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Re: Great/famous Women From Your State by Mrbigman1(m): 11:47am On May 01, 2017
solasoulmusic:


Thanks for the insult at least I know even if I don't speak I attempt

U keep surprising me ma'am.
Re: Great/famous Women From Your State by DUMCHRIS(m): 11:48am On May 01, 2017
For Delta we have
Marian Babangida
Omoni Oboli nollywood actress cum producer
Blessing Okagbare sprinter
Prof. Grace Allele Williams first female vice chancellor in Nigeria
Dr. Okonjo Iweala former finance minister
Omawumi musician

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Re: Great/famous Women From Your State by Nobody: 11:48am On May 01, 2017
YelloweWest:
Justice Mary Odili
Justice Suzzet Nyesome Wike.
Brig General Sotoye nee Lawson
Victoria Nyeche
Hilda Dokubo
Rivers state's finest.
They might be great but certainly not famous.
Re: Great/famous Women From Your State by stevebond007(m): 11:49am On May 01, 2017
Henryyy:

Bruh Sade is a native of Oyo state (my state).

She only lived in Ibadan.
Her Dad is from Ekiti
Re: Great/famous Women From Your State by Omeny: 11:51am On May 01, 2017
EDO STATE. The Heart Beat Of Nigeria

Roberts Kokoma. (First Lady Mechanic In Nigeria.

Stella Obasanjo (Former First Lady of Nigeria.)

Eki Ogbeide. (Director ESWA)

Barrister Grace Zemaye Egbagbe. (Director NTA)

Dr Sota Omogui (World Renowned physician L.A.)

Sonia Aimiuwu (Nigerian Italian. Renowned Song writer And Artist.)

Mabel Segun OFR. (Editor University herald UK)

Lady Daisy Danjuma. (Senator Of the Fed Rep)

Miss Osas Ighodaro. (Miss Black American 2010 USA)

Mrs Cherry Igbinedion. (Wife Of Esama Of Benin)

Mrs Mercy A Obamogie (Harvard University)

Archbishop Margaret Benson Idahosa (Woman G.O)


Mercy Aigbe (Nollywood)

Osarieme Libarty (Kean University. USA)

Stella Oduah Ogiemwonyi. (GMD Sea Petroleum and Gas)
I am tired of listing our distinguish women jharee.

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Re: Great/famous Women From Your State by Nobody: 11:51am On May 01, 2017
Yes na them get mouth pass, innuendo intended!
Re: Great/famous Women From Your State by chiefolododo(m): 11:52am On May 01, 2017
OSUN STATE

WF KUMUYI
EA ADEBOYE
OLA ROTIMI
PATRICIA ETTEH
LASUN YUSUF
OLUSOLA ADEYEYE
LATE ISIAKA ADELEKE (KILLED BY .... )

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Re: Great/famous Women From Your State by Mrbigman1(m): 11:52am On May 01, 2017
solasoulmusic:


Thanks for the insult at least I know even if I don't speak I attempt

Where your people dey abi you don suppress the women in your village with your uncouth insults

Am from anambra and I dnt need to shout it out loud.
Re: Great/famous Women From Your State by shankara7: 11:52am On May 01, 2017
nwabobo:
ANAMBRA
Ndi Okereke-Onyiuke (Former DG, NSE)
She is from ngor okpala imo state

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Re: Great/famous Women From Your State by Mrbigman1(m): 11:52am On May 01, 2017
solasoulmusic:


Thanks for the insult at least I know even if I don't speak I attempt

Where your people dey abi you don suppress the women in your village with your uncouth insults

Am from anambra and I dnt need to shout it out loud
Re: Great/famous Women From Your State by Solumtoonna(m): 11:53am On May 01, 2017
nwabobo:
ANAMBRA
Prof. Dora Akunyili (Former DG NAFDAC)
Dr. Oby Ezekwesili (VP World Bank)
Stella Okoli (Emzor Pharmaceuticals)
Chimamanda Adichie (Award winning writer)
Chinyelu Onwurah (Labour party MP Uk)
Virgie Etiaba (1st female state governor in Nigeria)
Joy Emordi (Foremost female politician)



Uche Ekwunife, Stella Okunna, Stella Oduah
Re: Great/famous Women From Your State by Nobody: 11:54am On May 01, 2017
Mrbigman1:


Am from anambra and I dnt need to shout it out loud.

