Top 10 Most Powerful

Celebrities in Nigeria 2015

Wole Soyinka is a Nigerian playwright and poet.

He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first African to be honored in that category.

Soyinka has published 20 plays including The Lion and the Jewel, A Dance of Forests and The Strong Breed.

Femi Kuti, is a Nigerian musician and the eldest son of afrobeat pioneer Fela Kuti.

He created his own band Positive Force in the late 1980s with Dele Sosimi. In 2002, he contributed a remake of his father's classic song, "Water No Get Enemy", to Red Hot & Riot, a compilation CD in tribute to Fela Kuti

His voice is featured in the videogame Grand Theft Auto IV.

Omotola Jalade Ekeinde is a Nigerian actress, singer, philanthropist and former model of an Ondo descent from Lagos, Nigeria.

She appeared in 300 films, selling millions of video copies. She was honored in Time Magazine's list of the 100 most influential people in the world.

The press has revered the Screen Nation 'Best Actress' as The "African Magic”.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian novelist, nonfiction writer and short story writer.

She has been called "the most prominent" of a "procession of critically acclaimed young anglophone authors succeeding in attracting a new generation of readers".

Her novel, Half of a Yellow Sun, is set before and during the Nigerian Civil War.

2face Idibia, is a Nigerian singer-songwriter, record producer and entrepreneur. He is one of the most decorated and successful Afro pop artists in Africa.

Plantashun Boyz released two successful albums: Body and Soul and Sold Out .

He also won the Channel O Music Video Awards Best African Western award and the MTV Africa Music Awards for Best Male and Artist of the year.

P-Square are a Nigerian R&B duo composed of identical twin brothers Peter Okoye and Paul Okoye.

In 2007, they released their best selling album, Game Over.

In 2010, P-Square won the Kora Awards in Ouagadougou and they will receive a sum of $1 Million Dollars as the award winners, in Ebebiyin City.

Don Jazzy, is a Nigerian multi award-winning record producer, singer-songwriter, musician, former CEO of Mo' Hits Records and current CEO of Mavin Records.

Don Jazzy announce his new Record Label known as Mavin Records in 2011.

Don Jazzy staggering 800000 followers on Twitter earning him the undisputed King of Social Media in Nigeria

Genevieve Nnaji is a Nigerian actress and singer. Nnaji has starred in over 80 Nollywood movies.

Genevieve Nnaji is considered to be one of the best paid actresses in Nollywood.

Nnaji has received several awards and nominations of the Best Actress of the year award at the 2001 City People Awards and the Best Actress in a Leading Role award at the 2005 Africa Movie Academy Awards.

One of Africa's contemporaneous music sensations, Dapo Daniel Oyebanjo , better known as D'banj can be described with many words.

In 2011 , Kanye West signed him up as a producer on his GOOd Music label.

The nigerian born singer is also an entrepreneur with his famous brand 'Koko' been stamped on almost all commodities in the Nigerian society.

Mikel John Obi, is a Nigerian international footballer who is a midfielder in English club side, Chelsea.

Playing for Nigeria's Under-17 side at the 2003 World Youth Championship and Under-20 side at the 2005 competition.

Mikel made his FIFA World Cup appearance during the 2014 tournament in Brazil .He is one of the highest paid Nigerian international players.

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