Tribute To My Uncle, Prof. Joel Chinwuba Ike Odezue, By Rudolf Ogoo Okonkwo
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I will say this straight up. The day I discover that the God I worship designs evil things for his children, I will hand him my two weeks' quit notice. Speaking at the palace of Shehu of Borno, Alhaji Abubakar Ibn Umar Garbai Al-Amin El-Kanemi, in Maiduguri, a few days after the Nigerian military accidentally killed 126 people in Tudun Biri village in Kaduna State, President Bola Tinubu said, "We must take this as a tragic event designed by God – otherwise, it wouldn't have happened."
I have always been afraid that when I die, my village graphic designer would paste an old picture of mine on his ubiquitous template of an obituary flyer and declare, "Exit of an Icon." During my visit last month, I found many flyers of those icons who have recently passed on trees and walls around my village. I have often wondered if these icons knew they were icons while they were alive. I doubt it.
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