A
35-year-old housewife, Awele Nwani, in Ibusa, Oshimili South Local
Government Area, LGA of Delta State, has allegedly bathed her husband,
Frank Nwani, with hot water, on claims that he denied her sex for three
weeks.According to Awele, her husband had been having extra marital affairs.
The mother of six who is now on the run had threatened to make life unbearable for her husband, The Punch reports.
The victim, however, dismissed his wife’s claim as untrue, saying his wife had been sleeping around.
Nwani
said, “My wife has been sleeping around, hence I stopped sleeping with
her for three weeks. It is a taboo in my tribe and she violates the
laws.
“All my attempts to stop her illicit affairs outside proved abortive, then I took the decision to starve her of sex.”
The
last straw that broke the camel’s back was when the victim returned
from a visit to a friend’s house on Thursday during nightfall and in his
usual jokes, called his wife a lazy woman, leaving her in wide anger as
she fired back to call the husband a wizard.
According
to sources, while their quarrel lasted, the woman disguised to have put
the quarrel behind her, dashed to the kitchen where she allegedly
boiled water.
Unknown to the husband who was relaxing in the sitting room, Awele bathed him with the water and disappeared.
Confirming
the incident, police officers at the Ibusa Police Division, who pleaded
anonymity, said they were on the trail of the suspect while the victim
is receiving treatment in an undisclosed private hospital.
The
police also noted that the woman disappeared with the sum of N200, 000
being daily contribution the husband received and kept in her custody.
Dozens were killed and many houses razed to the ground when suspected
Fulani herdsmen attacked villages in Agatu Local Government Area of
Benue State last week. Ikwulono John Anthony visited Agatu on
Wednesday, March 2 and revealed the things he saw.
Below is what he wrote along with the photos
"I took the risk and came to Agatu together with the delegation from
presidency where we visited Obagaji, Egba, Aila, Adagbo, Okokolo, Akwu,
Ugboju, Odugbeho, Odejo.
Entire villages were burnt down completely by fulani herdsmen,
unidentified corpses of Agatu were discovered, properties were looted by
invaders, as I speak fulani herdsmen are camping in the deserted
villages. I couldn't believe what my eyes saw.
Fellow Nigerians, if government did not wade into the Agatu crisis
immediately by camping military in the crisis areas, then the hope of an
Agatu man or woman is gone.
President Buhari, Governor Ortom, Governor Almakura, You must act now
not later. I am weeping for my people as I am reporting from Agatu.
Fulanis were seeing with surfiscated weapons, face to face some of them
ran but some did not. This is barbaric"
Following
their collaboration on Ololufe, Flavour Nabania and Chidinma Ekile have
continuously rubbed a faux-relationship in the face of their fans.
Rocking the roman like robes reminiscent of the way Senators in
ancient Roman republics used to dress. They look like a blast from the
past.
Although debunking any possibility of a behind-the-scene love tale,
the two Nigerian artistes have released yet another picture that’ll have
you wondering.
And, they look cute together too, but the picture is believed to be a
hint at a new collaboration in the works, shared on both of their
instagram pages, we keep expecting what’s to become of this partnership.
The
minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, has said that
President Muhammadu Buhari never promised to pay idle youths N5000
stipends during the electioneering campaign as being insinuated.
Speaking
in Abuja during a courtesy visit to his office by the Nigeria Union of
Local Government Employees (NULGE), Ngige said there are conditions to
be met before the N5,000 can be accessed.
He said, “The
conditional cash transfer of 5000 which every one is shouting about, we
did not promise to give it to people who are lying at home, people who
have gotten schools certificate or degree and doing noting.
It is
rather conditional! And the conditionality is, it is either your are in
our skill acquisition centre learning a trade and we pay you N5,000 and
some N10,000 or you don’t know how to read and write in which we will
take you and give you some community service job to do. Like cutting
grass, filling potholes on federal highways, you assist road Marshals
and jobs like that.
“Some of these jobs might be under 5, 10, 15
or 20 hours in a week which will also determine the remuneration you
will get in a week. So that is the terms for the high tensioned
conditional cash transfer.”
He said the administration of President Buhari will be focusing more on blue collar jobs while de-emphasizing white collar jobs.
