Author

Edward Chukukere

Edward Chukukere attended the excellent Government College Umuahia, Nigeria (1947–1952). There he won his Boxing Colours, became the first student Editor of the College Magazine, and wrote a poem at age 15+, which was later, adopted as the College Anthem. He achieved the B. Sc. and Ph. D. degrees in Metallurgy from the Universities of Glasgow and Toronto in 1961 and 1966 respectively, thus becoming the first graduate in that profession in black Africa. In Glasgow, he was commissioned into the Scottish Territorial Army in 1960.

He was one of a troika of engineers that secretly founded Biafra’s “Research and Armaments Production” (RAP). Chukukere was awarded a Biafran medal, but after the war, was detained for four months as a Nigerian “Prisoner of War” (POW). General Ojukwu says of him:

“Major Chukukere is of the very best—entirely selfless.”