ndi igbo igbo mmammanu !!

THE AMAKA:

lolol probably not.
i dont have his number.
and i think he makes pretty decent money, i wont say "rich".

I can't find any of his videos on You tube, he must not be doing very well.

kegikwanu:

ndi igbo igbo mmammanu !!

Are you Igbo

yes I am and a proud one,

Um. . . how exactly is Ne-Yo Igbo?

ne-yo said he's AA and chinese and pple question his middle name http://concreteloop.com/interviews-neyo?cp=2

exactly! aloy should remove him from this thread.
he doesnt claim to be nigerian nor does he care about nigerians.
he has declared himself an AA even with a middle name as obvious as "Chimere"
what does he have to hide? what is he ashamed of? his nigerian heritage?
ABEG, THERE IS NOTHING TO CELEBRATE WITH THIS AA!
why should we be claiming or reppin something that doesnt wanna rep us?

its pointless.


Ne- Yo is an American artist, NEXT!!

Igbo and Asian groups share similar names, though with radically different meanings (i.e. Chimere, Chizu, Chisa, Chika). So his name doesn't convince me of his Igboness, especially considering his Asian roots.

Ndubuisi Ekekwe

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Ndubuisi Ekekwe was born in Ovim, Abia state. He attended Secondary Technical School, Ovim and the Federal University of Technology, Owerri where he graduated as the best student in the department of electrical & computer engineering with specialization in electronics/computer engineering in 1998.

He holds four masters degrees: MBA (University of Calabar), MTech (Federal University of Technology, Akure), Ms (Tuskegee University, USA), MSE (Johns Hopkins University, USA) and a doctorate in management from St. Clements University.

Ndubuisi is certified in many key technologies and has published many technical papers in leading journals and conferences. His working experiences include NNPC and Diamond Bank. He holds two pending patents on microelectronics and has consulted for universities, World Bank, and firms. He also holds visiting appointments in two African universities and presently the principal investigator of emerging Africa’s first microelectronics institute. He is attending the African Union congress in Kenya this March and will join a leading US semiconductor firm as a team shaping the future of computing.

Ndubuisi is the Founder/President of African Institution of Technology. He is selected for inclusion in the Marquis Who’s Who in America (2010 edition) and Strathmore’s Who’s Who Worldwide (2009). His first book, Nanotechnology and Microelectronics: Global Diffusion, Economics and Policy, by IGI Global, USA will be ready early next year.

ndubuisi joro njo sha

ChinenyeN:

Igbo and Asian groups share similar names, though with radically different meanings (i.e. Chimere, Chizu, Chisa, Chika). So his name doesn't convince me of his Igboness, especially considering his Asian roots.

Ne-yo
Shaffer Chimere Smith (October 18, 1982), better known by his stage name Ne-Yo, is an American R&B and pop singer-songwriter, record producer, dancer, actor and occasional rapper. He is of African American, Igbo, and Chinese American people heritage.

http://celeb9.com/celeb/Ne-yo


From His website:

Shaffer Chimere Smith (October 18, 1982) better known by his stage name Ne-Yo, is an American R&B and pop singer-songwriter. He is of African-American, and Igbo heritage.

Ne-Yo's debut album, In My Own Words, was released in early 2006, through Def Jam Recordings, and debuted at number one on Billboard 200, selling over 301,000 copies in the first week. During the same week, Ne-Yo's second single "So Sick" (produced by Stargate) reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart writing such songs as Rihanna's top ten hit "Unfaithful", Mario's "Let Me Love You", Mario Vazquez's "Gallery", Paula DeAnda's "Walk Away (Remember Me)", and Beyoncé's Billboard Hot 100 ten-week number-one hit "Irreplaceable".

http://www.neyo-fan.com/

Kimberly Anyadike
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15 year-old Kimberly Anyadike is the youngest African-American female to fly solo across the country. Anyadike made history by flying across country – logging 7,000 miles – from Compton to Newport News, Va., in 13 days. Kimberly, who started flying at the age of twelve years old, was accompanied by legendary Tuskegee Airman, Levi Thornhill.

Kimberly, who lives in Inglewood, was praised for her courage at flying a single-engine Cessna aircraft across America unsupervised, from Compton Woodley Airport to Newport News, Virginia, which are opposite parts of the country. And she has been honoured for the feat.

In her blaze of glory, Kimberly not only appeared on Cable News Network (CNN), but has also been hosted by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger of California within a space of hours

Onye si Neyo wu onye igbo biko? Na wa o!

