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Feb. 26 Eastern Nigeria's Military Governor - a portrait. Lieutenant-Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwo (born 1933) received his early schooling at Lagos. In 1944 he went to Epsom College, Surrey and from there proceeded to Lincoln College, Oxford where he read Modern History. He returned to his native country in 1955 and joined the Eastern Nigerian Public Service as an Administrative Officer. In 1957 Odumegwu Ojukwo joined the Nigerian Army and after a brief training period at the Army Depot at Zaris he went to England to under go an officer's training course at Eston Hall, Chester (1957-8). On his return to Nigeria he joined the Royal West African Frontier Force Training School in Teshia, Ghana where he taught officer cadets tactics and military law. In 1961 he was promoted to Major and posted toduna Brigade HQ as Deputy Assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster-General, then he was sent to the Congo during the Congo Emergency and served in Lulluaburg in Kassi Province from where he was selected to attend the Joint Services Staff College in England in 1962, Promotion to Lt-Col in January 1963, then followed the appointment to command the 5th Batallion in Kano in 1964

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