29 Notable alumni of
University of Benin
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The University of Benin is 1399th in the world, 33rd in Africa, and 8th in Nigeria by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 29 notable alumni from the University of Benin sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Babatunde Fashola
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Babatunde Raji Fashola CON SAN is a Nigerian lawyer and politician who served as the federal minister of Works and Housing of Nigeria from 2019 to 2023. He was the minister of Power, Works and Housing from 2015 to 2019. He also served two terms as governor of Lagos State from 2007 to 2015.
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Richard Mofe Damijo
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- actorpolitician
- Biography
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Richard Evans Mofe-Damijo, popularly known as RMD, is a foremost Nigerian actor, writer, producer, lawyer, and former journalist. He was also a Commissioner for Culture and Tourism in Delta State in 2009. In 2005, he won the Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 12th Africa Movie Academy Awards in 2016. In 2024, he was honoured with the Industry Merit Awards, alongside Iya Rainbow at the Africa Magic Viewers' Choice Awards.
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Omoni Oboli
- Occupations
- film produceractorscreenwriterfilm directorbrand ambassador
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Omoni Oboli listen is a Nigerian actress, scriptwriter, film director, producer and digital filmmaker. She studied at the New York Film Academy and has written several screenplays, including The Figurine (2009), Anchor Baby (2010), Fatal Imagination, Being Mrs Elliott, The First Lady and Wives on Strike (2016). In 2018, she starred and directed the comedy film, Moms at War.
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Reno Omokri
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- writercriticlawyer
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Reno Omokri is a Nigerian author, columnist, adventure traveller, and social media influencer.
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John Ighodaro
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- audio engineersongwriterDJ producersinger
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John Ighodaro, professionally known as Johnny Drille, is a Nigerian singer and songwriter. He first came into the spotlight when he released a cover of "Awww" by Di'Ja. He is currently signed to Mavin Records.
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Basketmouth
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- comedianactor
- Biography
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Bright Okpocha, better known by his stage name Basketmouth, is a Nigerian comedian and actor. He has organized popular stand-up comedy concerts like Basketmouth Uncensored across the globe.
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Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede
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- bankereconomist
- Biography
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Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede FCIB, CON is a Nigerian businessman, banker, investor and philanthropist.
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Raymond Dokpesi
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- politician
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Chief Raymond Anthony Aleogho Dokpesi was a Nigerian media businessman and politician. His parents were from Agenebode, Edo state in a family including six sisters. He entered the Nigerian mass media industry with his company, the DAAR Communications and set up the Nigerian TV network Africa Independent Television (AIT). He was the organising committee chairman of the People's Democratic Party national conference in 2015. As of March 2020, he was undergoing a trial on corruption charges. In May 2020, Dokpesi survived a COVID-19 infection. He suffered a stroke shortly after the 2023 Ramadan and died from a fall on his treadmill on 29 May 2023.
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Kefee
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- composersinger
- Biography
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Evelyn Irikefe Don Momoh, also referred to by her stage name Kefee, was a Nigerian gospel singer and composer.
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Tom Ilube
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- business executiveactivistphilanthropist
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Thomas Segun Ilube CBE is a British entrepreneur and educational philanthropist and former chair of the Rugby Football Union making him the first black chair of a major sport in England. He is the Chair of The King’s Trust in the UK.
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Osagie Ize-Iyamu
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- politicianpastorlawyerfarmer
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Osagie Ize-Iyamu is a Nigerian pastor, politician, and a former Chief of Staff and Secretary to the Edo state government. He was the gubernatorial candidate of the Edo state People's Democratic Party for the 2016 Edo state gubernatorial election. He is currently a member of the All Progressives Congress. Ize-Iyamu was the National Vice-Chairman, South-South Zone, of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN).
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Emmanuel Uduaghan
- Enrolled in the University of Benin
- Graduated with Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery in medicine
- Occupations
- politicianphysician
- Biography
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Dr. Emmanuel Eweta Uduaghan is a retired Nigerian politician and doctor who served as Governor of Delta State from 2007 to 2015. He assumed office via an inconclusive election on 29 May 2007 and was a member of the People's Democratic Party (PDP). He was reelected in 2011.
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Kelvin Ikeduba
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- film actor
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Kelvin Ngozi Ikeduba is a Nigerian actor who won the award for Best Cross Over Actor at the 2014 Yoruba Movie Academy Awards (YMAA). He is predominantly known for his diversity in the Nigerian movie industry as he has been featured in Nollywood movies where the English language is commonly used in their productions and also has been featured in diverse Yoruba only speaking movies produced by the Yoruba movie industry of Nigeria.
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Paramanga Ernest Yonli
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- diplomatpolitician
- Biography
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Paramanga Ernest Yonli also known as Ernest Paramanga Yonli, is a Burkinabé politician. He was Prime Minister from 6 November 2000 to 3 June 2007 and then President of the Economic and Social Council of Burkina Faso until March 2015.
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Ernest Azudialu Obiejesi
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- businessperson
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Ernest Nnaemeka Azudialu Obiejesi is a Nigerian business magnate and philanthropist. He is the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of Nestoil and the founder of the Obijackson Foundation.
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Ego Boyo
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- actorfilmmaker
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Nwakaego Boyo (née Nnamani; born 6 September 1968) is a Nigerian actress, producer, executive producer and creative entrepreneur who is popular for her role as Anne Haatrope in the early 90s soap, Checkmate. She is the founder and Managing Director of Temple Productions, Temple films and Temple Studio.
