Human Right Activists

• Gani Fawehinmi
  Gani Fawehinmi
  Chief Abdul-Ganiyu "Gani" Oyesola Fawehinmi, was a Nigerian author, publisher, philanthropist, social critic, human and civil rights lawyer, politician and a Senior Advocate of Nigeria .-Early life:Fawehinmi, popularly called Gani, was born on 22 April 1938, into the Fawehinmi...
  
  
• Olisa Agbakoba
  Olisa Agbakoba
  Olisa Agbakoba born 29 May 1953, to Chief Justice Godfrey Ubaka and Mrs. Phina Agbakoba in Jos and later moved to Onitsha in 1965, two years before the Nigerian civil war...
  
  
• Dele Giwa
  Dele Giwa
  Dele Giwa was a Nigerian journalist, editor and founder of Newswatch magazine, who was killed by a mail bomb in his home on 19 October 1986...
  
  
• Aminu Kano
  Aminu Kano
  Aminu Kano was a Muslim politician from Nigeria. In the 1940s he led an Islamic movement in the north of the country in opposition to British rule...
  
  
• Fela Kuti
  Fela Kuti
  Fela Anikulapo Kuti , or simply Fela , was a Nigerian multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, pioneer of Afrobeat music, human rights activist, and political maverick.-Biography:...
  
  
• Beko Ransome-Kuti
  Beko Ransome-Kuti
  Dr. Bekolari Ransome-Kuti was a Nigerian medical doctor known for his work as a human rights activist.-Early life:...
  
  
• Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti
  Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti
  Funmilayo Ransome Kuti ,, born Francis Abigail Olufunmilayo Thomas to Daniel Olumeyuwa Thomas and Lucretia Phyllis Omoyeni Adeosolu, was a teacher, political campaigner, Women's rights activist and traditional aristocrat...
  
  
• Olikoye Ransome-Kuti
  Olikoye Ransome-Kuti
  Olikoye Ransome-Kuti, a paediatrician, activist, was a health minister in his native Nigeria.-Early life:He was born in Ijebu Ode in 1927, in present day Ogun State, Nigeria...
  
  

Military

• Sani Abacha
  Sani Abacha
  General Sani Abacha was a Nigerian military leader and politician. A Kanuri from Borno by tribe, he was born and brought up in Kano, Nigeria. He was the de facto President of Nigeria from 1993 to 1998....
  
  
• Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi
  Johnson Aguiyi-Ironsi
  Major General Johnson Thomas Umunnakwe Aguiyi-Ironsi was a Nigerian soldier. He served as the Head of State of Nigeria from January 16, 1966 until he was overthrown and killed on July 29, 1966 by a group of northern army officers who revolted against the government.- Early life :Thomas Umunnakwe...
  
  
• Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida
• Muhammadu Buhari
  Muhammadu Buhari
  Muhammadu Buhari was a military ruler of Nigeria and an unsuccessful candidate for president in the 2003, 2007 and 2011 presidential elections...
  
  
• Theophilus Danjuma
  Theophilus Danjuma
  General Theophilus Yakubu Danjuma GCON FSS psc is a Nigerian Jukun soldier, politician and billionaire businessman. He was Nigerian Army Chief of Army Staff from July 1975 to October 1979. He was formerly Minister of Defence under Olusegun Obasanjo...
  
  
• Oladipo Diya
  Oladipo Diya
  Donaldson Oladipo Diya is a retired Lt. General in the Nigerian Army.He was appointed Military Governor of Ogun State from January 1984 to August 1985....
  
  
• Yakubu Gowon
  Yakubu Gowon
  General Yakubu "Jack" Dan-Yumma Gowon was the head of state of Nigeria from 1966 to 1975. He took power after one military coup d'etat and was overthrown in another...
  
  
• Tunde Idiagbon
  Tunde Idiagbon
  Babatunde "Tunde" Idiagbon was a Nigerian soldier and a one-time member of the Nigerian military juntas of 1966–1979 and 1983-1998 Nigerian military junta which ruled that country. He served as a military administrator of Borno State in the 1970s in the military administration of Olusegun Obasanjo...
  
  
• Murtala Mohammed
  Murtala Mohammed
  General Murtala Ramat Mohammed born was a military ruler of Nigeria from 1975 until his assassination in 1976.-Role during 1960s coups:...
  
  
• Ike Nwachukwu
  Ike Nwachukwu
  Ike Omar Sanda Nwachukwu is a retired Army officer and Nigerian politician who, among other positions, has served as Foreign Minister of Nigeria twice and as a Senator in the National Assembly delegation from Abia State....
  
  
• Olusegun Obasanjo
• Paul Omu
  Paul Omu
  Major General Paul Ufuoma Omu was Military Governor of South-Eastern State, Nigeria between July 1975 and July 1978 during the military regimes of Generals Murtala Muhammed and Olusegun Obasanjo.-Military career:...
  
  
• Dangiwa Umar
  Dangiwa Umar
  Colonel Abubakar Dangiwa Umar was governor of Kaduna state in Nigeria from August 1985 to June 1988 during the military regime of General Ibrahim Babangida....
  
  
• Victor Malu
  Victor Malu
  Lt. General Victor Samuel Leonard Malu DSS mni fwc psc was commander of the ECOMOG peace-keeping force in Liberia from December 1996 to April 1998, and was Chief of Army Staff from May 1999 until April 2001.-Birth and education:...
  
  
• Martin Luther Agwai
  Martin Luther Agwai
  -Early life and education:Agwai was born on November 8, 1948 in Kaduna, a city in Northern Nigeria. He hails from a Christian home and was the President of Fellowship of Christian Students at Government Secondary School, Zaria in 1967....
  
  
• Owoye Andrew Azazi
  Owoye Andrew Azazi
  General Owoye Andrew Azazi CFR FSS MSS DSS GSS psc fwc is the National Security Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan of Nigeria and a former Chief of Defence Staff of Nigeria. The Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo made this appointment.General Azazi also served as the Chief of Army...
  
  
• Alexander Ogomudia
  Alexander Ogomudia
  General Alexander Odeareduo Ogomudia CFR DSS fwc psc MSc FNSE was a Nigerian Army officer....
  
  
• Alwali Kazir
  Alwali Kazir
  Major General Alwali Kazir was a Military Governor of Kwara State, Nigeria from December 1989 to January 1992 during the military regime of Major General Ibrahim Babangida, handing over to the elected civilian governor Shaaba Lafiaji at the start of the Nigerian Third Republic.Kwara state has a...
  
  
• Chris Alli
  Chris Alli
  Major General Mohammed Chris Alli was military governor of Plateau State from August 1985 to 1986 during the military regime of General Ibrahim Babangida...
  
  
• Aliyu Mohammed Gusau
  Aliyu Mohammed Gusau
  Lieutenant General Aliyu Mohammed Gusau is a former Nigerian army officer who was appointed National Security Advisor by President Goodluck Jonathan on 8 March 2010. He held the same position during most of the Olusegun Obasanjo Presidency...
  
  
• Salihu Ibrahim
  Salihu Ibrahim
  Lt. General Salihu Ibrahim FSS FHWC was Chief of Army Staff from August 1990 until September 1993 during the military regime of General Ibrahim Babangida.Ibrahim joined the army in 1956....
  
  
• Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu
  Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu
  Patrick Chukwuma Kaduna Nzeogwu, was born in the Northern Region’s capital of Kaduna to Igbo immigrant parents from the Mid-Western Region-Okpanam Town, near Asaba in the present day Delta State.-Background:...
  
  
• C. Odumegwu Ojukwu

Musicians

• Fela Kuti
  Fela Kuti
  Fela Anikulapo Kuti , or simply Fela , was a Nigerian multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, pioneer of Afrobeat music, human rights activist, and political maverick.-Biography:...
  
   (1938–1997), pioneer of Afrobeat
  Afrobeat
  Afrobeat is a combination of traditional Yoruba music, jazz, highlife, funk and chanted vocals, fused with percussion and vocal styles, popularised in Africa in the 1970s. Its main creator was the Nigerian multi-instrumentalist and bandleader Fela Kuti, who gave it its name, who used it to...
  
   music, and Political Activist
• Aṣa
  Asa
  -People:* Aṣa , Paris-born Nigerian singer-songwriter* Asa of Judah , son of Abijam, King of Judah* Asa Dotzler , Mozilla contributor and blogger*Asa Kasher , Israeli philosopher and linguist-Places:...
  
  , Singer and songwriter
• 9ice
  9ice
  9ice was born on Thursday, January 17, 1980. He is a very popular Nigerian Musician with a classic style of music. 9ice is a south-westerner from Ogbomoso in Oyo State but he grew up in the district of Bariga in Lagos....
  
  
• Femi Kuti
  Femi Kuti
  Olufela Olufemi Anikulapo Kuti popularly known as Femi Kuti, is a Nigerian musician and the eldest son of afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti....
  
  
• I.K. Dairo
• Sir Victor Uwaifo
• King Sunny Ade
  King Sunny Adé
  King Sunny Adé is a popular performer of Yoruba Nigerian Jùjú music and a pioneer of modern world music. He has been classed as one of the most influential musicians of all time.-Background:...
  
  
• Tunde Adebimpe
  Tunde Adebimpe
  Babatunde Omoroga "Tunde" Adebimpe is an American musician, actor, and director best known as the lead singer of the Brooklyn-based band TV on the Radio. His vocal method often involves improvisation, the use of effects and repeating sampled loops....
  
   of TV on the Radio
  TV on the Radio
  TV on the Radio is an American art rock band formed in 2001 in Brooklyn, New York, whose music spans numerous diverse genres, from post-punk to electro and free jazz to soul music....
  
