Kenny Adeleke (born February 10, 1983 in Nigeria) is a Nigerian American basketball player who plays in Italy for NSB Napoli.

Adeleke played basketball and tennis at Paul Robeson High School in Brooklyn, New York. During Adeleke's senior year at Paul Robeson High School (The 2000-2001 season), he was named P.S.A.L. Player of the Year by the New York Daily News while averaging 19 points per game and 13 rebounds per game.

Adeleke studied and played at Hofstra University for 3 years before moving to the University of Hartford, where he graduated. After going undrafted in the 2006 NBA Draft, Adeleke signed up to the 2006 CBA Draft and was selected as the #2 pick overall by the Butte Daredevils. He was signed by the New York Knicks to play on the Knicks Summer league squad in Las Vegas in the Summer of 2006 but after playing sparingly , Adeleke was waived.

In the 2006/2007 NBA preseason, he played for 2 games with the Seattle SuperSonics before being released. Adeleke went on to play in Israel and played for Hapoel Galil Elyon .

Adeleke has again signed with Seattle Supersonics to join their Summer League Roster for the 2007 Vegas Summer League averaging 3.5 points and 2 rebs per game at 8 minutes per game through the first 2 games.

Now he plays in Italy for NSB Napoli.

Victor Adeyanju (born February 11, 1983 in Nigeria) is an American football defensive end for the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League. He was drafted in the fourth round of the 2006 NFL Draft, pick 113. He played college football at Indiana.

Adeyanju was selected by the St. Louis Rams in the fourth round (113th overall) in the 2006 NFL Draft. He signed a three-year $1.4 million contract with the Rams. In his rookie season he played in 12 games, recording 34 tackles and one sack and one pressure and scored his first NFL touchdown after recovering a fumble at the Seattle Seahawks on December 12.

In the 2007 season, he recorded 29 tackles and had nine pressures. In 2008 he played in 16 games for first time and had a career-high 47 tackles including a personal best 2.0 sacks and 8 quarterback pressures.

On April 17, 2009, Adeyanju signed a one-year tender worth $1.01 million, meaning he will be under contract for the 2009 season with the St. Louis Rams for his fourth season. On March 30, 2010, Per the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Adeyanju signed a one-year tender contract for a non-guaranteed salary of $1.176 million.


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Akinola James "Akin" Ayodele (born September 17, 1979 in Irving, Texas) is an American football linebacker for the Buffalo Bills in the National Football League. He was drafted by the Jacksonville Jaguars in the third round of the 2002 NFL Draft. He played college football at Purdue.

Ayodele has also been a member of the Dallas Cowboys, Miami Dolphins, and the Denver Broncos.

Ade Coker (born Lagos, Nigeria) is a retired Nigerian-American soccer forward. Coker began with English club West Ham United then moved to the North American Soccer League and the Major Indoor Soccer League. He also earned five caps with the U.S. national team

Adebola "Ade" Olurotimi Jimoh (born April 18, 1980 in Los Angeles, California) is an American football cornerback who is currently a free agent. He was signed by the Washington Redskins as an undrafted free agent in 2003. He played college football at Utah State.

Jimoh has also been a member of the Chicago Bears and New England Patriots.

Adewale Ogunleye (born August 9, 1977 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American football defensive end for the Houston Texans. He was signed by the Miami Dolphins as an undrafted free agent in 2000. He played college football at Indiana.

Miami Dolphins

Ogunleye signed with Miami in 2000 as an undrafted free agent. He spent the first year of his NFL career on injured reserve due to a knee injury suffered during his senior year at Indiana

In 2002, Ogunleye had 57 tackles, two forced fumbles, two fumble recoveries and 9.5 sacks (sixth in the AFC) for 62 yards in losses for the season. During the 2003 NFL season, while playing for the Miami Dolphins, he led the AFC with 15 sacks. Ogunleye was named to the Pro Bowl at the conclusion of the season.
[edit] Chicago Bears

He was traded by the Dolphins to Bears for wide receiver Marty Booker after holding out during the month of August before the 2004 NFL season.

During the 2005 NFL season, Ogunleye spearheaded the Bear's defensive line by recording ten sacks. Ogunleye helped the Bears reach Super Bowl XLI in Miami, where he began his career, during the 2006 season. As of 2008, Ogunleye has compiled 290 total tackles and 55.5 sacks in his career.

Ogunleye was named the "NFL's Defensive Player of the Day" for the 2008's first day after recording one safety and made a key fourth down stop against the Indianapolis Colts.

On December 20, 2009 in a game against the Baltimore Ravens, Ogunleye fractured his left fibula. He was placed on season-ending injured reserve on December 26.




