I was born in the mid sixties five years after Nija greedy leaders sent the British packing. From this great place that british love so much, you can see why i have so much interest in the biafian war, the war was fought while i was growing up, i was just five years old when it ended officially, for years after 1970 the echo of the war was still around. i was born in Lagos at the Mercy hospital, Lagos Island, because my mother was a teacher and my father a supervisor at NCR, Marina also on the island, news or is it information in our house was not scarce. another opportunity we heard was with my dad's very close friend Mr Micheal Okedeyi who works at the British council on kingsway road, Ikoyi then, oh what a beatiful place it used to be in those days of the seventies into the eighties, issue on the Nation was always at our ear.
The first friend i grew up knowing was Olanrewaju Okedeyi later the ones withing the big house we were leaving in on Ayonuga street, Fadeyi house 32 it was. going back into the past with a sweet memory now i can remember Olaitan Oguntimeyi, sunday Ogunbowale, Anty Ranti Ogunbowale, Mosun Vaughan, bimbo and Yinka Vaughan, Late Remi Ogunbowale, Taiye Ogunbowale, Anty Nike Okedeyi, Bidemi Okedeyi, Kunle Okedeyi, silifa, Basirat, Moji, Raimi and several others we were always a happy bunch to behold then especially when it is raining and gather ourselves into some corners to play baba and mama play,
i grew up then in Fadeyi our part of Ayonuga street then with aridegbe street were regarded as a semi G.R.A because we the children always regard people living in places like Adesina and Aiyetoro street as thugs so we brought up to stay far from them, so we don't mix with them and whenever anyone from Ayonuga mixes with the the person immediately is regarded as an out cast.
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