"Albert Nwazu Okonkwo"@en . . . . "Okonkwo, Albert Nwazu"@en . "Major (Dr.) Albert Nwazu Okonkwo was briefly the Military Administrator of the Mid-Western State of Nigeria in mid-1967 during an attempt to establish the region as the independent Republic of Benin early in the Nigerian Civil War.Okonkwo was a Major in the Biafran Army Medical Corps.He was trained as a physician in the United States, and was married to an American.On 9 August 1967 a force of 3,000 Biafran troops crossed the Niger bridge, with one group making a dash for Benin City."@en . "Administrator of Mid-Western Region" . . "Nigerian general" .