Tag: NIGERIAN-AMERICAN
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Kelechi Ndukwe shatters records, becomes first Nigerian, Nigerian-American to take command of U.S. Navy Guided Missile Destroyer
Nigerians in Diaspora have refused to allow the security challenges back home affect their resolution to fly the country’s colours and do her proud. From Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala who recently broke all human barriers to emerge as the first woman and African Director General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to several others particularly in the…
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Nigerian-American, Esther Agbaje wins Minnesota House of Reps ticket
Ms Esther Agbaje, who contested to represent District 59B in the Minnesota House of Representatives on the platform of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, an affiliate of the US Democratic Party, has won. The 35-year-old daughter of an Episcopal priest and a librarian, both Nigerian immigrants, defeated Republican Alan Shilepsky and Green Party candidate Lisa Neal-Delgado…
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Nigerian-American book on racism becomes New York Bestseller
A book written by Ijeoma Oluo, a Seattle based Nigerian American has been listed first on the list of New York bestselling paperback nonfictions. The book, ‘So you want to talk about race’ x-rays aspects of white supremacy–from police brutality to the mass incarceration of Black Americans. Oluo was named as one of The Roots…