Who's shouting out loud ? You mentioned me to insult me over what was not even your business

You for tell me I for clear road na your way
Re: Great/famous Women From Your State by petsam11(m): 11:55am On May 01, 2017
@ Nwaigbomg you dey vex ni Lol! You mentioned all those big names without adding the one and only[b] "Genevieve Nnaji", The face of African Cinemas according to Toronto International Film Festival, TIFF.[/b]. She is known all over Africa and across the globe in the in the film/movie world. Any gathering of movie stars be it in Nigeria or the whole of Africa without Genevieve Nnaji, Rita Dominic #UmuAforMbaise #Umucountry5... And even Stephanie Linus (all from Imo State). then that gathering never start.

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Re: Great/famous Women From Your State by speezyWears: 11:55am On May 01, 2017
nwabobo:
KWARA STATE


Gbemisola Saraki

How is that one great? angry angry
Re: Great/famous Women From Your State by Nobody: 11:56am On May 01, 2017
Mrbigman1:


Am from anambra and I dnt need to shout it out loud

The two times you mention am nko? Rain dey fall abeg
Re: Great/famous Women From Your State by BlackMystery(f): 11:56am On May 01, 2017
Goddess Athena#aka Me grin
Re: Great/famous Women From Your State by Benekruku(m): 11:56am On May 01, 2017
Allen Avenue State


Stephanie Otobo

Daniella Okeke

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Re: Great/famous Women From Your State by nengibo: 11:58am On May 01, 2017
YelloweWest:
Justice Mary Odili

Justice Suzzet Nyesome Wike.

Brig General Sotoye nee Lawson

Victoria Nyeche

Hilda Dokubo

Rivers state's finest.
Don't forget the first black African miss world, Mama peace, Ibim Seminitari, Monalisa Chinda, Tonto Dike
Re: Great/famous Women From Your State by Yusuf4: 11:58am On May 01, 2017
nwabobo:
ANAMBRA
Prof. Dora Akunyili (Former DG NAFDAC)
Dr. Oby Ezekwesili (VP World Bank)
Stella Okoli (Emzor Pharmaceuticals)
Chimamanda Adichie (Award winning writer)
Chinyelu Onwurah (Labour party MP Uk)
Virgie Etiaba (1st female state governor in Nigeria)
Joy Emordi (Foremost female politician)
Uju Ifejika
Ify Anazonwu Akerele. that's famous IBO women I've meet



Re: Great/famous Women From Your State by adefat(m): 11:59am On May 01, 2017
Efunsetan Aniwura(iyalode of Ibadan)

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Re: Great/famous Women From Your State by valx2: 11:59am On May 01, 2017
nwaigbomg:
[b]imo state
chioma ajunwa( the first african women to win olympic gold medal)
flora nwamkpa (the first Nigerian if not african writer/novelist)
chinyere onyenaucheya(the first african female pilot)
perpetua nkwocha(the winner of african women footballer of the year and highest goal scorer, last year. which was her fourth time of winning the medal, which no other woman in africa has done)
uche ucharia(first african woman footballer to win the best player of the year in 1998 and first african women to coach a national team and win gold medal)
about 45% of ladies in Nigerian football are from imo state, in super falcon, falcon and falconet( people like ugochi oparanozie(the most valuable player in the last tournament, stella mbachu(the man of the match, i.e the final) just to name a few
Dr Ada okwuonu( deputy Governor Imo state)and you forgot to mention our own lindaikeji
chris anyanwu (prominent nigerian senator representing owerre zone)
kema chikwe (a prominent foremost nigerian female diplomat and politician)
stephanie okereke(a prominent nollywood actress)
rita dominic(a prominent nollywood actress)
onyeka onwenu (foremost nigerian famous musician)
Professor Catherine Acholonu