  
• Sade Adu
  Sade Adu
  Helen Folasade Adu OBE , is a British singer-songwriter, composer, and record producer. She first achieved success in the 1980s as the frontwoman and lead vocalist of the Brit and Grammy Award winning English group Sade.-Biography:Sade was born in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria...
  
  , singer of Sade
  Sade (band)
  Sade is a British smooth jazz band that formed in 1983, named for Nigerian lead singer Sade Adu. Their music features elements of R&B, soul, jazz, and soft rock....
  
  
• Dr. Alban
  Dr. Alban
  Alban Uzoma Nwapa , known by his stage name Dr. Alban, is a Nigerian, Sweden-based musician and producer with his own record label dr-records. His music can best be described as a Eurodance/hip-hop reggae with a dancehall style. He is most famous for his worldwide 1992 hit "It's My...
  
  , Sweden-based musician and producer
• Tunde Baiyewu
  Tunde Baiyewu
  Tunde Baiyewu is a British singer of Nigerian descent and is a member of the easy listening duo, Lighthouse Family. In 2004 he embarked on a solo career, releasing the album, Tunde.-Career:...
  
   (B-), former member Lighthouse Family
  Lighthouse Family
  Lighthouse Family are a British musical duo that rose to prominence in the mid-1990s and remained active until the early 2000s. Vocalist Tunde Baiyewu and keyboardist Paul Tucker formed the act in 1993 in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK after meeting while studying at university...
  
   now solo musician
• Adé Bantu
  Adé Bantu
  Adegoke Odukoya, better known as Adé Bantu is a Nigerian-German musician, producer and activist. He is best known as the founder of the Afro-German musical collective and NGO Brothers Keepers and as the front man of Bantu & Afrobeat Academy Band...
  
  
• Shirley Bassey
  Shirley Bassey
  Dame Shirley Bassey, DBE , is a Welsh singer. She found fame in the late 1950s and was "one of the most popular female vocalists in Britain during the last half of the 20th century"...
  
  
• Banky W.
  Banky W.
  Olubankole Wellington , known under the stage name Banky W, is an American Nigerian R&B artist.-Early life and career beginnings:...
  
  
• Naeto C
  Naeto C
  Naetochukwu Chikwe , stage name Naeto C, is a Nigerian rapper, Afrobeat artist and record producer. He was born in Houston, Texas and is of Nigerian origin.-Early life:...
  
  , Stormz Rekords.
• Timi Dakolo
  Timi Dakolo
  Timi Dakolo is a Nigerian singer. Although he was born in Ghana, Dakolo did not claim dual citizenship and holds a Nigerian passport. He is the winner of the first season of Idols West Africa. He was declared the winner on May 26, 2007 at the home of Idols, Planet One. The show was televised the...
  
  , winner Idols West Africa, 2007, singer, song-writer, record producer
• D'banj
  D'banj
  Dapo Daniel Oyebanjo , is a Nigerian singer-songwriter and harmonica player. He has won several music awards including the awards for Best African Act at the MTV Europe Music Awards 2007, Artist of the Year at the MTV Africa Music Awards 2009. and BET Awards of 2011 for Best International Act; Africa...
  
  
• Edoheart, singer, poet, butoh
  Butoh
  is the collective name for a diverse range of activities, techniques and motivations for dance, performance, or movement inspired by the movement. It typically involves playful and grotesque imagery, taboo topics, extreme or absurd environments, and is traditionally performed in white body makeup...
  
   dancer, visual artist and performance artist
• 2Face Idibia
  2face Idibia
  Innocent Ugah Idibia , best known by his stage name 2Face Idibia, is a Nigerian singer-songwriter, actor and record producer. He was a member of the defunct R&B/hip hop group Plantashun Boyz. 2Face is currently one of the most popular artistes on the African music scene.- Early life :2Face Idibia...
  
  
• Nneka (singer)
  Nneka (singer)
  Nneka Lucia Egbuna is a Nigerian-German hip hop/soul singer and songwriter. She sings in both English and Igbo.- Biography :Nneka is the daughter of an Anambra state- Igbo Nigerian father and a German mother...
  
  , Nigerian-German hip hop/soul singer and songwriter
• Lagbaja
  Lagbaja
  Lagbaja is a Nigerian Afrobeat musician.-Name and mask:According to Lagbaja, his mask is used as an icon of man’s facelessness. Lagbaja is a Yoruba word that means "nobody in particular". It depicts the anonymity of the so-called “common man”. The mask and the name symbolize the faceless, the...
  
   Afrobeat Singer-Songwriter, Instrumentalist, Producer, Multi-Award Winner
• Lemar Obika, Nigerian-British R&B singer and songwriter
• Ezebuiro Obinna, Leader of Oriental Brothers
• Kele Okereke
  Kele Okereke
  Kelechukwu "Kele" Rowland Okereke is a British musician, best known as the lead singer and rhythm guitarist of the indie rock band Bloc Party.-Early life:...
  
   of Bloc Party
  Bloc Party
  Bloc Party are a British Indie rock band, composed of Kele Okereke , Russell Lissack , Gordon Moakes , and Matt Tong...
  
  
• Ogbogu Okonji
  Ogbogu Okonji
  Ogbogu Okonji is a Nigerian Anioma popular traditional musician and the leader of the band Ogbogu Okonji and his Anioma Brothers. He is known in the Anioma music industry as OGB or The Message Man.- Biography :...
  
  
• Orlando Owoh
  Orlando Owoh
  Orlando Owoh was a highlife musician and band leader. He was a member of the Yoruba ethnic grOwoh was born Oladipupo Owomoyela in Osogbo, Nigeria, but he later became known to his fans as Chief Dr. Orlando Owoh...
  
  
• P-Square
  P-Square
  P-Square are a Nigerian R&B duo composed of non-identical twin brothers Peter and Paul Okoye.-History:The story of P-Square began in St. Murumba secondary school, a small Catholic school in Jos, Nigeria...
  
  
• Seal (musician)
  Seal (musician)
  Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel , known simply as Seal, is a British soul and R&B singer-songwriter, of Nigerian and Brazilian background. Seal has won numerous music awards throughout his career, including three Brit Awards—winning Best British Male in 1992, four Grammy Awards, and an...
  
   two-time Grammy Award-winning English/Nigerian Soul Vocalist and
• Wunmi
  Wunmi
  Wunmi, real name Ibiwunmi Omotayo Olufunke Olaiya, is a singer, dancer and fashion designer. She was born in the United Kingdom, to Nigerian parents, but spent much of her childhood in Lagos, Nigeria....
  
   (Nigerian-British) singer; former dancer with Soul II Soul
  Soul II Soul
  Soul II Soul are a British group that was created in London in 1988. They are best known for their 1989 UK chart-topper and U.S. Top 5 hit, "Back to Life ".-Career:...
  
  
• Taio Cruz
  Taio Cruz
  Taio Cruz is a British singer-songwriter, record producer, occasional rapper, and entrepreneur. In 2008, he released his debut album Departure, which Cruz wrote, arranged and produced himself. It achieved initial success in the UK and earned him a MOBO Award nomination...
  
   (Nigerian-British) singer
• Jude Abaga
  Jude Abaga
  Jude Abaga, better known by stage name M.I, meaning Mr Incredible, is a Nigerian Hip hop Artist. He has won Several Awards including the MTV Africa Music Awards 2009 and was Nominated for BET 2010 Awards for the Best International Act Category. He rose to prominence in 2006, when his song "Crowd...
  
   M.I.
• Wale (rapper)
  Wale (rapper)
  Wale Victor Folarin , better known by his stage name Wale , is an American rapper from Washington, D.C. Wale was born to Nigerian parents. He rose to prominence in 2006, when his song "Dig Dug " became popular in his hometown. Wale became locally recognized and continued recording music for the...
  
   (Nigerian-American) rapper
• Chamillionaire
  Chamillionaire
  Hakeem Seriki , better known by his stage name Chamillionaire, is an American rapper, record producer, and entrepreneur. He is the CEO of Chamillitary Entertainment. Chamillionaire is also the founder and an original member of The Color Changin' Click...
  
   (Nigerian-American) rapper
• Tinie Tempah
  Tinie Tempah
  Patrick Chukwuemeka Okogwu , better known by his stage name Tinie Tempah, is a British rapper. He made his first mixtape in 2007 with 28 songs, freestyles and remixes, the album features Mz Bratt, Chipmunk and G-Unit...
  
   (Nigerian-British) singer
• Onyeka Onwenu
  Onyeka Onwenu
  Onyeka Onwenu is a Nigerian singer, actress and politician. In 2006 she won the African Movie Academy Award for Best Actress in a supporting role. She is currently the chairperson of the Imo State Council for Arts and Culture.-Filmography:...
  
  
• Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe
  Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe
  Chief Stephen Osita Osadebe , often referred to as just Osadebe, was an Igbo Nigerian Highlife musician from Atani. His career spanned over 40 years, and he is one of the most well known Igbo highlife musicians...
  
  
• Sikiru Adepoju
  Sikiru Adepoju
  Sikiru Adepoju is a percussionist and recording artist from Nigeria, primarily in the genres of traditional African music and world music. He plays a variety of instruments and styles.- Background :...
  
  , Musician
• Tyler the Creator (Nigerian-American) rapper
• Ruggedman
  Ruggedman
  Michael Stephens, known by his name Ruggedman, born on September 20 in Ehen, Abia State, is a Nigerian rapper.A graduate of political science from Lagos State University, Ọ̀jọ́, he started loving music in 1989. He had his own songs done in 1991 and released a CD, which had two tracks...
  
  

Actresses / Actors

• Omotola Jalade Ekeinde
  Omotola Jalade Ekeinde
  Omotola Jalade Ekeinde is a Nollywood actress. She is married to Capt. Matthew Ekeinde and has 4 children. Apart from being one of the most successful Nollywood actresses, she is also a singer and is involved in extensive charity work in her home country of Nigeria.- Career :Her first role in a...
  
