66 Notable alumni of University of Nigeria

Dr Laz Unaogu was a Nigerian Minister of Science and Technology and Minister of Special Duties. He also held numerous political positions within the Nigerian government. He is known as the Physicist in Government.

Ousaman Jammeh is a Gambian politician.

Okechukwu Nwadiuto Emuchay, also referred to as "Okey Emuchay," is a diplomat and formerly Nigeria's Consul-General to South Africa.

Theresa Obumneme OkoliListen is a Nigerian academic.

Simon Aranonu is a Nigerian accountant and banking executive. He is the executive director of Large Enterprises at the Bank of Industry.

Uzoamaka Power Listen is a Nigerian actor, writer, and director. She is known for her starring roles in films that include Mami Wata (2023), The Weekend (2024), and With Difficulty Comes Ease (2024).

Victor Chukwunonso Nite Jnr. also known as Clef nite is a US-based Nigerian Afro-classical guitarist, performer and music producer. He is known for his percussive chord playing style on the classical guitar.

Prince Ihekwoaba // is a Nigerian former footballer.

Nancy Ekwulira Achebe // is a Nigerian professor of library and information science. She is the first vice president of the Nigerian School Library Association and the current head of the department of Library and Information Science at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN). She has also been the director of the School of General Studies at UNN, and has...

Helen Uche Ibezim // is a Nigerian educationist and an author who has published several books (novels, poetry. collection of plays and children's books) which include Your Gift is your Power (motivational book), Beyond the Heartbeat (novel) and The Ultimate Price & other plays (collection of plays).

Chinyere Ukaga is a professor of public health parasitology in the department of Animal and Environmental Biology, Imo State University, Owerri.

Apostle Sunday Popoola is a Nigerian pastor and the General Overseer of Word Communication Ministries and the presiding Apostle and Founder of Christ Family Assembly Churches.

Jephthah Elochukwu Unaegbu // is a Nigerian writer, researcher, freelance journalist, actor, and documentary film maker.

Azikiwe Peter Onwualu is a Nigerian professor of Agricultural engineering and Director General and Chief Executive Officer of the Raw Materials Research and Development Council (RMRDC) of Nigeria from 2010 to his retirement in 2014.

Onyema Ugochukwu // CON is a Nigerian economist, journalist, and politician. Ugochukwu served as the senior Special Adviser on Communication to Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo and the first Executive Chairman of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC). On 25 February 2008, an Abia State elections tribunal declared Ugochukwu the winner of the 2007 gubernatorial election and Governor-elect of Abia State....

Rasheed Oladimeji Alabi Suaibu listen is a Nigerian footballer who last played for Iranian club Sanat Naft.

C. J. Obasi listen is a Nigerian film director, screenwriter and editor.

Sonni OgbuojiListen is a Nigerian politician who was elected Senator for Ebonyi South, in Ebonyi State, Nigeria in the 9 April 2011 national elections. He was elected on the People's Democratic Party ticket. He left the senate in the 2019. Sonni hails from Ebunwana Edda in Afikpo South local government area of Ebonyi state.

Echezonachukwu Chinedu Nduka // is a Nigerian poet, pianist, author, recording artist, and ethnomusicologist specializing in African pianism by West African composers. His work has been featured on BBC, Radio Nacional Clasica de Argentina, Radio France International (rfi), and Classical Journey.

Ugochukwu-Smooth C. Nzewi is a Nigerian artist, art historian, and curator, currently curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at Museum of Modern Art in New York City. He was raised in Enugu and studied under sculptor El Anatsui at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, before traveling as an artist and curator. In the United States, he completed his...

Chioma Ude// is a Nigerian entertainment executive. In 2010, she founded Africa International Film Festival, a film festival held annually in Nigeria.

Nwabueze Jaja Wachuku Nwokolo, a royal princess of Ngwaland, is a Nigerian United Kingdom based lawyer who is council member at Law Society of England and Wales; including being a director and board chair of Great Britain's BSN: Black Solicitors Network, the largest membership organisation of its kind in Europe. Nwokolo is a member of the Law Society of England...

Professor Kate Azuka Omenugha // is a Nigerian professor, educator and politician who has been the acting-vice chancellor of the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Anambra State before her confirmation as the substantive Vice-chancellor on 6 August 2025 by governor Charles Soludo. She was the Commissioner of Basic Education, Anambra State, Nigeria from 2014 to March 2022.

Onigu Otite was a Nigerian sociologist. He was among the first set of students to attend the first indigenous Nigerian university - University of Nigeria, Nsukka. He wrote several books including The Urhobo People, On the Path of Progress, Ethnic Pluralism and Ethnic Conflicts in Nigeria, and Introduction to Sociology which he co-authored with William Ogionwo. The Urhobo Studies Association...

Nkechi Madonna Adeleine Agwu Listen is a mathematics teacher. Agwu is a naturalized American citizen, tenured faculty at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, part of the City University of New York, and was a director of the college's Center for Excellence in Teaching, Learning and Scholarship.

