[size=14pt]Edun Adetomiwa[/size]



Adetomiwa Edun is a British, Nigerian and Ghanaian actor best known for his role as Sir Elyan in the television show Merlin.

Edun was born in Lagos, Nigeria, to a Nigerian father and a half-Ghanaian, half-English mother. Edun moved to the United Kingdom at the age of 11. He attended Eton College from the age of 13, before reading Classics at Christ's College, Cambridge (University of Cambridge). In his final year at Christ's College, he won the dissertation prize for his thesis on Homer's Odyssey.[3] His father, a financier, encouraged Edun to enter banking as a career, and he interned with Citigroup. He considered studying for a Master of Philosophy degree, but decided to attend the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) instead.

In 2000, Edun appeared at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, as the character Clifford in the show Kassandra by Ivo Stourton. Edun attended RADA, appearing in several productions and graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Acting in 2008. Following his graduation from RADA, he played small parts in productions at the Almeida Theatre and the Liverpool Playhouse. He also played Macbeth in a production of the eponymous play by the National Theatre, earning praise for being "charismatic" and a "fine verse speaker". In 2009, Edun became only the second black actor to play Romeo at the Globe Theatre when he was cast in Dominic Dromgoole's production of Romeo and Juliet. He also appeared in Slaves, a play by Rex Obano.

Edun has also appeared in several television shows. In 2009, he appeared in an episode of The Fixer, before a role in Law & Order: UK as a soldier returning from the war in Afghanistan. During series three of Merlin, Edun appeared as Elyan in three episodes, and was upgraded to a recurring character in series four. Elyan was killed off during the fifth and final series of Merlin in 2012. In 2011, he appeared in two episodes of The Hour as the character Sey, and reprised the role for three episodes in 2012.

A lot of Yoruba folks are alumni of the prestigious Cambridge University.

I have posted about 6 of them now and they're not even academics...just folks in entertainment industry and writers.

Aareonakakanfo:



Can you give me the reasons why you think its impossible to implement in Nigeria?

have you asked your self why it has not being done before? Fafunwa did an experiment with it and according to him it a was successful so why was it not adopted? You are in Nigeria not oduduwa republic..you think ministry of education of Nigeria would allow such to be implemented ? The president and senators and house of reps from wherever they might come from would just watch and see it come through? Guy no pretend abeg

OLU ATANDA
Patents
Self-lubricating layer for data storage devices
Patent number: 6677105
Abstract: A silicon nitride self-lubricating layer forms the upper surface of a data storage device, such as a rotating disk or a non-rotating memory device, e.g., a credit card-type memory device using a memory strip. The silicon nitride self-lubricating layer can replace the carbon protective overcoat and liquid lubricant used in conventional data storage devices. The silicon nitride self-lubrication layer provides the desired lubrication and protection between the slider and the data storage device. The silicon nitride layer also will not evaporate under high temperatures found in an optical data storage system. In addition, a data storage device may include a plastic polymer layer over which an iron oxide material is deposited. The use of a plastic polymer layer and iron oxide recording layer is particularly advantageous because a low temperature deposition process can be used with the iron oxide material.
Type: Grant
Filed: May 4, 2001
Issued: January 13, 2004
Assignee: Toda Kogyo Corporation
Inventors: Po Wen Wang, Evan F. Cromwell, Olu Atanda
Self-lubricating layer for a data storage disk
Patent number: 6430114
Abstract: A silicon nitride self-lubricating layer forms the upper surface of a data storage disk. The silicon nitride self-lubricating layer can replace the carbon protective overcoat and liquid lubricant used in conventional data storage devices in which an aerodynamic slider is supported by an air bearing by providing both physical protection for the underlying recording layer and lubrication between the slider and the disk.
Type: Grant
Filed: May 12, 2000
Issued: August 6, 2002
Assignee: Toda Citron Technologies, Inc.
Inventors: Po-Wen Wang, Evan F. Cromwell, Olu Atanda
Self-lubricating layer for data storage devices
Application number: 20010055702
Abstract: A silicon nitride self-lubricating layer forms the upper surface of a data storage device, such as a rotating disk or a non-rotating memory device, e.g., a credit card-type memory device using a memory strip. The silicon nitride self-lubricating layer can replace the carbon protective overcoat and liquid lubricant used in conventional data storage devices. The silicon nitride self-lubrication layer provides the desired lubrication and protection between the slider and the data storage device. The silicon nitride layer also will not evaporate under high temperatures found in an optical data storage system. In addition, a data storage device may include a plastic polymer layer over which an iron oxide material is deposited. The use of a plastic polymer layer and iron oxide recording layer is particularly advantageous because a low temperature deposition process can be used with the iron oxide material.
Type: Application
Filed: May 4, 2001
Issued: December 27, 2001
Inventors: Po Wen Wang, Evan F. Cromwell, Olu Atanda

