Father’s Day: Nigerian Women Celebrate Their Husbands.
By Olusegun HOSEA,16th June 2024
Father’s Day is a day set aside to appreciate the importance of father and their impacts in the life of their families. Particularly for a responsible fathers. The day is meant to celebrate the selfless efforts played by most active and useful fathers in holding the tenant of the family’s culture and inculcating good morals to their children. In Nigeria, Father’s Day is celebrated on the third Sunday of June. It’s a holiday meant to honoring one’s father, as well as fatherhood, paternal bonds, and the influence of fathers in society.Nigerian has been celebrating this day in the 19th century before this day.
According to report generated by the source, it has been in existence for long “Father’s Day has been celebrated in Nigeria since the 1900s and was popularized by Western influence.”
This day is to complements similar celebrations honoring family members, such as Mother’s Day and, in some countries, Siblings Day and Grandparents’ Day. The day is unique because children usually take it as an opportunity to celebrate their father by giving some gifts to appreciate the father’s roles, commitment and guidance upon them. Here is evidence to collaborate our claim “The day is meant to complements similar celebrations honoring family members, such as Mother’s Day and, in some countries, Siblings Day and Grandparents’ Day.
The day is usually celebrated with children giving gifts such as greeting cards, electronic gadgets, shirts, gold necklaces, coffee mugs, or books to their fathers.
The histyhas it that, Father’s Day is a holiday honoring one’s father, as well as fatherhood, paternal bonds, and the influence of fathers in society. The holiday complements similar celebrations honoring family members, such as Mother’s Day and, in some countries, Siblings Day, and Grandparents’ Day.
The day is held on various dates across the world, and different regions maintain their own traditions of honoring fatherhood. Below is the information gotten from Wikipedia “In Catholic countries of Europe, it has been celebrated on 19 March as Saint Joseph’s Day since the Middle Ages. In the United States, Father’s Day was founded in the state of Washington by Sonora Smart Dodd in 1910.[1][2][3] Father’s Day is a recognized public holiday in Lithuania and some parts of Spain and was regarded as such in Italy until 1977.
It is a national holiday in Estonia, Samoa, and equivalently in South Korea, where it is celebrated as Parents’ Day. Sikhs celebrate Father’s Day (ਪਿਤਾ ਦਿਵਸ) on 29 December, birthday of Guru Gobind Singh.Below are the short history gotten from the Wikipedia source “In Catholic countries of Europe, it has been celebrated on 19 March as Saint Joseph’s Day since the Middle Ages. In the United States, Father’s Day was founded in the state of Washington by Sonora Smart Dodd in 1910.[1][2][3] Father’s Day is a recognized public holiday in Lithuania and some parts of Spain and was regarded as such in Italy until 1977. It is a national holiday in Estonia, Samoa, and equivalently in South Korea, where it is celebrated as Parents’ Day. Sikhs celebrate Father’s Day (ਪਿਤਾ ਦਿਵਸ) on 29 December, birthday of Guru Gobind Singh.”
