It is well known in the annals of the FCT commissions and flag-offs that I am privileged to have been the Director of Ceremonies for some of the various programmes in the last three years.
Being Director of Ceremonies looks incredibly easy to the uninitiated, but it is very hard work. I should know. I have been in the field for over 40 years now and counting. Last year, I found myself in tears when the Vice President, His Excellency Distinguished Senator Kashim Shettima, decided to put me in his protocol. A most unusual arrangement. Hardly the case that a director of ceremonies would find herself inside the protocol of a lineup of national cognoscenti. The Vice President literally took me out when he read a mini-profile of my person, including schools I went to, and then proceeded to commend me for my work. My eyelids were heavy from just the sheer weight of such a commendation. This was at the maiden African regional Chief of Defence Staff conference hosted by Nigeria, where I was there as director of ceremonies.
Before then, I was invited by the Hon. Minister of Works, Engr. Umahi, to master a presidential commissioning of the Lagos-Calabar coastal highway when, out of the blue, I heard my name.
