UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA, NSUKKA.

FACULTY OF HEALTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

DEPARTMENT OF MEDICAL LABORATORY SCIENCES

AN ASSIGNMENT SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF

THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE COURSE GSP 101

(THE USE OF ENGLISH)

LECTURER: DR. F U NGWOKE

NOVEL TITLE:
HOT SEAT

BY
EZE AGATHA ONYINYE
2020/244047
PROLOGUE

Pete Donavan, an international correspondent, was at a dinner party which held at the Tropicana

Hall, the biggest of all the banquets Halls in the Belmont Plaza Hotel. He watched cynically as

beautiful people of Gabrundi, in their best different attires, dresses, and suits mingled with each

other. Pete was there as a member of the International Monitoring Team and as an international

correspondent for one of the American News media. When it was time to launch the reelection

speech, everybody gathered around as the President, Mr. Duke Degini and His Vice, Mr. Keru,

addressed their plans of running for a second term in office. Pete was dissatisfied with what they

had said because they had lied and made promises which they made in their previous term. When

the party ended, Pete retired to his hotel room alone.

CHAPTER 1

That same night, Sir Emmauel Zema, the leader of the Umbrella Organization representing the

interests of the Maposa people, was crossed by the President’s speech because Mr. Keru had

betrayed them and made some irredeemable damage to their Agenda. He started to make calls to

the chieftains of their organization. Firstly to Sir Professor Samuel Wazu as he had a gift of

reading people by just a mere glance and making the best suited decisions. The professor was

lost in deep thought as he felt all his hard work had all been for nothing due to the greed of one

man. And now he had to produce a solution which he felt was impossible to achieve.

Meanwhile, a retired army general who resides somewhere in Northern Gabrundi, sat and

watched the president’s speech on the television furiously. The president had just broken off

their agreement of him leaving office after his first term. He had patiently supported the

president out of his better judgement and now he had been double crossed. Unable to grasp the
harsh realities of life, he had sworn to deal with the Amateurs who thought they could make a

fool of him.

Back in Bacoca, An unidentified married woman was having a secret conversation with her

lover, T, on the phone. She felt the president announcing his intensions to run again was the

perfect time for them to carry out their plans. But her lover was still skeptical about the whole

thing.

CHAPTER 2

Dr. Kenneth Java, the chairman’s secretary and a brilliant political scientist, was one of the

thousands who watched the president’s announcement at the Belmont affair. He had earlier on

disprove the Degini-Keru alliance but his words fell on deaf ears. Dr. Java had always felt that

the time for the new generations to lead was afoot and he should be the one to lead the Maposa

people to the actualization of their dreams. So, before the Political and Strategic Committee

could set up a meeting with the masses, he went on to set up a press conference where he had

made reckless statements irrespective of the effects it could have on the masses and he urged the

Maposa people to quit being subservient. Dr. Java’s speech stirred up turmoil among the tribes

because it felt to them the Maposa were willing to do anything to achieve their agenda. The

members of the committee especially Prof. Wazu had tried to correct and advice Dr. Java but to

no avail. He was beyond them and had kept making controversial statements.

CHAPTER 3

As it was campaigning season, the president and vice president as announced, had set out on a

series of trips to different states of the federation, to commence their campaign. They had started
out with the president’s home state, Woraba, as it had the biggest supporters and they wanted to

start on a high note. They had an unsuccessful campaign in the North but rested a couple of days

before tackling the hostile Maposa region. Mr. Keru had dreaded every minute because he had

yet to return the calls he’d been getting from the OMU. Immediately they left Maposa, he was

relieved while the president became anxious. The campaign trip at Konga State went smoothly

and at the end of it all, the presidential convoy which had the President, vice and the First Lady

with other VIP convoys at their trail, was attacked on its way to Bacoca inside the Federal

Capital Territory. The president and his vice were both killed in the attack. The only know

survivor who was in the presidential convoy was the First Lady while everyone was confused

and lost as to what had just happened, the Senate President had taken control over the situation

but the whole predicament was baffling to the Chief Security in charge.

