Colonel Conrad Dibia Nwawo (1924-2016) Nwawo started his career in 1946 after he graduated from the School of Agriculture in Ibadan in that same year. He worked as a civil servant first in the Moore Plantation in Ibadan, Nigeria and then the Cameroons until 1950 when he joined the NigeĀrian Army as a foot soldier. He reĀceived officer training at the prestigĀious Mons Officer Cadet School in Aldershot, the United Kingdom.
Colonel Nwawo
A colonel in the Nigerian Army, but later Joined the Biafran struggle as a Brigadier-General in Biafran Army, Nwawo was functionĀally the third in command in the BiĀafran Military High Command, alĀthough he was senior to both Ojukwu and General Philip Effiong, Ojukwuās deputy. Nwawo was Commissioned in 1954, Effiong in 1956, and OjukĀwu in 1957.Colonel Nwawo, whose number was the Number 10 in the Nigerian Army, was, therefore, the tenth officĀer to be commissioned in the NigeriĀan Army having joined the Army on the 1st December, 1950 and commisĀsioned on the 28th of May, 1954 as a 2nd Lieutenant in the then Queenās Own Regiment, as the colonial NigeĀrian Army was then called.
Nwawo, born in 1924, died at his home in Onicha-Olona, Aniocha North L.G.A. of Delta State, at the ripe age of 92, after a brief illness asĀsociated with old age.
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