He
said, “This government, the Buhari administration is also introducing
new things that will bring palliative at the local government levels
because the people are there. At least every one is from one LGA or the
other. All the poverty alleviation programmes, all the intervention
funds, all the social security programmes targeted for our people will
be done at the local government levels. For example in this 2016 budget,
this ministry is going to remodel and repackage employment and job
creation.
“In this 2016 budget, we have made provision for job
centres to be created in states and in every LGA in Nigeria, where
people can walk in and register themselves just like they register to
vote. And the job centres will help us collect those that will assess
our skill acquisition centres, because the era of white collar jobs is
gone. The two jobs this government will focus on is blue collar jobs and
pink collar jobs. The blue collar are those that will use their hands
to work, either in construction companies, mining, farmers etc. The pink
are the service providers. We take you into the skill acquisition
centres and train you to either be a garment producer, painter, welder
and so on and your services will be needed because we are going to
certify you that you have come and gotten the required training for
these jobs.
“So
this people will eventually earn money that the man sitting in the
office will not earn. So we want to de-emphasise staying in the office
and be wearing ties and air condition waiting for vouchers with which to
steal money. So the local governments employees will assist us when we
come. All hope is not lost,the local government system will synergise
with the labour ministry in that regard.”
Guess Who’s on the cover of the British Vogue this month?
Yes! Rihanna bags her second cover on the British Vogue, and she goes
all the way, exclusively making a statement from her new collaboration
with Footwear Maestro, Manolo Blahnik.
On the inside, Rihanna dorns on her favourite of the collaborative work, a pair of thigh-high crystal-embellished boots.
In a chat with Vogue’s Emily Sheffield she said; “The day I see a
woman in the street wearing my shoes… I am sorry for that woman because
I’m going to literally run after her, shouting, ‘Stop! Selfie! Who are
you? Where did you get them?’ I’m going to have a moment!”
She continued, when asked if it’s a choice to wear on a date “Depends on what kind of date you are trying to have,”
“Guuurrrl! Those boots are dangerous! If you’re trying to get back
home to your bed, don’t wear them boots! You will get kidnapped in those
boots, those boots are trouble.”
Zimbabwe’s
President Robert Mugabe has announced plans for his government to take
control of all diamond mining operations in a bid to put an end to
alleged rampant swindling linked to the multi-billion dollar gem
industry in the poverty-stricken country.
Mugabe’s statement came a
week after authorities ordered all private mining companies to halt
work and leave the country’s Marange fields, which in 2013 reportedly
produced about 13 percent of the world’s diamond supply, saying that
their working licenses were not renewed.
“The state will now own all the diamonds in the country,” Mugabe said on Thursday in an interview with state broadcaster ZBC TV.
“Companies
that have been mining diamonds have robbed us of our wealth. That is
why we have now said the state must have a monopoly,” Mugabe said.
Zimbabwe
was the eighth largest diamond producer in the world with 4.7 million
carats in 2014, according to industry group Kimberly Process.
The
Zimbabwe Herald newspaper cited Mugabe as saying that he suspects at
least $13bn in revenue from the country’s diamond industry remains
unaccounted for.
“We have not received much from the diamond
industry at all,” he said. “Not by way of earnings. I don’t think we
have exceeded $2bn or so and yet we think that well over $15bn … have
been earned in that area.”
Mugabe said the nationalisation of the industry was necessary to prevent widespread swindling and smuggling by mining companies.
“You
can not trust a private company in that area. None at all. We should
have learned from the experiences of Botswana, Angola, Namibia,” he
added.
During the interview, Mugabe also said his successor must be chosen democratically and that he plans on living to 100.
“Why successor? I am still there. Why do you want a successor? I did not say I was a candidate to retire,” he said
“In
a democratic party, you don’t want leaders appointed that way to lead
the party. They have to be appointed properly by the people, at a
gathering of the people, at a congress.”
Mugabe said he was not
behind his wife Grace’s quick rise within ZANU-PF, which has led to
reports that she has plans to succeed her husband.
“Others say the
president wants to leave the throne for his wife. Where have you ever
seen that, even in our own culture, where a wife inherits from her
husband?” Mugabe said.
A young man in Bida, Niger state, created this car with a
wooden body and a motorcycle engine. This post originally appeared on this blog on March 4, 2016. Today we come with the video feed as the car, with plate number 'Bida 01' is now in Abuja to be displayed at the Nigeria made product campaign.
The car is currently in the capital city for a showcase of Nigerian made products at Old Parade Ground.
