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Nigerian, We Hail You !
Date: 23/03/2012
Author/Source: Embassy/Permanent Mission of Nigeria Vienna

                                
   
                                                        David Alaba is Austrias
Joana Adesuwa  won                                           Fooballer of the year 2012 the Austrian Merit Award 2012                                   Click.                                                                                                       
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                                 Mr. Fred Ohehen, Nigerian,
                                 was nominated Man of the Year
                                 of the city of Graz. Click.

     
Click here for Clara Akinyosoye, Editor-in-Chief of M-Media who won Austria's prestigious MiA Award 2012, and here for Lydia Obute, 17-year-old Nigerian student that emerged the winner of Austria's next Top model 2011



Alex Umole, Nigerian lawyer was nominated for the Austrian Integration Prize
2011.Click.


Dr. Rilwanu Lukman is a Nigerian engineer who held several ministerial positions in the Nigerian Federal government before becoming Secretary General of OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) from 1 January 1995 to 31 December 2000. On 18 December 2008, Lukman was appointed Minister of Petroleum Resources by Nigerian president Umaru Yar'Adua, holding office until March 2010.

 Proprietor of an Art Gallery in highbrow district of Vienna that principally focused on linking Europe with Contemporary African and Diaspora Artistic Treasures.

YemYemisi Rieger was crowned Queen of Vienna (2013). The daughter of a Nigeria