** Hakeem Olajuwon, Nigerian basketball player

The following two years saw two players born outside the U. S. selected first overall — Nigerian Hakeem Olajuwon in 1984 and Jamaica-born American Patrick Ewing in 1985.

It was also around this time that Malone began to tutor a young Nigerian big man in Houston by the name of Hakeem Olajuwon, passing on the torch to the future Rockets superstar.

Although popular styles such as highlife and jùjú were at the top of the Nigerian charts in the ' 60s, traditional music remained widespread.

* Nigerian Premier League – the top tier of Nigerian football

Nigerian forward Rashidi Yekini, who had led the 1992 tournament with four goals, repeated as the top scorer with five goals.

In 2010, she was involved in a drug scandal controversy in Hyderabad, when a report on a Telugu channel claimed that Trisha's name was included with other top celebrities in the list of clients of Chima Clement, a Nigerian drug peddler, arrested in Hyderabad.

While not criticising the idea of military service generally, Fela was frustrated with the Nigerian army's rank and file that allowed corruption and intimidation of their communities by the corrupt and rich top brass, while blindly following orders to intimidate Nigerians.

The 1998 draft saw another foreign player picked first overall, Nigerian Michael Olowokandi, but like Duncan he had played college basketball, in his case at Pacific.

* A Dictionary of Nigerian English ( circulation draft ); Blench, Roger.

* 1984 – Ayila Yussuf, Nigerian footballer

* In the 1984 Dikko Affair, a former Nigerian government minister, was kidnapped and placed in a shipping crate, in an attempt to transport him from the United Kingdom back to Nigeria for trial.

* Agu Casmir ( born 1984 ), Nigerian professional soccer player

Obafemi Akinwunmi Martins ( born 28 October 1984 ) is a Nigerian footballer who plays as a striker for Levante and the Nigeria national team.

In 1984, Nigerian singer Onyeka Onwenu covered the song for the album In the Morning Light.

Oluwasegun Abiodun ( born 5 December 1984 ) is a Nigerian football striker who currently is free agent.

Antonia Okonma ( born 24 July 1984 in London, England ) is a British actress of Nigerian descent.

James Godday ( born January 9, 1984 ) is a Nigerian athlete who specializes in 400 metres.

Samuel Okon Peter ( born September 6, 1980 in Akwa Ibom, Nigeria ), nicknamed " The Nigerian Nightmare ," is a professional heavyweight boxer and the former WBC heavyweight champion.

As an amateur boxing out of the Lynn amateur boxing club in Walworth, SE London, he was ABA heavyweight champion in both 1988 and 1989, beating another fellow Nigerian and future WBO heavyweight champion Herbie Hide and represented Great Britain in the heavyweight division at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea.

As captain of the Nigerian wrestling team he came to Canada to compete in the 1994 Commonwealth Games.

In 1994 the airline was listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange.

* Bisong, Joseph ( 1995 ) Language Choice and cultural Imperialism: a Nigerian Perspective.

On 10 November 1995 nine activists from the movement, among them the playwright Ken Saro-Wiwa, were hanged by the Nigerian government on charges of " incitement to murder ".

Between 1995 and 2004, the joint venture won four contracts in Nigeria worth more than US $ 6 billion, as a direct result of having paid US $ 51 million to Marubeni to be used to bribe Nigerian government officials.

He was sentenced to life in prison by a military tribunal in 1995, after calling on the Nigerian military government of Gen. Sani Abacha and his Provisional Ruling Council to reestablish civilian rule.

* Amadou Cissé ( born 1948 ), Nigerian politician, Prime Minister of Niger ( 1995 ; 1996-1997 )

Benson Egemonye ; Professional Nigerian Basketball Player.

His first professional win came in the 1978 Nigerian Open, and he also won the Sir Henry Cotton Award as European Rookie of the Year that season.

She subsequently covered the Nigerian civil war and the International Women's Year Conference in Mexico City, and accompanied Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on a six-nation tour of Africa.

These Communities ( only major Communities ) range from Polish, Albanian, Romanian, Nigerian, Ghanaian, Jamaican, Indian, Bengali, and more.

