I do not have a good memory for people and their faces. This failing in my nature has often embarrassed me especially when I travel to my hometown, Ndikelionwu, where some people, especially the older ones, accuse me of being haughty. They say, is this not the son of so …
It is true. The only corona I ever heard of and saw was a Japanese car about two or three decades ago. It was quite popular in Nigeria but seems not to be in the market any longer. It was at the beginning of this pandemic that I began hearing …
‘Stop racism’, ‘say no to racism’, ‘end racism’. These are some of the slogans seen on television, stadiums and prominent locations all over the world. This is because of the killing of George Floyd, a black man, by a white, racist, USA police man, Chauvin. The event was recorded by …
When Christopher Columbus in 1492 and after him Amerigo Vespucci seven years later, both Italians, sailed westwards sponsored by Spanish/Portuguese monarchs in search for spices and wealth thinking they were heading for the far east, Asia, during the Voyages of Discovery, they accidentally landed in the West Indies and what …
‘Flatten the curve!’ I first heard it on CNN. New York was in trouble. It is the major landing point of passenger planes coming to the United States of America from Europe bringing in passengers carrying the corona virus and infecting New Yorkers. New Yorkers were getting sick in their …
Some days ago, our youthful Governor, Babatunde Sanwo-Olu, decreed that churches and mosques can reopen on the 21st and 19th June respectively. He also decreed that those of us over sixty-five years of age should not attend church services or mosques! What he failed to explain was that if we …
I spent the first three months of 1960 living with Mr Okeke-ifi and his family in the Railway Quarters in Kaduna and my preoccupation was writing applications for a clerical job while waiting for the results of the West African School Certificate examinations. The preferred job with many school leavers …
During that eventful month of April 1960 I took part in aptitude tests organised by the African American Institute in Kaduna. They were running scholarship awards for the Ivy League Universities on the East Cost of America being some of the best Universities in America including Harvard. Kaduna was the …
There is a saying that fools rush in where angels fear to tread. Well, in 1960 I rushed headlong into suffering. I had done very well in the West African School Certificate examination. That coupled with all the praises and encouragement by relatives and friends made me to forget …
My difficult eighteen months stint in the Nigerian College of Arts, Science & Technology, Enugu, without scholarship and not knowing where the next money would come from had its comic moments including hiding from the stewards trying to chase me out of the dining hall and sometimes locking me out …
