Obosi Community To Honour 200 Octogenarians With Ogbueshi Titles

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Obosi Community To Honour 200 Octogenarians With Ogbueshi Titles—The Traditional ruler of Obosi, His Royal Highness, Igwe Chidubem Iweka, has said that over 200 octogenarians will be honoured with Ogbueshi titles.

Iweka stated this on Friday when he received the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Anambra state Correspondent, Mrs Joy Mbachi, who came visiting his palace.

He explained that the Ogbueshi title is a festival used to celebrate the elderly who have attained 80 years of age.

He said that the celebration, also known as Iteogbo, is an age-long cultural heritage of the people in the community.

According to him, with this initiation into the Ogbuefi title by those who have attained 80 years (Oforka agegrade), they have been exempted from all manners of levies and communal works.

“We began honouring these categories of elders as part of respect to them to have attained this height.

“Some of our neighbouring communities have emulated us and today they come to us to know how we have been able to uphold this for years.

“On Sunday, the Christians will get to church to thank God for a successful initiation and the traditionalists will also get to their shrines to thank God,” he said.

Earlier, the Prime Minister (Onowu) of the community, Chief Austen-Anibogwu, while corroborating the traditional ruler’s position, added that there are moves to make the occasion a tourist attraction and affiliate it with other national festivals of other tribes.

“It is an age-long ceremony that is celebrated every three years. As this Oforka age grade will be initiated on Saturday, March 3, those age grade members that will follow them will be initiated in the next three years.

“In every family that is celebrating the occasion, a cow must be slaughtered and that is why they are called Ogbueshi (literally meaning killer of cow),” he said.

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•Minister Of Power, Adebayo Adelabu WhatsApp Number has been Hacked.

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The announcement was made in a brief notice sent to the Daily Post by Tunji on Thursday night.

Tunji urged Nigerians to ignore any requests for money or financial assistance originating from the compromised phone number, stating, “HM of power number has been hacked on WhatsApp. Kindly disregard any appeal for money or any assistance for financial support through the number 08022901928.”

This incident follows closely on the heels of similar security breaches involving other government officials.

Just six days prior, the WhatsApp number of the Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, was hacked, and earlier, the same fate befell the Minister of Sports Development, Senator John Enoh.

TCN recalls that the WhatsApp number of the Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Umo Eno, in August was also hacked by fraudsters, leading to an attempt to defraud several of his contacts.

The incident came to light when some individuals on the governor’s contact list received messages from his WhatsApp number, requesting that money be sent to a specified account with a promise of a refund later.

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