
Timeline of My Father
When Shell – D’Arcy, a British oil conglomerate exploring oil in Nigeria was formed in the late 1951, it was not long before it ‘spudded’ its first oil wells in Iho Dimeze, a town 10 miles North of Oweri, South East of Nigeria. Those wells are still there, abandoned, so also the town that hosted the owners. My father, Fidelis Okorohuru-Newman Nwanjo was born in this town. He was recruited in this ...
When Shell – D’Arcy, a British oil conglomerate exploring oil in Nigeria was formed in the late 1951, it was not long before it ‘spudded’ its first oil wells in Iho Dimeze, a town 10 miles North of Oweri, South East of Nigeria. Those wells are still there, abandoned, so also the town that hosted the owners. My father, Fidelis Okorohuru-Newman Nwanjo was born in this town. He was recruited in this ...