Platinumnk, Voice of the Cross are your uncles? Small world. I know/knew them personally. They were like uncles to me. I remember, back when I was younger, they would stay in our house whenever they visited our part of the states (they used to visit a lot). My father played piano on their albums, and he also played piano for them whenever they visited here and performed.

My favorite song of theirs that they would sing was, "I have seen the Lord's goodness. His mercies and compassion. I have seen the Lord's goodness. Halleluja, praise the Lord." The good old days.

As for Ne-Yo, oh well. .

udezue:

Oh Oh I remember Dr. Alban back when I was nappy headed lil boi.
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Carolina was his best song from my opinion:
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Hello Africa was good too. But he plays mainly European kinda music: Techno.

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Nonso Anozie (born 1979) is an actor who has appeared in several stage plays and four films to date.

In the summer of 2002 he became the youngest person in history to play William Shakespeare's "King Lear" and won the Ian Charleson Award in 2005 for his performance as Othello.

He was the winner of the 2004 Magnolia Stage Performance Award in China and was the first non-Chinese to be honoured with the prize of best actor.

Anozie was hired in 2006 to provide the voice for the armoured bear Iorek Byrnison in the film adaptation of Philip Pullman's Northern Lights. The actor was to later be replaced by Ian McKellen two months before the film is set to be released.

Nonso recently stared in Cass, a true story of one man's identity struggle and ultimate redemption.

Amaka Igwe


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Mrs. Amaka Igwe is CEO of Best of the Best Television, known as BOBTV. Popularly known before now as the CEO of Amaka Igwe Studios,

She is one of the foremost movie directors in Nigeria today.

Her films have drawn international recognition to the home video industry. She is the producer of the award winning movie “forever” and the long standing soap opera Checkmate.

Coscharis

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Mr. Cosmos Maduka is the chairman of Coscharis Group of companies. He is a native of Nnewi, Anambra State.

His is a story of grass to grace. Cosmos started out as a street hawker and today heads a multi million dollar international conglomerate with interests in technology, finance, the automobile industry, properties and beverages. He is also a born again christian and an evangelist.

He has an honorary Doctorate Degree of Science from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka.

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Nwankwo Kanu aka Papilo, is a professional footballer who plays as a striker for the Nigerian national team and for English club Portsmouth. He is the most decorated African footballer in history of the game, having won a UEFA Champions League medal, a UEFA Cup medal, three F.A. Cup Winners Medals and two African Player of the Year awards. He is the only current Premiership player to have won the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Cup, Premiership, FA Cup and an Olympic Gold Medal. Kanu is also a UNICEF ambassador.

He has played for Federation Works, Iwuanyanwu Nationale, Ajax, Inter, Arsenal, West Brom and Portsmouth.

Kanu has been a member of the Nigerian national team since 1994, making his debut against Sweden in a friendly. He is the current captain of the team.

Adaora Udoji

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Adaora Udoji is the co-host of The Takeaway with John Hockenberry. Previously, she was a host on Court TV. She is a former correspondent for CNN and ABC News and is based in New York City.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Michigan and a Juris Doctor degree from UCLA. In 2002, she married fellow television journalist Ron Allen of NBC News.

She joined ABC News in 1995, as an off-air reporter covering the O.J. Simpson criminal trial and other legal stories. In 1996 she became an associate producer for ABC News covering the presidential election, the TWA 800 crash, as well as working on documentary about death row. The network named her a foreign correspondent in 2000 where she was based in London reporting international stories covering Africa, the Middle East and Europe. She also contributed to Good Morning America, World News Weekend and ABC Radio. In 2003, Udoji joined CNN, where she served as a New York based correspondent covering stories from the 2004 presidential election, Katrina, the West Virginia Sago mine disaster, among many others for the network's television and radio outlets. And on April 25, 2006, it was announced that she had signed with Court TV News as an anchor.

Major international assignments that Udoji has covered include the 2003 Iraq War (from the Persian Gulf and Iraq), the 2001 war in Afghanistan (from Pakistan), the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (from Israel and Jordan) and events surrounding Pope John Paul II from Vatican City. She has also covered many sporting events, such as Wimbledon, The British Open and the Tour de France. In the United States, Udoji covered the 1996 Presidential campaign, the 1996 TWA Flight 800 incident and the O. J. Simpson criminal and civil trials. She was part of the team that won a CINE Eagle Award for an ABC prime time documentary about Death Row in 1997, and also participated as part of a CNN news team covering the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in and around New Orleans, Louisiana for which the network won a Peabody Award. In February 2005, Udoji was named as a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow.