  
• Chioma Chukwuka
  Chioma Chukwuka
  Chioma Chukwuka is a Nigerian actress. In 2007 she won the African Movie Academy Award for Best Actress in a leading role.- Early life :Chukwuka was born in Oraifite, Anambra State, Nigeria...
  
  , Actress
• Liz Benson
  Liz Benson
  Elizabeth Benson is a Nollywood Actress whose rise started from the soap opera "Fortunes" in 1993. She later switched into home movies like "Glamour Girls" , True Confessions and Izaga to mention a few. The Efik born acting diva is one of Nigeria's most prolific actresses and holds a degree in...
  
  , Actress
• Regina Askia
  Regina Askia
  Regina Askia-Williams - also known as Regina Askia - is a Nigerian born, American-based nurse who found fame as an actress, model, television producer and educational activist....
  
  , Actress
• Richard Mofe Damijo
  Richard Mofe Damijo
  Richard Mofe Damijo is a Nigerian actor and politician. In 2005 he won the African Movie Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Since January 2009 he is the Commissioner for Culture and Tourism in Delta State, Nigeria.- Early life :Mofe-Damijo was born in Warri, Delta State, Nigeria...
  
  
• Ramsey Nouah
  Ramsey Nouah
  Ramsey Tokunbo Nouah Jr, is a Nigerian actor. In 2010 he won the African Movie Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.- Early life :...
  
  , Actor
• Rita Dominic
  Rita Dominic
  Rita Uchenna Nkem Dominic Waturuocha is a Nigerian actress.-Early life:Rita Dominic is a member of the Royal Waturuocha family of Aborh Mbaise local government area in Imo State. She is the youngest of 4 siblings. Her late parents were medical practitioners; her father was a medical doctor and her...
  
  , Actress
• Megalyn Echikunwoke
  Megalyn Echikunwoke
  Megalyn Ann Echikunwoke is an American actress and model.-Early life:Echikunwoke was born on May 28, 1983, in Spokane, Washington, but she was raised on a Navajo Native American Reservation in Chinle, Arizona. She is the daughter of a Nigerian-Igbo father and a German/Scots-Irish American mother...
  
  
• Chiwetel Ejiofor
  Chiwetel Ejiofor
  Chiwetelu Umeadi "Chiwetel" Ejiofor, OBE is an English actor of stage and screen. He has received numerous acting awards and award nominations, including the 2006 BAFTA Awards Rising Star, three Golden Globe Awards' nominations, and the 2008 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor for his...
  
  , actor
• Carmen Ejogo
  Carmen Ejogo
  Carmen Elizabeth Ejogo is a British actress, currently based in the United States.-Early life:Born and raised in London, Ejogo is the daughter of Charles and Elizabeth Ejogo née Douglas. Her father is a Nigerian entrepreneur and her mother a Scottish tour guide. During her childhood, Ejogo...
  
   Actress
• Olu Jacobs
  Olu Jacobs
  Oludotun Jacobs , is a Nigerian actor. He has starred in several British television series and international films. In 2007 he won the African Movie Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.- Career :...
  
  , Actor
• Genevieve Nnaji
  Genevieve Nnaji
  Genevieve Nnaji is a Nigerian actress. In 2005 she won the African Movie Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. CNN states that she is referred to as the "Julia Roberts of Africa".- Early life :...
  
  , Actress, former Face of Lux
  Lux (soap)
  Lux is a global brand developed by Unilever. The range of products includes beauty soaps, shower gels, bath additives, hair shampoos and conditioners. Lux started as “Sunlight Flakes” laundry soap in 1899....
  
  
• Stephanie Okereke
  Stephanie Okereke
  Stephanie Onyekachi Okereke is a Nigerian actress, film director and model. She has received several awards and nominations for her work as an actress, including the 2003 Reel Award for Best Actress, the 2006 Afro Hollywood Award for Best Actress, and three nominations for Best Actress in a...
  
  , Actress
• Sophie Okonedo
  Sophie Okonedo
  Sophie Okonedo, OBE is a British actress, who has starred both in successful British and American productions. In 1991, she made her acting debut in the British critically acclaimed coming-of-age drama, Young Soul Rebels...
  
  , grammy nominated actress (Hotel Rwanda
  Hotel Rwanda
  Hotel Rwanda is a 2004 American drama film directed by Terry George. It was adapted from a screenplay written by both George and Keir Pearson. Based on real life events which took place in Rwanda during the spring of 1994, the film stars Don Cheadle as hotelier Paul Rusesabagina, who attempts to...
  
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• Jim Iyke
  Jim Iyke
  Jim Iyke is a Nigerian actor. He started acting in 2005, and was crowned Sexiest Man in Nigeria in 2008. He has starred in over 200 Nollywood movies in Nigeria, and is also popular for starring in roles alongside Rita Dominic.-External links:...
  
  , Actor
• Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje is a British actor, and former fashion model best known for his roles as Mr. Eko on Lost, Simon Adebisi on Oz and Nykwana Wombosi in The Bourne Identity.-Early life and career:...
  
  , Nigerian-British Actor
• Hakeem Kae-Kazim
  Hakeem Kae-Kazim
  Hakeem Kae-Kazim , sometimes credited as "Hakim Kae Kazim", is an actor who played Georges Rutaganda on Hotel Rwanda in 2004 directed by Terry George...
  
  
• Ini Edo
  Ini Edo
  Ini Edo is a Nigerian actress. She was born on April 19, 1982. She began her film career in the year 2000, and has featured in more than 50 movies since that time...
  
  
• Tonto Dikeh
  Tonto Dikeh
  Tonto Dikeh, also known as Tonto Dike is a Nigerian actress from Rivers State and is of the Ikwerre tribe. Dikeh, from a family of seven, lost her mother at the age of three....
  
  
• Mike Ezuruonye
• Oge Okoye
  Oge Okoye
  Oge Okoye is a Nigerian actress. Born in London, she graduated from the Nnamdi Azikiwe University with a degree in Theatre Arts.- Filmography :* Blackbery Babes * War Game * 11:45.....
  
  
• Chinedu Ikedieze
  Chinedu Ikedieze
  Chinedu Ikedieze, MFR is a Nigerian actor. He is best known for playing alongside Osita Iheme in most movies after their breakthrough in the movie Aki na Ukwa. In 2007 Ikedieze received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the African Movie Academy Awards.-Filmography:-References:...
  
  
• Osita Iheme
  Osita Iheme
  Osita Iheme is a Nigerian actor. He is widely known for playing the role of 'Pawpaw' in the film Aki na Ukwa alongside Chinedu Ikedieze. In 2007 Osita received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the African Movie Academy Awards...
  
  

Artists

• Chinwe Chukwuogo-Roy
  Chinwe Chukwuogo-Roy
  Chinwe Ifeoma Chukwuogo-Roy MBE is a visual artist who has lived in Britain since 1975. Her paintings, prints and sculptures are predominantly figurative, in the genres of portraiture, still-life, landscape and narrative subjects.She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire in the...
  
   MBE
  MBE
  MBE can stand for:* Mail Boxes Etc.* Management by exception* Master of Bioethics* Master of Bioscience Enterprise* Master of Business Engineering* Master of Business Economics* Mean Biased Error...
  
  , Nigerian born, Royal Portrait Artist, Public Speaker, UEA
  UEA
  UEA may stand for:Universities:* University of East Africa, which in 1970 was split into University of Nairobi, Makerere University and University of Dar es Salaam*University of East Anglia, the university in Norwich, England...
  
   Hon. Doctorate
• Ndidi Dike
  Ndidi Dike
  Ndidi Dike is a visual artist working in sculpture and mixed media painting. She is one of Nigeria's leading female artists.- Exhibitions :Dike has participated in several solo and group exhibitions in Nigeria, Africa and internationally, including Women to Women, Weaving Cultures, Shaping History ...
  
   - female artist
• Benedict Chuka Enwonwu MBE
  MBE
  MBE can stand for:* Mail Boxes Etc.* Management by exception* Master of Bioethics* Master of Bioscience Enterprise* Master of Business Engineering* Master of Business Economics* Mean Biased Error...
  
   (Ben), Royal Sculpture Artist, Professor of fine arts, Government Advisor
• Chris Ofili
  Chris Ofili
  Chris Ofili is a Turner Prize winning British painter best known for artworks referencing aspects of his Nigerian heritage, particularly his incorporation of elephant dung. He was one of the Young British Artists, and is now based in Trinidad.-Early life:Ofilli was born in Manchester. He had a...
  
   Studied at Chelsea School of Art and The Royal College of Art, Turner Prize
  Turner Prize
  The Turner Prize, named after the painter J. M. W. Turner, is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist under the age of 50. Awarding the prize is organised by the Tate gallery and staged at Tate Britain. Since its beginnings in 1984 it has become the United Kingdom's most publicised...
  
   winner, creator of some controversial work.
• Yinka Shonibare
  Yinka Shonibare
  Yinka Shonibare, MBE, is a British-Nigerian artist living in the UK. He readily acknowledges physical disability as part of his identity but creates work in which this is just one strand of a far richer weave.-Life and career:...
  
   MBE, work includes sculpture, painting, photography, and installation art

Media

• Babatunde Jose
  Babatunde Jose
  Alhaji Ismail Babatunde Jose OFR was a Nigerian journalist and newspaper editor. He was described by The Guardian as the "legendary doyen of Nigerian journalism" and as "one of Nigeria's most significant media figures"; by The Independent as the "newspaper editor who dominated journalism in...
  
   (1925–2008), journalist and newspaper editor, "grandfather of Nigerian journalism"
• Femi Oke
  Femi Oke
  Femi Oke is a British television presenter and journalist.Femi was born in Britain to Nigerian parents. She is a graduate of Birmingham University where she received a bachelors degree in English literature and language...
  
