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Excerpts From Dr Peter Odili's Biography by naptu2: 5:25am On Nov 19, 2022
Book: Conscience and History - My Story

Author: Peter Odili

Year of Publication: Not Stated

Publishers: Not Stated

ISBN: 978-978-931-375-4

Reviewer: Chigachi Eke

Email: chigachieke@yahoo.co.uk

"The next few months (after the Biafra/Nigeria war ended January 1970) were most testing and trying. Linking up with the rest of the family, not knowing who survived and who did not, finding old friends on both divides. Ekeing out a living was a day to day affair. It was survival of the fittest and for me the dignity of labour was the key. I was ready mentally to work with my hands to survive, my pedigree was of no issue now. The reality was that I was an orphan, my family fortune had been destroyed by the war, no member of the family was in a position to carry anyone else's burden. So "you must take your destiny in your hand"- I told myself….An old school friend met me at Onitsha, having come Agbor, and gave me one pound. That started me up. I bought and sold bread, garri and toilet soaps from Agbor to Onitsha. In a few weeks I made a few pounds. I changed my clothing and now started thinking of a more appropriate engagement. Through some old friends and using my CKC (Onitsha) background, I got a school teaching job as a science teacher in a Catholic school in Afuze, in now Edo State, through a Rev. Fr. Nolan (Irish, now late) whom I met through auntie Helen Bokolo and her cousin Opene. This teaching job now repositioned me to pursue my interrupted academic ambition of becoming a medical doctor.

"In 1966 as a lower 6 student in CKC I had secretly sat and passed the entrance exam to University College Ibadan but by September 1966 the Nigerian crisis had reached a point where people were beginning to head home. I therefore aborted the resumption at Ibadan….(After the war) I secured admission to study medicine starting with the premedical year at the main campus at Nsukka. From my savings from my teaching job at Afuze and a little support from late Rev. Nolan, I managed to pay my deposit tuition of 20 pounds but could not pay for the hostel accommodation. Luckily I met some students who were luckier and so I squatted in room 101 Awolowo hall with Innocent Masi with whom I shared old family ties from Omoku….I bought a 6 spring mattress which I would fold in the morning and tuck under one of the beds and pull out at night for sleep. Not being an official boarder, dining in the refectory was out of the question unless I got a meal ticket from one of my friends. So I made do with snacks and soft drinks bought from kiosks most of the time. I focused on my mission-studying to qualify to the medical school at Enugu campus. Nothing else mattered. This was my situation, I had 2 sets of 2nd hand shirts and trousers and a pair of snickers rubber soled shoes all through that year, washing and changing them alternately. This was the situation until Gen. Yakubu Gowon visited Nsukka and declared free tuition and feeding for 'indigent students'. I was a beneficiary and life became more comfortable.

"….I passed my premed year exams and moved over to the medical school at Enugu campus of the University of Nigeria. I left Nsukka with one firm resolve "to kill indigence for good in the subsequent years." As soon as I settled down to the 1st medical year in October 1971 I started planning how to kill 'poverty'. Luckily I was fairly sociable and so interactively I picked up information that one could earn as much as 40 pounds per week working as a labourer in a factory abroad during long vacation. And so I started working towards a vacation trip early in my first year at Enugu campus. I secured my first international passport as a first step. The session ended and I was still hanging around on campus when fortune came knocking. One hitch hiking Swiss student got stranded in Enugu and came to the hostel to seek shelter. The hostel security men brought him to my room for assistance. After chatting with him for a few minutes I was satisfied he was genuine though he looked disheveled and dirty-stenchy indeed. I took him in, he had a bath, I gave him a change of T-shirt and took him to eat at the bukka. We got friendly and got talking and knowing ourselves. He turned out to be the son of a Swiss professor with a mother who was a PhD Psychologist, intellectual and practitioner and had a step brother who was a young medical doctor, all resident in Zurich. He was a student of history but was 'rebelliously' touring Africa.

