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Re: Yorubas Are The Most Industrious,Richest & Educated Tribe in Nigeria & Africa by deomeelo: 1:54am On Aug 22, 2017






Dr. Olayemi Dawodu is the CEO of Clina Chief Executive Officer at Clina-Lancet Laboratories - ‎Clina-Lancet Laboratories




Company Overview
Our long-standing history started almost 40 years ago as Clina labs which in 2008 merged with Immunoassay Laboratories to meet the increasing demand for a wider range of diagnostic tests and quality. The further need for an even broader range of test and service quality saw the evolution into Clina-Lancet which is able to offer you the widest range of investigations available in Nigeria today.

Clina-Lancet is a member of the Lancet Group of Laboratories originally founded in South Africa. Lancet Laboratories in South Africa is an internationally ISO-accredited pathology laboratory which has been in the business for more than 50 years, has more than 100 reference laboratories, more than 250 branch offices in various parts of Africa and more than 80 pathologists specializing in different aspects of pathology available for doctors to seek expert opinion whenever they need.

Pathology without Borders:

Our clients have accessibility to over 4000 sophisticated routine and specialized tests. Pathology without borders simply means a boundless pathological laboratory diagnostic provision. Most specialized pathology services which were once not obtainable in the past in Nigeria, are now available in Clina-Lancet. It is not all inclusive but an all in – encompassing provision where we offer over 4,000 clinical laboratory tests presently, and continuously striving to include more.

Vision Statement:

To become by reputation the undisputed market leader in offering high quality analytical laboratory services to users in the healthcare, industrial and environmental protection sectors in Nigeria.

Mission Statement:

To deliver with our international accreditation the highest quality, ethical and efficient laboratory services and to provide maximum satisfaction to our clients. To meet and exceed our clients expectations in the delivery of prompt and reliable analytical laboratory results at all times and at highly competitive rates.

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Re: Yorubas Are The Most Industrious,Richest & Educated Tribe in Nigeria & Africa by laudate: 2:09am On Aug 22, 2017





Many folks know Chief Kayode Aderinokun the Lukotun Aje of Owu, as an accomplished writer, and former Chairman of the Association of Nigerian Authors. But not many people realise that he has his hands deep, in several corporate ventures. Today, he owns extensive interests in a gold mine. As one of the directors of Thor Exploration, Aderinokun has had over thirty-five years of accomplished business experience within Nigeria, before setting up the company. He currently serves as Chairman of First Marina Trust Limited, a leading financial services institution in Nigeria. He has led a number of initiatives, including the first commercial exploration program of the Segilola Gold Project. Aderinokun is also the founder & shareholder of Tropical Mines Limited and Segilola Resources Operating Limited. He brings invaluable in-country expertise to the board of Thor, through his significant experience gained in the mining and financial services sectors.

Nigeria's vast reserves of solid minerals including base metals, coal, gemstones, iron ore and industrial metals is still yet to be fully tapped. But Aderinokun's company Thor Exploration Limited, is out to take advantage of this fact, by drilling for solid minerals to boost not just its own wallet, but the economy of the nation. Thor Exploration Limited, is a mining company, with a focus on gold exploration projects, located in highly prospective, under-explored regions of West Africa. It was incorporated in Canada, to engage in the acquisition, exploration and development of mineral properties located in Nigeria, Senegal and Burkina Faso.



The company has been granted a mining license that covers 17.2km2, as well as an exploration license over 27.0km2 of mineral deposits, which allows it to carry out mining and exploration activities over a huge stretch of land. In their quest for solid minerals, they literally struck a goldmine, as they discovered extensive gold minerals, as well quartzite and quartz-mica schist to the east, of their exploration field, and gneissic rocks to the west.



The entire area was therefore renamed - the Segilola Gold field. It is located in Ilesha, and the mineral belt is said to extend for over 400 kilometres. The company is determined to conduct further prospecting activities, in order to unearth the vast riches beneath the Ilesha soil. Thor’s Flagship Project which is the Segilola Gold Project, was acquired by the company in August 2016. It is considered Nigeria’s most advanced gold project, with an indicated resource of 555,000 ounces grading at 3.8g/t.

