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Pictures of some students of Fr. Tagbo, when he was the principal of prestigious Christ the King College Onitsha (CKC)

Very Rev.Fr. N.C. Tagbo: A Profile In Service And Leadership
By Oseloka Obaze*

Rev. Fr. Nicholas Chukwuemeka Tagbo , OON, (a.k.a. Onye Isi), clergy, educationist, administrator, poet, and mentor, was an eminent alumnus of Christ the King College Onitsha, and a member of the C.K.C Class of ’49. He was to turn 87 on 21 August, 2016. After his retirement from active priesthood service and teaching in 1985, he was in-residence at the Sacred Heart Parish, Onitsha, Nigeria. To many parents and former students, Fr. Tagbo was legendry.

Fr. Tagbo was the second longest serving priest, (after Monsignor Mathew Obiukwu) in the Archdiocese of Onitsha. A native of Awkuzu, in the Oyi LGA, Anambra State Nigeria, he was born 21 August 1929, in the northern Nigerian city of Jos. Fr. Tagbo had his primary education in Jos, Awkuzu and Onitsha before entering the prestigious Christ the King College, Onitsha from 1945-1949, for his Senior Cambridge Certificate. He also taught part time at All Hallows Seminary, Enugu. Thereafter, he proceeded to the Bigard Memorial Senior Seminary, Enugu, from 1951-1953 for his theological studies and preparation for priesthood. From Bigard he proceeded to the National University of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland from 1953-1956 and obtained a combined honors Bachelor of Science (B.Sc) degree in Mathematics, Chemistry, and Botany. Eventually, he returned to the Bigard Memorial Seminary, Enugu from 1957- 1960, to complete his studies for the ministry. He was ordained as a priest, on 31 July, 1960.

Fr. Tagbo served as a tutor at All Hallows Seminary Onitsha from January 1961 to August 1962 and Tutor, at Christ the King College Onitsha, from August 1962 to May 1963. In mid-May 1963, he was appointed the first indigenous and the 10th Principal of C.K.C. Onitsha. He thus became the first alumnus and the first African to head the school founded by Irish missionaries. Fr. Tagbo succeeded Rev. Fr. John. FitzPatrick, the last of the pioneer “Architects” who served as principal from 1953 to 1963. Fr. Tagbo became the pioneer in the category of those C.K.C. principals characterized as “Builders” of characters, leaders and infrastructure.

Fr. Tagbo served as principal of C.K.C. Onitsha until the Nigerian civil war broke out in mid-1967. He had the onerous and singular responsibility of evacuating the school’s movable assets, records and valued archival materials between October and December 1967, when the city fell to Nigeria troops. Thanks to his gallant effort, most for the institution’s record were saved. Between 1967 and 1970, he kept the name, motto, ideals and mission of Christ the King College alive, by overseeing the skeletal functioning of the school (only in lower Form 1 -3) at Oraukwu. Two days after the end of the civil war, on 15 January, 1970, the very day Biafra formally surrendered, Fr. Tagbo was back at the C.K.C. campus in Onitsha, personally spearheading the cleanup of the badly damaged campus, and welcoming back his former staff and students, with the proclamation “Happy Survival”.


From January 1970 to January 1973 Tagbo continued his duties as the Principal of C.K.C. Onitsha and oversaw the rebuilding of most of the schools damaged buildings. He also nurtured the school back to its eminent place in academics, sports and leadership development and rekindled the healthy rivalry between C.K.C. and other schools, by always reminding the students that they were Primus Inter Pares – First Amongst Equals!