"Through this contact I secured a letter of invitation to Switzerland with which I got an 8 week visa to Switzerland. With my little saving and loan of 15 pounds from my eldest sister Regina (Osademe, nee Odili), I made up the 30 pounds for the return ticket to Zurich and had $10 balance. I set out for Zurich by Swissair flight from Lagos. I was met by my Swiss friend's brother Mathew, he took me to a penthouse apartment he was sharing with his girlfriend and gave me a little room to stay. Within a few minutes I had told him what my mission was- to find a job to earn money and go back to school and put an end to indigence.

"By the end of the next day I secured a job at a construction site, the pay was 9 SFr per hour for 8 hrs/day and 150% for overtime. Yours truly jumped at the offer and worked like hell. At the end of the vacation I came back home a 'rich' student. I paid off the loan, paid off my fees for the next session, had a brand new wardrobe, one of the best on campus and set aside money for the next vacation. Life had taken a turn for the better. The next session was now more comfortable, I faced my studies, I became popular amongst my mates….Next vacation I made it to London and secured two vacation jobs, a day job in a brewery as a labour hand and the other a lift cleaning job at a hotel at night. Both jobs netted about 80 pound/week for me. At the end of the vacation I was able to buy a used Fiat car and shipped it home. I put the car into use as a taxi in Enugu. It made an average of N15/day. Level had changed, I was now easily one of the rich students on campus out of sheer will and determination stimulated by 'indigence'. My exposure on these trips showed me that it could also pay to buy and sell goods. And so with subsequent vacations I bought clothes and shoes for sale to students. I had become a source of support to my family and friends.

"My academics did not suffer as a result of these extracurricular exploits, rather the exposures matured me beyond my peers….I graduated in June 1977 as a medical Doctor- a dream come true. Life on campus was quite unique, the medical curriculum was structured so intensively that it left the conscientious student little or no room for socialisation. It took extra effort to relate and interact with non-medics who appeared to have more time on their hands. However, destiny had programmed me to meet my wife Mary on campus and that for me was all the socialization that mattered. It's a story for another page."

https://nigeriaworld.com/feature/publication/chigachi-eke/081514.html

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Re: Excerpts From Dr Peter Odili's Biography by ALTERNATEID: 5:34am On Nov 19, 2022
We all know Peter Obi is a crook and a shameless liar who lie just about almost everything.

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Re: Excerpts From Dr Peter Odili's Biography by Moferere: 5:40am On Nov 19, 2022
Peter is a chronic liar

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Re: Excerpts From Dr Peter Odili's Biography by Mynd44: 5:41am On Nov 19, 2022
Fact-checking the fact checkers.

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Re: Excerpts From Dr Peter Odili's Biography by NotKnown: 5:46am On Nov 19, 2022
Lol see what our mods have resorted to.

Just look at the one just above me cheesy grin

How come whenever Mr agbado the white powder sniffing dealer has something you need to fact check you do eyes right and look the other way?

Have you fact checked BATman's fake Chicago certificate he got from pinterest or the fact that he's using someone else's identity?

Una go chop corn tire.

Cry me a river Nigeria must be great next year.

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Re: Excerpts From Dr Peter Odili's Biography by MadamVanessa(f): 5:46am On Nov 19, 2022
shocked



All these because of what our amiable incoming president said? The greatest question is, did Peter Obi attended CKC that Peter Odili attended? the answer is yes. Was Odili, PO senior? yes he was, was Odili a good footballer as acclaimed by our incoming president? the answer still remain yes.


I wonder how idiots and myopic BATstards tend to dwell on fact checking Peter Obi, with a clean sheet. Meanwhile ,I heard their lord and savior with smelly teeth was pushing drugs in Chicago, till date non of these brainless urchins care to fact check if what they labeled their BATstard is true or not. Of course they know it's true hence they are running away from fact checking like a headless chicken.


Atleast I know where my president schooled, where he's from , I have seen all his certificates, I have known and seen the people that attended the same school with him. Now show me any of rotten teeth thièfnubu school mates even those that graduated ages before him? I won't mind, show me any school he attended in this life, show me any of his certificates he claimed to have.


I have no time for people who pride in foolishness and agbadorism.