On the board of Thor Exploration, is the dynamic Olusegun Lawson, the company's Managing Director and CEO, who has led all of Thor’s acquisitions and financings, including its' most recent one - the acquisition of the Segilola Gold Project and Thor’s JV with Acacia Mining. Segun Lawson has a Bachelor of Science degree from the Royal School of Mines at Imperial College (UK) with Honours in Geology, as well as an MBA from Cass Business School. He has had extensive transaction experience in oil and gas corporate financing, and also gained experience at Premier Oil, in spotting and negotiating new West African opportunities. Lawson is currently a director of Argento Exploration (UK) Limited, as well as a co-founder of African Star Resources, which was sold a few years back, for over $3.5 million USD.

Another director of the company is Folorunso “Folli” Dada Adeoye who is the co - founder and President of Superior Petroleum Limited, a downstream oil and gas company. He also co - founded Pacific Merchant Bank Limited in 1989, which subsequently merged into Unity Bank Plc, one of the leading banks in the country. He has served as Special Adviser to the Osun State Government on development matters.



Adeoye's twenty-five years involvement in the Nigerian mining sector, where he co - founded Pineridge Nigeria Limited to execute technical and financial projects in joint ventures with the Nigerian Mining Corporation, is quite visible. Adeoye's work includes pioneering modern standards in gold exploration in Nigeria, with Tropical Mines Limited, the original indigenous owners of the Segilola Gold Project.

The Segilola Gold Project comprises a proposed open-pit gold mining project based on an indicated mineral resource defined by a comprehensive drilling program including 157 drill holes totalling over 12,200 metres to define 555,000 ounces of gold at an average grade of 3.8 grams per tonne (at a cut-off grade of one gram per tonne Au and applying a top cut of 50 grams per tonne Au). The resources estimate was carried out by Odessa Resources Pty. Ltd, an independent geological and resource consultancy based in Western Australia, according to National Instrument 43-101 guidelines. An NI 43-101 technical report titled, "Updated resource estimate for the Segilola gold deposit, Osun state, Nigeria, for Thor Explorations," dated Feb. 25, 2016, has been filed by the company on SEDAR.

Segilola Gold Project is considered the most-advanced gold project in Nigeria. Project has significant exploration upside potential and near-term production potential. A private placement of $4,647,864 closed (total raised for acquisition and working capital is $5,054,976 over the last two private placements) so that initial work program can be financed.
http://www.stockwatch.com/News/Item.aspx?bid=Z-C:THX-2399802&symbol=THX&region=C

The three remaining non-executive directors of Thor Exploration, are Dr. Julian Barnes - a specialist consultant, and Adrian Coates. The 3rd is James Philip, a former banker with Standard Chartered Bank, who has a broad range of skills in international advisory, and financing transactions across Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

The Segilola Gold Project is located in the crystalline basement complex rocks of southwestern Nigeria within one of the main "schist belts" known as the Ilesha Schist Belt. At Segilola, gold mineralisation is localised within structural "compartments" defined by the intersection of two main controlling features: a westerly-dipping footwall calc-silicate suite of rocks and sub-vertical shear zones.

Drilling results to date have confirmed: (a) the southerly plunge of the main footwall lode;
(b) high grade hanging wall mineralisation, often with visible gold, located 10-15m west of the footwall lode;
The hanging wall lodes are characterised by discrete and distinctive pegmatitic quartz veins and the abundance of visible gold.
http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/thor-announces-positive-interim-results-proof-concept-drill-program-segilola-gold-project-tsx-venture-thx-2225110.htm

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Re: Yorubas Are The Most Industrious,Richest & Educated Tribe in Nigeria & Africa by deomeelo: 2:10am On Aug 22, 2017















Founder/Owner. Doyin Group.




Doyin Group of Companies is a highly diversified and indigenous conglomerate comprising of companies that are productive in wide ranging sectors of the Nigerian economy including Manufacturing, Agriculture and Pharmaceuticals for over 40 years. The high level of priority given to quality control is the essence of the company’s longevity and the improvement of the Brands over time.
Doyin Group, since inception has remained the source of quality brands of pharmaceuticals, soaps, detergent, paints, tea, milk and food seasoning for all Nigerians.

Our toothpaste, medicament, body cream, water, juice, and drinks have provided the desired comfort and personal care in many homes across the country and beyond. At Doyin Group, our determination is to remain the source of quality brands that you can trust for your essential household needs.
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Re: Yorubas Are The Most Industrious,Richest & Educated Tribe in Nigeria & Africa by laudate: 2:39am On Aug 22, 2017
deomeelo:
She is Itsekiri.

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Re: Yorubas Are The Most Industrious,Richest & Educated Tribe in Nigeria & Africa by deomeelo: 4:01am On Aug 22, 2017
laudate:


She is Itsekiri.



