Abuja — When I left the country four weeks ago, I didn't imagine that the course I would be attending here in London would be so intensive that I wouldn't have time to write my column or do any other thing for that matter. That was why in my last column on June 26, 2009, I didn't think it necessary to give notice of my impending absence, which would be for eight weeks. I thought that I would be able to write in between classes.
So, when the editorial page editor of Daily Trust called me around 9:00 p.m. the following Thursday, asking whether they should expect my column, I apologized and told him that even the mere act of having to respond to him at that time was a major distraction. I therefore asked him to tell the editor to put whatever other material they had at hand; and I went back to class.
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