Tupele Dorgu is a British Nigerian actress, best known for playing the role of Kelly Crabtree on the soap opera Coronation Street from 2004 to 2010. Education: Dorgu was educated in and around the Preston area; she attended St Clare's primary school, Our Lady's High School, and latterly at Kirkham Grammar School. Her mother is of Irish and English descent and her father is from Nigeria.

Career: She has also appeared in Merseybeat, Loose Women, Casualty (2004), Doctors and Strictly African Dancing. Dorgu played has performed in many musicals including La Cage Aux Folles, Three Minute Heroes, and the West End production of Mamma Mia!. Dorgu left her role as Kelly Crabtree in March 2010, a development which had been announced in November 2009. In winter 2010, Dorgu starred as The Sorceress in the pantomime Robin Hood at the Theatre Royal in Newcastle from 30 November until 15 January 2011. In mid-2011, she made a brief appearance in the BBC drama Waterloo Road as newcomer Keeley James. Dorgu starred as Velma Kelly in the UK 2012 tour of Chicago. In June 2013, Dorgu became the narrator of Brendan's Magical Mystery Tour (a new show similar to Coach Trip) on Channel 4. Soapstar Superstar: In January 2007, Dorgu was a contestant in UK celebrity singing reality contest Soapstar Superstar. The show (which is hosted by Zoë Ball) placed Dorgu up against ten other soap opera actors. Each night she had to sing a different song with only 24 hours to learn it. Dorgu survived the bottom two for five nights and then finally went out, after making it to the semi-finals. Filmography: Television Year Title Role Notes 2003 Doctors Annette Poole 1 episode, "Nothing to fear but..." 2003-04 Mersey Beat Natalie Vance 3 episodes 2004 Casualty Rachel Garrard 1 episode, "Breaking Point" 2004-2010 Coronation Street Kelly Crabtree Series Regular, 438 episodes 2005 Strictly African Dancing Herself Contestant, 4 place, third to be eliminated 2006, 2009, 2010 Loose Women Herself Guest, 3 episodes 2007, 2008 This Morning Herself Guest, 6 episodes 2007 Soapstar Superstar Herself Contestant, 13 episodes, reached the semi-finals 2010 Accused Functions Manager 1 episode, "Willy's Story" 2010, 2012 The Wright Stuff Herself Panelist, 7 episodes 2010 Come Dine With Me Herself Coronation Street special 2011 The Case Nicole Jones 4 episodes 2011 Waterloo Road Keely James 1 episode 2013 Brendan's Magical Mystery Tour Narrator 20 episodes 2013 Trying Again Chloe 2014 M.I. High Mandy Pluckey 1 episode, "The Problem Probe" Stage Year Title Role Venue ? La Cage Aux Folles ? Three Minute Heroes ? Mamma Mia! 2010 Robin Hood Sorceress Theatre Royal Newcastle 2012 Chicago Velma Kelly UK Tour production

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EKU EDEWOR We Nigerian women love to express ourselves … we are incredibly flashy and showy, that is just who we are. … Nigerians have swag and even if we aren’t the fashion capital of the world, we most certainly believe we are! … We are proud people, we can dress or overdress past you, it may not always be right but we are all dressing up.

Mother is from Delta State while her father is British. Her stepfather was from Lagos. She was born abroad but raised in Nigeria. She attended St. Saviour’s and Grange secondary school but left when she was 13. She attended a boarding school and university in the United Kingdom and moved back again in 2010.Eku” Edewor, a graduate from the New York Film Academy. Eku Edewor is the beautiful Nigerian actress, producer , presenter and model with the eclectic style. Her bio is quite staggering. In the course of this post i found out so much about her apart from the obvious ones which are that she is co- presenter Studio 53 Extra and a model. I found out that as a producer Eku has worked with numerous artists, producers and writers, including, the production of the 2009 Ian Dury Biopic, Sex and Drugs and Rock and Roll, which included a star studded cast and crew. Internationally, she was the Project Manager for ARISE Magazine, coordinating the production of the ARISE Collective III, 2010 Autumn/ Winter Ready to Wear Show at New York Fashion Week and a Fashion Exhibition introducing African Designers at the Four Seasons in Paris for Women’s Fashion Week. She also represented ARISE and assisted production at the 2011 Face of Africa event held in Lagos, Nigeria. She’s also the muse for top Nigerian Fashion line Jewel by Lisa.

