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Ijeoma Offonry
Ijeoma is an Igbo name common in Nigeria. The name means "Safe journey", " A good journey ", " a beautiful journey or for one to " go well or have a fruitful journey". Variants to the name could be " Ijemma " . Notable people with Ijeoma as their first name * Ije Akunyili, American medical practitioner * Ijeoma Grace Agu, Nigerian actress * Ijeoma Ndukwe-Egwuronu, Nigerian entrepreneur * Ijeoma Nwaogwugwu, Nigerian journalist * Ijeoma Oluo, American writer * Ijeoma Uchegbu Dame Ijeoma Florence Uchegbu DBE (born 16 August 1960) is a Nigerian-British professor of pharmacy at University College London, where she held the position of Pro-Vice Provost for Africa and the Middle East. She is the Chief Scientific Offic ..., Nigerian-British pharmacist and Professor of Pharmacy * Ijeoma Umebinyuo, Nigerian poet References {{given name Igbo given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nigeria
Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean to the south. It covers an area of . With Demographics of Nigeria, a population of more than 230 million, it is the List of African countries by population, most populous country in Africa, and the List of countries and dependencies by population, world's sixth-most populous country. Nigeria borders Niger in Niger–Nigeria border, the north, Chad in Chad–Nigeria border, the northeast, Cameroon in Cameroon–Nigeria border, the east, and Benin in Benin–Nigeria border, the west. Nigeria is a Federation, federal republic comprising 36 States of Nigeria, states and the Federal Capital Territory, Nigeria, Federal Capital Territory, where its capital, Abuja, is located. The List of Nigerian cities by population, largest city in Nigeria by population is Lagos, one of the largest List of largest cities, metr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Igbo Language
Igbo ( , ; Standard Igbo: ''Ásụ̀sụ́ Ìgbò'' ) is the principal native language cluster of the Igbo people, an ethnicity in the Southeastern part of Nigeria. Igbo languages are spoken by a total of 31 million people. The number of Igboid languages depends on how one classifies a language versus a dialect, so there could be around 35 different Igbo languages. The core Igbo cluster, or Igbo proper, is generally thought to be one language but there is limited mutual intelligibility between the different groupings (north, west, south and east). A standard literary language termed 'Igbo izugbe' (meaning "general igbo") was generically developed and later adopted around 1972, with its core foundation based on the Orlu, Imo, Orlu (Isu people, Isu dialects), Anambra (Awka dialects) and Umuahia (Ohuhu dialects), omitting the nasal vowel, nasalization and aspiration (phonetics), aspiration of those varieties. History The first book to publish Igbo terms was ''History of the Mis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ije Akunyili
Ijeoma Akunyili (also known as Ije Akunyili) is a Nigerian American medical practitioner. Education She graduated Summa Cum Laude from the University of Pennsylvania. She had a Masters of Public Administration from Harvard then went on to work as a Junior Professional Associate for the World Bank. She attended the University of Maryland School of Medicine. She had her emergency medicine residency at the McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston. Career Ijeoma was the regional medical director for TeamHealth's Northeast Group where she managed the operations of nearly 20 emergency departments, critical care, and hospitalist service lines in New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania and New York. She had also served as the chair of emergency medicine at Waterbury Hospital. She is the current President of the Connecticut College of Emergency Physicians. On January 11, 2023, Jersey City Medical Center announced the appointment of Ijeoma as their Chief Medical Officer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ijeoma Grace Agu
Ijeoma Grace Agu is a Nigerian actress. She hails from the South - Eastern part of Nigeria and was born to Igbo Parents She received a best supporting actress nomination at the 12th Africa Movie Academy Awards. She also won most promising actress at the 2014 Best of Nollywood Awards. In 2007, she made her first screen appearance in ''Eldorado'' TV series. She was also part of the cultural group at 2012 London Olympic Games. Early life and education Agu is the first of her parents' five children. According to a report in ''Pulse Nigeria'', she was raised in Benin City, the capital city of Edo State, south-south Nigeria and Lagos State, southeast Nigeria. She had her first degree in biochemistry from Nnamdi Azikiwe University in 2007. Personal life She is married with a daughter. She describes her dad as being responsible for instilling the confidence of acting into her. According to Agu, her acting career started on stage in Benin at the age of 14. Speaking to ''The Nati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ijeoma Ndukwe-Egwuronu
