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 State Polytechnic Kano State Polytechnic Kano State Polytechnic is a Nigerian tertiary institution located in Kano, North-Western Nigeria. Established in 1975, the school has five units namely: School of Technology(SOT) situated at Matan Fada Road, Kano; School of Management Studies (SMS)located along Yahaya Gusau Road, Kano; School of Environmental Studies (SES), Gwarzo; School of Rural Technology and Entrepreneurship Development, Rano (SORTED Rano]]; and School of General Studies (SGS) located along Sheikh Jaafar Mahmoud Adam Road. The Central Administration is the heart of the school where administrative issues of the school are carried out and it is located along Bayero University, Kano (BUK)