Chief Mbazulike Amaechi // ⓘ (16 June 1929 – 1 November 2022) also known as The Boy Is Good was a Nigerian elder statesman.[1][2][3]

He served as the first Minister of Aviation during the First Republic in Nigeria.[4] He was a leading figure of the Zikist Movement.[5][3] After the ban of the movement, he became the Secretary General of NCNC Youth, a youth wing of NCNC.[6]

Amaechi was born and died in his hometown of Ukpor, on 1 November 2022, at the age of 93.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Respect my age, stop wanton killings, 92-year-old Amaechi urges Igbo youths". Vanguard. 2 December 2021. Retrieved 1 April 2022.
  2. ↑ News Agency of Nigeria (16 June 2019). "Buhari felicitates with Mbazulike Amaechi at 90". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 April 2022.
  3. 1 2 Anyagafu, Chioma (14 January 2020). "Mbazulike Amaechi, aka The Boy is Good, a trade unionist who became a nationalist". Vanguard. Retrieved 1 April 2022.
  4. ↑ Amaechi, Mbazulike (29 September 2020). "Gains Made By Nationalists Have Been Liquidated — Amaechi, Nigeria's First Republic Minister". Nigerian Tribune (Interview). Interviewed by Kunle Oderemi. Retrieved 1 April 2022.
  5. ↑ Onukwuba, Henry O. (2006). Zik: Testimonies to a Great African. Indiana University Press. p. 25. ISBN 9789783381889.
  6. ↑ Edebiri, David U. (2003). Benin Historical Essays. University of Michigan. p. 67.
  7. ↑ Chukindi, Joe (1 November 2022). "First republic aviation minister, Mbazulike Amaechi is dead". Daily Post.


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