₦airaland Forum

Mrbigman1:
No Igbo is greater that d other dear. And am not claiming supremacy.
Igbo di na obara not in ire. So dnt make me an enemy already.
O nnekwu nwa'ada ka ibu

ephi123:
Correction accepted, Okene.
So why jump on other people's comments since you've made yours?

Amoto94:
To correct a wrong notion.

solasoulmusic:
2 including English

solasoulmusic:
Onyeka Onwenu Rita Dominic Stephanie Linus Genevieve Nnaji Linda Ikeji Lilian Esoro Chioma Okpara Chidinma Ekile
In No particular order just listing

Dainikel:
I wish I could say same for mine...really can't speak either of both langs, I only understand...funny I guess?

passion007:
Enugu State

Film and Music

Patience Ozokwor
Uzoamaka Aduba (Hollywood)
Ashley Madekwe
Megalyn Echikunwoke
Ego Boyo Nnamani (Ann Haastrup of Checkmate)
Racheal Okonkwo
Regina Chukwu (Yoruba movies)
Uche Ogbodo
Chinwe Owoh
Yvonne Akuabata Ogbogu (Stormrex)



Politics
Ahebi Ugbabe ( Only female king of colonial Igboland)
Chief Mrs Justina Eze (First female lawmaker from the Southeast)

Professionals

Dr Sally Adukwu-Bolujoko (Past president of Nigerian Institute of Management)
Zain Asher (CNN)
Fidelia Njeze
Bianca Ojukwu

Sports
Ogonna Nnamani (She was awarded the Honda-Broderick Cup in 2004 as the USA's top female athlete across all NCAA sports)

shankara7:
She is from ngor okpala imo state

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]

ephi123:
I'm waiting for the Northern states

solasoulmusic:
No it's life I didn't grow up around igbos speaking Igbo but Yorubas speaking Yoruba I understand Yoruba and speak it at an intermediate level because at one time I needed to ...to communicate effectively with those I work with I went to a British school

Environment is a factor for language

I will never say it to anyone who prefers to insult before understanding

EazyMoh:
Jigawa State
Prof. Ruqayyatu Ahmad Rufa'i first female minister of education.
Wing Commander Hajara Bashir Umar first first female officer from the north to reach that rank in the Nigeria Airforce.

ephi123:
Kudos to them.
These Northern women should be highly celebrated, for them to have broken the mold and excelled despite the odds. We seldom hear anything about these people.

Dainikel:
Very true environment is a key factor for language cos I remembered my Sis started speaking Igbo when she spent 2months in the east during a strike action but what do U say of my own case having spent 9ys in Egba I still can't speak Yoruba fluently at least the Igbo part is understandable having not spent time in the east.

EazyMoh:
yeah, well just because you seldom hear about them doesn't mean they don't exist at all.

ephi123:
It's good to know they do. Hopefully we will see more threads in the future that will highlight these positives in the North, particularly for females. Very key.

nwabobo:
Ngozi Iweala is from Delta but took Abia ministerial slot cos she's married to an Abian.....Ndi is married to an Anambrarian.

EazyMoh:
yeah it will. I had such time and resources I would have done it personally.

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

ephi123:
Please do make time if possible, or if there is someone else who can...
The other time, a number of people created threads showing aerial views and pictures of different cities from the south west and south east but there hasn't been one from the North. As much as we criticize some practices in the North, yet there are a lot of positives & things to be celebrated there but there is no way people will know if those stories are not told and shared.

EazyMoh:
Yes thank you for understanding.
This is mainly why you don't see northerners engaging in sectarian superiority debates. They are largely pointless.
Many educated people down south have no idea about happenings in the north, but they have an image engraved in their minds of a backward region and people.
Anyway this is actually one of my objectives on NL. To correct any misinformation or misunderstanding about my culture, region, religion and/or tribe.
I will try do the northern successful women story thing sha.
Cheers.

ephi123:
I agree, and I raise my hand up that I am one of those people who has such image in mind. So definitely looking forward to threads that show the full picture and not just the negative part of things.
Cheers, and enjoy the rest of your day.

EazyMoh:
Yes thank you for understanding.
This is mainly why you don't see northerners engaging in sectarian superiority debates. They are largely pointless.
Many educated people down south have no idea about happenings in the north, but they have an image engraved in their minds of a backward region and people.
Anyway this is actually one of my objectives on NL. To correct any misinformation or misunderstanding about my culture, region, religion and/or tribe.
I will try do the northern successful women story thing sha.
Cheers.

khalifahsparkles:
I'm looking forward to reading the thread