Nigerian Famous Names Starting with Letter I

Is a Nigerian football player who currently plays for Albanian team KS Apolonia Fier. After spending

Is a Nigerian football player who currently plays for Albanian team KS Apolonia Fier. After spending four seasons in Israel with Hapoel Tel Aviv, Ogbonna signed a two-year contract with CFR Cluj in Romania.

Is a Nigerian scholar and diplomat. He was Minister for External Affairs between 1984 and 1985 and i

Is a Nigerian scholar and diplomat. He was Minister for External Affairs between 1984 and 1985 and is currently the Special Adviser on the International Compact with Iraq and Other Issues for the Secretary-General of the United Nations. Previously, he served as the Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations (USG) for the Department of Political Affairs (DPA). He was appointed on June 10, 2005 and assumed the post on July 1 of that year.

Is a retired Nigerian footballer.He presented the Nigeria national under-17 football team at the 199

Is a retired Nigerian footballer.He presented the Nigeria national under-17 football team at the 1993 FIFA U-17 World Championship in Japan and was the World Champion.

Is a Nigerian footballer who plays as a striker. He currently plays for Nocerina, in Italian Lega Pr

Is a Nigerian footballer who plays as a striker. He currently plays for Nocerina, in Italian Lega Pro Seconda Divisione.He moved to Danish club Horsens, where he had a hard time adjusting to the higher level of football. He only played six games for the first team during the 2007-2008 season.

Is a Nigerian footballer currently playing for Aman al 'aam in the Libyan Premier League. He plays a

Is a Nigerian footballer currently playing for Aman al 'aam in the Libyan Premier League. He plays as a striker.Taaj al Din began his career at Sweahly, starting his Libyan football career with the Misratah club. He scored 12 goals for the club in the 2005-06 season. He continued his career in the top flight, moving to Madina. where he achieved double figures, putting the The Black Castle in third place with his 10 goals.

Is a Nigerian football forward currently playing for FC Sochaux.Brown joined than in January 2008 to

Is a Nigerian football forward currently playing for FC Sochaux.Brown joined than in January 2008 to Europe and signed with Swiss club Neuchâtel Xamax, before he signed in Switzerland he was on trial in the Netherlands with Willem II Tilburg on 24 August 2007, but was not signed.

Is a Nigerian college basketball player at power forward with the Michigan State University Spartans

Is a Nigerian college basketball player at power forward with the Michigan State University Spartans in the United States. Ibok, a graduate of Montverde Academy in Florida, began attending Michigan State in 2005. He is a three-time all-academic Big Ten Co

Is a Nigerian football player who plays as a forward for the Serbian Jelen Super Liga club FK Javor.

Is a Nigerian football player who plays as a forward for the Serbian Jelen Super Liga club FK Javor. For unknown reasons, many websites wrongly name him "Onyilov" instead of Onyilo.

Is a Nigerian footballer, currently playing as a striker for Ahly Benghazi in the Libyan Premier Lea

Is a Nigerian footballer, currently playing as a striker for Ahly Benghazi in the Libyan Premier League. He started his career with Heartland F.C.. He signed than for Hilal in Sudan, before moving to Ahly in January 2009. He was named by goal.com in their African Leagues' Team of the Week for his performance against CS Sfaxien in the first leg of the North African Cup Winners Cup Final.

Is a Nigerian football player. "Ifeanyi" is a nickname for the Igbo name "Ifeanyichukwu" (meaning "N

Is a Nigerian football player. "Ifeanyi" is a nickname for the Igbo name "Ifeanyichukwu" (meaning "Nothing is impossible with God"). The young and versatile defender can be seen on both sides of the pitch and is often remarked due to his good technique. Since June 2007 he is under contract with Steaua Bucuresti.

Is a Nigerian football player. He played for Nigeria and was a participant at the 2002 World Cup and

Is a Nigerian football player. He played for Nigeria and was a participant at the 2002 World Cup and is currently a free agent after being released by PAOK Thessaloniki in the winter of the 2007-08 season.

Is a female wrestler from Nigeria.

Is a female wrestler from Nigeria.

Is a Nigerian football (soccer) striker who played for Heartland F.C.. Otegheri began his career wit

Is a Nigerian football (soccer) striker who played for Heartland F.C.. Otegheri began his career with Wikki Tourists in 2004 before transferring to Enugu Rangers for two years before being signed by Dolphins F.C. in 2007[1]. He then joined Heartland F.C. where he played until 22 January 2009 when he moved to Beitar Jerusalem F.C. with compatriot Anderson West. He was released from his contract at 1 February 2009 and turned back to Heartland F.C.

