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Nigeria’s Military Historian Dies At 62

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<p><&excl;-- BEGIN THEIA POST SLIDER --><&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad4" id&equals;"quads-ad4" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"v63NI8qm" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- TV --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"4399361195" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"auto" &NewLine; data-full-width-responsive&equals;"true"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>Nowamagbe Austin Omoigui&comma; a foremost Nigerian military historian&comma; is dead&comma;the Cable reports&period;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"qfCsShiP" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<&excl;-- TV --> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"4399361195" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"auto" &NewLine; data-full-width-responsive&equals;"true"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>His family announced in a statement that Omoigui died on Sunday at the age of 62&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He was a cardiologist in Columbia&comma; South Carolina&comma; United States&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;On behalf of the Omoigui family&comma; we are heartbroken to announce that our son&comma; husband&comma; father&comma; uncle&comma; brother&comma; in-law&comma; friend and muse to many&comma; Dr&period; Nowamagbe Austin Omoigui&comma; MD&comma; FACC&comma; pre-eminent interventional cardiologist in Columbia&comma; South Carolina and foremost Nigerian civil-military and Benin historian&comma; shed his earthly bonds and was called to the Lord on April 18&comma; 2021&comma;” the statement said&period;<&sol;p><div class&equals;"jXIfCHLY" style&equals;"clear&colon;both&semi;float&colon;left&semi;width&colon;100&percnt;&semi;margin&colon;0 0 20px 0&semi;"><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block&semi; text-align&colon;center&semi;" &NewLine; data-ad-layout&equals;"in-article" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"fluid" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; data-ad-slot&equals;"6550225277"><&sol;ins> &NewLine;<script> &NewLine; &lpar;adsbygoogle &equals; window&period;adsbygoogle &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&rpar;&period;push&lpar;&lbrace;&rcub;&rpar;&semi; &NewLine;<&sol;script><&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Preceded in passing by his beloved mother&comma; Mrs&period; Grace Onaiwu Omoigui&comma; Nowa is survived by his wife Mrs&period; Moira Omoigui&comma; their children &lpar;Ikponmwosa Omoigui&comma; Ighiwiyisi Omoigui&comma; Iyegbekosa &lpar;Egbe&rpar; Omoigui &amp&semi; Izevbokun &lpar;Izzy&rpar; Omoigui&comma; Iyare Omoigui and Iriagbonse Omoigui&rpar;&comma; his father&comma; Surveyor Daniel Aiyanyo Omoigui and his four siblings &lpar;Dr&period; Sota Omoigui&comma; Ifueko M Omoigui Okauru&comma; Eghosa Omoigui and Nosa Omoigui&rpar;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad1" id&equals;"quads-ad1" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad3" id&equals;"quads-ad3" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We are immensely grateful to God for the life he lived&comma; the service he gave to family and country&comma; and most importantly&comma; his love&comma; care for&comma; and devotion to&comma; his wife&comma; children&comma; family and friends&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;nigeriantracker&period;com&sol;2021&sol;04&sol;18&sol;ramadan-zamfara-purchases-n2-9billion-foodstuffs&sol;">Ramadan &colon; Zamfara purchases N2&period;9BILLION foodstuffs<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Omoigui&comma; a native of Edo state&comma; gained insight into many key events associated with Nigeria’s military when he was posted for the one-year mandatory National Youth Service Corps &lpar;NYSC&rpar; with the Nigerian Army’s Brigade of Guards in 1983&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He bagged his bachelor’s degree in medicine from the University of Ibadan in 1981&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;My amateur interest in History&comma; Political Science and Strategic studies dates back to the sixties&period; My father was a federal civil servant&period; As a three-year-old&comma; I lived in the same neighborhood &lpar;MacDonald Avenue&rpar; as Chief Anthony Enahoro and the late Senator Dalton Asemota &lpar;my mother’s uncle&rpar; in Ikoyi&comma; Lagos&period; Events relating to the Treasonable Felony Trial &lbrack;of Obafemi Awolowo and Anthony Enahoro&comma; among others&rsqb;&comma; creation of the Midwest Region and the funeral of Senator Asemota were closely followed by my parents and many discussions were held in my presence&comma; major elements of which&comma; strangely&comma; I still recall&excl; As a seven year old&comma; my family and I were awakened in the early hours of January 15&comma; 1966&comma; by our neighbor on Milverton Road &lpar;a British police officer&rpar; to tell us about the first coup&period; During the civil war I was the victim of a number of Biafran air-raids&comma;” a statement from the Urhobo Historical Society for Omoigui said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I should add to this little summary of my background and interests that I am a member of the South Carolina Military History Club&period; I am also an amateur Gun and Military Aircraft recognition enthusiast&period; I happen to be a sharpshooter as well&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;nigeriantracker&period;com&sol;2020&sol;08&sol;09&sol;biafran-crisis-how-ojukwu-executes-ifeajuna&sol;">Biafran Civil War&colon; How Ojukwu executed Ifeajuna<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Also announcing his passing in a tweet&comma; Eghosa Omoigui&comma; his brother&comma; described him as &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;the tip of our spear”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>His sister&comma; Ifueko Omoigui Okauru&comma; was a former chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service &lpar;FIRS&rpar;&comma; while Daniel Aiyanyo Omoigui&comma; his father&comma; was a former surveyor-general of the federation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;-- END THEIA POST SLIDER -->&NewLine;<&excl;-- WP QUADS Content Ad Plugin v&period; 2&period;0&period;95 -->&NewLine;<div class&equals;"quads-location quads-ad5" id&equals;"quads-ad5" style&equals;"float&colon;none&semi;margin&colon;0px&semi;">&NewLine;&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;pagead2&period;googlesyndication&period;com&sol;pagead&sol;js&sol;adsbygoogle&period;js"><&sol;script> &NewLine;<ins class&equals;"adsbygoogle" &NewLine; style&equals;"display&colon;block" &NewLine; data-ad-format&equals;"autorelaxed" &NewLine; data-ad-client&equals;"ca-pub-4403533287178375" &NewLine; 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