President Tubman The late Charles Achiokie Miracle Iwegbue, International trumpeter, was the leader of the former Archibogs 􀁆 Hino Sound Dance Band, Lagos, and also a member of the Performing Rights Society London. He was the

forth of the dozen children of the former Grade 1 carpenter, U. A. C. Burutu; Okwa Obi Iwegbue Ezebu now at Emu-Ebendo, Kwale, Bendel State of Nigeria.He attended R. C. M. Burutu then to Hussey College, Warri where, due to ill-health, he could not finish after three years. Charles played cornet in the school band. He took an appointment with A. T. & P. Koko, Sapele, where he met Mr. Bobby Benson at Water Club Sapele and joined him to Lagos, served for five years, and formed his Archibogs Dance Band at Lido Club, Idi-Oro in 1956. He visited Liberia with his Band at the invitation of the late President Tubman in 1963/64. He was reckoned as the best Trumpeter on the shores of the West African coast. His famous Soko is an evergreen. He met his untimely death at Onitsha, Ukwuani, in Kwale, in the former Bendel State, meted by a group of vandals in his band on that fateful Friday 14th March 1975, when he was preparing for a world tour. He is a father of one boy 16 and a girl of 9.