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Re: Excerpts From Dr Peter Odili's Biography by LegendHero(m): 5:46am On Nov 19, 2022
Peter Obi is like all those thieves that will steal only the left leg shoe and leave the right leg shoe for the owner. He doesn’t need it for anything but he can’t do with the spirit of theft.

Peter Obi can’t do without lying. Even tho he has no reason to parrot some stupid lies but he can’t help it. He can just say me and Odili went to the same school alone, why did he have to go a step further to say they played football together?

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Re: Excerpts From Dr Peter Odili's Biography by kingthreat(m): 5:46am On Nov 19, 2022
Peter Obi is just the lesser thief among Tinubu and Atiku.
If Peter Obi is to rule Nigeria the same way he governed Anambra 2006 - 2014, my brother Nigeria is finished.

Please read news from 2017. Don't be obidiently foolish.
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2017/09/gov-obiano-peter-obi-war-words/

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Re: Excerpts From Dr Peter Odili's Biography by stano2(m): 5:46am On Nov 19, 2022
Rest

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Re: Excerpts From Dr Peter Odili's Biography by JoeyNaza: 5:46am On Nov 19, 2022
Jobless fellows. Tinubu urchins have become the 5 phones One room supporters. Meaning that:
They are only located in one corner like that, with their unpopular choice and minority view they are trying to foist a criminal, inept, incapacitated candidate plagued by incontinence on honest Nigerians.

2023 Tinubu will get the bed rest he deserves.

Mynd44 Walai 2023 I go mock you tire grin grin Clowns. Smh

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Re: Excerpts From Dr Peter Odili's Biography by Eketem: 5:47am On Nov 19, 2022
Mynd44:
Fact-checking the fact checkers.


Your bias is claring and sad.
The irony is lost on you that you are fact checking people whose history is known and documented but defending those whose history is questionable.

You refuse to take threads where actual evidence exists on a candidates fake history to the front page but dance around this one.

Such a shame, just as I guessed you rushed this one to the front page without traction but the one that had over 7 pages with real evidence that a candidate falsified his history you ignored.

There is no level playing field.

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Re: Excerpts From Dr Peter Odili's Biography by BluntCrazeMan: 5:48am On Nov 19, 2022
Three Days Later...


And they are still talking about this??


(If he spoke in tongues,, then, they might use two weeks to talk about it..)

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Re: Excerpts From Dr Peter Odili's Biography by Peterobiisathie(f): 5:48am On Nov 19, 2022
Peter Pandora Obituary will say go and velify and after velification IPOB terrorists would be crying when Velification go wrong

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Re: Excerpts From Dr Peter Odili's Biography by Africum: 5:48am On Nov 19, 2022
Hj
Re: Excerpts From Dr Peter Odili's Biography by uwemetok(m): 5:49am On Nov 19, 2022
Hope y’all fact checking agbado’s biography as well, that is if he has any.

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Re: Excerpts From Dr Peter Odili's Biography by PrinceOfLagos: 5:49am On Nov 19, 2022
Hukabalu babablue

Tinubu is a senile old fool

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Re: Excerpts From Dr Peter Odili's Biography by LegendHero(m): 5:49am On Nov 19, 2022
Eketem:


Your bias is claring and sad.
The irony is lost on you that you are fact checking people whose history is known and documented but defending those whose history is questionable.

You refuse to take threads where actual evidence exists on a candidates fake history to the front page but dance around this one.

Such a shame, just as I guessed you rushed this one to the front page without traction but the one that had over 7 pages with real evidence that a candidate falsified his history you ignored.

There is no level playing field.

You might need to type like 50 page of lamentation for you to be heard by him.

Why wasting your time on a candidate like Obi when you know he can never win the presidency?

You mean he should post fake news about some certificate online so as to please Obi zombies?

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Re: Excerpts From Dr Peter Odili's Biography by PrinceOfLagos: 5:50am On Nov 19, 2022
BluntCrazeMan:
Three Days Later.


And they are still talking about this??
Peter Obi is dia father , No cap

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Re: Excerpts From Dr Peter Odili's Biography by tuborme: 5:50am On Nov 19, 2022
Rubbish

CKC students call their senior alumni, senior boys! What is this much ado about Nonsense!