In early 1971, under his able leadership, C.K.C. had the honour of being the lone school selected in the Onitsha metropolis, to host the visiting Nigerian Head of State, General Yakubu Gowon, who was accompanied by East Central State Administrator, Ukpabi Asika and other dignitaries. It was on that auspicious occasion that Gen. Gowon made the now prescient remark that C.K.C. would produce for Nigeria, “future leaders of tomorrow”. At a critical juncture, when Fr. Tagbo had managed to prune down the bloated post-war student population to a manageable size, but still well above 1,000, and was preparing the C.K.C. Class of 1973, for the first ever mid-year West African School Certificate Examination, he was inexplicably transferred to Government Secondary School Afikpo (Government College Afikpo), where he took over from Dr. George Akabuogu, another eminent C.K.C. alumnus and served as Principal until 1976. The posting to Afikpo was a challenge, but Fr. Tagbo stood up to the challenge and triumphed. Government College Afikpo had been in post-war exile in Enugu. Its main campus on the edge of Amasiri Hills in Afikpo was occupied by the Nigeria military, to the chagrin of prominent indigenes of the area, namely, Dr. Akanu Ibiam, and Hon. Aja-Nwachukwu. It was they who persuaded East Central State School Board Administrator, Dr. Offiah Nwali, that Fr. Tagbo was the administrator best suited to handle the repatriation of Government College Afikpo from Enugu to Afikpo and to oversee the school’s eventual reconstruction. Fr. Tagbo would eventually characterize that daunting period as “rough life”. Anecdotally, on arriving at Afikpo, he was appalled by the lack of table etiquette of most of his new charges, which led to his now famous quip: “ Eating is a civilized action”. As one of his students at Afikpo recalled of Tagbo, “He was a “full time” principal of GSSA. He monitored the dormitories, classrooms, dining hall, and student hangouts outside the school campus. He monitored teaching methods of those that were entrusted with his students’ education from the back of classrooms. He had no tolerance for lazy and ineffective teachers. I once asked him how his students were able to achieve so much academically. He bluntly stated that he “got rid of dead woods” from his schools.” Tagbo gave primacy to ethics, decorum and diligence.

In August 1976, Fr. Tagbo returned to his alma mater as the 14th Principal of the college, succeeding Mr. P. E. Ezeokeke, who had served just for one year. In returning to C.K.C., Tagbo joined Rev. Fr. M. Flanagan, as the only two individuals to head the great institution at two different periods. He served as Principal of the college until October 1985, when he retired from academia. It is noteworthy that it was during this period that C.K.C. Onitsha won the World School Soccer Championship held in 1977 in Dublin, Ireland, the first ever and so far only such laurel for Nigeria. That singular sporting accomplishment remains unmatched in Nigeria. Following his retirement from teaching, Fr. Tagbo served as the Catholic Curate, Our Lady’s Parish in Umuoji, Anambra State from February 1986 to August 1990. Since then, he has been In-Residence at the Sacred Heart Parish, Odoakpu Onitsha.

In all his years at C.K.C., Fr. Tagbo was not just a hand-on administrator; he taught both literature and sciences with equal dexterity, and had the uncanny ability of knowing each of his nearly 1,000 students by name. In all his years as a teacher, Fr. N.C. Tagbo, a strict disciplinarian, kept to his charge, teaching, persuading, reforming, directing, and molding hundreds of callow young men who came through the portals of his famous tutelage. It is estimated that in his twenty-one years at the helm at C.K.C. over ten thousand passed though the school and benefitted from his direct tutelage.

Excellence at C.K.C. Onitsha was assured in academics because Fr. Tagbo did not spare lazy teachers, staff and pupils. As far as poetry went, he favored Byron, Keats and Walter de la Mare. Indeed, as principal, he made every incoming freshman class to learn and recite by heart, de la Mare’s “ If I were Lord of Tartary”, within two weeks of arriving on the C.K.C. campus. Similarly, he encouraged his students to study great African poets like Wole Soyinka, Kwesi Brew, Gabriel Okara and George (Kofi) Awoonor Williams. Never one to suffer fools or charlatans gladly, he frequently referred to those who went amiss, or seemed incorrigible as “The Last of the Mohicans”, but he also kept them constantly under close observation.

As a student, Fr. Tagbo was a good athlete and therefore, a keen supporter of sports. At C.K.C. he was, besides being a hands-on-principal, the de facto coach in all sports; from tennis, boxing, javelin, hockey to soccer. But sports were about decorum, fair play, leadership and collective enterprise. Winning was not everything and sports, certainly, did not take priority over academics. He encouraged his students to strive at winning, and if they were to lose, do so with dignity. Fr. Tagbo had ways of making that point. Renowned Nigerian footballer and National team captain, Dominic Ezeani, never tire of recalling how upon his return to C.K.C. after representing Nigeria in an international academicals soccer match against Ghana, Fr. Tagbo would not grant him an exemption from a scheduled class examination. Fr. Tagbo had made the point of personally invigilating the exams, and at one point quipped to Ezeani, “Dominic, football will not write your exam for you”. Another instance, often recalled, was how in 1972, during a critical qualifying soccer match that would put C.K.C. in the State finals, he grounded Kenneth “Kendo” Ilodigwe, the school’s best striker, for willfully missing the team’s final practice, on the assumption that his place on the team was secure. The risk of a C.K.C. loss was unfathomable, but Fr. Tagbo made his point as only he could. Moreover, Fr. Tagbo was renowned refusing to admit transfer students who were good athletes, but were below in par in academics. Under Tagbo’s guidance, Christ the King College Onitsha became the epitome of athletics, and excelled in academics as well sporting events.

Today, two generations of C.K.C. alumni and Tagbo’s many former wards, who are now accomplished professionals in every field – government, politics, engineering, medicine, art, humanities, academic, etc -- all over Nigeria and the Diaspora, contribute to mankind’s development. In retirement, Tagbo’s warmth and love for his students and the old school, his sharp wit and immense capacity for recall and anecdotes are still very much intact and much in evidence. He was instrumental in prodding the Christ the King College Alumni Association in America (CKC-AAA), to seize the moment and take the lead role in the alumni’s revitalization of the C.K.C. campus. His singular message and mantra to C.K.C. alumni had been, “ Keep alight the flame which you received in C.K.C. Onitsha”. As Fidelis Atuegbu recalled, Tagbo’s parting message to his graduating students, was “never do anything that might reflect badly on your school of family”. Fr. Tagbo’s charge to his students always encapsulated those immortal word of Benjamin Mays; “Do whatever you do so well, that no man living, and no one yet unborn, could do it better.”

C.K.C. Onitsha and most of its alumni will for years to come, remain synonymous with legendary Fr. Tagbo, whose singular resounding contribution to grooming Nigerian leaders and public servants, is perhaps without comparison and without match. In the post-independent years, when Rev. Fr. Tagbo assumed duties as the first indigenous principal of C.K.C. Onitsha, the challenges he faced were enormous. The responsibility fell on him to maintain the founding principles of the college, as the preparatory citadel of Catholic Mission Tertiary education, the flagship, a beacon and a legend in academics, sports, spiritual development and educational modeling of future leaders not just east of the Niger, but in Nigeria itself. Moreover, a change in the school’s leadership did not mean a deviation from the college being an academic institution dedicated to intellectual and personal growth of male youths within the context of well-rounded liberal arts education in a Catholic environment. It was hardly surprising, therefore, that His Grace, Archbishop Charles Heerey, the founder of C.K.C. Onitsha, would personally handpick a few brilliant, diligent and capable indigenous priests to take charge of the critical education sector. It is noteworthy, that about the same time of Fr. Tagbo’s appointment, the Rev. Fr. Francis Arinze, now Cardinal Francis Arinze, was also appointed Archdiocesan Education Secretary. Today, most of Christ the King College Onitsha, alumni and including those in the Diaspora, proudly trace their foundation and personal growth and accomplishment to their studentship and training under Fr. N.C. Tagbo. They, like their parents, who entrusted Fr. Tagbo unreservedly with their children, recognized his invaluable and most laudable contribution to the development of education, generations of Nigerian youths, humanity and community services and his personal role in nurturing many students now in enviable and lofty leadership positions. In Nigeria’s Fourth Republic democratic dispensation, C.K.C. Onitsha is the only school to have produced three States governors, Dr. Peter Odili, former Governor of Rivers State; Mr. Peter Obi, former Governor of Anambra State, and Chief Willlie Obiano, the incumbent Governor of Anambra State. All three, were Fr. Tagbo’s students at C.K.C Onitsha.

Eminent Nigerians who were students of Fr Tagbo are too numerous to list, but include Philip Emeagwali, Senator Mike Ajegbo, Chief Oscar Udoji, Ambassador Lawrence Nwuruku, Dr. Mike Ejiofor, Archbishop Valerian M. Okeke, Professor Pat Utomi, Dr. Charles Anyaeji, Ambassador Dada Olisa, Research Scientist, Emma Onua, Mr. Olisa Agbakoba (SAN), Justice Peter C. Umeadi, Mr. Dominic Ezeani former Green Eagles and Rangers International Captain, late ex-international, Mr. Nnamdi Nwokocha (MON), and HRH Chief Emma Nnabuife, the Igwe of Iseke, Anambra State, to name just a few.

