I wake up in the morning, eat, do all the necessary things I need to do since I am still strong enough to do them. This is the only job that I know. However, because of age, I don’t do it the way I used to again. In fact, I used to perform surgery almost every day, but I don’t do that anymore. I prescribe, send them to theatre and decide whether the surgery will be done here or elsewhere.As a child in Ode-Ekiti, it was very interesting. When I look back now, I can see we miss so many things.
Not much. The big thing was that in the primary school, we took Standard Four examination in Ekiti, the whole Ekiti took a single examination and I came first. I was meant to be given a scholarship, but for reasons best known to them, they didn’t give it to me. Two of us came first. They offered it to the other person and the person in number three. I was teased at Christ’s School, Ado-Ekiti.
What happened in Ibadan in those days was that if you were studying Medicine, which was about a seven-year course, you do the first four years in Ibadan and because there was no adequate hospital to use as teaching hospital, we had to be in London for three years for that. I was in the London Hospital Medical College at Whitechapel, East London. That was where I did my Clinical Studies. We were the last set. Those after us used University College Hospital, Ibadan, which was ready then.
People said the colonial masters were too stringent, too strict, they had standards and they insisted on maintaining standards. That is the white man. Even the University College, Ibadan was meant to be a university not for Nigeria alone but for the whole of West Africa. The style of admitting students was stringent. They wanted you to be at the same level with anybody admitted at the University of London.
This one weak me ooooo
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