Aareonakakanfo:




E go be like cartoon for your eyes when your kids start speaking Yoruba better than the Alaafin of Oyo.That one small sef, i hope to see a yorubaland where the cheeks of all migrants will be lacerated with proper Ibadan tribal marks.Una never see chin chin

Its happening already

[size=14pt]Teju Cole[/size]

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Teju Cole (born June 27, 1975) is a Nigerian-American writer, photographer, and art historian.. Born Obayemi Babajide Adetokunbo Onafuwa, Cole was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan to Nigerian parents, and is the oldest of four children. Cole and his mother returned to Lagos, Nigeria shortly after his birth, where his father joined them after receiving his MBA from Western Michigan University. Cole moved back to the United States at the age of 17 to attend Western Michigan University for one year, then transferred to Kalamazoo College, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1996. After dropping out of medical school at the University of Michigan, Cole enrolled in an African art history program at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, then pursued a doctorate in art history at Columbia University. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Awards and honors
2012 National Book Critics Circle Award finalist for Open City
2012 Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award winner for Open City
2011 Time magazine's "Best Books of the Year" for Open City
2012 Ondaatje Prize shortlist for Open City
2012 The Morning News Tournament of Books finalist
2013 International Literature Award for the German-language translation by Christine Richter-Nilsson of Open City
2015 Windham–Campbell Literature Prize (Fiction) valued at $150,000

[size=14pt]Ronke Phillips[/size]



Ronke has been a journalist for more than 20 years and has been fortunate enough to enjoy a varied career in print, radio and television. She has worked both as a Presenter and Reporter – for national and regional television, both in the UK and abroad.

Ronke secured a major exclusive when she found out the real identity of ‘Torso in the Thames’ child known as ‘Adam’. The resulting film recently won an Amnesty International Award, was shortlisted for a Royal Television Society award and won 3 different ITV Regions and Nations awards. In 2002 she won a Royal Television Society award for her coverage of the verdicts in the Damilola Taylor trial.

She is of Nigerian heritage, and began her broadcast career working as a Radio Reporter for a host of local BBC Radio stations including BBC Radio London, Nottingham, Leicester and Derby.
The breakthrough into television journalism came through a place on the ITN’s News Trainee Scheme through Central TV in Nottingham. Ronke has also worked for BBC Daytime, BBC Features, BBC New York and GMTV.

Since 1999 she has been a Correspondent at ITV’s London Tonight, working on a number of special investigations including coverage of the release of the M25 three, the murder of Victoria Climbie and the July 7th bombings in London in 2005.

Ronke is also an accomplished conference facilitator and event host. She is also a freelance writer. Her articles have appeared in newspapers and magazines including the Independent, the Daily Mail, The Voice and Pride Magazine.

She is a Patron of the Ebony Horse Club and a supporter of charities; the Vitiligo Society, the African Caribbean Leukaemia Trust and the Deaf Society.

[size=14pt]Biyi Bandele[/size]



Biyi Bandele (born Biyi Bandele-Thomas; 13 October 1967) is a Nigerian novelist, playwright and filmmaker. Bandele is regarded as one of the most versatile and prolific of the UK-based Nigerian writers, having turned his hand to theatre, journalism, television, film and radio, as well as the fiction with which he made his name. He lives in London, where he moved in 1990.

