Professor Lawrence Baraebibai Ekpebu, became a renowned Nigerian scholar, administrator and diplomat.

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Gichoki Rose Wanjiko. After being selected as one of the beneficiary of the airlift programme organised Mboya, she joined Clarke College in Iowa before proceeding to Harvard.
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At Harvard she met a fellow student Lawrence Ekpebu from Nigeria , they fell in love and later married.

Professor Lawrence Baraebibai Ekpebu, became a renowned Nigerian scholar, administrator and diplomat. He died early this year at the age of 86 leaving his wife Wanjiko Ekpebu behind.

He was given a state burial by his home state of Bayelsa and was mourned by President Buhari and former president Good Luck Jonathan.
 
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