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Okafor may refer to: * Alex Okafor (born 1991), American football player * Amarachi Okafor (born 1977), Nigerian artist * Amaka Okafor ( 2023), English actor * Bertrand Okafor (born 1990), Nigerian footballer * Boniface Okafor (born 1966), Nigerian footballer * Chris Okafor (born 1970), Nigerian minister * Don Okafor (died 1966), Nigerian army officer * Emeka Okafor (born 1982), American basketball player * Fidelis Uzochukwu Okafor (born 1950), vice-chancellor of Anambra State University * Happiness Okafor, Nigerian professional cyclist * Jahlil Okafor (born 1995), American basketball player * Joe Okafor (born 1991), American football nose tackle * John Okafor (born 1961), Nigerian actor * Jon Okafor (born 1989), American soccer player * Kelvin Okafor (born 1985), is a British artist of Nigerian descent * Ngo Okafor (born 1974), actor, boxer and model * Nnedi Okorafor (born 1974), Nigerian-American writer of science fiction and fantasy * Noah Okafor (born 2000), Swiss footba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alex Okafor
Alex Okafor (born February 8, 1991) is an American football defensive end who is a free agent. He was drafted by the Arizona Cardinals in the fourth round of the 2013 NFL Draft. He played college football at Texas, where he earned All-American honors as a junior. Early years Okafor was born in Dallas, Texas to a Nigerian father and an African-American mother. His parents met in college at Grambling State University, a historically black university, before settling down in Texas. Okafor attended Pflugerville High School in Pflugerville, Texas, and played for the Pflugerville Panthers high school football team. He also played soccer and basketball and was a stand out in both. Following his senior season, ''USA Today'' recognized him as a high school All-American in 2008. College career Okafor attended the University of Texas at Austin, where he played for coach Mack Brown's Texas Longhorns football team from 2009 to 2012. He finished his 2011 junior season with 46 tackles and sev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ngo Okafor
Ngoli Onyeka Okafor (born December 30, 1974) is an American-born Nigerian actor, former boxer and model who is arguably the internet's most downloaded black male model. Okafor is currently living in New York, New York. Early life and education Okafor was born in Framingham, Massachusetts as the second child to a middle-class family when his father was completing his PhD program at Harvard University. His family moved home to Nigeria shortly before Okafor's second birthday. He moved back to the states in the summer of 1994. After completing his basic and secondary school education in Enugu, Nigeria, he proceeded to the University of Connecticut in 1994 where he studied Computer Science before he got employed with the Connecticut Department of Transportation. Career Modeling After losing his job as an I.T specialist at the Connecticut Department of Transportation, Ngo took to modelling and has since gone on to be featured on cover pages of notable magazines like ''Fortune'', ''Vogu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ujunwa Okafor
Ujunwa Eucharia Okafor (born 20 December 1992) is a Nigerian footballer who plays as a defender. She played for ALG Spor in the Turkish Women's First Football League with jersey number 44. In 2018, she was called up to the Nigeria women's national team. Playing career Club Okafor played in her country in the Nigeria Women Premier League for Delta Queens F.C., before she moved to Turkey, and joined the recently to the Women's First league promoted club ALG Spor in Gaziantep. International In February 2018, Okafor was called up to the Nigeria women's national team for their participation at the 2018 WAFU Nations Cup The WAFU Nations Cup (also known as the WAFU Cup of Nations or simply the WAFU Cup) is an association football competition that is contested by representative teams of the West African Football Union. History A trophy was commissioned by President .... Career statistics . Honours ; Turkish Women's First League :; ALG Spor ::''Runners-up'' (1): 2018– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uche Okafor
Uchenna Kizito Okafor , often shortened to Uche Okafor (8 August 1967 – 6 January 2011) was a Nigerian former professional footballer who played as a defender. He made 34 international appearances for the Nigeria national team. Club career Okafor's club career took him to many countries before he settled in the USA. Okafor was drafted to Kansas City Wizards in the ninth round of the 1996 MLS Inaugural Player Draft, and played there for five seasons before retiring after the 2000 season. International career Okafor played every match when Nigeria won the 1994 African Cup of Nations, but sustained an ankle injury shortly thereafter. He was part of the squad to the 1994 World Cup but did not get any playing time. He played one out of their four games in the 1998 World Cup, though, as well as at the 1988 Olympics. Post-playing career Okafor coached for the Associated Soccer Group, a member of the North Texas Soccer Association. He was head coach for the 91 Gold Central bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uche Okafor (footballer, Born 1991)
Uche Okafor (born 10 February 1991) is a Nigerian football goalkeeper currently playing for Enugu Rangers. International career Okafor represented Nigeria national under-17 football team at the 2007 U-17 World Cup in South Korea and played one game on the world championship team. He represented the Flying Eagles at 2009 African Youth Championship in Rwanda at the 2009 U-20 World Cup. Titles *2007 FIFA U-17 World Cup The FIFA U-17 World Cup 2007, the twelfth edition of the tournament, was held in South Korea between 18 August and 9 September 2007. For this event, the number of teams had been expanded from 16 to 24, with the top two of each group and the four ... - Winner References 1991 births Living people Igbo sportspeople Nigerian footballers Nigeria under-20 international footballers Association football goalkeepers Kaduna United F.C. players {{Nigeria-footy-goalkeeper-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Akwali Okafor