Ogunleye is of Nigerian background, and his grandfather was king of the city Emure. Ogun in his surname means "The god of iron." His father is a social worker employed by the City of New York.


This one na proper omo Ekiti  Marry me plzzz

hahaha Omarosa made the list. God I used to cringe when I watched apprentice back then when she was on it. her attitude was FIERCE. but i do agree with her that most of these media shows or reality shows involve a lot of editing.
i miss her though. hahaha definitely made for entertaining tv.

nice thread!!!

Alon Abisola Arisicate Ajoke Olajuwon, better known as Abi Olajuwon (born July 6, 1988 in Houston, Texas) is an American female basketball player who last played for the Chicago Sky. Olajuwon is the daughter of former NBA center Hakeem Olajuwon.

Olajuwon played varsity basketball for her Californian high school, Marlborough School, and helped her team win three consecutive Southern Section titles. Olajuwon was a 2006 McDonald's All-American,[1] and was one of the most prized recruits of the 2006 graduating high school class.She played college basketball at the University of Oklahoma, and ESPN basketball analyst Nancy Lieberman stated before the 2006-07 season that the addition of Olajuwon would help propel the Sooners into contention for the NCAA championship.

Olajuwon's full name means "born in wealth and loved by all".


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Hakeem Abdul Olajuwon (born January 21, 1963) is a retired Nigerian American professional basketball player. From 1984 to 2002, he played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the Houston Rockets and Toronto Raptors. He led the Rockets to back-to-back NBA championships in 1994 and 1995. In 2008, he was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame

Babatunde Oluwasegun Temitope Oluwakorede Adisa "Baba" Oshinowo, Jr. (born January 14, 1983 in Naperville, Illinois) is an American football defensive tackle who is currently a free agent. He was drafted by the Cleveland Browns in the sixth round of the 2006 NFL Draft. He played college football at Stanford.

Oshinowo has also been a member of the Chicago Bears, Washington Redskins, Philadelphia Eagles, Carolina Panthers and San Francisco 49ers


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Lola Ogunnaike (born September 13, 1975) is an American features and entertainment journalist of Nigerian origin. She most recently appeared as the entertainment correspondent on CNN's morning program, American Morning. Ogunnaike has also made regular guest appearances on NBC's Today Show, MTV and VH1. In May 2007, she was named one of Ebony magazine's "150 Most Influential Blacks in America."


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[size=13pt]im going to post these guys again cause  posted them before when they wre in college the recently were among the NBA DRAFT PICKS in 2010!!![/size]
I was sooooo happy to know that these guys were drafted into the NBA in the last draft pick

Al farouq Aminu

i didnt want to post too much on these guys before because they were still in college and there was no telling whether they would be drafted or not- BUT NOW THEY ARE!!!!!!! I know farouq and Gani will excel i hope Alabi does too despite his health and etc

oyinda.:

hahaha Omarosa made the list. God I used to cringe when I watched apprentice back then when she was on it. her attitude was FIERCE. but i do agree with her that most of these media shows or reality shows involve a lot of editing.
i miss her though. hahaha definitely made for entertaining tv.

nice thread!!!

i always thought omarosa was se,xy

Keep them coming.

Yoruba men and sports sha

[size=13pt]Soul Singer Ayọ( Joy Olasunmibo Ogunmakin )[/size]

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Ayọ (born as Joy Olasunmibo Ogunmakin on 14 September 1980 in Frechen near Cologne, Germany) is a Nigerian-German singer-songwriter. She uses the Yoruba translation Ayọ or Ayo. of her first name Joy. The name has to be written with a dot below or behind the o – without it, it would refer to a pitted board game[1] popular among the Yorubas.

Her debut album Joyful, which was first released in 2006, reached Double-Platinum status in France, Platinum in Germany and Poland, Gold status in Switzerland and Italy and Greece. The album was released in the United States on 20 November 2007 by Interscope Records.

She has a son, Nile, who was born in late 2005 and a daughter, Billie-Eve, born July 2010[2], with her partner, the Afro-German reggae singer Patrice. At the end of 2007, she moved with her family to the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan in New York City.[3]

The president of UNICEF France, Jacques Hintzy, announced on 4 February 2009 that the singer was named patron of UNICEF to promote the right to education for all children in the world.

Olufunmilayo I. Olopade (born 1957 Nigeria) is, a 2005 MacArthur Fellows Program winner, an hematology oncologist, Associate Dean for Global Health and Walter L. Palmer Distinguished Service Professor in Medicine and Human Genetics at the University of Chicago. She also serves as director of the University of Chicago Hospital's Cancer Risk Clinic.

