Enugu a winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2007, was born in Enugu in 1977 and grew up in Nsukka. The Enugu Rangers, a first-division professional league association football team, is Enugu's home team that plays in the Nigerian Premier League and are based in the Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium. Former Rangers players include Jay-Jay Okocha and Taribo West. Enugu's main sports centre is the Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium, named after Nnamdi Azikiwe, the first president of Nigeria. The stadium remained the centre of sports for the whole of the Eastern Region until the Nigerian Civil War broke out. At the
Kano River Project Kano River Project Kano River Project is a modern integrated agricultural land use development in Northern Nigeria. River Kano also locally called Kogin Kano. The idea of the project might have started in the 1960s following extensive land use surveys and technical assistance by the British Overseas Development Authority (ODA) and USAID. The principal engineering partners of KRP is Netherlands Engineering and Construction Company (NEDECCO). The project started in earnest after the Nigerian civil war in the late 1960s. Kano River Project (KRP) covers an extensive floodplain covering River Kano, River Challawa and their convergence through the Hadejia and Jama'are