Nigeria's first Mining Engineer: Dr Ezekiel Ifaturoti

Nigeria's First Chief Geologist: Dr Edmund Maduabebe Daukoru.

Nigeria's First Female Geophysicist: Deborah Ajakaiye.

1st Nigerian & the first ever Howard graduate recipient of the Poincaré Fellowship at the California Institute of Technology for postgraduate studiest(st class degree in Electrical Engineering atHOWARD University,USA)

Miss Oluwatosin Otitoju

First President of the Nigerian Society of Engineers: Engr., Chief. G.O. Aiwerioba FNSE

OPEC's first Female minister member: Diezeni Allison-Madueke.

Guys, it would be good to add pictures to those names.

Please.

Lady Kofo Ademola

The first Nigerian woman to receive a university degree (Oxford).

The first Nigerian students at the University of Glasgow came to study medicine in 1913. James Churchill Vaughan and Isaac Lapido Oluwole graduated with a medical degree in 1918.

The photograph is from the final year dinner book for 1913-1918 MB ChB students, featuring James Churchill Vaughan (top left) and Isaac Lapido Oluwole (bottom left).

I line with my suggestion, I am reposting with the pictures.
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Alhaji Shehu Shagari - Nigeria's first executive president.

Rashidi Yekini - Nigeria's first African footballer of the yeat and senior world cup goal scorer.

Nduka Ugbade - Captain of the first Nigerian team to win a world cup

Chioma Ajunwa - first Nigerian to win an Olympic gold medal.

Obasanjo From Yola (Jail) to Abuja (Aso rock) as President. The First luckiest Dude ever seen in my life.

John Uzoma Ekwugha Amaechi first openly gay Nigerian NBA player

The first Economic adviser to the government of Nigeria (1962-67): Pius Okhigbo

First Nigeran to become a People's Peer of England's House of Lords, Lord Adebowale
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/uk_politics/2001/open_politics/lords/peoples_peers.stm

The first Nigerian Ambassador to the European community: Pius Okhigbo

Adebayo Ogunlesi

First review editor of  the Harvard Law Review

first Nigerian OR non- American citizen to be a clerk at the  U.S. Supreme Court of Justice

First Nigerian to lead a group of investors to buy Gatwick Airport


http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1003810,00.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKixx2c-2BU

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Adebayo Ogunlesi's father the first medical professor of Nigeria, anyone have more info?

The first chief justice of nigeria Justice

ADETOKUNBO ADEGBOYEGA ADEMOLA

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie First Nigerian to win the Orange Prize for Fiction (female only competition)

The first Nigerian Lawyer

Christopher Sapara Williams

Ben Okri OBE FRSL first Nigerian to win the prestigious booker prize.  Ben Okri was born in 1959 in Minna, northern Nigeria, to an Igbo mother and Urhobo father.

http://www.themanbookerprize.com/prize/archive/25

THE first Nigerian Mining Engineer

Dr. Ezekiel Adekunle Ifaturoti

Alexander Amosu (The ringtone king)
http://www.alexanderamosu.com/profile.asp


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghpWNccFI2U
The first person/Nigerian to start urban ringtones in Europe at age 24, he is now a serial entrepreneur.

[img]http://blkpreneur.files./2007/12/alexamosu.jpg[/img]

Mike Adenuga
First Nigerian Billionaire to found a company that constructed a submarine communications cable. The GLO-1 (Globacom-1) from Nigeria, through west africa all the way to the UK. The submarine cable system is 9,800 km long, and became operational in 2010 with a minimum capacity of 640 Gbit/s.

No picture needed you are probably paying him every second lol!

Nigeria’s first and oldest Engineer, Victor Adetunji Haffner

First Nigerian/Black to attend Oxford University -Dim Ikemba odumegwu Ojukwu

mekuzoil:

First Nigerian/Black to attend Oxford University -Dim Ikemba odumegwu Ojukwu

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Eko Ile:

Lady Kofo Ademola

The first Nigerian woman to receive a university degree (Oxford).[

First Nigerian Pastor to cross millions of followers on twitter: Pastor Chris Oyakhilome

First One-day boy Governor in Nigeria - Chukwuebuka Anisiobi
First former president to weep in Public - Gen. Muhammadu Buhari
First sitting governor to be kidnapped in Nigeria - Dr. Chris Ngige

mekuzoil:

First Nigerian/Black to attend Oxford University -Dim Ikemba odumegwu Ojukwu

That is a lie. Abeg don't spoil thread with needless 419.

The first Nigerian to play in the English Premier League (EPL): John Chiedozie. Born 18th April 1960 in Owerri.Played for Tottenham Hotspurs, Derby County,Leyton Orient, Notts County in the Late 70s and early 80s.