ALEX OKOROIGWE (aka Alex O)
What does Valentine mean to you?
It’s more of a reminder, to keep one focused on a cherished relationship.
What plans do you have for this Valentine?
Sometimes we do get very busy and start taking other equally important things for granted. It’s a time to celebrate love without boundaries.
What’s the best Valentine gift you’ve ever gotten from your partner?
Knowing that I am truly loved unconditionally. All other gifts are just to add value.
How often do you express love to each other?
Always.
What does love mean to you?
It is that special feeling that softens you down towards the other person, whether it is your wife, husband, mother, father, brother, sister, extended member of the family or a friend. You don’t wanna do something to offend or hurt them. It may not necessarily be romantically linked. Some people love their pets.
OBY EDOZIEH – ALEX O (Wife)
What does Valentine mean to you?
Valentine’s day is a day we celebrate love, the same way we celebrate Christmas, new year, etc.
What plans do you have for this Valentine?
A romantic candle-lit dinner.
What’s the best Valentine gift you’ve ever gotten from your partner?
A box full of his faithfulness is the best Valentine gift I got from my hubby; not only on Val’s day.
How often do you express love to each other?
The surprise element is the key; no fixed time, and as often as possible.
What does love mean to you?
Love is more about caring, sharing and wishing that the time we spend together never ends.
DON OKEREMUTE IRUVWE (aka D Don)
What does Valentine mean to you?
It is a time to celebrate Saint Valentine and what he stands for.
What plans do you have for this Valentine?
It depends. If I have a confirmed show, I will go make money for my family; if not, I will spend the day with my wife and child.
What’s the best Valentine gift you’ve ever gotten from your partner?
I can’t remember.
How often do you express love to each other?
Every day; except days I travel and I’m off line.
What does love mean to you?
Love means being and living for each other.
ELFRIDA OBIEHI IRUVWE (Wife)
What does Valentine mean to you?
To me, Valentine means showing and sharing love with your family and also people around. It is also a special time to spice up the relationship between myself and my hubby.
What plans do you have for this Valentine?
I hope to spend the Valentine with the two men in my life (my hubby and my son).
What’s the best Valentine gift you’ve ever gotten from your partner?
The best gifts I have gotten from my hubby for Valentine are his unending love and a beautiful red dress.
How often do you express love to each other?
We express our love to each other every day through the simplest ways we can.
What does love mean to you?
Love means being there unconditionally for the one you love, both in good and bad times.
ROBERTS OKERE (Husband)
What does Valentine mean to you?
Valentine is the celebration of love. To me, it means nothing because I celebrate my wife, family and friends every time; not just on Valentine’s day.
What plans do you have for this Valentine?
We’ve planned a romantic get-away weekend.
What’s the best Valentine gift you’ve ever gotten from your partner?
The best Valentine gift I ever got was when I proposed to my wife and she said yes.
How often do you express love to each other?
Every day! It sounds weird, but I express my love in various ways. For example, pampering her, sending her sweet text messages, etc. I love my wife to bits!
What does love mean to you?
Love to me is a powerful neurological condition that you don’t toy with.
VICTORIA OKERE ROBERTS (Wife)
What does Valentine mean to you?
Valentine is a day to celebrate love and to me, it means doing the same thing today, yesterday and tomorrow. That is, to continue showing love to my friends, family and everything.
What plans do you have for this Valentine?
We plan to have a romantic get-away weekend as we’ve always done, in a country we’ve never visited.
What’s the best Valentine gift you’ve ever gotten from your partner?
The best Valentine gift I’ve ever gotten was when my hubby booked a surprise trip to Italy. He then vowed to love me forever with an eternity ring.
How often do you express love to each other?
We express our love to each other almost every day. I would say “We’re drunk in love”.
What does love mean to you?
Love to me is an entity that encompasses trust, friendship and passion in having a successful long lasting relationship.
KAYODE SALAKO (Husband)
What does Valentine mean to you?
