C. Odumegwu Ojukwu

C. Odumegwu Ojukwu

Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu (4 November 1933 – 26 November 2011) was a Nigerian military officer and politician. Ojukwu served as the military governor of the Eastern Region of Nigeria in 1966, the leader of the breakaway Republic of Biafra from 1967 to 1970 and a Nigerian politician from 1983 to 2011, when he died, aged 78.

Read more about C. Odumegwu Ojukwu:  Career, Early Life and Education, Early Career, 1966 Coups and Events Leading To The Nigerian Civil War, Leader of Biafra "General Ojukwu", Sustaining The Biafran War, Biafran Development, After Biafra, Death