Onuora Nzekwu, the founding General Manager of News Agency
of Nigeria (NAN), has died at the age of 89, the family confirmed today.
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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