Valentine to me is just a day dedicated to celebrate love and portray it as a special and necessary phenomenon. It is a day the virtues of what love is, is extolled and celebrated. It is a day humanity is reminded of the kind of love Jesus Christ has for humanity. So, celebrating Valentine is all about celebrating true and unconditional love or else it won’t be worth celebrating. Valentine is not a day to celebrate just the amorous or popular kind of love, but exactly the type of love Jesus Christ came to institute for the total liberation, well-being and unity of the human kind. I celebrate Valentine because I believe in love.
What plans do you have for this Valentine?
I will be celebrating Valentine on February 14 to express my deep affection in its originality, especially to someone who deserves it more in my life: my darling and bosom wife and soul mate, Foluke Daramola-Salako. She is my Valentine for February 14 and that is where the world should expect me to share it and express it. I try to celebrate it in such a way that, at the end of the day, someone special will feel deeply loved and vice versa. Unfortunately, fate has made it in such a way that it will always be a period, which coincides with my wife’s birthday and our wedding anniversary, as well. So, what we are doing to celebrate during this year’s Valentine will also accommodate all we are going to be doing to mark the celebration of my wife’s birthday and our anniversary. On the 13th, my wife’s rape foundation, Action Against Rape in Africa (AARA) will be doing something special to show love to some victims of rape in the state. I understand these victims are going to be supported and celebrated with some gift items to show better love to them. On the 14th, we plan to spend what we share probably in a five-star hotel for a difference. And on the 15th, which is my wife’s birthday and our anniversary day, we plan to give it a slight and remarkable celebration. Maybe in our house or any other place of our choice with some few close friends and family members.
What’s the best Valentine gift you’ve ever gotten from your partner?
The best Valentine’gift I have ever received from anyone is from Foluke. Giving me her heart and her life to manage is the best gift I have ever received from anyone.
How often do you express love to each other?
We love and live in each other. So, asking me how often we express it to each other is like asking me how often I breathe in oxygen. Loving Foluke is already part of my life. I live in it and it is already what I am living to enjoy. I only pray we can both sustain it for as long as God wants it to last.
What does love mean to you?
One unique thing about me is that if I love my woman, I let her know. So, I tell her almost every morning what I feel about her, especially when I am in the best of my mood. Foluke is not a perfect woman. In fact, far from it. But one thing that is sure is the way I feel about her. And it is a confirmation that it is natural, genuine and destiny-ordained. She is an emotionally open, fragile and passionate woman that deserves all the best from her man. I hope to invite you to the celebration of our destiny child.
Foluke Daramola-Salako (Wife)
What does Valentine mean to you?
Valentine to me means a time to show love, not just to your loved ones, but anyone that you feel you can reach out to and impact that person’s life.
What plans do you have for this Valentine?
Every Valentine’s day always coincides with my birthday. Now, it also coincides with my wedding anniversary, so myself and my hubby would be going to one of the 5-star hotels in Lagos on the 14th and 15th. We would also be having a small anniversary and birthday party. But before then, on the 13th, we would be walking against rape in Nigeria and we would be taking food and other relief materials to victims of rape in my foundation (AARA).
What’s the best Valentine gift you’ve ever gotten from your partner?
The best Valentine gift I have gotten was and is still my hubby. Because I met him on the 13th of February 2012! The best Valentine in my life was the following year. I also got my wedding, a Valentine gift as well. So, I think my luck really flows with Val. It’s like I am the love child am being called.
How often do you express love to each other?
Every second of our lives, we always appreciate each other and we are never economical with our expression of love. Every morning, my hubby would wake up to tell me he loves me and I am the best thing that has happened to him in life, and that makes me feel really special and loved.
What does love mean to you?
Love means believing the best of each other, perfect understanding, accepting one another despite your demerits or weaknesses, forsaking all others for that person and most importantly, sacrifice. It comes with excitement and sometimes pains. But it’s a feeling everybody should experience because it’s never understood when explained, but felt.
