“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.”
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Generousity
Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.
Teenage Life
In Badia, at their tender age of 8 and 6 respectively, Yeye oge Oladoyin and Eesa Oladosu went through tougher lifestyle where they were made to serve more like hirelings, street-trading cooked food from Badia to Ebute Metta to Oyingbo, Iddo, part of Lagos Island, Apapa back to Badia. They would usually walk from Badia to Ebute Metta a distance of over 10 kilometres to fetch firewood for cooking. Her brother Eesa Oladosu was also signed into a 20-year long welding training while living on just one cloth each through the year and a meal a day.
In 1969, they were rescued and moved to Omu-Aran in Kwara State to live with their father and many stepmothers. In Omu-Aran, Oladoyin attended ECWA Primary School, Agamo. Life was good at Omu-Aran where she developed interest in home economics, which later laid her foundation in fashion designing.
Abigail Oladoyin attended the Teachers‘ College in Okene (now in Kogi State) and was made a Class Prefect between 1977 – 1979). It was there in 1978 she met and fell in love with a young Civil Engineer, Owolabi Onasanya, who was working with the Federal Ministry of Works constructing the Okene/Ajaokuta highway. They wedded in 1979.
Childhood
Abigail Oladoyin Aduke was born on August 17th, 1958 into the family of Late Pa J G Ekunnrin of Sanganmo Compound, Oke-Ode Land in Kwara State and Late Mrs Grace Oredola Ekunnrin from Atosa Compound in Iresi, Osun State.
She lived with her mother and her other siblings, her elder brother, now Chief Oludaisi Aina the Asiwaju of Iresi land, her immediate younger brother now Eesa Oladosu Ekunnrin, Eesa of Oke-Ode Land (Head of the Kingmakers’ Council), twin brothers Otunba Taiye Ekunnrin (Baba Insurance) and Mr Kehinde Ekunnrin also an insurance manager. They all lived at Oke-Ode, Isanlu Isin and Ekanmeje between 1958 and 1965 when they suddenly lost their mother in 1965.
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Introduction
The Late Yeye Oge of Oke-Ode Land Kwara State