Umuahia is the capital of Abia State, on the railway between Port Harcourt and Enugu, and by the popular account its name comes from Ama Ahia, "market place". Its two local governments are made of the Ibeku, Ohuhu, Umuopara, Ubakala and Olokoro clans. Government College Umuahia opened in 1929 at Umudike as a colonial teacher-training institution and became one of Nigeria's storied schools, with Chinua Achebe, Christopher Okigbo and Ken Saro-Wiwa among its alumni. During the civil war Umuahia was the seat of the Biafran government through 1968 and much of 1969, and the National War Museum holds that record today, with Ojukwu's bunker nearby. The Amakama wooden cave, a living tree with a hollow inside it, is among the town's older landmarks, and the statue of Michael Okpara, premier of the Eastern Region from 1959 to 1966, stands in the city. Photographs, via Wikimedia Commons: Abia Tower, Umuahia - Segunfodeke, CC BY-SA 3.0. Inside the Amakama wooden cave - David Nkwa (Nkwafilms), CC BY-SA 4.0. The Amakama cave, Umuahia - Nyerougo, CC0. The statue of Michael Okpara, Umuahia - Emmanuel Eluwa, CC BY-SA 4.0. Ojukwu's bunker, Umuahia - Ebubechukwu1, CC BY-SA 4.0. The National War Museum, Umuahia - Umargana1, CC BY-SA 4.0 (photograph 1 in this gallery). The National War Museum, Umuahia - Umargana1, CC BY-SA 4.0 (photograph 2 in this gallery). Licences: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
Its address is /culture/umuahia-and-the-national-war-museum on www.buzzbuntu.com.