Billionaire Igbo Muslim, Alhaji Chief Abdulazeez Chibuzor Ude is dead, IgbereTV reports.

Alhaji Chief Abdulazeez Chibuzọ Ude! Old money! Lovers of Igbo highlife music particularly followers of Chief Oliver De Coque like must have heard the highlife music maestro eulogizing Chief Ude in some of his tracks particularly "Biri Ka Mbiri."

A renowned philanthropist, Ebube Ndi Muslim of Igbo Land, Boroji of Lagos, Bowashuwa of Ikorodu.

From Abor, Udi LGA, Enugu State, he was a multi billionaire businessman. One of those we can refer to as old money having made his wealth when billionaires of today had perhaps not even dreamt that they'll make it and some of them perhaps were still toddlers.

He was renowned for hosting lofty end-of-year parties in his Mekuwen home, off Queens Drive, Ikoyi and in his Abor, Udi residence. His office on Awolowo Road, Ikoyi always teemed with all kinds of people asking for assistance to revive their failed businesses, scale up their businesses, pay school fees, sort out accommodation challenges and pay rents.

His funds were always available for intellectual concerns. He was the financial chest behind the classy Chic Magazine published by Eddie Iroh out of London, England. He was a director of Newswatch magazine and many other publications besides.

Born 30 September 1940, Chief Abdulazeez Ude is a distinguished alumnus of the esteemed College of Immaculate Conception (CIC), Enugu. A man of impeccable bonafides, he was educated at Oxford in England and Columbia in the United States. He was a top editor with the renowned American book publishing company Doubleday, publishers of Anchor Books. He rubbed shoulders with Toni Morrison as book editor before she branched out to write novels such as Song of Solomon, Beloved etc and winning the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Abdulazeez Ude founded Nok Publishers in the United States and Nigeria, undertaking to see radical books from Africa and the Global South in print. The West and the Rest of Us by Chinweizu is a landmark title. Married with children, Abdulazeez Ude in his lifetime enjoyed tennis, meditation, reading and walking.

His support for popular culture is remarkable, and the celebrated highlife musician Oliver de Coque waxed lyrical in song in praise of the many achievements of Abdulazeez Ude, translated from Igbo thus: “When the big masquerade appears in the square, the non-initiates run away as the praise-singer lauds the radiance of the king. Alhaji Abdulazeez Chibuzo Ude is a mighty masquerade.”

As the brain behind companies like Tanhigh Holdings Ltd, Tanhigh Finance Ltd, 150 Estates Nigeria Ltd, Trans-Sahel Airlines Ltd etc, Alhaji Ude led from the frontline. He played a founding role in the African Business Roundtable and the African Development Bank. Always understated in his undertakings, preferring to operate from the background, it always needs painstaking inquiry to learn that he’s the brain and the war chest behind many ventures that do not bear his name in any way. His association with excellence is nonpareil.

Sadly, the colossus has passed on and was buried yesterday, 17th September 2021, at his home town Abor, Udi LGA, Enugu State. He would have clocked 81 in less than two weeks from now.

May his soul rest in peace.

Credit: Chukwuemeka Michael Obinnaya

https://igberetvnews.com/1400534/billionaire-igbo-muslim-chief-abdulazeez-chibuzor-ude-dead-photos/

Muhammad Kabir Orjiegbulam shared photos from Chief Abdulazeez's burial with the caption;

"The Burial of Alhaji, Chief Abdulazeez Chibuzor Udeh...
Ebube Ndi Muslim of Igbo Land..
Boroji of Lagos State
Bowashuwa of Ikorodu...
Today 17th September 2021
In His home town
Abor, Udi LGA Enugu State....
May Allah Hafiz forgive his sins and accept him in Jannatul Firdaous....
Amen..."

https://www./512730852084396/permalink/4654676967889743/?app=fbl

God rest his soul

Many Igbo Muslims in Afikpo Eboyin, followed by Enugu esp Nnsukka then IMO state

Rip

Nna mehnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

Religion na scam.

Damn ladder

Have some dignity

kestolove95:
May Allah grant him Aljanatu firdausi. One of d microscopic few ndi dot that God did not curse...he died a billionaire and will be lay to rest immediatli...no motuary(his not a fish), no printing of poster(no b movie tins) and drinking of bear and ogogoro nd he wont be burried with 7 virgin head....congratulations sir.