Tagbo, erudite, urbane and cosmopolitan,
Who’s ever-serious countenance,
Belied immense witticism,
genuine bonhomie and supreme intellect.
Who with sagacity, gravitas and panache
Urged diligence and with benign sarcasm
Braided torpor and duplicity.
Tagbo, teacher, mentor, and father,
Who imbued us with bonitas, disciplina, scientia,
Encouraging us infinitely and with zeal,
To strengthen our admiration for honest dealing,
Clean thinking and to live above the common level of life,
To choose the harder right instead of the easier wrong,
And never to be content with a half-truth,
when the whole can be won.

Observers claim that C.K.C. alumni swear by Tagbo, almost deifying him. They are right. Tagbo was a legend in his lifetime. In another nation, he would be a national hero.

Cognizant of Rev. Fr. Nicholas Tagbo’s preeminent role in shaping many lives, C.K.C. Onitsha alumni for succeeding years submitted his candidature for the Nigerian National Award Honours. In 2010, as C.K.C. alumni worldwide joined the Archdiocese of Onitsha in organizing the dual celebration of Tagbo’s 80th Birthday and 50th Ordination anniversary, he was finally honored on Thursday 22 July 2010, with the well-deserved high national honor of Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON).

*Mr Oseloka H. Obaze was Fr. Tagbo’s student and a member of the CKC Class of ‘73.
Culled from http://fathertagbo.org/

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When will the buck start stopping on Buhari’s desk?

(March 1, 2016)