Bandele was born to Yoruba parents in Kafanchan, Kaduna State, Nigeria in 1967. His father Solomon Bamidele Thomas was a veteran of the Burma Campaign in World War 2, while Nigeria was still part of the British Empire. Bandele spent the first 18 years of his life in the northern part of the country being most at home in the Hausa cultural tradition. Described as a precocious child, Bandele had early ambitions to be a writer and when he was 14 years old won a short-story competition. Later on, he moved to Lagos, then in 1987 studied drama at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. He won the International Student Playscript competition of 1989 with an unpublished play, Rain, before claiming the 1990 British Council Lagos Award for an unpublished collection of poems. When that year, aged 22, he went to London, invited to a theatre festival, he had with him the manuscripts of two novels he had written. Soon after he arrived in the UK he had found a publisher and been given a commission by the Royal Court Theatre

Awards
1989 – International Student Playscript Competition – Rain
1994 – London New Play Festival – Two Horsemen
1995 – Wingate Scholarship Award
1998 – Peggy Ramsay Award
2000 – EMMA (BT Ethnic and Multicultural Media Award) for Best Play – Oroonoko

Ritchiee:
Ii is so funny.Imagine English language as a subject or course been taught in Yoruba language...lol.

it's odd mehn.
had it been Yoruba as a language is spoken by other larger countries, it will be OK. but c'mon it's not good to be a local champion o.

Ritchiee:
Ii is so funny.Imagine English language as a subject or course been taught in Yoruba language...lol.

it's odd mehn.
had it been Yoruba as a language is spoken by other larger countries, it will be OK. but c'mon it's not good to be a local champion o.

Aareonakakanfo:





It hasn't been done because we've never been too serious about it.If we're to be granted regional autonomy, trust me it will be implemented.An autonomous region is nearly another country, the only thing is we can't control migration. This is the same thing that was said when Lagos wanted to adopt Yoruba language in the Lagos state house of assembly despite the fact that the assembly is multi-ethnic

get the autonomy first but with this structure now forget it

Dont compare delibrating in Yoruba once a week to this..they are not on the same pedestal and this delibrating thing in a mother tongue also occurs in other house of assemblies on their own chosen days...it is not the same thing as changing fundamental way of teaching in a whole region outside what the center says

ProfShymex:
A lot of Yoruba folks are alumni of the prestigious Cambridge University.

I have posted about 6 of them now and they're not even academics...just folks in entertainment industry and writers.

Well done!
Am following.

[size=14pt]Eniola Aluko[/size]



Eniola "Eni" Aluko (born 21 February 1987) is an English footballer who plays for Chelsea Ladies of the FA WSL as a forward. Born in Nigeria, she moved with her family to Birmingham in England when she was a year old. She chose to represent England at international level. Her brother Sone Aluko is also a professional footballer and is a full international for Nigeria.

Born in Lagos, Nigeria, Aluko moved with her family to Birmingham in the West Midlands of England when she was a year old. She started her career at Leafield Athletic Ladies, and subsequently played for Birmingham City Ladies' youth team under manager Marcus Bignot and alongside future England team-mate, Karen Carney. She scored on her Birmingham team debut against Leeds United, aged just 14.

On 7 April 2002, 15-year-old Aluko played in the FA Women's Premier League Cup Final at Adams Park, as a young Birmingham team lost 7–1 to professional Fulham.[8] City did win promotion as Northern Division champions to the Premier League National Division in 2001–02.Her goalscoring during the following 2002–03 Premier League season led Bignot to declare her "the Wayne Rooney of women's football."

Aluko was named Young Player of the Year at the Women’s FA Awards in 2003

While playing for England during Women's Euro 2005, Aluko took her A levels at Cadbury College, Birmingham. She subsequently went to study Law at Brunel University, where she graduated with a First class degree in 2008. In July 2009 it was announced that Aluko would spend the 2009–10 US off-season studying for the New York bar exam before taking a similar exam in England, her aim being to have an entertainment law practice in both England and the United States.

Her younger brother Sone plays for Hull City and was an England youth international, but in May 2009 accepted a call-up to represent Nigeria. Her father is a former MP in Nigeria, while Bolaji Aluko, a chemical engineering professor, is her uncle.

