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80-year-old gets his first tattoo
One of the participants of Spike TV show Ink Masters and Marine Corps veteran, Don Raider got his first tattoo at the age of 80 on the show, making him the oldest ‘human canvas’ for the competing...
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84-year-old man wins $254m lottery
An 84-year-old retired electrician from Missouri has won $254m in the Powerball lottery, lottery officials announced. James Wilson, a World War Two veteran from St. Louis, bought the winning ticket for...
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I didn’t demand bribe in my 44 years as auditor — 84-year-old Ibiyemi
Eighty-four-year-old Joseph Ibiyemi tells GBENGA ADENIJI how he became an auditor and persevered to make a success out of the profession Where and when were you born? I was born at Ilawe Ekiti on March...
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Octogenarian authors still writing away
Philip Roth, 79, and looking fit in recent photographs, has said that after looking back on his long and prolific career he decided he had written enough. The novel “Nemesis,” published in 2010,...
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I write every day — 87-year-old author
Eighty-seven-year-old Omodele Karunwi, a daughter to foremost Nigerian contemporary musician, Ekundayo Phillips, shares her experience as a teacher in this interview with MOTUNRAYO JOEL When were you...
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85-year-old former soldier retells life through Instagram
It has been long embraced by hipsters the world over who post retro-chic photographs of themselves pouting in Ray-Ban sunglasses or wearing poorly-fitted jumpers. But now the app Instagram is being...
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Reading prolongs life— 85-year-old professor
In this interview with ARUKAINO UMUKORO, 85-year-old professor Omotayo Adeolu, founding Dean, Faculty of Environmental Design, University of Lagos, speaks about his life and career as an architect and...
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Without money, life is worthless — 80-year-old monarch
The Oguja of Ilisa, Ilese Ijebu, Oba Kola Agunloye, in this interview with SEGUN OLATUNJI, talks about his childhood and why he prefers teaching to banking May we know you sir? I am Oba (Dr.) Kolawole...
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80-year-old man fights bear, falls off cliff and survives
An octogenarian versus a hungry Russian bear. It was a confrontation that could have ended only one way, and yet shepherd Yusuf Alchagirov was sitting upright in bed this week and happily munching on...
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88-year-old breast cancer survivor shares her experience
Receiving the news that you have cancer or that a loved one has cancer sends your body through a myriad of emotions. Bobby Jo Walker, an 88-year-old resident of Buckner Westminster Place, has received...
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I can’t do without my iPad — 88-year-old retired educationist
In this interview, 88-year-old Rhoda Omosunlola Johnston-Smith tells ARUKAINO UMUKORO about her two marriages and life as an author When were you born? I was born on August 18, 1925, on Lagos Island,...
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Dancing makes me happy, fit— 80-year-old retiree
In this interview with ARUKAINO UMUKORO, 80-year-old Florence Izundu, shares her experience as a teacher Where were you born? I was born on September, 1933, in a village in Anambra State. How was...
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80-year-old woman survives skydiving scare
Laverne Everett may have had 79 previous birthdays, but it’s fair to say that this one was probably the worst. To celebrate her 80th last May, the octogenarian chose to go skydiving, something she’d...
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I stopped drinking to have self-control — 83-year-old retiree
Eighty-three-year-old Vincent Ntinu shares the story of his 36 years experience as a teacher in this interview with GBENGA ADENIJI When and where were you born? I am Vincent Ntinu, a retired teacher,...
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83-year-old retired don who climbs rocks
On any given day of the week, you might find Loveland resident Robert Kelman making his way up a crag in a rock formation- an activity not out of place for a Coloradan. The thing you might not realise...
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Going to office keeps me alive — 82-year-old surveyor
In this interview, 82-year-old Chief Olukunle Akinola, one-time Lagos State Surveyor-General, tells ARUKAINO UMUKORO about his life When and where were you born? I was born in October 1931, at Ipaja,...
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82-year-old breaks marathon record
At Sunday’s Toronto Waterfront Marathon, Ed Whitlock did what he usually does – astound the running world by setting another age-group world record, and feel afterward that he could have run faster....
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80-year-old woman lands plane
An 80-year-old Wisconsin woman took control of a small airplane and managed to make a miraculous landing after her pilot husband passed out in midflight – and later died, local authorities said. Door...
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I cook my husband’s meals every day — 80-year-old retired nurse
In this interview with MOTUNRAYO JOEL, 80-year-old retired nurse, Mrs. Omolara Segun, talks about her life Where and when were you born? I was born in Lagos State on Sunday, November...
View ArticleNinety-year-old man remarries to fulfill wife’s wish
A 90-year-old Saudi man was “forced” to marry a bride almost 40 years his junior, after his children insisted that he honour their mother’s dying wish. The bride, 53, was selected by Fatees Al...
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