  , CNN
  CNN
  Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
  
   international TV anchor
• Bobby Ologun
  Bobby Ologun
  Bobby Ologun is a Nigerian-born TV personality in Japan, and a mixed martial artist. In Japan, he is known simply as . He speaks English, Yoruba and Japanese. He currently lives in Saitama, Saitama Prefecture...
  
  , television personality in Japan
  Japan
  Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
  
   and martial artist
  Martial arts
  Martial arts are extensive systems of codified practices and traditions of combat, practiced for a variety of reasons, including self-defense, competition, physical health and fitness, as well as mental and spiritual development....
  
  

Writers

• Chris Abani
  Chris Abani
  Christopher Abani is a Nigerian author. Abani's first novel, Masters of the Board, was about a Neo-Nazi takeover of Nigeria...
  
  
• Chinua Achebe
  Chinua Achebe
  Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe popularly known as Chinua Achebe is a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic...
  
   Man Booker prize winner 2007 with citation by Nadine Gordimer as 'Father of Modern African Literature'
• Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian writer.Her family is of Igbo descent. In 2008 she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.-Early life and education:...
  
   Orange Band prize winner 2007
• Elechi Amadi
  Elechi Amadi
  Elechi Amadi is a Nigerian author who has written five African novels - The Concubine, The Great Ponds, The Slave , Isiburu and Estrangement...
  
  
• Cyprian Ekwensi
  Cyprian Ekwensi
  Cyprian Ekwensi, MFR was a Nigerian short story writer and author of children's books.-Early life, education and family:Ekwensi, an Igbo, was born in Minna, Niger State...
  
  
• Daniel O. Fagunwa
  Daniel O. Fagunwa
  Daniel Olorunfẹmi Fagunwa MBE , popularly known as D.O. Fagunwa, was a Nigerian author who pioneered the Yoruba language novel. He was born in Oke-Igbo, Ondo State. An Oloye of the Yoruba people, Fagunwa studied at St. Luke's School, Oke-Igbo and St...
  
  
• Dan Fulani
  Dan Fulani
  Dan Fulani is a Nigerian fiction writer with 16 published books to his credit since 1981, who has tried to highlight development issues through his popular fiction.-References:...
  
  
• Abubakar Imam
  Abubakar Imam
  Abubakar Imam was a Nigerian writer, journalist and politician from Kagara, Niger in Nigeria. For most of his life, he lived in Zaria, where he was the first Hausa editor of Gaskiya Ta Fi Kwabo, the pioneer Newspaper in Northern Nigeria....
  
  
• Uzodinma Iweala
  Uzodinma Iweala
  Dr. Uzodinma Iweala is an author and physician who hails from Washington, DC and Nigeria. His debut novel, Beasts of No Nation, is a formation of his thesis work at Harvard. It depicts a child soldier in an unnamed African country...
  
  
• Okey Ndibe
  Okey Ndibe
  Okey Ndibe is a novelist, political columnist, and essayist. Of Igbo ethnicity, Ndibe was born in Yola, Nigeria. He is the author of Arrows of Rain, a critically acclaimed novel published in 2000...
  
  
• Gabriel Okara
  Gabriel Okara
  Gabriel Imomotimi Gbaingbain Okara is a Nigerian poet and novelist who was born in Bomoundi in Bayelsa State, Nigeria. In 1979, he was awarded the Commonwealth Poetry Prize.-Writing:His most famous poem is "Piano and Drums"...
  
  
• Ben Okri
  Ben Okri
  Ben Okri OBE FRSL is a Nigerian poet and novelist. Okri has become the leading figure of his generation of Nigerian writers who have largely abandoned the social and historical themes of Chinua Achebe, and brought together modernist narrative strategies and Nigerian oral and literary...
  
   (born 1959), poet and novelist, Booker Prize winner 1995
• Ola Rotimi
  Ola Rotimi
  Olawale Gladstone Emmanuel Rotimi, best known as Ola Rotimi regarded as one of Nigeria's leading playwrights and theatre directors.- Early life :...
  
  
• Ken Saro-Wiwa
  Ken Saro-Wiwa
  Kenule "Ken" Beeson Saro Wiwa was a Nigerian author, television producer, environmental activist, and winner of the Right Livelihood Award and the Goldman Environmental Prize...
  
  
• Wole Soyinka
  Wole Soyinka
  Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Soyinka is a Nigerian writer, poet and playwright. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, where he was recognised as a man "who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence", and became the first African in Africa and...
  
   (born 1934), poet, playwright and novelists, awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
  Nobel Prize in Literature
  Since 1901, the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded annually to an author from any country who has, in the words from the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction"...
  
   1986
• Amos Tutuola
  Amos Tutuola
  Amos Tutuola was a Nigerian writer famous for his books based in part on Yoruba folk-tales.- Early history :Tutuola was born in Abeokuta, Nigeria, in 1920, where his parents Charles and Esther were Yoruba Christian cocoa farmers. When about 7 years old, he became a servant for F.O...
  
   (1920–1997)

Businesspeople

• M. K. O. Abiola
• Aliko Dangote
  Aliko Dangote
  Alhaji Aliko Dangote , MFR, is a Nigerian businessman based in Nigeria. He is the owner of the Dangote Group, which has operations in his homeland and several other countries in Africa, including Benin, Cameroon, Ghana, South Africa and Zambia...
  
  , Chairman, Dangote Group
• Francis Edo-Osagie
  Francis Edo-Osagie
  Francis Edo Osagie was a notable Nigerian businessman from Benin. He was born into an elite Benin family; his father worked at the forestry department and was also a farmer in Benin. He attended the Baptist primary School in Benin and the Baptist High School, Ibadan for secondary education...
  
  
• Shafi Edu
  Shafi Edu
  Shafi Lawal Edu was a prominent Nigerian businessman and conservationist from Epe, Lagos State. He was born into the family of an Epe chief and trader. As a youth, he attended Epe Grammar School and undertook private lessons in higher education....
  
  
• Henry Fajemirokun
  Henry Fajemirokun
  Henry Oloyede Fajemirokun was a prominent Nigerian businessman and one of the country's dynamic indigenous entrepreneurs who promoted West Africa's economic integration. He was a former president of the Lagos Chambers of Commerce and of the Federation of West African Chambers of Commerce...
  
  
• Samuel Fawehinmi
  Samuel Fawehinmi
  Samuel Ibitayo Fawehinmi was a pioneering Nigerian furniture magnate. The son of trader, he was born in Ondo town. He attended Ondo Boys High School and the Yaba Higher College. He was originally interested in medicine, but the long wait for a pre-medical test and his gift in wood and metal work...
  
  
• Cletus Ibeto
  Cletus Ibeto
  Cletus M. Ibeto is a Nigerian businessman from the industrial city of Nnewi. He is head of The Ibeto Group, the largest business enterprise from Nnewi, a city unique for its entrepreneurial spirit...
  
  
• Michael Ibru
  Michael Ibru
  Michael Ibru is a prominent Nigerian businessman from Agbarha-Otor, Delta State. He is the head of the Ibru Organization, one of the largest conglomerates in Nigeria. As a traditional chieftain of his homeland, Ibru bears the tribal honourific Olorogun and often uses it as a pre-nominal style...
  
  
• Anastasios George Leventis
  Anastasios George Leventis
  Anastasios George Leventis was a prominent Cypriot businessman who owned a major merchandise trading firm in West Africa.-Career:...
  
  
• Adeola Odutola
  Adeola Odutola
  Timothy Adeola Odutola , OBE, CFR, CON, was a prominent Nigerian businessman from Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State. He was one of the pioneers of modern Nigerian indigenous entrepreneurship and the first president of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria...
  
  
• Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu
  Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu
  Sir Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu, KBE, was an extremely successful Nigerian businessman from Nnewi. Ojukwu was the first and founding President of The Nigerian Stock Exchange as well as President of The African Continental Bank. He was also on the board of directors of some of Nigeria's most powerful and...
  
  
• Festus Okotie-Eboh
  Festus Okotie-Eboh
  Festus Okotie-Eboh was a prominent and flamboyant Nigerian politician and former minister for finance during the administration of Abubakar Tafawa Balewa. Born to an Itsekiri Chief, in a town along the Benin River, he attended the Baptist School, Sapele for secondary education. He later joined the...
  
  
• Lawrence Omole
  Lawrence Omole
  Lawrence Omole is a prominent Nigerian entrepreneur, who over the years has contributed a great deal of effort to the industrialization drive in the country. He is one of the most successful Cocoa merchants from western Nigeria. He is also a community leader, who has invested time and energy in...
  
  
• C. T. Onyekwelu
  C. T. Onyekwelu
  Christopher Tagbo Onyekwelu was a prominent Nigerian businessman who played a pioneering role in developing an indigenous recording industry in the country. He was born in Nawfia, Anambra State and attended a primary school nearby.-Business life:...
  
  
• Bisoye Tejuoso
  Bisoye Tejuoso
  Bisoye Tejuoso was a prominent Nigerian businesswoman from Abeokuta. She was born into the family of an Egba farmer who was also a chief in Abeokuta. At 18 years old, she married Mr Tejuoso, and later accompanied him to Zaria, where he was working. At Zaria, Bisoye thrived in trading foodstuff with...
  
  
• Bamanga Tukur
  Bamanga Tukur
  Bamanga Tukur is a prominent Nigerian businessman and politician who was a Minister for Industries during the administration of General Sani Abacha. He is one of the high profile civil servants and military officers who acquired large areas of farmland along the various River Basin authorities...
  
  
• Ade Tuyo
  Ade Tuyo
  Joshua Ade Tuyo was a prominent Nigerian businessman from Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State.-Life:He was born into the family of an Ijebu farmer and indigo trader. Originally trained as a teacher, he left the teaching profession for office work...
  
  
• Mathias Ugochukwu
  Mathias Ugochukwu
  Mathias Nwafor Ugochukwu was a prominent Nigerian businessman from Anambra State. A leading industrialist from the Eastern Region of Nigeria, he played a pioneering role in large scale manufacturing in the region. He was sometimes called by his alias, Ugobuzuo. He was a friend to various Igbo...
  
  

Religion

• Pastor Enoch Adeboye
  Enoch Adeboye
  Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye is a Nigeria and the General Overseer of The Redeemed Christian Church of God Pastor Adeboye has a PhD in applied mathematics from the University of Lagos, and worked as a lecturer in mathematics at the universities of Lagos and Ilorin; After joining the RCCG, he began...
  
  , General Overseer Redeemed Christian Church of God
  Redeemed Christian Church of God
  The Redeemed Christian Church of God is a Nigeria-based Pentecostal Holiness ministry.-History:The RCCG was founded by Nigerian pastor Josiah Akindayomi...
  
  
• Bishop David Oyedepo
  David Oyedepo
  David O. Oyedepo, affectionately called "Papa" by members of his church congregation is a Nigerian Christian author, Preacher and the founder and Presiding Bishop of Living Faith Church World Wide also known as Winners Chapel and its affiliated International churches known as Winners Chapel...
  
  , Founder of Living Faith Church Worldwide, a.k.a. Winner's Chapel and Chancellor of Covenant University
  Covenant University
  Covenant University is a private university in Canaanland, Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria. It was founded in 2002 by the Winners' Chapel , and the chancellor, David Oyedepo, is also the President and founding Bishop of the Winners' Chapel. It is a Christian institution and it strictly governed by the...
  
  
• Sheikh Dr. Abu-Abdullah Adelabu, Ph.D Damascus, Founder and Al-Amir (i.e.) President of Awqaf Africa
  AWQAF Africa
  AWQAF Africa serves all countries of Africa: South, North, West, East, and other territorial geography of the continent including its islands in the Indian and Atlantic oceans and Mediterranean Sea, as well as the West Indies. Awqaf Africa, from time to time, extends its works to all Muslims...
  
   and Awqaf Africa Muslim Open College
  AWQAF Africa Muslim Open College
  AWQAF Africa Muslim Open College is an institution of AWQAF Africa's educational department. It was launched in London 2005 to cater for educational needs of the Africans and for people of African origin AWQAF Africa Muslim Open College is an institution of AWQAF Africa's educational department. ...
  
  , London
  London
  London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
  
  , United Kingdom
  United Kingdom
  The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
  
  
• Peter Akinola
  Peter Akinola
  Peter Jasper Akinola is the former Anglican Primate of the Church of Nigeria. He is also the former Bishop of Abuja and Archbishop of Province III, which covers the northern and central parts of the country....
  
  , Anglican
  Anglican Communion
  The Anglican Communion is an international association of national and regional Anglican churches in full communion with the Church of England and specifically with its principal primate, the Archbishop of Canterbury...
  
   Primate
  Primate (religion)
  Primate is a title or rank bestowed on some bishops in certain Christian churches. Depending on the particular tradition, it can denote either jurisdictional authority or ceremonial precedence ....
  
   of Nigeria
  Church of Nigeria
  The Church of Nigeria is the Anglican church in Nigeria. It is the second-largest province in the Anglican Communion, as measured by baptized membership, after the Church of England. It gives its current membership as "over 18 million", out of a total Nigerian population of 140 million.Since 2002...
  
  
• Francis Arinze, Cardinal
• Matthew Ashimolowo
  Matthew Ashimolowo
  Matthew Ashimolowo is the Senior Pastor of Kingsway International Christian Centre in London.His Winning Ways programme is aired daily on Premier Radio and Spirit FM and on television in Nigeria, Ghana, Zimbabwe, TV Africa, the Trinity Broadcasting Network and Europe on The God Channel and...
  
  , Kingsway International Christian Centre KICC London
• Apostle Joseph Ayo Babalola
  Joseph Ayo Babalola
  Joseph Ayo Babalola was the founder of the Christ Apostolic Church, popularly called Aladura in Nigeria. He was credited with healing powers.-Life and mission:...
  
  , founder Christ Apostolic Church, worldwide
• Samuel Ajayi Crowther
  Samuel Ajayi Crowther
  Bishop Samuel Ajayi Crowther was a linguist and the first African Anglican bishop in Nigeria. Born in Osogun , Rev. Dr...
  
  
• Dominic Ekandem
  Dominic Ekandem
  Dominic Ignatius Ekandem , was a Roman Catholic cardinal and was the first West African Catholic Bishop.A native of Cross River State, Ekandem attended several Catholic seminaries before he became a priest. He was ordained on December 7, 1947, and became the first priest from the old Calabar province...
  
  
• Sheikh Abubakar Gumi
  Abubakar Gumi
  Sheik Abubakar Gumi was an outspoken Islamic scholar and Grand Khadi of the Northern Region of Nigeria , a position which made him a central authority in the interpretation of the Sharia legal system in the region...
  
  
• T.B. Joshua
  T.B. Joshua
  Temitope Balogun Joshua , commonly referred to as T. B. Joshua, is a Christian, minister, televangelist and faith healer...
  
  , Church Of All Nations (SCOAN), Lagos; Founder of Emmanuel TV
  Emmanuel TV
  Emmanuel TV is one of Africa's largest Christian television networks with headquarters in Lagos, Nigeria, founded by T.B. Joshua, Pastor of The Synagogue, Church Of All Nations .-History:...
  
  
• David Obadiah Lot
  David Obadiah Lot
  David Obadiah Vrengkat Lot was a Nigerian religious leader of the Church of Christ denomination and a politician from the Middle Belt region of Nigeria. He was an early leader of the middle belt political movement in the 1940s...
  
  , Church of Christ
• Bimbo Odukoya
  Bimbo Odukoya
  Abimbola Rosemary "Bimbo" Odukoya was a Nigerian pastor and televangelist who was married to the founder of the Fountain of Life Church, Taiwo Odukoya....
  
  , Fountain of Life Church, Lagos
• Anthony Olubunmi Okogie, Catholic
  Catholic
  The word catholic comes from the Greek phrase , meaning "on the whole," "according to the whole" or "in general", and is a combination of the Greek words meaning "about" and meaning "whole"...
  
   Archbishop
  Archbishop
  An archbishop is a bishop of higher rank, but not of higher sacramental order above that of the three orders of deacon, priest , and bishop...
  
   of Lagos
  Lagos
  Lagos is a port and the most populous conurbation in Nigeria. With a population of 7,937,932, it is currently the third most populous city in Africa after Cairo and Kinshasa, and currently estimated to be the second fastest growing city in Africa...
  
  
• Chris Okotie
  Chris Okotie
  Chris Okotie is a leading Nigerian televangelist and the pastor of the Household of God Church International Ministries, a Pentecostal congregation in Lagos, Nigeria since February 1987.- Education and career:...
  
  
• Chris Oyakhilome
  Chris Oyakhilome
  Christian Oyakhilome is a Nigerian televangelist, faith healer and founding president of Believers' LoveWorld Incorporated also known as "Christ Embassy", a Pentecostal Christian ministry headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria. The pastor's television programs feature his faith healing and been targeted...
  
  , Founder of Believers LoveWorld Incoporated, a.k.a Christ Embassy.
• Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi
  Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi
  Blessed Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi was an Igbo Nigerian ordained a Roman Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of Onitsha, Nigeria on December 19, 1937...
  
  
• Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky
  Ibrahim Zakzaky
  Ibrahim Yaqoub El Zakzaky is a syncretic Shia Muslim cleric in Nigeria, and head of Nigeria's Islamic Movement....
  
  
• Prof. Wande Abimbola
  Wande abimbola
  Wande Abimbola, is a Nigerian academician, a professor of Yoruba language and literature and former Vice Chancellor of the University of Ife , and has also served as the Majority Leader of the Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria...
  
  , Ifa Priest
• Archbishop Benson Idahosa
  Benson Idahosa
  Benson Andrew Idahosa affectionately called PAPA or BA by his followers, was a Charismatic Pentecostal preacher, and founder of the Church of God Mission International with headquarters in Benin City, Nigeria . As the first Pentecostal archbishop in Nigeria, he was renowned for his robust faith....
  
  , Church of God Mission International Benin City

Soccer

• Peter Odemwingie
  Peter Odemwingie
  Peter Osaze Odemwingie is a footballer who plays as a winger or forward for Premier League side West Bromwich Albion. His name, Osaze, means "God chooses "....
  
  - westbrom
• Victor Anichebe
  Victor Anichebe
  Victor Chinedu Anichebe is a Nigerian footballer who plays for Everton. He has been described as a fast and powerful player, in the mould of a "traditional" centre forward, although has played on the right of midfield.-Early life:Anichebe was born in Nigeria but moved to Liverpool aged one, his...
  
   - Everton
• Tunji Banjo
  Tunji Banjo
  Tunji Babajide Banjo is a Nigerian-Irish former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Banjo played for Leyton Orient, making 27 appearances in the Football League between 1977 and 1982.-References:...
  
  
• Chibuzor Chilaka
  Chibuzor Chilaka
  Chibuzor "Chib" Chilaka is a Nigerian footballer who plays for Braintree Town.-Career:Chilaka began his football career at Rushden & Diamonds in 2002, spending two years at the club's academy. In 2004, Chilaka joined Notts County after Notts County youth team coach Neville Hamilton had previously...
  
  
• Christian Chukwu
  Christian Chukwu
  Christian Chukwu Okoro is a Nigerian football former player and current coach. A defender in his playing days, he captained the Nigeria national team to its first win in the African Nations Cup.-Playing career:...
  
  
• John Fashanu
  John Fashanu
  John "Fash" Fashanu is a British television presenter and ex-footballer of Nigerian and Guyanese descent. In his former career, he was a centre-forward, who scored 134 league goals in a career lasting 17 years...
  
  
• Nwankwo Kanu
  Nwankwo Kanu
  Nwankwo Kanu, OON , or simply Kanu, is a Nigerian footballer who plays for Portsmouth. He was also a member of the Nigerian national team for 16 years from 1994 until 2010...
  
   played in 1994, 1998 and 2002 World Cup finals
• Obafemi Martins
  Obafemi Martins
  Obafemi Akinwunmi Martins is a Nigerian footballer who plays as a striker for Rubin Kazan and the Nigeria national team. He is known for his speed on the ball....
  
   - Wolfsburg F.C.
• Mikel Obi - Chelsea F.C.
  Chelsea F.C.
  Chelsea Football Club are an English football club based in West London. Founded in 1905, they play in the Premier League and have spent most of their history in the top tier of English football. Chelsea have been English champions four times, FA Cup winners six times and League Cup winners four...
  
  
• Segun Odegbami
  Segun Odegbami
  Patrick Olusegun Odegbami, often shortened to Segun Odegbami is a retired Nigerian footballer who played as a forward....
  
  
• Austin "Jay-Jay" Okocha
  Jay-Jay Okocha
  Augustine Azuka "Jay-Jay" Okocha is a Nigerian former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. He is known for his stepovers, skill, technique, and being 'so good that they named him twice'...
  
   (born 1973)
• Nedum Onuoha
  Nedum Onuoha
  Chinedum "Nedum" Onuoha is an English-Nigerian footballer. He currently plays for Manchester City. He is a defender, typically a centre back, but he can also play at right back or left back.-Biography:...
  
   - Manchester City
• Yakubu
  Yakubu
  Yakubu was ruler of the Hausa city-state of Gobir from 1795 to 1801. Succeeding Bawa, Yakubu waged a number of military campaigns. His reign is also noted for a deterioration of relations between the Hausa elite of Gobir and Fulani Islamic reformer Usman dan Fodio, who would soon oppose them in...
  
   - Everton
• Rashidi Yekini
• Joseph Yobo
  Joseph Yobo
  Joseph Yobo is a Nigerian footballer who plays as a centre back for Fenerbahçe, on loan from Everton. He is also an international for the Nigerian national team, for which he has 81 caps and currently captains....
  
   - Everton
• Garba Lawal
  Garba Lawal
  Garba Lawal is a football midfielder from Nigeria. He is currently a contracted player-assistant manager with Lobi Stars F.C..-Career:...
  
  
• Sani Kaita
  Sani Kaita
  Sani Haruna Kaita is a Nigerian footballer playing currently for Ukrainian Premier League team SC Tavriya Simferopol.-Club career:...
  
  
• Oguchi Onyewu
  Oguchi Onyewu
  Oguchialu Chijoke Onyewu also known as "Oguchi" Onyewu is an American soccer player who plays as a defender for Sporting Clube de Portugal, in Primeira Liga, and the United States national team. Onyewu also holds a Belgian passport....
  
  

Basketball

• Jayson Obazuaye
  Jayson Obazuaye
  Jayson Obazuaye is an Nigerian professional basketball guard. He is 188 cm tall. Obazuaye plays for the basketball team Milton Keynes Lions and the Nigeria national basketball team...
  
  
• Kelenna Azubuike
  Kelenna Azubuike
  Kelenna David Azubuike is a professional basketball player. Born in London, England and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Azubuike became a standout player during his play at Victory Christian High School, and was eventually recruited to play for the Wildcats of the University of Kentucky...
  
   - Golden State Warriors
  Golden State Warriors
  The Golden State Warriors are an American professional basketball team based in Oakland, California. They are part of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association...
  
  
• Yinka Dare
  Yinka Dare
  Yinka Dare was a Nigerian professional basketball player. A 7'0", 265 pound center, he played four seasons in the National Basketball Association...
  
   - New Jersey Nets
  New Jersey Nets
  The New Jersey Nets are a professional basketball team based in Newark, New Jersey. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Basketball Association...
  
  
• Obinna Ekezie
  Obinna Ekezie
  Obinna Ralph Ekezie is a Nigerian professional basketball player, formerly in the NBA. His name, Obinna, means "Father´s heart".-Career:...
  
   - professional basketball player
• Emeka Okafor
  Emeka Okafor
  Chukwuemeka Ndubuisi Okafor, abbreviated as Emeka Okafor , is an American basketball power forward and center for the New Orleans Hornets of the National Basketball Association. Prior to the NBA, Okafor attended Houston's Bellaire High School, and the University of Connecticut.-Early life:Okafor...
  
   - New Orleans Hornets
• Hakeem Olajuwon
  Hakeem Olajuwon
  Hakeem Abdul Olajuwon is a retired Nigerian-American professional basketball player. From 1984 to 2002, he played the center position in the National Basketball Association for the Houston Rockets and Toronto Raptors. He led the Rockets to back-to-back NBA championships in 1994 and 1995. In 2008,...
  
  
• Michael Olowokandi
  Michael Olowokandi
  Michael Olowokandi is a retired Nigerian British professional basketball center who played in the American National Basketball Association from 1998 to 2007....
  
   (born 1975, in Lagos
  Lagos
  Lagos is a port and the most populous conurbation in Nigeria. With a population of 7,937,932, it is currently the third most populous city in Africa after Cairo and Kinshasa, and currently estimated to be the second fastest growing city in Africa...
  
  , Nigeria
  Nigeria
  Nigeria , officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a federal constitutional republic comprising 36 states and its Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The country is located in West Africa and shares land borders with the Republic of Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in...
  
  )
• Ime Udoka
  Ime Udoka
  Ime Sunday Udoka is a Nigerian-American professional basketball player who last played for the San Antonio Spurs of the NBA. He plays internationally with the Nigeria national basketball team....
  
   - San Antonio Spurs
  San Antonio Spurs
  The San Antonio Spurs are an American professional basketball team based in San Antonio, Texas. They are part of the Southwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association ....
  
  
• Mfon Udoka
  Mfon Udoka
  Mfon Sunday Udoka is a Nigerian American professional basketball player and the new Assistant Coach of the Nigeria women's national basketball team the Lady Tigers. Udoka graduated from Benson Polytechnic High School in Portland before attending DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois from 1994-98...
  
   - Detroit Shock
  Detroit Shock
  The Detroit Shock was a Women's National Basketball Association team based in Auburn Hills, Michigan. They were the 2003, 2006 and 2008 WNBA champion...
  
  , Houston Comets
  Houston Comets
  The Houston Comets were a Women's National Basketball Association team based in Houston, Texas, United States. Formed in 1997, the team was one of the best original eight WNBA teams and won the first four championships of the league's existence. The Comets were the first dynasty of the WNBA and...
  
  , Los Angeles Sparks
  Los Angeles Sparks
  The Los Angeles Sparks is a professional basketball team based in Los Angeles, California, playing in the Western Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association . The team was founded before the league's inaugural 1997 season began...
  
  
• Andre Iguodala
  Andre Iguodala
  Andre Tyler Iguodala is an American professional basketball player who plays small forward for the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association . Iguodala is listed at 6 ft 6 in and 207 lbs. . Iguodala played his high school basketball for Lanphier High School in Springfield, Illinois...
  
   - Philadelphia 76ers
  Philadelphia 76ers
  The Philadelphia 76ers are a professional basketball team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They play in the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Basketball Association . Originally known as the Syracuse Nationals, they are one of the oldest franchises in the NBA...
  
  

Athletics

• Chioma Ajunwa
  Chioma Ajunwa
  Chioma Ajunwa , is a former athlete from Nigeria, who previously played football for the Nigerian women's team. She is the first Nigerian to win an Olympic gold medal as well as the first African woman to win an Olympic gold medal in a field event...
  
   first Nigerian Olympic gold medalist
• Olusoji Fasuba
  Olusoji Fasuba
  Olusoji Adetokunbo Fasuba is a Nigerian sprinter who specializes in the 100 metres. He is the current African record holder in the event with 9.85 seconds....
  
   Nigerian sprinter
• Phillips Idowu
  Phillips Idowu
  Phillips Olaosebikan Idowu MBE is a Nigerian-English triple jumper...
  
   British triple jumper
• Richard Ihetu (Dick Tiger)
  Dick Tiger
  Dick Tiger CBE was a boxer from Ubahu village, Amaigbo, Nigeria, who emigrated to Liverpool and later to the United States of America. Tiger was a member of the Igbo ethnic group...
  
   former World middle weight boxing champion
• Francis Obikwelu
  Francis Obikwelu
  Francis Obiorah Obikwelu, born 22 November 1978 in Nigeria and a Portuguese citizen since 2001, is a sprint athlete specializing in 100 metres and 200 metres. He holds the record for the fastest time in the 100 m set by a European competitor with a time of 9.86 seconds...
  
   Portuguese sprinter
• Samuel Peter
  Samuel Peter
  Samuel Okon Peter , nicknamed "The Nigerian Nightmare," is a professional heavyweight boxer and the former WBC heavyweight champion....
  
   WBC world heavy weight champion

American Football

• Victor Abiamiri
  Victor Abiamiri
  Victor Ikechukwu Abiamiri is an American football defensive end for the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Eagles in the second round of the 2007 NFL Draft...
  
   - Philadelphia Eagles
  Philadelphia Eagles
  The Philadelphia Eagles are a professional American football team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They are members of the East Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...
  
  
• Victor Adeyanju
  Victor Adeyanju
  Victor Adeyanju is an American football defensive end who is currently a free agent. He was drafted by the St. Louis Rams in the fourth round of the 2006 NFL Draft. He played college football at Indiana....
  
   - St. Louis Rams
  St. Louis Rams
  The St. Louis Rams are a professional American football team based in St. Louis, Missouri. They are currently members of the West Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The Rams have won three NFL Championships .The Rams began playing in 1936 in Cleveland,...
  
  
• Devin Aromashodu
  Devin Aromashodu
  Gbolahan Devin Aromashodu is an American football wide receiver for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Miami Dolphins in the seventh round of the 2006 NFL Draft. He played college football at Auburn...
  
   - Minnesota Vikings
  Minnesota Vikings
  The Minnesota Vikings are a professional American football team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Vikings joined the National Football League as an expansion team in 1960...
  
  
• Nnamdi Asomugha
  Nnamdi Asomugha
  Nnamdi Asomugha is an American cornerback for the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League . He was drafted in the first round of the 2003 NFL Draft by the Oakland Raiders and played college football for the Golden Bears at the University of California, Berkeley...
  
   - Oakland Raiders
  Oakland Raiders
  The Oakland Raiders are a professional American football team based in Oakland, California. They currently play in the Western Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...
  
  
• Oshiomogho Atogwe
  Oshiomogho Atogwe
  Oshiomogho Isaac "O.J." Atogwe is a Canadian safety of American football for the Washington Redskins of the National Football League. He was drafted by the St. Louis Rams in the third round of the 2005 NFL Draft. He played college football at Stanford.-Early years:He attended high school at W.F....
  
   - St. Louis Rams
  St. Louis Rams
  The St. Louis Rams are a professional American football team based in St. Louis, Missouri. They are currently members of the West Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The Rams have won three NFL Championships .The Rams began playing in 1936 in Cleveland,...
  
  
• Brendon Ayanbadejo
  Brendon Ayanbadejo
  Oladele Brendon Ayanbadejo is an American football linebacker for the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League. He was originally signed by the Atlanta Falcons as an undrafted free agent in 1999. He played college football for the UCLA Bruins....
  
   - Baltimore Ravens
  Baltimore Ravens
  The Baltimore Ravens are a professional football franchise based in Baltimore, Maryland.The Baltimore Ravens are officially a quasi-expansion franchise, having originated in 1995 with the Cleveland Browns relocation controversy after Art Modell, then owner of the Cleveland Browns, announced his...
  
  
• Akin Ayodele
  Akin Ayodele
  Akinola James "Akin" Ayodele is an American football linebacker who is currently a free agent. He was drafted by the Jacksonville Jaguars in the third round of the 2002 NFL Draft...
  
   - Miami Dolphins
  Miami Dolphins
  The Miami Dolphins are a Professional football team based in the Miami metropolitan area in Florida. The team is part of the Eastern Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...
  
  
• Remi Ayodele
  Remi Ayodele
  Remilekun "Remi" Ayodele is an American football defensive tackle for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League. He was signed by the New England Patriots as an undrafted free agent in 2006. He played college football at Oklahoma.Ayodele has also been a member of the Baltimore Ravens,...
  
   - New Orleans Saints
  New Orleans Saints
  The New Orleans Saints are a professional American football team based in New Orleans, Louisiana. They are members of the South Division of the National Football Conference of the National Football League ....
  
  
• Isaiah Ekejiuba
  Isaiah Ekejiuba
  Isaiah Afamefuna Ekejiuba [Eck-ah-ju-buh] is a Nigerian-American linebacker of American football for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League. He was originally signed by the Arizona Cardinals as an undrafted free agent in 2005...
  
   - Oakland Raiders
  Oakland Raiders
  The Oakland Raiders are a professional American football team based in Oakland, California. They currently play in the Western Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...
  
  
• Samkon Gado
  Samkon Gado
  Samkon Kaltho Gado is an Nigerian-American running back of American football who is currently a free agent. He was signed by the Kansas City Chiefs as an undrafted free agent in 2005. He played college football at Liberty....
  
   - St. Louis Rams
  St. Louis Rams
  The St. Louis Rams are a professional American football team based in St. Louis, Missouri. They are currently members of the West Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The Rams have won three NFL Championships .The Rams began playing in 1936 in Cleveland,...
  
  
• Israel Idonije
  Israel Idonije
  Israel Idonije is a Nigerian-Canadian defensive end for the National Football League's Chicago Bears. He was signed as an undrafted free agent out of the University of Manitoba...
  
   - Chicago Bears
  Chicago Bears
  The Chicago Bears are a professional American football team based in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...
  
  
• James Ihedigbo
  James Ihedigbo
  -New York Jets:In a 16–13 overtime loss to the Buffalo Bills on October 18, 2009, Ihedigbo and fellow Jet Marques Murrell threw punches at Bills Tight End Derek Fine, prompting Ihedigbo to be ejected from the game by officials...
  
   - New York Jets
  New York Jets
  The New York Jets are a professional football team headquartered in Florham Park, New Jersey, representing the New York metropolitan area. The team is a member of the Eastern Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...
  
  
• Kenny Iwebema
  Kenny Iwebema
  Kenny Iwebema is an American football defensive end who is currently a free agent. He was drafted by the Arizona Cardinals in the fourth round of the 2008 NFL Draft. He played college football for the Iowa Hawkeyes.-Early years:...
  
   - Arizona Cardinals
  Arizona Cardinals
  The Arizona Cardinals are a professional American football team based in Glendale, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix. They are currently members of the Western Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...
  
  
• Ade Jimoh
  Ade Jimoh
  Adebola "Ade" Olurotimi Jimoh is an American football cornerback who is currently a free agent. He was signed by the Washington Redskins as an undrafted free agent in 2003...
  
   - Washington Redskins
  Washington Redskins
  The Washington Redskins are a professional American football team and members of the East Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The team plays at FedExField in Landover, Maryland, while its headquarters and training facility are at Redskin Park in Ashburn,...
  
  
• Ovie Mughelli
  Ovie Mughelli
  Ovie Phillip Mughelli is an American football fullback for the Atlanta Falcons of the NFL. He signed a 6-year, $18 million contract with a $5 million signing bonus on March 2, 2007 with the Falcons...
  
   - Baltimore Ravens
  Baltimore Ravens
  The Baltimore Ravens are a professional football franchise based in Baltimore, Maryland.The Baltimore Ravens are officially a quasi-expansion franchise, having originated in 1995 with the Cleveland Browns relocation controversy after Art Modell, then owner of the Cleveland Browns, announced his...
  
  
• Chinedum Ndukwe
  Chinedum Ndukwe
  Chinedum "Nedu" Ndukwe is an American football safety who is currently a free agent. He was drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals in the seventh round of the 2007 NFL Draft...
  
   - Cincinnati Bengals
  Cincinnati Bengals
  The Cincinnati Bengals are a professional football team based in Cincinnati, Ohio. They are members of the AFC's North Division in the National Football League . The Bengals began play in 1968 as an expansion team in the American Football League , and joined the NFL in 1970 in the AFL-NFL...
  
  
• Ikechuku Ndukwe - Kansas City Chiefs
  Kansas City Chiefs
  The Kansas City Chiefs are a professional American football team based in Kansas City, Missouri. They are a member of the Western Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League . Originally named the Dallas Texans, the club was founded by Lamar Hunt in 1960 as a...
  
  
• Ogemdi Nwagbuo
  Ogemdi Nwagbuo
  Ogemdi Sharron Nwagbuo is an American football defensive tackle who is currently a free agent. He was signed by the New York Giants as an undrafted free agent in 2008. He played college football at Michigan State...
  
   - San Diego Chargers
  San Diego Chargers
  The San Diego Chargers are a professional American football team based in San Diego, California. they were members of the Western Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...
  
  
• Uche Nwaneri
  Uche Nwaneri
  Uchechukwu Eberechukwu "Uche" Nwaneri is an American football player who plays for the Jacksonville Jaguars. Uche was born in Dallas, Texas on March 20, 1984. He played Guard for Purdue University after graduating from Naaman Forest High School...
  
   - Jacksonville Jaguars
  Jacksonville Jaguars
  The Jacksonville Jaguars are a professional American football team based in Jacksonville, Florida, U.S. They are currently members of the South Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...
  
  
• Ben Obomanu
  Ben Obomanu
  Benjamin Ebenezer Obomanu is an American football wide receiver who was selected by the Seattle Seahawks in the 7th round of the 2006 NFL Draft. Obomanu played college football for the Auburn Tigers.-High School years:...
  
   - Seattle Seahawks
  Seattle Seahawks
  The Seattle Seahawks are a professional American football team based in Seattle, Washington. They are currently members of the Western Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The team joined the NFL in 1976 as an expansion team...
  
  
• Chris Ogbonnaya
  Chris Ogbonnaya
  Chris Ogbonnaya is an American football running back for the Cleveland Browns of the National Football League. He was drafted by the St. Louis Rams in the seventh round of the 2009 NFL Draft...
  
   - St. Louis Rams
  St. Louis Rams
  The St. Louis Rams are a professional American football team based in St. Louis, Missouri. They are currently members of the West Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The Rams have won three NFL Championships .The Rams began playing in 1936 in Cleveland,...
  
  
• Adewale Ogunleye
  Adewale Ogunleye
  Adewale Ogunleye is an American football defensive end who is currently a free agent. He was signed by the Miami Dolphins as an undrafted free agent in 2000. He played college football at Indiana.-Early years:...
  
   - Chicago Bears
  Chicago Bears
  The Chicago Bears are a professional American football team based in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...
  
  
• Frank Okam
  Frank Okam
  Franklin Nonyelu Okam, Jr. is an American football defensive tackle for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He was drafted by the Houston Texans in the fifth round of the 2008 NFL Draft. He played college football at Texas.-Early years:...
  
   - Houston Texans
  Houston Texans
  The Houston Texans are a professional American football team based in Houston, Texas. The team is currently a member of the Southern Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...
  
  
• Chike Okeafor
  Chike Okeafor
  Chikezie Russell Okeafor is a professional American football player. During his National Football League career from 1999 to 2009, he played defensive end and linebacker for the San Francisco 49ers, the Seattle Seahawks, and the Arizona Cardinals....
  
   - Arizona Cardinals
  Arizona Cardinals
  The Arizona Cardinals are a professional American football team based in Glendale, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix. They are currently members of the Western Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...
  
  
• Amobi Okoye
  Amobi Okoye
  -Houston Texans:Okoye signed a five-year deal with the Texans on July 26, which allowed him to begin training camp with his teammates the next day. With his first start, Okoye became the youngest player to appear in an NFL game since 1967....
  
   - Houston Texans
  Houston Texans
  The Houston Texans are a professional American football team based in Houston, Texas. The team is currently a member of the Southern Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League...
  
  
• Christian Okoye
  Christian Okoye
  Christian Emeka Okoye , is a Nigerian-American former American football running back for the Kansas City Chiefs from 1987 to 1992. Nicknamed "The Nigerian Nightmare," Okoye was known for his powerful running style and ability to break tackles. Okoye's six seasons in the NFL saw a league rushing...
  
   - Kansas City Chiefs
  Kansas City Chiefs
  The Kansas City Chiefs are a professional American football team based in Kansas City, Missouri. They are a member of the Western Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League . Originally named the Dallas Texans, the club was founded by Lamar Hunt in 1960 as a...
  
  
• Frank Omiyale
  Frank Omiyale
  Frank Tayo Omiyale [OH-mee-Yahle] is an American football offensive tackle for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Atlanta Falcons in the fifth round of the 2005 NFL Draft...
  
   - Chicago Bears
  Chicago Bears
  The Chicago Bears are a professional American football team based in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...
  
  
• Kenny Onatolu
  Kenny Onatolu
  Olayiwola Kendae "Kenny" Onatolu is an American football linebacker for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League. He was signed by the Edmonton Eskimos as an undrafted free agent in 2007...
  
   - Minnesota Vikings
  Minnesota Vikings
  The Minnesota Vikings are a professional American football team based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Vikings joined the National Football League as an expansion team in 1960...
  
  
• Brian Orakpo
  Brian Orakpo
  -Washington Redskins:Orakpo was drafted by the Washington Redskins 13th overall in the 2009 NFL Draft. On July 31, he signed a five-year deal worth $20 million, which includes $12.1 million guaranteed...
  
   - Washington Redskins
  Washington Redskins
  The Washington Redskins are a professional American football team and members of the East Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The team plays at FedExField in Landover, Maryland, while its headquarters and training facility are at Redskin Park in Ashburn,...
  
  
• Jeff Otah
  Jeff Otah
  Jeffrey C. Otah is a Nigerian American football offensive tackle for the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League. He was drafted by the Panthers 19th overall in the 2008 NFL Draft. He played college football at Pittsburgh....
  
   - Carolina Panthers
  Carolina Panthers
  The Carolina Panthers are a professional American football team based in Charlotte, North Carolina. They are currently members of the South Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The Panthers, along with the Jacksonville Jaguars, joined the NFL as expansion...
  
  
• B.J. Raji - Green Bay Packers
  Green Bay Packers
  The Green Bay Packers are an American football team based in Green Bay, Wisconsin. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League . The Packers are the current NFL champions...
  
  
• Tony Ugoh
  Tony Ugoh
  Anthony Ike "Tony" Ugoh, Jr. is an American football offensive tackle who is currently a free agent. He was drafted by the Indianapolis Colts in the second round of the 2007 NFL Draft. He played college football at Arkansas....
  
   - Indianapolis Colts
  Indianapolis Colts
  The Indianapolis Colts are a professional American football team based in Indianapolis. They are currently members of the South Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League ....
  
  
• Osi Umenyiora
  Osi Umenyiora
  -2003:Umenyiora was drafted in the 2nd round of the 2003 NFL Draft by the New York Giants out of Troy State University, now Troy University. He was number 72. As a rookie in 2003, he played in 13 games with one start.-2005:...
  
   - New York Giants
  New York Giants
  The New York Giants are a professional American football team based in East Rutherford, New Jersey, representing the New York City metropolitan area. The Giants are currently members of the Eastern Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League...
  
  

Boxing

• Dick Tiger
  Dick Tiger
  Dick Tiger CBE was a boxer from Ubahu village, Amaigbo, Nigeria, who emigrated to Liverpool and later to the United States of America. Tiger was a member of the Igbo ethnic group...
  
   - former Ring world middleweight and light-heavyweight champion
• Hogan Bassey
  Hogan Bassey
  Hogan "Kid" Bassey MBE was Nigeria's first world boxing champion. He was born Okun Asuguo Bassey on the banks of the Cross River in Creek Town, Calabar, Nigeria. He took the name Hogan Kid Bassey when he turned professional as a boxer...
  
   - former Ring world featherweight champion
• Samuel Peter
  Samuel Peter
  Samuel Okon Peter , nicknamed "The Nigerian Nightmare," is a professional heavyweight boxer and the former WBC heavyweight champion....
  
   - former WBC
  World Boxing Council
  The World Boxing Council was initially established by 11 countries: the United States, Argentina, United Kingdom, France, Mexico, Philippines, Panama, Chile, Peru, Venezuela and Brazil plus Puerto Rico, met in Mexico City on February 14, 1963, upon invitation of the then President of Mexico, Adolfo...
  
   world heavyweight boxing champion
• Henry Akinwande
  Henry Akinwande
  Henry Akinwande is a British former professional heavyweight boxer and former WBO world heavyweight champion.-Background:...
  
   - former WBO
  World Boxing Organization
  The World Boxing Organization is a sanctioning organization currently recognizing professional boxing world champions. The organization is recognized as one of the four major world championship groups by the IBHOF alongside the International Boxing Federation, the World Boxing Council and the...
  
   world heavyweight champion
• Ike Ibeabuchi
  Ike Ibeabuchi
  Ikemefula "Ike" Charles Ibeabuchi is a former professional heavyweight boxer who defeated highly ranked contender David Tua and future heavyweight titlist Chris Byrd...
  
   - former WBC
  World Boxing Council
  The World Boxing Council was initially established by 11 countries: the United States, Argentina, United Kingdom, France, Mexico, Philippines, Panama, Chile, Peru, Venezuela and Brazil plus Puerto Rico, met in Mexico City on February 14, 1963, upon invitation of the then President of Mexico, Adolfo...
  
   International Heavyweight champion

Mixed Martial Arts

• Muhammed Lawal
  Muhammed Lawal
  |-| Win|align=center| 8–1| Roger Gracie| KO | Strikeforce World Grand Prix: Barnett vs. Kharitonov| |align=center| 1|align=center| 4:37|Cincinnati, Ohio, United States|||-| Loss|align=center| 7–1| Rafael Cavalcante| TKO...
  
   - former Strikeforce
  Strikeforce
  Strikeforce is a U.S.-based mixed martial arts and kickboxing organization based in San Jose, California. It is headed by CEO Scott Coker and owned by Zuffa, LLC...
  
   world light-heavyweight champion
• Anthony Njokuani
  Anthony Njokuani
  Anthony Obinnia Njokuani is a Nigerian mixed martial artist who currently fights as a lightweight for the Ultimate Fighting Championship.-Early life:...
  
  

International Models

• Agbani Darego
  Agbani Darego
  Agbani Darego is a Nigerian model, best known as the first Sub-Saharan African Miss World.-Early life:...
  
   - Winner of Miss World 2001
  Miss World 2001
  Miss World 2001, the 51st Miss World pageant was held at the Super Bowl, in Sun City Entertainment Centre, Sun City, South Africa on November 16, 2001. Agbani Darego from Nigeria won the pageant, she became the first black African to win the Miss World crown...
  
  
• Oluchi Onweagba
  Oluchi Onweagba
  -Early life:Onweagba grew up in the suburbs of Lagos, Nigeria with her two brothers and sisters. She is the daughter of a civil servant father and mother who was a nurse. When Onweagba was 16 years old, she won the "Face Of Africa" contest.-Discovery:...
  
   - Winner Mnet face of Africa
  Africa
  Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
  
   competition 1998

ICT Professionals

• Philip Emeagwali
  Philip Emeagwali
  Philip Emeagwali is a Nigerian -born engineer and computer scientist/geologist who was one of two winners of the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize, a prize from the IEEE, for his use of a Connection Machine supercomputer to help analyze petroleum fields....
  
  , 1989 Gordon Bell Prize
  Gordon Bell Prize
  The Gordon Bell Prizes are a set of awards awarded by the Association for Computing Machinery in conjunction with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers each year at the Supercomputing Conference to recognize outstanding achievement in high-performance computing applications...
  
   winner
• Gbenga Sesan, Information Technology Youth Ambassador

Medicine and Science

• Olumbe Bassir
  Olumbe Bassir
  Olumbe Bassir was a Sierra Leonean scientist and academic who settled in Nigeria.-Earliy life and education:Born in Senegal to Sierra Leonean parents in 1919, Abdul Rahman Bassir was raised in the older part of the municipality of Freetown, Fourah Bay, by his parents Abdul and Isatu Bassir...
  
   - Biochemist and nutritionist
• Adeoye Lambo - Psychiatrist
• Eyitayo Lambo
  Eyitayo Lambo
  Eyitayo Lambo was appointed the Nigerian Federal Minister of Health in July 2003, holding office until May 2007 during the presidency of Olusegun Obasanjo.-Background:...
  
  - Health Economist and Technocrat