Nwafor Orizu
Politician
1915 – 1999
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Who was Nwafor Orizu?
Prince Abyssinia Akweke Nwafor Orizu. was a Nigerian of Igbo origin and Nigeria's second Senate President from November 16, 1960 to January 15, 1966, during the Nigerian First Republic. Orizu was also Acting President of Nigeria from late 1965 until the military coup of January 1966. He was a member of the Nnewi Royal family. His nephew Igwe Kenneth Onyeneke Orizu III is the current Igwe of Nnewi Kingdom. Nwafor Orizu College of Education in Nsugbe, Anambra State is named after him.
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- Born
- 1915
- Ethnicity
- Igbo people
- Nationality
- Nigeria
- Profession
- Education
- Columbia University
- Died
- 1999
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on July 23, 2013
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