Chukwuemeka "Emeka" Odumegwu Ojukwu (4 November 1933 – 26 November 2011) was a Nigerian military officer and politician who served as 1st president of...
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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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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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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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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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Yakubu Gowon, and Biafra by Lieutenant Colonel Chukwuemeka "Emeka" Odumegwu Ojukwu. Biafra represented the nationalist aspirations of the Igbo ethnic...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Eastern Nigeria. They are seen as the State's breadbasket. Chuwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Igbariam Campus Community Primary School, Igbariam Onede...
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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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(Onunekwuluigbo Igbo); First republic politician, Sir Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu, OBE, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu (Ikemba Nnewi); former military Governor of defunct...
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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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also had 2 separate brigades, the S Brigade, a Pretorian guard for General Ojukwu, and the 4th Commando Brigade (trained and commanded by mercenaries). It...
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the University Orator at Anambra State University (now Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University) from 2012 to 2017 and is currently the Commissioner for...
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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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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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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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