Ohaneze Ndigbo President-General, Iwuanyanwu dies at 82

President-General of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, is dead. He died in Abuja on Thursday morning. Chief Iwuanyanwu was 82-yeaars-old. Nigerian Current gathered that he had been ill for a while. A statement on Thursday by his son, Jide Iwuanyanwu, reads: “The Iwuanyanwu family of Umuohii Atta, in the Ikeduru […]


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