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Ambassador Ralph Uwechue, One time President- General Ohanaeze Ndigbo.!
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Raph Uwechue
Nigerian diplomat and publisher (1935–2014)
Raphaël Chukwu Uwechue (13 May 1935 – 13 March 2014), often abbreviated as Raph Uwechue, was a Nigerian minister, diplomat and publisher.
He is a former president-general of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo, an Igbo socio-cultural organization in Nigeria.[1][2][3]
Training
Born on 13 May 1935, in Ogwashi-Uku, Delta State, Nigeria, Uwechue attended St.
John's College in Kaduna from 1949 to 1954. He graduated from the University of Ibadan in 1960 with a degree in history. In 1964, he obtained a diploma in international law from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva.[2] He was a doctoral student in political science at the École pratique des hautes études from 1970 to 1973.[4]
Career
Uwechue entered Nigeria's foreign service at its inception in 1960 and served in Cameroon, Pakistan and Mali.
In 1966, he opened the Nigerian embassy in Paris as its first envoy