[PHOTO] See The Four Nigerians elected into British parliament

Four Nigerian-born Britons  were yesterday elected as members of the British Parliament.

They are Chuka Harrison Umunna, Helen Grant, Chi Onwurah and Kate Osamor.

Umunna, the  Labour Party Shadow Business Secretary was re-elected to represent  Streatham .He is aged 36 and was first elected in 2010.

Grant, 53, is also returning to the parliament  but on the platform of the Conservative Party.

She is representing  Maidstone and The Weald in Kent and the current Minister for Sport, Tourism & Equalities. Grant is the Conservatives’ first female black MP.

Onwurah  was re-elected  by her......
constituents in Newcastle upon Tyne Central  on the  ticket of the  Labour Party.

She was  first elected in 2010 to replace Jim Cousins, who decided to step down .

Osamor is also of the Labour Party  and she is representing   Edmonton constituency in London.

Meanwhile, another Nigerian-born Dr.Benjamin Ola.Akande was yesterday named  the 21st president of the 164-year-old Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri,USA.

He will take office July 1, succeeding Dr. George B. Forsythe, president since 2008, who is retiring after 10 years at Westminster.

“We’re proud to introduce Dr. Akande as president of Westminster College,” said Wallace L. Head, chairman of the Westminster Board of Trustees. “We’ve achieved our year-long goal of finding the most qualified person to lead Westminster and to continue executing our strategic plan.

“It includes developing leaders for a global community by establishing one of the country’s most internationally diverse colleges, and maintaining a graduate placement rate that exceeds 95 percent,” he added.

Dr. Akande, who is an  American citizen, serves as a professor of economics and Dean of the George Herbert Walker School of Business and Technology at Webster University in St. Louis. He also leads Webster’s global Office of Corporate Partnerships.

Dr. Akande  moved to the U.S. to attend Wayland Baptist University in Plainview, Texas , where he earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Oklahoma, and completed his post-doctoral studies at Harvard and Oxford.

Head said Dr. Akande was selected for his academic and administrative qualifications and because “he’s a results-oriented leader with strategic vision and proven experience in the areas of global strategy, marketing, and leadership.”

Akande said he proudly accepted this new challenge and looks forward to continuing Westminster’s mission.

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