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Chinyere Asika (born 1970), Nigerian actress and film producer
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Chinyere is a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Chinyere Almona, Nigerian businessperson *Chinyere Igwe (born 1965), Nigerian politician * Chinyere Kalu, Nigerian pilot * Chinyere Ike Nwosu (born 1946), Nigerian politician * Chinyere Ohiri-Aniche (died 2018), Nigerian linguist and academic * Chinyere Stella Okunna, Nigerian academic * Chinyere Pigot (born 1993), Surinamese swimmer * Chinyere Ukaga (born 1966), Nigerian parasitologist and educator *Chinyere Wilfred Chinyere Wilfred is a Nigerian actress and film producer. Biography Wilfred was born on March 23, 1970, in Aguluezechukwu, Anambra State. She is married and has three sons. She has a twin sister called Chinelo Mojekwu. In 2022 she was a co- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinyere Almona
Chinyere Almona is the head of the Africa Corporate Governance Advisory Program of the International Finance Corporation (IFC). She became the Director General, Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry The Lagos Chamber of Commerce & Industry is a Lagos area non-profit that promotes, supports or opposes legislative or other measures affecting trade, industry, commerce and agriculture as well as representing the opinion of the Lagos business comm ... on 1 July 2021 with the retirement of Dr. Muda Yusuf. External link * References People from Abia State Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Nigerian women business executives Place of birth missing (living people) 21st-century Nigerian businesspeople {{Nigeria-business-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinyere Igwe
Chinyere Emmanuel Igwe (born 18 September 1965) is a politician of the People's Democratic Party from Rivers State, Nigeria. He is the current Commissioner of Urban Development, having been sworn in on 18 December 2015. He is also a former member of the House of Representatives of Nigeria The House of Representatives is the lower chamber of Nigeria's bicameral National Assembly. The Senate is the upper chamber. The House of Representatives has 360 members who are elected in single-member constituencies using the plurality (or ... from Port Harcourt II, serving from 2007 to 2011. Arrest A day before the 2023 Nigerian Presidential election, Chinyere Igwe, who is a member of the House of Representative, was arrested. Igwe was stopped by police on allegations of money laundering. Igwe was arrested in his car close to INEC Headquarters Aba Road on Friday 24 February 2023 at about 2:45amhttps://guardian.ng/news/police-arrest-house-of-reps-member-with-498100-distribution-list- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinyere Kalu
Chinyere Kalu, MFR (née Onyenucheya) is the first Nigerian female commercial pilot and the first woman to fly an aircraft in Nigeria. She served as the rector and Chief Executive of the Nigerian College of Aviation Technology between October 2011 and February 2014. Life A native of Akwete, Ukwa East LGA in Abia State, Eastern Nigeria, Kalu grew up under the care of her mother after the separation of her parents. She grew up in a very supportive big family. She decided to begin her career in aviation because of her adventurous aunt, well known for overseas travelling. She had her primary school education at Anglican Girls Grammar School, Yaba, Lagos State, before she trained as a private and commercial pilot in 1978 at the Nigerian College of Aviation Technology, Zaria under SP.12 Batch. She subsequently took several aviation and transport courses in the United Kingdom and the United States before she received her license as a commercial pilot on 20 May 1981, from the Nig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinyere Ike Nwosu
Chinyere Ike Nwosu (born 21 November 1946) was a Nigerian Military Administrator of Abia State (December 1993 – September 1994) and then of Oyo State (September 1994 – August 1996) during the military regime of General Sani Abacha. As Abia State governor, he was described as a very controversial administrator given to whimsical actions. In 1993, his wife Chinyere Nwosu established the Abia Less Privileged Organisation (ALPO), to assist women in gaining accommodation and skills. As governor of Oyo State, he upset the power balance of the traditional rulers by making the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, permanent chairman of the Oyo State Council of Obas. Before then, the position had rotated between the three Obas. In March 1995, he ordered motorists and taxi passengers from their vehicles at the Egebda taxi and lorry motor park in Ibadan Ibadan (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Oyo State, in Nigeria. It is the third-largest city by population in Nigeria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinyere Ohiri-Aniche
Chinyere Ohiri-Aniche (died 2018) was a Nigerian linguist and academic. From 2016 until her death she was head of the National Institute for Nigerian Languages (NINLAN). Life Chinyere Ohiri-Aniche gained a B.Sc. in French and Linguistics from Georgetown University in 1975, a M.Ed. in Language Teaching from the University of Montreal in 1977, and a PhD in linguistics from the University of Port Harcourt in 1991. She became a Senior Lecturer, specializing in Igbo education, at the University of Lagos. A two-volume ''festschrift'' was published in her honour in 2015. As President of the Linguistic Association of Nigeria (LAN) in 2014, Ohiri-Aniche warned that over 400 indigenous languages of Nigeria were endangered. In August 2016 President Buhari appointed her as chief executive officer of the National Institute for Nigerian Languages (NINLAN). She was the third executive director of NINLAN, succeeding Ben Elugbe. At the end of 2016 she warned that over fifty languages in Niger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinyere Stella Okunna
Chinyere Stella Okunna is the first female professor in Mass communication in Nigeria. She has served in various capacities as an administrator and educationist in the academia and in the public/political arena. Chinyere Stella Okunna research interest is in the area of communication for development, particularly women’s development from the perspective of women and the media. She has done considerable work on the role of the media in the effort to empower Nigerian women and improve their condition and status in the patriarchal male-dominated Nigerian society. Early life and education Born to Joshua and Christiana Adimora family, Uga in Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State, Nigeria, her father (Joshua Obinani Adimora) was a career civil servant who served as the first indigenous/black District Officer (D.O.) in the Aguata Administrative Region in the 1950s and the Deputy Town Clerk of Port-Harcourt Municipal Council in the 1960s. Stella Chinyere Okunna began her early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinyere Pigot
Chinyere Pigot is a Surinamese swimmer living in Miami, Florida, who attended the University of Connecticut and participated on a collegiate level. Pigot competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics at age fifteen on Suriname's behalf. She used to attend Doral Academy Charter High School in 2011. She was Suriname's flag bearer at the opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the .... References * * https://web.archive.org/web/20141013013711/http://strollersblog.com/importance-children-able-swim Living people Swimmers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic swimmers of Suriname Surinamese female swimmers Swimmers at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics Sportspeople from Paramaribo 1993 births Swimm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chinyere Ukaga
Chinyere Ukaga (''née'' Dallah; was born October 8, 1966) is a professor of public health parasitology in the department of Animal and Environmental Biology, Imo State University, Owerri. Education Ukaga completed her O'level at Federal Government Girls Secondary school, Onitsha (1978 - 1983) before proceeding to University of Nigeria, Nsukka where she attained a bachelor's degree in Zoology (1983 - 1987), a master's degree in Medical Parasitology (1987 - 1989) and a doctorate degree in the same field (1999). Her Ph.D. program which was supported by a grant from the Tropical Diseases Research (TDR)/ World Health Organization (WHO). Ukaga won the University of Nigeria Nsukka Vice chancellor Chancellor's post graduate prize and Faculty post graduate prize as the best graduating Ph.D. student for the 1998–1999 academic session. Career and research Ukaga started her career as a research officer with UNDP/WORLD BANK/ WHO Onchocerciasis Control Project in Achi, Oji - Rive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
