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
Nigerian Medical Association of doctors practice in urban areas where only 55% of the population lives. This creates an unbalanced doctor-to-population distribution which is one of the challenges of the Nigerian health system that the association and the Federal Government are trying to address. NMA has branches in all States of Nigeria, there are a total of 36 states in Nigeria and then Abuja, the federal capital territory. States (Plus FCT): 1.FCT, Abuja 2.Anambra 3.Enugu 4.Akwa Ibom 5.Adamawa 6.Abia 7.Bauchi 8.Bayelsa 9.Benue 10.Borno 11.Cross River 12.Delta 13.Ebonyi 14.Edo 15.Ekiti 16.Gombe 17.Imo 18.Jigawa 19.Kaduna 20.Kano 21.Katsina 22.Kebbi 23.Kogi 24.Kwara 25.Lagos 26.Nasarawa 27.Niger 28.Ogun 29.Ondo