The
Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has put forward a new conspiracy theory
concerning what they believe could be behind the recent excessive
epileptic power supply in the country.
In an emailed statement to the media entitled SHARP FALL IN POWER
OUTPUT: WE SMELL A RAT, and signed by the Group’s director, Prof Ishaq
Akintola, MURIC alleges that the recent poor power supply being
witnessed and suffered by Nigerians, even as fuel scarcity prevails may
be caused by political sabotage being perpetrated by former President
Goodluck Jonathan and his allies.
MURIC also advised the FG to turn its spotlight on the Distribution
Companies (DISCOS). The recent protests against the planned tariff hike
by the NERC which was outlawed by the legislature after series of
massive protests by Nigerians across the six regions.
Some social media commentators have criticized supporters of the
President due to his failing to get the economy or power sector on track
close to one year in office.
One social media critic and supporter of the former President who
sought to remain unidentified said, “They are zombies. And their
President is the chief Junketer in chief. They are secretly wailing in
their homes because they know the economy is almost going to the brink
of hell. And trust their 419 change to completely cripple instead of
consolidate on the gains of the Jonathan administration.
Another analyst said on Facebook, “APC was clearly not prepard to
lead. They keep on blaming Jonathan, but Buhari has been the President
since early last year. Hopefully their brains will reset before 2019 so
we can find a credible solution to the problems we are facing as a
nation.
The press statement from MURIC reads in full:
Nigerians have been experiencing epileptic power supply
for some days now. Explaining the cassu belli, the Nigerian Electricity
Regulatory Commission (NERC) blamed vandals. The agency announced
yesterday that power supply through the national grid which peaked to
5000 megawatts in the past two weeks recently dropped below 2,800
megawatts due to vandalism.
The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) is greatly perturbed by this ugly
development. It is very sad, bewildering and frustrating. But we will
not allow them to intimidate us into submission. Aluta continua.
Poor power supply has been the bane of the Nigerian economy for more
than three decades. The implication of this prolonged non-performance is
that successive administrations have been long in quest for power but
short in service delivery. Apart from corruption, there have always been
wide gaps between planning, political will, transparency,
implementation, maintenance and sustenance.
This is where we want the Federal Government (FG) to turn its
floodlight. Nigerians have seen government’s plan for reform in the
power sector. It looks credible and it is already being implemented.
Presently there is iron-studded political will as manifested in the
pedigree of President Muhammadu Buhari (PMB). Transparency is the middle
name of the Buhari administration. But we must not get stuck when it
gets to maintenance and sustenance.
NERC has blamed the current drop on vandalism. The vandals are not
ghosts. It simply means that something is wrong with the security
arrangements. It is like chasing the shadows if we expect communities to
protect installations. People must sleep in their homes and vandals
will naturally strike when it gets dark and people are resting.
A water-tight security arrangement must therefore be made for power
facilities. Apart from the police and the army, NERC can create a
security unit to watch its installations throughout the country. This
unit can be made up of citizens from the local communities employed for
that purpose.
MURIC is however looking beyond the story of vandals. We smell a rat.
PMB must take his microscopes and go back into the presidential
laboratory to re-examine both the nature and structure of Distribution
Companies (DISCOS).
Why did electricity become so constant and so steady in the first,
second and third months of Buhari’s emergence as president? Was it not
because those in charge were not sure of the actions PMB might take if
they played pranks with electricity?
The civilian coup in the Nigerian legislature which was calculated to
slow down PMB emboldened the suppliers of electricity or, better still,
producers of darkness to the extent that they fell back on plan ‘B’.
These agents of darkness may not want PMB to succeed and like those
chief executives appointed by former President Jonathan in the twilight
of his administration, they may be actively sabotaging his
administration.
We remind Nigerians how MURIC raised an alarm when Jonathan started
appointing people irrationally even when it was a few days to go. We saw
the trap. Jonathan was laying land mines and actively engaging in
forward-looking political sabotage.
We advised PMB at the time to ensure that all those so appointed
should be summarily sacked as soon as he settled down. We suspected very
strongly at the time that the only purpose for such appointments could
only be the creation of clogs in the wheel of progress for the next
administration. We saw it as callous, selfish and patriotic.
PMB should be commended for retaining them for so long for whatever
reason, perhaps out of compassion. He just started sacking them two
weeks ago. But he has not touched the producers of darkness. MURIC is
hereby insisting that ‘Ghana must go!’ Let there be light!
