1. Her full name is Dora Nkem Akunyili. If you are an Igbo man, you will know why Dora was Nkem to Nigerians. Nkem means my own.
2. She was born in Makurdi, Benue state on 14th July 1954.
3. She was born on Wednesday. Cancer is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day.
4. Horse is the mythical animal and Wood is the element for a person born on this day if we consider the very old art of Chinese astrology. Now you know why she was a radical achiever. One with the strength of a horse yet as absorbing as a wood.
5. She hailed from Nanka in Anambra State of Nigeria. A remote village with such a renown personality. Something good can actually come out of Nazareth.
6. She passed the First School Leaving Certificate with Distinction at St. Patrick’s Primary School, Isuofia, Anambra State in 1966. This was a school for the poor.