She graduated from University of Ibadan, Nigeria, with a MD, in 1980. She has performed extensive clinical work surrounding the role of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes in the incidence of breast cancer in women of African descent. She a member of the American Association for Cancer Research, the American College of Physicians, and the Nigerian Medical Association and works closely with the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine.

She married Christopher Sola Olopade, also a physician at the University of Chicago, in 1983; they have two daughters, and one son.


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Winston Wole Soboyejo is a Nigerian-born Scientist, currently a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University, with special interests in Material Science  and Engineering. He is also the Director of the U.S./Africa Materials Institute, and the Director of the Undergraduate Research Program at The Princeton Institute of Science and Technology. His research focuses on experimental studies of biomaterials and the mechanical behavior of materials.


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Quddus "Deuce" Bello

[size=13pt]yoooooo!!!!!! Everyone should watch out for this kid- he WON Elite 24 ESPN TVs DUNK CONTEST! -That SHI.T WAS CRAZY[/size]

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Deuce Bello wins dunk contest at Elite 24
Bello's second-round alley-oop sends crowd into frenzy in Venice Beach, Calif., especially young NBA star judges John Wall and Demar DeRozan.
VENICE BEACH, Calif. -- Quincy Miller may have made the pass, but don't credit him with the assist too quickly.

After all, Quddus “Deuce” Bello’s second-round dunk was the brainchild of point guard Quinn Cook of Oak Hill Academy (Mouth of Wilson, Va.).

Bello, a Westchester Country Day (High Point, N.C.) shooting guard, took an alley-oop while leaping over a seated Miller, his high school teammate, and threw down a ferocious windmill jam. The dunk brought NBA stars John Wall and DeMar DeRozan sprawling out of their seats to chest bump the soon-to-be Under Armour High School Slam Dunk champ.

“He didn’t know what to do for his second dunk,” says Cook. “I showed him the video on YouTube. It used to be our go-to dunk for me and (former DeMatha teammate) Victor [Oladipo]. But I’ve never seen anyone do it with a windmill.”

Bello locked up the title in the finals by defeating Stephen Maxwell of Taft (Woodland Hills, Calif.). Bello completed his coronation with an off-the-glass, between-the-legs dunk, but his tandem dunk with Miller drew the biggest ovation from the crowd at Venice Beach.

i really hope deuce makes it to the NBA hes been creating ALOT of Buzz and is climbing the ranks -

HIS VIDEOS winning the ESPN elite 24 dunk contest this past June


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i forgot how to put it in.

Ilesanmi Adesida (born 1949, Ifon, Ondo State, Nigeria) is a naturalized American physicist of Nigerian descent. He is the Donald Biggar Willett Professor of Engineering and the Dean, College of Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; and since 2007, a member of the board of Fluor Corporation. His field of academic research is nanotechnology with special emphasis on high speed devices used in communications. He has held posts as director of the Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, director of the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory, professor of materials science and engineering, professor of electrical and computer engineering, professor of the Beckman Institute of Advanced Science and Technology and research professor of the Coordinated Science Laboratory, all at the University of Illinois. Adesida earned his bachelor’s (1974), master’s (1975), and doctoral (1979) degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.

Adesida is a Fellow of both the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Vacuum Society, and the Optical Society of America. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society, Nigerian Academy of Engineering, the Materials Research Society, and the Society for Engineering Education. In 1996, he won the Best Paper Award at the Micro- and Nano-Engineering Conference. At Illinois, he received the Oakley-Kunde Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Education, and he has been appointed a University Scholar and an Associate Member of the Center for Advanced Study. He is a former president IEEE Electron Device Society. Member, Bohmische Society; EMSA Presidential Student Award; IEEE Electron Device Society Distinguished Lecturer (1997 - 2002), Member, Bohmische Physical Society (1988), IBM Postdoctoral Fellowship (1979-1981)

Arthur of Science and Technology in Africa --- >ISBN 978-1592211128


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Dr Ola Orekunrin, at 23, is England's Youngest Doctor Becomes Nigeria’s Flying Doctor.

Dr Ola Orekunrin is 23 years old and wrote her final medical examinations at 21,emerging as one of the youngest medical doctors in the whole of England Since then she has published her first book and received many post-graduate training accolades in the fields of trauma and emergency medicine. Last year she was selected from over 100 applicants for the prestigious MEXT fellowship in Tokyo, Japan.

Her company, Flying Doctors Nigeria is the first air ambulance service in the whole of West Africa and is quoted as being "one of the most important healthcare innovations in Nigeria this decade".


