Good morning Mr. Okocha. Just read your piece in today’s Sun newspaper. There are some errors for correction. It is St. Mulumba, Jos, and not Murumba, Olivet Baptist High School, Ogbomosho, and not Akure. There are other prominent old schools such as St. Patrick’s College, Ikot Ansa, Calabar; St. Augustine’s College, Nkwerre; Methodist Boys High School, Lagos; Baptist Academy, Lagos; Abeokuta Grammar School, Oduduwa College, Ile Ife; St. Aquinas, Akure; Provincial Secondary School, Bida; Provincial Secondary School, Katsina Ala; Holy Ghost College, Owerri; Government Secondary School, Owerri; Holy Trinity College, Sabongida Ora; Ika Grammar School, Urhobo College, Warri; Ibadan Boys High School, Idia College, Benin City; and others too numerous to mention.
— Chapp-Jumbo, GN, MFR, fsi, pcc, Comptroller of Immigration
Although I enjoyed your piece in Daily Sun, November 22, which showed great research, I was disappointed that Mary Knoll College, Ogoja, Hope Wadell and SPC, Calabar, and a host of other great institutions were conspicuously missing in your write-up. I also feel obliged to observe that your laudatory tribute to the late Major Nzeogwu was entirely misleading. Based on the facts of the matter, I don’t see how Rimi (St. John’s) College, Kaduna, could be proud of him.
— Col. Peter Egbe (rtd.)
Thank you for your articles. St. John’s College, Kaduna, was where I started my secondary school education in 1966, but the northern crisis made me to relocate to my home region, the then Mid-West. Up SJC! Up Lucena Lucen!! St. John’s will forever remain great.
— Capt. (NN) AI Olisadebe (rtd.)
Like Ngozi Iweala, Kachikwu has no base
Your brilliant piece, in Sun, October 11, 2017, Page 29 refers. Much as I enjoyed it, you disappointed me in:
Not giving some freedom to “intellectuals” lured into governance by low-rated politicians to shore up their image; technocrats, you will call them. While I see you acknowledge the laurels of the above two, Ngozi and Kachikwu, you are too quick to assume their accepting their political posts is to satisfy their local community, which I believe is the “base” you’re referring to!! If this is true, it’s very unfortunate and too parochial of you. Do you realise these technocrats cannot easily reject a national call to service? And how can such eggheads navigate their way successfully among the hawks and nincompoops we parade in government in this rudderless system, if there’s a system at all?! You and I owe these technocrats a lot of gratitude for leaving their comfort zones to rescue the impoverished downtrodden of this earth. Without people like ex-CBN governor, Sanusi, and the present health minister, who are against the grab-all mentality of corruption in this country, we would all have been doomed, consigned to life of penury in a country flowing with milk and honey. I don’t know your mind against these people, and I concede all your rights to your personal opinion to you, but, please, allow these people to serve their people in their own way, in their own time. Let’s remove parochialism, downplay mediocrity for meritocracy.
— S. Akinbola ([email protected])
Justice PK Nwokedi … Once upon a time, another masterpiece
Blunders mess up a just cause, the best intention and plans. Ikemba said that he started the war with only 120 rifles. Who’s to blame for that? He would not disclose the kind of high-handedness and undiplomatic manner he exhibited as he related to the then Soviet Ambassador (a potential source of help to him in the war of survival). He and Biafra paid dearly for it though Soviet Union still allowed Czechoslovakia the free hand to sell weapons to Biafra. If Ojukwu was afraid of the East’s military presence in Africa, of what gain was the Western military presence in Africa to Biafra in her war of survival?
— Linus N’Obode
“Once upon a time” on Justice PK Nwokedi is another masterpiece from the stable of the historical encyclopedia. The issues of Biafra, restructuring, devolution of power et cetera. that is plaguing Nigeria would have been a long forgotten issue. A little support from the Soviet Union would have changed a number of things for Biafra during the war. However, it was Ojukwu’s refusal to meet with the Russian envoy that changed the Soviet’s stand on Biafra. Justice PK Nwokedi must take his seat in the pantheon of those who fought for Biafra, probably, it is yet morning, probably all is now consigned to historical discourse.
— Arua Okwara
Happy day, compatriot. Please, I want to buy two copies of your “The Jews of Africa,” Gomslam Books, 2017, and need your help. Thanks.
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My brother, Emma, you make me shed tears always. Sometimes of sorrow because of lost opportunities to be great and sometimes of joy because there is someone like you to remind us of whom we are. Daalu Nwanne m.
— Arinze Nze, Eziagu, Orumba South LGA, Anambra State
Mr. Emma, the first perusal of your book caught my attention. Some fascinating history … good for our library
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We appreciate all your efforts in presenting to the world the true version of our recent history. I would like to purchase all your works that deal with Nigeria’s history.
— Bertram Azuwuike, NBS retired director of Macro Economics Statistics Analyses Department