Onuora
Nzekwu, the founding General Manager of News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), has died
at the age of 89, the family confirmed on Saturday.
Mr. Nzekwu, the author of Eze Goes to School, a
novel, died by 4.30p.m. on Friday in his home in Onitsha, Anambra, where he had
been living in retirement, a family member, Louis Chuke, said.
Mr. Nzekwu joined the Federal Civil Service as
editorial assistant at the Nigeria Magazine Division of the Federal Ministry of
Information.
He worked as editorial assistant from 1956 to
1958 when took over the position of editor-in-chief of the magazine.
In 1966 when the Nigerian civil war broke out,
he transferred his services to the Eastern Nigeria Public Service and returned
to the federal service at the end of the crisis in 1970.
He served as General Manager of NAN from 1979
to 1985.
Mr. Nzekwu wrote Troubled Dust, a novel that
recounts the experiences of the civil war.
-NAN
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