Replaced....Thanks..

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Re: Yorubas Are The Most Industrious,Richest & Educated Tribe in Nigeria & Africa by laudate: 4:09am On Aug 22, 2017
deomeelo:




Chief Executive Officer at Clina-Lancet Laboratories - ‎Clina-Lancet Laboratories

Yeah!! Well done! wink Almost every private hospital within Lagos, Ibadan, Port-harcourt & Warri uses their services. Clina-Lancet has about 8 branches nationwide. They conduct tests that cover the following areas: Chemical Pathology, Haematology, Histopathology, Immunology, Microbiology, Molecular Biology, Virology etc. Another world class laboratory services/pathology/diagnostics company, is PathCare labs. Their codes are so stringent, and they are one of the very few with facilities to carry out DNA tests, in Nigeria. undecided

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Re: Yorubas Are The Most Industrious,Richest & Educated Tribe in Nigeria & Africa by deomeelo: 4:11am On Aug 22, 2017






Sunday Ademola Babarinde

Managing Director / CEO


Mr Babarinde is the Chief Operating Officer of the company charged with the operational responsibilities of the organization. He read Accountancy from The Polytechnic Ibadan and has MBA in Banking and Finance. Mr Babarinde is a Chartered Stockbroker and also an associate member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria and Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria. Before joining Reward Investments & Services Ltd in March 2007, he has worked in several stockbroking firms such as International Standard Securities Ltd, Forte Asset Management Ltd and Oasis Capital Portfolio Ltd were he was the GM/CEO. He has attended many management and professional courses both locally and abroad.
Re: Yorubas Are The Most Industrious,Richest & Educated Tribe in Nigeria & Africa by deomeelo: 4:13am On Aug 22, 2017
laudate:


Yeah!! Well done! wink Almost every private hospital uses their services. Another world class laboratory services/diagnostics company, is PathCare labs. Their codes are so stringent, and they are one of the very few with facilities to carry out DNA tests, in Nigeria. undecided



Very impressed too.

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Re: Yorubas Are The Most Industrious,Richest & Educated Tribe in Nigeria & Africa by laudate: 4:18am On Aug 22, 2017
deomeelo:
Very impressed too.

Yes, Dr. Olayemi Dawodu is the CEO of Clina - Lancet.

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Re: Yorubas Are The Most Industrious,Richest & Educated Tribe in Nigeria & Africa by deomeelo: 4:22am On Aug 22, 2017







Dr. Funsho Oladipo (MBBS) CEO/Chief Medical Director

R-Jolad Hospital

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Re: Yorubas Are The Most Industrious,Richest & Educated Tribe in Nigeria & Africa by deomeelo: 4:27am On Aug 22, 2017











Ajibola Olayemi, CEO/Founder






Biztech Infrastructure Systems Limited was incorporated in 2009 . The company was established to provide and support mission critical information technology & communication infrastructure in Nigeria that enable small, medium and large organisations to optimise their operations and also reduce cost. We provide first in class technology to organisations to deliver integrated reliable, innovative yet cost efficient communications services to both the private and public sectors. Currently the company focuses on the provision of following services:

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Re: Yorubas Are The Most Industrious,Richest & Educated Tribe in Nigeria & Africa by hilroy007: 4:28am On Aug 22, 2017
deomeelo:







Dr. Funsho Oladipo (MBBS) CEO/Chief Medical Director

R-Jolad Hospital

The popular R-Jolad in Gbagada

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Re: Yorubas Are The Most Industrious,Richest & Educated Tribe in Nigeria & Africa by hilroy007: 4:31am On Aug 22, 2017
PROSHARE Nigeria, founded in December 2006 as a niche news and analysis service has since grown to become Nigeria's No#1 Financial Information Hub; with key focus on markets, business, personal finance, economy, start-ups, technology and regulation.

Its remit and key proposition is the delivery of a service that is credible, reliable and timely.

Proshare's strength lies in its professional expertise, integrated approach, dedication to fact-based interventions and a commitment to subscriber/user engagements.

This attributes have been acknowledged by both the local and international community, sometimes through multiple awards received which include the CFI.co "Best Capital Markets Solutions Team - Nigeria 2014", the Nigeria-British Chamber of Commerce (NBBC) Rising Star Award for 2014 and the International Finance Magazine (IFM) "Most Innovative Capital Market Service Team, Nigeria 2015"; amongst others.

