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See Remarkable Nigerians That Would Make You Proud
By: Smartjohns Date: November 26, 2016, 2:11 pm
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In Nigeria, we suffer a lot of troubles. Erratic power supply,
bad roads, corruption, fraud, devaluation of the naira, are only
a few of the things we go through daily.
However, we are still proud to be Nigerians, and this is not
only because we are a resilient people, but also because we have
some Nigerians who are making us proud always, here they are:
1. Nwankwo Kanu
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Nwankwo Kanu, was born August 1, 1976 he is a retired Nigerian
footballer who played as a forward. He was a member of and later
captained the Nigerian national team for 16 years from 1994
until 2010.
He is one of the most decorated Nigerian players. He has also
founded the Kanu Heart Foundation. The Kanu Heart Foundation was
founded in 2000 by Kanu partly because he had a heart defect
too.
The primary aim of the foundation is to “put back smiles to the
faces of Nigerians and Africa’s “blue children” who suffer from
various heart defects.”
2. Harrison Chinedu
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Harrison Chinedu A Nigerian footballer, Harrison Chinedu has
gotten himself and Nigeria into the Guinness World Records for
the ‘farthest distance walked with a ball on the head’.
He might not be a popular Nigerian, but he is a clear example of
the never say die spirit of Nigeria.
3. Wole Soyinka
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Wole Soyinka Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka was born on
July 13, 1934.
He is a Nigerian playwright and poet. He was the first African
awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, and he is regarded
as one of the founding fathers of Nigerian literature.
4. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie was born on September 15, 1977 is a
Nigerian novelist, nonfiction writer and short story writer.
She is a MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, Adichie has been
called the most prominent Nigerian woman in literature.
5. Aliko Dangote
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Aliko Dangote was born on April 10, 1957. He is a Nigerian
billionaire,who owns the Dangote Group, which has interests in
commodities.
His company operates in Nigeria and other African countries,
including Benin, Ethiopia, Senegal, Cameroon, Ghana, South
Africa, Togo, Tanzania, and Zambia.
He is Africa’s richest man, employs millions of people in his
various companies and also gives to several philanthropic
causes.
6. Uzodinma Iweala
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Uzodinma Iweala was born on November 5, 1982 to Dr Ngozi Okonjo
Iweala and he is an author and a physician. His debut novel,
Beasts of No Nation, is a formation of his thesis work (in
creative writing) at Harvard.
It was published in 2005 and adapted as an award-winning film in
2015, that was mentioned by Time Magazine, The New York Times,
Entertainment Weekly, The Times, and Rolling Stone and has
critical acclaim.
7. Fela Kuti
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Olufela Olusegun Oludotun Ransome-Kuti was born on October 15
1938 and he died on August 2, 1997.
His stage name was Fela Kuti or simply Fela. He will forever be
remembered as a Nigerian multi-instrumentalist, musician,
composer, pioneer of the Afrobeat music genre, human rights
activist, and political maverick.
8. Phillip Emeagwali
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Philip Emeagwali is a Nigerian inventor and scientist. He has
been living in the United States for many years. He won the 1989
Gordon Bell Prize ($1,000) for price-performance in
high-performance computing applications, in an oil reservoir
modeling calculation using a novel mathematical formulation and
implementation.
He was voted the “35th-greatest African (and greatest African
scientist) of all time” in a survey by New African magazine.
Source: Naij
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