Press Release: August 26, 2010, New York-Subsequent to a notice widely circulated early last month among Nigerians in the Diaspora regarding the Distinguished 50 at Nigeria's 50th Independence Anniversary, we have now received a fairly long list of nominees from Nigerians in the US and Canada. SELECTION Empowered Newswire is asking a select group of outstanding Nigerians to join in helping to finalize the list and pick the top 50. Those Nigerians asked to constitute the Advisory Selection Board, will not be eligible for consideration on the list this year. FOR NOW, while the process for additional members are on-going, we have confirmed these outstanding Nigerians: 1. DR. OKEY NDIBE, PhD, Professor of English at Trinity College, Connecticut, and ace columnist 2. DR. OLA AKINBOBOYE, MD, Award-winning Nuclear Cardiologist and Professor of Medicine at STONYBROOK U, New York 3. DR. NIMI WARIBOKO, PhD, Professor of Christian Ethics at Andover Newton Theological School, Boston, and senior RCCG North America official, who has kindly accepted to chair the group At this time we are still reaching out to a few more of such Nigerians who are willing to serve in this capacity and agree that their names will not be considered for the top 50 list at this time. IF you readily have any outstanding Nigerian in mind who can join this group, do give us their names and contact. AWARD DINNER: Due to a popular demand, we are also tweaking the project to include a dinner where the honorees would be hosted at a gala event and presented with the award on OCTOBER 16, 2010 in New York. So please mark the date now and look out for more details of the event where top dignitaries would be present including the new Nigerian Ambassador to the United States, Prof. Ade Adefuye, the Vice President of the World Bank, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili, US-based oil man, Founder/Chairman of CAMAC Energy Dr. Kase Lawal among many others would be present. It's October 16-MARK THE DATE! LAOLU AKANDE EMPOWERED NEWSWIRE
'DISTINGUISHED 50' AT NIGERIA'S 50TH INDEPENDENCE ANNIVERSARY Empowered Newswire is compiling a list of top 50 Nigerians based in the US and Canada to commemorate Nigeria's 50th Anniversary. The outcome of the list and stories will be used and published in a number of media outlets and avenues in North America and Nigeria. Here is a call for open-nomination of such distinguished Nigerians who are based either in the US or Canada. All forms of nominations are welcomed as we try to compile the top 50. Three things are however required of all nominees: 1. EVIDENTLY OUTSTANDING: The individual must be evidently an outstanding professional in any area of human endeavor, including but not limited to academia or business. 2. WELL NOTED IN A US OR CANADIAN COMMUNITY: The individual should belong to a community, be it city, state, industry, field, calling, etc-and should be well noted and known in any such community or association 3. SIGNIFICANT IMPACT: Such an individual should not only be outstanding and noted, there has to be evidence of significant impact in North America first and foremost and/or elsewhere as it may be. Also the individual must have had a positive impact promoting Nigerians, larger Nigerian interests and values ALL NOMINATIONS INCLUDING SELF-NOMINATION-IF YOU FIT THE BILL OR KNOW ANYONE WHO DOES, SHOULD BE SENT TO EMPOWERED NEWSWIRE, PO BOX 1031 WYANDANCH NY 11798 or emailed to empowered42@gmail.comDeadline is July 26, 2010. *FEEL FREE TO CIRCULATE THIS TO AS MANY NIGERIAN GROUPS, ASSOCIATIONS IN NORTH AMERICA, WEB SITES AND SO ON ABOUT US: Empowered Newswire is a US-based independent Nigerian news agency founded by Laolu Akande, a long-standing Nigerian journalist currently based in New York. Both Empowered Newswire and Akande have longed reported on the activities of Nigerians abroad for well over a decade including news reports that celebrate the achievements of top-ranking Nigerians abroad.
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