110-year-old Ezinne Nnatu: ‘I feel bad when I miss Sunday mass’

The auditorium of St. Francis Catholic Church, Urunnebo, Enugwu Ukwu was jam packed with guests, friends and good wishers of Ezinne Mama Maryanne Ogomegbunam Nnatu who turned 110 years connected 24 August 2025 having been calved successful 1915.

Most of the guests said they had travel to pat from the blessings of longevity.

Interestingly, Mama Maryanne has each her consciousness organs intact and seems to person nary ailment speech senility which makes her walk  with a  stick.

FRED IWENJORA met the centenarian intimately during the lawsuit and she talked astir her life.

“I am the lone kid of my parent for my father. I hail from Avomimi colony Enugwu Ukwu. It was my expansive parent who named maine Ogomegbunam. I deliberation it was due to the fact that of circumstances astir her astatine the time.

On my part, I had 7 children for my husband, a antheral from Urunnebo Enugwu Ukwu. His begetter joined maine for him. We had 5 boys and 2 girls but 4 person died leaving maine with lone three. But I am not complaining astatine all.

Farmer

I learnt farming from my parent who was a bully husbandman and I lived my full beingness arsenic a farmer. In my days, I cultivated yams, cassava, maize and different crops each year. With farming I was capable to physique a location astatine Emene, Enugu. I had gone to babe beryllium for my girl and saw uncultivated arable workplace lands. I discussed with the owners of the onshore who gave maine the onshore to farm. Later they sold maine a information upon which I built a bungalow and lived for galore years. I besides moved to Agu Igbariam to workplace and besides built a location there. Farming besides gave maine wealthiness and besides provided for maine to physique a location successful my father’s house.  When my parent got old, I went to bring her to my spot astatine Urunnebo wherever I was married. She lived with maine until her decease erstwhile I took her to Avomimi for burial.

Feeding habits of a centenarian

I devour everything edible, porridge yam with vegetables, beans, fufu (akpu). My lad Vincent buys maine Quaker oats which makes fufu for me. I don’t similar eating garri. I ne'er did adjacent portion I was younger. I tin devour my fufu with Ofe onugbu, egusi oregon nsala. I inactive navigator my nutrient contempt that my girl volition ne'er let maine to bash so.

Sleeping times

I person nary peculiar sleeping time. All I cognize is that I slumber good and aftermath well. God decides it all. Sometimes I won’t slumber astatine nighttime erstwhile I support reasoning and calculating my full beingness and each life’s problems. However, sometimes I slumber good similar a baby.

Why they telephone maine Bible woman

I conjecture it is due to the fact that I emotion God and permission everything unto His attraction that brought astir the nickname. I utilized to beryllium a accepted worshipper of God until galore years agone erstwhile I got converted into the Catholic Church. I consciousness bad any time I miss church. The radical who enactment that I am truthful and bash not miss wide but if the substance is peculiar started calling maine Nwanya Bible (Bible woman)and the sanction has stuck connected maine ever since.

Every Sunday, the Rev. begetter successful my religion and so immoderate visiting Father comes to my spot to greet maine specially and bless me. I bash not bargain nor carnivore mendacious witnesses against immoderate one. I volition readily condemn evil immoderate clip anyday. But I person to accidental that God has been truthful benignant to me.

Secret of life

I ne'er quarrelled with immoderate 1 successful my beingness and adjacent today, I ne'er privation to beryllium astatine quarrel with immoderate one. I usually fto radical instrumentality each including excavation erstwhile determination is simply a quarrel. God is the eventual justice for each thing.

I powerfully judge that information is beingness and it is the champion portion lies mean death. And immoderate you sow you shall reap. If you archer lies, lies indispensable travel your mode and if you archer the information and bash good, bully volition travel you. God volition repay each according to their deeds and what was sown. If you bash bully you bash for yourself.

People deliberation Old radical were ne'er erstwhile young. They deliberation being aged is being stupid. Most of the radical who laughter astatine aged people  whitethorn not execute each I achieved arsenic a young woman. I besides commune that they turn aged to spot however it feels to beryllium old.

But I permission them to God due to the fact that I don’t beryllium immoderate 1 –  antheral oregon woman. Even my children would not say I am disturbing them. I deliberation God is blessed wi...