As of November 2010, Eniola is an active contributor on Yin & Yang, a popular culture website.

Eniola Aluko became the first woman ever to appear as a television pundit on the BBC's Match of the Day on 28 September 2014. Her broadcast and media appearances are managed by Somethin' Else Talent.

I want to ask : is there anything like SW Gov. Forum? I googled it, but wasn't impressed with the result.

[size=14pt]James Dasaolu[/size]



James Dasaolu (born 5 September 1987) is a British sprint athlete who specialises in the 100 metres, over which distance he is the reigning European champion.

In July 2013, he became the second fastest Briton of all time after running a 100 m time of 9.91 seconds in the British Championships. In 2014 he won his first major title, claiming the gold medal in the 100 metres at the 2014 European Athletics Championships.

Born in south London to Nigerian parents, Dasaolu did not take up sprinting seriously until he was 18 when he began a leisure management degree at Loughborough.

Aareonakakanfo:



The emboldened is what you should have said instead of saying its impossible in Nigeria.An autonomous region is still inside Nigeria


Just on a random, what do you think about my opinion on lacerating the cheeks of migrants with Ibadan tribal marks.

not sure why you are asking me this question in the second paragraph...it is an invitation to derail the thread?

As for getting the regionalism if the north no gree your guess is as good as mine

[size=14pt]Dapo Fagbenle[/size] - Dapsy, my doozy, you lot need to see his chic, she's also Yoruba and one of the most beautiful chics ever lol. His chic is my ex's friend from Uni days.

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Dapo Fagbenle (born Oladapo Fagbenle, February 12, 1986), in Lagos, Nigeria also known as Daps, is an entertainer, entrepreneur, music video director, and former NCAA athlete. He is best known for producing music videos for high-profile recording artists such as Snoop Dogg, Akon, N-Dubz, Jedward, Dionne Bromfield, Tinchy Stryder, Mohombi, and Rizzle Kicks.

Born to Nigerian parents, Daps begun his career within the media industry as a video producer in London and New York. Before this, he played collegiate basketball at Campbell University and Bellarmine University where he also obtained his bachelor's and master's degrees. Daps is also the brother of British actor, O. T. Fagbenle, and video producer, Luti Fagbenle.

Daps began playing basketball in London, England, where he played for the Westminster Warriors. As a stand out player he decided he would pursue his athletic career by going to the United States where he attended the Master's School in Connecticut for a year. Daps received a 4-year scholarship to play basketball at Campbell University in North Carolina where he was on the Atlantic Sun Conference All-Academic team for two years. He competed for two years, and also received his bachelor's degree from Campbell. Daps then transferred to Bellarmine University where he played basketball for two more years and received his master's degree

[size=14pt]Stephen K. Amos[/size]



Stephen Kehinde Amos is an English stand-up comedian. A regular on the international comedy circuit, he is known for including his audience members during his shows. He began his career as a compere at the Big Fish comedy clubs in South London, and has been nominated for Chortle's Best Compere Award three times in 2004, 2007 and 2008.

He has performed stand-up at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe every year since 2003, after making his début in 2001. He hosted a chat show on weekends (in addition to his own show), performed as a guest at various extra festival shows, such as Spank!, and performed daily in Stewart Lee's production of Eric Bogosian's play Talk Radio. Away from the fringe, Amos is a regular performer at The Comedy Store, London, featuring on the bill several evenings each month, as well as various other venues around central London.

Amos appeared in the winning team at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival's Great Debate in 2006, 2007, and 2008 for the negative team, and in 2009 for the affirmative team. In May 2007, he appeared at the New Zealand International Comedy festival where he won the award for Best International Comedian. He performed at the 2007 Class Clowns State Final in South Australia. During late 2008 and early 2009, he embarked on a United Kingdom tour of his show Find the Funny. In the winter of 2009 and 2010, he sold out his second national tour The Feelgood Factor. In 2012 and 2013, he performed his Laughter Is My Agenda tour.

As an actor, he performed in both the Edinburgh Fringe and London run of a version of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. His debut DVD was released in November 2009 entitled Find The Funny - Live. His second DVD was released in November 2010 entitled The Feelgood Factor.

