Missing secondary education remains my biggest regret – 80-year-old ex-mechanic

Eighty-year-old Ayodele Mustapha, who once worked as a mechanic for corporate organisations in the 1960s, tells GRACE EDEMA why he regrets missing out on formal education after his father’s death

Tell us about your background.

My father was a native of Abeokuta in Ogun State, and my mother was also from there. However, I was born in May 1946 during their stay on the Ijebu side of Ogun State. I attended Ijebu Primary School and Saint Paul School, Shagamu, where I completed my primary education.

In 1960, I was supposed to start secondary school. I took the entrance examination and passed. However, in the first week we were meant to resume, my father died.

That must have been difficult.