CHAPTER 4

Pete Donavan usually wakes up to Radio Gabrundi at six o’clock but had been woken up by

Marshal Music instead. He had initially thought it was a military coup but was excited when they

had announced the tragic news about the attack on the President. He wrote a report as he thought

the story was interesting seeing as something might have happened the President. Later on, he

went to the American Embassy to check with the News Editor, John, if his story had being

approved. He asked Matthew to be given the go-ahead to carry out his investigation on his story.

He headed over to Bacoca to start his research. He went out into the streets and mingled with the

locals, got as much information and drafted a detailed report much better than the last one he has

sent out. All Pete wanted was to be ahead of his competitors and He could care less what he had

to do to get it.

CHAPTER 5
The Senate President and The General of Police had taken charge of the situation and deposited

the body of the President and the Vice President at the Morgue as they arrived at the Capital. The

Chief Security of the Presidential convoy and other wounded guards had been referred to the

military hospital for treatment but the Chief Security knew he was been detained. Later that

afternoon after he had been given medications for his wounded arm and lunch, two officers in

uniforms, the Chief Inspector and Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), had come to

interrogate him. He had a quick flashback to everything that happened as they left for the

President’s campaign trip. But he found nothing out of the ordinary and couldn’t believe one of

his men could have been part of the attack on the Presidential convoy.

CHAPTER 6

The First Lady immediately went to work on her plans with her ally and partner in crime the

Senate President, T, since the country was still in shock with the President’s assassination. She

sent for him to come to her private quarters using her grieving widow privileges as cover. The

Senate President was still shaken and paranoid that the attackers might come after them as well.

Seeing his nervous state, the First Lady confessed to being the master mind behind the

assassination. And had revealed that she would use this new found opportunity to make him the

President. Upon hearing he could become the president, He relaxed. And seeing as the People

loved the way the Senate President took charge of the situation and has been keeping things in

order, phase one of the Frist Lady’s plan was working.

Later on as the First Lady gave her First Press conference since the assassination, she used it to

get the Good people of Gabrundi to see the Senate President as the best person to be the Next

President. The Senate President had thought that the First Lady did all this because she was
blindly in love with him but little did he know that the First lady had killed the president to cover

up her own tracks and he was just a puppet of her selfish interests.

CHAPTER 7

The First Lady and her step cousin Bamidele, Dele for short, had come up with the assassination

plan together. They grew up together and their relationship was an incestuous one. But even after

they had been separated physically, she never forgot Dele. As the First Lady’s life got better,

Dele’s took a devastating turn for the worse. He became a hoodlum and the Baba of the Jango

Area Boys. After they reunited, the First Lady had taken him in out of fear he knew of things that

could end her career. Although Dele’s plan was a success, he had died in the car due to an

unexpected collision with one of the other cars.

The First Lady met with the Senate President again after the press conference. They had casual

sex and later spoke on the progress of their plan. The First Lady’s plan was to fill the Senate

President in on the whole plan that way he would never betray her because he would be an

accomplice. At first the Senate president wanted nothing to do with the details of the plan but the

First Lady with her devious ways persuaded him.

CHAPTER 8

Meanwhile Matthew had introduced Pete to the Minister of Information who had given Pete an

unlimited access pass to anything relating to his investigations. During his investigation at the

Presidential Villa, he had come across the late President’s chambers and found the Senate rifling

through documents. He had found a letter which peaked his curiosity with no time to go through

the legal means, he hid the paper in his pocket and left. The senate with no hesitation reported

what had happened to the First Lady. Later that day, Pete had contacted Lester, a BBC News
reporter, for more information concerning the Gabrundi government. Lester used this chance to

get Pete to share his credits in exchange for the information. Pete started compiling his notes and

came up with pieces that didn’t fit anywhere but never for a second did he believe that the Chief

Security, Sergeant Konowo, was behind the assassination like the police investigation team did.