Fashola must take a second look at the satanic and deceitful
statistics presented to him by these agents of darkness planted by
Jonathan and separate the wheat from the chaff.
Enough is enough. Is it not time for electricity firms to publish a
realistic schedule for the deployment of meters? Nigerians are being
blindfolded and made to pay crazy bills through their noses. They don’t
see what they pay for. It is sheer infringement of Allah-given
fundamental rights of consumers. Tariffs have hit the roof but supply
has not only nose-dived, it has hit the ground and still digging in!
No country can attain technological breakthrough without steady
electricity. Poor power supply encumbers economic growth, retards
industrial progress and beclouds all forms of academic activity both on
the part of the students, researchers and teachers.
Lack of electricity is also a potent threat to lives and properties.
Three people were roasted alive in Lagos two days ago when their
fuel-laden bus burst into flames. Buildings get burned when fuel is
stored inside but who is to blame? Why do we have to store fuel in our
homes if there is constant electricity?
The citizens’ welfare depends largely on availability of constant
power supply. Nigerians are not so happy today because they are made to
face heat in the night as fuel shortage coincided with a near total
blackout. Fuel is currently selling between N130 and N200.
In conclusion, FG must go back to the drawing board to evolve a
foolproof security system for power installations and to fish out
saboteurs among the DISCOS. Consumers must have access to meters without
tears. Crazy bills must stop.
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Your
relationship was going so great and suddenly it seems like you’re alone
in it. You don’t know what you did wrong. Here is a list of things that
could be causing him to pull away from you and what you can do about
it. He loves the chase
Whether consciously or subconsciously, many men love the steps
leading up to a relationship: catching a girl’s attention, winning her
over, etc. But once she starts to have interest, he loses interest in
her. This doesn’t necessarily mean the guy is shallow and just
interested in games; but it could mean that you based your relationship
around building interest in the chase instead of building interest in
you.
When you start dating, make sure you let him in on what an awesome
person you are so that he knows he’s attracted to you and not to the
chase. You’re being too clingy
Of course you’re going to get pretty attached to your guy, but being
overly attached can hurt your relationship. He needs to have space to
breathe, to be himself. Not only that, but he needs to know that you’re a
high-value woman who doesn’t need him in order to be secure. That’s the
kind of person he wants to be with. His life is stressful
Sometimes the reason he is pulling away has nothing to do with you.
He may be overwhelmed with family or work issues that are preoccupying
him and causing him to become distant.
In this case, it can be good to give him some space so that he can
deal with these challenges. However, don’t get too far. Make sure he
knows that you are there to support him in whatever way you may be able
to. He might need someone to help him with smaller tasks or someone to
listen as he vents his struggles. You can also do small acts of service
for him to help his days be better.
You may need to be OK with carrying the bulk of your relationship on
your shoulders for a time. However, if this lasts a long time, you
should consider the fact that this could be more permanent than a phase,
and it’s not healthy for you to continually be contributing to the
relationship without getting anything back.
Disgraced Pedophile
footballer Adam Johnson was so obsessed with porn, he had a hardcore porn app on
his phone and usually watched porn videos in the dressing room. He was also said to be into younger women.
According
to a report by The Sun, Johnson, apart from constantly watching videos
on the porn app, usually shared x-rated images of women he had cheated
on his partner with to his teammates, who were left stunned by his
constant cheating habits. When a naked picture of his 'groin area' was found on his phone. He insisted it was for his doctor.
The
ex-Sunderland and England footballer is facing a lengthy prison
sentence at the end of his month after he was found guilty of kissing,
grooming and having sexual activity with a 15 year old girl.
His
ex-partner and mother of his child, Stacey Flounders has broken up with
the footballer and her father Gary Flounders says she won't be getting
back with the footballer as he flew from his base in America to England
to come and be by his daughter's side during this trying period.
Gary exclusively told The Sun today: "There's no way back. She's gone now."
The
judge told Johnson 'You must understand that when you return here at
the end of March you will receive a substantial prison sentence.'
A
relative told MailOnline: 'I feel so sorry for Stacey. She is a new mum
and having a lot to cope with at the moment. Her grandad is also ill.'
'Before
Adam, Stacey had her own life, she was an air hostess and had a car.
She likes her designer shoes and handbags. She is a stunning girl.