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Ijeoma Uchegbu
- Enrolled in the University of Benin
- Studied in 1981
- Occupations
- science communicatorresearcherpharmacologist
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Dame Ijeoma Florence Uchegbu DBE is a Nigerian-British professor of pharmacy at University College London, where she held the position of Pro-Vice Provost for Africa and the Middle East. She is the Chief Scientific Officer of Nanomerics, a pharmaceutical nanotechnology company specialising in drug delivery solutions for poorly water-soluble drugs, nucleic acids and peptides. She is also a Governor of the Wellcome, a large biomedical research charity. Apart from her highly cited scientific research in Pharmaceutical Nanoscience, Uchegbu is also known for her work in science public engagement and equality and diversity in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). In December 2023, it was announced that she will become President of Wolfson College, Cambridge, in October 2024.
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Doris Nkiruka Uzoka-Anite
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- physicianpoliticianbanker
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Doris Nkiruka Uzoka-Anite is a Nigerian politician, medical doctor and financial analyst. She served as Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment of Nigeria between August 2023 and October 2024. She is the Nigerian Minister of State for Finance, a position she assumed in November 2, 2024.
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Suyi Davies Okungbowa
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- writeruniversity teacher
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Suyi Davies Okungbowa is a Nigerian fantasy, science fiction and speculative writer and academic. His debut novel, David Mogo, Godhunter was published in July 2019.
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Emmanuel Eni
- Occupations
- conceptual artistpainterinstallation artistsculptor
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Emmanuel Eni AKA Blackman in European Kitchen, is a Nigerian-born German artist and poet. He is known as a painter, sculptor, multimedia artist, performance artist and poet. THE NATION Newspapers describes him as one of the world’s most outstanding contemporary artists. Recently, he was listed in Forbes as one of the most famous and popular artists in 2020. Eni, who is famous for his fearless, soul-searching, philosophical art is described as an iconoclast of uncommon proportion
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Mildred Okwo
- Years
- 1966-.. (age 59)
- Occupations
- screenwriterfilm directorfilm producer
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Mildred Okwo is a Nigerian film director and producer. She was nominated for Best Director award at the 4th Africa Movie Academy Awards. In 2012, she directed the romance comedy-drama film The Meeting which won several awards including Nigeria Entertainment Awards, Africa Movie Academy Awards and Nollywood Movies Awards.
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Darlington Obaseki
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- pathologist
- Biography
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Darlington Ewaen Obaseki is a Nigerian Professor of Histopathology and the present Chief Medical Director of the University of Benin Teaching Hospital, Benin City.
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Chris Ekiyor
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- dentistpolitician
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Chris Ekiyor is a dental surgeon and the president emeritus of the Ijaw Youth Council. He is the founder of RAHI Medical Outreach.
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Charles Rotimi
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- researcher
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Charles Nohuoma Rotimi is the Scientific Director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI). He joined the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2008 as the inaugural Director of the Trans-NIH Center for Research in Genomics and Global Health and was also the chief of the NHGRI's Metabolic, Cardiovascular, and Inflammatory Disease Genomics Branch. He works to ensure that population genetics include genomes from African populations and founded the African Society of Human Genetics in 2003 and was elected its first president. Rotimi was instrumental in the launch of the Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa) with the NIH and the Wellcome Trust. He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2018.
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Abiodun Falodun
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Nigeria - Occupations
- academicchemist
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Abiodun Falodun is a professor of pharmaceutical chemistry from Nigeria. He was the Deputy Vice Chancellor of the University of Benin and currently the Rector of Edo State Polytechnic, Usen. He was appointed by the Governor of Edo state, Godwin Obaseki and sworn in on April 4, 2018.
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Akanimo Odon
- Born in
- Nigeria
- Occupations
- film producer
- Biography
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Dr. Akanimo Odon is an international business and strategy development expert from Nigeria. He specializes in education and training, energy and environment, oil and gas, media, charities and government. He is the African Advisor for Lancaster University and University of London. He lives in England and he is the CEO of Envirofly Consulting Limited, co-founder of Xn Foundation and also the founder of Flexy-Learn and Academia for Green Africa Initiative.
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Cecilia Omaile Ojabo
- Years
- 1960-.. (age 65)
- Occupations
- physiciancivil servantacademic
- Biography
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Cecilia Omaile Ojabo is the former Commissioner of Health and Human Services in Benue State, Nigeria. She was sworn in by Governor Samuel Ortom in 2015. She is also an associate professor of Ophthalmology at the Benue State University Teaching Hospital (BSUTH). As a Commissioner she worked towards improving healthcare in rural areas of Benue State. She also worked towards making hospitals more functional; increasing number of medical staff; and getting rid of polio infection and cholera outbreaks in the entire state.
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Patience Maseli
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Patience Oghogho Maseli is a former Deputy Director of the Upstream Division at the Department of Petroleum Resources, a position from which she retired in November 2018. She is the first woman to hold that position. She was the head of the first steering committee of Women in Geosciences and Engineering (WiGE). She christened a Drillship West Capella in South Korea on which her name is inscribed.
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Reynolds Bekinbo Dagogo-Jack
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- engineerpolitician
- Biography
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Reynolds Bekinbo Dagogo-Jack, popularly known as "Beks", is a Nigerian civil engineer, technocrat, entrepreneur, and public servant. For over thirty years, he has been active in both the public and private sector, especially in areas of government/public administration and project management including engineering, construction and manufacturing.
