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PEOPLES DAILY WEEKEND SATURDAY 11 — SUNDAY 12, FEBRUARY, 2012
VALENTINE SPECIAL Hurray! The valentine’s season is here again. As lovers all over the world get set to mark another Valentine’s Day, next Tuesday, Nigerians speak on their plans to celebrate the day known as the season of love. While some expect to spend the day indoors in the company of their loved ones, others have loads of plans to celebrate the day outdoors and to give gifts to their beloved. Miriam Humbe and Rukayatu Mohammed went were in the street where they got the voices of the people about the oncoming event. Mrs. Mimidoo Okoronkwo, (Business woman)
Mrs. Nonye Ayere (Beautician)
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y plan for that day is to attend a church service which is specifically organized to mark it in the company of a friend since my husband is out of town. If however he gets back before Valentine’s Day, of course, I will love to spend it with him and go out with him to wherever he will choose to take me to.
Chigozie Nwabueze (Driver)
Chigozie Valentine means a lot to me and is a welcome development. As you can see, I am out here in search of my means of livelihood, and hopefully I am expecting to make some money at the end of this week. My utmost desire is to buy a car for my fiancée to show my love to her and to celebrate with my friends. Saint Valentine’s Day, commonly shortened to Valentine’s Day is a holiday observed on February 14 every year to honour one or more early Christian martyrs named Saint Valentine. It is traditionally a day on which lovers express their love for each other by presenting flowers, offering
Adetokunbo Oshoba (Banker)
Adetokunbo intend to attend a church program which is specially organized for couples for the Valentine season. After that, we will go for dinner at Cupid Resort and bar. I believe the Valentine season is all about rekindling the love in which both couples share no matter the number of years you have spent together. It is also about sharing love to the less privileged and the needy. For that, I look forward to giving to the orphanage homes some good gifts I can afford for the children’s upkeep.
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will spend it with my husband though he is not much of the out-going type. On
confectionery, and sending greeting cards (known as “valentines”) The day first became associated with romantic love in the circle of Geoffrey Chaucer in the High Middle Ages, when the tradition of courtly love flourished. It was first established by Pope Gelasius I in 496 AD, and was later deleted from the General Roman Calendar of saints in 1969 by Pope Paul VI. M o d e r n Valentine’s Day symbols include the heart-shaped outline, doves, and the figure of the winged Cupid. Since the 19th c e n t u r y , h a n d w r i t t e n valentines have given way to massproduced greeting cards.
that day, I will make peppered chicken or goat meat and serve him with wine or juice and we will spend the evening alone chatting and renewing our love and marital vows.
Eugene Akagwu (Student)
Sunday Francis (Business man)
Sunday will like to celebrate the valentine in Abuja but because of the current security lapses in the country owing to the Boko Haram threats, it may hinder my celebrating in the way I planned to. I planned to go to the Millennium Park but I may just change my mind about that. I am hoping that at the end of today, I will have enough money to celebrate it in style. Also, I want to surprise my fiancée with beautiful gifts.
I Eugene am a student, so after lectures that day, I will take my lady out to a hotel in Keffi where we will sit by the pool side. I love to see her nice dentition so I am going to make her laugh a whole lot so I can enjoy looking at her beautiful face. I already have a fine wrist watch I bought for her so I am going to present it to her when I drop her in front of her hostel and tell her how much I love her.
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