Famous People Born In Nigeria

Blossom Nnodim

Blossom Ozurumba is a Nigerian. She is known for her social media educative startup known as AdoptATweep.....
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Lola Shoneyin is a Nigerian poet and author who launched her debut novel, The Secret Lives of Baba Segis Wives, in the UK in May 2010. Shoneyin has already forged a reputation as an adventurous, humorous and outspoken poet , having published three volumes of poetry. In April 2014 she was named on the Hay Festivals Africa39 list of 39 SubSaharan African writers aged under 40 with potential and talent to define trends in African literature. She lives in Lagos, Nigeria where she runs the annual Ak....
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Ebuka Obi Uchendu

Ebuka ObiUchendu is a Nigerian lawyer and media personality from Okija in Anambra State, Nigeria.....
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Olajumoke Adenowo

Olajumoke Olufunmilola Adenowo is a Nigerian architect, Speaker, Radio Host, Philanthropist and Author. CNN described her as Africas Starchitect. She has been featured in the Worlds foremost Architectural Journal Architectural Record and has spoken on several platforms including the Global Womens Forum and Havard Business School....
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Hakeem Kae Kazim

Hakeem KaeKazim is a Nigerian actor best known for his work in the Starz television series Black Sails and his portrayal of Georges Rutaganda in the 2004 drama film Hotel Rwanda.....
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Desmond Elliot

Desmond Elliot is a Nigerian actor and director, and politician who has starred in over two hundred films and a number of television shows and soap operas. He won best supporting actor in a drama at the 2nd Africa Magic Viewers Choice Awards and was nominated for best supporting actor at the 10th Africa Movie Academy Awards. He was elected as a lawmaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Surulere Constituency, in the April 11, 2015 Nigerian General Elections....
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Kunle Afolayan

Kunle Afolayan is a Nigerian actor and film producer and director.....
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Funke Akindele

Akindele Olufunke Ayotunde is a Nigerian actress. She came to limelight after featuring in popular United Nations Population Fund sponsored sitcom I NEED TO KNOW, which ran from 1998 to 2002. In 2009 she won the Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Funke Akindele also has a TV hit show titled Jenifa.....
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Duncan Mighty

Duncan Wene Mighty Okechukwu , simply known as Duncan Mighty, is a Nigerian musician, singer, and music producer from ObioAkpor, Rivers State. Though his musical style demonstrates a highlevel of genre versatility, it is also heavily influenced by the sounds and culture of his people as most of his songs are sung in his native Ikwerre tongue.....
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Clem Ohameze

Clem Ohameze is a Nigerian actor with two decades in acting. Clem Ohameze started professional acting in 1995. But his breakthrough role was in 1998 when he featured in a bigbudget movie titled ENDTIME. He has acted in over 500 movies in his 20year career spanning 1995 to date and is set to feature in many more movies in the coming months.....
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Genevieve Nnaji

Genevieve Nnaji is a Nigerian actress and singer. She won the Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role in 2005. In 2011, she was honoured as a Member of the Order of the Federal Republic by the Nigerian government for her contribution to Nollywood.....
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Ini Edo

Ini Edo is a Nigerian actress. She began her film career in 2000, and has featured in more than 200 movies since that time. Edo is a Theatre Arts graduate of the University of Calabar. In 2008 she was married to Americanbased Nigerian businessman Philip Ehiagwina. In 2013, she was announced as judge for the Miss Black Africa Uk Pageant. Due to her philanthropic gestures, the United Nations appointed her as the United Nations Habitat Youth Envoy.....
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Diego Odoh Okenyodo

Odoh Diego Okenyodo is a Nigerian writer, pharmacist, activist poet and journalist, who is one of the founders of Kaduna Writers League, KWL. He is also one of the Directors of Splendors Of Dawn Poetry Foundation. He coedited Camouflage Best of contemporary writing from Nigeria, an anthology of new Nigerian writers. The anthology included works by the most renowned contemporary Nigerian writers such as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Helon Habila.....
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