1959

 A medical doctor trained at the University of Ibadan and Leeds University in the UK, Eze Onukogu qualified to practice medicine in 1959  

 He returned to Nigeria in 1963 and began teaching at the University of Ibadan where he was until the outbreak of the Nigerian Civil War. For the safety of his young family, he returned to the East and moved to Aba to work at the General Hospital. After Aba was captured by Nigerian soldiers he moved to Holy Rosary Hospital, Emekuku until the end of the war.   

 he moved his family to Albany, New York where he taught and worked at the Albany Medical Center.  

 At the behest of his father, he and his family returned to Nigeria as Imo State was being carved out of the East Central State. His father, the late Chief S. E. Onukogu was the Chairman of the Imo State Creation Committee. It was at his father's palace that the meetings surrounding the creation of Imo State were held.  

 Following the death of his father in 1978, he inherited the traditional ezeship stool as the first son and became the Eze of Obube. By then he had set up his own private Hospital where he would work until his death in 2024. 

He is also a grand knight of the order of St. Mulumba.