His early education was at various Roman Catholic mission schools in Boki LGA, then Wolsey Hall, Oxford (postal tuition).

A lifelong intellectual, MT Mbu was awarded his Ph.D by London University in 1995 at the age of 66, his thesis being centred on the OAU and its settlement of African disputes.

After a brief but successful stint working for John Holt, the young MT launched into his political career driven on by the words of his childhood mentor Fr.

During the latter period in Parliament, he served as Federal Minister of Defense for Naval Affairs.

[citation needed] He was appointed Chairman, Eastern Nigeria Public Service Commission in 1967, and after the declaration of Biafra he was appointed Biafran Minister of Foreign Affairs by the Biafran President Odumegwu Ojukwu and after the civil war he became Member Constituent Assembly from 1977 to 1978.