OGSSIAN Life
“Umu Government School eje la atulu ugha. Hafu ha. Ashi m gi Umu Government School eje la atulu ugha.” (Government School kids don’t tell lies. Let them be. I say, Government School kids don’t tell lies).
Owerri, Nigeria – 4th March, 2025 The Class of 1975 of Government Secondary School Owerri Old Boys Association, is gearing up for an extraordinary week of celebration as it marks …
The 90 year old cricket pitch at Government Secondary School, Owerri, Imo State, Southeast Nigeria, is now wearing a new look. It is also expected to be the preferred venue …
All is not well with our universities, but everyone, including myself, wants to be a Vice-Chancellor. The VC of a broken system. The funding crisis is getting deeper, and there …
Much has been written about two of my boyhood classmates – Sam Okoye and Justin Obi – notably by our revered Agbogidi and respected Prof. Anyakoha. Both described them as …
Today, August 3, 2024, he would have turned 90. But he passed away peacefully on June 21, 43 days to his 90th birthday. Still, I feel his presence as always. I hear his words in my ears. I know where he stands on life’s important issues and what he would have said in almost every circumstance. As a mark of remembrance and appreciation, permit me to share with you today just a few of the lessons I learnt from the man I was privileged to call “father.”
The frenzy and razzmatazz that enveloped the well-coordinated activities of the two political conquistadors simply electrified the already pulsating atmosphere, as though some clay footed liberators that would take us, …
The credo and dogma that softened the spartan lifestyles of students at Government Secondary School, Owerri, were songs, melodies, chants, renditions, cultural fiesta, plays, and hymns. The movies, social activities, …
1941 Born 14 May 1941 in Onitsha, Nigeria, to Akunne Anthony Chinwuba and Chukwuebuka Winfred Ogbenyeanu Achebe. He was their first child. 1947 – 55 Attends St. John’s Primary School, …
Jonas OdochaOwerri House1959-1965. When our versatile and indefatigable OGSSIAN, Olisa Egwuatu, suggested that I should submit a write-up to coincide with the anniversary of the Renaissance magazine, I accepted it …