Ugochukwu Ehiogu

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Ugochuku "Ugo" Ehiogu (born 3 November 1972 in Homerton, London) is a football player who currently plays for English side Sheffield United.

Ehiogu began his career at West Bromwich Albion as a trainee, turning professional in 1989. After just a few games for Albion in the Second Division, Ron Atkinson brought him to First Division Aston Villa for £40,000 in August 1991. By 1994, he had replaced Shaun Teale as the main central defensive partner to Paul McGrath.

He remained at the club for nine years, making over 300 appearances in all competitions. He was part of the Villa team that won the 1996 League Cup as Villa beat Leeds 3–0. Ehiogu also won a runners-up medal when Villa lost 1–0 to Chelsea in the 2000 FA Cup Final. He joined Middlesbrough from Villa in November 2000 for, at the time, a club record fee of £8 million.

Ugo Monye


Ugo Monye, born 13 April, 1983 in Islington, London is a rugby union player for Harlequins in the Guinness Premiership and England. He is mainly known for his blistering pace and his ability to get to the tryline no matter where he gets the ball. He has also represented England Saxons in their victorious 2008 Churchill Cup campaign, scoring a number of impressive solo tries in the campaign, including in the final.

Ugo Monye's position of choice is either on the wing or in the centres. He played many games in the 2007/2008 season at centre due to a shortage of centres.

Monye has been capped at Sevens level, as well as full international level for England national rugby union team.

Pearlena Igbokwe[ Naija women keeping it real]


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Pearlena Igbokwe is the Senior Vice President, 20TH CENTURY FOX TELEVISION. She oversees creative development and production for a distinctive and varied slate of scripted and non-fiction original programming for the premium cable network, Showtime.

Ms. Igbokwe developed and currently oversees creative affairs and production on a variety of projects including Dexter, a one hour drama series about an affable serial killer living in Miami starring Six Feet Under’s Michael C. Hall, The Underground, a provocative half hour sketch comedy show executive produced by and starring Damon Wayans, and Sexual Healing, a documentary series from the award winning producers of Taxicab Confessions that follows real life couples undergoing counseling for sexual dysfunction.

Most recently, Igbokwe also oversaw the development of several high profile projects including Fat Actress starring Kirstie Alley, and the TV adaptation of Barbershop starring Omar Gooding. She was also responsible for the five season run of the hit Showtime series Soul Food, which spent three seasons as Showtime’s highest rated series.

Other series she has developed and/or supervised include the popular late night reality show Family Business, the hip- hop docu drama Interscope Presents The Next Episode and Linc’s, a 1998 comedy series created by Tim Reid and starring Pam Grier.

Igbokwe has also overseen a number of original movies for Showtime Networks, Inc. In 2003, she developed and produced the highly rated Original movie Jasper, Texas, starring Academy Award winners Jon Voight and Lou Gossett, Jr. Jasper Texas was recently nominated for the Humanitas Prize. Additionally, she served as the executive on a variety of non-fiction productions ranging from the documentary specials 14 Up in America produced by Michael Apted, Dark Roots: The Unauthorized Anna Nicole directed by Eyes of Tammy Faye creators Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey.

Ms. Igbokwe was featured as an executive on the rise in the Hollywood Reporter’s Next Generation issue in 1999 and was named one of the Top 50 Show Biz Players in Black Enterprise magazine in 2002. She is a graduate of Yale University and Columbia Business School.

Ngozi Onwurah

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Ngozi Onwurah was born in Nigeria to a black Nigerian father and a white Scottish mother. She and younger brother Simon enjoyed a happy early childhood until the war broke out in Nigeria. Onwurah's mother fled with the two children to the safety of England while her father stayed behind to fight. However, the safety of England did not come without a price. In an interview for the German film festival Feminale, posted at www.feminale.de, Onwurah noted, "We left Nigeria because of the war in Biafra. Then we arrived here in England, and realized that we had entered another war zone. But we were the only ones to be aware of it." Onwurah and her brother had dark brown skin, their mother fair white. The family moved into a public housing unit in the small city of Newcastle. It was an area "where they had never seen Black people before," Onwurah revealed in an interview with The University Record. She and her brother immediately became the target of extreme harassment. They were called names, had excrement smeared on their front door, and were pushed head first into toilets. Desperate to fit in, the siblings would scour their skin with bleach, trying to become white. Onwurah's emotionally jarring first film, Coffee Coloured Children, depicted these harrowing baths.

