Showing posts with label Mercy Johnson From Rags To Riches. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mercy Johnson From Rags To Riches. Show all posts

Wednesday, 16 April 2014

I once stopped schooling to hawk pure water, plantain and other things- True Life Story By MERCY JOHNSON

  *From Rags To Riches*

I am like the girl next door. Most people know me as Mercy Johnson but did not bother to find out about the Ozioma aspect of me. Mercy Johnson Ozioma are my real names and Ozioma in my dialect (Kogi State) means a girl with good luck. The fourth child in a family of seven, I was born about 26 years ago to an ex-military officer. I left my mother at the age of two to live with my father who was constantly being transferred from one station to another as a military man. I am proud of my dad because he taught me all I needed to know about crossing the bridge from being a child to an adult.
When I was in secondary school,