₦airaland Forum

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)

solasoulmusic:
Yessir

Dainikel:
Jus got a lil confused with the name Sola from Imo or are U an hybrid?

igedeboy:
omenka, omenkaLives come and represent us here

solasoulmusic:
What does my mother said I'm Igbo mean is it polite

I grew up in Lagos big deal not less Igbo than you if we can't accept ourselves who will accept us

Mrbigman1:
I was born and bred in kaduna state. Zaria precisely. How come I speak and learn how to write and read?

It was not a miracle. Besides, Lagos have larger number of Igbo speakers.
U should be very much ashamed of urself dear.
See her mouth like a grew up in Lagos. Wonderful excuse.
Alas, u speak a write yellowbar right?
Fuckeddd self esteem being.

Go learn how to speak and read and write ur mother tongue, u re not getting any younger. Na una wan extinct Igbo language but promote others.

Even the guy who just won world boxing tourny speaks yellowbar. And u re still stock in Nija with *i grew in Lagos excuse*
Will u stopit already?

solasoulmusic:
More like triple hybrid

ephi123:
Loool. When girls yet to discover their potentials are married off before we can say jack robinson, their contributions will be far less compared to other states. Wicked repressive culture.

Chukason1:
anambra ..... chidinma okeke

Dainikel:
Interesting, do u care to reveal the third identity?

Amoto94:
Save your treacherous advice for your brothers begging for their lives in Asian countries and your sisters involved in intercontinental prostitution.

solasoulmusic:
Even if I don't speak I treat my fellow people better than you can ever dream the same attitude you have led us to slaughter back then I don't have to put my life story before you understand some circumstances are out of ones control

Like their environment good for you bro

Apart from being an asshole anything else interesting about you

Mrbigman1:
Dnt draw much emotions to dis.
Was just trying to make common sense.

ephi123:
The comment was not an advice, duh.

I know you guys find the truth very bitter to swallow. Sorry but it's the way it is. Rather than defend your archaic customs, stand up and make a change, and stop quoting me all over the place.

Amoto94:
Vain glorious buffoon worry about your pathetic lots who are nothing but disgrace to humanity. Clifford Orji and Vampire say hi.

solasoulmusic:
Fulani

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)
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]

Dainikel:
Fab I must state...how are the 3 identities conjoined?

solasoulmusic:
No my dear what you did was show the real reason why there is lack of love in Igbo land the person who named me died and as a tribute I changed my name big deal

ephi123:
Heya, you are so pained

Amoto94:
Pained over a comment made by a lowlifer from a region known as disgrace to Africans. Go get treated for Northernophobia

Mrbigman1:
I dnt understand ur meaning but Dia was no bitter message Dia.
Was just trying to flog down dat *bred in Lagos idea* a lot of Igbo youths portray as if lagos is the only city outside the Igbo land.

Our language is going extinct and I wonder what 20yrs from now will look like.

Dia is no bitterness, dnt fashion one.

solasoulmusic:
my mum is Yoruba with Fulani blood my dad is Igbo

ephi123:

Amoto94:
Where I'm from we keep it lowkey we don't shout it out like how some of you do. Check who is the first indigenous trained female neurosurgeon again.

Dainikel:
I bliv U can speak @least 2 of the languages

ephi123:
Since you are talking like a normal person now, I will type a proper response.

The first indigenous trained female neurosurgeon is Dr. Salamat Ahuoiza Aliu. Dr. Aliu is an indigene of Okenne Local Government Area of Kogi State but was born in Ilorin, Kwara State.

What stopped you from updating the thread with that info rather than jumping on another person's comment?

solasoulmusic:
You must be a better Igbo person than I am okay have a great day

Bitterness doesn't see bitterness only love does

Some situations were out of my control

Amoto94:
Let me correct your mistake it's called Okene not Okenne and my first comment on this was about her because we both hailed from same place.