Is a footballer, who plays for Bayelsa United. Ekwunife began his career with Ocean Boys F.C. and jo

Is a footballer, who plays for Bayelsa United. Ekwunife began his career with Ocean Boys F.C. and joined in 2008 to Zamfara United F.C. after one year with Zamfara signed for Bayelsa United.

Is a female boxer and is currently the WBE Light Heavyweight World Champion and WIBF Light Heavyweig

Is a female boxer and is currently the WBE Light Heavyweight World Champion and WIBF Light Heavyweight World Champion. She trains under Henry Okafor of Team Praise in Marietta, GA, USA.

Is a football goalkeeper from Nigeria. After a few years in Nigeria he moved to play in Switzerland,

Is a football goalkeeper from Nigeria. After a few years in Nigeria he moved to play in Switzerland, and made his mark there. He was bought by Turkish club Besiktas J.K. in 1999 for $2,400,000 — but they released him as they thought he spent too much time with the national team. Shorunmu later played for other Swiss and Turkish clubs. He has been the fist-choice goalkeeper of the national team, and played at the 2002 FIFA World Cup. Shorunmu was brought into the Nigerian national team by coach Clemens Westerhof in 1992.

Is a Nigerian professional footballer currently playing in Montenegrin First League club FK Decic. D

Is a Nigerian professional footballer currently playing in Montenegrin First League club FK Decic. During his career, beside FC Ebedei in Nigeria, he represented the Serbian clubs FK Hajduk Beograd and FK Napredak Kruševac, Swedish Väsby IK, and Montenegrin FK Kom and FK Decic.

Is a Nigerian football goalkeeper who currently plays for Heartland F.C.. He began his career by Oce

Is a Nigerian football goalkeeper who currently plays for Heartland F.C.. He began his career by Ocean Boys F.C. before moved to Heartland F.C. in July 2008.

Is a Nigerian football (soccer) striker who plays for AC Bellinzona. His name, Ikechukwu, means "Pow

Is a Nigerian football (soccer) striker who plays for AC Bellinzona. His name, Ikechukwu, means "Power of God".He started his career at Jasper United in Nigeria. He was signed by U.C. Sampdoria in summer 2002. After played one season in Genoa, A.C. Milan signed him on summer 2003 in joint-ownership bid, and saw Luca Antonini move to opposite direction, and sent him on loan to Pisa and Chiasso.

Is a Nigerian footballer who currently plays for Real Zaragoza, as a striker.He is the younger broth

Is a Nigerian footballer who currently plays for Real Zaragoza, as a striker.He is the younger brother of another footballer, Kalu Uche (they are not related to two other players, Uche Okechukwu and Ikechukwu Kalu).

Is an undefeated heavyweight boxer who after defeating two highly ranked contenders was imprisoned.

Is an undefeated heavyweight boxer who after defeating two highly ranked contenders was imprisoned. Ibeabuchi's ring nickname is "The President". Ibeabuchi was born in Nigeria in 1973. After a short amateur career that saw him beat Duncan Dokiwari Ike mo

Is a Nigerian-American professional basketball player. Although born in the United States, Nwankwo h

Is a Nigerian-American professional basketball player. Although born in the United States, Nwankwo has represented the land of his ancestry, Nigeria, in international competition. He played for Nigeria at the FIBA Africa Championship 2003 and 2006 FIBA Wo

Is a Nigerian footballer, who plays for SuS Niederbonsfeld. n July 1999 he joined SG Wattenscheid 09

Is a Nigerian footballer, who plays for SuS Niederbonsfeld. n July 1999 he joined SG Wattenscheid 09, a Regionaliga club in Germany where he played for 2 years. In 2001 he left for Karlsruhe Sport club reserve " Oberliga" team and earned 10 caps with the Professional Bundesliga 2 team. With the reserve team, he played 76 games and scored 14 goals. In January 2005 he played with SV Langenberg until May 2005 and then moved over to Hammer Spiel Vereinigung (2005 - 2007), where he helped them gain promotion into the "Oberliga" in 2006. After the 2006-2007 season, he moved to China Jia league, but was unfortunate because the club Hohhot Black Horse of Tibet was banned by the Chinese FA for rules violation. He later made a brief switch to Shanghai East FC (Jia league) in February 2008. Melkam returned to the German league in January 2009 and played a half season for SUS Niederbonsfeld.

Is a Nigerian football midfielder currently playing for NEPA Lagos.He began his career with Renaissa

Is a Nigerian football midfielder currently playing for NEPA Lagos.He began his career with Renaissance University Ugbawka, Enugu State and was moved to NEPA Lagos in 2008.

Is a boxer from Nigeria, who participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics for his native West African co

Is a boxer from Nigeria, who participated in the 2004 Summer Olympics for his native West African country. There he was stopped in the first round of the light heavyweight (81 kg) division by Uzbekistan's eventual bronze medal winner Utkirbek Haydarov. On