Proshare is much more than a website; it is a standard bearer for the local investment data and information market; and our corporate governance pillars reinforce our raison d'etre.


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Re: Yorubas Are The Most Industrious,Richest & Educated Tribe in Nigeria & Africa by hilroy007: 4:35am On Aug 22, 2017
Olufemi Awoyemi
Founder/CEO, Proshare Nigeria Limited




Olufemi AWOYEMI, Founder/Chief Executive Officer, is a Fellow of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, Association of Investment Advisers and Portfolio Managers (AIPM), Institute of Credit Administration, and Institute of Information Management. He is an Associate member of the Institute(s) of Chartered Taxation of Nigeria, Institute of Management Consultants, and the Institute of Directors.

He has over 28 years of hands-on cognate strategic management experience with reputable professional and multinational firms including PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Eterna Oil, UACN, Phillips Consulting and British American Tobacco.He is the founding President, Board of Trustees of the Online Publishers Association, Nigeria (OPAN) and Trustee of Kingdom Life Ministries.

Olufemi has and continues to be actively involved in many initiatives, associations, academia and commercial activities including serving in committees of the Nigerian-British Chamber of Commerce; the West African Bankers Association, Institute of Directors, the Nigeria Economic Summit Group (NESG), the Strategy, Research & Advocacy Committee of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN), Council Member of AIPM, Independent member of the Investment Committee of Alternative Capital Partners Ltd (ACAP); and a former Technical Consultant to the National Assembly House Committee on Capital Markets.

Olufemi is a multiple award winner including being the recipient of the 2015 African Financial Analyst of the Year award by the Global Change for Africa, Brussels; the 2015 Nigerian Rising Award by Hallmark; the 2014 ICA Honours Award; and the 2013 Most Outstanding Business Executive of the Year (African Council of Chief Executives under the African CEO Council), amongst others.

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Re: Yorubas Are The Most Industrious,Richest & Educated Tribe in Nigeria & Africa by deomeelo: 4:36am On Aug 22, 2017
















HENRY T. OLAYEMI, FCS – CHAIRMAN

BAPTIST PRESS (NIG.) LTD




Henry Olayemi is a graduate of Finance from the University of Lagos, and a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers. He started his career with Messrs Milestone Investments and Services Ltd in 1984 as an Investment Executive. He rose to the position of a Consultant in 1987 before he resigned his appointment to join RIV Investment and services Ltd in 1988 as the Pioneer Manager. In 1989, he resigned his appointment to join RIMS Securities Ltd as Assistant Manager in charge of Stock broking, held many senior management positions within RIMS Group before he resigned as General Manager in charge of Capital Markets in 1995. He played a major role in most of the Capital Markets issues handled by RIMS securities Ltd and participated actively in the last phase of the privatization and commercialization exercise under TCPC. He joined Reward Investments and Services Ltd in 1995 as the Pioneer Managing Director and

Chief Executive Officer. He has successfully packaged, either as an Issuing House or as stockbroker to a number of issues, amongst which are DN Meyer Plc, Dumez Nig Plc, Hallmark Paper Products Plc, Zenith Bank, GTB Bank, Cornerstone Insurance Plc amongst others. Dn. Olayemi is the immediate past President and Chairman of Council of Chartered Institute of Stockbrokers and an alumnus of The New York Institute of Finance, West African Capital Market School (WACMS) and ISMA Centre of The University of Reading. He has been the Chairman, Board of Directors of Baptist Press Nigeria Limited, since year 2009.

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Re: Yorubas Are The Most Industrious,Richest & Educated Tribe in Nigeria & Africa by deomeelo: 4:39am On Aug 22, 2017
hilroy007:


The popular R-Jolad in Gbagada




Yes o...

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Re: Yorubas Are The Most Industrious,Richest & Educated Tribe in Nigeria & Africa by hilroy007: 4:55am On Aug 22, 2017
Engr. Sola Okunade
Managing director, Aklab Nigeria Limited



Aklab Nigeria Limited


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Aklab Engineering provides a complete Mechanical Installation package. Our services cover Fabrication, Site Installation and Testing of a wide range of process systems from Sewage Pumping Stations and WwTW to complete Water Treatment Works and Membrane Plants. Our experience has successfully delivered key projects on time and within budget across our client base.

The key to our performance has been our ability to work with a wide range of piping materials and our familiarity with many different types of process plant equipment.
We also specialize in the complete refurbishment of existing and the installation of new valves, actuators and penstocks.

