional rulers cannot claim not to understand that if the bill is passed into law their people will loss the right to their land , ground and surface water to the federal government of Nigeria.
Our traditional rulers cannot say that they are not aware that if the bill goes through it will be mandatory for their people to obtain a license before using water that will then be considered public asset for domestic, social or commercial purposes from the federal government in Abuja.
Our traditional rulers cannot play the ostrich to the fact that once the satanic bill is passed into law their fertile land and water will be handed over to foreign fulani herdsmen for habitation just like they are currently forcefully and illegally occupying all the federal government of Nigeria forest reserves nation wide .
As Custodians of our history , identity , tradition, customs , culture and heritage our traditional rulers must in unism and unequivocally condemn the water resources bill.
At this junction our traditional rulers must speak out as their silence over the water resources bill at this point in time is no longer golden. If truly that they represents their people and are on the side of their people they must fight against the enslavement , subjugation and repression of their people which the bill is bound to occasion on their people.
First thing that came to mind when I woke up just now.
Writers, artists and musicians are essentially messengers for the soul, the light. Writers communicate what the soul wants to say. Artists show us what the soul can see. Musicians convey what the soul is feeling.
Like people, the world has a soul (light) and an ego (dark). The writer’s, artist’s and musician’s job is to act as a messenger for the world’s soul which is done through honouring their own soul.
The problem is that, like humans, the world has an ego (darkness) too. And the ego also has messages it wants to send.
The world has slowly become more ego-driven and darker over the years. The messengers now think they are kings. We see it with the writers, the journalists, the media, the scriptwriters who don’t write for the soul, but who write for their ego. We see it with the artists whose art is used in an entertainment industry that has been politicised. We see it with the musicians whose music is used for an industry that is over-sexualised and where you are hard-pressed to hear soul messages among the rampant ego messages.
They are the majority which means the world has become a darker place, even though we are the most advanced we have ever been.
Creativity is a gift from the soul, not a tool to elevate one’s ego. It is not there to serve the ego. It is there to serve the soul. No money, fame or glory is ever worth sacrificing the soul. No amount of trauma, heartbreak or misery is a good enough excuse to hand the ego all the power. A dark world will try to destroy the light in everyone and the only thing strong enough to stop it is the soul. That’s why it’s essential to acknowledge the difference between the two.
Everyone has got both inside them. Only the individual knows for certain which is which and it’s up to them to protect their soul from their ego which is always thirsting for power.
“Stop Eating Men’s Money If You’re Not Ready For Relationship – Nigerian Warns
A Nigerian pastor and dating expert, Richard Minet, has entreated ladies to withstand the urge to simply accept presents and cash from guys they’re now no longer fascinated in.
He made the decision at the same time as turning in sermon in church as he discovered how a few women are gotten with meals like shawarma and gentle drinks.
Pastor Minet stated that a few women may be brainwashed with excellent meals even if they recognise a an can be mendacity to them.
He stated they need to prevent permitting men to the touch them or get intimate with honestly due to the fact he took them to eateries or restaurants.
According to him, it will likely be less complicated for girls to mention in the event that they prevent ‘consuming the man’s cash or following him.
READ WHAT INIBEHE EFFIONG SAID AFTER BEING RELEASED FROM PRISON
I need to thank God Almighty, the only who stated He knew me earlier than I changed into fashioned withinside the womb. The person who stated that He had consecrated me and that He has appointed us as prophets to the nation. I thank God for making these days to be possible.
For me, like I constantly say, “History will vindicate the simply”. Well, I even have simply completed my one month appointment with destiny. I got here to the custodial centre to comply with the direction of my ancestors, the Gani Fawenhinmi of this world, and people who through the years have needed to sacrifice their private consolation with the intention to protect their convictions.
For me and people who got here to go to me at some stage in my duration of incarceration, you will have left with one clean message, that I turned into completely unbothered, absolutely unmoved and now no longer perturbed. I bear in mind it an honour to be incarcerated for status through the reality. I need to increase my appreciation to my family. They were solidly at the back of me, I need to thank the Nigerian Bar Association, the Olumide Akpata-led management and all attorneys of sense of right and wrong on this u . s . a ., who while not having possibility to pay attention truely from me believed in my innocence, stood via way of means of my conviction and fought to vindicate me.