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Re: Excerpts From Dr Peter Odili's Biography by Fira09(m): 5:50am On Nov 19, 2022
Mynd44:
Fact-checking the fact checkers.

You are very biased like seriously, undecided

Why don't you have same energy for other Tinubu complication Thread.

Huh.

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Re: Excerpts From Dr Peter Odili's Biography by Eketem: 5:50am On Nov 19, 2022
uwemetok:
Hope y’all fact checking agbado’s biography as well, that is if he has any.

Can't you see the Mod here rushed to take this to the front page, but the with 7 pages and evidence of his candidates false certificates he refused to take.

Seun if you want to pretend to have the least bit of objectivity, sanction this moderator.

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Re: Excerpts From Dr Peter Odili's Biography by BluntCrazeMan: 5:51am On Nov 19, 2022
Mynd44:
Fact-checking the fact checkers.

If Peter Odili is no more alive, all these would have been different.
But he is still alive, and he knows the whole truth about himself.


There are many narratives flying around about him going back to CKC (1971 to 1973)..

He is still alive to debunk the narratives.
Again, the records should also be there in the CKC archives too.


So, why are we moving back-and-forth on this issue?

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Re: Excerpts From Dr Peter Odili's Biography by YunusaWale: 5:51am On Nov 19, 2022
Mynd44:
Fact-checking the fact checkers.


Fact-Check... it's a well established fact that, however much you try to denigrate his person with your position as a Moderator on Nairaland, you & your generations unborn can never equal and/or amount to a thousandth of the financial & business assets & political pedigree of Mr Peter Obi.

As usual, you can ban me & my ilks out of Nairaland with your position as a Moderator here. I doubt if anyone of us would give a flying fucck about it.

Go figure... it is what it is.

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Re: Excerpts From Dr Peter Odili's Biography by owiko(m): 5:51am On Nov 19, 2022
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Re: Excerpts From Dr Peter Odili's Biography by YunusaWale: 5:52am On Nov 19, 2022
@naptu... your relevance begins & ends right here on Nairaland.

Peter Obi can conveniently feed you & your generations yet unborn for a thousand years with his legitimate earnings. He's not a druggie.

You're one of the people portraying we the Yorubas in bad light.

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Re: Excerpts From Dr Peter Odili's Biography by JASONjnr(m): 5:52am On Nov 19, 2022
Mynd44:
Fact-checking the fact checkers.


Mynd, Peter Obi will be the president of Nigeria whether you do all the fact checking from now till next year.


We want the country to work and not hand it over to some criminals to run it as a family affair or turn it to a camp for all sorts of agbero.

Tinubu's economic advice to the president has been to increase taxes and that's what we're suffering from. He has successfully generated funds for a president who doesn't know how to use it. He suggested printing of more currency...With limited supply of goods and services...

Also, you're a mod, you should never take parts in politics. You should even open a disguised account to do it but not with your moderator's account...It sends wrong signal to the many users of this forum.

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Re: Excerpts From Dr Peter Odili's Biography by Majesty2(m): 5:52am On Nov 19, 2022
ALTERNATEID:
We all know Peter Obi is a crook and a shameless liar who lie just about almost everything.
You can't stop that brainless worthless bastard from lying, it is impossible, the thing is hereditary in that c*rsed tribe wey him come from

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Re: Excerpts From Dr Peter Odili's Biography by kingthreat(m): 5:54am On Nov 19, 2022
NotKnown:


Cry me a river Nigeria must be great next year.

Yes but not by a clown who couldn't make a state great in 8 years

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Re: Excerpts From Dr Peter Odili's Biography by BluntCrazeMan: 5:54am On Nov 19, 2022
PrinceOfLagos:

Peter Obi is dia father , No cap
Peter is planning his next moves..


Others are planning their next speaking-in-tongues..

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Re: Excerpts From Dr Peter Odili's Biography by 9jaBloke: 5:54am On Nov 19, 2022
Peter Obi should stick to facts. Exaggerations will be blown out of proportion. It's part of politics.

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Re: Excerpts From Dr Peter Odili's Biography by tamdun: 5:54am On Nov 19, 2022
Obi and mungo Park were classmates grin

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