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 NigeÂrian Army as a foot soldier. He reÂceived officer training at the prestigÂious 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 functionÂally the third in command in the BiÂafran Military High Command, alÂthough he was senior to both Ojukwu and General Philip Effiong, Ojukwuâs deputy. Nwawo was Commissioned in 1954, Effiong in 1956, and OjukÂwu in 1957.Colonel Nwawo, whose number was the Number 10 in the Nigerian Army, was, therefore, the tenth officÂer to be commissioned in the NigeriÂan Army having joined the Army on the 1st December, 1950 and commisÂsioned on the 28th of May, 1954 as a 2nd Lieutenant in the then Queenâs Own Regiment, as the colonial NigeÂrian 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 asÂsociated with old age.
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