Professor Catherine Acholonu
Former Special Adviser on Arts and Culture to the Ex-President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Professor Acholonu is a writer, researcher and former lecturer on African Cultural and Gender Studies. She is the author of over 15 books, most of which are used in secondary schools and universities in Nigeria, and in African Studies Departments in USA and Europe, the most notable of which are The Gram Code of African Adam: Stone Books and Cave Libraries, Reconstructing 450,000 Years of Africa's Lost Civilizations which earned her the award of Professor of African History and Philosophy from Pilgrim's University and Theological Seminary, North Carolina; The Earth Unchained - A Quantum Leap in Consciousness, A Reply to Al Gore; Motherism - The Afrocentric Alternative to Feminism and The Igbo Roots of Olaudah Equiano. Prof. Acholonu's works and projects have enjoyed the collaboration and the support of United States Information Service (USIA), the British Council, the Rockefeller Foundation, Microsoft World and the World Monument Fund.

In 1989, as an upcoming scholar, Acholonu toured universities in USA and United Kingdom, lecturing on her research findings and discovery of the Nigerian origin of 17th Century slave author Olaudah Equiano under the United States International Visitor's Program and the British Council sponsorship Program. In 1986 she was the only Nigerian, and one of only 2 Africans to participate in the United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Women, Population and Sustainable Development: the Road to Rio, Cairo and Beijing, which took place in Dominican Republic, focusing on the mainstreaming of gender into the Plans of Action of the UN world conferences of Rio, Beijing and Cairo. Prof Acholonu holds several international awards and honours. She is the founder of Afa Publications, a Fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Corporate Administration, a Fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Chartered Administrators and a Fellow of the Whelan Research Institute, Owerri to name a few. She is the founder of the Let's Help Humanitarian Project, a charity-based NGO and the Head of the Catherine Acholonu Research Center for African Cultural Sciences based in Abuja, Nigeria.

In 1990 she was honoured with the Fulbright Scholar-Writer-in-Residency award by the US government, during which she lectured as Visiting Professor at 4 colleges of the Westchester Consortium for International Studies, NY, USA.

She is listed in the International Who is Who of world Leadership, USA; the African Women Writers, Who's Who of the Top 500 Women in Nigeria; Who s Who in Nigeria; and the International Authors and Writers Who's Who, published in Cambridge, UK. She was recently appointed African Renaissance Ambassador by the African Renaissance Conference with head quarters in Benin Republic.

Prof Catherine Acholonu is Nigeria's Country Ambassador for the UN Forum of Arts and Culture (UNFAC) instituted by the global Secretariat of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification based at the UN Building, Bonn, Germany. Before this new assignment, she was the Special Adviser on Arts and Culture to the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria from 1999-2002. Under the leadership of Prof. Acholonu, UNFAC a number of ambitious programs aimed at creating an interface between cultural development in local communities of Nigeria and sustainable environmental development. Under this program, UNFAC has been partnering with Microsoft to give basic IT Training to under-served community dwellers in Nigeria under the Microsoft Unlimited Potential Program.

The UNFAC team of culture researchers- linguists, anthropologists, historians, IT specialists, folklorists - led by Prof. Acholonu, are conducting research aimed at unearthing the hidden meanings of ancient Nigerian rock art/inscriptions known as Ikom Monoliths of Cross River State, which thanks to Acholonu's research findings and nomination application, have now been listed by the World Monument Fund in its 2008 list of 100 Most Endangered Sites as "a ancient form of writing and visual communication , dating before 2000 B.C." Acholonu is seeking international support and funding for her monoliths research by which she has proved that Sub-Saharan African Blacks possessed an organized system of writing before 2000 B.C. (more than 4000 years ago) and a Pre-History recorded on 350 stones which she and her team of researchers are now transcribing and translating. (See The Gram Code of African Adam, the first in a series on the monoliths research.) She believes that the contents of these stone records will prove that Black Africans were the midwives of human civilization, and will change human history as we know it.

