• Chukwuemeka "Emeka" Odumegwu Ojukwu (4 November 1933 – 26 November 2011) was a Nigerian military officer and politician who served as President of the...
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    Bianca Odinakachukwu Olivia Odumegwu-Ojukwu (née Onoh; born 5 August 1968) is a Nigerian politician, diplomat, lawyer, businesswoman and beauty pageant...
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  • Phillip Odumegwu Ojukwu, OBE (1909– September 1966) was a Nigerian business tycoon from the Ojukwu family of Nwakanwa quarters Obiuno Umudim Nnewi. Ojukwu was...
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    Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University formerly Anambra State University is a Nigerian tertiary institution located in Uli, a town in Anambra State. It...
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    30 May 1967 by Igbo military officer and Eastern Region governor C. Odumegwu Ojukwu under his presidency, following a series of ethnic tensions and military...
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    Yakubu Gowon, and Biafra by Lieutenant Colonel Chukwuemeka "Emeka" Odumegwu Ojukwu. Biafra represented the nationalist aspirations of the Igbo ethnic...
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  • Ojukwu is a family name of Nigerian origin, and may refer to: Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu (born 1968) Nigerian politician, diplomat, lawyer, and businesswoman...
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  • Eastern delegates led by the Eastern Region's leader Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu. The meeting was billed as the last chance of preventing all out war...
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    Campus – Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University". Retrieved 13 June 2021. "Top Universities In Africa – Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University". Nigerian...
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  • have staged a coup plot against Biafran President Odumegwu Ojukwu and was executed as a result. Ojukwu's first military judge stated that was not enough...
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  • is a celebrated British writer, while his other daughter, Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, became a beauty queen, presidential adviser, and later Nigeria's ambassador...
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  • on May 30, 1967, under Decree No. 30 of 1967 by Biafran president Odumegwu Ojukwu. It was headed by a governor and a board of four directors; the first...
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  • Efiong became Chief of General Staff of Biafra under Head of State, Odumegwu Ojukwu during the Nigeria-Biafra war. The tactics of the Nigerian military...
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    but their advance stalled at Nsukka. Biafran president and leader Odumegwu Ojukwu, attempted to distract the Nigerian Army by initiating an invasion...
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    was adopted from Jean Sibelius' "Finlandia", as Biafran president C. Odumegwu Ojukwu enjoyed the musical works of Sibelius. Land of the rising sun, we love...
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  • when he was freed by Nigerian rebel Odumegwu Ojukwu. When Biafra was declared independent on 30 May 1967 Ojukwu made Onwuatuegwu a Major in his Army...
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  • Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu (born 1933), secessionist leader of the state of Biafra during the Nigerian Civil War Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University...
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    of Beauty Sabina Umeh, Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria 1990 Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria 1988, Miss Africa 1988, Miss Intercontinental...
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  • Odumegwu Ojukwu fleeing to the Ivory Coast and then president of Biafra Philip Effiong surrendering to Olusegun Obasanjo. On May 30, 1967, Odumegwu Ojukwu...
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  • previously appointed as personal assistant to former Biafran leader Odumegwu Ojukwu during the 1994 National Constitutional Conference in Abuja, the federal...
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    Chief Iwuanyanwu, other prominent members of the UNCP were Dim C. Odumegwu Ojukwu and General Joseph Nanven Garba, who was the former President of the...
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    Region he was Appointed as a Roving Ambassador by the Biafran president Odumegwu Ojukwu and held this post till the end of the civil war. Mbadiwe had six children...
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  • appointed when his predecessor, the Eastern Region governor Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, led the Biafran state into secession. Asika was born in Onitsha in...
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    (field hockey) (born 1976), Australian field hockey player Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu (born 1968), Nigerian beauty queen, politician, diplomat, lawyer, and...
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    to the Nigerian Army on July 14 during Operation UNICORD, President Odumegwu Ojukwu knew that the Nigerian Army would next set their sights on the Biafran...
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  • instrumental in the broadcast of speeches and propaganda by Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu to the people of the Republic of Biafra. Now based in the United Kingdom...
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  • English writer Frederick Forsyth about his friend Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, head of the state of Biafra, a republic that seceded from Nigeria...
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    and proclaim the Republic of Biafra on 30 May 1967. General Emeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu made this declaration and became the head of state of the new republic...
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    the Northern Region from 29 September to 4 October 1966. Lt. Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu, military governor of the Eastern Region of Nigeria, declared that...
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  • officer in the Nigerian Army along with Lieutenant Colonels Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu and Victor Banjo, and Majors Olufemi Olutoye, Emmanuel Ifeajuna, and...
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