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Latunde Odeku, first Nigerian neurosurgeon trained in the United States; pioneer of neurosurgery in Africa; Chidi Chike Achebe, physician executive and son of Chinua Achebe; Bankole Johnson, psychiatrist; discoverer of topiramate, a gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) facilitator and glutamate antagonist, as an effective treatment for alcoholism.
Nigerian Americans; Total population; 760,079 (2023) [1] (ancestry or ethnic origin) 476,008 (2023) [2] (born in Nigeria) Regions with significant populations; Texas (especially Houston, Dallas–Fort Worth and San Antonio) • Northeastern US (especially NYC, Boston, New Jersey and Philadelphia) • California (Los Angeles, Bay Area) • Florida (Miami, Tampa, Orlando) • Georgia • Chicago ...
Pages in category "American people of Nigerian descent" The following 156 pages are in this category, out of 156 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
100 Greatest African Americans is a biographical dictionary of one hundred historically great Black Americans (in alphabetical order; that is, they are not ranked), as assessed by Temple University professor Molefi Kete Asante in 2002.
Yarima Ibrahim Abdullahi – Nigerian administrator. Served as the Nigerian high commissioner to Malaysia and Brunei. Sarki Auwalu – Director general of the Department of Petroleum Resources; Adamu Abdu-Kafarati – Former Chief Judge of the Federal High Court of Nigeria; Suleiman Kassim – aviation secretary for the Ministry of Transportation
More than half a million of AskMen's readers voted, along with our staff, to determine the Top 49 Most Influential Men of 2011. The men who made the list come from different walks of life, but ...
Bello Shagari founded Barcode Multimedia in 2012. He has produced documentaries and contents on politics, history and advocacy. One of such documentaries "One Nation, One Destiny" project which began in 2013, a documentary of the history of Nigeria focusing on President Shehu Shagari's long experiences since pre-independence to his eventual emergence as Nigeria's first executive president in 1979.
And had the Nigerian Olympic Committee in 1984 not inexplicably snubbed an amazing athlete who established NAIA records in four events (including the 100- and 200-meter dashes) and was then the ...