Acholonu is an incurable idealist and a frontline political activist. She contested for the post of President of Federal Republic of Nigeria 1992. Acholonu is one of the founding member of the Peoples Democratic Party, a member of its National Women Mobilization Committee and the Imo State Woman Leader of PDP in the formative years of the party. She is the National Spokesperson of the Movement for Gender Parity, a gender-advocacy group that was in the frontline for the demand for and attainment of the post of the First Woman Speaker of the Nigerian House of Representatives. As a leading Nigerian political activist Prof. Catherine Acholonu is an advocate for human rights and women's rights and often expresses burning opinions in the national media on the need for government to put the people first.[/b]
And you forgot to mention our own super woman... Linda ikeji?

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Re: Great/famous Women From Your State by hothire(f): 12:01pm On May 01, 2017
Dr. Ngozi Okonjo Iweala, Delta State
Re: Great/famous Women From Your State by Solowande(m): 12:01pm On May 01, 2017
[quote][/quote]who is dis 'Nobody'?
Re: Great/famous Women From Your State by Nobody: 12:02pm On May 01, 2017
stevebond007:


She only lived in Ibadan.
Her Dad is from Ekiti
Oh really. Never knew that thanks man.
Re: Great/famous Women From Your State by xaggar(m): 12:02pm On May 01, 2017
DUMCHRIS:
For Delta we have
Marian Babangida
Omoni Oboli nollywood actress cum producer
Blessing Okagbare sprinter
Prof. Grace Allele Williams first female vice chancellor in Nigeria
Dr. Okonjo Iweala former finance minister
Omawumi musician
.

Learn to quote me, please.
Re: Great/famous Women From Your State by Solowande(m): 12:03pm On May 01, 2017
[quote][/quote]
Re: Great/famous Women From Your State by princessayesha(f): 12:05pm On May 01, 2017
My mother

The only woman in the world that can make me confess without any effort

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Re: Great/famous Women From Your State by mybestlove(m): 12:06pm On May 01, 2017
IMO STATE
My mama
My wife
Genevieve Nnaji
Eucharia Anunobi
Viola Onwuliri

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Re: Great/famous Women From Your State by NLban: 12:07pm On May 01, 2017

Honourable Chief (Mrs.) Margaret Mwuese Icheen (PDP), Kwande-East State Constituency.

Born on 26 June 1957, Margaret Mwuese Icheen (Speaker Benue State House of Assembly ) made history as the first female Speaker of any Nigerian legislature on 31st May, 1999.

Chairman Federal Character Commission, Benue State.

2.

www.nairaland.com/attachments/2716892_1111_jpegbbfc9bc65a3d1b02a868718fb2e787cf

Rosemary Sugh, a 23-year old graduate of Nigerian College of Aviation Technology, Zaria, was born on November 14, 1992...and according to an interview she granted last year, she has flown three planes so far, a TD9, a TD20, and a Multi Engine, B68.

[img]http://1.bp..com/-bjVUW4Xj-Fg/VcSGi7MDJxI/AAAAAAAGJyU/gP2RT9PCzqU/s320/2.jpg[/img]
Speaking about why she became a pilot, Rosemary, who is from Kwande local government area of Benue state. said; It was my childhood determination. When I look up and see planes flying and making noise , I was like, God, I have to be a pilot. And it helped me in the sense that the kind of movies I watched, one of the movies was Starship Trooper. There was a lot of discouragement from my parents and other people. They assumed that if you are a lady and you are a pilot, you may not marry, you can’t cope with marriage. So, when I saw a lady in that Starship Trooper, I was moved. I said wow, if this girl can fly, then I can fly. And I put it into prayers, despite all the obstacles and discouragement."

https://www.nairaland.com/2509066/23-year-old-benue-state

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Re: Great/famous Women From Your State by goaldynboy: 12:08pm On May 01, 2017
nengibo:

Don't forget the first black African miss world, Mama peace, Ibim Seminitari, Monalisa Chinda, Tonto Dike

Agbani Darego - first Miss World from Africa - Rivers State!!!

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Re: Great/famous Women From Your State by Nickizoe(f): 12:08pm On May 01, 2017
My mom
My sister's
Me
My Aunty dem....


















You don't know em, that's why they're Great..

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