Mrs Odinamadu, The First Igbo Woman To Drive A Car, Get License, Dies At 94

Chief Oyibo Odinamadu, the first Igbo woman to get a driving license as well as to drive a car, dies at 94. 

Odinamadu will also be remembered as the first female university graduate from the former Eastern Region of Nigeria.

She is also the first indigenous principal of both Womens’ Training College Enugu and Queens School Enugu.

Chief (Mrs) Oyibo Odinamadu, the first national vice president of the Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN), a dominant political party in western Nigeria during the second republic (1978-1983), is dead.

The 94 reportedly passed away late last month in the United States of America, according to a statement made available by the daughter of the deceased, Ifeatu Onubogu.

Onubogu wrote :

“We thank God for a long life well spent as we announce the passing of our mother, grandmother, great grandmother, sister and aunt, High Chief (Ichie Sir (Mrs) Oyibo Ekwulo Odinamadu on Wednesday March 30, 2022 at the age of 94.”

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Odinamadu will be remembered as the first female university graduate from the former Eastern Region of Nigeria, as well as the first indigenous principal of both Womens’ Training College Enugu and Queens School Enugu.

While Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti was officially the first woman to drive a car in Nigeria, Odinamadu was the first Igbo woman to get a driving license as well as the first to drive a car.

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