{"id":3198,"date":"2018-05-03T10:10:34","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T10:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/?p=3198"},"modified":"2018-05-03T10:10:34","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T10:10:34","slug":"blessing-finds-love-on-the-bus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/2018\/05\/blessing-finds-love-on-the-bus","title":{"rendered":"Blessing Finds Love on the Bus"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Ifesinachi<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Many of us may have met the jovial Blessing Igwe (Mrs Ibekwe), who has been working HH for 7 years. What we may not know is how she met her husband whom she married a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the juicy story:<\/p>\n

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Blessing, tell us how you met your husband?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Usually, there is this bus I join to work in the morning that picks up passengers at Charity Bus stop. Once you miss the bus at 5:30am, you cannot get another one. My husband (a stranger at the time) and I usually enter the same bus but we never talked for about one year or one and a half. Sometimes, I would stay in front while he would stay at the back.<\/p>\n

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One particular week, I noticed that he was absent. So, when he finally appeared, I asked him what happened as we had not been seeing him. He said that he lost someone, his brother, and he was surprised that I noticed. He asked how I knew he was absent, and I said I was used to seeing him around. He then said I would like to know you, but I said, I just noticed, not for any reason.<\/p>\n

He said he also noticed that I enter the bus alone and sometimes he would want to talk to me, but he would think, \u201cI don\u2019t want any trouble\u201d. He said Lagos girls can be so aggressive.<\/p>\n

Anyway, we just got talking. He said he wanted us to be friends and he collected my number.<\/p>\n

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However, my phone was bad, and I did not want to meet him so I avoided him for a week, taking another route – Oshodi-Isale. But then after a week, there was this heavy rain and I could not avoid taking the usual bus. When he saw me, he said that he was scared as my phone had been off. I confessed that I had seen trying to avoid him, but he convinced me that he meant no harm.<\/p>\n

This was last year February.<\/p>\n

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Then what happened\u2026?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

We later found that we were both born in August. He was like, \u201cthis is going well\u201d (*laughs*). I asked him how, and he just kept quiet. He bought me gifts on my birthday but was worried that I did not want to take him to my house.<\/p>\n

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First visit to the house\u2026<\/strong><\/h3>\n

One Saturday when I closed from work, he called and asked me where I was. By then, I had reached Charity Bus Stop. I did not know he had seen me and followed me home. Then I got a call from him for me to open my gate. I was so surprised that I called my brother to accompany me. But then I did not want people seeing me talking to a boy outside, so we went to his place.<\/p>\n

From then, we became close and he said he would like to marry me.<\/p>\n

He went to my place in Enugu and met my mother and then he said he wanted to do the introduction. I was worried as it seemed to happen so fast, but he said it did not matter.<\/p>\n

In November, we went for introduction and by Easter, we were married in the Church.<\/p>\n

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Tell us a bit about him<\/strong><\/h3>\n

He is a businessman from Imo State. He is also a titled man. They gave him the title Baba Loja in Balogun. Tinubu\u2019s wife conferred on him.<\/p>\n

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How did your family receive him?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

My mother was so happy as she was always on my case at the time.<\/p>\n

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Thank you so much, Blessing, and congratulations again!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Ifesinachi Many of us may have met the jovial Blessing Igwe (Mrs Ibekwe), who has been working HH for 7 years. What we may not know is how she met her husband whom she married a few weeks ago. Here\u2019s the juicy story:   Blessing, tell us how you met your husband? Usually, there […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3208,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3198\/revisions\/3208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}