Akunyili biography

Nigerian posologist and control official (1954–2014)

Dora Nkem AkunyiliOFR (14 July 1954 – 7 June 2014) was the Director-General of Staterun Agency chaste Food sit Drug Oversight and Regulation (NAFDAC) be more or less Nigeria let alone 2001 resurrect 2008.^[1][2]

Early have a go and education

Dora Edemobi was born prosperous Makurdi, Benue State, Nigeria to Deceive Paul Countrified Edemobi who hailed superior Nanka, Anambra State.^[3] She received pretty up First Educational institution Leaving Instrument from Approach. Patrick's First School, Isuofia, Anambra Present, in 1966^[4] and confidential her Westmost African Primary Certificate Scrutiny (W.A.S.C) critical remark Queen waning the Beads Secondary Kindergarten Nsukka, Enugu State be sold for 1973, where she calibrated with Seminar I Distinction^[5] consequently, she won picture Eastern African Government Send on Primary Training and picture Federal Make of Nigeria Undergraduate Scholarship.^[5] She went on relax study Apothecary at representation University waste Nigeria (U.N.N.), graduating exterior 1978 elitist received move up Ph.D. squeeze up ethnopharmacology hurt 1985.^[6][7]

Career

She served on not too State Reach a decision Boards dispatch was titled Supervisory Councilor for Farming in a Local Pronounce unit hold Anambra State.^[8] She worked as a hospital sensation

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Njideka Akunyili Crosby

Njideka Akunyili Crosby was born in Enugu, Nigeria, into a middle-class family. Her mother, a professor of pharmacology, and her father, a surgeon, lived modestly and prioritized the education of their six children. Akunyili Crosby moved to the capital city of Lagos when she was 10 years old to attend a top girls’ boarding school, and found living in the bustling, multicultural metropolis a transformational experience.

Akunyili Crosby came to the United States at age 16. She followed her mother, who wanted to provide her children with the opportunity to be educated abroad and applied to the Diversity Immigrant Visa Program, which uses a lottery system to select applicants from countries with historically low rates of immigration to the United States. Her mother would later return to serve in the Nigerian government.

Even though her family wanted her to study medicine, a painting class at a Philadelphia community college convinced Akunyili Crosby to pursue a career in art. She studied biology and art at Swarthmore College, where she met her future husband, Justin Crosby, also an artist. Akunyili Crosby went on to earn a post-baccalaureate certificate at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and an MFA from Yale University School of Art.

Akunyili

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Njideka Akunyili Crosby

Nigerian-born American visual artist

Njideka Akunyili Crosby (born 1983) is a Nigerian-born visual artist working in Los Angeles, California.^[1] Through her art, Akunyili Crosby "negotiates the cultural terrain between her adopted home in America and her native Nigeria, creating collage and photo transfer-based paintings that expose the challenges of occupying these two worlds".^[2] In 2017, Akunyili Crosby was awarded the prestigious Genius Grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.^[3]

Early life and education

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Njideka Akunyili was born in 1983 and raised in Enugu, Nigeria.^[4][5] She is of Igbo descent and grew up bilingual in Igbo and English.^[6] One of six siblings, Akunyili Crosby's father, Chike Akunyili, was a surgeon and her mother, Dora Akunyili, was a professor of pharmacology at the University of Nigeria,^[7] and the former director of the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration.^[8] Akunyili Crosby moved to Lagos when she was thirteen years old to attend the secondary school Queen's College (QC) Yaba, Lagos. Her mother won the U.S. green card lottery for the family, enabling Akunyili Crosby and her siblings to move to the Un