Nnobi people in North America have raised $40,000 at their 2025 convention held in Maryland, to support education and healthcare in Nigeria.
The sold-out event featured young children and adults dancing, a masquerade performance, and other cultural displays. There were also business meetings and a dinner banquet. Nnobi people and their friends supported the convention theme of “Building Healthy Minds and Bodies: Investing in Education and Health Care.”
Amongst the dignitaries that graced the occasion was Dr. Chris Ngige, a former governor of Anambra State and former Minister of Labour under President Muhammadu Buhari. Dr. Ngige’s mother hailed from Nnobi. Also present at the occasion was the Igwe of Nnobi, Engineer Muodum Nick Obi. Supporting the Igwe were cabinet members, including Ichie Omemma and Professor Chuka Obah, as well as numerous titleholders such as Akajiofo Nnobi, Prof. Ferdinand Ofodile and his wife, Ikemba Nnobi, Hamilton Ezeonu, and other prominent sons and daughters.
Speaking at the occasion, Dr. Ngige enumerated his road construction in Nnobi while governor. “Nnobi is my home. What you all are doing here is vital,” he said as he donated two million Naira to support the fundraiser. “I am a Nigerian man. I work there. We fight it out there. Anyone who wants us to put legs in one trouser, we do so and let the trousers tear. It is good like that,” he says. Nnobi Union North America organised the event to embark on strategic investments in community development.