Awards

Coffee Colored Children: First Prize, Short Feature category, BBC, UK; Prized Pieces Award, National Black Programming Consortium, US; Golden Gate Award, San Francisco Film Festival. The Body Beautiful: Best Short Film, Melbourne Film Festival, Montreal Film Festival. Also honored at: the Berlin Film Festival, the Toronto Film Festival, the Birmingham International Film Festival, and the Chicago Film Festival.

Chris Abani
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Chris is a Professor at the University of California, Riverside and the recipient of so many literary awards which include: The PEN USA Freedom-to-Write Award, The Prince Claus Award, A Lannan Literary Fellowship, A California Book Award, A Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, a PEN Beyond the Margins Award and the PEN Hemingway Book Prize.

He is best known to many of us as the Nigerian author, who at the age of 18 wrote “Masters of the Board” - a story about a Neo-Nazi takeover of Nigeria. This publication earned him a six month jail sentence in 1985 which turned out to be the first of many.

Subsequent writings meant that he was twice - after his initial release - a guest of the Nigerian junta. On the third occasion, he was sentenced to death. He was freed in 1991 and lived in exile in London until 1999 before ‘departing’ to the USA.

Chris is an accomplished jazz musician who plays saxophone sets at his public poetry performances. Now based in Los Angeles, Abani published The Virgin of Flames in 2007. He is also a publisher, running the poetry imprint Black Goat Press.

He is one of the best writers of his generation.

Official web site
http://www.chrisabani.com/

Aloy~Emeka:

Ugo Monye


Ugo Monye, born 13 April, 1983 in Islington, London is a rugby union player for Harlequins in the Guinness Premiership and England. He is mainly known for his blistering pace and his ability to get to the tryline no matter where he gets the ball. He has also represented England Saxons in their victorious 2008 Churchill Cup campaign, scoring a number of impressive solo tries in the campaign, including in the final.

Ugo Monye's position of choice is either on the wing or in the centres. He played many games in the 2007/2008 season at centre due to a shortage of centres.

Monye has been capped at Sevens level, as well as full international level for England national rugby union team.

Is he Ika?

I don't know.

Chidi Achara

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Chidi graduated from Cambridge University and worked in advertising before switching to fashion photography.

His work has appeared in i-D, Jalouse, Arena and Vogue and his commercial clients include Alexander McQueen/McQ, Stussy, Clements Ribeiro, Nicole Farhi, Virgin Music, Pepe jeans and Galeries Lafayette.

He is currently based in London and travels widely for work.

Ada Osakwe

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Ada Osakwe is a portfolio manager in the Treasury of the African Development Bank, based in Tunis. Prior to this position, she worked as an investment analyst, primarily focused on African Capital markets. Her role also involved facilitating debt origination in local currencies by the Bank in its regional member countries, where she worked on projects to enhance the visibility and development of these African capital markets.

Before joining the AfDB, Ms. Osakwe was an investment banking analyst in debt capital markets origination at BNP Paribas London, covering sovereigns, supranational and agency issuers.

Ada contributed extensively to an upcoming AfDB publication entitled “Africa Fixed Income Guidebook”, which gives comprehensive information on the status of the debt securities market in each of the 53 African countries.

Her graduate degrees were obtained in the United Kingdom, where she gained a BSc in Economics from the University of Hull, and an MSc in Economics and Finance from the Warwick Business School.

Di`ck Tiger

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Died December 14, 1971

D`ick Tiger CBE (born Richard Ihetu) was a boxer from Amaigbo, Orlu, Nigeria. His boxing career record was: Fought 81; Won 60; Lost 18; Drew 3.

Ihetu was one of the great fighters to come out of the African continent. Tiger became a two-time undisputed world middleweight titlist. In 1962, Tiger won the world middle weight boxing championship. Tiger inspired other Nigerians to go into boxing.

Dick Tiger developed a portfolio of investments before the outbreak of his homeland's civil war. Supporter of the Biafran secession, Tiger's propaganda and financial support of this cause cost him much. Tiger was appointed CBE by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, but he returned his insignia as a protest for what he perceived as a lack of support by Great Britain to the Biafran cause.

