AS part of efforts to inculcate nationalism in
Nigerians, the Federal Government has set machinery in motion to make Zik’s
mausoleum and estate in Onitsha a federal institute. Zik’s mausoleum, the
burial site of Nigeria’s first indigenous President, late Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe,
has remained a sorry sight in the last two decades.
Converting
the mausoleum into an institute, Vanguard gathered, is one of the
outcomes of a battery of meetings among Federal Government officials, the
Azikiwe family and some stakeholders.
Apart
from the mausoleum, President Muhammadu Buhari is also expected to play a
leading role in the burial of Azikiwe’s first son, Owelle Chukwuma, who died
recently, aged 75.
- Vanguard
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