Simon Akwali Okafor (November 16, 1934 – August 29, 2014) was a Roman Catholic bishop. Born in the old Ifiteukpo, now Ifitedunu in Dunukofia Local Government Area of Anambra State, Nigeria on 16 November 1934, to his parents, Ogbuefi Okafor and Ifeoma Okafor (of blessed memory), Bishop Okafor (of blessed memory), was ordained as a priest on 21 July 1963 at the age of 29, by Bishop Godfrey Mary Okoye, C.S.Sp. (of blessed memory) Okafor was appointed titular bishop of ''Augurus'' and auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Awka, Nigeria Nigeria ( ), , ig, Naìjíríyà, yo, Nàìjíríà, pcm, Naijá , ff, Naajeeriya, kcg, Naijeriya officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf o ..., in 1992. On 9 September 1994, Bishop Simon Akwali Okafor, was appointed 2nd Catholic Bishop of Awka Diocese at the age of 59+, and retired on 17 April 2010 and the age of 75. He di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sam Okafor
Samuel Amaechi Okafor (born 17 March 1982) is a Nigerian former footballer who played in the Football League as a midfielder for Colchester United. Career Born in Xtiam, Nigeria, Okafor made his first and only Football League appearance at the end of the first-year of his three-year scholarship at Colchester United. His only game came against Blackpool on 8 May 1999, a 2–1 defeat at Bloomfield Road. He came on as a half-time substitute for David Gregory. Although he made no further appearances for the club, Okafor remained with the U's for the duration of his three-year scholarship. He also had first-team experience while out on a work experience loan at Dover Athletic in the Conference, where he made four appearances between March and May 2001. At the end of the 2000–01 season however, he was released by Colchester after the club's management decided he did not possess enough quality for Division Two NCL Division Two The NCL or National Conference League Division ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosemary Okafor
Rosemary Nkemjika Okafor (born 22 May 1981) is a Nigerian sprinter. She competed in the women's 4 × 400 metres relay at the 2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 (Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from 1 .... References External links * 1981 births Living people Athletes (track and field) at the 2000 Summer Olympics Nigerian female sprinters Olympic athletes for Nigeria Place of birth missing (living people) Olympic female sprinters 21st-century Nigerian women {{Nigeria-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Queen Okafor
Queen Nonyerem Okafor is a Nigerian-born woman who is said to be Nigeria's hairiest woman. A native of Nneobi-Nnewi, Anambra State in South eastern Nigeria, Queen spent her early years schooling in Owerri. She is second child in a family of five children. At first born hairless, she started sprouting hair in prodigious quantity at age 21. She currently resides in Lagos, Nigeria where she is trying to get into the Nigeria's movie industry (popularly called ''Nollywood Nollywood is a sobriquet that originally referred to the Nigerian film industry. The origin of the term dates back to the early 2000s, traced to an article in ''The New York Times''. Due to the history of evolving meanings and contexts, there ...''). Queen is constantly trimming her hair. Thus no measurement has been taken to establish the real length of her hair. References Living people 1987 births {{Nigeria-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Onyekachi Okafor
Onyekachi Okafor (born 2 June 1994, in Aba) is a Nigerian footballer who plays as a forward for Küçük Kaymaklı Türk S.K. in Cyprus. Career Okafor began his football youth career at Enyimba International F.C. and professional career with Crown F.C. before moved to Warri Wolves in 2014. He played two seasons at Rivers United before he moved to Turkey to play for Giresunspor in 2014. In August 2016, he signed at Giresunspor in TFF First League. In the summer of 2017, he joined Yalova SK. He later joined Doğan Türk Birliği Doğan Türk Birliği is a sports club based in Girne, Northern Cyprus and first established in 1938 in Limassol. History Its colours are yellow and navy. They were champions in the Birinci Lig competition on six occasions. They are now pa ... in the winter of 2018. International appearances He was called up to the senior team for the first time in March 2015 for a friendly against the Cranes of Uganda and South Africa’s Bafana Bafana. Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Obiora Chinedu Okafor
Obiora Chinedu Okafor is a Canadian lawyer, currently the York Research Chair at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, and the Gani Fawehinmi Distinguished Chair of Human Rights Law at Nigerian Institute of Advanced Legal Studies. He is also the United Nations Independent Expert on Human Rights and International Solidarity since 2017, a position he will hold for five years. References Academic staff of York University Canadian lawyers Year of birth missing (living people) Living people {{Canada-law-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noah Okafor
Noah Arinzechukwu Okafor (born 24 May 2000) is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a striker for Serie A club AC Milan and the Switzerland national team. Club career FC Basel Okafor played his first youth football with local team FC Arisdorf. In 2009 he moved to the youth of FC Basel and continued through all the stages of their youth academy. He advanced to their first team during their 2018–19 season and on 31 January 2018, Okafor signed his first professional contract with his club under head coach Raphaël Wicky. He played his debut for their first team on 19 May 2018 in the home game against FC Luzern. The trainer substituted him in for the injured Mohamed Elyounoussi in the 34th minute and the game ended in a 2–2 draw. He scored his first goal for his club in the second round of the 2018–19 season on 28 July 2018 in the 1–1 away draw against Xamax. Under trainer Marcel Koller Basel won the Swiss Cup in the 2018–19 season. In the first round Basel b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |