Alex Lanipekun



Alex Lanipekun (born 7 April 1981) is a British actor. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art but left early to join the cast of the BBC drama Spooks as journalist-cum-spy Ben Kaplan, the role for which he is best known.

Lanipekun was born in London, during the Brixton Riots. His father is Nigerian and his mother is half-Italian and half-English. When he was four, his parents separated and he moved from Brixton to Finsbury Park. An only child, he was raised in North London by his single mother, a secondary school music teacher. He attended Crowland Junior School, St Aidan's Primary School and then Rokesly Junior School, before attaining a financial scholarship to Christ's Hospital School in Horsham, West Sussex. He then attended Westminster College. Lanipekun has A-Levels in English, Psychology, History, Drama and Religious Studies. He then obtained a Grant to study for a BSc in Anthropology at University College London. After University, he attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art as a Grant Student. He was assisted financially by many Arts Charities and Foundations, including The Actors' Charitable Trust. Lanipekun has a younger brother and sister who live with his father and stepmother in South London.

Alex Lanipekun was born on April 7, 1981 in London, England. He is an actor, known for Blitz (2011), Resonant Frequency (2014) and MI-5 (2002).

Dr. Oba Otudeko

Dr. Oba Otudeko, CFR born in August 18, 1944 is an astute and highly successful Nigerian investor and entrepreneur whose domestic and foreign interests cut across diverse sectors of the economy. Professionally, he is a Chartered Banker, Chartered Corporate Secretary and a Chartered Accountant.

Over the years, he has also attended management courses at several prestigious institutions, amongst which are the Harvard Business School, the International Institute for Management Development in Lausanne, Switzerland, the Arthur D. Little School of Management and the London Business School.

He is the current Chairman of Honeywell Group, Airtel Nigeria and Fan Milk Nigeria Plc.
Dr. Otudeko retired as the Chairman of First Bank of Nigeria Plc after 12 meritorious years on the Board of the Bank. He also served on several Boards including the Boards of Central Bank of Nigeria, Guinness Nigeria Plc and Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (ETI). Between September 2006 and August 2009, he was the 16th President and Chairman of Council of the Nigerian Stock Exchange.

He was formerly Chairman of the National Maritime Authority; Member, Constituent Assembly responsible for drafting a new Constitution, 1988 to 1989, and Council Member, Manufacturers’ Association of Nigeria. He was the Chancellor of Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State from 2001 to 2010 and has also served on the Africa Regional Advisory Board of the London Business School, where he is now a member of the Office of Distinguished Friends.

In further recognition of his many contributions to the economic and social development of Nigeria and his consistent commitment to good causes and the Nigerian nation, his National Honour was upgraded to Commander of the Order of the Federal Republic (CFR) in November 2011, from the Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR) in November 2002 and the Member of the Order of the Federal Republic (MFR) in December 2000.

He is currently rated 24th richest man in Africa by forbes magazine

Daley Thompson



Francis Morgan Ayodélé "Daley" Thompson CBE (born 30 July 1958),[2] is an English former decathlete. He won the decathlon gold medal at the Olympic Games in 1980 and 1984, and broke the world record for the event four times.

With four world records, two Olympic gold medals, three Commonwealth titles, and wins in the World and European Championships, Thompson is considered by many to be one of the greatest decathletes of all time (along with Bob Mathias and Dan O'Brien). Robert Chalmers described him as "the greatest all-round athlete this country [United Kingdom] has ever produced.

Thompson was born in Notting Hill, London, the second son of a Nigerian father and Scottish mother. His father was a taxi driver who was shot dead in Streatham when Thompson was about twelve. At seven years old Thompson was sent to Farney Close Boarding School, Bolney, Sussex, which he described as "a place for troubled children". Thompson's name is a contraction of Ayodele, a Yoruba word meaning "joy comes home". Thompson's first ambition was to become a professional footballer, but he later switched his interests to athletics.

Andy Akinwolere



Andy Akinwolere (born 30 November 1982) is a British television presenter. Akinwolere was born in Nigeria in 1982, and moved to the United Kingdom with his family when he was eight years old. They settled in Birmingham, where he was educated.

Andy has four siblings - three brothers and one sister who live in the United States - and speaks Yoruba in addition to English. His mother and father both lived abroad for a while and he spent a small part of his childhood living in Nancy, France. He has been quoted as saying he has seen 118 different cities around the world. He mentioned on Blue Peter on 8 April 2009 that he shares a flat with CBBC presenter Johny Pitts. He is an amateur photographer and has had pictures published in National Geographic Kids Magazine and the 2010 Christmas edition of Vogue Bambini. He is also a keen collector of rare vinyl and rare music.


Andy Odunayo Akinwolere is a Broadcaster and World Record holder.

Andy initially joined the BBC in 2006 as a runner, however his energy and charisma was instantly spotted and he was asked to audition for Blue Peter by a keen eyed producer. In 2007 he became Blue Peter’s first ever black male presenter and he went on to host CBBC’s flagship show for a fantastic five years. During his time Andy was nominated for two BAFTA awards; Presenter of the Year and Best Factual Programming for his Street Child World Cup documentary.

In his final year at Blue Peter Andy set a new World Record for the deepest location for an open water swim. He became the first person ever to swim more than 5 miles over the Palau Trench in the Pacific Ocean. This incredible feat of endurance was made even more significant due to Andy’s phobia of deep water and the fact he only learnt to swim 10 weeks prior to the challenge.

Andy has always had a strong sporty streak and covered much of the sporting content for Blue Peter. This included the BBC Red Button coverage of the London Mini-marathon and commentating on The 2010 World Cup for CBBC. Andy also had a central role throughout the London 2012 Olympics where he was selected to be the main host for the Olympic torch relay. This included a 70 day tour road show for LOCOG where he interviewed some of the countries greatest sportsmen and woman including Daley Thompson, Lennox Lewis, Torvill and Dean.

Andy is a diverse presenter and has fronted several factual shows for the BBC; including Teens From a Small Island, Stammer School and his personal favourite, World Olympic Dreams – where he went to Jamaica to investigate why Jamaicans run so fast and even had the pleasure of interviewing sprinting superstar Usain Bolt, whom he later went on to write an article about for BBC Sport Online.

Within the last year Andy has showed various sides to his personality and talents. He graced our screens on ITV’s hit Saturday night show Dancing on Ice, put his baking skills to the test in a special series of The Great Comic Relief British Bake Off on BBC Two, joined The Great British Banquet, reported for The Gabby Logan Show on Channel 5, presented The 100 Greatest Toys for Channel 4 and continues to host The Great Christmas Toy Give Away for Channel 5, Battlefield Showdown for Xbox Live, and is on his third series of ITV’s adventure game show Fort Boyard: Ultimate Challenge.

Andy has a very strong social conscience and works closely with several charities. He is the ambassador of two charities – Street Child World Cup in Rio and Body and Soul. He has several projects in the pipeline for this year and next, which will see him travel to Brazil and Sierra Leone, documenting on aids, HIV, street children, young carers and many more issues facing communities globally.

Andy is a member of BAFTA and presents their yearly Young Film Critic Awards. He will also be working in partnership with BAFTA and Total Film this summer for British Airways Silent Picturehouse, an event in London with a unique cinematic experience!

Andy is a keen traveller, having been to over 120 cities across the globe. This provides the inspiration for writing his blog, which is based on his love of music, travel and photography. His photographs were so good that they have been published in National Geographic Kids Magazine and Vogue Bambini. Andy will also be writing for the digital magazine The Maior – a collective space for talent, ideas, interviews and film for the fledgling greats, the innovators and the divergent.

Femi Oguns



Olufemi Ogunsanwo MBE, known professionally as Femi Oguns, is a British playwright, theatre producer and founder of Identity Theatre School and Identity Drama School.

As a playwright, his first play Torn has previewed at the Arcola Theatre in Dalston, London. A Romeo and Juliet-style story centred on the Nigerian and Jamaican communities in London, Torn received mixed reviews: The Stage described it as a "lively and relevant new play" but "clunky";The Times as "street smart" but "a sprawling, chaotic piece of writing desperately in need of the attentions of a disciplined script editor".

As an actor, Oguns has had roles in British TV shows Prime Suspect 6: The Last Witness, The Bill and EastEnders and at the Arcola theatre.
He was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2014 Birthday Honours for services to acting.

Gary Carr



Gary Carr (born, 11 December 1986, London) is an English stage, film and television actor, dancer and musician. His parents are members of the Yoruba tribe from Nigeria. He is an actor, known for Death in Paradise (2011), Bolden! (2015), Law & Order: UK (2009), Holby City (2009), Silent Witness (2009) and Downton Abbey (2010).

Carr began training at the National Youth Music Theatre of Great Britain, then trained at the Arts Educational Performing Arts College from 2003 through 2005, and then at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) from 2005 to 2008 with a scholarship from the Leverhulme Trust. It was during his first year of training that he obtained a role in the play Yerma written by Spanish playwright Federico García Lorca, in which he acted alongside Olivier Award winning actress Kathryn Hunter, at the Arcola Theatre.

Since graduating from LAMDA in July 2008, he has appeared in roles for BBC and ITV productions and in the Royal National Theatre production of Dido Queen of Carthage, written by Christopher Marlowe and directed by James Macdonald. His theatrical work includes Yerma and Macbeth. In November 2009, he played the lead role in the Royal National Theatre stage production of the Terry Pratchett novel Nation, adapted by Mark Ravenhill and directed by Melly Still. He will be in the original cast of the play Earthquakes in London at the National Theatre. From January to March 2014, he played Ade in The Pass at the Royal Court upstairs.

FFKfuckedBIANCA:

covenant university

babcock university

redemeers university

olabisi onabanjo university

university of agriculture, abeokuta

tai solarin university of education

crawford university

chrisland university

bells university

adetokunbo university

christopher university

mountaintop university

hallmark university

mcpherson university

crescent university

southwester university

Wow!! All in one state??

The Bullitts (Seal's younger brother).



Jeymes Samuel (born July 27, 1979), also known by his stage name The Bullitts, is a British singer-songwriter, music producer and filmmaker from London. Samuel has a cinematic element to his music and has accompanied most of his releases with a short film. His second studio album, titled They Die By Dawn & Other Short Stories..., was released in July 2013. The album was supported by the singles "Close Your Eyes" (featuring Lucy Liu and Jay Electronica), "Landspeeder", "Supercool" and "World Inside Your Rainbow".

In early 2013, Samuel released a short film titled They Die By Dawn, with a star-filled cast that includes Michael K. Williams, Erykah Badu, Isaiah Washington, Jesse Williams and Rosario Dawson. The film, which is a gun-slinging, black cowboy western, was accompanied by the music from Samuel's second album.[13] Samuel's first album under the moniker The Bullitts, is titled They Die By Dawn & Other Short Stories... and was released on 9 July 2013. The album, which is Samuel's second studio release overall, was produced entirely by himself and features guest appearances from Jay Electronica, Lucy Liu, Mos Def, Rosario Dawson, Doxi Jones and Tori Amos.

Shymm3x:
Do you know rapper, Nelly, who sold over 30 million records and his investments in apple bottoms and VOKAL designers? If you do, then you should know the brain behind both Apple Bottoms and VOKAL - Yomi Martin - a Yoruba son.

Yomi Martin



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Yomi Martin turned a $300 investment into a $22 million business. In 1997, Martin and local rappers Nelly and Kyjuan each kicked in $100 to have 30 T-shirts made featuring the St. Lunatics music group. Martin then sold the shirts for $20 each at a concert on Laclede's Landing.
"I was just being young and enterprising, and one thing led to another," Martin said.

Today, Martin is chief executive of Vokal Clothing, which has evolved from T-shirts to an entire urban clothing line that includes jeans, jerseys, jackets, sweatpants, hats and headbands. The company's headquarters is in the fashion district in New York City. Martin, who lives in St. Louis, also has offices here on Washington Avenue.

Martin now is working on a deal for a new, upscale urban line called A-Klass, which has more of a corporate casual look to it. The line should be available in the next two years, he said.

"We're getting older, and we're growing," Martin said. "We don't wear sweatsuits seven days a week anymore. We're wearing buttoned shirts and nice jeans."

"We started living together and started the whole rap thing," Martin said. "I couldn't rap. I think my rap career lasted about a half hour."
Martin considers Nelly a mentor. "My father wasn't around too much, so Nelly told me the ways of the world from a male standpoint," Martin said.

Joseph Hipskind, an attorney with Stinson Morrison Hecker who nominated Martin, said he fits the mold of the 30 Under 30 award.
"There are very few individuals under 30 who have accomplished as much as Yomi," Hipskind said

COOL.....

Diran Adebayo



Diran Adebayo FRSL is a British novelist, cultural critic and academic best known for his stylish, inventive tales of London and the lives of African diasporans. His work has been characterised by its interest in multiple cultural identities, subcultures, and its distinctive, "musical" use of language. His work has won many awards and wide acclaim from critics. His fans include the writer Zadie Smith, who has praised him for his "humanness", arguing that he is one of a few English writers who "trade in both knowledge and feeling". In 2002 The Times Literary Supplement named him as one of the Best Young British Novelists.

Born Oludiran Adebayo in London in 1968, to Nigerian parents, Adebayo won a major scholarship when he was twelve to Malvern College where he boarded as an adolescent, and is an Oxford University Law graduate. Among his friends at Wadham College, Oxford, were the writers Monica Ali and Hari Kunzru, while the Afro-Futurist critic and theorist Kodwo Eshun, whom Adebayo cites in his Acknowledgements to Some Kind of Black, was another university contemporary.

Adebayo's debut novel, Some Kind of Black, centred on the youthful adventures of its protagonist, Dele, was one of the first to articulate a British-born African perspective, and it won him numerous awards, including the Writers' Guild of Great Britain's New Writer of the Year Award, the Author's Club First Novel Award, the 1996 Saga Prize, and a Betty Trask Award.[10] It was also longlisted for the Booker Prize, serialised on British radio and is now a Virago Modern Classic. "It is difficult to discuss the book without talking in terms of its uniqueness - and without resorting to superlatives...a tremendously rich, subtle and nuanced read", said The Scotsman, while The Times called him a "A gloriously capable and confident writer". His follow-up, the fable My Once Upon A Time, set in a near-future London-like western city, fused noir with Yoruba folklore to striking effect, and solidified his reputation as a groundbreaker. The book uses the song "Heaven and Hell" by Chef Raekwon of the Wu-Tang Clan as a thread running through the novel. Much attention was again given to his wit and to the deft deployment of different registers and styles of language. "Diran Adebayo confirms his promise as a writer of vibrant originality....This is a book that sings: its prose, a giddy mixture of English and patois, Runyonesque flights of descriptive fantasy and the musical cadences of street-slang, is by turns rhapsodic, exhilarating and poignant," said The Telegraph.

In 2000, Vienna University awarded Adebayo the $60,000 Abraham Woursell stipend, a prize for young noteworthy European writers. In 2004 he co-edited New Writing 12, the British Council's annual anthology of British and Commonwealth literature, with Blake Morrison and Jane Rogers. In 2005, Adebayo was the first Guest Director of the Cheltenham Literature Festival and wrote the documentary Out of Africa for BBC Television. In 2009, Adebayo donated the short story "Calculus" to Oxfam's "Ox-Tales" project, four collections of UK stories written by 38 authors. His story was published in the "Air" collection.

In 2006 Adebayo was the International Writing Fellow at Southampton University, before a residency at Georgetown University.
Adebayo had worked as Senior News Reporter at The Voice newspaper and as a reporter on BBC Television before his manuscript for Some Kind of Black won the Saga Prize. He was formerly a columnist for the now defunct New Nation newspaper, and is one of the leading commentators on Race in Britain, as well as writing on arts and sports for newspapers such as The Guardian, The Independent and New Statesman magazine.

Adebayo is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the Santa Maddalena Foundation, and a former trustee of The Book Trust and the Arts Council of England. He lives in London and is the younger brother of the writer, journalist, publisher and broadcaster Dotun Adebayo.

Aareonakakanfo:
FFKfuckedBianca did you see wizguy's comment on universities in Ogun state?

hmmmmm
i just saw it. I'm sorry he got his info wrong. 16 out of the 17 universities in Ogun have been accredited including Chrisland Millenium University which he mentioned.

laudate:

Wow!! All in one state??

