Mbazulike Amaechi

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. 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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