Author of Eze Goes to School, Onuora Nzekwu dies at 89

Chief Onuora Nzekwu, the founding General Manager of News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), has died at 89 years old, the family affirmed on Saturday. 

Nzekwu, the author of Eze Goes to School, a novel, died by 4.30p.m. on Friday in his home in Onitsha, Anambra, where he had been living in retirement, a relative, Mr Louis Chuke, said. 

Nzekwu joined the Federal Civil Service as an editorial assistant at the Nigeria Magazine Division of the Federal Ministry of Information. He worked as editorial assistant from 1956 to 1958 when assumed

control over the position of editor-in-chief of the magazine.

In 1966 when the Nigerian civil war broke out, he transferred his administrations toward the Eastern Nigeria Public Service and came back to the government benefit toward the finish of the emergency in 1970. 

He worked as General Manager of NAN from 1979 to 1985. Nzekwu composed Troubled Dust, a novel that describes the encounters of the civil war.