Expect more

Incredible.

I'm astonished!!

Charles A. Adeogun-Phillips



Charles Ayodeji Adeogun-Phillips (born in London, England, on 6 March 1966) is a former genocide and war crimes prosecutor, international lawyer, and founder of Charles Anthony (Lawyers) LLP.

He's the son of Professor Anthony Adeyemi Adeogun, Professor Emeritus of Commercial and Industrial Law and Deputy Vice-Chancellor, University of Lagos, an international labour law expert. His mother, Margaret Amba Ayinke Adeogun (née Williams), is a retired nurse and midwife.

He is a grandson of Phillip Bamgbose and Theresa Fatola Adeogun of Ajale Compound Igbajo, Osun State, Federal Republic of Nigeria, and of Henry Isaac Kobina-Badu Williams, of Cape Coast, Republic of Ghana and Joanna Olasumbo Williams of Itesi, Abeokuta, Ogun State, Federal Republic of Nigeria. His name "Ayodeji" means "My joy is doubled" in Yoruba.

He was educated at C.M.S Grammar School, Lagos, Nigeria's first secondary school (founded in 1859) and at Repton School in Derbyshire, England. He read law at Warwick University from where he graduated in 1989 and at the School of African and Oriental Studies (SOAS), University of London, where he obtained his Master's degree in International Commercial Arbitration and ADR in 1994. He was admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria in 1992 and in 1996, as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales.

In March 2001 at the age 35, he was appointed senior trial attorney and lead counsel at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, leading teams of international lawyers in the prosecution of persons involved in the 1994 Rwandan genocide in which an estimated 800,000 civilians were killed.

laudate:


Wow!! All in one state??

They are even more than that.

Alexander Amosu



Growing up on a north London council estate, Alexander Amosu learned earlier than most that there were two ways to get what you want in life. “You either stole it, or you found a way of paying for it.” Amosu, now 33, opted for the latter. He got a £10-a-week paper round and earned enough money to buy a new pair of Nike trainers in weeks. “I realised then that I didn’t want to be poor anymore.” He tried several businesses, from cleaning services for pregnant women to organising parties, until in 2000 he hit upon an idea that saw him quit his degree in computer engineering.

Playing around with a new Nokia 3210, Amosu sent his brother a ringtone, which he had just made using the phone’s composing facility. Based on the tune Big Pimpin’ by the rapper Jay-Z, it was an instant hit with his brother’s classmates, 21 of whom came knocking at his front door the next evening looking for it. “So I put my entrepreneur hat on and said, if you want it, you’ll have to pay £1 each.” That evening, “I sat there with £21 on my lap and thought, what would happen if I made 100 or 200 ringtones”?

Amosu found there were only two other firms making ringtones, both focusing on pop-music-based tones. “There didn’t seem to be anyone doing hip hop or R&B. I thought it was my duty to bring those ringtones to the world.” His father was none too pleased. “He said I was throwing my life away playing with mobile phones.” But Amosu hooked up a premium-rate phone line to his home in Wood Green and advertised on the back of 20,000 fliers he’d made for a party at university. “I made £6 in the first day, and aggressively grew from there.” Within four months, he’d made enough money to get a £2,000 a month office in Islington, which he kitted out with 21 staff. Half were taking calls, while the others made the ringtones. “There were other teenagers like me making ringtones, so I put adverts around colleges for ‘designers’ at £5 an hour.” Now called R&B Ringtones, the firm advertised in newspapers and on TV. “If we did a full-page advert in The Sun for £6,000, we would get five times that back in a week. That’s how phenomenal the market was.”

At the end of his first year, his accountant told him he’d turned over £1.6m. “I said, ‘Hold on, let me go to the ATM and check if you’re pulling my leg’. And there was over a million in the bank.” Over the next three years, the group did another £6.3m in sales, before Amosu decided to sell up. “Every Tom, Dick and Harry was doing ringtones. When we put another £6,000 ad in The Sun, we got back £6,000 a week later.” A German telecom who wanted his ringtone back catalogue paid just under £9m for the firm in 2004. Amosu got married, had “two kids and moved to Edmonton, where I bought a three-bed penthouse” and began working on his next venture: designing phones for the rich and famous. But despite his rapid success, he is no fan of the ‘money is everything’ mentality. “For the older generation, their way of being successful was through education. Unfortunately now, you can be a footballer and a multi-millionaire, and be unable to read or write. Things have changed.”