Chioma Ajunwa
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Chioma Ajunwa (born December 25, 1970 in Ahiara Mbaise Imo State), is a former athlete from Nigeria, who previously played football for the Nigerian women's team. She is the first Nigerian to win an Olympic gold medal as well as the first African woman to win an Olympic gold medal in a field event. She won the women's long jump at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, with a jump of 7.12m in her first attempt in the final. She was also an officer in the Nigeria Police Force at the time.

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Chris Igwe is Managing Director of Chris Igwe International, based in Paris. The Company specialises in strategic retail and real estate advice to international companies.

Previously Chris worked for Consultants RMJM in Edinburgh, Scotland and then Laing Management Contracting Ltd on London’s acclaimed Stansted Airport project. He joined Swiss specialist contractor, Schmidlin, in Basle, Switzerland in 1990 as Senior Project Manager and was responsible for major international projects in Germany, Switzerland, Libya, England, Scotland, and France.

Chris is also Director of Retailp, the leading European retail real estate intelligence service provider.

Chris Igwe was educated at the International School, Geneva, Switzerland, and gained a BSc(Hons), in Civil Engineering at Newcastle University, England, and a Masters degree from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland.

Chioma and Oluchi Ogwuegbu[ Good candidates for CNN heroes 2010]

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Both sisters are hoping to reverse the trend of bad news out of Africa by touring the continent documenting its good news stories.

Chioma and Oluchi Ogwuegbu's journey across Africa started at the end of last year in West Africa.

By the end of this year they hope to have changed people's perception of a place still called by some the "Dark continent" through their website
http://celebrateafrica.net/home.html

Their journey so far has seen them visit Ghana, Burkina Faso, Gambia, Mali, Senegal, Guinea Bissau, Cameroun, Cote d'Ivoire, Guinea, and Sierra Leone.

This is the BBC report about them:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7921641.stm

Sir Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu, OBE, (1909-1966) was a notable Nigerian businessman from Nnewi, Anambra state. Ojukwu was a director in various Nigerian companies and also won a parliamentary seat during the nation's first republic. He was the President of The African Continental Bank, first President of The Nigerian Stock Exchange and Nigeria's first multi-millionaire.

He attended a primary school in Asaba and the Hope Waddell Institute for secondary education.

Ojukwu started his professional career at the Agricultural department before leaving to join John Holt as a tyre sales clerk. He also incorporated a textile company in Onitsha to supplement his income during this period, already exhibiting a little bit of his entrepreneurial spirit. While at John Holt, he noticed the severe strain a lack of adequate transportation had on Eastern textile traders. He later left John Holt to create a transport company to improve the trading environment for Nigerian traders. As a transporter, he was a tireless worker and meticulous to detail; he was usually the first to inspect his transport vehicles for oil and leakages.

Apart from his work ethic, his success was also oiled by the economic boom after World War II, working with the West African Railway Company and the newly inaugurated produce boards, he provided his fleet for commodity transportation and for other traders use. During the 1950s, he diversified his interest, bought some industries, invested heavily in the real estate sector and became a director in numerous major corporations. He was a member of the board of Nigerian Coal Corporation, Shell Oil, D'Archy, and African Continental Bank.


Ojukwu died in 1966, just a year before the Nigerian civil war, his will located at Enugu was carted away by federal troops after the fall of the city, many of his properties where later confiscated by the federal government, many of which are yet to be returned back to his family.The Nigeria government should not hesitate to return back all his properties to his family.
His son Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu was the leader of the secessionist state of Biafra in Nigeria.

Amobi Okoye




Amobi Okoye (born June 10, 1987 in Anambra, Nigeria) is an American football defensive tackle for the Houston Texans of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Texans 10th overall in the 2007 NFL Draft. He played college football at Louisville.


Okoye was born in Anambra State, Nigeria,[1][2] a member of the Igbo ethnic group.[3] He moved to Huntsville, Alabama, United States when he was 12 years old.[4] After only spending two weeks in middle school, he tested into the 9th grade.[4] He first started playing football as a sophomore at Lee High School, knowing virtually nothing about the game before his high school coach suggested he go play Madden NFL football to learn.[4] By the time he was a senior, he won first-team All-State honors as both a defensive lineman and offensive lineman. Because he shares the same surname as former Kansas City Chiefs running back Christian Okoye, some sources have claimed that the two are related. Amobi says they are not related, but the two families live on adjoining land in Nigeria[5]
[edit]College career

At age 15 Okoye chose the University of Louisville over Harvard,[6] privileging the strong football program of the former over the academic reputation of the latter. Nevertheless, he plans to attend graduate school at Harvard eventually.[7]
At Louisville, Okoye majored in biology. He later switched his major to psychology and graduated a semester early, thereby completing his degree in three and a half years. At 16, he became the youngest player in the NCAA. Okoye played in all 13 games as a true freshman at defensive tackle and was credited with 17 tackles and a sack. He recorded then-career-best three tackles against Tulane and recorded his first career sack against UTEP.
As a sophomore, Okoye appeared in 11 of 12 games, recording 26 tackles and a sack. Okoye's only missed game was against East Carolina, because of a shoulder injury. Okoye also made his first collegiate start against Army, recording a career-high seven tackles.
In his junior season of 2005, he recorded 23 tackles and four tackles for a loss. In the biggest game of the year, against the West Virginia Mountaineers, Okoye recorded four tackles. He missed the Florida Atlantic matchup due to a foot sprain. Against Kentucky, Okoye registered two tackles and a fumble recovery. Okoye also totaled three tackles against South Florida.
As a senior in 2006, Okoye finally started all 13 games. In those 13 games, he registered 55 tackles, eight sacks, and recovered three fumbles. Okoye garnered Associated Press Second-Team All-American honors and first-team All-Big East honors. As the NCAA's youngest senior at 19 years old, Okoye garnered first-round draft status during the season.
During the Senior Bowl, Okoye's stock rose dramatically with strong practice and game performances.

Okoye was drafted by the Houston Texans as the tenth pick of the first round of the 2007 NFL draft. He is the youngest player to ever be drafted in the first round of the NFL Draft at only 19 years old. He was the highest draft pick to come out of the University of Louisville since the AFL-NFL merger.[8]
Okoye signed a six-year deal with the Texans on July 26, which allowed him to begin training camp with his teammates the next day. With his first start, Okoye became the youngest player to appear in an NFL game since 1967.[9]
Okoye was named Defensive Rookie of the Month for September 2007 after leading the AFC with four sacks. He is the youngest player ever to receive the award.

Watch celebrating Nigerians in the NFL video below:

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Leo-Stan Ekeh

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Leonard "Leo" Stanley Nnamdi Ekeh is a businessman who is best known as the chairman of Zinox Technologies.

Zinox Technologies Limited is a partnership of Stan Technologies (Nigeria), Mustek (South Africa), and Alhena (France).

Leo-Stan Ekeh, (FNCS, OFR) has a record of perceptive entrepreneurship and his vision to computerize Nigeria has rewritten the history of information Technology in the Third World.

He initiated Desktop publishing and Computer graphics in Nigeria with his first company Task Systems Ltd in 1989. He pioneered ICT products Distribution in West Africa with his company -Technology Distributions Ltd and ICT Solution through ITEC Solutions Ltd. A winner of several international and local awards, he is fondly called the "Bill Gates of Africa" by IT industry watchers.

Stanley holds a Bachelor of Science, degree in Economics from the Punjab University, India, and a Post Graduate Degree in Risk Management from Nottingham University, England. He has been honoured with several Doctorate degrees. He is a fellow of Computer Society of Nigeria and an Officer of Federal Republic of Nigeria(OFR).

Chinyere Oparah

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Chinyere Oparah is a professor of Ethnic Studies at Mills College, a women’s liberal arts college in Oakland, California, author of Other Kinds of Dreams: Black Women’s Organisations and the Politics of Transformation (Routledge 1998) and editor of Global Lockdown: Race, Gender and the Prison-Industrial Complex (Routledge 2005).

Oparah is involved in the prison abolitionist, anti-violence and global justice movements and is a co-founder of Sankofa, a support group for transracial adoptees in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Kele Okereke

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Kelechukwu Rowland Okereke is the vocalist and rhythm guitarist for English indie rock band Bloc Party.

Okereke was born in Liverpool to Igbo parents. His mother was a midwife, and his father a molecular biologist. He grew up in London with his one sister. As a child, he went to school at Ilford County High School, but switched to Trinity Catholic High School, Woodford Green for sixth form at age 16. He lived in Bethnal Green, where in 1998 he became friends with his new schoolmate at Trinity, Russell Lissack, who would become his band's guitarist. A year later, while studying at King's College London, Okereke met Lissack again at Reading Festival, where the band was officially formed under the title of The Angel Range. In 2001, Okereke moved out of his parents' home. He went on to meet Gordon Moakes and Matt Tong who became the band's permanent bass guitarist and drummer, respectively. In 2003, the band changed its name to Bloc Party after briefly being called Union.

