{"id":4777,"date":"2021-04-18T10:15:23","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T10:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/?p=4777"},"modified":"2021-04-18T10:15:26","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T10:15:26","slug":"the-nwachigoziri-1-honour-to-whom-its-due","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/the-nwachigoziri-1-honour-to-whom-its-due\/","title":{"rendered":"The NWACHIGOZIRI 1: Honour to whom it\u2019s due"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Jimoh Bashir<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the Executive Secretary of the Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) Club Owners Association of Nigeria, Chief Aloysius Chukwuemeka Chinekezi Ebonugwo, popularly referred to as ACC, it was a story of a prophet honoured in his community, as he was on Friday April 9th, 2021, conferred with a traditional title of NWACHIGOZIRI 1, of Umualumaku Community in Ehime Mbano in Imo state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Football enthusiasts from all around the nation, sports journalists, friends and well wishers converged in the ancient community of Umualumaku, in Ehime Mbano in Imo state to honour the man of many parts, class and cadre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is the man of many parts because, as an Igbo man, he speaks other Nigerian languages like Yoruba and Hausa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is a man of all classes because he finds it easy to relate with the all-mighty and the lowest class in the society, and his mixture with people of all classes in the society brings out the selflessness, tolerance and the sacrificial attributes in him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That also makes him fit into any cadre of life at any point in time, and adjusts to any situation that comes his way, with not only his body language, but his words, breaking all barriers and obstacles because of the influential intelligence that God has endowed him with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is absolutely an embodiment of humility, transparency, a peace maker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is all in all in the round leather game. He was a player. He is a Retired Grade One Referee, a Journalist, a Commentator and Analyst, Administrator of repute, and the ‘Network’ himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back then, he started cutting his administrative teeth when he was the Secretary of the Igbo Traders Football Association (ITFA), a football controlling organization under the auspices of the Igbo Community Association in Kwara state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chief Aloysius Chukwuemeka Chinekezi Ebonugwo (ACC) was born in February 2nd, 1976, to the family of late Mr. Casmier Ebonugwo and Ezinne Felicia Adamma Ebonugwo of Umuonyia Umualumaku Ehime Mbano, Imo State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He attended the Hill top Primary School, Umualumaku and early Secondary School at Boys Secondary School Umualumaku.<\/p>\n\n\n\n