Chris Anyanwu – 50 Greatest Nigerians of All Time?
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This video features: Chris Anyawu. Does she make the cut as one of the 50 Greatest Nigerians of All Time?
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Christiana Anyanwu MFR was born in October 28, 1951 in Ahiara. She is a Nigerian journalist, publisher, author, and politician, hailed as one of the female pioneers in Nigerian journalism and broadcasting. She was elected Senator for the Imo East constituency in 2007.
She attended Owerri Girls Secondary School before moving to USA where she acquired a Bachelors Degree in Journalism and a Masters Degree in Mass Communication from the University of Missouri and Florida State University respectively.
After graduating, she returned to Nigeria, and worked for the NTA and the Imo Broadcasting Corporation. She was appointed in 1987 as Imo State commissioner for Information, Youth, Sports, Culture and Social Welfare. Following her tenure as commissioner, she became the publisher/editor-in-chief of TSM (The Sunday Magazine).
Anyanwu was arrested following the publication of a story about a failed coup d’état against the government of Sani Abacha – whom she had refused to endorse as president – She and other Nigerian journalists were accused of being “accessories to facts of treason”. Anyanwu was prosecuted in camera by a military court and sentenced to life imprisonment, later reduced to 15 years in October 1995 following pressure from national and international human rights groups. While being held in deplorable conditions in Gombe prison, she went partially blind.
Shortly after her imprisonment, she received the International Women’s Media Foundation Courage in Journalism Award, making news around the world. Anyanwu was released by Abacha’s successor General Abdulsalam Abubakar on health grounds. She embarked on a two-year break in Virginia where she wrote the book Days of Terror, based on Nigeria’s struggle during dictatorship. In 2005, Anyanwu opened her radio station and was featured in the PBS Frontline production titled NIGERIA – The Road North;
In 2007, during the Nigerian general election, Anyanwu was elected to the Senate on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party as a representative of Owerri Zone, Imo State, Nigeria. After taking her seat in the Senate she was appointed to committees on Women and Youth, States & Local Government, Millennium Development Goals, Health, Environment and Defense & Army. In a mid-term evaluation of Senators in May 2009, This Day noted that she had sponsored bills on Occupational Health and Safety and to Criminalize and Punish Discrimination and Segregation against Nigerians, and had sponsored seven motions. The report described her as an engaging contributor to debates in plenary who was active in the committees.
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This video series highlights the 50 GREATEST NIGERIANS OF ALL TIME.
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Our list of 50 Greatest Nigerians in History includes (but is not limited to:)
Abike Dabiri
Abubakar Tafawa Balewa
Agbani Darego
Ahmadu Bello
Bishop Ajayi Crowther
Alex Ekwueme
Aliko Dangote
Babatunde Olatunji
Bamanga Tukur
Ben Murray
Ben Okri
Bimbo Odukoya
Biship Francis Arinze
Bola Ige
Buchi Emecheta
Charles Soludo
Chief Osita Osadebe
Chinua Achebe
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Chioma Ajunwa
Chris Abani
Chris Anyawu
Dele Momodu
Dick Tiger
Dr Alban
Dora Akunyili
Ebenezer Obey
Fela Anikulapo Kuti
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Gani Fawehinmi
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Grace Williams
Hakeem Olajuwon
Ibrahim Gambari
Ifueko Omoigui
Jimi Agbaje
JJ Okocha
King Sunny Ade (Sunday Adeniyi)
Michael Adenuga
Moshood Kashimawo (MKO) Abiola
Ngozi Okonjo Iweala
Nnamdi Azikiwe
Nuhu Ribadu
Nwankwo Kanu
Obafemi Awolowo (Awo!)
Obiageli Ezekwesili
Odemegwu Ojukwu
Okey Ndibe
Olusegun Obasanjo
Patrick Utomi
Philip Emeagwali
Sade Adu
Samuel Peter
Seal
Tunde Baiyewu
Wole Soyinka
Yakubu Gowon
Muhammadu Buhari
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