AKINLAMI BABATUNDE JULIUS (aka Elenu)
What does Valentine mean to you?
Valentine is a time to show an act of love to family, friends and most especially, to the needy.
What plans do you have for this Valentine?
As usual, I will be working on that day.
What’s the best Valentine gift you’ve ever gotten from your partner?
My wife got me a BlackBerry Z10 when it first came out because she knows I love gadgets.
How often do you express love to each other?
Between my wife and I, that is like waking up every day. No day passes by without us expressing love to each other.
What does love mean to you?
To me, love is dedicating a larger part of your mind, heart and body to someone who you can’t do without.
CHINWE AKINLAMI (Wife)
What does Valentine mean to you?
Valentine to me is a day specially set aside due to the Saint Valentine story for people to show each other love and kindness.
What plans do you have for this Valentine?
I don’t know what my plans are yet.
What’s the best Valentine gift you’ve ever gotten from your partner?
Valentine’s day isn’t necessarily a day to exchange gifts. My partner showers me with gifts every other day, not just on Valentine’s day, because to us, everyday is Valentine’s day. But then, the gift of his love is what I cherish most.
How often do you express love to each other?
We express our love to each other every single day. Honestly, I can’t explain what love means to me because there is really no word to explain it.
What does love mean to you?
Love means a whole lot of things to me. I just know the feeling of love is the best feeling ever. It’s such a powerful feeling.
Chinedu Emmanuel Ani (aka Nedu of Wazobia)
What does Valentine mean to you?
Valentine means love and expenses.
What plans do you have for this Valentine?
I’ll be at work and then after I am done at the studio, I head to Eko Hotel for an event. Man must make money. I go do my own Valentine the next day. After all, everyday na Valentine for me.
What’s the best Valentine gift you’ve ever gotten from your partner?
I have never gotten a Valentine gift. True.
How often do you express love to each other?
We express our love to each other as often as we can; sometimes not with words, but deeds.
What does love mean to you?
Love means tolerance, understanding, patience, hope, trust, caring and giving.
Uzoamaka Ani (Wife)
What does Valentine mean to you?
Valentine is all about love.
What plans do you have for this Valentine?
My plan for this valentine is to be with my husband and son…and also do something special for my husband.
What’s the best Valentine gift you’ve ever gotten from your partner?
I can’t think of any.
How often do you express love to each other?
So often.
What does love mean to you?
Love is giving, sharing, forgiving…the list goes on…Love has so much to it.
Emmanuel Adigwe (aka D’Lectura)
What does Valentine mean to you?
It’s actually a day set aside to show love to all and not just your partner alone.
What plans do you have for this Valentine?
We are both visiting a motherless babies home that morning to show them some love and we will be hanging out at the hottest lounge in my area (360 Degree Liquid Lounge @Roseview Court). But that will be after I must have rounded off my engagements for the day, because she will be with me all day.
What’s the best Valentine gift you’ve ever gotten from your partner?
‘Yes’ was the best of all, because I proposed to her on Val day and I got YES! for an answer.
How often do you express your love to each other?
Every morning… With an early morning kiss.
What does love mean to you?
To me, love is simply sacrifice (John 3:16).
Yetunde Adigwe (Wife)
What does Valentine mean to you?
Valentine is lovers’ day. A day that is meant to show love to your loved ones.
What plans do you have for this Valentine?
We were supposed to visit a friend in Ghana and celebrate it there, but because of his engagements, there was a change of plan. So, we decided to be together all through that day.
What’s the best Valentine gift you’ve ever gotten from your partner?
An engagement ring and that was February 14th, 2012.
How often do you express love to each other?
Always.
What does love mean to you?
I have always seen love to be some kind of strange passionate feelings. But since I met him, I learnt more of love being a sacrifice.
OLUWASEYI LAWRENCE ALETILE (aka Seyi Law)
What does Valentine mean to you?
