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Atinuke Oyelude on November 16, 1931, in Kano,Oyelude was crowned Miss Nigeria making her the first title holder of the pageant in 1957. Her journey to becoming the inaugural Miss Nigeria unfolded when her brother shared her photograph with the pageant organizers at a time when Miss Nigeria was a photo competition. After her reign as Miss Nigeria,Oyelude travelled to the UK and pursued a career in Nursing, which was made possible by the £200 cash prize she won from the competition. At the completion of her studies in London, she returned to Nigeria and worked at Kaduna General Hospital between 1964 and 1965. Oyelude moved to Maiduguri General Hospital when the Biafran War started. She led a team from the North to provide medical support to casualties of the war.

Dr. UjuAnya speaks about the genocide of the Biafran people under the direction of the British Empire. Millions of Biafrans were killed during the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. For the full interview go to https://youtu.be/2qCxE_7LSk8

There Was A Country

Former enemies embrace for the cameras at a Biafran surrender ceremony at Owerri in January 1970. This photo is obviously posed for propaganda purposes, but - surprisingly for such a bitterly fought conflict - in the early post-war years the reconciliation promoted by Gen Gowon seems to have been generally successful, and few reprisals were reported. The Nigerian soldier (left) is wearing the liner from one of the NATO copies of the M1 helmet, and is armed with a Soviet AKM assault rifle. The Biafran, a member of Gen Effiong’s escort, wears one of the large number of locally made uniforms produced in ‘duck-hunter’ camouflage in the last year of the war, complete with a field cap with fold-up earflaps. (Peter Obe)

Dr. Philip Emeagwali is the Inventor of the World's Fastest Computer.

Popularly called the "Bill Gates of Africa", the Famous African Inventor from Onitsha, Anambra State, was born in Akure, Ondo State.

Like many African schoolchildren, he dropped out of school at age 14 because his father could no longer afford to train him in school.

Even after dropping out of school, his father didn't give up on his son. He continued teaching him at home. It was recorded that everyday, his father made Emeagwali performed mental exercises such as solving 100 math problems in one hour.

Fifteen months after Emeagwali's high school education began, the Nigerian Civil War broke out. Him and his family fled to the eastern part of the country and he was surprisingly drafted into the Biafran Army.

Emeagwali's family lived in a refugee camp until the war ended in 1970. More than half a million Biafrans died of starvation.

He didn't give up on his dreams, he studied hard and got scholarship to Oregon State University when he was 17 where he obtained a BS in mathematics. He also earned three other degrees – a Ph.D. in Scientific computing from the University of Michigan and two Masters degrees from George Washington University.

In his words, "My focus is not on solving nature's deeper mysteries. It is on using nature's deeper mysteries to solve important societal problems."

There Was A Country

There Was A Country