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Ngozi may refer to: People * Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (born 1954), finance minister of Nigeria * Ngozi Monu (born 1981), Nigerian swimmer * Ngozi Onwurah, British-Nigerian film director * Ngozi Ezeonu, Nigerian actress * Ngozi Olejeme, Nigerian philanthropist * Ngozi Ukazu, American cartoonist and graphic novelist Places * Commune of Ngozi, Burundi * Lake Ngozi, a crater lake in Tanzania * Ngozi, Burundi, a city in Burundi * Ngozi Province Ngozi Province is one of the 18 provinces of Burundi. The name Ngozi stands for ''blessing''. Communes It is divided administratively into the following communes: * Commune of Busiga * Commune of Gashikanwa * Commune of Kiremba * Commune of M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (; born 13 June 1954) is a Nigerian economist, who has been serving as the Director-General of the World Trade Organization since March 2021. Notably, she is the first woman and first African to lead the World Trade Organization as Director-General. She sits on boards of: Danone, Standard Chartered Bank, MINDS: Mandela Institute for Development Studies, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, One Campaign, GAVI: Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization, Rockefeller Foundation, R4D: Results for Development, ARC: African Risk Capacity and Earthshot Prize plus others.She also previously sat on the Twitter Board of Directors, and stepped down in February, 2021 in connection with her appointment as Director General of the World Trade Organization. Okonjo-Iweala serves Brookings Institution as a non-resident distinguished fellow with the Africa Growth Initiative in their Global Economy and Development ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ngozi Monu
Ngozi Rosalin Monu (born 7 January 1981 in Lagos, Nigeria) is a Nigerian swimmer. Monu is the most prolific female swimmer from Nigeria. She focuses on the 50m & 100m freestyle event. Her inaugural Olympiads was at the 2000 Sidney Summer Olympics. She competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Uche Monu {{Unreferenced, date=December 2009 Uche is a Nigerian name originating among the Igbo people, which can mean "intention", "will", "mind", or "sense". Variants can include Uchechukwu or Uchenna (which means "God's will" or "God's intention"), Ucheom ..., her younger sister, is also a swimmer who represents Nigeria in the Backstroke and freestyle events. 2000 Summer Olympics Monu's inaugural Olympiad was the 000_Sidney_Summer_Olympics.html" ;"title="2000 Summer Olympics[2000 Sidney Summer Olympics">2000 Summer Olympics[2000 Sidney Summer Olympicsat the age of 19. She won her heat in the women's 50 metre freestyle with a time of 28.20s, but she was ranked 57th out of 92 medal compet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ngozi Onwurah
Ngozi Onwurah (born 1966) is a British-Nigerian film director, producer, model, and lecturer. She is best known as a filmmaker for her autobiographical film ''The Body Beautiful'' (1991) and her first feature film, ''Welcome II the Terrordome'' (1994). Her work is reflective of the unfiltered experiences of Black Diaspora in which she was raised. Early life and education Ngozi Onwurah was born in the year 1966 in Nigeria to a Nigerian father, and a white British mother, Madge Onwurah. She has two siblings, Simon Onwurah and Labour MP Chi Onwurah. As children, Onwurah's mother was forced to flee with her children from Nigeria in order to escape the Nigerian Civil War. They fled to England, where Ngozi and Simon spent the majority of their childhood. Growing up in a predominantly white neighborhood, Onwurah and her brother endured social abuse and racism, stemming from their biracial identity and father's absence. Onwurah began her studies in film at St. Martin’s School o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ngozi Ezeonu
Ngozi Ezeonu (born Ngozi Ikpelue, May 23, 1965) is a Nigerian actress and former journalist notable for her maternal roles in Nollywood movies. In 2012, she starred in ''Adesuwa'', a role that earned her the Best Supporting Actress nomination at the 8th Africa Movie Academy Awards . Early life A native of Ogbunike, in Anambra State. Ezeonu was born in Owerri to Dennis and Ezenwanyi Ikpelue, and has six siblings. Prior to finding fame as an actress, she studied Journalism at the Nigerian Institute of Journalism and worked for Radio Lagos and Eko FM. Career Although best known for her reprisal of mother figures, Ezeonu was originally cast as younger characters at the start of her acting career. In 1993, veteran film director Zeb Ejiro offered Ezeonu a supporting role as Nkechi, the antagonist An antagonist is a character in a story who is presented as the chief foe of the protagonist. Etymology The English word antagonist comes from the Greek ἀνταγωνιστής ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ngozi Olejeme
Ngozi Juliet Olejeme is a Nigerian, entrepreneur, politician and administrator. She once served as the Chairman of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund from 2009 to 2015. She also worked as the financial secretary to the Goodluck Jonathan campaign organization during the 2015 general elections. She was in June declared wanted for allegedly diverting N69bn from the agency but turned herself. Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has so far seized her 37 houses, frozen 30 bank accounts (each with at least 20m Naira), and a state of the art bathroom worth at least $2M. She was a Delta State Gubernatorial Aspirant on the Platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Career Ngozi Olejeme was appointed chairman of the board, Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF) in June 2009 by late President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua. She saw to the successful enactment into law of the Employees’ Compensation Act in December 2010, and the setting up of necessary human ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ngozi Ukazu
Ngozi Ukazu is an American cartoonist and graphic novelist. In 2013, she created the webcomic ''Check, Please!'', which later became a ''New York Times''-bestselling graphic novel. Early life and education Ukazu grew up in Houston, Texas. She attended Bellaire High School, where she contributed to the school’s newspaper, ''The Three Penny Press'', as the comics editor. She is the daughter of Nigerian parents. She studied computer science, obtaining a degree in Computing and The Arts from Yale University in 2013 and earned a masters degree in Sequential Art from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2015. Career Ukazu launched ''Check, Please!'' as a webcomic in 2013 after writing a screenplay about Eric "Bitty" Bittle, a gay college freshman and champion figure skater who joins a hockey team. Ukazu created a Kickstarter campaign in 2015 to print the first volume of the comic; the campaign resulted in the highest-funded comics project in Kickstarter's history. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Commune Of Ngozi
The commune of Ngozi is a commune of Ngozi Province in northern Burundi. The capital lies at Ngozi Ngozi may refer to: People * Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (born 1954), finance minister of Nigeria * Ngozi Monu (born 1981), Nigerian swimmer * Ngozi Onwurah, British-Nigerian film director * Ngozi Ezeonu, Nigerian actress * Ngozi Olejeme, Nigerian philan .... References Communes of Burundi Ngozi Province {{Burundi-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Ngozi
Lake Ngozi (or Lake Ngosi) is the second largest crater lake in Africa. It can be found near Tukuyu Tukuyu, known as Neu Langenburg during the German colonial rule, is a small hillside town that lies about south of the city of Mbeya, at an elevation of around in the highland Rungwe District of southern Tanzania, East Africa. Tukuyu town ..., a small town in the highland Rungwe District, Mbeya Region, of southern Tanzania in East Africa. It is part of the Poroto Mountains and the northern rim of the caldera is the highest point in the range. The caldera mostly composed from trachytic and phonolitic lavas. Ngozi is a Holocene caldera that generated the Kitulo pumice 12,000 years ago during a Plinian eruption, most likely in the same eruption that generated the caldera. Other eruption deposits are the Ngozi Tuff (less than thousand years ago) and the Ituwa Surge base surge deposits of uncertain age, but intermediary to the Kitulo pumice and Ngozi Tuff. The younges ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ngozi, Burundi
Ngozi is a town located in northern Burundi. It is the largest urban center in the Ngozi Province and the location of the provincial headquarters. Location The town of Ngozi is located in Ngozi Commune, in Ngozi Province, in central northern Burundi. This is approximately northeast of Bujumbura, the economic and financial capital of Burundi. Ngozi is located approximately north of the city of Gitega, the national political capital. The geographical coordinates of Ngozi Town are: 02°54'30.0"S, 29°49'37.0"E (Latitude: -2.908333; Longitude:29.826944). The town is nestled at an average elevation of above mean sea level. Population The national population census of 16 August 1990 enumerated the population at 14,511. On 16 August 2008, the national census that year put the population of Ngozi, Burundi at 39,774 people. Economy The residents in the town and surrounding communities are primarily subsistence agriculturalists who also keep domesticated animals, primarily catt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