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As contractors to industrial and commercial clients nationwide we provide a comprehensive range of design, installations and maintenance services on all kinds of electrical systems. Specialising in areas such as factories, schools, office blocks and warehousing our expertise extends to all aspects of electrical work, including full interior refurbishments from our own team of skilled tradesmen.

Our diverse range of electrical installations services includes;

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Our team is made up of highly skilled, experienced and fully qualified engineers assuring you of quality and safe workmanship. We work hard to provide an equally high level of customer service with excellent communication, personalised delivery and a highly flexible and adaptable approach to every project from the design through to the final installations.

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With a focus on partnering and relationships, we are committed to working with refrigeration companies, builders, suppliers and end users to deliver quality, affordable and sustainable solutions to their construction and operating requirements.
Thermal Installations receive a high ratio of repeat and continuing business with many of our clients, and believe that the innovations and improvements of the product now available will continue to strengthen our position as one of Nigeria's respected insulated panel suppliers and installers.

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Our team has successfully managed a number of different projects, on behalf of clients, which range from minor relocations to complete turnkey solutions to provide new working environments.
Our objective at the planning stage is to assist our clients in identifying their needs and key objectives and based upon these, assemble the team of professional staff that wil[img][/img]l be required to achieve the end product.
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Once the project is approved and underway, Aklab Engineering will monitor and report back on every stage of the process, ensuring that quality and cost is carefully controlled. This will ensure that the whole process is managed in both a cost and time effective manner.







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Re: Yorubas Are The Most Industrious,Richest & Educated Tribe in Nigeria & Africa by deomeelo: 4:58am On Aug 22, 2017































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Olagoke Balogun, CEO of So fresh Neighbourhood Market

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Re: Yorubas Are The Most Industrious,Richest & Educated Tribe in Nigeria & Africa by deomeelo: 5:08am On Aug 22, 2017









Prince Olusegun Aderemi(CEO)


HRH(Dr.) Olusegun Aderemi JP is the MD/CEO of Automatic Fit and Energy Limited, with wealth of experience in Energy service Industry. He is a member of America Embassy Commercial Department He is a member of Society for Corporate Governance Nigeria. He is an alumni of the prestigious Lagos Business School. He is also a member of Ekiti State Elite Club EII. He has exemplary leadership quality with which he is able to move the company to the present glory. Also, he is an alumni of Nanyang Business School in Singapore, and an alumni of South Africa University of Stallenbosh Business School.


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Re: Yorubas Are The Most Industrious,Richest & Educated Tribe in Nigeria & Africa by iblawi(m): 6:19am On Aug 22, 2017
What of private schools (Universities)?

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Re: Yorubas Are The Most Industrious,Richest & Educated Tribe in Nigeria & Africa by GoldNiagara(m): 7:30am On Aug 22, 2017
The 2017 United Kingdom’s general election took place on Thursday, 8 June 2017, for the 650 parliamentary constituencies. Each of the parliamentary constituencies elected one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons and the lower house of Parliament. The result of the election has sent shockwaves all over the world. The ruling conservatives unexpectedly lost their overall majority to the Labour party.
Seven elected members of the UK parliament elected to serve are of Nigerian origin. Three of them won under Theresa May’s Conservative party while the other four won under Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour party.
Meet the 7 British Nigerian Members of Parliament


Chi Onwurah, Member of Parliament for Newcastle Central – Labour
Chinyelu “Chi” Susan Onwurah was born in Wallsend Newcastle in 1965. She grew up on Hillsview Avenue in Kenton and went to Kenton School. Onwurah has a first degree in Electrical Engineering from Imperial College London and an MBA from the Manchester Business School.
Her father is from Nigeria. He got married to her mother in the 50s when he was a student at the Newcastle Medical School. When she was a baby her father took them to live in Awka Anambra state in the eastern part of Nigeria but when the Biafran war broke out she, her mother and siblings returned back to Newcastle as refugees while their father remained in the Biafran Army.
Chi is a British Labour Party politician. Prior to the recent election, she was elected at the 2010 general election as the Member of Parliament for Newcastle upon Tyne Central, succeeding the previous Labour MP Jim Cousins, who decided to step down after 23 years. She is the first black MP in Newcastle. She is the current Shadow Minister for Business, Innovation and Skills, as well as Shadow Minister for Culture, Media and Sport. She was appointed to both posts in September 2015.


