Akokwa, Imo State born famous industrialist, Dr. Ezekiel Izuogu, is dead.
Thebladengr, gathered that the scientist passed on earlier today.
Dr. Izuogu an Engineer, was a scientist, a former lecturer, a foremost politician and inventor of Nigeria’s first indigenous car-the Z 600.
A sole brainchild of engineer Ezekiel Izuogu, the Izuogu Z-600 prototype was the first indigenous Nigerian car, and the first automobile of indigenous all-African technology.
When it was launched in 1997, the car caused a stir in the Nigerian media and gave Nigeria a short lived bragging rights as the first to make an indigenous car in Africa.
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