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[size=13pt]Jide zeitlin (Former Goldman, Sachs partner) nominated by Obama as trade US advisor but he withdrew[/size]


Jide with Governor Paterson

[size=13pt]Jide was then replaced with Kase Lawal who was appointed by Obama[/size]


i posted lwal before but things change so i wanna update

CAMAC Energy Chairman Dr. Kase Lawal Named by President Obama for Appointment as Adviser for Trade Policy and Negotiations

HARTSDALE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CAMAC Energy Inc. (NYSE Amex:CAK) is pleased to announce today the Company’s Non-Executive Chairman, Dr. Kase Lawal, has been selected by President Obama for appointment to his Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations.

“We are very pleased this honor has been bestowed on Dr. Lawal. Dr. Lawal’s immense leadership experience will contribute to the Administration’s policy making efforts in expanding and developing international trade.”
.Commenting on Dr. Lawal’s appointment, CAMAC Energy’s Interim CEO Bill Dozier noted, “We are very pleased this honor has been bestowed on Dr. Lawal. Dr. Lawal’s immense leadership experience will contribute to the Administration’s policy making efforts in expanding and developing international trade.”

yoo i dont think that chick is the youngest doctor in england

sbeezy8:

yoo i dont think that chick is the youngest doctor in england

The news said so. . . . until proven otherwise, she is.


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Tayo Olafioye is a poet, novelist and scholar, active in Nigeria and the united States. He has won prizes for his volumes of poetry, which include Sorrows of a Town Crier (1988) and Bush Girl Comes to Town (1988). His other publications include The Excellence of Silence, The Saga of Sego (1982) and two works of literary criticism: Responses to Creativity (1988) and critic as Terrorist: Views on New African Writings (1989).

His most recent collections are entitled A Carnival of Looters (2000) and The Parliament of Idiots (2002), both published by Kraft Books, Nigeria. This is the author's semi-fictional autobiography, written in the third person, following in the tradition of Camara Laye's African Child, Wole Soyinka's trilogy (Ake, Isara, Ibadan) and Tanure Ojaide's Great Boys: An African Childhood.

[size=13pt]Wale Tinubu hes is internationally recognised now[/size]




Wale Tinubu Named Young Global Leader for 2007

Mr Jubril Adewale Tinubu has been recognised by the World Economic Forum (WEF), Geneva, Switzerland, as one of the 250 leading executives, public figures, and intellectuals, all 40 or younger, chosen from around the world as Young Global Leaders for 2007

Oando PLC, Nigeria's and sub-Saharan Africa's largest indigenous energy group announces that Mr. Wale Tinubu, the Group Chief Executive of Oando has been awarded the prestigious 'Business Leader of the Year 2010' award at the African Business Awards 2010, the key annual event for the African business world. Organized by the African Business Magazine and the Commonwealth Business Council, the awards ceremony was held at the Grosvenor House Hotel, London, on Monday, 21st June 2010.

Okinba Launko is a pen name of the playwright and poet, Femi Osofisan. He has been honoured with awards and appointments for his lifetime achievements. A much respected name in African letters, Osofisan has been winner of the Folon-Nichols Award, and was Director of a national theatre. The Women of Owu (2006) is his latest of many plays. His poems include Minted Coins (1987) and Dream Seeker on a DIvining Chain (1993).

Toyin Adewale-Gabriel is a poet and author of the collection, Naked Testimonies.




One of her poem, had to post it.


(a poem of thanksgiving on my 38th birthday)

Like a shock of corn come into season
Like jingle bells on my nipples
Like the lilac scarf Angel wants to share
I am a brown leather bag
full of old and new things

Staring 40 in the face
I want to be still waters
Wine on the lees
Cropped hair flying in the breeze

I am the voice undying
Trampled and still speaking
Of faith learned on the cliffs where
tears are no use, friends lost and wisdom
gained in the lashing storms

I am a heart soused with contradictions
Compassioned with children’s voices
I am a mosaic encompassed with songs
I have been foolish in the courts of Ahitophel

Strengthened by the strife of the tongue
l have a chest full of human tales
stories of life’s junctions, tokens from liars
my babies, Johnson powder fresh

And poetry, my old lover
accompanies me to your palace
Where I come to be quiet
on the rock higher than l

Femi Oyebode is Consultant Psychiatrist at the Queen Elizabeth Psychiatric Hospital, Birmingham. He has published seven poetry volumes. He lives in the UK.





Wale Okediran, former member of the Nigerian House of Representatives and current President of the Association of Nigerian Authors.

NIRAN OKEWOLE studied medicine at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. He won the MUSON Festival Poetry Prize in 2002 and 2003. His poems have appeared in Mindfire Review, ANA Review and Africanwriters.com. His collection of poems, Logarhythms, was published in 2005 by Khalam Editions.