He previously created the most expensive iPhone 2, which sold for £89,000, as well as the world's most expensive Blackberry, which sold for £120,000.

He also holds the Guinness World Record for the most expensive suit (£75,000) and most expensive champagne (£1.2million).

Whaoooooooooo

We are indeed blessed.

Too bad we found ourselves in this sh1thole called Nigeria.

Shymm3x

This is an awesome compilation.

Dats anoda attestation 2 d maturity of igbos. Infact na yorrobas dey make us talk too much 4 ds country.make I no too tok,cos meself like good tin.I won't say more so it won't look as tho I want 2 derail d buriful thread

ARIZONA123:
See as my brothers from East respected this thread wella. If na d other way round now. The amala ewedu oily mouth with Yoruba coneheaded bastardt would have flooded the thread spitting round d space with their ewedu smelling mouth. Cursed fo.ols

Aareonakakanfo:
All we need is Kabba-Bunu,Yagba-West,Yagba-East,Mopa-Muro,Ìjùmú and half of lokoja area which is occupied by Oworos plus Kwaras state

Kwara minus the following local governments.

Pategi - Nupes
Edu - Nupes
Baruten - Baribas

Then we are good to go.

BRIEF HISTORY OF OKUN PEOPLE for those who do not know



Okun people are Yoruba descendants in Kogi state. Kogi is a multi ethnic state and Okun people are up to 20% of Kogi State population, smaller than the other two major completely different tribes, Igala and Ebira. Okun people spread across six local government areas in Kogi State, known as Kabba-Bunu, Yagba-West, Yagba-East, Mopa-Muro, Ìjùmú and Lokoja local government Areas.

They speak varied dialects…Owé, Ìyàgbà, Ìjùmú, Bùnú and Oworo, but their language is generally called Okun, Okun has become a form of greeting among them.

They understand one another to a greater extent and large numbers of them speak Yoruba. Their dialects are influenced by various factors. Such factor is that Kogi state shares boundaries with Kwara, Ondo, Ekiti, Niger, Benue, Nassarawa, Anambra, Enugu, Edo and Abuja. Also, The Nupe wars of the 19th century and interaction with the Hausas due to geographical zoning left an indelible mark on the Okun people and their dialects.

According to oral source, Okun people migrated from Ile Ife when Yorubas were spreading to occupy more lands, before spreading out, each and everyone was instructed to report to Ile Ife for a yearly meeting. The man, that led group of young people to a location (now called YAGBA) in Kogi state did not return over a long period of time.

When eventually returned and explained that he lost larger part of his acquired land to some other migrants. He was blamed for the loss and said in yoruba, ”ÌYÀ ÀGBÀ LÓ JEMÍ” meaning that invasion of his acqured land was due to lack of having elderly people with him. Since then, they started mocking him at Ile Ife, calling him Iya agba . They associated this name with him whenever they wanted to send messages across to him after returning to his occupied area, now called Yagba.

Okun people faced lots of challenges, ranging from geo political zoning, marginlisation and problem of identity. Their problem started during the colonial era when they were politically ceded to the Northern protectorate by Lord Lugard, the Governor-General of Nigeria. The abolition of the provincial and regional administrative units in 1967 led to their merging with Ilorin to form old Kwara state. Then, Igala was merged with old Benue State. However, on 27th of august 1991, Okun people was removed again and merged with Ebira, Igala from Benue state and some other tribes to form Kogi state.

Okun indigenes moved against merging them with completely different tribes but they were forced into this marriage. Since then, Igala and Ebira have used high population to merginlise Okun people politically and in resource allocation. When an Igala man tells you ‘Omi na kaye, ma joje ma mu du’, he is telling you he would consume whatever available in his surrounding. And that is exactly what is presently happening to in their resource allocation. Their efforts to break away and form Okun State, which could make it possible for them to be more closer to their Kiths and Kins in the South West, failed to materialise.