In 2005, Bloc Party released their first studio album, titled Silent Alarm. The album reached number three in the UK charts, and propelled the band to fame.

The band released their second album, called A Weekend in the City on 5 February 2007 in the UK and 6 February in the US.

On August 21, 2008 Bloc Party released their third studio album "Intimacy", this album is far more introverted than any of Bloc Party's previous efforts. The album deals with a huge breakup that Okereke dealt with at the end of 2007, some of the songs like "Biko" and "Signs" deal with the loss of people that were close to Okereke.

lovely.
keep them coming.

Obi Emelonye

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Obi Emelonye is one of a new generation of Nigerian film Directors taking the magic of ‘Nollywood’ to the wider world. He originally trained as a Dramatic Artist at the University of Nigeria Nsukka, graduating in 1990. As a student, his play “Moon’s Death at Dawn” was University of Nigeria’s entry at the Nigerian Universities Theatre Arts Festival in 1989. He went on to direct several stage plays before turning to film-making with his multi-disciplinary approach, his relentless creative drive and an uncanny sense of artistic style. Obi has also marked himself out as one of UK's contemporary directors. He was at the final stages of being enrolled as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales when he abandoned legal practice to pursue his first love: film. However, he brings his stature as a lawyer and the attendant pragmatism to the chaotic world of film and productions. Obi's debut novel, 'The Mirror Boy' is being published. He lives in Notting Hill, London with his wife Amaka and their three children; D'Kachy, D'Richy and Da'Luchy.

Celestine Babayaro






Babayaro began his playing career at Nigerian side Plateau United, before moving to Belgium giants R.S.C. Anderlecht in 1994, and eventually would make a name for himself, quickly gaining first-choice status although still a teenager.
Babayaro was purchased by Chelsea F.C. in April 1997 for £2.25m million - a club record paid for a teenager at the time.[citation needed] During his time there, the team won the FA Cup and Charity Shield in 2000, and reached the FA Cup finals in 2002. He faced competition from Graeme Le Saux during his seven-year spell, but managed to play over 200 games for the London side. His acrobatic celebrations with backflips were a highlight and loved by the Stamford Bridge faithful. The signing of Wayne Bridge saw Babayaro start only four English Premier League games for Chelsea in 2004-05 - their Premiership winning year.
[edit]Newcastle
In January 2005, he left Chelsea to join Newcastle United where he established himself as first choice left back. He scored his first and what turned out to be only Newcastle goal in a 3-1 win over Coventry City in the FA Cup.[1]
In September 2006, Babayaro was given a three-match ban by the Football Association for slapping Liverpool striker Dirk Kuyt in the face while Liverpool took a corner. The slap wasn't seen by the referee but later videos showed Babayaro punch the Dutchman in the face. Babayaro accepted the allegations and apologised to Kuyt.
On 10 February 2007, after a 2-1 win over Liverpool, then-Newcastle manager Glenn Roeder revealed that just 12 hours before kick-off, Babayaro had called him saying his younger brother David had died from tuberculosis. Despite this, Babayaro insisted he would still play and put in a solid performance which earned him praise from Newcastle manager and fans. This fine form continued into United's 3-1 away victory against Zulte Waregem, in the UEFA Cup.

Mary Onyali-Omagbemi



Mary Onyali-Omagbemi (born February 3, 1968) is a Nigerian sprinter who won the bronze medal in 4x100 metres relay at the 1992 Summer Olympics and in 200 metres at the 1996 Summer Olympics. She also won the 1994 Commonwealth Games.
She performed especially well in the All-Africa Games, winning a total of 7 individual medals in the short sprints. She won 100 metres in 1991, 1995 and 2003 and took a bronze medal in 1987. Gold medals in 200 metres were taken in 1987, 1995 and 2003. Furthermore, the Nigerian 4x100m relay team won all races between 1987 and 2003, at the African Games.
Born Mary Onyali, she took the name Omagbemi when marrying Victor Omagbemi. She is very inspirational for many people.

Personal bests

100 metres - 10.97 (1993)
200 metres - 22.07 (1996)
400 metres - 54.21 (2000)


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IGBO KWENU!!!

Sunny bobo: Udoakpuenyi

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I love me this song.