Flora Azikiwe, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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First Lady of Nigeria
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Place of Birth: Onitsha, Anambra State, Nigeria
About Flora Azikiwe
- Flora Ogbenyeanu Ogoegbunam Azikiwe (7 August 1917 – August 1983) was the first wife of Nnamdi Azikiwe, the first President of Nigeria.
- She served as the first First Lady of Nigeria from 1 October 1963 to 16 January 1966.Ogoegbunam was born in Onitsha, a city in present-day Anambra State to Chief Ogoegbunam, the Adazia of Onitsha (Ndichie Chief) from Ogboli Agbor Onitsha.
- She met Nnamdi Azikiwe there in 1934, and the two were married on 4 April 1936.
- Their wedding was held in James Town, Accra, Gold Coast (present-day Ghana) where her husband was working as the editor of African Morning Post at the time.Ogoegbunam was a member of the Eastern Working Committee of the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons (NCNC).
- She was the first Patron of the Home Science Association (HSA), formerly known as Federal Home Science Association.On August 1983, she died.
- She and her husband had one daughter and three sons.
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