A REVIEW OF ABAH JOE IDENYI @20

Abah Joseph Idenyi Junior was born into the family of Mr. and Mrs. Abah Joseph on Thursday, 15^th of July 1993 in all saints Medical Centre, Nsukka. Eye witnesses said he nearly slipped off the bed he laid after birth, but Dr. S.O Nnaji intervened… I guess he was not patient enough; he needed to survey the earth he came into.

He was loved from birth by parents, grand parents and well wishers and greatness was envisioned of him. This came about his three names Joseph, Idenyi and Abah which were his father’s, grand father’s and great grand father’s names respectively.

He was baptized into the Roman Catholic Church in the then St. James Catholic Mission, Etteh Centre by Rev. Fr. Williams Odo and Mr. Mark Oche as his sponsor on the 2^nd day of December 1993.  About Ten years later, he received his first Holy Communion on the 15^th day of August, 2003 with the blessings of Rev. Fr. Martins Ozioko in St. Mary’s Parish, Enugu-Ezike.

He started his educational journey in St. Mary’s Nursery and Primary Enugu-Ezike School in the year 1997 under the administration of Rev. Sr. Ignetia. Intelligence was on his side, he was given a double promotion in the year 1999 by the school administration which was letter nullified as a result of change of administration just the session after his promotion.

His call for leadership started in 1998 as the class prefect/captain of his class, a function entrusted to him by the school authorities, he led his class for up to three times until his graduation from the school in the year 2006. In 2005, he was further elected as the water prefect of his class, the many that knew him admitted that he was cheerful, caring and accommodating; his only observed weakness then was shyness and stubbornness though he said few words then, some referred to him as “slow poison” then.

He became a public speaker and presenter as early as 1999, representing his school times and over again in debate and Drama Performances; he has performed along side Ugochukwu Mama, Ugwuanyi Franklin, Ali Anthony, Onyinye Eke, Ejike Ugwuanyi and a host of others throughout his Nursery and Primary Education, playing the lead role most times. He was mostly coached by Rev. Sisters Schorlastica Anyanwu and Chimeremma and Mr. Jerome Ayogu.

In 2006, he enrolled into St. John-Cross Seminary, Nsukka for his Secondary Education under the administration of Rev. Fr. Anthony C. Adani as the Rector of the Seminary. He was appointed as the assistant Class Prefect of his Class that same year by the then First Auxiliary Mr. Herbert Nnadi (Igede Nwa Africa) with Ugwu Chinonso as the class prefect, they were later replaced by Ozibo Henry and Okonkwo Chijioke for the post of the Class Prefect and assistant Class prefect respectively.

He stood against Class distribution (upper class, middle class and lower class) through out his stay in the seminary with his belief that all men are equal under God, he engaged in quarrels times and over again with his class presidents for taking to this class distribution system and for negligence of some members of his class, this lead to his nomination and election once again as the assistant class prefect in the year 2009 with Odo Gabriel as the Class prefect.

His call for leadership continued, he was elected the first president of the Marian of Priests in the year 2009 during his stay in the seminary, he lead this group to Awhum Monastery for an Excursion that same year with Mr. Attah Damian as the moderator.

He was also known as a stage performer in the seminary; performing in most of the dramas of the theatre and Arts Club, Comedy Shows and Music Performances, he became the  first performer of the popular talk show in the seminary “laugh it off” along side Ugwuoju Henry in 2006. He was part of the plays Romeo and Juliet, the Hamlet etc which were acted on the Seminary Stage. He performed along side Ugwuoju Henry, Ikechukwu Valentine, Ugwu Joseph and a host of others. In 2009, he performed as a mascot along side Ugwu Joseph and Ugwuoju Henry under the supervision of Mr. Onoyima Maximillian during one of the seminary bazaar ceremonies.

While in the seminary he developed passion for the computer and ICT, this lead to his creation of the famous facebook group “Nigeria and I” in 2011 a group he described as the group that engages the whole country in a conspiracy of love, he created the group to define Nigerian Unity. He further became a blogger, blogging about scholarships and related opportunities, he created the blog http://www.edusplash.blogspot.com in 2012 to solve the problem of opportunity mis-information by students and related people.

He further created another very famous blog in 2013 http://www.9jamebor.blogspot.com, which displayed news from different sources

While in the seminary, he was not very law abiding and for this reason, he was punished times without number for one offence or the other.

He joined the seminary choir in 2006 and left later in 2007 for one reason “he considered it stressful.”

He left the seminary in 2009 and made it to Shalom Academy, Nsukka in 2010. In 2011, He got his West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) certificate crediting all the subjects he sat for. That same year he scaled through his Jamb and Post UME and made it to University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) into the Department of Physics and Astronomy.

His call for leadership continued with his nomination and election as the class representative of his class (Physics and Astronomy Class of 2015) in 2011, he led his class from 2011 until his resignation in 2013.

In 2012, he was named president of The Society for the Promotion of Indigenous Inventions and Creativity (SPIIC) by Prof. A.O.E Animalu with Igboke Augustine and Pwansak Pannan Henry as treasurer and secretary respectively.

He was appointed a campus ambassador of the Unilever in 2012 alongside six others and further nominated team captain of the Unilever Campus Ambassadors, UNN that same year.

His passion for the ICT kept growing, in 2012, he became the owner of the bulk SMS portal http://www.aminutesms.co alongside Udealor Somto.

He became a member of the magazine committee of for the production of the proposed PHYSCOPE magazine in 2012 which was later not produced.

In 2013, He was named secretary of the electoral board committee of the National Association of Physics Students (NAPS), UNN chapter, his contributions lead to the successful election of the 2013/2014 executive election of NAPS.

He has always been a writer; his article can be sited in the 2010 Scripture Union (SU) Magazine where he wrote on “King and I” where he wrote on the motivations given to him by Martin Luther King Jnr, his write ups can also be found on his facebook group “Nigeria and I.”

>>>to be continued