*I became doctor to wounded Biafran soldiers during the warEkhaguosa Aisien is a retired civil servant, soldier, physician and writer. He has 13 publications to his credit. Aisien who clocked 90 years today, shares his experience and other issues of life.I am really fulfilled. I had a good professional life as a doctor and as a surgeon, and that is the ordinary type of life a professional would like to have.
I started school in 1936 at the Church Missionary Society , Anglican School in Uronigbe and later moved to the St. Matthews CMS School in the premises of St Matthews Cathedral along Sokponba road in 1937. I spent two years at UNA school at Oza between 1938 and 1939 . In 1940, my dad handed me over to one of his friends, an Ika man who was the headmaster of the CMS School at Oza.“
I had no choice than to throw away the scholarship and left for Lagos. I began to teach Sciences in my old school, CMS Grammar School in Lagos, and then in 1957 I got another scholarship from the new western region headed by Obafemi Awolowo. The scholarship took me to England where I got admission to the medical school of Kings College in London. In London, I qualified as a medical doctor, did my housemanship in England, and came back as a young medical doctor to Nigeria in September 1963.
In 1969, before the civil war ended, I went back to Edinburgh, Scotland to specialise in surgery. I worked all over England and Scotland before I finally returned to Nigeria with my wife and children. The second experience was my school days at St. Peters. We had a great teacher in standard six who made us who we are today. He was such a great teacher that produced excellent students. The primary five school leaving certificate in the whole of Benin province , there were 12 distinctions to be won by all primary schools.