I have to additionally thank Mr Femi Falana, SAN, my lead counsel, the opposite Senior Advocates of Nigeria, and of direction individuals of the NBA management who also are a part of my felony group. My brother, Augustine Asuquo who’s status beside me and each attorney that has been a part of my prison group for status solidly at the back of me.
Again, I need to additionally thank the Nigerian civil society and the human rights network for status through certainly considered one among their personal. But I will now no longer fail to realize my buddies withinside the media. The fourth Estate of the area who’ve taken it upon themselves to take the fact to all of the 4 corners of this world. And I thank conscientious Nigerians, conscientious Akwa Ibomites and each unmarried individual that has spoken out in my defence to call for my freedom withinside the remaining one month.
Well, you’ll have heard that I become convicted for contempt of courtroom docket however I would possibly simply be, perhaps the most effective man or woman to be remanded as a attorney, as a minimum presently on this u . s . a . that became stated to had been convicted with none price desired towards him, with out an possibility to take a plea, with out his offence being disclosed or any of the concepts of truthful listening to being accorded him.
So, for me it’s miles a fantastic honour to have exceeded thru this road. But allow me nation truly and unequivocally that at the same time as I am thankful to God for this enjoy due to the fact as you could have visible it your self, this has best strengthened, this has most effective fortified me. I most effective sense sorry for folks who experience they could smash me through incarcerating me due to the fact the Inibehe that has simply pop out of incarceration is brimming with fire. Fire to combat for the not unusualplace human beings of this u . s . a . and no oppressor can quench that fire.
But allow us to now no longer be mistaken. I by no means, and I say this as a infant of God, you may see, whilst in incarceration I had the Bible as my accomplice and I had ‘Long Walk to Freedom’ as my friend. And those are the books that stored me energetic for the ultimate one month.
So I say it as a baby of God that I in no way at any time pointed my hand on the Honourable Chief Judge of Akwa Ibom. I by no means at any time banged the table. I by no means at any time shouted on the courtroom docket. These accusations handiest got here to me even as I changed into in incarceration.
But you recognise, deception and lies may also succeed for some time however there are judges that no guy can deceive; the choose of heaven and the decide of moral sense. The Honourable Chief Judge of Akwa Ibom whose workplace I appreciate is aware of in her judgment of right and wrong that I in no way acted in any insolent manner. I in no way disrespected the courtroom docket.
All I did at the twenty seventh of July after I introduced my look in conjunction with my colleague Augustine to protect my patron Leo Ekpenyong turned into without a doubt to elevate essential observations, that I sense each judicial officer, with profound appreciate, and that each criminal practitioner on this u . s . a . ought to pay interest to. When I arrived the courtroom docket, My Lord had introduced surely that nowadays His Lordship is coming in with anger and that the courtroom docket will now no longer tolerate any nonsense from anybody. And due to the fact we knew the antecedence of this count number, we’ve got usually accorded the courtroom docket absolute appreciate.
Even earlier than we introduced appearances, My Lord ordered the (police) orderly to ask into the court docket armed Mobile Policemen. I am now no longer in opposition to policemen being withinside the courtroom docket. I need to be understood really due to the fact the judiciary can’t feature with out the resource of the police. The police is an essential a part of the management of justice.
And then, I reminded the courtroom docket while the policemen arrived that My Lord there’s a pending software for recusal urging My Lord to disqualify himself from this situation on grounds of bias or chance of bias which utility we filed at the twenty third day of June, 2022. And of direction because it has been, My Lord shouted me down and I rested the difficulty and stated the courtroom docket will take that software every time the courtroom docket deems fit.
And of route, My Lord ordered that the continuation of pass exam must keep and a sure witness for the Governor, one Richard Peter, this is the call he gave the courtroom docket, entered the dock and I began out go exam. I changed into on approximately the second one or 1/3 query while My Lord furiously, and I say that with all feel of admire to the courtroom docket, ordered a sure Saviour (Imukudo), a reporter with Premium Times to get up and he stood up and My Lord requested him who’re you and he stated he turned into an observer. My Lord stated who’re you to study the courtroom docket, are you a celebration to this example? He stated no My Lord, I am a journalist. My Lord requested, are you a central authority journalist? And he stated no, I paintings with Premium Times. Hell turned into permit loose. What I witnessed became unparalleled in my younger and little years, for the eight years I had been practising as a legal professional. My Lord ordered his telecellsmartphone to be seized and the policemen to take him away.
