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Abraham Aderibigbe Adesanya (July 24, 1922 in Ijebu Igbo - 27 April 2008) was a Nigerian politician, lawyer, activist, welfarist, aristocrat and liberal progressive.
Nwaubani was one of the pioneer editorial staff of Nigeria’s now defunct NEXT newspapers, established by Pulitzer-winning journalist, Dele Olojede.
In March 2007, speaking at the official commissioning of the Human Capital Development Centre in Ikoyi, Lagos, Aliyu Modibbo Umar said that Nigeria should take advantage of African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) which was signed into Law on May 18, 2000, by US President Bill Clinton.
Navy Commodore Anthony E. Oguguo was appointed military governor of Imo State in Nigeria from 1990 to 1992 during the military regime of General Ibrahim Babangida.
The decision was reportedly made at a meeting on 2 July 2006 and The Vanguard newspaper of Nigeria reported the decision to secede.
The Bende are an ethnolinguistic group based in the Mpanda District of Rukwa Region in western Tanzania.
Although the distribution of B. porphyrostachys is widespread; from Southern Nigeria (in Okuma, Sapoba and Usonigbe Forest Reserves, and in Calabar) to Cameroon (specifically on Mount Cameroon) and Congo-Brazzaville; it is found only sporadically, as either an epiphyte, or a lithophyte (on lava rock).
Because of a major circumstance, she was consequently joined with Nigeria's Blessing Okagbare, who finished behind her in the overall rankings by just a single meter difference.
Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, the president of Nigeria from 2007–2010, reportedly suffered from Churg–Strauss syndrome and died in office of complications of the disease.
Daniel Wycliffe Sargent (b. July 22, 1850, Birmingham, England. Died October 12, 1902, in Nigeria) was an early explorer of Africa, Agent General of the British Government who signed treaties with many African chiefs which allowed the British to establish the Southern Nigeria Protectorate.
Members of the IAG included: Azerbaijan, France, Nigeria, Norway, Peru and the United States; Anglo-American, BP, Chevron and Petrobras; the Azerbaijan EITI Coalition, Global Witness, Revenue Watch Institute, West African Catholic Bishops Conference; and F&C Asset Management.
Falgore Game Reserve is protected ecosystem designated mainly for games protection in southern Kano State of northern Nigeria.
The academy has developed a number of talents from Midtjylland's linked clubs in Nigeria, including Izunna Uzochukwu, Jude Nworuh, Baba Collins and Adigun Salami.
Federal Government Girls College is one of the secondary schools in Owerri, Imo State, Nigeria.
Ganiyu Adams is the leader of a faction of the Oodua Peoples Congress, a secessionist and nationalist organisation based in Nigeria, which supports a sovereign state for the Yoruba people.
Gulder Ultimate Search (also called GUS) is a Nigerian reality television series, created and sponsored by Nigerian Breweries Plc.
Ibore is an ancient city located in northern part of Esan an ethnic group in Edo state, Nigeria.
Idanre Forest Reserve is in Idanre local government area of the Nigerian state of Ondo, in the south-west part of the country.
James Chibuzor Obiorah, born August 24, 1978 in Jos) is a former Nigerian footballer who last played for SC Toulon.
Omojuwa has graced speaking platforms on universities and in cities across Nigeria and around the world from Washington to London, Lagos, Accra, Cape Town, Abuja, Rio de Janeiro, Berlin, New York, Cologne, Dortmund and other cities.
Prince Joseph Asiegbo (born on October 4, 1979, in Lagos) is the son of King Eze Young Ogbonna of Abia State, Obeyin of Nigeria.
He is also reputed to have been the first Nigerian to bring a youth team from Europe (Holmlia Sports Club of Oslo, Norway) to participate in a local football competition in Nigeria.
Mellanby was instrumental in founding Nigeria's first University, the University of Ibadan and was its first principal (1947–1953).
Nigeria's manager Berti Vogts cited his inclusion as a way of gaining valuable experience.