Fiona Onasanya, Member of Parliament for Peterborough – Labour
Fiona Onasanya is a solicitor at DC Law. She is a Labour Cambridgeshire County Councillor for King’s Hedges and deputy leader for the County group. She ousted Stewart Jackson by winning 48.1 percent of the vote compared to Jackson’s 46.8 percent.
She dreams to become Britain’s first black female prime minister.



Chuka Umunna, Member of Parliament for Streatham – Labour
Chuck Umunna is popularly known as UK Obama. He attended Hither field Primary School in Streatham, South London, and Christ Church Primary School in Brixton Hill. He received an upper second class LLB in English and French Law from the University of Manchester. He later received MA at Nottingham Law School.
He is a British MP of Nigerian heritage. He was born in London to an Igbo Nigerian father and an Irish mother. In 2010 Umunna was elected parliamentarian, representing Streatham constituency on the platform of the Labour Party. The Labour MP for Streatham was shadow business secretary 2011-15 and is a now a member of the home affairs select committee
Before his political career, he wrote for Financial Times, Tribune, The Voice, The Guardian and the New Statesman, and later launched the online political magazine, The Multicultural Politic. He made frequent commentary on British televisions and radios.


Helen Grant, Member of Parliament for
Maidstone – Conservative
Helen was born in London and grew up on the Raffles council estate in Carlisle. She showed her sporting talent early in life and became captain of her school tennis and hockey teams, and representing the County in Hockey, Tennis, Athletics, and Cross-Country. She later became under-16 Judo Champion in North of England and Southern Scotland. She has a law degree a from the University of Hull. Her father is a Nigerian and her mother is a British citizen.
Helen was first elected in 2010 to represent the Parliamentary Constituency of Maidstone & the Weald. In 2012 she was appointed Joint Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice and for Women’s and Equalities issues in David Cameron’s first ministerial re-shuffle since the general election. In October 2013, she was promoted in the Prime Minister’s second reshuffle to the high profile role of Minister for Sport and Tourism. She stood down from this role after the General Election in May 2015.


Abimbola Afolami, MP Hitchin and Harpenden constituents – Conservative
He attended Bishopsgate prep school, Eton and Oxford, studying modern history and was vice president of the Oxford Union Society. He lives in Northampton and has previously contested the Lewisham Deptford seat in 2015, where he achieved 15 percent of the vote, gaining 7,056 votes in a Labour stronghold. He is described as an ‘astute public speaker’.
Afolami is a conservative politician in the parliament and a former Lawyer. Prior to his election, he worked as a senior executive at HSBC. He was a primary school governor, and a support of charities, which focus on helping people return to work. He is a former Treasurer of the Bow Group and was Vice President of the Oxford Union. He has previously worked for Howard Flight and for George Osborne.


Kemi Badenoch, Member of Parliament for Saffron Walden– Conservative
Kemi has been a member of the parliament since September 2015. She holds a degree in engineering from Sussex University and another degree in law from Birkbeck College. Her parents are Nigerians. Her maiden name is Kemi Adegoke. While growing up she lived in the United States of America and Nigeria. She is currently a board member for the Centre for the Study of British Politics and Public Life and for nine years was a non-executive director for a London housing association.
Kemi has been a member of the London Assembly since September 2015. She is the GLA Conservative’s spokesman for the Economy and also sits on the Transport Committee and Policing and Crime Committee. Kemi was a director at the Spectator Magazine. She was also an associate director at Coutts & Co.
She won Saffron Walden with near 25000 majority votes.


Kate Osamor, Member of Parliament for Edmonton – Labour
Kate Osamor is a graduate of the University of East London and Member of Parliament for Edmonton. She worked for the Big Issue, a magazine sold by homeless and long-term unemployed people. She later worked for 15 years in the National Health Service. In 2014 Kate was elected as a member of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party and in 2015 as MP for Edmonton.
She was appointed Shadow Secretary of State for International Development. She has been particularly active in campaigns such as Women for Refugee Women’s, Set Her Free campaign to end the detention of women who seek asylum in the UK. Kate also argues for much fuller representation of Black and Ethnic Minority communities in political bodies, especially in Parliament.


Out of the Seven Parliamentarians 2 Igbo's, 1 Benin, 1South South and 3 Yorubas and swineberg on this trash thread was saying Igbo has four parliamentarians. Miserable liars.


Now House of Lords where nobility and real class matters has just 2 Nigerian and they are both yorubas and I post below.

