[6][8] On the day of his birth, he became the first black boy to be registered to attend Eton College.

[2] He attended preparatory school at Grove Park in Sussex,[9] before becoming a pupil at Eton in 1965, and leaving in 1969.

[12] In 2020 the school's present headmaster, Simon Henderson, offered Onyeama an apology for the treatment he had received.

[13] Onyeama said he would return to Eton to accept the apology as long as the costs of his trip were covered.

[9] Onyeama obtained a diploma from the Premier School of Journalism, incorporating the Writers School of Great Britain before returning to Nigeria In 1981, and establishing the publishing company Delta Publications, based in Enugu.