Celebrating Ndi-Igbo

Dr Ike Anya is currently Consultant in Public Health Medicine at the Inner North West London PCTs (NHS Hammersmith and Fulham, Westminster and Kensington & Chelsea) and honorary lecturer in public health at Imperial College. He leads on health protection and emergency planning, safeguarding children and support to clinical commissioning groups. Qualified at the University of Nigeria in 1995 and holds a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (RCP UK 2002), MSc in Tropical Medicine and International Health with distinction (2002) and MSc in Public Health (2004) from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Specialist training in public health medicine included rotations at Bristol Primary Care Trust, the Health Protection Agency and University College London. Admitted to the Fellowship of the Faculty of Public Health (UK) in April 2009. Ike has taught at the London School of Hygiene, Imperial College, University College London, the University of the West of England and B...

Chikodi Chima Chikodi is the West Coast editor of The Next Web. The Next Web is one of the world’s largest online publications that delivers an international perspective on the latest news about Internet technology, business and culture. With an active, influential audience consisting of more than 4 million monthly visits and over 5.5 million monthly page views, Chikodi covers topics of startups and techpreneurship for top publications such as Mashable, VentureBeat, GigaOm, ScribeMedia, Fast Company, Shareable, The Philadelphia Weekly and The New York Press. His is also co-founding editor of AltTransport, a Breaking Media site about sustainable transportation, cleantech and innovating the ways in which people move. Based in San Francisco, he's currently working on The Future Journalism Project, a documentary about disruption of legacy media at the hands of emerging technologies.

Chiedu Ifeozo was born in Lagos and his family is originally from Ubulu-uku in Delta state. He completed his secondary school education at Kings College Lagos, and graduated with a master’s degree in Electronics Engineering from the University of Surrey, England. Today he is know as Nigeria's YouTube poet. Chiedu who recently featured in CNN's Inside Africa uses this medium to reach out to his audience. He self-published his first collection of poetry titled "Thoughts on a page", in 2008, and most of his work follows a spoken word style of writing which focuses mainly on topics such as politics, social commentary, youth empowerment, inspirational poetry and romance. In 2009, using the profit generated from the sale of his first book, he financed, edited and printed an anthology titled poetry for charity. His poetry collection was reviewed positively by next newspaper, Nigeria, and his poems have been featured on Badalisha poetry radio, SouthAfrica, Jamati online, Keny...

Ofili is an International Motivational and Keynote Speaker on the college circuit. Utilizing personal anecdotes and interactive activities he is able to provide instrumental advice that helps guide College and High-School students towards excellence. He is the author of the inspiring memoir HOW STUPIDITY SAVED MY LIFE and has been featured in magazines and radio stations across the globe. His www.ofilispeaks.com “Monthly Success Tips” have been viewed and downloaded in over 30 different countries.

Ifeyinwa Madu Egwaoje has committed her life to working to reducing maternal mortality through community work in Nigeria. At age 14, she went through a three year training program with the Girls’ Power Initiative, where she developed her expertise as an adolescent reproductive health and gender development trainer. Ifeyinwa became a facilitator with the organization training young girls to become visible and empowered members of their communities. She was involved in the implementation of Family Life HIV/AIDS Education curriculum in Edo State using the Learning About Living project. Her desire to reduce the spread of HIV/AIDS has made her a trainer and led her to work as the Monitoring and Evaluation officer for a USAID funded project on HIV/AIDS prevention. As part of her national youth service in Nigeria, Ifeyinwa worked as a research assistant with Society For Family Health, providing evidence to malaria, HIV/AIDS and maternal health programs. In 2010, she became one of a prestig...

Chineze Anyaene, 26, is the Award-winning director of IJE. She was also the first student film producer in the history of the New York Film Academy to shoot a feature film on 35mm. The film "Ije: The Journey" chronicles the story of a young woman from rural Nigeria who immigrates to the rocket-paced, star-crazed world of Los Angeles. And while the personal stories of the director of that film, Chineze Anyaene, and her protagonist are not exactly identical -- the latter ends up on trial for the murder of three men -- there are distinct similarities between the two women who changed their addresses and perspectives from West Africa to the American West. Chineze recently featured in Levi's action series ‘ Shape of what’s to come ' - a collection of interviews featuring young women who have contributed positively to the arts and various other fields.

Uchechukwu Eberechukwu "Uche" Nwaneri is an American football player who plays for the Jacksonville Jaguars. Uche was born in Dallas, Texas on March 20, 1984. He played Guard for Purdue University after graduating from Naaman Forest High School. He was drafted by the Jacksonville Jaguars with the 149th Overall pick in the 5th round of the 2007 NFL Draft.