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This memorial website was created in memory of our beloved father/grandfather, The Very Rev. Chike Nwizu. We will remember him forever.
April 30, 2021
April 30, 2021
Onye Nmeri Jesus Onye Nmeri
Jesus Onye Nmeri
Soso Gi gachi


I first heard this song when Provost sang it before a sermon at the Lady Chapel. The song struck a chord and has ministered to me ever since.
JESUS INDEED REIGNS SUPREME

Rest in peace gallant soldier
April 28, 2021
April 28, 2021
MY GUARDIAN ANGEL

"Sorry for your loss..." What did those words even mean? I've always heard those words, I've told people those words before but I have never understood what those words meant until I lost you Grandaddy. Noone has ever said those words to me before, everyday on my knees I thank God for keeping my family alive, but this one came like a bombshell, so unexpected, so soon, so teary.
Yes, you were 87 years but it felt like you 50 years or younger. You are so agile and full of life. You worked till the end, you loved till the end, most especially, you prayed to the end!

My Grandaddy was like my everything. My sweetheart, my soft pillow, my boyfriend, my ATM machine, My physical Holy Spirit, My tutor.... Now, he is my Guardian Angel. Grandaddy I saw you in my dreams where you were happy in a big mansion in Heaven. The thought of that gives me peace knowing that your greatest desire in life was fulfilled. But that does not mean I will ever remain the same. I still kiss you everyday through the framed picture I made for u, hanging on the wall in my room. It gives me the strength to cheer up. I miss you so much. The smiles you give me each time I return home. The listening ears you tender whenever I need someone to talk to. You were my partner in everything - prayers, gyming, driving, eating, in your office, at home - we even sleep together and hold hands. Now how can I even recover fully without your warmth and cuddles?
Who will give me so much attention the way you did? Who will spoil me with compliments and gifts? Who will give me godly wisdom in the manner that you did? The excitement in your eyes whenever we agree to go somewhere together. No! I ought to cry cause you are worth every tear that flows from my eyes. I am not crying cause you are gone, that will be selfish of me. How do I cry and want you to leave the happiness you've found in heaven to come back to this wicked earth. I'm crying because I miss you, I miss looking at your cute chubby face and rubbing the beards I manage to feel. Only God can fill the void you've left in my heart.

I adored you Grandaddy, I still do, you fought so many life challenging battles and defeated them all with the strength of God. I honestly thought that this was just one of those sicknesses that would come and go. Your body temperature was so hot that morning, it was scary, you couldn't even speak. But even when you struggled for breath you still wanted my embrace and warmth. I never wanted to leave your side but I guess God knew I wouldn't be able to bear it if I watched you give out your last breath. I had to go to school. The news came in during my lectures, how I was able to control myself I didn't know, I just went to the back of the class and cried my eyes out, by the time I saw you again. You beautiful grey eyes were close forever and your body was so cold. I cannot even begin to phantom how my view of life has changed, cause majority of it was focused on you. " I want to get married so Grandaddy will be the one to Pastor my wedding", I want to have children so that Grandaddy will be a Great-Grandaddy, "I want to be called to bar so that I will partner with Grandaddy in the legal profession", "I want to cook this new food recipe so that Grandaddy will be happy and bless me when he eats it"...Now Grandaddy is not here, it's like my all my desires have gone. That I am recovering is because God is reminding me of who I am in Christ and not in anyone. And it was you who started to lay the foundation of Christ in my life. I remembered this song when I saw them carry you to the ambulance "It is hard to count it all joy, I may never understand, I don't even want to think how my broken heart is a part of God's plan, but all I have to do is ponder all these four words- God's Will Be Done"

I love you so so so so so much!!!!.... I'll surely meet you again. So help me God.

Your beloved handbag,
Granddaughter,
Nwizu Kosisochukwu
April 26, 2021
April 26, 2021
God's Garden

God looked around his garden
And found an empty place.
He then looked down upon the earth,
And saw your tired face.

He put His arms around you
And lifted you to rest.
God’s garden must be beautiful,
He always takes the best.

He knew that you were suffering,
He knew that you were in pain.
He knew that you would never
Get well on earth again.

He saw the road was getting rough
And the hills were hard to climb.
So He closed your weary eyelids
And whispered “Peace be thine.”

It broke our hearts to lose you
But you did not go alone…
For part of us went with you
The day God called you home.

Author: D. W. MCCONWAY
April 4, 2021
April 4, 2021
Daddy, Ur demise remains a shock to me as l tot my next visit to Enugu, Goodsherpherd Cathedral would bring me in close contact with U after a decade or more now. What can l say..? If God allowed this, who am l to stop Ur transition to Gloryland. Your counsel remains a roadmap and an epistle that will forever live in our hearts. Bon voyage, We'll miss you greatly.
Rest.
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Daddy,
Today you would have been 88. They say time heals all wounds - I'm still waiting.........

Nneka
October 31, 2021
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Happy birthday Uncle Chike, may God continue to bless and rest your soul amen.
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His Life
April 12, 2021
Who is this man, Chike Ikeotuonye Nwizu?

