Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu (November 4th 1933- November 26, 2011) Today, you begin your final journey to a place prepared for you by your maker, who saddled you with great responsibility and endowed you with a lion heart and a strong shoulder to carry it. having sacrificed your all to the people you loved so...
You were the lion of my history books, the leader of my nation when we faced extinction, the larger-than-life history comes to my life - living, breathing legend. But unlike the history books, you defied all preconceptions. You made me cry from laughter with your jokes, many irreverent. You awed me with your wisdom.
Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu (4 November 1933 – 26 November 2011) was a Nigerian military officer and politician who served as the military governor of the Eastern Region of Nigeria in 1966 and the leader of the breakaway Republic of Biafra from 1967 to 1970. He was active as a politician from 1983 to 2011 when he died aged 78.
The remains of the late Biafran leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, were yesterday interred in his family compound in Umudim Nnewi, Anambra State at about 2pm, amidst pomp and ceremony, marking the end of his journey on earth. He died at the age of 78. His burial turned out, unarguably, the best any hero could...
AT about 3.15pm yesterday, the brown casket bearing the remains of the former Biafran leader and Ikemba Nnewi, Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu was lowered into the specially built resting place in his Nnewi home. The earthly journey of the man his admirers called ‘General of the Peoples Army’ had finally come to an end. ...
Yesterday, a swashbuckling odyssey came to a final end at Nnewi, in Anambra State, when the remains of Dim Emeka Ojukwu, ex leader of defunct Republic of Biafra and erstwhile iconic leader of Ndigbo was in his final resting place – a marbled mausoleum – in a national ceremony with full military honours. LOUIS...
President Goodluck Jonathan has again described the late ex-Biafran leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu, Ojukwu as a selfless leader who fought against injustice while alive, just as the South East Governors said that Ikemba’s burial had brought to an end the wounds and pains of the Nigeria Civil War. Jonathn, who poured encomium on the late Ikemba...
SINCE Thursday evening when the remains of Ikemba Nnewi, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu was brought into his Umudim, Nnewi country home, crowd control became a major issue as almost everybody in Anambra State wanted to a glance former Igbo leader before his committal to mother earth. However, from Nnokwa, which is a neighbouring community...
Makurdi – Igbo people resident in Makurdi have appealed to the governors of the South-East zone to immortalise the late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu by establishing a university in his honour. Chief Augustine Ezekwesili, Chairman of the burial ceremony of Odumegwu-Ojukwu in Makurdi, made the suggestion on Friday during an event in honour of...
FORTY-TWO years after the Nigerian civil war ended, the Igbo nation declared yesterday that the impressive manner in which the Federal Government and the entire Nigerian nation accorded the leader of the defunct Biafran Republic, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu a befitting burial has confirmed that the war has actually ended. Chairman of the South East...
