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Jaja of Opobo, founder of Opobo.

Jaja of Opobo (full name: Jubo Jubogha; 1821–1891) was a merchant prince and the founder of Opobo city-state in an area that is now part of Nigeria. Born in Umuduruoha, Amaigbo,[citation needed] in Igboland, he was sold at about the age of twelve as a slave in Bonny. Jumo Jumofe later took the name "Jaja" for his dealings with the British.

omoelesa:
U flatt head should get this into ur flatt brain.u contribute little to the national coffers.there is nothing the iboman has achieved in which a yoruba has not achieved in any sector.

why do u want to derail this thread?




Igbo matter just dy give una headache

coolitempa:
So rumours in your world is not enough to cast doubt...but you included him....

Regardless, I made mention of the fact that it was a rumor and not necessarily fact.

Also, I would like to keep this thread clean and devoid of slurs and insults.

If you feel the need to dispute anything I have included here please open another thread. Thanks.

Mods, front page please

Lovesdaisied:
Regardless, I made mention of the fact that it was a rumor and not necessarily fact.

Also, I would like to keep this thread clean and devoid of slurs and insults.

If you feel the need to dispute anything I have included here please open another thread. Thanks.

Telling outright lies.....and .....trying to pass them off as the truth is deceitful......and tasteless......I am therefore......duty bound and...entitled to burst ur bubble......

You guys just lie for a living sha...... ...Chike obi never proved any fermat theorem......it was reviewed by his peers n thrown into the bush where it belongs..... ......wetin u a dey drink for that side.....just tell lies so easily.......likely as a result of deep seated inferiority complex to measure up to Yorubas

Bookmarked to continue in an hour.

Next Batch - Beauty/Fashion.

Economics/Records/Finance
NGOZI OKONJO IWEALA-
she was a two time director of the world bank.unarguably one of the greatest influencers of all time in the world bank.
EMEKA ANYAOKU-
He is the first black secretary of the common wealth.
OBY EZEKWESILI-
She is a former vice president of the world bank.
ARUNMA OTEH-
she is the current treasurer and vice president of the world bank.
TONY ELUMELU-
He is one of the richest person in the world and he is the former managing director of UBA bank.
CHARLES SOLUDO-
Former governor of central bank of nigeria.
LOUIS OJUKWU-
first nigerian millionaire and the founder of nigeria stock exchange.

Lovesdaisied:
One of Africa's biggest hits of the 1970's = A song made by a son of Ebonyi.

Nico Mbarga.

^^^This guy here is one of our greatest exports! Decades after, sweet mother is still the rave on mothers day and mothers birthday parties!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mecNrIaWOA?list=PLD296CB919279E4AD

coolitempa:
Phillip emeagwali is a fraudster........well known and bursted flush longtime ago.......lecturing by 19....more lies......

whatever,the world still acknowledges him as one of the founding fathers of super computer and the greatest african scientist of all time.his name has been written in 'SANDS OF TIME'.

nwadiuko1:
why do u want to derail this thread?




Igbo matter just dy give una headache

^^^It's due to an all-consuming hatred and envy for anything Igbo! Ignore them as the OPs intention is to have a clean thread where he showcases Ndigbo giant strides and contribution to humanity....not just Nigeria!

EastLebanon:
whatever,the world still acknowledges him as one of the founding fathers of super computer and the greatest african scientist of all time.his name has been written in 'SANDS OF TIME'.

^^^Ignore the guy!

EastLebanon:
whatever,the world still acknowledges him as one of the founding fathers of super computer and the greatest african scientist of all time.his name has been written in 'SANDS OF TIME'.

Lol.....so you are still one of those......believing a well sold lie to the rest of the world..... .....even Nigeria has taken him off our stamps..... ......read this link for some education.....

http://saharareporters.com/2010/10/18/how-philip-emeagwali-lied-his-way-fame

Since ur broda was bursted....he has simply crawled back to his lying hole.....

IGBOSON1:
^^^This guy here is one of our greatest exports! Decades after, sweet mother is still the rave on mothers day and mothers birthday parties!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mecNrIaWOA?list=PLD296CB919279E4AD

You are right. A staple still being played till date at parties, etc.

EastLebanon:
Economics/Records/Finance
NGOZI OKONJO IWEALA-
she was a two time director of the world bank.unarguably one of the greatest influencers of all time in the world bank.
EMEKA ANYAOKU-
He is the first black secretary of the common wealth.
OBY EZEKWESILI-
She is a former vice president of the world bank.
ARUNMA OTEH-
she is the current treasurer and vice president of the world bank.
TONY ELUMELU-
He is one of the richest person in the world and he is the former managing director of UBA bank.
CHARLES SOLUDO-
Former governor of central bank of nigeria.
LOUIS OJUKWU-
first nigerian millionaire and the founder of nigeria stock exchange.

.....what nonsense is this...... .......Ngozi Wahala.......one of the biggest influencers in the world bank....

A few other music greats the OP forgot:

Celestine Ukwu: Ije enu & Okwukwe na Nchekwube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK4jYXtXf0U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8JL_4C7JRs

Joe Nez: Landlady & Bulie aha gi elu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJyIWXSlfWo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Re2bZFSQIs

Peacocks guitar band: Eddie Quansa Nigeria-70

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GCZht757ec

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IGBOSON1:
A few other music greats the OP forgot:

Celestine Ukwu: Ije enu & Okwukwe na Nchekwube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK4jYXtXf0U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8JL_4C7JRs

Joe Nez: Landlady & Bulie aha gi elu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJyIWXSlfWo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Re2bZFSQIs

Peacocks guitar band: Eddie Quansa Nigeria-70

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GCZht757ec

These people are just local unknown artists outside their enclaves......unworthy........

General Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu
The first black man to ever create a country

Sports are owned by Igbo people
music and movies na Igbo get am
until a yoruba person win an individual GOLD medal at the olympic games, beat KANU and MIKEL OBI as most decorated ballers outta 9ja, have more YOUTUBE view than PSQUARE, appear in movies more than GENEVIVE or STEPHANIE OKEREKE, become world youngest female black pilot, or have a book translated into over 75 languages, refine crude without refineries, etc etc, beat ZIK to first african president ha ha ha change 5% into money spinning game, beat UNN to largest westafrican library, become billionaires without government presence, Igbos will continue to be the higher than them! I will respect YORUBA the day they float a radio that will trendas NUMBER ONE in the whole world for just 1 HOUR just like the UNJAMMABLE RADIO BIAFRA! I will respect yoruba when the produce a man who gives even BUHArAm nightmares in the person of NNAMDI KANU. Until the YORUBA people get half of the above mentoned, the IGBO peole only compete with themselves! If yoruba people are angry, let them COME LETS MAKE S.E a NO MAN'S LAND!

http://www.newsexpressngr.com/news/detailphp?news=2547&title=igboscholardisgracesfemifanikayode%E2%80%A2demolishesclamsonIgbo/Yorubahistorywithfactsandfigures
Now i urge every yoruba person to click that link and come back with a reply!!! Enough of all this education trash!!!! No insults, Igbo are better than the rest simple. If you bring facts to counter the ones in the link which i have just provided, then i will reconsider. For now, Igbo people compete with themselves, no worthy competitors exist in this zoo!

Txonyi:
http://www.newsexpressngr.com/news/detailphp?news=2547&title=igboscholardisgracesfemifanikayode%E2%80%A2demolishesclamsonIgbo/Yorubahistorywithfactsandfigures
Now i urge every yoruba person to click that link and come back with a reply!!! Enough of all this education trash!!!! No insults, Igbo are better than the rest simple. If you bring facts to counter the ones in the link which i have just provided, then i will reconsider. For now, Igbo people compete with themselves, no worthy competitors exist in this zoo!

^^^Please this thread is about Igbo achievements....try and leave Yoruba out of it!

I give zero thought wen it comes to any tribe topics;
Either igbo,yoruba or hausa all matters is our togetherness....we are one Nigeria and we should join hands to contribute for the growth of this country!

Lovesdaisied:
Note that I mention "rumor," which also means "speculation".

@OP
Please try to ignore all derailers (coolitempa), comprehension is their problem.

Keep it rolling baby!

dialfa:
General Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu
The first black man to ever create a country

What nonsense is this... Create which country.....country without food...money....and crushed in two years.....with three million dead.....
.?.

coolitempa:
You guys just lie for a living sha...... ...Chike obi never proved any fermat theorem......it was reviewed by his peers n thrown into the bush where it belongs..... ......wetin u a dey drink for that side.....just tell lies so easily.......likely as a result of deep seated inferiority complex to measure up to Yorubas

If we are lieing to measure up with the Yorubas as you rightly put it, why would this same Yourbas be crying for we, the Igbos, to opt out of the city we contributed a great deal in developing? By so doing, who is afraid of who knowing fully well that they are better than them in all ramifications that's why they're afraid of loosing their lands to a tribe with more educational, business and political acumen. The truth isn't far fetched. On carefully analysis of the novel,"There was a country" by our very own Father of African Literature, Late Sir Chinua Achebe, one not only discovers the "Truth" but also gets to know that "Truly Speaking There Was A Country".

Lalasticlala I plead with you in the name of God, do the needed.

Justice Chukwudifu Oputa

Amobi Okoye, Youngest player to be drafted by an NFL team

Osi Umenyiora- two times Superbowl winner with The NY Giants

Nnamdi Asomugha- one of the highest paid players In the NFL

Beauty/Fashion

Oluchi Orlandi - Nigeria's most famous international fashion model. First face of Africa winner.

After moving to New York City, where she still lives, Oluchi graced the covers of Italian Vogue, i-D, Pop, ELLE, Untold, and Surface; she also was featured in Nylon, Marie Claire, Allure, and other national editions of Vogue around the world.She became the face of campaigns for Gianfranco Ferré, Gap, Express, Banana Republic, and Ann Taylor, as well as working for Victoria's Secret in print walking for seven consecutive years in the annual Victoria's Secret Fashion Show.Orlandi's runway experience has been with John Galliano, Christian Dior, Costume National, Chanel, and Giorgio Armani, amongst others, in London, Milan, Tokyo and Paris. She has worked with such notable photographers as Steven Meisel, Nick Knight, David LaChapelle, and Patrick Demarchelier

Picture - Oluchi for Vogue Italia.

Adaora Akubilo - Glamour/Commercial Model. Appeared in Sports Illustrated in 2012 and 2013.

Has also been in campaigns for CoverGirl, Pantene, Garnier and Abercrombie and Fitch. She has been featured in commercials for JC Penney, MaryKay, Target, and Macy's.

Chinenye Ochuba- MBGN 2002. Followed in the heels of Agbani Darego by becoming a top 10 finalist at the 2002 Miss World beauty pageant.