I am not a fan of a day for love expression. Valentine is more important to me as a day of making money as I have never stopped expressing love at any given opportunity.
What plans do you have for this Valentine?
I have no plans. In fact, the date is booked for an event already.
What’s the best Valentine gift you’ve ever gotten from your partner?
My best Valentine gift is a wristwatch and spec from my wife.
How often do you express love to each other?
We express love to each other everytime. Love expression is in our DNA.
What does love mean to you?
Love is being responsible for somebody or something. It is caring for someone or something unconditionally. It is sharing a deep part of you with tender kindness.
EBERE ALETILE (Wife)
What does Valentine mean to you?
Valentine is a fun day, a special love acknowledgement day; that day when it hits home to show a friend, family, less privileged how much you care, especially if you don’t do it often.
What plans do you have for this Valentine?
I will be having a white Val; will celebrate with my family abroad this time.
What’s the best Valentine gift you’ve ever gotten from your partner?
The best Val gift I got was a phone and teddy my hubby bought me while we were still dating. Believe me, that red teddy is still sitting strong on my bed till tomorrow.
How often do you express love to each other?
We express our love every minute we are together or apart.
What does love mean to you?
Love means caring for someone else deeply and unconditionally, it also means finding someone who brings out the best version of yourself and challenges you to be better.
SPECIAL GIFTS TO GET FOR THAT SPECIAL PERSON
Do you have any special person in your life? Then, this is the time to show him or her that you truly care; that your love is real and true. And one of the best ways to go about that is by giving that person a gift they will forever cherish. Of course, the gift must not necessarily be expensive. It’s just the thought behind it that really matters. You can go for things as little as lingeries, pants, boxers, ties, shirts, shoes, kaftans, books, ticket to an event, phones, Ipads, Iphones, laptops, Blackberry, jewellery, eye glasses, wrist watches, perfumes, flowers, chocolate, cards, letters, inner wears, pens…
ROMANTIC PLACES TO VISIT AND HAVE FUN
Valentine’s Day is usually fun-filled. But in case you haven’t decided or made up your mind yet on that romantic place to visit; that memorable place to take your loved one to, you can take a cue from here. Show him or her that your love is true – take the person to a cinema, an eatery, a beach, a resort, a dinner, a niteclub… Both of you can also decide to spend it together, in your home or a hide out, all alone and in your world. Just the two of you – no outside influence, no encumbrances, no disturbances. Cuddling each other, holding hands and whispering unforgettable words into each other’s ears.
VALENTINE SHOWS TO ATTEND
Love is in the air – and there are some Valentine shows already lined up to further spice it up. Here are 5 of them you must not miss.
1. COUPLES’ TIME OUT – Organised by Niyi Ojemakinde’s Higher Heights Communication, it is billed for Sunday, February 16, 2014, at Banquet Event Centre, Agidingbi, Ikeja, Lagos. Time is 3.00pm.
2. FESTIVAL OF LOVE – Top entertainer, Julius Agwu’s annual get-together for lovers. It will take place in Abuja, Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory, on Friday, February 14. Besides Julius, other acts have also been lined up to perform. The venue is Transcorp Hilton.
3. DAREY’S LOVE: LIKE A MOVIE – The Season 2. It will hold at Eko Hotel and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos, on Saturday, February 15. Performing would be Darey, Kelly Rowland, D’Banj, Tiwa Savage, Waje and others.
4. CLASSIC FM’S VALENTINE CONCERT: Billed also for Eko Hotel and Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos, on Sunday, February 16, 2014, headlining it are two international music stars, Brandy and UB 40 of the Red-Red Wine fame.
5. NEW RULES OF LOVE BEACH SPLASH – Slated for Saturday, February 8, 2014, this is a new one from Pastor Olumide Emmanuel’s Common Sense Group. Besides giving talks on love that day, there will also be comedy by Buchi, music by DJ Mordu and again some of the most romantic things you can ever think of.