In April 2010, Amos hosted The People's Music Awards in London.

Amos, one of eight children, lives in South London. His parents came to London from Nigeria in the 1960s. On Fern Britton's The 5 O'Clock Show (Channel 4, 19 July 2010), he stated that his middle name is Kehinde, which is a Yoruba name for "second of twins". Amos has an older twin sister. He studied criminal justice at Polytechnic of Central London.

following thus thread. will like to make some contributions on how to develop and further strengthen Yoruba land.

Culled from,and posted by igbo i.d.
Nothing personal please...


https://www.nairaland.com/2689561/igbos-benefitting-most-united-nigeria




[b]I cringe each time i hear my brothers push for a Biafran republic.

Have we really taken some time off to think about Biafra as a real Nation and not some online fantansy of some over-fed conman. Anyway that's a story for another day.

The truth remains that we Igbos benefit the most out of a United Nigeria. Why would i say this?

Take a look at the Nigerian GDP for a second. according to the National bureau of Statistics, Our Q2 2015 GDP stood at N21,734,829.86 million

Out of this amount,

The Oil sector represents 9.80% of total real GDP (keys oil producing states Akwa ibom, Rivers, Bayelsa, Delta, Cross River )



Mining and Quarrying contributed 7.75 % to overall GDP during Q2 of 2015. ( key active mining states in Nigeria: Plateau, kwara, Nasarawa, Sokoto,
Kaduna, Oyo, Osun, Bauchi, Borno and Benue. Inactive mines but with huge potential Anambra and Enugu)




Agriculture contributed 17.89% to nominal GDP during Q2 OF 2015. (Key agricultural states in Nigeria: Niger, Kano, Jigawa, Zamfara,Kebbi, Sokoto, Katsina, Kaduna, Adamawa, Yobe, Borno, Taraba, Plateau, Nasarawa, Bauchi,Gombe, Ekiti, Ogun, Ondo, Osun and Edo



Manufacturing Contributed 9.29% to Nominal GDP. (Key manufacturing states are Lagos, Ogun, Rivers, Oyo, Kano and sokoto)



Lagos alone contributes about a quarter of the country’s GDP, which amounts to 60% of the GDP if the oil and gas contribution is removed, with 60% of the commercial activities in the country also being done in Lagos.

http://www.channelstv.com/2014/04/01/lagos-contributes-a-quarter-of-nigerias-gdp-commissioner/



We igbos are mostly traders and business men. Businesses thrive with population. Nigeria as constituted gives us the greatest opportunity and free access to the biggest and most lucrative market in Africa, Even when we are not bringing so much to the table.

Each day we wake up should be an opportunity to thank God and the Brits for bringing Nigeria together. Without Nigeria, we might not be as prosperous as we are right now.


http://www.nigerianstat.gov.ng/sphider/search.php?query=gdp&search=1&x=0&y=0
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WIZGUY69:



it's odd mehn.
had it been Yoruba as a language is spoken by other larger countries, it will be OK. but c'mon it's not good to be a local champion o.

lol....

Do we have any Ondo residents here?.

[size=14pt]Andi Osho[/size]




Yewande "Andi" Osho (born 27 January 1973) is an stand-up comedian and actress. Osho was born in Plaistow, east London, to Nigerian parents.

Having previously worked in television production, Osho turned to acting in 2003. By 2006, she had decided to go into stand-up comedy. Osho spent a number of years working as a receptionist by day, while perfecting her stand-up comedy routine in the evenings.

In 2006, Osho starred as Alma in Dael Orlandersmith's drama Yellowman at Liverpool's Everyman Theatre. Other theatre work includes a critically acclaimed performance in the title role of Medea (Barons Court Theatre, 2005), Amanda in Cigarettes, Coffee and Paranoia (King's Head Theatre, 2005) and Zimbabwean exile Faith in the devised piece Qabuka (Oval House Theatre, 2005).

Osho's television roles include Lin Colvin in Casualty, Adeola Brooker in Doctors, Dr Rogers in Footballers' Wives: Extra Time and Angela Parker in Sea of Souls. She has also appeared in Waking the Dead, EastEnders and Night and Day and Russell Brand and Friends for Channel 4.

