Felix Neequaye Akpe was born in Burutu, in the Niger Delta (now Delta State, Nigeria) on March 29, 1943.

After completing his primary education at St. Anna Catholic School, Burutu (1949 - 1955), he was admitted into the prestigious Government College, Ughelli in 1956 as a United African Company (UAC) scholar where he excelled in both academics and extra-curricular activities and in 1964 was chosen under the African Scholarship Program of American Universities (ASPAU) to attend the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) where he majored in Economics (magna cum laude) in 1967 and proceeded to pursue an MBA from Harvard University.

Fellow Mariners,

I regret to announce the passing of my classmate and friend, Dr. Felix Akpe here in Mississippi , USA .  He was resident in Nigeria but had come to the United States for medical treatment.   
 
Felix Akpe was admitted to class 1, Ashaka House, at GCU in September 1956.  He passed the West African School Certificate exam in 1961 and was awarded Grade 1.   He completed the Higher School certificate in the top 10% of his class in 1963 and was the head of Ashaka House.

By Dele Olowu

From very early on, I always had a superstition that my future life would have something to do with writing. How this was to unravel, I had not the slightest idea. Ultimately, my first expression of public writing was the product of a minor adversity.

Esi ('58) came into GCU in Jan 1958 and did School Certificate in 1962. He was in Forcados House.

Fellow Mariners,

We have been informed by the UK branch that Chief A.M. Egoh died yesterday. He was a member of the Founding class ('45) and the Chairman of the UK branch.