UK election: Four Nigerians win seats in British parliament

The four Nigerians who contested in the just concluded UK
general elections have won seats in the British parliament
to represent their constituencies.
Chuka Umunna, a Labour party politician was re-elected
to serve as Member of Parliament for Streatham. Umunna
is the current Shadow Business Secretary since 2011.
Chuka Umunna’s father Bennett, of the Nigerian Igbo
ethnic group, died in a road accident in Nigeria in 1992.
Chi Onwurah, also a British Labour Party politician was
elected at the 2010 general election as the Member of
Parliament for Newcastle upon Tyne Central. Chi was born
in Wallsend, Newcastle upon Tyne, in 1965. Her her family
relocated to Awka, Nigeria when she was still a baby. But
two years after, the Biafran Civil War broke out bringing
famine with it, forcing her mother to bring the children
back to Newcastle, whilst her father stayed on in the
Biafran army.
Kate Osamor, the National Health Service (NHS) manager
is the Labour Party’s parliamentary candidate for the
Edmonton constituency in London after stiff contest with
fellow diasporan Kate Anolue.
Ms Osamor, who has worked for the NHS for 15 years, is a
trade union activist, a women’s charity trustee and a
member of the Labour Party’s National Executive
Committee.
Helen Grant, who is the current Member of Parliament for
Maidstone and The Weald in Kent was also re-elected.
She is the current Minister for Sport, Tourism & Equalities.
Grant was born in Willesden, north London to an English
mother and Nigerian father, but grew up in a single parent
family after her parents separated and her father
emigrated to the United States.