ADAKU OKPI FOR ROCAWEAR'S I WILL NOT LOSE CAMPAIGN
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This paritcular AD is featured in September Essence. Adaku and son Ryan were chosen to be in Rocawear's Kids ads.

Okpi's story all ties back to iwillnotlose.org, where users can submit their stories of perseverance and triumph over adversity.



Rocawear "I Will Not Lose Campaign" currently features R&B songtress Ciara, America's Next Top Model alum Tocarra, R&B crossover prince Chris Brown, and Oscar-winning rap duo Three 6 Mafia. Feels Good 2 B Home has an exclusive look at the image of Adaku Okpi and her son, Ryan Harris.


Adaku Okpi of Rocawear Marketing pose with R&B songtress Ciara and hip-hop mogul Jay Z at New York City's nightspot, Baddakan.

Chinyelu Susan Onwurah


Labour choose Chi Onwurah for Newcastle Central
Local Labour Party members in Newcastle Central constituency have today chosen Chi Onwurah to be their candidate at the next general election in 2010.

Members met at a hustings meeting held at Westgate Community College to choose a successor to long-serving Labour MP Jim Cousins who announced his intention to retire after 22 years in Parliament.

Chinyelu Susan Onwurah, aged 44, Born in Newcastle upon Tyne, she attended Kenton Comprehensive School where she was elected as the school’s “MP”.

She is currently a Senior Engineer working in the public sector.

Chi Onwurah said;“I am honoured to have been selected as Labour’s candidate for Newcastle Central. Jim Cousins was an MP of huge standing, great integrity and a great example to follow. This is my home city. I was born here, welcomed back as a child and educated in the City. I owe everything to the people of Newcastle and now this is an opportunity to show my appreciation to them for the chances in life they have given me.”

Dr Kalvin Chinyere
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Kalvin Chinyere, M.D., fondly known as Dr. Kal, is a weight loss expert and the creator of The Don't Go Broke Diet. Dr. Kal was an overweight child, an obese teen and a morbidly obese adult. He tipped the scale at over 330 pounds. Dr. Kal has since lost and kept off over 140 pounds naturally. Learn more about the Don't Go Broke Diet at his weight loss blog and his weight loss program website.

(c) Copyright - Kalvin Chinyere. All Right Reserved Worldwide

Author Specialises in Articles on : Lose Weight & Cheese

Kalvin is looking good. I like

IGBO KWENU!!!!

Kriss Kezie Uche Chukwu Duru Akabusi



From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Kriss Kezie Uche Chukwu Duru Akabusi MBE (28 November 1958) is a former athlete who went on to become a television presenter and motivational speaker.
Before his career as an athlete Akabusi joined the British Army in 1975 and had a successful career in the Royal Corps of Signals before switching to the Army Physical Training Corps in 1981. When he was discharged into the reserves at the end of his army career he held the rank of Warrant Officer Class 2.
In 1983 Akabusi embarked upon his athletics career as 400M hurdler and member of the 4x400M relay team, enjoying a successful time and winning three medals at the Summer Olympics and three World Championship medals, amongst others. In 1990 he broke David Hemery's longstanding British record on his way to a Gold medal for the 400M hurdles at the European Championships.
Akabusi has presented the television shows Record Breakers and The Big Breakfast, and has regularly appeared as a panelist on many quiz shows such as A Question of Sport, They Think It's All Over and Through the Keyhole. Through these appearances he became well known for having an over-the-top laugh. He appeared as a milkman in the 1997 Last Of The Summer Wine episode "There Goes The Groom".
In 1992, along with fellow relay team member Roger Black, Akabusi was awarded an Honorary degree from the University of Southampton. Also that year he was awarded the MBE by Queen Elizabeth II in recognition of his services to the country through athletics.
In 2008 he was honoured by The University College London Union (UCLU) when the second floor bar was rebranded the "Kriss Akabusi Pleasure Lounge" (KAPL) after a poll of the student body.

Ngozi Paul

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Ngozi has become loved by audiences and critics alike, for her role of Starr, the wide-eyed beauty trying to find herself at Letty’s salon - da kink in my hair (Canada). She is the Executive Producer/Co-Creator/Writer/Lead Actor of the show.

Dynamic in every sense of the word, Ngozi is a true renaissance woman, who is committed to telling universal stories through her tuned Afro-centric perspective. Her resolute commitment to telling ethno-diverse stories is apparent in the compelling body of work that she has either appeared in or produced.

A celebrated actress, Ngozi has been described as bringing “electricity to all her roles” (NOW Magazine), and has achieved accolades for her gripping performances on both the stage and screen. She was named one of Toronto’s ‘Top Ten Actors’ by NOW Magazine, and was nominated for ‘Best Actress’ at U.K’s Black International Film Festival for her powerful performance as Susan in Bayan. On the stage, Ngozi is a proud recipient of Stratford Festival’s ‘Tyrone Guthrie Award’ and was praised for her portrayal of the young Nelson Mandela in Michael Miller’s play In the Freedom of Dreams. Most recently, Ngozi appeared in Talk to Me with Don Cheadle and was named Reelworld Film Festival’s ‘Trailblazer’.

As the founder and President of Ngozika Productions, a dynamic and cutting edge company, Ngozi has created diverse content, including the short film, SHADES. Ngozika productions produced the Canadian Urban Music Awards, a star-studded, exhilarating concert and awards show, which aired on SunTV. She also produced Urban X-Posure for CanWest Media, which aired on Global in 2007 and included incredible performances by such well-known Canadian artists as Jully Black, Kardinal Offishall, K-OS, and Keisha Chante.

Arinze Onuaku



Currently second in the Big East in field goal percentage, Onuaku gets loads of point blank looks thanks to his teammates being able to penetrate and draw defenders. With that said though, Onuaku shows great touch around the rim and his strength allows him to finish in traffic and with contact. He isn’t explosive enough to elevate over defenders as much as he goes through them, but if given room he can thrown down a thunderous dunk. Despite all of the looks he gets inside from slashing teammates Onuaku typically doesn’t move very well without the basketball. Aside from the occasional screen to set up the offense, he usually plants himself on the block even when on the weak side. Since he isn’t a threat to shoot at all from outside the immediate area of the hoop or to put the ball on the floor, Onuaku rarely will flash to the foul line area unless it is to screen the ball handler


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YES to Arinze . What a cutie

Chima Onyekwere

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Mr. Chima Apugo Onyekwere founded Linkserve, Nigeria’s first Internet Service Provider (ISP), an act that earned him the label “Father of Nigerian Internet”.

He hails from Abia State, but was born in London, United Kingdom, on 19th May 1961. He obtained his GCE A level at the Federal Government College Kano in 1979, and thereafter became a graduate of Geology at the University of Ife in 1985. He later went to Lagos and Harvard Business Schools for a Chief Executive Programme Diploma and the Owner/President Programme Diploma Certificates respectively.

Mr Chima Onyekwere is a recipient of several awards including the “Internet Pathfinder Award” of Nigeria’s ISP, Atcon’s “National Telecom Merit Award, IT and Telecoms “ICT Personality of the Year Award”, and the prestigious National honour of Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON).

Chichi and Chichi E

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Chichi and Chichi E is a fashion house/company with Vintique – The upscale couture line and Odi - the younger hipper version and ready to wear line from the fashion house. You may have come across Chichi E on the Tyra Banks show or spotted the duo in Philadelphia style magazine. They are based in America.

Chichi and Chichi E is run by sisters Chigozilu (Chi-Chi) and Chidelu (Chi-Chi E.) Enigwe

http://www.fashionafrica.com/designers/chichi-chichi-e/

http://www.usafashionshows.com/champagnefashionbrunch/vintique.htm

Uche Eze

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Nigeria's TMZ
24 year-old Uche Eze is the brains behind Bella Nigeria. Bella Naija is a Nigerian celebrity blog that passionately publishes fashion, entertainment news, info, gossips and gists. The blog also profiles Nigerian and African celebrities around the world.

The site aspires to become Africa’s Number 1 music, style, movie, TV and beauty website.

The site which started since July 2006 as a blog has become the most popular celebrity, fashion and entertainment news site for Nigerians in the Diaspora and back home. Uche aspires to make the site Africa’s Number 1 music, style, movie, TV and beauty website.

Bathlomew Nnaji

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Bartholomew Nnaji is a scientist, innovator and one of the inventors of the E-Design concept. He was born in Enugu State, and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in physics at St John's University, and then preceded to the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University for post-graduate studies.

He joined the faculty at University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1983. After a few years, he became the director and a founder of the Automation and Robotics Laboratory at the University. He was made a professor of mechanical and industrial engineering in 1992. As a researcher, he focused on three major topics: Computer Aided Design, Robotics and Computer Aided Engineering. Using the knowledge he gained from his research pursuits, he created the term geometric reasoning, the idea that most things we operate has a geometric configuration. He is also credited as one of the innovators of the E-design concept.

He is also the founder of the first indigenous owned power generating company in Nigeria and was also a former minister for Science and Technology in the country.

Antonia Okonma
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Antonia Okonma is an actress of Igbo descent. She is best known for playing the role of Darlene Cake in the ITV1 series Bad Girls from 2004–2006.

In 2004, Okonma won a GAB award for Best Newcomer and a Screen Nation award for Best Emerging Talent for her work in Bad Girls.

Her other work includes roles in the British feature films Screaming Blue Murder and Rabbit Fever and an appearance in the short RUF 992m. She once worked as an extra on an episode of Hollyoaks.

On stage, Okonma has acted at the Royal Court and the Riverside Studios. She is currently starring in Torn at the Arcola Theatre alongside Brooke Kinsella and Jocelyn Jee Esien.

She has also taken part in the reality TV programmes Strictly African Dancing. She also performed as Tina Turner on celebrity Stars in Their Eyes. In late 2007 she was a contestant on the second series of Cirque de Celebrité on Sky One.

Antonia has degrees in Accounting and Finance and trained with the Royal Court's Young People's Theatre for two years.

Jay Jay Okocha[Nigerian icon]

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Perhaps one of Africa’s greatest footballers, without doubt the most entertaining footballer that Africa has ever produced, Jay-Jay is listed in football legend Pelé's FIFA 100 (a list of the greatest 125 living players of all time).

Born in Enugu, Okocha started his soccer career with hometown club, Enugu Rangers International In 1992 Okocha joined Eintracht Frankfurt where he linked up with many well-known players including Ghanaian international striker Tony Yeboah, German keeper Thomas Ernst and later Thomas Doll.

In 1996, Okocha joined Turkish giants Fenerbahçe following Eintracht Frankfurt's relegation to Bundesliga 2. While at Fenerbahçe he became a Turkish citizen.

In 1998 French side PSG splashed around $24 million on Okocha, making him the most expensive African player at the time.

Okocha joined Bolton Wanderers on a free transfer after leaving PSG in the summer of 2002. He quickly became a favourite with the Bolton fans, with the team printing shirts with the inscription "Jay-Jay - so good they named him twice".

As captain he led Bolton to their first cup final in nine years where they finished runners-up in the 2004 Football League Cup. Okocha also played in Qatar and for Hull City. JJ played 75 times for Nigeria.

Okocha is retired. He is married to Nkechi and they have two children Danielle and A-Jay. Okocha owns a bar in Lagos named Number 10.

Ben Chuka Enwonwu[Nigerian Icon]

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Benedict Enwonwu, better known as Ben Enwonwu was a renowned painter and sculptor.

Born in Onitsha and schooled in government colleges there before travelling to pursue secondary education in Europe, Benedict Enwonwu grew up to become perhaps the foremost Nigerian artist of his time. In England he studied Fine Art, Aesthetics, History of Western Art and Anthropology and began an artistic career in earnest. In 1946 he participated in a UN-sponsored international exhibition in Paris; two years later he held his first one-man show in London.

Working with diverse media in his painting and sculpture-wood, bronze, metal, plastics, plaster, cement, oil and watercolors, Enwonwu's work was popular throughout his career, which was brought to international attention when Queen Elizabeth II sat for him at Buckingham Palace in the late 1950s. He became the first black man on earth to get such privilege in a period when racism was alive and well. Enwonwu's work was so good that it transcended racism. In 1959 he returned to Nigeria as official art adviser to the federal government. He quit public service in 1971 to serve as a visiting professor of African studies at Howard University, Washington, D.C., and as professor of fine arts at the University of Ife, Nigeria. He retired in 1975. Enwonwu’s other notable works include the carved doors of the chapel for[b] the Apostolic Delegation in Lagos and an elegant bronze figure of a woman donated by the Nigerian government to the UN headquarters in New York City in 1966. He was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 1958 and received the Nigerian National Merit Award in 1980[/b]

Enwonwu exhibited sculpture around the world, at London's Berkeley galleries (1947), Howard University (1950), the Galerie Apollinaire (1950), the Goethe Institute (1976) and the Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (2001). He also wrote of the politics contained in visual art cultures, and was a proponent of using artistic expression to provide local or individual representation, even in the face of Western art forms or techniques.

Enwonwu died in 1994

Aloy, is that site run by Ne-Yo's people, or one of Ne-Yo's fans? Either way, I'm still having a difficult time accepting it, but oh well.

^^^

i wont accept it unless Ne-Yo openly says it himself or someone can quote him saying it.