Chike Wilson Nwizu as he then was, was born at Nbawsi in Abia State on October 31st 1933. His father, Samson Ikeotuonye Nwizu was a Palm Produce trader from Ndiakwu, Otolo Nnewi and his mother Christiana Nwizu nee Moghalu who hailed from Ozubulu was a successful trader and big time baker until her death. So you can see that Chike’s business acumen did not fall from the sky but was rather embedded in his genes. Unfortunately both parents died young at 1959 and 1962 respectively.

Chike started his primary education at Faith Tabernacle School Nbawsi and finshed at St. Michael’s School Aba. He later attended Government Secondary School Owerri and on graduation in 1955, he worked briefly with the Produce Inspection Department of the Ministry of Agriculture of Eastern Nigeria. He worked at Onitsha and Oguta and would later on cite this period as one of his worst because of the level of corruption practiced there. (sadly it’s not today that bribery and corruption started in Nigeria!) Young Wilson would often weep at work as he was threatened and intimated into doing things against hhis conscience and faith. He was therefore filled with gratitude to God when he able to resign and enter the Nigerian College of Arts, Science and Technology, Ibadan (now University of Ibadan) in 1957.

He initially wanted to study accountancy but was prevented from doing so because the practice at the time was that you had to have some work experience in that field before you could be admitted into the university. On the advice and recommendation of his then principal, Mr. M. C. English, he sat for the examination of the Chartered institute of Secretaries and Administrators. Fortunately for Chike, he obtained the scholarship of Shell BP Company Ltd for this course and on completion of his course in 1960, he joined Shell BP Port Harcourt as an Accountant. He later resigned in March 1962 in protest against how Nigerians were being treated in the company.

Chike attended London City College where he studied Insurance and passed the final examination of the Chartered Insurance Institute. He subsequently worked with a firm of London City Brokers and later joined the Universal Insurance Company as Company Secretary and Investment Manager, a post he held until 1971.

Chike has always been a crusader and has always occupied positions of leadership and authority. In primary school he was the class monitor, at Government College Owerri, he was Senior School Prefect and House Captain. Also in the Nigerian College of arts, Science and Technology, he was the President of the Students Union and Vice President of the National Union of Nigerian Students. Perhaps if the good Lord had not called him into ministry, he might very well have been a politician today.

On leaving Universal Insurance Company, Chike went on to become a highly successful businessman. He incorporated Zuloh Services Nigeria ltd and later Wemeck Building Products ltd and Kuchen Industries ltd.

He served for several years in All Saints Church G.R.A as Parish Treasurer, Lay Reader, People’s Warden and Pastor’s warden. He was made a deacon in the Anglican Dicese of Enugu in 1981 and priested two years later. In January 1991, he was transferred to the Cathedral Church of the Good Shepherd to start off the Cathedral and later that year was made a Canon of the Cathedral. On Christmas day in 1993, he was collated the Provost of the Cathedral, a position he held until his retirement in October 2004. He remains thus far, the only provost of the Cathedral Church of the Good Shepherd.

Chike always wanted to be a lawyer but was dissuaded from studying law by his father, so in 1989, he enrolled to study Law at the University of Nigeria Enugu Campus, which he successfully completed with honours in 1994. Subsequently he went to the Law School in  Lagos and having passed the Bar finals with honours, was called to Bar in January 1996. All of these, while still working as Provost of the Cathedral and President of ECCIMA! On retirement, he opened up a law practice  - Chike Nwizu and Associates and remained active till he passed away.

As earlier mentioned, this is a brief introduction of the man Chike Nwizu so we will not be talking about his work with Rotary International, the Chamber of Commerce, the Church nor the many other organizations that he has actively participated in or chaired.

Chike met the love of his life Chiemeka Christy Odogbo in 1956 at Aba and after almost seven years of courtship, they were married on 22nd June 1963. The marriage is blessed with five children - Uchenna, Chidi, Kanene, Emeka and Nneka, Unfortunately Kanene and Chukwuemeka were called home in 1993 and 1996 respectively. To borrow some lines from the tribute written by Chiemeka in 2004 during Chike’s 70th birthday/retirement thanksgiving celebration:

“Like all couples, we had our “good times” and “bad times”, our ups and downs, our hills and valleys. We have shared some sorrows………. However, by God’s grace, these situations merely brought us closer to God and to each other……. And because we have Him, He has always been at our side and been our “balm in sorrow”. Besides, the blessings we have enjoyed have been so much that they have mutually eclipsed the hard times. Our greatest blessing is the love God gave us. Yes, true love goes on and on, our love will be ever new”

Chike passed away at 12:20pm on the 31st of March after a lifetime of service, tremendous faith, boundless generousity, leadership and hard work. Since his passing, we have been inundated with calls, visits and testimonies from the countless lives he touched.

Daddy you were truly larger than life and the vacuum you have left will be next to impossible to fill. You will forever be missed.


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FROM MUNACHI NWIZU, GRANDDAUGHTER

May 15, 2021
HOW I FEEL ABOUT MY GAMPA
Gampa, I love you. I am even still speechless that I want to cry. I just that you are in Heaven resting and I know you are with God. There are times when Kosi, Bubu and Kene tell me that they were saved from small accidents like falling or scratching themselves because you were protecting them. And I know that is true. What I feel about you is true Gampa. And I don't even know what you say again.
But all I have to say finally is that I miss you  and I love you. After all I have written down. Just know that I still miss you, I still want you back and I still love you so so so so much
Your Granddaughter,
Munachi Nwizu

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