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George Uru Ohikere the first Native Nigerian Minister for Works, the first Native Nigerian Chairman of the Nigerian Ports Authority & a Commissioner for Health. This excerpt below is from the London Gazette, showing Mr George Uru Ohikere as a recipient of an OBE as selected by Her Majesty the Queen.

44 SUPPLEMENT TO THE LONDON GAZETTE, IST JANUARY 1962

'''Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (contd.) ; '''

FEDERATION OF NIGERIA James Joseph BALMAIN, Esq., Administrative 'Officer, Class I. Thompson Edogbeji AMtins SALUBI, Esq., Industrial Relations Commissioner. James SMYTH, Esq., Administrative Officer, Class II. Theophilus Augustus WILLIAMS, Esq., Assistant Director of Federal Audit.

NORTHERN REGION Arthur Frank BRYSON, Esq., M.B., F.R.C.S., . (Senior Specialist (Orthopaedics). John Edward EVANS, Esq., Chief Architect Mallam Ibrahim MUSA GASHASH, Minister of Land and Survey. George Uru OHIKERE, Esq., Minister of Works, • 1957-1961. Alhaji UMARU, Emir of Pategi.