'She liked her holidays, she saved up to go to Mexico and her dad lives in Florida so she would go and see him.
'She
must have been really smitten with Adam because I've seen her have
boyfriends before but I didn't expect her to settle down so soon. I was
shocked to hear she was pregnant.'
The
Central Bank Governor, Godwin Emefiele has made an astonishing
disclosure indicating that the whopping sum of $20 billion is laying
idle in the accounts of some private Nigerians.
The News Nigeria reports
According to him, over $20 billion is sitting pretty in
domiciliary accounts of private individuals at a time when the country
is facing foreign exchange crisis and is chasing foreign loans, when its
citizens could offer the loan.
The figure of idle dollars is $7.8 billion less than the entire national reserve of $27.8 billion, managed by the Central Bank.
Emefiele’s disclosure, via proxy, was made at a session of the joint committee on appropriation of the National Assembly.
Represented by the Deputy Governor in charge of Financial System
Surveillance, Mr. Joseph Nnanna, Emefiele said keeping the huge volume
of dollars idle had compounded the forex crisis confronting the country.
“As I’m talking to you, $20billion is in various domiciliary accounts
of individuals. Naira is our currency, why are they keeping the foreign
currency? From my experience in the international finance, I have never
seen a country where its nationals speculate on its currency,” he said.
These 10 interesting facts about condom history will surprise you. 1. The condom is not a new invention:
The oldest known claim to the use of condoms was actually part of a
cave painting in France. The paintings in this cave are estimated to be
between 12,000 and 15,000 years old. 2. Condoms have not always covered the whole penis: Before
the 15th century, Chinese men placed bits of oiled silk paper over
their glans only and men from Japan use something called a "tortoise
shell caps." 3. The first large-scale case of condom use occurred in the 16th century : A
man named Gabriele Fallopio invented condom that you had to tie to the
penis. He tested this by wearing it for men and asking them to have sex
with women who had Syphilis. He claimed then men did not contract the
disease. 4. The average condom can hold as much as a gallon of liquid: So a guy does not have to worry about it being unable to hold all his sperm. 5. Condoms do not hinder a guy's pleasure:
There are a lot of condoms these days that are guaranteed to give the
man as much pleasure as he could have gotten if he went without. 6.The German military was the first to promote condom use among its members: This happened around the 19th century. In the 20th century, the American armed forces followed suit. 7. Condoms are a girl's secret weapon: When
the time is right and you pull out a condom, that shows the guy
that you're confident and not afraid to go after what you want. 8. Condoms have set records: Some
of them include: Most condoms pulled through the nose at once
(3), longest condom chain (25,773 condoms tied together), largest condom
mosaic (made using 685 condom packs), and of course, the largest condom
(72 feet in length). 9. A lot of people still do not know how to use a condom: There
are actually a lot of people that do not know how to use a condom. The
phrase "can you reuse a condom" produces more than 130,000 results on
Google. 10. People are so afraid of purchasing condoms that they don't want to use them: One of the top reasons people do not use a condom is because they are afraid to run into someone they know while buying it.
Avoid these common condom mistakes to make sure you are well protected from all STDs.
Condom mistakes
Most men feel very cocky and confident that they know all there is to know when it comes to condom use. While this might be true for some, a lot of men are still making life-risking mistakes when they protect themslves.
It
is very pertinent that we all know the right way to use a condom, as
using it wrongly will not only bring about unwanted pregnancy, but could
cause a host of Sexually Transmitted Diseases, STDs, including HIV.
Avoid these mistakes to make sure you stay protected.
1. Not checking for visible damage. Nearly
75% of people never bother looking for tears or holes -- even if they
use their teeth to open the packet (don't!) or snag the condom on their
jewelry or fingernails.
2. Not checking the expiration date. Yes,
that little date printed on the wrapper is news to 61% of users.
Condoms last very long - up to 5 years for plain ones, though only 2
years or so for those with a spermicide, which gradually breaks down the
latex. If a condom is sticky or brittle, toss it. READ: 10 Facts about condoms you never knew 3. Putting it on late in the action. About
43% of students in a sex-behavior study donned the condom after
penetration had already occurred. Presumably they didn't know that some
sperm can be released before the final fireworks, posing pregnancy and
STD risks.