However, a few performers kept the style alive, such as Yoruba singer and trumpeter Victor Olaiya ( the only Nigerian to ever earn a platinum record ), Stephen Osita Osadebe, Sonny Okosun, Victor Uwaifo, and Orlando " Dr. Ganja " Owoh, whose distinctive toye style fused jùjú and highlife.

At that time, the Nigerian Military Forces had 250 officers and only 15 were Nigerians.

He is one of the only three recognized national heroes of the Nigerian Nation.

Today, his portrait adorns the 20 Naira Note and he stands one of the only three national heroes of the Nigerian Republic.

Despite his stated commitment to returning the country to democracy, Abacha's government was accused of human rights abuses, especially after the hanging of Ogoni activist Ken Saro-Wiwa by the Oputa Commission ( only one of several executions of Ogoni activists opposed to the exploitation of Nigerian resources by the multinational petroleum company, Royal Dutch Shell Group ); Abiola and Olusegun Obasanjo were jailed for treason, and Wole Soyinka charged in absentia with treason.

In his Path to Nigerian Freedom ( 1947 ) — the first systematic federalist manifesto by a Nigerian politician — he advocated federalism as the only basis for equitable national integration and, as head of the Action Group, he led demands for a federal constitution, which was introduced in the 1954 Lyttleton Constitution, following primarily the model proposed by the Western Region delegation led by him.

He is the first and only Fuji artiste so far to have had a taste of Kora Awards when he won two Kora Awards in 2005 with his collaboration with Germany-based Nigerian artiste, Ade Bantu.

The Nigerian National Union of Air Transport Employees decried the payouts, claiming that Nigerian employees of the airline had only received 14 % of their entitlements, whilst Ghanaian employees received their full entitlements.

It was replaced as the centre of government by Kaduna, and only regained administrative significance with the creation of Kano State following Nigerian independence.

Okafor, the son of Nigerian immigrants, is known for not only being a good basketball player but also for being an elite student.

The locations shown in the documentary include not only each of the immigrants ' countries of origin, but also many places in the United States where the immigrants settled or traveled, including Chicago ( the Palestinian and Nigerian immigrants ), the Silicon Valley of California ( the Indian immigrants ), Garden City, Kansas and Mecca, California ( the Mexican immigrants ), and Florida, Georgia and Montana ( the Dominican immigrants ).

The Biafran air attacks did disrupt the combat operations of the Nigerian Air Force, but only for a few months.

Further feelings of injustice were caused by Nigeria, changing its currency so that Biafran supplies of pre-war Nigerian currency were no longer honoured, at the end of the war, only N £ 20 was given to any easterner despite what ever amount of money he or she had in the bank.

Alhaji Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, KBE ( December 1912 – January 15, 1966 ) was a Nigerian politician, and the only prime minister of an independent Nigeria.

Nicknamed the Golden Voice of Africa because of his oratory, he stands one of the only three National Heroes of the Nigerian Nation.

The entire 17-person Nigerian Athletics team participated in races of 400 metres or shorter, but the only entries that qualified for finals were three of the four relay teams.

Rangers International football club of Enugu popularly called Enugu Rangers is one of only two Nigerian division one football teams ( along with Heartland F. C.

With his departure, Rovers ' fortunes became bleaker, occasional moments of brilliance from players such as Roy's son " Rocky " Race and the Nigerian Paul " Del " Ntende shining among the troubles, which included now-manager Blackie Gray resigning after receiving death threats, and the club only narrowly avoiding relegation in the 1993 / 94 season, with Rocky scoring a last-minute goal to save them.

The affected airlines would only fly when they satisfied the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority ( NCAA )’ s criteria in terms of re-capitalization and thus be re-registered for operation.

The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority ( NCAA ) grounded Chanchangi Airlines on July 5, 2010, citing a regulation that no airline can operate with only one aircraft in service, which was the case with Chanchangi at the time of its closure.

The affected airlines would only fly when they satisfied the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority ( NCAA )’ s criteria in terms of re-capitalization and thus be re-registered for operation.