Meet Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu: Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu's dad.
Sir Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu, KBE, (1901-1966) was a businessman from Ojukwus family of Nwakanwa quarters, Obiuno, Umudim, Nnewi, Nnewi North LGA in Anambra state.
Sir Ojukwu was the first and founding President of The Nigerian Stock Exchange as well as President of The African Continental Bank.
He was also either Chairman or on the board of directors of some of Nigeria's most profitable companies such as Shell Oil Nigeria Limited, Guinness Nig. Ltd, Nigerian National Shipping Lines, Nigerian Cement Factory, Nigerian Coal Corporation, Costain West Africa Ltd, John Holt, Nigerian Marketing Board amongst others.
He won a parliamentary seat during the nation's first republic. He attended a primary school in Asaba and the Hope Waddell Institute, Calabar.
He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth 2 of England.
When Queen Elizabeth II visited Nigeria in 1956, the then Federal Government of Nigeria could not afford a Rolls Royce. Sir Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu, father of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, offered his to the Nigeria government (see picture as attached).
He died in 1966, a year before the war started.
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