4. Not leaving room at the top. It's
apparently news to four out of 10 condom users that before putting it
on, you need to gently squeeze the tip of the condom to remove any
trapped air and leave space for the sperm. Otherwise, the condom's more
likely to break.
5. Putting it on wrong. Don't
you hate when that happens? About 30% of people put it on inside out and
don't realize that an inside-out condom is more likely to slip off. The
safest thing to do? Start with a new one. The right way: The condom
should look a little like a ski cap with the bottom edges rolled up (not
under). The cap should fit over the penis so that the brim unrolls
easily down the shaft. 6. Slipping off during sex. To
find a good fit, buy a variety of styles and sizes (there really aren't
that many choices) and try them at leisure. Remember, natural lambskin
sounds nice and can prevent pregnancy, but it doesn't protect against
the viruses that cause AIDS, hepatitis, and herpes. Only latex can do
that.
7. Taking the condom off too soon. Not a
good idea. For the 15% of men who report doing this, losing an erection
is a big reason. But erections can come and go during sex; besides,
ejaculation can occur without an erection, bringing with it all the
risks of pregnancy and STDs.
Do you know you might be making some mistakes after sex that could mess with your sexual health?
Maintaining sex health
There are a lot of tips on how
to prepare for sex and how to have sex, but do you know you might be
making some mistakes after sex that could mess with your sexual health?
See 2 big ones below;
Not urinating afterwards:
Did you know that relieving yourself after sex can help you prevent developing a urinary tract infection?
We are not saying that you rush into the bathroom right after the act
and not remain in bed to cuddle with your partner. But holding your pee
for too long after sex can do you more harm than good.
No
matter how tired you feel after a steamy sex session, don’t forget to
wash yourself. Leftover lube, sweat and/or bodily fluids can cause
genital infections which might force you to avoid having sex for a long
time.
Khloe says, "'I think once you let someone see your vagina, it's probably nice to still have a relationship with them."
Khloe Kardashian
31-year-old reality star, Khloe Kardashian, has opened up about some of her sexual preferences on her talk show, Kocktails with Khloe.
While discussing her ex, French Montana and whether or not they are getting back together, Khloe says, "' think once you let someone see your vagina, it's probably nice to still have a relationship with them."
She also mentioned how much monogamy is important to her in any relationship.
"I just don't want to put up with people who [say they] want to be monogamous and then they're not." "I've never ever cheated in my life."
'My mom cheated on my dad…and I saw how it destroyed my dad…and I was like ''I don't want to do that'',' she said.
Speaking about her sexual preferences, Khloe said, "I love porn, I'm all for porn."
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An account of tragedy on the basis of the courage with which the hero
confronts his boundary situation:
Don Draper accounts that a tragic hero, who as an individual with the quality
of soul that can conquer death, has the courage to face the cruel destiny and
situation which stands in his way.
In the context of
the Fabula Praetexta, plays on Roman
historical topics, which very often seem to have treated an act of heroism by a
recently deceased personage; Seneca’s Octavia
and Sophocles’ Antigone survive the
whole. In the former, the play focuses on the person and history of Octavia,
the rejected and persecuted wife of the emperor Nero. And in the later,
Antigone, a well established character, in pursuit of the tragic cycle and
‘tragic courage' as revealed in her stubbornness, sees her right as a heroic
individual to reject society’s infringement on her freedom to perform a
personal obligation, obvious in her refusal to let Creon dictate what she is
allowed to do with her family members. She says to Ismene about Creon’s edict,
‘He has no right to stay me.’
Asserted by Draper,
the tragic events in a Fabula Praetexta
plays seem to be created and aggravated by the courage of the tragic hero. In Octavia, Octavia states to her Nurse:
Although I may patiently suffer these things,
And appear to tolerate them, my misfortunes
Can never be brought to an end, but by the
Sad alternative means of death!
She dares to be the
character through whose hand shall come the fall of the tyrant ruler, Nero, who
was her brother and now her husband. In the explanatory question by the Chorus
in Octavia, they ask: ‘But where is
the ancient courage of the Roman populace, which often caused the most
illustrious of men to fly for their lives?’ The idea of this is that the
ancient historical plays plug into the fact that a hero is supposed to emerge
with absolute and extreme courage to face the unlikely situation of the
populace or what he, the hero, rejects to be a part of the society, even if he
stands unsupported.
