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Feb. 26 Eastern Nigeria Military Governor A Portrait: Lieutenant Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu (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 Ojukwu joined the Nigerian Army and after a brief training period at the Army depot at Zaris he went to England to undergo an Officers Training school in Tashia Ghana where he taught officer cadets tactic and Military law. In 1961 he was promoted to Major and posted to Kaduna Brigade HQ as Deputy assistant Adjutant and Quartermaster-General, then he was sent to Congo during the Congo Emergency and served in Lullusburg in Kasai 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 1964. Table tennis is one of Lt. Col Odumegwu Ojukwu favourite recreations

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