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Re: Yorubas Are The Most Industrious,Richest & Educated Tribe in Nigeria & Africa by GoldNiagara(m): 7:32am On Aug 22, 2017
Lola Young, Baroness Young of Hornsey Lola Young, Baroness Young of Hornsey, OBE (born Margaret Omolola Young, 1 June 1951) is a British actress, author, and Crossbench peer.[1]
Education and career Young was educated at the Parliament Hill School for Girls in London and went then to the New College of Speech and Drama, where she received a diploma in dramatic art in 1975, and a teaching certificate one year later. In 1988 she graduated from Middlesex Polytechnic with a Bachelor of Arts in Contemporary Cultural Studies. Young worked as a professional actress from 1976 to 1984, and had been a residential social worker in the London Borough of Islington from 1971 to 1973. Her most prominent role as an actress was in children's sitcom Metal Mickey which ran from 1980 to 1983. In 1985, she became co-director and training and development manager at the Haringey Arts Council, a post she held until 1989.
From 1990 to 1992, Young was lecturer in media studies at the Polytechnic of West London. In the following she was lecturer, senior lecturer, principal lecturer, Professor of cultural studies and in the end Emeritus professor at the Middlesex University. In 1995 she published Fear of the Dark: Race, Gender and Sexuality in Cinema.
Young became Project director of the Archives and Museum of Black Heritage in 1997, she was Commissioner in the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts in the years 2000 and 2001, and Chair at Nitro Theatre Company in 2004. Young was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2001 New Year Honours.[2]
From 2001 to 2004 she was head of culture at the Greater London Authority, following which she was created a life peer on 22 June 2004 taking the title Baroness Young of Hornsey of Hornsey in the London Borough of Haringey. [3] Other public appointments have included English Heritage’s Blue Plaques Committee, membership of the board of the Royal National Theatre, the South Bank Centre, and the board of Governors of Middlesex University, chairing the Arts Council’s Cultural Diversity Panel, and membership of the board of Resource, the Council of Museums, Archives and Libraries, and a commissioner on the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts. She has also chaired the judging panel of the Orange Prize for Fiction.[4]
She takes an active interest in ethical issues in international trade, particularly the garment industry ,[5][6] is a Trustee of the Aid by Trade Foundation[7] and is an honorary associate of the National Secular Society.[8] Personal life Lady Young of Hornsey has been married to Barrie Birch since 1984; they have one son.

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Re: Yorubas Are The Most Industrious,Richest & Educated Tribe in Nigeria & Africa by GoldNiagara(m): 7:33am On Aug 22, 2017
Victor Adebowale, Baron Adebowale Victor Olufemi Adebowale, Baron Adebowale , CBE (born 21 July 1962) is the Chief Executive of the social care enterprise Turning Point and was one of the first to become a People's Peer. In 2000 he received the CBE in the New Year’s Honour List for services to the New Deal, the unemployed, and homeless young people. In 2001 he became one of the first group of people to be appointed as people's peers and the title was gazetted as Baron Adebowale, of Thornes in the County of West Yorkshire, on 30 June.[3] In 2009 he was listed as one of the 25 most influential people in housing policy over the past 25 years by the housing professionals magazine Inside Housing. Life and career Adebowale was born to Nigerian parents Ezekiel & Grace Adebowale and was educated at Thornes House School, Wakefield and the Polytechnic of East London. He began his career in Local Authority Estate Management before joining the housing association movement. He spent time with Patchwork Community Housing Association and was Regional Director of the Ujima Housing Association, Britain’s largest black-led housing association. He was Director of the Alcohol Recovery Project and then Chief Executive of youth homelessness charity Centrepoint. Adebowale was a member of the Social Exclusion Unit’s Policy Action Team on Young People and was Chair of the Review of Social Housing Co-ordination by the Institute of Public Policy Research. Adebowale joined Turning Point as Chief Executive in September 2001. Turning Point is a care organisation providing services for people with complex needs, including those affected by drug and alcohol misuse, mental health problems and those with a learning disability. In addition to providing direct services, Turning Point also campaigns nationally on behalf of those with social care needs.[4] Adebowale has been involved in a number of taskforce groups, advising the government on mental health, learning disability and the role of the voluntary sector. He is Co-Chair of the Black and Minority Ethnic Mental Health National Steering Group and is a member of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. He is a patron of Rich Mix Centre Celebrating Cultural Diversity, a patron of Tomorrow’s Project and of the National College for School Leadership. He is a member of the National Employment Panel, the New Economics Foundation Board and the Institute for Fiscal Studies Council. He is also on the policy advisory board of the Social Market Foundation, and on the board of the National School of Government.[3] He is a Director of Leadership in Mind organisational development consultancy, a non-exec of the health IT consultancy St Vincents and a member of the Audit Commission and has advised governments of all parties on Employment, Housing, Poverty and Public Service Reform. Academic history and awards Adebowale has an honorary PhD from the University of Central England in Birmingham, an honorary doctor of letters from the University of Lincoln, an honorary PhD from the University of East London[5] and most recently an honorary doctorate from the University of Bradford, where he is involved with their Centre for Inclusion and Diversity, in December 2007. He is an honorary fellow of London South Bank University and Honorary Senior Fellow in the Health Services Management Centre at the University of Birmingham. In 2009 he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws (LLD) degree from Lancaster University. On 12 December 2008, Adebowale was installed as Chancellor of the University of Lincoln. Adebowale has a Post Graduate Diploma From the Tavistock institute and an MA in Advanced Organisational Consulting from the City University London

