He was one of two recipients of scholarship awards from Urhobo Progress Union during World War II years.
He was Urhobo's first Senator, serving with distinction in Nigeria's Upper Chamber during the country's First Republic.
Okpara Inland is a community located in the Ethiope East local government area of Delta State Nigeria.
Okpara was mainly a farming community when Ejaife was young, the crops grown there such as yams, okra and cassava were cultivated largely by families and clans.
Some of his contemporaries at St Andrews were: Dr S Taiwo, a former federal permanent secretary of education; chief Ajasin, a former minister in the Nigeria federal government; the Rev Alayande former principal at Ibadan Grammar School, Ibadan (founded March 31, 1913).
He later moved to Ibuzor in Delta State where he was to teach at St Thomas's teacher’ training College until returning to Warri in 1943.
At about that time, his hard work studiousness were recognized by the Urhobo People, particularly Chief Mukoro Mowoe.
In 1944 he left his wife and three sons aged five, four, and two to the care of his father in law in Warri and proceeded to Fourabay College in Sierra Leone for the first phase of his undergraduate studies.
The principal's residence was a bungalow rented from Chief Egboge in Igbudu, opposite GKS campus on Warri – Sapele Road.
Some of the founding teachers were Chief Daniel Okumagba, Mr. Omniabus, Gordon Ako, and Mr. George Diejomaoh.
The houses were occupied by the likes of Mr. Samuel Okudu who later left and subsequently became the registrar of the University of Ibadan.
Indeed, some of his peer in his village school thought he had gone crazy when he would pluck some leaves to examine as part of his nature study lessons.
The word crazy “Korebe” in Urhobo language literally translated means: “pluck leaves”.
Rev Msgr Stephen Umurie, the first Urhobo Catholic priest, was a close friend.
One name worthy of mentioning in MG Ejaife's life is that of his lifetime friend and contemporary, our most respected Dr F O Esiri the first Urhobo medical doctor.
He was MG's personal physician and cared for him with the utmost dedication at his infirmary at Cemetery Road Warri when he had his stroke until he recovered enough to go convalesce with his son in Ibadan.
Other notables include Chief Thomas Adogbeji Salubi with whom he interacted both at the UPU and the Urhobo College School Board, and was one of the first to recognize his scholarship potential.
MG would be very proud to know that the school he helped found is still a thriving institution today, and a bust of him has been erected as a tribute in that campus.
He was indeed very excited at the return of his son to Nigeria from the UK in 1969 after graduation from medical school and completing a year of internship.
After the invading soldiers were driven from Warri he had to abandon his job as the principal and the senate no longer in existence under military rule.
He was survived by his wife Chief Cecilia Gladys Ejaife who died in June 2002, his sons Augustine, an Engineer, John, a general surgeon in the US and Clement, now deceased, but formerly a member of the Lagos airport staff, and four grandchildren at the time of his death.