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Today,my birthday,is a great day,like my forty something birthdays before it,and like the one's to come.Had I been the legendary birthday celebrant of olympic dimensions,I would have wined at Sapele today with a thousand guests,dined at Benin with another ten thousand party mongers like myself,and flown to Abuja thereafter with my teeming fans and admirers.There,I would have closed NICON NOGA,Aso Rock,AIT,Silverbird,the Police,Road Safety,everything and everywhere.Wine ,Agbada's,music,women and spraying would have flowed freely,like the dreaded River Niger as it overflowed every known bank.And man!,I would have received congratulatory phonecalls from Obama,Queen Elizabeth 2,and from all the kings and Princes in Arabia.My numerous private phone lines would have been hot and busy.Which brings to mind,a special birthday congratulatory call which has woken me up every 6a.m on my birthdays in previous years.Today,that call never came,because the caller,consistent in her congratulatory birthday calls,for as long as the mobile phone has existed in Nigeria,never lived to see today.She,my Mother will be missed greatly.She was an Amazon,bold,fearless,beautiful,strict,but kinder than an Angel.It made no matter whether her love and care was directed at her own or her enemy's child.That is my Mother's story.As to my latest birthday my friends,the celebrations are on and your congratulatory posts,calls,and spraying are welcome a'la Niger style.The music is on,and you are welcome to the dance floor.End. Like · Comment ·