CHAPTER 9

As Pete nursed the injure he got when he jumped into the gutter to save his life, he began to

realize all the little things he had once seen as coincident may indeed have been attempts on his

life, beginning with the incident of the Balmont tea and the car trying to run him over at the

Concorde where he was now. Pete remembered one of the conversations he had with a police

officer he had lay off but was now useful because he had found a tabloid he wanted to show to

him. Lucky had confirmed that Dele bore a similar resemblance to one of the two strange man in

the tabloid. With all the strange occurrences that posed a threat to his life, he decided to relocate

to a discreet hotel. Later, he went through all the notes he had gathered from his investigation but

still couldn’t come up with a culprit who could possibly be after his life. But when he read

through Nick Lester’s Interpol investigation of the First Lady, all the dots started to connect for

the first time in his investigation.

CHAPTER 10

Pete gave John a brief update on the investigation and made sure to exclude the fact that

someone was after his life. John didn’t buy the crap Pete was spewing but still gave him

permission to move to Lagana for more investigating. Pete set out to see the Senate President but

it’s easier said than done because the security was uptight. After the long security screening, he

finally got to see the Senate President who welcomed him with a smile and a firm handshake.
The Senates smile soon disappeared once he heard what Pete had to say. Pete had disclosed all

the information he had on the First Lady, their relationship and incriminating letter of

resignation. He left the Senate Presidents office with full confidence that he had something to do

with the President’s assassination. Later on, Pete brought Lester up to date with the

investigations and his discoveries, making sure to keep the important facts for himself. However,

he later agreed to take Lester to Lagana with him.

CHAPER 11.

Pete was barely out the office before the Senate President ran to call his lover and informed her

of what had just happened. But the First lady had other plans. She didn’t like the way the Senate

President, her lover, T, had become a liability to her. He also posed a threat to everything she’s

worked for so she plotted to murder him. She had invited him over for dinner but little did she

know that the Senate President was no longer under her control instead he was dead scared of her

and needed prove of her confessing to her plans for his own protection. She laced his drink,

thinking it would be the last she heard from him so she willingly reveal everything to him as he

recorded the whole thing on a voice recorder. Unknown to her, he had disposed the poisoned

drink she had given him. The next day, the Senate President got rid of all the evidence linking

him to the First lady, resigned from his position and also withdrew his interest in succeeding the

late President. The First lady after noticing all this, tried to leave the country but her visa had

been revoked and she was trapped. Lester and Pete worked on the publishing and shared the

credits together.
EPILOGUE

It had all been a dream. Pete woke up to find himself in a room at Hilton hotel, Abuja in the

Nigerian Federal Capital Territory. Gabrundi, its people and corrupt government was all a

fragment of his mere imagination. But Pete felt it was a story worth telling. So he decided to

write a novel based off his dream and named it HOT SEAT because the seat of a President of

any Nation was undoubtedly a sizzling one. Anyone who desires to seat on it, has to be prepared