Concerning Identity problem, The Yorubas in South West are trying to link the identity of Okun people to their Kiths and Kins in South West going by history and shared traits but their counterparts who want Okun people to remain a minority tribe in the entity called Nigeria, claimed that Okun people are not Yorubas and Yoruba is only trying to expand their Kingdom. Okun people bear Yoruba names like Edo people, lots of them speak yoruba and many of their settlements are named in yoruba language such as Kajola, Egbeda, Egbeda Ega, Okedayo, Odo Ere, Odo Eri, Ife, Iyamoye, Agbaja, Igbo Nla and Obajana. Even, groups that make up Bunu people of Okun are Okemeta, Okemesan, Akumerindinlogun and Kiri groups.

Most of these geniuses should give back tot heir native community

[size=14pt]Nigerian-born business dean to lead Westminster College[/size]



Westminister College in Fulton, Mo., has named a Webster University business dean to be its next president.

Benjamin Akande will become Westminster's 21st president on July 1.

He will replace George B. Forsythe, president since 2008, who is retiring after 10 years.

The leadership change was announced Friday morning in Fulton.

“We’re proud to introduce Dr. Akande as president of Westminster College,” said Wallace L. Head, chairman of the Westminster Board of Trustees, in a news release. “We’ve achieved our year-long goal of finding the most qualified person to lead Westminster and to continue executing our strategic plan.

“It includes developing leaders for a global community by establishing one of the country’s most internationally diverse colleges, and maintaining a graduate placement rate that exceeds 95 percent,” he added.

Akande, a Nigerian-born American citizen, is a professor of economics and dean of the George Herbert Walker School of Business and Technology at Webster University. He also leads Webster’s global Office of Corporate Partnerships.

Akande came to the U.S. to attend Wayland Baptist University in Plainview, Texas, where he earned a bachelor's degree in business administration. He has a doctorate of economics from the University of Oklahoma, and completed post-doctoral studies at Harvard and Oxford.

“Westminster offers a distinctive destination for undergraduate education focused on student achievement and diversity, which are critically important,” Ankande said in a news release. “We must prepare graduates to live and work in a world that is far more diverse and richer in new opportunities than ever before.”

Westminster’s nearly 1,000 students are from 28 U.S. states and 76 countries worldwide.


http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/education/nigerian-born-business-dean-to-lead-westminster-college/article_5535fb9a-ca8b-570b-b42b-525e40aa0d3f.html

Aareonakakanfo! I always thought that Oba Otudeko is a Yoruba mornach.

Aareonakakanfo! I always thought that Oba Otudeko is a Yoruba mornach.

Shymm3x. Eku Ise am reading every bit of what you are posting. Yorubas in diaspora ain't doing bad at all. (especially in the US & UK).

The Sky is our Limit!!!

The woman right here is one of the biggest young black entrepreneurs in the UK.

Michelle Ogundehin



Michelle Ogundehin, the editor-in-chief of Elle Decoration magazine

Describe the magazine

ELLE Decoration is the world's biggest-selling homes magazine – it is read by anyone who loves their home and has an interest in contemporary design.

Who are your main rivals?

I don't believe we have rivals as such; other magazines in our sector do a great job for different audiences. We talk to a style-conscious, smart crowd who know their own minds or want to learn how to get to that point.

Of which feature are you most proud?

Our features are a mix of inspiration, information and ideas. Our annual hosting of the British Design Awards is the jewel in our crown.

ELLE DecorationWhat is your approach to celebrities?

Celebrity does not automatically connote talent. Just because someone is famous, it does not mean they have class or style, and that is what excites us. We are only interested in featuring authentic, passionate people with something unique or special to say.

What are your plans for the next 12 months?

We'll be refining the design and layout of the magazine, bettering our editorial and honing our offer. We will also be working on boosting our online profile.

Describe your relationship with PROs

The ones I love know what it is like, and the ones I don't, don't!

Any PR pet peeves?

I wish PROs would get into the habit of spell and grammar checking their press releases, get to the point in the first paragraph, always send an image sheet with any CD, stop sending me rubbish peddled as 'hot new design', desist sending me emails written in a chatty, over-familiar format, and never email me high-res shots as they crash my computer.

Got about 60 more names to post.

I think I need to take a break for now.

Cheers.