₦airaland Forum

First Nigerian to win the Orange Prize

Chimamanda Adichie

First Nigerian pharmacist
Cyprian Ekwensi

The first Nigerian to own a car
Ojukwu's father.

enyojo:
I assume and presume that u are a new man in Lagos or not a Lagosian at all.
In either case, you should have heard that one Gov Tinubu worked with non Yorubas (including Igbos)

Just give me the name of any person who was a commissioner/special assistant under Tinubu apart from Akabueze. Okay?

Me, live in Lagos? What for??

First (and only) Nigerian to MARRY with his daughter for UK visa.

Mr Adesanya

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-354203.0.html

First Nigerian Head of WAEC

Igbo man, Prof Chukwuemeka Ike

First Nigerian Constitutional Lawyer

Ben Nwabueze

First Nigerian VC of a Nigerian University:
Kenneth Dike

First Nollywood movie: living in Bondage (Igbo movie)
There was nothing like Nollywood until then. Thanks.

First Nigerian to discover an asteroid: Dr. Alphonsus Ekwerike (igbo man)

^^^^
Igbos pay taxes in Lagos and own properties that contribute in the physical development of the place
Igbos attend Unilag, LASU and Yabatech in thousands, as students and professors: they contribute to the intellectual debate there
Igbos own thousands of industries in Lagos (Capital Oil, Coscharis, Zinox, Emzor, Linkserve, etc, etc)
They own hundreds of thousands of retail trade in Lagos
They own a good # of the Hotels in Lagos
In fact, they own 60 + % of Lagos. Is that not contribution more than enough?

First (and only) Nigerian blessed
Father Tansi-Igbo man

First and only Nigerian to head one of the 16 CGIAR centres
Kanayo Nwanze

First and only Nigerian head of Commonwealth
Igbo man

First (and only) Nigerian to head the FAO (part of the UN)
Kanayo Nwanze

enyojo:
Can you see why Nigeria can never split??
Can you see that if at all any part secedes to be on its own like Biafra, Odua Republic, Arewa etc, they CANNOT be united?

See, Lagos state usually had Igbo Commissioners (Not just Special Advisers) the latest was Ben Akabueze who was given a sensitive ministry as Budget and Economic planning. In the same vein, Kano state under shekarau had different tribes including an Igala (my lovely tribe) as commissioner.

Now Rochas took in Kanu (another Igbo) as Special Adviser (not Commissioner) and Tribalists are saying why take an Abia man in Imo state.

I can now see how helplessly shallow Tribalists are!

Who was the person before Akabueze?

;d ;d ;d ;d ;d

May we know the name of the aide who exposed him? Some people betraying of their brothers?

He is a common criminal that deserves even an under-water cell. In fact, he should be shut w/out trial. Ole buruku

First State University in Nigeria
1. Anambra State University (of Science and Technology) 1979
2. River State University, 1980
3. Imo State University, 1981

First Nigerian to introduce internet service into Nigeria

http://www.linkserve.net/general/news.php?n=30&mode=story&y=2008

Who says they do not know Olutoye? His name simply does not ring a bell.

First president of the Nigerian Stock exchange
Lous Ojukwu (Ojukwu's father)

First Nigerian in ''space'' flight

One Igbo girl like that

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/5364722.stm

The first Nigerian Fellow in Brookings Institution?

MELVIN DAMIAN AYOGU

http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/Files/experts/ayogum/melvin%20ayogu_cv.pdf

Either he or Ngozi Okonjo Iweala was the first

Bluetooth
Here we go again. It has been proven to you before here on NL that Igbos engaged Yorubas in Igboland's politics before Tinubu did in Lagos
Under Nnamani and Kalu, Yorubas were in govt in Enugu and Abia
Under Ohakim, an Edo was in govt in Imo
Moreover, you cannot stay in your backyard and expect to be given a post in Igboland. If you want a post there, relocate there.
Igbos in Lagos work for every dime/position they get. No one came to Anambra to ask Ben Akabueze to come become a commissioner in Lagos

Ojukwu # 1
Olutoye # 2
http://books.google.com/books?id=t5Q78sVbLakC&pg=PA30&lpg=PA30&dq=Olutoye+and+Nigerian+army&source=bl&ots=PDz7hjCT6f&sig=LlHW6SB3pT2XjlrLEIyUAPJlxUw&hl=en&ei=RHH3TZLcCYmosQPOufC0Bw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Olutoye%20and%20Nigerian%20army&f=false

Case closed.

Who is Olutoye? His name does not ring a bell and we (I) would like to know who he is in Nigeria. That is a simple assignment, I guess.

Was Banjo a graduate before he enlisted into the army?

Look with rimmed glasses and thou shalt find Beaf

nwa afo:
but Kanu is not from Imo state

What difference does it make? He grew up there.

seanet02:
Hope he does not include Kidnapping and Human Eating in the Curriculum

We can joke about politics and crime- for me, NL is a playground when bored. But it is from posts like this that you can really confirm the envy some others habour against Igbos.

@will look for those Igbo-Hollywood movies named
In Tears of the Sun by Bruce Willis, Igbo was also the language used (of the Nigerian languages).