I had a obligation having been referred to as to the Nigerian Bar, having taken that solemn oath to shield the charter of this us of a, myself being an recommend of press freedom and of direction a citizen who is aware of what’s and what isn’t proper to talk out, I stood up, I did now no longer confront the courtroom docket. I stated My Lord, with profound appreciate, phase 36 of the charter ensures exposure of trial and offers that courtroom docket lawsuits will be held in public. I changed into now no longer even shouting on the courtroom docket, I changed into urging My Lord. I stated My Lord, I had notion that during view of that constitutional provision that contributors of the general public which includes newshounds need to be unfastened to get entry to the courtroom docket and examine lawsuits and of path, My Lord didn’t be given that.
Maybe, that changed into my offence, I did now no longer surrender. I nonetheless entreated the courtroom docket after which My Lord stated besides you’re the only who added him to tarnish my tough earned reputation. So I noticed that the problem had emerge as very private. So I rested the difficulty.
I become approximately to maintain my go exam and I grew to become back, once more I noticed armed policemen with AK47, one to my proper, one to my left. This had created a lot hostility and I stated My Lord I even have additionally found the presence of armed policemen in courtroom docket. I stated, My Lord, despite the fact that I am generally now no longer intimidated with the aid of using their presence however through their being right here with hands sitted at the back of me they’ve created hostility withinside the courtroom docket which has made it uncomfortable for me and hard for me to continue with the complaints and I pleaded with the courtroom docket to excuse them. My Lord didn’t receive our plea. Again, perhaps that turned into my offence. I did now no longer surrender due to the fact I even have a responsibility as a attorney to shield the direction of justice.
I stated My Lord, respectfully I am now making it as a proper software wherein case Your Lordship might need to render a selection and I stated however, if Your Lordship overrules me I might be sure with the aid of using the order of the courtroom docket and I might continue with my go exam. At that point, My Lord picked a pen, My Lord commenced writing. You recognise as a attorney while you are addressing the courtroom docket and the courtroom docket is writing you’re excited that the courtroom docket is paying attention to what you’re announcing. Unknown to me, I idea My Lord become writing what I turned into announcing now no longer understanding it become my committal order to jail. The subsequent component I heard became ‘you there, step out of the bar’. I stepped out of the bar. I did now no longer combat. And then my Lord stated derobe your self and I need to additionally say once more I did now no longer derobe immediately. I need to area the report as it’s far due to the fact I can’t derobe as a attorney in courtroom docket if I don’t realize the motive why I must derobe. It is like getting rid of my Call-to-Bar certificate. I stated My Lord if I derobe I can not deal with the courtroom docket as a counsel. My Lord stated ‘you’re not a legal professional, I now no longer apprehend you due to the fact I am sending you to jail’.
I didn’t trust it. The subsequent factor my Lord did turned into to examine what My Lord had already written ‘you’re hereby sentenced to at least one month imprisonment, to be remanded on the Correctional Centre till you purge your self of contempt’.
And then I had eliminated my wig. My Lord ordered the 2 armed policemen ‘keep him, maintain him. Make certain he does now no longer leave. Hold him, ensure he does now no longer escape’. And I advised the policemen, even though I escape, human beings out of doors will realize that I am the only this is running. Where will I run to? Where in Akwa Ibom will I hide? So, I instructed them, I don’t have problem, I will comply with you to jail. I will now no longer be first (to be there).
All I actually have informed you is what transpired. So, folks who say Inibehe does now no longer understand the way to say ‘As the Court pleases’, Inibehe turned into disrespecting the courtroom docket, those are lies. And I say that on my honour. And I’m the usage of this possibility to publicly urge and attraction to My Lord the Honourable Chief Judge of Akwa Ibom State, My Lord the Honourable Justice Ekaette Fabian Obot to delight launch the Close Circuit Television (CCTV) digital digicam of that day. Because I am advised, I am conscious to the exceptional of my information that there may be CCTV interior that court docket, My Lord the Chief Judge’s courtroom docket. Let all legal professionals in Nigeria see whilst Inibehe pointed on the Honourable Chief Judge. Let them additionally see while Inibehe banged on the table. Even if I become the maximum insolent attorney in Nigeria, you do now no longer must scandalize my call and characteristic to me a behavior that by no means passed off in courtroom docket simply to justify what’s virtually unjustifiable.