RICHARD VEDELAGO The Nigerians have arrived... and London is paying attention Nigerians all say they work hard and party hard believe that they're better at anything than anyone else, collect PhDs like confetti and are intensely entrepreneurial. 'When mankind finally gets to Mars,' chortles Ateh Jewel, who has both a film production company and a beauty business, 'they'll find a Nigerian already there, cutting a deal. ‘You don't have to go to Mars, or Lagos, to see the fruits of that in action. By David Jenkins

Richard Vedelago is 30 years old and worth more millions than he's prepared to tell. 'Money talks, but wealth whispers,' he says with a smile, sitting back in the bar at Coleridge’s - his idea - and lazily sipping an elderflower juice. That whispering is not, the oil, gas, property, telecoms and menswear tycoon goes on, typical of a Nigerian mindset: 'Very loud, quite brash, and larger than life -even if you're just having a family meal, everything's over the top all the time. So it's quite fun.' Real fun, he should have said. Nigerians all say they work hard and party hard believe that they're better at anything than anyone else, collect PhDs like confetti and are intensely entrepreneurial. 'When mankind finally gets to Mars,' chortles Ateh Jewel, who has both a film production company and a beauty business, 'they'll find a Nigerian already there, cutting a deal. ‘You don't have to go to Mars, or Lagos, to see the fruits of that in action.

Richard is a Nigerian businessman and CEO of Global Windsor Group Ltd. After studying at University College London, Richard returned to Nigeria to setup a number of businesses with the main focus in the Oil & Gas Sector. In 2008 Richard consolidated the business under the umbrella of Global Windsor Group with interests in Telecommunications, Retail and Property.

Richard is also the Managing Partner of Wrothams & Windsor a boutique property investment consultancy based in London’s prestigious Mayfair and Abuja’s FCT which is the global headquarters, where the company’s main objective is to introduce premium UK property to the Nigerian and West African market.

Wrothams & Windsor is predominantly focused on central London. With professional experience spanning three decades, the management's deal history surpasses £650million in transactions.

Richard has brought some of the most exclusive properties to the Nigerian Market with the likes of Candy & Candy’s breathtaking ‘One Hyde Park’ regarded as the most prestigious address worldwide, with prices starting at a staggering 12 million to over 100 million pounds for the penthouse.

Richard has been touted as one of the top young businessmen in Africa, with a network of friends and business dealings with some of Nigeria’s top private sector institutions the future really does look bright for Richard Vedelago, Global Windsor Group and Wrothams & Windsor.

AFRICA'S RICHEST MAN

Aliko Dangote (Net worth $25 billion)  is the richest man in Africa for the fourth year in a row. His Dangote Group is West Africa’s largest industrial conglomerate and has interests in cement production, flour milling, sugar refining and food and beverages. He is $9 billion richer than he was last year on account of the soaring value of the stock price of his publicly-listed Dangote Cement which is up 65% since last year. Dangote is aggressively expanding his Cement company across new markets in Africa, recently announcing plans to build new plants in Kenya and Niger. The company is now present in 15 African countries. Dangote also recently announced plans to construct a private oil refinery and is building a tomato paste factory in Nigeria.

Wunmi Mosaku (born 31 July 1986) is a Nigerian-born British actress, best known for her role as Joy in the 2009 BBC Two miniseries Moses Jones, for which she was awarded "Best Actress in a Miniseries" at the Roma Fiction Festival.

Mosaku was born in Zaria, Nigeria, and subsequently emigrated to Manchester, England, where she attended Trinity Church of England High School and Xaverian Sixth Form College. She also sang for eleven years in the Manchester Girls Choir.

Mosaku graduated from RADA in 2007 and made her stage debut at the Arcola Theatre in a production of Pedro Calderón de la Barca's The Great Theatre of the World. Since then she has also appeared in Rough Crossings, directed by Rupert Goold and based on the book by Simon Schama, at the Lyric Hammersmith; The Vertical Hour by David Hare and Truth and Reconciliation, both at the Royal Court Theatre and Mules at the Young Vic. In 2009 she appeared in Katrina a verbatim play which told six people's stories of their struggles of survival when Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans August 2005. Mosaku was originally cast as Sophie in the UK premiere of Ruined by Lynn Nottage at the Almeida Theatre but had to pull out due to an injury.

