Emmanuel Chikere AKWIWU,

Biographical record

Surname

AKWIWU,

First Name

Emmanuel

Other Names

Chikere

Gender

Male

Date of Birth

July 23, 1926

Place of Birth

Port Harcourt

Profession

Legal practitioner
Businessman

Schools Attended with Dates

St. Cyprian's School Port Harcourt; Practising School Awka, 1940; Okrika Grammar School Okrika, Okrika, 1941-44; Fitzwilliam College, University of Cambridge, 1945-50; called to Bar (Gray's Inn), June 6, 1951; enrolled as a solicitor and advocate of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, 1951;

Previous Appointments

elected member Federal House of Representatives Lagos, 1954- 64; appointed Deputy Speaker of the House, 1960-64; was member East Central State Agricultural Deve lopment Authority, 1971-72; mem ber Board of the Nigerian Ports Authority, 1954-58; was in the NCNC, 1951-66; appointed member of the Federal Scholarships Advisory Board, Lagos, 1973; director, NISSCO Ltd., S.O. Akwiwu and Sons Ltd.,, ECA Enterprises; registrar Owerri, Aba Dioceses of Anglican Province of West Africa; Managing Director Akwiwu Motors Limited, former Deputy Speaker of the Federal House of Representatives in the civilian regime

Have you ever been a member of any political party?

N/A

Hobbies

music, debating, billiards.

Residential Address

`1-2 Umuahia Avenue, Aba & Chief Akwiwu's Compound Ogwuaga Abba, Imo State

Official Address

Akwiwu Motors Ltd., 54 Asa Road, Aba & 24-26 Malu Road, Apapa, Lagos;