Antigone’s solely
unsupported second burial of her brother is in the stubbornness that the law is
not absolute, and that it can be broken in civil disobedience in extreme cases,
such as honouring the gods, whose rule and authority outweighs Creon’s. In the
issue of this second burial; when Antigone poured dust over her brother’s
corpse, she completed the burial ritual and thus fulfilled her duty to him –
the dead. Having been properly buried, Polyneices’ soul could proceed to the
underworld whether or not the dust was removed from his body. However, Antigone
went back after his body was uncovered and performed the ritual again, an act
that seems to be completely unmotivated by anything other than a plot necessity
so that she could be caught in the act of disobedience, leaving no doubt of her
guilt.
J. L. Rose, in
analyzing Antigone’s courage to bury her brother the second time maintains that
the solution to the problem of the second burial is solved by Antigone as a
tragic character. Being a tragic character, she is completely obsessed by one
idea, and for her this is giving her brother his due respect in death and
demonstrating her love for him and for what is right. When she sees her
brother’s body uncovered, she is overcome by emotion and acts impulsively to
cover him again, with no regards to the necessity of the action or its
consequences for her safety.
Brian Smith originally published this
article in psych central journal as a guide for family members having
someone with schizophrenia. The article is useful, especially in our
situation where there is poor social welfare scheme and poorly developed
community-based mental health services.
Family members often try to cope with
someone, who has schizophrenia for a period. But once there seems to be
lack of progress in treatment or dropping out of treatment, the family’s
emotional support may wane, resulting in some family members cutting
off all contact with their schizophrenic
sibling.
Friends may also lose interest
in supporting a person with schizophrenia, as they cannot understand
how to continue to give long-term support to such a person.
People with schizophrenia may need help
from people in their family or community in numerous situations. They
may often resist treatment, believing that delusion or hallucination is
real and that psychiatric help is not required. Certain long-held
beliefs and practices concerning mental illness in a particular
community may frustrate efforts of some family members in getting
relevant orthodox intervention for their relatives. The following hints
may be useful for such family members and friends.
The closest family member or friend
should be the advocate. Sometimes, only the family or others close to
the person with schizophrenia will be aware of strange behaviour or
ideas that the person has expressed. Since patients may not volunteer
such information during an examination, family members or friends should
volunteer to offer all relevant information.
Ensure ongoing compliance with treatment
Ensuring that a person with
schizophrenia continues to get treatment after hospitalisation is also
important. Discontinuing medication or not going for follow-up
treatment, often lead to a return of psychotic symptoms.
Offer strong emotional encouragement
Encouraging the person to continue
treatment and assisting him or her in the treatment process can
positively influence recovery. Without treatment, some people with
schizophrenia become so disorganised that they cannot care for their
basic needs, such as food, clothing and shelter. Such patients may end
up on the streets or in jail.
Know how to respond to bizarre comments
Those close to people with schizophrenia
are often unsure of how to respond when patients make statements that
seem strange or are clearly false. For the individual with
schizophrenia, the bizarre beliefs or hallucination seems quite real —
they are not just “imaginary fantasies.” Instead of “going along with” a
person’s delusion, family members or friends can tell the victim that
they do not see things the same way, while acknowledging that things may
appear otherwise to the patient.
It is very important not to challenge
the person’s beliefs or delusion. They are very “real” to the person who
experiences them, and there is no point arguing with them about the
delusion or false beliefs. Instead, move the conversation along to areas
or topics where you both will agree.
Keep a record
It may also be useful for those who know
the person with schizophrenia well to keep a record of types of
symptoms, medication (including dosage), and effects of various
treatments. By having this knowledge, family members may know better
what to look for in the future.
Families may even be able to identify
some “early warning signs” of potential relapses, such as increased
withdrawal or changes in sleep patterns.
Thus, return of illness may be detected
early and treatment may prevent a full-blown relapse. Also, by knowing
which medication that have helped and which have caused troublesome side
effects in the past, the family can help those treating the patient to
seek better treatment more quickly.
Support the person
In addition to involvement in seeking
help, family, friends and peer groups can provide support and encourage
the person with schizophrenia to regain his or her abilities. It is
important that goals be attainable, since a patient who feels pressured
or repeatedly criticised by others will probably experience stress that
may lead to a worsening of symptoms. Like anyone else, people with
schizophrenia need to know when they are doing things right. A positive
approach may be helpful and perhaps more effective in the long run than
criticism. This advice applies to everyone who interacts with the
person.
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