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BIOGRAPHY OF TAMUNOITEKENA ALFRED SEMENITARI ABAM

PARENTAGE

Tamunoitekena is the son of KING (DR) ALFRED .S. ABAM (JP) ADO IX AMANYANABO OF OKRIKA AND CLAN HEAD OF OKRIKA CLAN AND HER MAJESTY QUEEN (DAME) MEDLINE AMIEIBIBAMA ABAM and the grandson of late Pa Semenitari Joshua Kienka Abam, a direct descendant of King Ado the great {the first Amanyanabo of Okrika} and the late Madam Oruene Janet Abam.

Tekena’s father married three wives, tekena’s mother being the first of the three wives, his father had eleven children, more than half being females and the others being male. It was a very happy polygamous family. With three wives as already stated above, and eleven children (nine of them being alive till date.

EARLY CHILDHOOD

The birth story of Tamunoitekena Alfred Semenitari Abam is just like that of any other normal child in a local community, not in a hospital or maternity. Tamunoitekena was born on Tuesday, 11th September, 1979, ambemebiri, Kirike, in Okrika Island, Okrika.

SCHOOL EDUCATION

In January, 1981, at the age of one {1} a year and four {4} months, his father enrolled him in a crèche school in Victoria Island, Lagos, to start his nursery school education. And by December, 1983, Tamunoitekena completed his nursery school education, his father then enrolled him in the primary school in January 1984 were he attended for six (6) years were he ended up obtaining the First School Leaving Certificate in 1990. It was in the same year that he was enrolled in for the West African common entrance examination and passed to start his secondary school education. In 1991 he was enrolled into the Rivers State college of education demonstration secondary to board, he had complications  and couldn’t continue so his father changed him and enrolled him into Government secondary school borikiri which he had problems also. He later ended up in Government comprehensive secondary school borikiri in Port Harcourt city that was where he obtained his (WAJSSCE) Junior WAEC and his (WASSCE) West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination.