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...
He was formerly the rebel leader of the defunct Republic of Biafra whose attempt to break away from the country led to a 30-month civil war. But yesterday, he received the highest military honours and encomiums from the country as his remains were buried. The commercial town of Nnewi, Anambra State, stood still...
President Goodluck Jonathan said on Friday that the late Ikemba of Nnewi and former Biafran warlord, Chief Chukwuemeka Odimegwu-Ojukwu, was sent by God to lead the Igbo. Jonathan noted that in the history of mankind, God always raised men like Ojukwu to lead their people. The President made the statement during a funeral service for...
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...
