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Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu (4 November 1933 – 26 November 2011) was a Nigerian military officer and political figure who served as President of Biafra from 1967 to 1970. As the military governor of the Eastern Region of Nigeria, which he declared as the independent state of Biafra , Ojukwu led the Biafran forces during the Nigerian Civil War ...
Ojukwu is a family name of Nigerian origin, and may refer to: Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu (born 1968) Nigerian politician, diplomat, lawyer, and businesswoman C. Odumegwu Ojukwu (1933–2011), aka Emeka Ojukwu, Nigerian military officer, statesman and politician
Emeka a biography by English writer Frederick Forsyth about his friend Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, head of the state of Biafra, a republic that seceded from Nigeria and was briefly independent. The book was published in 1982. In 1991 a revised edition was published. [1] [2] "Emeka" is an abbreviation of the Igbo name "Chukwuemeka".
Debe Odumegwu Ojukwu, the eldest son of ex-President / General Ojukwu and a Lagos state-based lawyer was the lead counsel that championed the case. [ 76 ] MASSOB leader Chief Ralph Uwazuruike established Radio Biafra in the United Kingdom in 2009, with Nnamdi Kanu as his radio director; later Kanu was said to have been dismissed from MASSOB ...
Ojukwu did not trust the majority of the former Federal Igbo officers who had rallied to Biafra and saw them as potential rivals, thus leading to murderous purges that led to most of them being executed. [146] Furthermore, Ojukwu needed scapegoats for Biafra's defeats and death was the usual punishment for Biafran officers who lost a battle. [147]
Flag of Biafra. The Ahiara Declaration: The Principles of the Biafran Revolution, commonly known as the Ahiara Declaration, was a document written by the National Guidance Committee of Biafra and delivered as a speech by the Head of State of Biafra Emeka Ojukwu in the Biafra town of Ahiara on June 1, 1969.
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Bianca Odinakachukwu Olivia Odumegwu-Ojukwu (née Onoh; born 5 August 1968) [1] is a Nigerian politician, diplomat, lawyer, businesswoman and beauty pageant titleholder. She currently serves as the Federal Minister of State for Foreign Affairs. [ 2 ]