January 1806 Bussa Rapids, Nigeria Mungo Park, (born Sept. 10, 1771, Fowlshiels, Selkirk, Scot. died c. January 1806, near Bussa on the Niger River [now in Nigeria]) Scottish explorer of the Niger.
November 16, 1904 Zungeru, Nigeria May 11 , 1996Enugu, Nigeria Nnamdi Azikiwe, (born November 16, 1904, Zungeru, Nigeria died May 11 , 1996 Enugu), first president of independent Nigeria (1963 66) and prominent nationalist figure.
January 13 , 1931Oguta, Nigeria October 16 , 1993Enugu, Nigeria Flora Nwapa, (born Jan . 13 , 1931Oguta, Nigeria died Oct. 16, 1993, Enugu) Nigerian novelist best known for re-creating Igbo (Ibo) life and customs from a woman's viewpoint.
Nigeria-born Yomi Sode moved to London aged nine with his mother, in search of a better life.
While his Nigeria-born parents had moved to England after the civil war, the family regularly travelled back there to visit.
The Nigeria-born Hakeem Olajuwon of the 1996 basketball Dream Team was the only foreign athlete to contribute to the United States medal count in the 1990s.
The Nigeria-born Okri, who lives in London today, won the Booker prize in 1991 for his novel The Famished Road.
His Nigeria-born father, George, works as a DJ in the Austrian capital and had a minor dance hit with Indian Song (Two in One) in 1997.
The hot chance followed a tougher opportunity in the eighth minute by Nigeria-born striker Jaycee Okwunwanne who volleyed a poor attempt at a clearance but sent the shot wide of the left post.
His Web news operation was the first to publish a photo of the Nigeria-born "underwear bomber" arrested in December 2009, and when a suicide bombing this summer shook a United Nations building in Abuja, Nigeria's capital, he was the first to publish on-the-ground reports and photos.
