Donu Kogbara Loses Mother, Anne Kogbara

By Gideon Njoku

Renowned International Journalist and Columnist, Donu Kogbara, has lost her beloved mother.

Her mother, Mrs Anne Chizomam Kogbara, passed on Saturday, July 22, 2023.

She was the beloved wife of the late Ignatius Kogbara, defunct Biafra’s Ambassador to Great Britain during the unfortunate Nigerian Civil War.

Her husband was later appointed a Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and helped in midwifing Nigeria’s Democracy. In appreciation, a street was named after him in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory.

The late Mrs Kogbara, a native of Owerri, Imo State, but married to her Ogoni, Rivers State sweetheart, was born on December 14, 1935.

A staunch Catholic, vivacious and strong-willed in her beliefs, her health began to fail when her daughter, Donu, on a visit from London, to her mother, in their home in Porthacourt, was kidnapped on 2nd September, 2015.

Her 13-day ordeal in the hands of her abductors left her mother shaken, shocked and devastated.

Mrs Anne Kogbara never quite recovered from the shock of that sad incident until her passing on Saturday, 22nd July, 2023.