Chinelo Anohu is a Nigerian lawyer, public servant and administrator. She is the immediate past Director General and CEO of National Pension Commission,. She was a member of Pension Reform Committee of 2004 that introduced contributory pension scheme in Nigeria. In May 2019, she was appointed as the Head and Senior Director of the AfDB's Africa Investment Forum.

Lucy Ogechukwu Ejike // is a Nigerian Paralympic powerlifter. She has represented her country at six consecutive Paralympic Games from 2000 in Sydney through to 2021 in Tokyo. She has won medals at each, three gold, two silver and one bronze. She won a further silver medal at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth games women's lightweight category of the Para...

Solagbade Olufemi LanlehinListen is a Nigerian lawyer and politician. He represented the Oyo South Senatorial district in the 7th Senate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. He contested for the seat of Governor of Oyo state in the 2019 Oyo State gubernatorial election under the African Democratic Congress.

Nkechi Caroline Ikpeazu Listen was the First Lady of Abia State from 29 May 2015 to 29 May 2023, as wife of the former Governor of Abia State located in the southeast of Nigeria. She is also the Founder and President of Vicar Hope Foundation, a non-profit organisation that has Special Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social...

Nnenna Okorelisten is an Australian-born Nigerian artist who lives and works in Chicago at North Park University, Chicago. Her largely abstract sculptural forms are inspired by richly textured forms and colours within the natural environment. Okore's work frequently uses flotsam or discarded objects to create intricate sculptures and installations through repetitive and labor-intensive processes. She learnt some of her intricate...

Onyeka Nwelue is a Nigerian author, filmmaker, publisher, and talk-show host. He has written over 40 books, including The Strangers of Braamfontein, which won a Crime Fiction Lovers Award and was described by Wole Soyinka as "raunchy". His book, Hip-Hop Is Only for Children, won Non-Fiction Writer of the Year at the 2015 Nigerian Writers Awards. He adapted his novella...

Olisa Metuh // is a Nigerian lawyer and politician, he was the former national publicity secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party from 2012 to 2016.

Okechukwu Enelamah is Nigeria's former Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment. He was nominated by President Muhammadu Buhari to join the Federal Cabinet in October 2015 and appointed to the Industry, Trade, and Investment portfolio in November 2015. He served in this position till 2019.

Oserheimen Aigberaodion Osunbor is a Nigerian lawyer and politician who served as the governor of Edo State from 2007 to 2008. He served as the senator representing the Edo Central senatorial district from the start of the fourth republic in 1999 to 2007.

Chief Ojo Maduekwe // was a Nigerian politician of Igbo origin, from Asaga, Ohafia in Ohafia Local Government Area, Abia State.

Nkiru "Kiki" MordiListen is a Nigerian investigative journalist, filmmaker, writer and entrepreneur. She dropped out of school because she was harassed by a lecturer in her school. This ordeal was what led her to shoot the Sex for Grades video with the BBC Africa Eye. The documentary exposed the depth of sexual harassment among Nigerians and Ghanaian lecturers. In 2016,...

Olu Oguibe is a Nigerian-born American artist and academic. Professor of Art and African-American Studies at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, Oguibe is a senior fellow of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School, New York City, and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. He is also an art historian, art curator, and leading contributor...

Kemafo Nonyerem "Kema" ChikweListen is a former Nigerian Federal Minister of Aviation. She currently holds the position of National Women Leader of the Nigerian political party PDP.

Okwesilieze Nwodo // is a Nigerian politician who was elected Governor of Enugu State in January 1992 during the Third Nigerian Republic.

Francisca Nneka Okeke Listen is a Nigerian physicist. She is a professor of physics at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka and first female head of a department in the university.

Ifeoma Mokwugo Okoye // born on 21st December is a Nigerian novelist. She has been referred to by fans as "the most important female novelist from Nigeria after Flora Nwapa and Buchi Emecheta," according to Oyekan Owomoyela. She was born in Anambra State in Eastern Region, Nigeria. She went to school at St. Monica's College in Ogbunike to receive a...

Obi Emelonyelisten is a Nigerian film director. He is known for directing award-winning films such as Last Flight to Abuja (2012), The Mirror Boy (2011), and Onye Ozi (2013).

Kelechi Amadi-Obi // is a Nigerian creative photographer, painter, artist and the publisher of Mania Magazine. His work in photography and visual art has earned him international renown featuring in many international exhibitions including Snap Judgment: New Position in contemporary African Photography, International center of photography New York (2006). He has been described as one of Nigeria's groundbreaking celebrity photographers...

Herbert Onyewumbu Wigwe CFR was a Nigerian banker and businessman. He was the group managing director and CEO of Access Bank Plc, one of Nigeria's top five banking institutions, after succeeding his business partner, Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede.

Francis Arinze is a Nigerian prelate of the Catholic Church, who served as the Prefect of the Secretariat for Non-Christians from 1984 to 2002 and Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments from 2002 to 2008. He previously served as the Archbishop of Onitsha from 1967 to 1985 and as the president of the...

