Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu

Nigerian politician and military leader (1933–2011)

Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu (4 November 1933 – 26 November 2011) also known as Ikemba, was a Nigerian military officer and politician 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 against the Nigerian government forces. Born in Zungeru, British Nigeria to Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu, a wealthy Igbo businessman, Ojukwu was educated at King's College, Lagos and Epsom College in Surrey, England.

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