Albert Okonkwo

Albert Nwazu Okonkwo
Administrator of Mid-Western Region
In office
17 August 1967  20 September 1967
Preceded byDavid Ejoor
Succeeded bySamuel Ogbemudia
Personal details
NationalityNigerian
Military service
Allegiance
Years of service1960s–1970
Battles/wars

Major Albert Nwazu Okonkwo (// ) was a Nigerian military officer and later a Major in the Biafran Army Medical Corps during the Nigerian Civil War. Originally from Igbuzor (IBUSA), in Oshimili North Local Govt. of Delta State. He was a Medical Doctor who got his licence as a Heart Surgeon from United States of America. He is known for being the brief Military Administrator of the Mid-Western State of Nigeria during the Mid-West invasion in the early phase of the civil war. He was a trained physician trained in the United States, and was married to an American.