Re-Branding the Nation

I sat quietly with rapt attention as I listened to the eloquent oration of myfoster father, the first Minister of Social Welfare in the first republic andone-time Apesin of Lagosthe chieftaincy title he upheld till his death. He was late Chief J.M. Johnsona name that had known the ocean andbeheld the sea. If there are other ways to define a gentleman beyond thesphere of letters of the alphabet, that man was a-man-among-thousands,Chief JMJ, as he was fondly called, would have earned more appellationsin diverse regards but for death.