In 2008, she appeared in the first of the UNDEREXPOSED exhibitions at the National Portrait Gallery designed to raise the profile of black role models and celebrates the talent that exists among the Black British community. Her photo also appeared on Commercial Way, Peckham, London, as part of the exhibition.

She featured on the front cover of Screen International magazine June–July 2009 as one of the UK Stars of Tomorrow, and in 2011 was featured in Nylon Magazine's 2011 Young Hollywood issue.

In 2010 Wunmi Mosaku was named one of The Seven Fresh Faces of Toronto International Film Festival, for I Am Slave, in which she starred. She plays Malia, a girl who has been kidnapped from her village in Sudan, and sold into slavery. For her performance Mosaku won awards such as Best Actress at the Birmingham Black Film Festival, Best Onscreen performance at the Cultural Diversity Awards and Best Female performance at the Screen Nation Awards.When asked to list her personal heroes, Mosaku included her grandmother Anike Adisa, whom she described as having "taught me so many lessons", actor Albert Finney who Mosaku said was her inspiration for attending the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, her colleague and former instructor at RADA, William Gaskill, Paul Newman who she stated she admired not just for his acting but also for his philanthropic efforts withNewman's Own, and Oprah Winfrey who Mosaku said she considers "a superwoman

NIGERIAN BRITISH ACTRESS NIKKI AMUKA BIRD

Nikki Amuka-Bird was born in Benin, Nigeria where her father lives. She left there as a young child and was brought up by her mother in the UK and in Antigua. Attending boarding-school in Britain, Amuka-Bird originally hoped to be a dancer until that ambition was thwarted by injury: "I hurt my back and at that point was deciding what to do university-wise and I thought I would try for drama college because I knew you could do some dancing there but it didn't have to take over everything. It was only really when I went to drama college that that world [acting] opened up to me and I fell in love with it and became obsessed like everybody else.”She went to LAMDA and subsequently performed with the RSC for the first time.

Her theatrical credits include Welcome to Thebes (National Theatre); Twelfth Night (Bristol Old Vic, for which she won an Ian Charleson Award nomination in 2004 for playing Viola); World Music (Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, and Donmar Warehouse); Top Girls (Oxford Stage Company);A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest and The Servant of Two Masters (Royal Shakespeare Company); Doubt: A Parable (Tricycle Theatre).

Her film credits include The Omen (2006 remake), Cargo, Almost Heaven as well as the screen adaptation of Alexander McCall Smith's novel The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. On television, Amuka-Bird has appeared in Spooks, The Line of Beauty, The Last Enemy, Robin Hood,Torchwood, and a recurring role in the reimagined BBC apocalyptic series Survivors. In 2010 she appeared as Det. Supt Gaynor Jenkins in the BBC's Silent Witness.

She appeared in the BBC adaptation of Andrea Levy's award-winning novel, Small Island, broadcast in December 2009

Jacob Taio Cruz (born 23 April 1985) in London, to a Nigerian father and a Brazilian mother also known professionally as Taio Cruz is a singer-songwriter, record producer, occasional rapper and entrepreneur. In 2008, he released his debut album Departure, which he wrote, arranged and produced himself. It achieved initial success in the United Kingdom and earned him a MOBO Award nomination.

Cruz began writing songs when he was 12. His songwriting career began at age 19 as part of Tricky Stewart's writing collective, RedZone Entertainment. Cruz achieved notability in 2005 when he was awarded a Brit Award for co-writing Will Young's 2004 single, "Your Game".

Cruz is the founder and chief executive of Rokstarr Music London, which in 2006 released his debut single "I Just Wanna Know". The single attracted significant attention from radio, and also from music industry insiders, who were already well aware of the artist's potential; manager Jamie Binns, who began representing Cruz at this time, later told HitQuarters: "He was a guy that everyone had earmarked to do damage in the future". Although the single received a reasonable amount of radio airplay, it did not perform as well as expected in either territory. However, rather than lose faith in Cruz, the labels were eager to negotiate an album deal, as by this time they had listened to his other songs and were ever more convinced by his capability.

