WHEN on July 3, 1929, a baby girl was born in Zaria, Northern Nigeria to the late Chief Samuel Ojeuiro Imoukhuede and his wife, the late Mrs. Felicia Imoukhuede, both of Sabongida-Ora in present day Edo State, Nigeria, it turned out she was the apple of everybody’s eye.
Named Comfort, she was loved by everybody in the family and she grew up a happy girl, cheerful and beautiful.
Named Comfort, she was loved by everybody in the family and she grew up a happy girl, cheerful and beautiful.
But two weeks ago, she died, leaving behind to mourn her children among whom is Senator Lyel Imoke, the Governor of Cross River State.
Madam Comfort’s journey through life was rich, rewarding and a lesson in service to others for which she will, for a long, long time be remembered.
Her beginnings in the Ojeuiro Imoukhuede family were quite privileged for those days, as her literate father, quick in recognizing his daughter’s potentials, provided for her opportunities to maximize them.
Because her father took the family around the country to his many duty-posts, young Comfort was fluent in Hausa and Yoruba as a child, and later added Igbo, Efik and Legbo, her husband’s native tongue.
Throughout her primary and secondary school careers that started in Makurdi, present-day Benue State and ended at Queen’s College, Lagos, young Comfort was good in academics as well as sports and later began a training programme as a nurse at the Kano City Hospital in 1949.
It was in Kano, on a tennis court, that Comfort met her husband-to-be, Dr. Samuel Efem Imoke, who also loved tennis and shared her passion for the medical profession.They soon got married, began a family and her nursing training was put on hold.
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