So what I even have informed you is the fact. Any account out of doors what I even have advised you is a lie and it’ll continue to be a lie forever.
I can announce to you that I even have taken steps to stable the discharge of 17 inmates on the Uyo Custodial Centre, in truth one left closing night. The others could have come however the government had been worried that humans have been collecting an excessive amount of so I couldn’t wait. I turned into alleged to pop out with them. We needed to spend considerable and significant amount of cash to make that happen. These are human beings that had been admitted to bail at Magistrate Courts, that they’d no one to take them on bail. In truth, the younger guy who left the day gone by changed into admitted to bail, ultimately his rate turned into struck out, the courtroom docket did now no longer come to tell the Custodial Centre. He turned into simply there. It became till the individual I requested to head and ideal his bail went to courtroom docket the previous day, that become once they got here to stable his launch. This is a person that had no enterprise being in detention however this indicates you ways terrible the device is.
So, the closing 17 I am hopeful that earlier than the quit of these days they’ll be out. And I am doing that to additionally permit humans realize that the Criminal Justice device in Akwa Ibom and Nigeria as an entire desires to be revisited. There are a variety of harmless humans which can be there. The society may also condemn they all as criminals however if there has been any doubt that I had as a attorney that harmless human beings may be sentenced, through my enjoy I am now a witness of fact. By my personal revel in having been despatched to jail without a offence disclosed, with none misconduct, then there are harmless humans there.
Well, the jail lifestyles is what I actually have usually been organized for. That is why I snigger at people who had been celebrating my incarceration. I even have usually been organized. I knew this turned into inevitable due to the fact you do now no longer constantly combat folks that are oppressing our humans and also you do now no longer anticipate to be incarcerated. Life withinside the jail is a specific existence entirely. These are the deserted residents of Nigeria. They had been deserted with the aid of using the Federal Government of Nigeria. They were deserted via way of means of the Akwa Ibom State Government. As a count number of truth, I even have additionally undertaken to take in instances of a number of the inmates and withinside the coming days, you’ll get to research of a number of those pathetic instances.
For me, all I had to do turned into simply to regulate to the environment. There are such a lot of matters I needed to alter to. But get this clean, if I actually have ever had sound sleep in my lifestyles it became whilst I became withinside the jail. I had possibility of snoozing for now no longer much less than eight hours a day. I don’t have that during Lagos. So, I should additionally thank My Lord for this hard-earned vacation. I am thankful to the Chief Judge of Akwa Ibom. You might imagine it’s far humorous however the day I arrived right here from Ikot Ekpene at the tenth of this month, I went to the health facility to test my weight. I turned into weighing sixty-some thing however as I am leaving I am seventy-some thing. So that indicates that I changed into in no way afflicted at the same time as I become in incarceration. That is why I pity individuals who say oh whilst he comes out, he’ll now no longer communicate once more. The voice they so hate is now louder.”
Being Barr. Inibehe Effiong’s cope with to newshounds, pals, and well-wishers following his launch from jail custody on Friday 26 August, 2022 after a 30-day cumulative incarceration in each Ikot Ekpene and Uyo Custodial Centres. Excerpts captured through TheMail Newspaper.
First Published: April 8, 2020. History Of ( ILOGBO EKITI )
The meaning of “ILOGBO” is a town that “FLOURISH” formerly known as “ULUGBOORO”.

Ilogbo-Ekiti is one of the towns in Ido-Osi Local Government Area of Ekiti State. Founded by some of the grand children of Oduduwa, led by Okunbobua, who jointly migrated from Ile-Ife, around 14th century.
City Name: Ilogbo
Continent: Africa (AF)
Country: Nigeria (NG)
State: Ekiti (54)
Timezone: Africa/Lagos
Latitude: 7.86004
Longitude: 5.15556
Elevation (GTOPO30): 57
Although Ilogbo is a sleepy town in Ido-Osi Local Government Area of Ekiti State, it has many feats, which added many feathers to her cap as an outstanding town.
Founded by some of the grand children of Oduduwa, led by Okunbobuwa, who jointly migrated from Ile-ife, around 14th century, Ilogbo began as a local military camp and had its establishment coinciding with the institution of Islamic Hausa Kingdom in Northern Nigeria.
