THE STORY OF STACEY: WORLD SMALLEST MOTHER {LATE] - By Evans Tubonah

Mr. & Mrs. Stacey Wils Herald
wedding day photo

The story of the great family of Mr. and Mrs Stacey Bil Herald had not been fully told, and may not be easy to be fully told in this generation and generations to come.
 It is an uncommon story about a man and a woman who took an uncommon decision full of challenges. Wil Herald was born without challenges, but Stacey came to the world with a great challenge which medical doctors described as:
"...a rare condition called osteogenisis imperfecta which stunted her growth, the genetic condition also caused brittle bones and under developed lungs."
But that was not and issue to Mr.Wil Herald the day he saw Stacey, he saw nothing than a wife material in her. They shared the privilege of working together in same office, which propelled the burning desire of Mr. Wil who proposed marrying Stacey.
Of-course, brilliant woman, Stacey did not take that proposal lightly looking at the quality of the man begging her hand in marriage, Stacey gave a nod without delay and the got married.
The marriage was not without disquiet, because it made news headlines across the global media, print, electronic and the new media.
The couple so loved themselves and there were no issues known to the public where they disagreed.
They were all of one mind, even as she insisted that she was going to be a mother of children against medical advice that it was risky for her to carry a baby in her womb and to give birth to children
judging her by the above stated condition.

Stacey and her child

Mr. and Mrs. Stacey and Wil Herald agreed that they must make a family, and their faith paid off as their first child, daughter, called Kateri came through them into the world in 2007.
Another disquiet across the world, as the Stacey Wil Herald family entered the Guinness World Records book with Stacey becoming the "World Smallest Mother".
With her first daughter, Stacey who strongly believed that she was going to bear fruit miraculously, because she also was a miracle  took in, against medical advice and had her first daughter, which became a practical proof of the miracle of God as she and her husband anticipated in faith.
That was not the end of the story, Stacey was not bent on being just a mother of one child, neither was her husband, to them, a single child cannot make a family they needed more children. But that was not what the doctors advised against earlier, and they couldn't go back on their word. To them it was just a miracle, or it just happened by chance, so she shouldn't dare again, that the couple could not accept and the went ahead and had other children....... 

BAYELSA EAST: INIRUO WILLS COMES IN AS GAME CHANGER?

Hon. [Barr.] Iniruo Owazi Wills

Former Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Bayelsa State, Hon. Iniruo Owazi Wills of the Labour Party had joined the Bayelsa East Senatorial race 2019 offering himself as a  credible candidate.

Mr. Owazi Wills a Lawyer by Profession, an Environmentalist, a Human and Peoples Rights

Activist, Patriot of Ijaw Nation, a true lover of his Senatorial District and Communities, a Visionary and ideological leader. He is indeed a big fish that had offered himself to serve his people.

The humble and development oriented Iniruo Owazi Wills' joining the race has brought hope to the electorate who are bent on choosing a credible parliamentarian at the upper House who would not have his personal interest override the interest of the Constituency he represents, but to liaise with the grassroots for a well co-ordinated  representation. His coming into the race is therefore being looked at by observers as changing the game.  The question on the lips of the masses,  IS INIRUO OWAZI WILLS THE GAME CHANGER?

Such a question is not out of place, because as soon as he entered the political field of play, he electrified the Senatorial District with new ideas, new visions for the masses to see that with him getting to the promised land of 'milk and honey' through the ballot box is just a stone throw.

Being a man of many colors, Iniruo Owazi Wills cannot be doubted or controverted because whatever he said is just the truth and nothing but the truth. He has vast experience at different fields. Due to his background as Environmentalist, he had been the eye of the Bayelsa East Senatorial District where he argued for the rights of the oil producing areas on environmental security, youth employment and overall development, in his capacity as a Special Adviser to the Governor of Bayelsa State on Environmental  matters, and as Hon. Commissioner of Environment all in the Restoration administration of Hon. Henry Seriake Dickson.

Besides, he spent years working with the Niger Delta Development Commission as Personal Assistant to the Managing Director Finance and Administration. 

As soon as he stepped into the race, he galvanized the Senatorial District with his vision, by putting on paper his Manifesto to clinch the 2019 electoral mandate pointing out why others elected to the Senate, who did their best, did not see what he is seeing, and what he would do if elected to the hallowed chambers of the Senate to represent them.

