Nigeria made Olympic football history by becoming the first African and non-European and South American team to win the gold medal.

Atlanta '96
August 3rd 1996 was a day alot of Nigerians will never forget. It was the day that enemies became friends, drinks were freely given, landlords forgot their rent money, bank MD's embraced their drivers, Monarchs kissed their boy-in-waiting, police and thieves shook hands. It was a day a nation jubilated and celebrated like never seen before in our history. Every Nigerian felt like a winner. The under-23 soccer team, led by Kanu Nwankwu put Nigeria in the world map by winning and making us the first African country to win the gold medal in a football event at the olympics

AGBANI DAREGO

The first African black miss world

Agbani won the title of Miss World 2001 pageant held in South Africa. This made her the first-ever black African winner of the title. The show was hosted by US talk show host Jerry Springer, and Agbani Darego's victory was widely hailed in Nigeria as a welcome bit of good news. Nigeria was just getting out of an extended stretch of military dictatorships, the economy was largely in the dumps, and people were eager for some good news. The surprise win gave fresh impetus to the beauty pageant industry in the country, and vindicated the optimistic prediction of the organizer of the Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria competition, who had said that his aim in starting the competition more than 10 years earlier was to produce a Nigerian winner of either Miss World pageant or Miss Universe.

Agbani Darego becoming Miss World
On Novenber 16 2001, a nineteen year old girl single handedly put Nigeria on the world map by winning the 2001 Miss World pageant in South Africa, beating 92 other girls and setting a world record as the first black African Miss World. It was a day Nigerians openly celebrated and every one felt proud to call themselves Nigerians

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Wole Soyinka - first African-born Nobel Prize winner

First African writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986. Also known for being in exile from the Nigerian government under Abacha. When Abacha was gone, and Abubakar took over, Wole Soyinka finally came home for a visit towards the latter part of October 1998, and many are hoping he will return permanently

pultizer prize


Award winning photo, this image was shown worldwide by every media house around the world. Barcelona '92 Olympics. 4 by 100m relay final. The Nigerian quartet was made up of Faith Idehen,Beatrice Utondu,Christy Opara-Thompson and Mary Onyali. Nobody gave our girls a chance. USA won. Nigeria took the bronze medal(our first medal ever by women in track&field) and these girls went wild with jubilation that captivated the world. They didn't kno where they were comin' from, God bless Nigeria.


This IOC 'Celebrate Humanity' ad captures one on the iconic moments of the Barcelona Olympics- the celebration of the Nigerians women's quarter who even though won a "mere" bronze, celebrated as if they had won the gold!

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chimamanda adichie

the first african woman to win Orange Prize for Fiction (2004) and was awarded the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book (2005).

The winner of 1994 African Cup of Nations was the 19th edition of the African Cup of Nations,

The 1994, the 19th edition of the African Cup of Nations was hosted by Tunisia. On April 10th, the finals was played between Nigeria and Zambia. Nigeria won 2-1. Nigeria went crazy. We celebrated like we had never done befoe. It was a day that brought us closer as a people. A day that made us forget our problems. A day that every Nigerian can say that they were trully happy.

Tuface mobo awards and MTV Africa awards-the first African to win the best African act @ the MTV EUROPE AWARDS

abacha

Abacha died while in the company of two Indian LovePeddlers. Though the official cause of his death was a heart attack, according to a widely held belief amongst Nigerians and Western diplomats he overdosed on Viagra or Burantashi, on June 8th, 1998. Almost every Nigerian can remember where they were when they heard the 'happy' news. Market women went into the streets singing and dancing. Nigerians were happy to hear of his death. There was even a story that went around at the time that armed-robbers didn't operate for a while in celebration of the death of Nigeria's most hated leader of all time.

Beijing Olympic 2008 -Nigeria Olympic Football Team Silver Medal

Nigeria thrash Belgium to reach Olympic football final

Nigeria reached the Olympic football final with a 4-1 victory over Belgium, getting goals from Emmanuel Ekpo, Chibuzor Okonkwo, Olubayo Adefemi and Chinedi Ogbuke Obasi.

The once 1996 Atlanta Olympic champions -the first African country to win the gold @ olympics and the first to reach the finals @ the 2008 olympics

dangote aliko

With an estimated current net worth of around US$ 13.8 billion, he was ranked by Forbes 2010 as one of the richest Nigerian citizens[4] and richest person of African descent in the world toppling Mohammed Al Amoudi ($12.3 billion) and Oprah Winfrey ($2.7 billion.)[5]

big brother africa

Nigeria has won Big brother Africa 3 times in a row

kevin chuwang pam 2009

Uti Nwachukwu 2010

Karen Igho 2011

Great post onila! I wish i had ur research abilities to add mine. Almost cried. God bless you. God bless Nigeria!

AWWW Thanks hun. .i do it for my people

Happy independence

Sugardiva:
Great post onila! I wish i had ur research abilities to add mine. Almost cried. God bless you. God bless Nigeria!

I cried oh!! I feel blessed.