Osho is also a playwright and one of the founding members of the London writers' group, Vowel Movement. She has contributed to News Review at London's Canal Cafe Theatre and in 2008, she co-devised a scratch performance of the stage play Up the Café de Paris for the Pulse Fringe Festival. In 2007, Osho wrote the comedy CSI: Nigeria, in production for BBC Three.

Osho has performed at various comedy clubs and festivals across Britain, including: Jongleurs, the Comedy Store, the Reading Festival, the Pleasance Dome, the Chuckle Club, the Leicester Festival (Summer Sundae), the Comedy Café, the Shoreditch Comedy Festival, Comedy Camp and the Hackney Empire.

Osho won the 2007 Nivea Funny Women award.

Osho co-hosted Tonightly on Channel 4 and appeared in an E4 pilot, The Andi O Show. She has also appeared on Mock the Week, Ask Rhod Gilbert, and is a regular performer on Stand Up for the Week.

On 26 February 2011, Osho participated in Let's Dance for Comic Relief, performing a dance routine to Michael Jackson's "Bad". Despite positive comments from the judges, she did not progress to the final round after a public vote.

Osho is the only person to have won more than one episode of Celebrity Mastermind. In 2011, she won the Comic Relief episode with The Matrix trilogy as her specialist subject and then in 2012, she took part in a regular episode choosing host John Humphrys as her specialist subject. Osho also takes an occasional presenting role for the comedy club section on BBC Radio 4 Extra

On 19 June 2012, Osho made her debut in medical drama Holby City as medical student Barbara Alcock for three episodes. In July 2014, she appeared in Finding Carter as Susan Sherman.

[size=14pt]Ore Oduba[/size]



Oduba was born in London, to Nigerian parents. He was educated at Dumpton School, then Canford School, a co-educational independent school for both boarding and day pupils, in the village of Canford Magna, near to the market town of Wimborne Minster in Dorset, in South West England, followed by Loughborough University, where he studied Sports Science and Social Science. He is a lifelong supporter of Manchester United.

Ore Oduba (born 17 November 1986) is a British television news and sports presenter, who has presented the BBC's children's news programme Newsround since August 2008. Oduba also reports for BBC Sport.

Oduba presents sport bulletins for BBC Breakfast and BBC Radio 5 Live. He has also presented and reported on British Olympic Dreams along with former Newsround co-presenter Sonali Shah.

Oduba began a debut presenting solo on the morning slot for the Commonwealth Games 2014 on BBC One and BBC Sport.

Ola Orekunrin

29,

Medical Doctor & Founder, The Flying Doctors

Orekunrin is founder and Managing Director of Flying Doctors Nigeria Ltd., an air ambulance service based in Lagos, Nigeria. Orekunrin’s company is the first air ambulance service in West Africa to provide urgent helicopter, airplane ambulance and evacuation services. “Tragedy led me to entrepreneurship,” she says. “I believe that perhaps my sister, who died when she was just 12 years old, may have lived if this sort of service was available in Nigeria at the time,” she says. Born in London and raised in a working-class foster home in Lowestoft, a little fishing town in the East of England, Orekunrin enrolled for a medical degree at the University of York and qualified at 21 – one of the youngest ever to take the doctor’s Hippocratic Oath in Britain. She is a 2013 New Voices Fellow at the Aspen Institute and was named a Young Global Leader in 2013 by the World Economic Forum.

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Culled from,and posted by igbo i.d.
Nothing personal please...


https://www.nairaland.com/2689561/igbos-benefitting-most-united-nigeria




[b]I cringe each time i hear my brothers push for a Biafran republic.

Have we really taken some time off to think about Biafra as a real Nation and not some online fantansy of some over-fed conman. Anyway that's a story for another day.

The truth remains that we Igbos benefit the most out of a United Nigeria. Why would i say this?

Take a look at the Nigerian GDP for a second. according to the National bureau of Statistics, Our Q2 2015 GDP stood at N21,734,829.86 million]





Kindly tone down the news about oda ethnic tribes