By Azuka Onwuka

There is a narrative that has been sustained by the All Progressives Congress concerning the Muhammadu Buhari administration. The narrative is that President Buhari is always right and he is never to blame for anything. There is always a fall guy whenever anything negative happens in his administration.
Whenever anything goes well, it is because of Buhari’s body language or magic wand. But when things go wrong, the blame is heaped on someone or something. It is common to hear something like this: “It’s not Buhari’s fault. It’s the fault of those around him.”
The scandal over the 2016 budget made that glaring. First, there was an untidy scenario over the whereabouts of the budget after it had been presented to the National Assembly. There were allegations that the budget had disappeared or was missing. Then it was confirmed that the government took it back and adjusted some figures, possibly because of the outrage over some items in the budget.
Then when the National Assembly began to review the budget, they discovered some curious figures. Ministries and parastatals began to wash their hands off their allocations in the budget. There was outrage in the nation over the scandal. Many asked Buhari to withdraw the entire budget and apologize to the nation for such an embarrassment. The Presidency ignored that and said that the mix-up was caused by a “budget mafia.” Shortly after, the President, who had been easing off officials appointed by the past administration and replacing them with his own, seized the opportunity to sack some 24 heads of parastatals, including the Director-General of Budget Office, Aliyu Yahaya-Gusau.
Many people felt that those who caused the budget scandal had been punished. But what was the punishment? Nobody was arrested; nobody was prosecuted; nobody was indicted for the budget scandal. Yet, many people believed that “those who wanted to stain the President’s unblemished record” had been sacked. That is the fall guy syndrome.
What was curious was that even before the Presidency blamed it on the budget mafia, many had begun to blame it on “those who surround the President.” The President, who approved and signed the budget and presented it to the National Assembly, was let off the hook, while the blame landed on “those around him.”
Furthermore, as the dollar exchange rate ballooned to about N400 two weeks ago, a 2015 campaign poster of Buhari on the exchange rate surfaced online. The poster, which bore the pictures of Buhari and his running mate, now Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, said: “Is N216 to $1 okay? It’s time to speak out! Vote APC Change. March 28, 2015. Buhari – Osinbajo. Act now.” Given that the 2015 election was postponed from February 14 to March 28, it is obvious that the poster was produced about this time last year.
Ironically, one year after this message, and with the exchange rate of the dollar moving towards N400 – about double the price it was last year when the APC/Buhari used it as a campaign point – the same narrative that Buhari is not to blame is on. Jonathan is blamed for causing the skyrocketing depreciation of the naira. While he was in office last year, he was to blame; and now that Buhari is in office, Jonathan is still to blame.
In the same vein, the more companies sack their staff because of the economic crunch, or the more the stock market experiences huge losses, it is blamed on Jonathan and the PDP for “destroying the economy.” Buhari is not asked: “Sir, in practical terms, what have you done to boost the economy?”
For his inability to “jail corrupt politicians” as promised, Buhari is not to blame. The blame falls on “the judiciary, powerful lawyers and powerful PDP people who don’t want Buhari’s anti-corruption crusade to succeed.” Those who join him in this excuse were those who believed during the campaign that once elected, President Buhari would “jail” corrupt politicians. Such people did not bother to ask: “As a democratically elected President, will you have the powers to jail people or is it the responsibility of the judiciary to do so? Can you even make the judiciary to fast-track a case?”
Also, for his inability to crush Boko Haram in two months as promised, the blame is not Buhari’s but Jonathan’s for not buying weapons for the army. And when Jonathan said that the weapons the military has been using to fight Boko Haram were those he purchased, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information and Culture, promptly added that the weapons bought by Jonathan were substandard. The military came out to say that they are not fighting with substandard weapons.
Recently some Nigerians went as far as calling themselves “criminals” to prove that there was nothing wrong in the comments that Buhari made in his London interview, for which he was criticised by many Nigerians.
Ironically, when Buhari was announced the winner of the 2015 presidential election, the stock market appreciated hugely. As Buhari was inaugurated as President on May 29, 2015, the naira began to gain in value, electricity supply improved, the refineries began to work. These were credited to Buhari’s “body language”. He was seen as a change agent. But as the naira began to plummet and the stock market nosedived and electricity supply worsened, Buhari was excused again and Jonathan and other people and circumstances took the blame.
Does Buhari, as well as those who fanatically defend him, think that this shirking of responsibility is a positive leadership trait? A true leader takes responsibility. A true leader takes both the praise and the blame. A true leader is not too proud to apologize for any mistakes made and move on to new things. A true leader thinks of how to solve problems, not how to blame the past or the conditions in which he finds himself. The reason Buhari beat Jonathan in last year’s election was because he created the impression in the minds of many voters that he had answers to problems Jonathan was seen as not solving well. Jonathan is gone. Buhari is in charge now. Nigerians would like to see how he is solving the problems facing the country, not how he is blaming people and situations.
Rather than humour Buhari and make excuses for him, Nigerians should ask him:
“Mr President, what is your economic blueprint?
“Why have you retained the 10 aircraft in the presidential fleet on which you admitted spending N2.3 billion to maintain between May and November last year at an austere time like this?
“Why did you budget N3.9 billion for renovation of Aso Villa at a time like this when things are hard?
“Why was the budget for Aso Clinic higher than the budget for all the federal hospitals in Nigeria?
“Why have you not led the campaign to buy made-in-Nigeria products, especially in the automobile sector, as a way of boosting the economy?
These are just simple questions that will make the President roll up his sleeves for the task and sacrifice ahead, not justification and defence that make the Presidency feel comfortable with excuses when solutions are needed.
The nose diving of our economy needs to be arrested urgently and then our economy systematically stabilised and revived. There is no APC yam or PDP rice in the market. There is no APC hunger or PDP hunger. There is no APC economy or PDP economy. What we have is the Nigerian economy for everybody within the Nigerian territory. Action is needed urgently.

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Two protesters set up shop outside The Mrs. Carter Show at the Verizon Center in Washington D.C. warning Mrs Obama and other concert goers that Beyonce and Jay Z were possessed by demons.

Founder of the Pray at the Pump movement, Rocky Twyman, tells Afro.com

"We believe that this couple is virtually destroying ouryouth. If you go on the Internet, you’ll see stories about how they’re both part of the Illuminati and you can see Jay-Z’s use of the Satanic triangle symbol when he performs."

"Jay-Z even declared himself to be God by referring to himself as Jehovah, and we don’t think that this is the image that our young people need to be glorifying.”

Tyman hopes his movement will catch on with protests in every cityon the rest of Beyonce's tour
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I heard that they have shortlisted names of pple to take the test and that the names was published in yesterday's vanguard newspaper 27/07/13...can someone confirm this info and a link to view the names will be highly appreciated!

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