Onuora Nzekwu, NAN founding GM, dies at 89

CHIEF Onuora Nzekwu, the founding General
Manager of News Agency of Nigeria (NAN),
has died at the age of 89, the family
confirmed on Saturday.
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,
Mr Louis Chuke, said.
Nzekwu joined the Federal Civil Service as
an editorial assistant at the Nigeria
Magazine Division of the Federal Ministry of
Information.
He worked as an 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.
Nzekwu wrote Troubled Dust , a novel that
recounts the experiences of the civil war.