He is the first and one of two people, along with Nigeria's Stephen Keshi, to have won the Africa Cup of Nations as both a player and a coach.
The ground's current capacity is 3,185, of which 389 are seated, but in 1949, Marine played host to Nigeria at Rossett Park, and the crowd on that day was over 4,000.
Competition from such European cargo airlines like Cargo Lion, Cargolux and Germany's DHL, combined with the poor economical situation of Nigeria during the time (which also had to do with Nigeria Airways' demise) to precipitate the cargo airline company's demise before the 2000s had arrived.
Edward Ikem Okeke, former Deputy President of the PRP Party, and Presidential Special Adviser, Nigeria's Second Republic
Barrister Mohammed Bello Adoke, Senior Advocate of Nigeria, (born 1 September 1963) was appointed Nigerian Attorney General and Minister of Justice on 6 April 2010, when Acting President Goodluck Jonathan announced his new cabinet.
It was described by Hampson in 1918, and is known from Nigeria (including Minna, the type location).
He has taught Comparative African Literature from 1972 to 1991 at the University of Paris VIII, at the National University of Benin, and at the Federal University of Benin City in Nigeria.
The local government serves as a home to one of Nigeria's best institution of learning, Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) and it teaching hospital(still under construction).
Notably, Onazi played every minute of all Nigeria's games in the knockout phase, including the final.
Onyekachi Donatus Okonkwo or simply Tico (born 13 May 1982 in Aba, Nigeria) is a Nigerian football (soccer) midfielder who currently plays for South African side Mpumalanga Black Aces.
Oshie Ridge is found in Obanliku Local Government of Cross River State in Nigeria.
The 2010 festival was attended by Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuade Olubuse II, former President of Nigeria, Balogun of Owu Olusegun Obasanjo, Chief of Staff to President Goodluck Jonathan, Chief Mike Oghiedome, former Governor and Field Commander of ECOMOG, Rtd General Tunji Olurin.
Peter Garlake (1934 - 2 December 2011) was a Zimbabwean archaeologist and art historian, who made influential contributions to the study of Great Zimbabwe and Ife, Nigeria.
On April 29 a Transitional Government of National Unity (GUNT) took its place, and an MPLT man, Lol Mahamat Choua, became President, through heavy interferences from Nigeria.
He began his career at youth level with Puma FC in Abuja before playing two seasons with Abuja FC in the second division in Nigeria.
Reuben Abati, born November 7, 1965 in Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria, is Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria.
The Saharan languages are a small family of languages spoken across parts of the eastern Sahara, extending from northwestern Darfur to southern Libya, north and central Chad, eastern Niger and northeastern Nigeria.
Born in Zaria, Nigeria to a family from Ijumu Local Government Area in modern day Kogi State, Ameobi moved to Newcastle upon Tyne, England when he was five.
Urhobo language, an Edoid language spoken by the Urhobo people of southern Nigeria
Before Nigeria became a country through British colonial government, Southeastern Nigeria was a home to many ethnic groups such as the Igbo, Ijaw, Ibibio, Efik, Annang, Ekoi, etc.
As a candidate of the People's Democratic Party Sylva won the Bayelsan gubernatorial election on May 29, 2007 and succeeded Goodluck Jonathan who went on to the position of Vice President.
Augustine Masilela of South Africa made the cut in 10th place, denying Raji the chance of becoming Nigeria's first Miss Universe semifinalist.
Nwabili has played club football in Nigeria, Tunisia and France for Sharks, Espérance, Le Havre and Enyimba.
She studied prehistory at Manchester and Liverpool, and for a Post Graduate Diploma in Education in Wales before teaching at a school in Truro, going on to a post with the Federal Department of Antiquities in Nigeria, and afterwards to teach at Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Nigeria.
The next year, he traveled to Lagos, Nigeria, where he celebrated the inauguration of his classmate, Nnamdi Azikiwe as Governor General.
In 2000, during the Women's African Cup of Nations final, Nigeria scored a controversial goal that many felt was offside.