Ijeoma Ndukwe-Egwuronu (born 12 May 1982) is a Nigerian entrepreneur popularly known as Nwanyi Akamụ or Iyaologi in reference to her food processing business, Bubez Foods. Early life and education Ndukwe-Egwuronu who grew up in Owerri, Imo State, is the first child in a family of six and started her early education in Assumpta Primary School, Owerri before moving on for high school at the Owerri Girls Secondary School. Subsequently, she went to the University of Calabar where she obtained a bachelor's degree in Human Physiology. She is married and have 3 children. Career Ndukwe-Egwuronu founded Bubez Plaiz, a boutique retail store in 2004 and ran the business for 8 years before folding up in 2012 as a result of business bad debts. According to an interview she gave to ''The Guardian'', Ndukwe-Egwuronu "went to God in prayer seeking an answer" to her problems and that was how Bubez Foods, a food processing business that utilized corn as a major raw material, was birthed. Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ijeoma Nwaogwugwu
Ijeoma Nwogwugwu is a Nigerian journalist. She was the pioneer managing director of Arise TV, a Nigerian news outlet. She was one of the directors of Thisday Newspaper. She is also an editor at THISDAY ''This Day'' is a Nigerian national newspaper. It is the flagship newspaper of Leaders & Company Ltd., and was first published on 22 January 1995. It has its headquarters in Apapa, Lagos State. Founded by Nduka Obaigbena, the chairman and edito ... newspaper. She is the second woman in Nigerian journalism’s history to be appointed editor of a national newspaper, the first being Doyin Abiola. Early life and career Born 14 December 1966, in 2012, Nwogwugwu became the editor of THISDAY newspapers as the previous editor Simon Kolawole, was made the editorial director. This led to Kolawole's resignation as a protest. In 2018, she was appointed to lead the Arise News Channel. She ranked the first among twenty-five most powerful women in Journalism according to WijAfrican (Women ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ijeoma Oluo
Ijeoma Oluo (; born 1980) is an American writer. She is the author of '' So You Want to Talk About Race'' and has written for ''The Guardian,'' ''Jezebel'', '' The Stranger'', ''Medium'', and ''The Establishment'', where she was also an editor-at-large. Born in Denton, Texas, and based in Seattle, Washington, in 2015, Oluo was named one of the most influential people in Seattle,Lisa Wogan and Linda Morgan"Seattle's Most Influential People of 2015", ''Seattle Magazine'', November 2015 and in 2018, she was named one of the 50 most influential women in Seattle. Her writing covers racism, misogynoir, intersectionality, online harassment, the Black Lives Matter movement, economics, parenting, feminism, and social justice. She gained prominence for articles critiquing race and the invisibility of women's voices, like her April 2017 interview with Rachel Dolezal, published in ''The Stranger''. Career Early career Oluo began her career in technology and digital marketing. She turned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ijeoma Uchegbu
Dame Ijeoma Florence Uchegbu DBE (born 16 August 1960) is a Nigerian-British professor of pharmacy at University College London, where she held the position of Pro-Vice Provost for Africa and the Middle East. She is the Chief Scientific Officer of Nanomerics, a pharmaceutical nanotechnology company specialising in drug delivery solutions for poorly water-soluble drugs, nucleic acids and peptides. She is also a Governor of the Wellcome, a large biomedical research charity. Apart from her highly cited scientific research in Pharmaceutical Nanoscience, Uchegbu is also known for her work in science public engagement and equality and diversity in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). In December 2023, it was announced that she would become President of Wolfson College, Cambridge, in October 2024. Education and early career Ijeoma Uchegbu grew up in Hackney, London, and South East Nigeria. She studied pharmacy at the University of Benin, graduating in 1981, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ijeoma Umebinyuo
Ijeoma Umebinyuo is a Nigerian poet. She is considered one of Sub-Saharan Africa's best modern poets. Her short stories and poems have appeared in publications such as ''The Stockholm Review of Literature'', ''The Rising Phoenix Review'' and ''The MacGuffin''. Her TEDx talk TED Conferences, LLC (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is an American-Canadian non-profit media organization that posts international talks online for free distribution under the slogan "Ideas Change Everything" (previously "Ideas Worth Sprea ... was called "Dismantling The Culture of Silence". She has a book of poems called ''Questions for Ada'' and her work has been translated into many languages, including Turkish, Portuguese, Russian and French. Works 1. Questions for Ada References Nigerian women poets 21st-century Nigerian poets Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 21st-century Nigerian women writers Igbo writers {{nigeria-poet-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
