Famous people born in Nigeria
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Chinua Achebe
David and Marianna Fisher University Professor and Professor of Africana Studies Brown University ....
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Femi Ogunode
Femi Seun Ogunode is a Nigerianborn sprint athlete who competes internationally for Qatar. His personal best of 9.91 at 100 m makes him the current holder of the Asian 100m record.....
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Hugo Weaving
Hugo Wallace Weaving is an AustralianBritish film and stage actor. He is best known for his roles as Agent Smith in The Matrix trilogy and Elrond in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film trilogies, as well as the title role of V in V for Vendetta .....
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Gilbert R Chagoury
Gilbert Ramez Chagoury is a LebaneseNigerian billionaire businessman, diplomat and philanthropist.....
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Japheth J Omojuwa
Japheth Omojuwa is a Nigerian blogger, public speaker, socioeconomic and political commentator and social media expert. A columnist with The Punch newspaper, Leadership newspaper and Naij.com, Omojuwas articles have appeared on CNN, ThisDay and other platforms across the continent and beyond. His works have been repeatedly translated into several languages including platforms for German, French, Portuguese and Greek audiences.....
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Ibrahim Zakzaky
Ibrahim Yaqoub El Zakzaky is an outspoken Shia Muslim cleric in Nigeria, and head of Nigerias Islamic Movement . Zakzaky founded Islamic Movement in late 1970s when he was a student at Ahmadu Bello University and began propagating Shia Islam around 1979, at the time of the Iranian revolutionwhich saw Irans monarchy overthrown and replaced with an Islamic republic under Ayatollah Khomeini. Zakzaky believed that the establishment of a republic along similar religious lines in Nigeria would be fe....
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Clarence Peters
Clarence Peters is a Nigerian music video director, filmmaker and cinematographer. He is the founder and CEO of CAPital Dream Pictures, a production company that specialises in the realms of the performing arts, new media art, film, television, radio, and video. He is also the founder and CEO of Capital Hill Records, a record label home to Chidinma, Tha Suspect, and Illbliss. He was ranked 2nd on Channel Os Top 10 Most Visionary Music Video Directors list. In 1998, he was involved in a Mobil sp....
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Horatio Agedah
Horatio Nelson Oyenke Agedah OFR,JP.LL.B HonsB.L.FNIMFNGEFNBS was a Nigerian journalist, broadcaster, administrator and lawyer.....
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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. He is considered to be one of Nigerias most famous actors. In 2011, he was honored as a Member of the Order of the Federal Republic .....
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