Ojukwu marks 78 birthday

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The Igbo race will on Friday come out in their thousands in jubilation to mark the 78 birthday of the ex-Biafran war-Lord, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, Ikemba Ndi-Igbo.
Nigerian Horn gathered that the birthday ceremony put together by members of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafran (MASSOB) is expected to hold in Enugu, the traditional capital of th e Eastern region.
MASSOB members for weeks now had visited virtually all parts of the Eastern states in the country drumming support for the epoch making event.
According to a source from MASSOB, the former Biafran leader deserved nothing but a heroic birthday fiesta irrespective of his present health condition.
Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu (born November 4, 1933) was the President of the secessionist state of Biafra in Nigeria (1967-1970), during the Nigerian Civil War, and previously Military Governor of the Eastern Region of Nigeria. He is usually referred to in news and other sources as simply Ojukwu, though he is also often called the Ikemba of Nnewi due to his holding of this title as a chieftaincy amongst the Igbo people.
Education
He was born in Zungeru, the son of Sir Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu KBE, President of The African Continental Bank, first President of The Nigerian Stock Exchange and a business tycoon who was believed to be Nigeria’s first multi-millionaire. Chukwuemeka’s name meant “God has done well.” He attracted media publicity at a young age.[citation needed] In 1944, the young Ojukwu was briefly imprisoned for assaulting a white British colonial teacher who was humiliating a black woman at King’s College in Lagos, an event which generated widespread coverage in local newspapers.[citation needed] He then went on to study in Britain, first at Epsom College, in Surrey and later earned a Masters degree in history at Lincoln College, Oxford University.