Dr Godwin Maduka born in early 1959, is a Nigerian-American doctor, businessman and philanthropist. He is the founder of Las Vegas Pain Institute and Medical Center. In 2008, he played a major role in the renaming of his hometown, from Nkerehi to Umuchukwu.
Umuchukwu community in Anambra State until 2008 was known as Nkerehi, a name the people believed was responsible for their woes. Six years after the change of the town's name, it has experienced serious transformation.
Anyone who is still doubting the veracity of the Igbo traditional belief that whatever evil the ancestors committed comes after their succeeding generations until proper atonement is carried out, and the people purged of that evil, should visit and hear the story of the people of Umuchukwu community, formerly, Nkerehi in Orumba south local government area of Anambra state.
DR. GODWIN MADUKA build this in Umuchukwu:
1) two churches, one each for the Anglicans and Catholics.
(2) built Trinity Hospital and Maternity.
(3) over 120 standard houses for widows and the poor in the area.
(4) Built Immaculate Conception International College 1 and 2, with buses donated to them.
(5) he built a police station for security.
(6) he built a magistrate court.
(7) a standard market called (Afor Market), .
(8) built barracks for the Civil Defense staff,
(9) built two monasteries for churches.
(10) built community centre (Community Hall and his own Village Hall).
(11) built, post office.
(12) built a state high court.
(13) provided transformers to boost electricity in the community.
(14) built mighty edifices for primary and secondary schools.
(15) built a palace for the monarch, civic centre,.
(16) built houses for clerics of Catholic and Anglican churches, among others.
(17) built a Five-star hotel known as Lion of Africa resort.
(18) The 15 storeys tall building is part of the World-class International standard Hospital / Health research institute (which will serve as the destination of all health matters in Africa, since it will be the biggest and the best of its kind in the African soil).
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