The Owa of Ilogbo, Oba Edward Ajayi, said llogbo was formerly called Ulogbooro, meaning a town flourishing with wealth, and this attests to the town’s current wealth in human and material resources:
“As descendants of Oduduwa, Ilogbo people could trace their root to Ile-Ife. The town began as a military camp in the early 14th century. Its establishment coincided with the institution of Islamic Hausa kingdom in the northern part of Nigeria.
“The town, which was initially known as Ilugbooro came to existence when modern Nigeria was full of individually distinct ethnic kingdoms. Okunbobuwa, popularly known as Ejemu was the direct son of Owa Obokun of Ijesa who was also the son of Oduduwa.
“According to history, Okunbobuwa was the first person to migrate to Ilogbo. He was a prince and a son of Owa of Ijesa. When his father died, Okunbobuwa (Ejemu) and his two brothers argued on who would be crowned as a king. In the name of peace, Ejemu left Ilesa with few friends and Okere.
“After a few days in the forest, the group settled at Ipole Oke-Ona and the place became their first settlement. At Ipole, Ejemu was there for many years before he could meet Olotin, a great hunter who later helped Ejemu to persuade Omo Oye, a prince from Osun to settle down at Ipole. Omo Oye was made the king and the dynasty remains the ruling house in Ilogbo since then.
“Olotin also won another soul of passer-by (Odofin) to settle down with them. Ejemu agreed to make him second-in-command while he took third position. Enurin, who migrated from Ikole took the number fourth position.
In the administration of Ilogbo-Ekiti, Owa is the head. The town has three permanent house chiefs namely: Odofin, Ejemu and Enurin. Odofin is the head of Odofin’s dynasty, Ejemu is the head of Ebi Mije and Enurin is the head of Enurin’s descendants.
The additional three are rotational high chiefs: Eisinkin, Eisaya and Eisaba. The three additional chiefs increased number of high chiefs to six and these chiefs were known as Iwara Mefa (the kingmakers). Ilogbo-Ekiti is one of the 11 towns in Ido/Osi Local Government. The meaning of Ilogbo is a town that flourish formerly known as Ulugbooro.”
Ilogbo has other feats, which placed the small town on the world map. Chairman, Committee for Homecoming event, Dr Jola Awosusi, said of the many sons and daughters who have made Ilogbo proud nationally and globally are Thaddeus Aina, Prof Tayo Olutoye, said to be Nigeria’s first Professor of Yoruba language and her son, a United States of America (U.S.A) based Nigerian surgeon, Dr Oluyinka Olutoye, who achieved a great medical feat by removing an unborn child from the mother’s womb. He returned the child to the womb of the woman who delivered after 32 weeks.
Ilogbo also boasts of rich cultural practices and heritage. The Oba said: “It is an abomination for the indigenes to engage in money ritual. The consequence is that anybody who does this will die without tasting the wealth.
“Our other taboos include the fact that you can’t kill a cat, you don’t carry the complete of plantain of banana or palm kernel around the town and you cannot ride horse across the main town. The natural resources in the town are grand stone and partial gold.
“The most popular traditional festival in Ilogbo is Olua and it attracts tourists and traditionalists from Cuba, United Kingdom and America. The Ooni of Ife, Adeyeye Ogunwusi Eniitan is always coming to the town during Olua festival. He was here recently.
“Tourist attractions in Ilogbo-Ekiti include Alaorosaba cave at Ipole, Erandu, a similitude of Olosunta Ikere and Kitikiti. Also, we have Ope Oloriyeye, a spiritual palm tree with many front heads. We have streams with certain spiritual powers. They include Ogidigbi Oniranyin, a healing stream and her gentle compatriot, Isune. We are blessed in agriculture. We produce mostly yam, cassava, maize and some other things.”
Oba Ajayi explained why the town honoured her indigenes: “I congratulate them all for what is happening today. It is a great lesson for everyone of them so that when the opportunity arises they should use it very well to serve their town so that they will be well-known. They should do good in their own time so that they will be remembered for it. We also want to urge the state government to help tar Usi-Ilogbo Road and provide jobs for the unemployed youths.”
Aina, a former member of the Federal House of Representatives and former Chairman of Ido-Osi LGA, said: “I thank God I was able to construct some developmental projects in this town and in my constituencies. I feel delighted and elated. I am happy and grateful to God that I lived to see this.”
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