Old giant threes with fat, twisting trunks that outlived their colonial planters, spread forth their huge branches of green leaves over the Seventh Day Adventist Hospital, Jengree in Bassa Local Government Area, LGA, of Plateau State.
The hospital, said to be over 60 years old, bore all the trappings of colonial structures in Nigeria - simple homes of asbestos roofs with walls made of stones and well spaced from each other; and rows of flower beds all over the place.
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