A former commissioner for Information during the Peter Obi administration in Anambra State, Chief Maja Umeh is dead.
Umeh passed away yesterday at the Emergency Ward of the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu Teaching Hospital (COOUTH), Amaku-Awka, Anambra State capital.
Born on 7th October, 1960 in Enugu, Chief Maja Umeh hails from Amichi in Nnewi-South local government area of Anambra state. His father was Ogbuefi Dominic Umeh, a civil servant and his mother was a teacher and business woman at different times. His father worked at P&T Enugu and later retired and took a church work as Catheist.
Chief Maja Umeh was born into a family of eight children where he was the 7th child of his parents even though the cold hands of death took two of his siblings away and only six of them are alive today.
He attended St. Mary’s Primary School Uwani Enugu and because of the Nigerian Civil War, they relocated to Amichi where he later completed his primary education at St. Eugenia Primary School Amichi Nnewi-South. Thereafter he proceeded to Christ The King College Onitsha where he got his school cert in 1977.
He was admitted into the University of Nigeria Nsukka in 1979 where he graduated in the Department of Political Science and later bagged a Master’s Degree in Political Science.
Thereafter, he left for Kaduna state for his one year compulsory National Youth Service Scheme. After serving his father land, Chief Maja Umeh also lectured briefly at the Nigerian Defence Academy from whence he launched himself into private practice. Chief Maja Umeh founded ALDOVE Limited (A Real Estate and Construction Company) and had been in real estate business for many years until he was called up by the Peter Obi administration to come and serve his home state.
First he was appointed a Political Adviser by ex-governor Peter Obi and later became the Commissioner for Information,Culture and Tourism till the end of Peter Obi’s administration.