You must be very naive if you believe all Muslims bury same day or don't preserve corpses in morgue

Muslims even do lying in state and 40 days prayers owambe

In Iraq a Muslim nation they kept Muslim corpses inside "fridge" for more than a week when they can simply bury themselves

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2020/04/07/828317535/coronavirus-is-changing-the-rituals-of-death-for-many-religions

Yoruba Muslims drink dry gin with agbo before breakfast, should I remind you

RIP

Everybody is a billionaire in the yeast...

RIP old money!!!!

Ahhh Chief Azeez Ude is gone! He was stinkingly rich but was not a noise maker

He was also one of the very few Igbo muslims there is

gidgiddy:
Ahhh Chief Azeez Ude is gone! He was stinkingly rich but was not a noise maker

He was also one of the very few Igbo muslims there is

I,thought there is no Ibo Muslim

Sammy07:

Many Igbo Muslims in Afikpo Eboyin, followed by Enugu esp Nnsukka then IMO state

Never heard of the word Igbo Muslim..

There is no black forehead in igboland

Omoluabi1stborn:

I,thought there is no Ibo Muslim

He did that for papers and contracts..
There's no Boko Haram in the East

See how he is buried like a goat.

This is what you get when you join a religion that
has no regard for human life.

Ndi nnukwu muowu

Ndi ogiriga wara na nwa

Father Father...

Arusi Awkuzu

Charlie Millions

Eze Ego

Maurice Ibekwe

Ben Ejogu ( Omena nwata 1 of Osu ama


Plus

Oliver De Coque

All gone!!!

Damn rung with ropeHave some decency

Omoluabi1stborn:


I,thought there is no Ibo Muslim

There are Igbo Muslims but they are less than 100 out of 45 million Igbos

Wow. Alhaji chinedu and Alhaja Ngozi.

He was a founding member and board of directors of jaiz bank plc.
the only Igbo man in the bank's Board of Directors

I actually thought he is from Delta state.

Oliver D'Coque sang his praises in his 90's hit track "Nnukwu Mmanwu".


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldh1G12NxOc


RIP TO BOTH OF THEM.


EDIT:
JUST SEE HOW THEY BURY THIS BILLIONAIRE AND MAN OF THE PEOPLE FA!

SOMEBODY THAT HIS BURIAL SHOULD CHALLENGE THAT OF OBI CUBBANA!

BY NOW THAT HOUSE WILL BE FULLY CROWDED WITH PEOPLE FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE PAYING THEIR LAST DESERVING RESPECT TO HIM!

BUT JUST SEE HOW HE IS SURROUNDED BY VRY FEW AB.OKIS AND WRAPPED IN ORDINARY MAT AND BURIED LIKE NKIT . . . LET ME NOT SAY SHA!

CHAI! THIS RELIGION IS NOT FOR NDI IGBO AT ALL!!

TUFIA!

There is nothing like Igbo muslim.You can't put Igbo and muslim in one sentence.



If na yoruba muslim you say,it will be understandable.

Totilopussylick:
Do research before concluding

Madam!

Which research.

I'm Igbo that have live most of my live in East,but have never see a single Igbo muslim.

Are the Igbo muslim too big for eyes to see?

MelesZenawi:
May Allah forgive his sins and grant him Al-jannah firdaus....Amin.

May Allah also give the good people of Enugu the fortitude to bear the loss.

This is Indeed a great loss to the Muslim community.

Allah ya Kara mai nauyin kasa. Ya mutu kamar alede.

You would be surprised that he became a Muslim because of money and connection and it worked, Just saying.

Naijabad:
See how he is buried like a goat.

This is what you get when you join a religion that
has no regard for human life.

Dead body

thinksquad:
You would be surprised that he became a Muslim because of money and connection and it worked, Just saying.

Any where Belle face

loveth360:
There is nothing like Igbo muslim.You can't put Igbo and muslim in one sentence.



If na yoruba muslim you say,it will be understandable.

Do research before concluding

Madam!

thinksquad:
You would be surprised that he became a Muslim because of money and connection and it worked, Just saying.

Let me put it straight to you,Muslim would not entice you with money to practices Islam.

Naijabad:
See how he is buried like a goat.

This is what you get when you join a religion that
has no regard for human life.

at least it cut expenses

Is this how Muslim tie dead body,and why is it only few Hausa people there,and it seems to me he didn’t die in Igbo land and will just be buried in a foreign land,tufia

Must the Op link him to his religion?
Can't we just see him as a Nigerian?

Op you are one of our problems in this country