{"id":51251,"date":"2021-08-12T10:55:02","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T09:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=51251"},"modified":"2021-08-12T12:43:36","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T11:43:36","slug":"ben-egbunas-memoir-a-destiny-fulfilled-for-presentation-in-lagos-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/ben-egbunas-memoir-a-destiny-fulfilled-for-presentation-in-lagos-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Egbuna\u2019s Memoir, “A Destiny Fulfilled” For Presentation In Lagos Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

The memoir of the first Executive Director News of Voice of Nigeria (VON) and a former Director-General, Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, late Mr. Ben Egbuna MNI, would be presented to the public at the MUSON Centre, Lagos today.<\/p>\n

Titled\u00a0\u2018A Destiny Fulfilled\u2019, the book was published by Diamond Publications Limited and had been concluded by Egbuna; a thorough bred professional broadcaster, editor, journalist and administrator before his demise early this year.<\/p>\n

\u2018Pungent and lucid, the 388\u2013page book is\u00a0BEN EGBUNA\u2019s riveting memoir.\u00a0 It is a study in the development of an individual and the institutions destiny took him through, filled with candid close-ups on leading names in the media and politics of his era and a lot of behind-the-scene happenings in high quarters in public service.\u2019<\/p>\n

The book also gives account\u00a0of his civil war experience.<\/p>\n

According to Ben, “I was twenty-and-a-half years old and I should have completed my secondary education three years earlier in 1967, but as at January 1970, I had not. Yet I had gone through situations and acquired experience that I might, under normal circumstances, not have had at my age.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had gone through military training and orientation; I had slept in trenches, in the bush for weeks and even months; I had crawled in muddy water, gone without food for days involuntarily; I could handle weapons \u2013 rifle, machine-gun, grenade, \u2013 and I had learned skills for physical combat. I had been a trainer of soldiers, an infantry officer leading men much older than me in battle.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had seen people die violently in battle, and human corpses lying unattended; I had experienced the brutality of war. I had lived independent of my parents, far away from their oversight and control. I now smoked cigarette.<\/p>

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\u201cThe tough and difficult times in training and in the battlefield, seemed to have imbued in me emotional and physical strength and wisdom beyond my age. I had become street-wise, transformed from the pampered, city-bred lad that I had been.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose thirty months of the civil war had not only disrupted my education, they had impacted on my total being. They had exposed me to experiences I might never have had in my lifetime,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a lot more to read in A Destiny Fulfilled.<\/p>\n

The must-read book costs N8, 000 Hardback and N5,000 for the Paperback type.<\/p>\n

Orders can be placed via WhatsApp number 0802-350-8533, SMS 0803-360-2887 or via<\/p>\n

Email: mediareview@yahoo.com<\/a>, sales@diamondpublicationsltd.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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