Adetomiwa Edun is a Nigerian-born British actor best known for his role as Sir Elyan in the television show Merlin. Edun was born in Lagos, Nigeria, to a Nigerian father and a half-Ghanaian, half-English mother. Edun moved to the United Kingdom at the age of 11. Edun has also appeared in several television shows. In 2009, he appeared in an episode of The Fixer, before a role in Law & Order: UK as a soldier returning from the war in Afghanistan. During series three of Merlin, Edun appeared as Elyan in three episodes, and was upgraded to a recurring character in series four. Elyan was killed off during the fifth and final series of Merlin in 2012. In 2011, he appeared in two episodes of The Hour as the character Sey, and reprised the role for three episodes in 2012. He is set to play the lead in Anthony Onah’s debut feature, Passengers.

Edun was born in Lagos, Nigeria, to a Nigerian father and a half-Ghanaian, half-English mother. Edun moved to the United Kingdom at the age of 11. He attended Eton College from the age of 13, before reading Classics at Christ's College, Cambridge (University of Cambridge). In his final year at Christ's College, he won the dissertation prize for his thesis on Homer's Odyssey His father, a financier, encouraged Edun to enter banking as a career, and he interned with Citigroup He considered studying for a Master of Philosophy degree, but decided to attend the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) instead

In 2000, Edun appeared at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, as the character Clifford in the show Kassandra by Ivo Stourton. Edun attended RADA, appearing in several productions and graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Acting in 2008. Following his graduation from RADA, he played small parts in productions at the Almeida Theatre and the Liverpool Playhouse. He also played Macbeth in a production of the eponymous play by the National Theatre, earning praise for being "charismatic" and a "fine verse speaker". In 2009, Edun became only the second black actor to play Romeo at the Globe Theatre when he was cast in Dominic Dromgoole's production of Romeo and Juliet He also appeared in Slaves, a play by Rex Obano.

Edun has also appeared in several television shows. In 2009, he appeared in an episode of The Fixer, before a role in Law & Order: UK as a soldier returning from the war in Afghanistan. During series three of Merlin, Edun appeared as Elyan in three episodes, and was upgraded to a recurring character in series four. Elyan was killed off during the fifth and final series of Merlin in 2012. In 2011, he appeared in two episodes of The Hour as the character Sey, and reprised the role for three episodes in 2012. He is set to play the lead in Anthony Onah's debut feature, Passengers.

Lemar Obika (born 4 April 1978), professionally known simply as Lemar, is a Nigerian English R&B singer–songwriter and record producer. Lemar has had a run of chart success in the United Kingdom, Europe and Australia. He rose to fame after finishing in third place on the first series of British talent show Fame Academy, which was won by songwriter David Sneddon. Since then, Lemar has had seven top ten UK singles and sold over two million albums. He is seen as one of the most successful artists to come out of a reality TV show.Lemar has also won two Brit Awards and three MOBO Awards to date and released his fifth studio album in 2012.

Lemar Obika was born in Tottenham, North London, England to Nigerian parents of Enugu State, South Eastern Nigeria. He grew up listening to R&B and soul music. He used to sing at home with his brothers and sister, pretending to be The Jacksons.

He was 17 when he had his first concert at the Junior Jam at 'The Temple' in Tottenham supporting Usher. Later on he gave up an opportunity to study pharmacy at Cardiff University to pursue a musical career. Lemar had some success supporting various artists such as Destiny's Child, Total, Uncle Sam and Usher Raymond on their UK club tours and after some years, managed to secure a recording contract with BMG. Following this, he released his debut single "Got Me Saying Ooh". His record deal with BMG fell through in less than a year due to restructuring at the record label.^[3] He had to eventually take a job working as an accounts manager at NatWest in Enfield, North London.

Enuka Vanessa Okuma (born September 20, 1976) is an actress of Nigerian descent,.She is best known for her work on the TV series Madison, on the TV series Sue Thomas F.B. Eye, and the Nickelodeon teen drama Fifteen. She currently portrays Traci Nash in the Canadian drama and is known internationally for portraying the role of Marika Donoso on the seventh season of the Fox series 24.

Okuma is  credited alternatively as Enuka Okuma and Enuka Vanessa Okuma. She provided the voice of Lady Une in Gundam Wing, and of Jade in the Canadian animated series War Planets and also in an episode of MythQuest. On July 2, 2011 she married Joe Gasparin.

Also in 2011, she made her directorial debut in the short film, Cookie, on which she is also credited as writer, actor, and executive producer