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I found this online and it so made me proud to know that some Nigerians were first people in the sphere they worked, We have a lot of gifted people in our country and I hope they inspire you.   1. Ahmet Ali Çelikten   He was the first black pilot in the aviation history. He was one of only two black pilots in the World War I. His grandmother came from Bornu (now Borno State in Nigeria) to the Ottoman Empire as a slave. Ahmet was born in 1883 in İzmir, in the Aidin Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire. He aimed to become a naval sailor and entered the Naval Technical School named Haddehâne Mektebi (literally “School of the Blooming Mill”) in 1904. In 1908, he graduated from the school as a First Lieutenant. Then he joined the aviation courses in the Naval Flight School (Deniz Tayyare Mektebi) that was formed at Yeşilköy on June 25, 1914. 2. Jonathan Adagogo Green   He was the first professional photographer of Nigerian origin. Green was the chief photograph...

  Chinua Achebe.    www.adrianpastol.com Probably the greatest writer of his time, the man whose works especially his first novel "Things fall apart" (the patriarch of the African novel.)will forever remain legendary, and his ideas and visions which I must state were not always politically supported were factual, strong and pure. The great man and writer of the most widely read book in modern African literature, Albert Chinualumogu Achebe.  Chinua Achebe.    www.adrianpastol.com He was born on the 16th of November 1930 and in the Igbo village of Ogidi in eastern Nigeria. He died on the 21st of March 2013 at Boston, Massachusetts, United States, aged 82years.  Raised by his parents in the Igbo town of Ogidi in southeastern Nigeria, Achebe excelled at school and won a scholarship for undergraduate studies. attended the University of Ibadan. In 1958 on scholarship to study medicine . After a year of grueling work, he chang...

Let me introduce myself. My name is Valentine. I lived in Rome during the third century. That was long, long ago! At that time, Rome was ruled by an emperor named Claudius. I didn't like Emperor Claudius, and I wasn't the only one! A lot of people shared my feelings.  St. Valentine... www.git9ja.com Claudius wanted to have a big army. He expected men to volunteer to join. Many men just did not want to fight in wars. They did not want to leave their wives and families. As you might have guessed, not many men signed up. This made Claudius furious. So what happened? He had a crazy idea. He thought that if men were not married, they would not mind joining the army. So Claudius decided not to allow any more marriages. Young people thought his new law was cruel. I thought it was preposterous! I certainly wasn't going to support that law! Did I mention that I was a priest? One of my favorite activities was to marry couples. Ev...

www.adrianpastol.com When people say "never give up on your dream" we often times wonder if they themselves can hold on to theirs. Its actually easier to simple say I want to follow my heart than actually following it. When you hear things like "you can change the world" again you may wonder how? How can one man possibly change the world, how can one man make a difference?  I have news for you, one man can change the world, Steve Jobs did, and he did by never giving up on his dreams. Born in San Francisco, California, on February 24, 1955, to two University of Wisconsin graduate students who gave him up for adoption because they were not ready for a baby. As an infant, Steven was adopted by Clara and Paul Jobs and named Steven Paul Jobs. Clara worked as an accountant and Paul was a Coast Guard veteran and machinist. The family lived in Mountain View within California's Silicon Valley. As a boy, Jobs and his father would work on electronics...