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Esther Ijewere is a Canadian-based Nigerian media and communications specialist, author, women and children's rights advocate. She also serves as a columnist for The Guardian and the CEO of Women of Rubies, an organization committed to empowering and celebrating women from diverse backgrounds.
Nigerians began migrating to Canada during the 1967–1970 Nigerian Civil War. [2] Nigerians were not broken out separately in immigration statistics until 1973. 3,919 landed immigrants of Nigerian nationality arrived in Canada from 1973 to 1991. [3] There is a significant number of Nigerians living in the Greater Toronto Area. [4]
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
This page lists Canadian citizens of full or partial Nigerian descent. Subcategories. ... Nigerian emigrants to Canada (46 P) I. Canadian people of Igbo descent (4 P) Y.
In 2014 and 2015, Forbes Magazine Online listed Uche among the 30 Most Promising Young Entrepreneurs in Africa. In December 2015, she was listed amongst the Most Influential CEOs of 2015 by Ventures Africa [ 9 ] as well as New African Woman's Women of the Year for 2015 and made the QUARTZ’S List of 30 African Innovators.
Rosemary Brown, British Columbia legislator; first Black woman to run for the leadership of a political party in Canada (the federal New Democratic Party) Measha Brueggergosman, opera singer; Kim Brunhuber, journalistic; Matthew Bullock, fugitive from the US who became a cause celebre in the 1920s; Millicent Burgess, educator; Nate Burleson ...
Udo-Obong was nominated as one of the 50 most influential young Africans by African Digest in 2002, where he also captained Team Nigeria to the Commonwealth Games in Manchester, UK. Udo-Obong is a recipient of the Akwa Ibom State Honours Roll, and is also a recipient of the Certificate of Award for Outstanding Contribution to Sports Development ...
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:21st-century Nigerian people. It includes Nigerian people that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. See also: Category:21st-century Nigerian men