Son of Rev. Peter Jumbo [an Anglican Church Priest], and Mrs. Huldah Jumbo [a daughter of an Anglican Church Catechist] I am. Serving in Abonnema, then a little town in the petroleum-rich current Rivers State of Nigeria, were my parents when I was a baby. My parents were transferred to Bonny, then another little town in the current Rivers State of Nigeria. From this town of Bonny haled my Dad. This town stands on the Estuary of River Bonny. River Bonny stretches from the Bight of Bonny to the Oil City of Port Harcourt. For a view of the situation of Bonny on the Estuary of Bonny, VISIT: http://www.maplandia.com/nigeria/rivers/bonny/
In Bonny is a little Cathedral Church, by name: St. Stephen's Cathedral. There my Dad served as Vicar, from 1946 to 1950. And there I was, a little one, viewing the Cathedral tower from my room.
As my Dad was transferred from one parish to another, I had the opportunity of schooling in various towns. After schooling I worked in Port Harcourt as Accounts Clerk for the Regional Produce Marketing Board. My next job was in Lagos as a Bank Clerk in the Standard Bank, before the Nigerian Civil War.
After the civil war, I was back in Port Harcourt and worked as a Senior Accounts Clerk for the Rivers State Marketing Board.
My wife and I [currently having four children and seven grandchildren] celebrated our marriage in St. Mary's Pro-Cathedral, [now known as St. Mary's Catholic Church] Port Harcourt, Nigeria, a year before I won a sponsorship to study professional Accountancy in the United Kingdom. I studied Accountancy in Aberdeen, Scotland; and in London, England. I graduated having passed all the examinations of the UK Association of Certified Accountants [now known as the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants]. I went back to Nigeria to train as a qualified trainee with the Peat Marwick International [now KPMG] branch in Lagos. I was admitted as a member of the then UK Association of Certified Accountants after two and half years of training. I worked for one year as the Financial Administrator of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Port Harcourt before returning to reside in the United Kingdom.
In the UK, I established an Accountancy Practice which I headed for a number of years before I retired to fulfill my delight in researching, and writing Books on 'How to keep healthy, happy, and holy'. This Book you are reading now is one of them. May God bless you and yours, and grant you good health, peace and happiness.