Barrister Iniruo Wills is like standing on the shoulders of his late father, Pa Owazi Wills, a philanthropist, who met the needs of many without asking where they came from, with his resources.

As son of Owazi Wills, Iniruo is like his father always willing to render service for the interest of humanity and the society. 

He had sold his ideas through the nooks and crannies of the Senatorial District and is emerging as the game changer to clinch the mandate to the coveted seat in the forth coming 16th February 2019 Senatorial Election in Bayelsa East. 

   

SYLVESTA MANGI

                    SHORT BIOGRAPHY OF LATE PA SYLVESTER BEREDUGO MANGI-PEGI
ANYTHING THAT HAS A BEGINNING MUST HAVE AN END;
SO, PA SYLVESTER BEREDUGO MANGI -PEGI COMMENCED
HIS LIFE JOURNEY WITH THE 20TH CENTURY AND HAS
ENDED IT ;UP ALMOST AT THE CLOSE OF THE CENTURY!
Born on s
Sunday, 39th January, 29th January 1900 by 8.00 p.m PA SYLVESTERR BEREDUGO MANGI-PEGI  was the first son among  the many children of late Chief Newstar Mangi Pegi.
His faathe late Chief Newstar Mangi Pegi was the son of the late Chief Dogu of Karitongha house in Ogbolomabiri Nembe and grandson to late Ombo of Dede grooup of houses at Sikakapolo, Bassanbiri Nembe.
\His mother late madam Caroline Erighayunyefa [Iye] of Aaburuyai John family in John polo Ogbolomabiri Nembe was the daughter of  late Alfred Ingodugha of Karitongha house Ogbolomabiri- Nembe.
Late Pa S.B Mangi Pegi had a primary education at St. Luke's  school Nembe from 1917 to 1922 and in the then Immaculate Heart Secondary Commercial School Port Harcourt in 1941.
TEACHING:
After a brief sawying of planks [one of the pioneer lumbermen] in Nembe at Oluasiri Nembe he took to teaching from 1925 to 1938. By this profession [teaching] he did not only inspire most of our elites today into the corridor of education but also was a pioneer teacher and in the establishment of schools and churches in some towns and villages among which were:- Bassambiri Nembe, Odioma, Igilagbene in Seibiri now Opuama etc. In 1938 he decided to withdraw from teaching profession much against the wishes and pleas from his dear friends and well-wishers.
MILITARY CAREER:
Pa S. B. Mangi Pegi had a brief military career during the second world war he enrolled in the then army on 12th february 1942 as a private and was discharged from army with the rank of lance coporal on the 14th january 1947. his arrival at home on 2nd febuary 1947 afteer his discharge from the army coincided with the death of his father as if it were a scheduled event pa sb mangi pegi arrilved home just in time to see his father as he was lying in state just before his burial later that day.
life at home
After his discharge from the army pa sb mangi pegi settled at home ot was at this stage that he brought to public focus his pioneering and innovaative spirit in all his under takings he was the first to introduce mechanical means of sharpening domestic cutting tools such as machetes axes knives etc in nembe he went into the food trade later and also made his mark there he was engaged in buying and selling of fufu okpungoro which was a staple food for the nembe people he brought innovation not onlly on the measurement of fufu by duplicating in volume to the  okpurubia the standard measurment in wooden box but also designed a means of preserving the food for longer period and incoporating it  to  its storage facilities these innovations enabled him to make this essential food item available to his customers virtuallly all the time and reduce long queus  especiallyn during peak sale periods by attending to many customers at a time
pa sb mangi pegis  next venture was in the transport sector the only means of transport was by dug-out canoes and it took from seven (7) to ten (10) days to move from nembe to portharcourt by hand pulling the few mechanically driven vessels lwere for district officers and UAC top officials and they were imported and definitely beyond means of the average nigerian pa sb mangi pegi concieved the idea of using small marine engines in dug out canoe for transportation

INIRUO WILLS MOVES TO CLINCH EAST SENATORIAL SEAT OF BAYELSA

The political terrain is fully set now across the country as the Nigeria's electoral umpire, the Independent National Electoral Commission [INEC] had fixed the 16th of January 2019 to kick-start the general election with the presidential polls and of the National Assembly.