Godwin Ifeanyi Emefiele CFR is a Nigerian politician, economist and banker who served as governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria from 4 June 2014 until he was succeeded by Folashodun Shonubi, on 9 June 2023.

Bianca Odinakachukwu Olivia Odumegwu-Ojukwu Listen is a Nigerian politician, diplomat, lawyer, businesswoman and beauty pageant titleholder. She currently serves as the Federal Minister of State for Foreign Affairs. The widow of Biafra President Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, she is a multiple international pageant titleholder, having won Most Beautiful Girl in Nigeria, Miss Africa, and Miss Intercontinental. Formerly a presidential advisor, she...

Dora Nkem Akunyili // OFR was the Director-General of National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) of Nigeria from 2001 to 2008.

Aituaje Aina Vivian Ebele Iruobe, known professionally as Waje (an acronym for "Words Aren't Just Enough"), is a Nigerian singer. She first gained recognition after being featured on the remake of P-Square’s "Omoge Mi". Waje was also featured on the duo's 2008 hit track "Do Me". She contributed vocals to Banky W's "Thief My Kele" and M.I's "One Naira". In...

Obiageli "Oby" Ezekwesili // is a Nigerian economic policy expert, an advocate for transparency, accountability, good governance and human capital development, a humanitarian and an activist. She is a former vice president for the World Bank (Africa region), co-founder and founding director of Transparency International, co-founder of the #BringBackOurGirls movement and has served twice as federal Minister in Nigeria. She...

Kingsley Chiedu Moghalu OON is a Nigerian political economist and the President of the African School of Governance (ASG), a pan-African graduate school focused on public policy and governance based in Kigali, Rwanda. He served as Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, appointed by President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua, from 2009 to 2014. He subsequently taught at Tufts University...

Patrick Okedinachi Utomi Listen is a Nigerian professor of political economy and management expert. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants of Nigeria and a former presidential candidate. He is the founder of Centre for Value in Leadership (CVL) and the political party, the African Democratic Congress. He is a professor at Lagos Business School, and has...

Christopher Oghenebrorie Okotie is a Nigerian televangelist and the pastor of the Household of God Church International Ministries, a Pentecostal congregation in Lagos since February 1987.

Nonso Diobi is a Nigerian actor and film director. While studying theatre art at the University of Nigeria in Enugu State, he made his on-screen debut in the 2001 film Border Line followed by Hatred. His breakthrough role was in Across the Bridge where he gained recognition across Africa. Diobi is a native of Nawfia, in Anambra State. He is...

Chimaroke Nnamani is a Nigerian medical doctor and politician from Enugu State. He was elected Governor of Enugu State in the 1999 Enugu State gubernatorial election from 1999 to 2007. He subsequently served as a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Senator for Enugu East Senatorial District from 2007 to 2011 and was re-elected in 2019.

Emmanuel Chukwuemeka Iwuanyanwu was a Nigerian politician and businessman. He was considered one of the richest Igbo men in Nigeria. Iwuanyanwu was until his death the 11th president-general of Ọhanaeze Ndigbo; preceded by George Obiozor.

Kalu Egbui Ikeagwu listen is a British-Nigerian actor and a writer. As an actor he received many awards and nominations because of his performance on the screen.

Chikwe Ihekweazu // is a Nigerian epidemiologist, public health physician and the World Health Organization's Assistant Director-General for Health Emergency Intelligence and Surveillance Systems.

Enoch Adejare Adeboye Listen is a Nigerian pastor, and the present General Overseer of The Redeemed Christian Church of God. He served as the second national president of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria.

Bennet Ifeakandu Omalu is a Nigerian and American physician, forensic pathologist, and neuropathologist who was the first to discover and publish findings on chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in American football players while working at the Allegheny County coroner's office in Pittsburgh. He later became the chief medical examiner for San Joaquin County, California, and is a professor at the University...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian writer, whose works include fiction, nonfiction, and lectures. She is widely recognised as a central figure in postcolonial feminist literature.

Adamu Abu Kasim is a Nigerian botanist and professor of science. He was appointed as vice chancellor of Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai by Abubakar Sani Bello, assumed office in December 2019.

Viola Adaku Onwuliri // is a university professor of Biochemistry and politician who served as Nigeria's Foreign Minister.

Ike Ekweremadu is a Nigerian politician and a lawyer who hails from Enugu State and served in the Senate of Nigeria for Enugu West from 3 June 2003 to 5 May 2023. He is a member of the People's Democratic Party, and was the Deputy President of the Nigerian Senate for three (3) consecutive (6th, 7th and 8th) senate. On...

Olufunke Baruwa Listen is a Nigerian gender and development practitioner, feminist and public speaker with a focus on gender, public policy and governance. For more than two decades, she has been at the forefront of social policies and reforms in Nigeria working with government, civil society, and international development partners.