B.Sc, MA, politician, businessman, administrator, born March 15, 1917, Oflu, Imo State; married Cecilia Alisah 1950, four sons, one daughter; Education: St Mary's Catholic School, Port Harcourt, Government School, Aba, Hope Waddell Training Institution, Calabar, 1933, Aggrey Memorial College, Arochukwu, 1934, Baptist Academy, Lagos, and Igbobi College, Lagos, 1935, Lincoln University, USA, 1939, Business College, Columbia University, USA, 1940, New York University, USA; Petty trader, 1936; producebuyer and Representative ofWest African Pilot for Port-Harcourt, Aba and Onit sha, 1937; founder, Daily Telegraph, Lagos, founder, Greater Tomorrow Transport Com pany; Chairman and Managing Director, Afri can Insurance Company Limited, since 1950; elected first Orlu member, defunct Eastern Nigeria House of Assembly, 1951; elected member, Federal Parliament and later appoint ed Federal Minister of Land and Natural Resources, 1952-54; Minister of Communica tions and Aviation, 1954; member, Federal Government Delegation to the Nigerian Con stitutional Conference, London, 1957; appoint ed Adviser to the Prime Minister, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, on African Affairs, 1961; Launched the Ojike Memorial Medical Centre Project, 1962; led the famous "Operation Fan tastic" Atilogwu Dances to World Fair, New York City, 1964; founder, African Academy of Arts and Research; member, Constitutent Assembly, 1977-78; appointed Presidential Ad viser on National Assembly Affairs to President Shehu Shagari, 1979-83; appointed Ambassador Extra-Ordinary and Plenipotentiary, OctoberDecember, 1983; First President, African Stu dents Union in the US, 1945; Award: won the First Prize in Oratorical Contest at Lincoln University, 1939; Political Parties: founder, the Unregistered Democratic Party of Nigeria and Cameroons, 1958, member, defunct National Council ofNigerian Citizens, 1960-66. member, banned National Party of Nigeria (NPN), 1978-83; Traditional Title: Maye of Lagos, 1987; Honorary Degree: conferred with the Honorary Doctor ofLaws (Hon. LLD), Lincoln University, USA, 1943;Hobby: writing; Official Address: 29, Idowu Martins Street, Victoria Island, Lagos;Telephone: (01) 610580,680899.
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