Date 2013-11-04
Category Gist & Gossip
Anambra State University in Uli has been officially renamed after the late Biafran leader, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu in a celebration of his 80th posthumous birthday.
The Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi, announced the renaming in a live broadcast on the television station of the Anambra Broadcasting Service.
Late Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu was a Nigerian military officer and politician. He served as the Military Governor of the Eastern Region of Nigeria in 1966. He was the leader of the unsuccessful breakaway Republic of Biafra from 1967 to 1970 and a Nigerian politician from 1983 until he died on November 26, 2011, aged 78.
Source: ChannelsTV
