Femi Ojo's Premise

FOR CHIDI AMUTA:   A BIRTHDAY WISH! Femi Ojo Chidi Amuta remains one of the few extra-ordinary Nigerians that I have met outside the wall of the University. The man, Dr. Chidi, is surely a man of many parts, he is creative, humane, proactive, jovial, business oriented, sagacious, generous but prudent, and sometimes this literary icon, can be misconstrued to be machinating. To some of us, who were privileged to cross his path especially in the Integrated Marketing Communications Industry, we would attest that the honorific title of “Oga or Chairman” that we often call him was not only because he was our employer but he was and still “oga” indeed- in words and actions! The man is a living encyclopedia almost on all subject matters with high-ranking brilliances! I met Dr. Chidi Amuta in 2006 after my mandatory   National Youth Service , that one year compulsory programme that this great country requires her graduates to embark on, as a Greenhorn in search of a gr