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Ibrahim Mantu, a former Deputy President of Nigeria’s Senate is dead. He was aged 74 years. Reports suggest Mantu died in the Nigerian capital, Abuja after a few days of admission at a private hospital in the early hours of Tuesday. The late Mr Mantu was born in Chanso village, Gindiri District, Mangu Local
President Muhammadu Buhari has condoled with family of former Deputy Senate President, Ibrahim Mantu, joining Plateau State Government and indigenes in mourning the passing of the renowned politician. | Pulse Nigeria
ICYMI: Why I still cook at 75 –Onabolu, ex-Nigeria National PolioPlus Committee Chairman
Published 23 January 2021
Former Chairman, Nigeria National PolioPlus Committee of Rotary Club, Busuyi Onabolu, talks to ALEXANDER OKERE about his childhood and why he left a lucrative job at a petroleum company for community service for three decades
What kind of childhood did you have?
I was born in Ibadan, Oyo State, in 1945. But by 1948, I was in Lagos State. I think I moved to Ijebu Ode, Ogun State, with my mother in 1949 when she was transferred but returned to Lagos in 1951. And I have been in Lagos ever since. My childhood was good in many ways. Growing up was exciting. I attended St. John’s School, Aroloya, Lagos. I also attended Kings College, Lagos. Most of the students represented Nigeria in different aspects of sports. We had a great time doing different things. We had our cadet unit, called Kings College Cadet Unit, with an armoury, where we had guns with live bullets. We ha
My father was before then the headmaster of the elementary school in Garkida.
It was a missionary school, and obviously, he was a Christian.
When the Second World War broke out in 1939, the missionaries closed all their functions because there were problems moving from the United States to Europe, then to Africa, because of the hostilities that were over the place.
Therefore, my father stopped being the headmaster.
He looked for employment with either the Native Authority or the government, and when he went to Yola, one obvious employment was the recruitment of every able-bodied young man into the Nigerian Army to aid the British war efforts.