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LOVE LETTERS THROUGH TIME: EXPLORING THE ROMANTIC CORRESPONDENCE OF VALENTINE'S DAY

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Step into the romantic time machine, close your eyes and imagine yourself being transported back to the ancient streets of Rome, where love and legend intertwine. Get ready to explore the enchanting and captivating origins of Valentine's Day from the mysterious ritual and festivals of lupercalia to the enduring and heartfelt tales of Saint Valentine. Get your mind ready for some awwwn and oh no! feelings by this enchanting journey into the heart of history!. While the origins of Valentine's Day can be traced back to ancient Roman festival, the festival of lupercalia celebrated on February 15 was a pagan fertility festival dedidcated to the Roman gods Lupercus also know as Faunus and the goddess Juno. Lupercus was associated with shepherds and fertility, while Juno was the goddess of marriage and childbirth. During this festival, young women from a box would be paired with the young men for the duration of the festivals, these pairing leads to marriage in...

"Hunted by Shadows: The Deep Psychological scars of Kidnapping"

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     Picture yourself being trapped in a dimly lit room surrounded by strangers, a place cold, colder than Russia, with no mummy to hug or a man to cuddle. The sound of your own rapid breathing echoing in your ears, drowing out any hope of escape. Days turned into weeks and the constant fear and uncertainty taking a toll on your psyche, which makes you question your own sanity, trapped in a cycle of anxiety and despair.          This is the situation of Nigeria now, buddy, kidnapping here and there, we are in the position where we have to start sleeping with Cutlass and knives because of the fear in us. 70 percent of Nigeria citizens are living in fear, nobody feels safe anymore, everybody is now being so careful and are tightening their ropes hard before their life gets kidnapped.   We now wake up to see headlines like "police rescue nine kidnap victims in Ogun, one held captive", "police confirm another case of abducted children...

"FROM CONFLICT TO CHANGE: EXPLORING THE TRANSFORMATIVE EFFECTS OF THE NIGERIA CIVIL WAR"

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 Every parent who lived in the 1960s knows what it really meant to be a parent in the face of hunger, disease, out cry and hopelessness.  Pictures of civil war on Nigeria as you'll come to see in this comprehensive post will get you thinking "what if I witnessed this brutal war? Would I have survived?  You know what ? Let's get started and you'll learn more about an important timeline in Nigeria's history and the consequences thereafter. Nigeria was a hotbed of political tension, ethnic division and economic struggles. It was like a giant pot of bubbling emotions ready to boil over. Then, in 1967 Biafra a region in Nigeria said, "Peace out✌️, we're declaring independence"!  But, oh boy, did that decision ignite a powder keg of conflict. The Nigerian government wasn't too thrilled about losing a chunk of their territory, so they fought tooth and nail to bring Biafra back into the fold. It became a full blown war, with both sides fiercel...