for anything.
SENTENCE

S/N WORDS SENTENCES

1 Salvage We can still salvage some car parts from the accident.
2 Ample They still had ample time for the discussion.
3 Endorse My report was endorsed by my church.
4 Obsolete All the trends of last years are now obsolete.
5 Sinister There was something sinister in the way she smiled at me.
6 Incest He was found guilty of attempted incest.
7 Scandalous Jenifer is in a scandalous relationship.
8 Weasel He had weaseled his way into my heart.
9 Anxious Chi was anxious about her presentation.
10 Rivals Chris is my biggest rival at sprinting.
11 Mocking He kept mocking me even after I had told him to stop.
12 Compelling Chidi had a compelling way of saying things.
13 Ponder Eva spent days pondering the meaning of life.
14 Intent It wasn’t Julia’s intent to hurt Duke.
15 Immense He had an immense collection of sneakers in his room.
16 Intrigue It was intriguing to see him dance.
17 Ignorance The ignorance of this generation is baffling.
18 Orchestrated Luke orchestrated the whole plan all by himself.
19 Facade Her geniality was a façade.
20 Ferocious Ava saw a ferocious beast in the woods.
21 Fabrications The fabrication of jamb results is a crime.
22 Incumbent My mom realized it was incumbent of her to feed me.
23 Snooping He was caught snooping in the girl’s bag.
24 Winced He winced as the antiseptic touched his wounds.
25 Incapacitate Henry is temporarily incapacitated.
26 Privy He was no longer privy to her innermost thought.
27 Amorous Jeff had amorous feelings for his wife.
28 Incongruity The incongruity of his outfit made the judges dislike him.
29 Nincompoops The lectures looked at the hall and saw nincompoops.
30 Rogues You take me either for a rogue or a fool.
S/ WORD PAG PART OF SPEECH CONTEXTUAL MEANING
E
N
1. Helm 3 Noun A position of leadership or control.

2. Amass 9 Verb To accumulate.

3. Rogues 5 Noun A mischievous scamp.

4. Spate 10 Noun A sudden strong outburst.

5. Gruff 5 Adjective Harsh-sounding or throaty.

6. Insatiable 6 Adjective Always needing more and impossible to

satisfy.

7. Ample 6 Adjective More than enough.

8. Prodding 6 Verb To incite or encourage somebody to take

action.

9. Insurmountable 6 Adjective. Impossible to overcome or deal with

successfully.

10. Salvage 7 Verb Rescue something from bad situation.

11. Albeit 9 Conjunction Even though.

12. Endorse 11 Verb Support somebody or something.

13. Nincompoops 12 Noun An offensive term that deliberately insults

somebody's intelligence.
14. Incongruity 13 Noun Unsuitable or odd.

15. Flimsy 13 Adjective Easily torn.

16. Chiding 14 Noun A scolding.

17. Trepidation 15 Noun Fear or uneasiness about the future or a future

event.

18. Enormity 15 Noun A very evil or morally offensive deed.

19. Amorous 16 Adjective Showing or feeling romantic love or sexual.

20. Heady 16 Adjective Causing or involving a feeling of energy,

confidence, and elation.

21. Harem 16 Noun The separate private quarters reserved for

wives and concubines.

22. Intricacies 18 Noun Parts arranged together in a particularly

complex or artful way.

23. Obsolete 19 Adjective No longer in use.

24. Simmering 19 Verb To have anger or another strong emotion

building up inside.

25. Tantamount 19 Adjective Equivalent to a particular thing in effect,

outcome, or value.

26. Subservient 21 Adjective Too eager to obey.

27. Valiantly 32 Adverb Brave and steadfast.

28. Futility 32 Noun An action that has no use, purpose, or effect.

29. Ovation 41 Noun A ceremony for the recognition of some

achievement.
30. Fervently 48 Adverb Showing passionate enthusiasm.

31. Hoax 48 Noun An act intended to trick people into believing

something is real when it is not.

32. Privy 59 Adjective Sharing knowledge of something secret or

private.

33. Assailants 61 Noun Somebody who violently attacks somebody

else.

34. Groggy 61 Adjective Feeling weak or dizzy.

35. Dastardly 71 Adjective Mean, treacherous, or cowardly.

36. Preempted 72 Verb To displace something, or take precedence

over something.

37. Reprieve 75 Noun To halt or delay the punishment of somebody.

38. Sinister 75 Adjective Threatening or suggesting malevolence,

menace, or harm.

39. Incest 77 Noun Sex between close relatives.

40. Streak 77 Noun A tendency or characteristic but not a

dominant or pervasive one.

41. Perfunctory 78 Adjective Done only or merely to conform to a minimal

standard.

42. Abominably 78 Adverb Of very bad quality.

43. Scandalous 78 Adjective Having the potential to cause damage to

somebody's reputation.

44. Infiltrating 81 Verb To cross into enemy territory without the

enemy's knowledge.
45. Incapacitate 81 Verbx To disable.

