Nigerian Billionaire Who Drove Queen Elizabeth II With His Rolls Royce

.              Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu

Mary Akanbi

10th September, 2022

The death of the longest serving British Monarch, Queen Elizabeth II has been described as the "end of an era" due to the impact she has made on humanity for about seventy years. However, history has always helped in the remembrance of key events.

During the visit of Queen Elizabeth to Nigeria in 1956, the Federal government could not afford a Rolls Royce to give the late Monarch a ride. However, Sir Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu who was considered the country's first billionaire voluntarily offered his Rolls Royce Silver Wraith LWB.

Photo File: Queen Elizabeth's visit in 1956

Also during the outbreak of World War II in 1939, the British government requested for his fleet of trucks to fight the war, and he willingly offered them. Due to his good deeds and sacrifice to the Government of Britain, he was awarded a Knight of the British Empire (KBE) Honours in 1945.