Timeline of My Father - Moses Ahamefula Newman - Bog

The world might not have known of this town Iho or the man called Okorohuru (Newman). This is a thrilling timeline account that has neither been told nor has been written before now. Iho is a small town in Southeastern Nigeria where Shell British Petroleum then Shell D'Arcy first struck oil and drilled its first wells. Those wells are still there till today, abandoned as the town that hosted its owners. In this town was born a foremost oil derrickman who worked in this foremost Nigerian oil field and other oil fields in the present-day Niger Delta area of Nigeria. He is Fidelis Okrorohuru Nwanjo of the great Njoku dynasty. The story of the oil heist in Nigeria, which has shaped and greatly influenced the sociopolitical and economic system of Nigeria, is narrated in this book. The Nigerian- Biafran Civil War (1967-1970) and the political instability that characterizes the Nigeria political sphere coupled with the influence of the global oil imperialists were also described by this man in a real-life story that he told his younger son.