46. Donned 82 Verb To put on a garment.

47. Miffed 83 Adjective Annoyed or offended.

48. Adjourned 85 Verb Suspend proceedings.

49. Vigour 86 Noun Physical or mental strength and energy.

50. Bouts 86 Noun A short time spent doing something.

51. Ornately 86 Noun Having elaborate or excessive decoration.

52. Weasel 88 Noun A sly or underhanded person.

53. Antagonism 91 Noun Hostility or hatred causing opposition and ill

will.

54. Rift 92 Noun A serious disagreement that disrupts good

relations.

55. Uncensored 93 Adjective Unedited; not having had objectionable

content removed.

56. Anxious 94 Adjective Worried or afraid.

57. Swore 94 Verb Use offensive word or words.

58. Angling 94 Noun Means of benefiting from a situation, usually

hidden, often immoral.

59. Perplexed 96 Adjective To puzzle or confuse somebody.

60. Rivals 98 Noun A person or group that competes with

another.
61. Peaked 98 Noun Highest point.

62. Mocking 98 Verb To imitate somebody in a way that is intended

to make that person appear silly or ridiculous.

63. Blazes 98 Verb To burn brightly and fiercely.

64. Caustic 100 Adjective Corrosive or burning by chemical action.

65. Inducement 102 Noun A prospect or reward.

66. Founts 102 Noun A source of something.

67. Vast 102 Adjective Very great in size or amount.

68. Compelling 102 Adjective Attracting strong interest and attention.

69. Reneged 102 Verb To go back on a promise or commitment.

70. Mildly 103 Adverb Not harsh.

71. Ponder 105 Verb To think about something carefully.

72. Dabbing 106 Verb To pat or touch something lightly or gently.

73. Winced 106 Verb Make an expression of pain with the face.

74. Churned 106 Verb To move unpleasantly.

75. Anonymity 106 Noun State of blending into a crowd and going
unnoticed.
76. Scant 109 Adjective Not sufficient.

77. Intent 110 Noun Showing great determination to do something.

78. Menacing 110 Noun Threatening act, gesture, or speech.

79. Immense 110 Adjective Exceptionally great in extent.

80. Relegated 110 Verb To move somebody or something to a less

important position.

81. Snooping 110 Verb Pry into other people's business.

82. Intrigue 112 Noun A secret scheme or plot.

83. Ignorance 112 Noun Unawareness of something, often of

something important.

84. Incompetent 114 Adjective Lacking the skills, qualities, or ability to do

something properly.

85. Orchestrated 114 Verb To organize a situation or event unobtrusively

so that a desired effect or outcome is
achieved.
86. Proverbial 114 Adjective Not used in a literal sense, but as a subject of
a well-known metaphor.

87. Peering 114 Verb To look very carefully.

88. Reckon 116 Verb To consider somebody or something to be

something.

89. Incumbent 117 Noun Somebody currently holding an official post.

90. Facade 132 Noun The way something or somebody appears on

the surface, especially when that appearance
is false or meant to deceive.
91. Extracurricular 122 Adjective An Activity done outside somebody's normal
duties.

92. Scowl 131 Noun An expression of anger, displeasure.

93. Proffered 131 Verb To hold something out to somebody so that he

or she can take or grasp it.

94. Alleviate 122 Verb To make something such as pain or hardship

more bearable or less severe.

95. Fabrications 123 Noun An invented statement, story, or account

devised with intent to deceive.

96. Contemptuously 126 Adverb Feeling, expressing, or demonstrating a strong

dislike or utter lack of respect for somebody
or something.
97. Ferocious 129 Adjective Very intense

98. byline 134 Noun The name of the author of an article in a

newspaper or magazine, printed at the head of
the article.
99. Sulkily 136 Adverb In a bad mood and refusing to communicate
because of resentment.

100. Invigorating 137 Adjective Filling somebody or something with energy

or life.