Today is Ojukwu's 83rd posthumous birthday.

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



Ojukwu is best remembered for the part he played in the struggle for the liberation of Biafra and his believe in the power of the Igbo people of Nigeria.

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