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Re: Yorubas Are The Most Industrious,Richest & Educated Tribe in Nigeria & Africa by GoldNiagara(m): 7:40am On Aug 22, 2017
Let me help you add the only black mayor in London.
Adedamola Aminu, the Mayor of Lambeth

First elected as a councillor in 2006, Councillor Aminu was elected deputy mayor last year but has been acting as mayor since February this year following the unfortunate death of Mayor Mark Bennett. At a ceremony attended by other councillors, members of the Nigerian community and representatives of the high commission, he took the oath of office yesterday.


A lecturer in business and computing at South Thames College, Councillor Aminu represents Tulse Hill ward and was first elected a councillor in 2006. Councillor Aminu holds bachelor's degree in business studies from London Southbank University, a diploma in marketing from the Chartered Institute of Marketing, a Masters degree in marketing from Greenwich University.

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Re: Yorubas Are The Most Industrious,Richest & Educated Tribe in Nigeria & Africa by GoldNiagara(m): 7:48am On Aug 22, 2017
Ireland also elected its first black mayor. Rotimi Adebari, a native of Nigeria, was elected mayor of Portlaoise Town in 2007. Portlaoise(pronounced something like Portleash) is a town in central Ireland of approx. 14.000 inhabitants. However there is some controversy on the person of Rotimi Abedari as he would have lied about his troubles in Nigeria (and whereabouts previous to his life in Ireland) applying for the procedure to get legal residence in Ireland.

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Re: Yorubas Are The Most Industrious,Richest & Educated Tribe in Nigeria & Africa by GoldNiagara(m): 8:07am On Aug 22, 2017
WhoBannedMyBro:



Is that what you mean by "Igbos Are Most Industrious, Innovative and Richest Tribe In Africa"

Crazy!


I have incinerated that claim above.

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Re: Yorubas Are The Most Industrious,Richest & Educated Tribe in Nigeria & Africa by Markfemi: 8:23am On Aug 22, 2017
ride on my gallant yoruba army for kicking out the dirty biafra narrative ibo has been paddling

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Re: Yorubas Are The Most Industrious,Richest & Educated Tribe in Nigeria & Africa by DabuIIIT: 9:28am On Aug 22, 2017
I only have respect for Awo and other great westerners..buh the minnions we see around..smh
And however, its a shame,porting posts frm the 'other side' to do what,boost ur mud_mixed thread? And if laudat didnt point out that "SHES ITSEKIRI",deomeelo wudd've deceived-hallmark of this thread to a large extent- everybody.. Pathetic.
Re: Yorubas Are The Most Industrious,Richest & Educated Tribe in Nigeria & Africa by DabuIIIT: 9:29am On Aug 22, 2017
I only have respect for Awo and other great westerners..buh the minnions we see around..smh

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She is Itsekiri.
hilroy007,if yamiri can steal anything,how about the above?
U guys are without shame,porting posts frm the 'other side' to do what on here,boost ur mud_mixed thread? Pathetic.
Re: Yorubas Are The Most Industrious,Richest & Educated Tribe in Nigeria & Africa by GoldNiagara(m): 9:40am On Aug 22, 2017
DabuIIIT:
I only have respect for Awo and other great westerners..buh the minnions we see around..smh


hilroy007,if yamiri can steal anything,how about the above?
U guys are without shame,porting posts frm the 'other side' to do what on here,boost ur mud_mixed thread? Pathetic.


Lilliputian you also have an opinion, I am sure it is very tiny in the scheme of things.

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