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VIRGIN NIGERIA TAKES TO THE SKIES - INAUGURAL FLIGHT FROM LAGOS TO LONDON HEATHROW
28 June 2005

Virgin Nigeria, the new, fully private sector flag carrier for Nigeria,  launched its operations with its maiden international flight from Lagos to London Heathrow on 28 June 2005.



Dele Olojede

Journalist with Newsday, was announced as a joint winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting on his article about Rwanda.

Prof. Olufunmilayo Olopade - 2005 MacArthur fellow

Clinician / Researcher, Professor of Medicine and Human Genetics
University of Chicago Hospitals, Chicago, Illinois - Olufunmilayo Olopade is an oncologist who translates her basic research on individual and population cancer susceptibility into an effective clinical practice for treating breast cancer among African and African-American women.

NEW YORK TIMES SELECTS DR. CHIKA A. ONYEANI "2005 FELLOW OF THE NEW YORK TIMES COMPANY FOUNDATION INSTITUTE"

"2005 Fellow to the New York Times Company Foundation Institute." He was one of 12 people selected out of the more than 165 ethnic newspapers published in New York.