Career
Eghagha was born on 8 March 1934 in Mureje, Okpe Local Government Area, Delta State. Eghagha played a minor role in the January 1966 coup that overthrew the Nigerian First Republic and brought in the military regime of Major-General Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi, as a second lieutenant in charge of a roadblock in Kaduna. He built and commissioned the Ogun State Hotel, Abeokuta, established industrial estates throughout the State and founded the Ogun State Polytechnic (now Moshood Abiola Polytechnic) in Abeokuta.
He also served as Acting Governor of Sokoto and Kwara States, and was Nigeria"s High Commissioner to Ghana.
Brigadier Harris Eghagha died at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital on 19 March 2009, aged 75.
