Nigeria

Grace Chinonye Ihejiamaizu is a social entrepreneur, educator, and global changemaker with over seven years of experience working in the nonprofit and youth-development sector. Currently, she is the founder of iKapture Networks, an afterschool organization focused on educating, engaging, and equipping students and out-of-school youth in Nigeria with skills to become leaders and entrepreneurs. Grace… read more »

Lawrenta Jacinta Igoh is a human trafficking prevention and child protection advocate with over five years of experience working with the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) in Nigeria. Currently, Lawrenta Jacinta Igoh is an intelligence analyst in the Reforms Unit, where she plays a critical role in analyzing Nigeria’s narrative… read more »

Oghenevwoke Shehu Usman Ighure is an economist and statistician with work experience across different sectors including information technology, management consulting, agriculture, retailing, oil, and energy. Oghenevwoke Shehu Usman Ighure currently leads the strategy and corporate development initiative for West Africa’s largest business and financial media corporation. In this capacity, he has led the organization’s international… read more »

Uchenna Betrand Igbokwe is a management-consulting professional with five years’ experience designing and implementing health-system strengthening programs in Nigeria. Uche is currently an associate principal at Solina Health, an indigenous Nigerian health-systems consulting firm, which focuses on deploying solutions that optimize health outcomes in low-resourced settings. He presently leads a donor-funded routine-immunization strengthening program that… read more »

Danladi Saleh Idrisa is a medical doctor and a trained humanitarian officer. He works as a humanitarian program analyst with the United Nations Population Fund in Yobe State, implementing USAID-funded projects. In 2014, he counseled and offered psychosocial support to parents of the Chibok girls abducted by Boko Haram militants. With over five years of… read more »

Ijeoma Princess Precious Idika-Chima has over three years of experience working directly with teenagers, focusing on education, character, positive cultural values, and mentoring them with life-building skills. Ijeoma Princess Precious Idika-Chima is the founder and Chairperson for Teenz Global Foundation (TGF), an NGO that focuses on training, educating, and mentoring teenagers through the difficult phase… read more »

Edosa Shawn Idada is a special assistant to a member of the House of Representatives in the Nigerian National Assembly. His major functions are to devise bills and motions and to prepare constituency projects annually in the national budget, ensuring that the projects are duly awarded and implemented. Edosa Shawn Idada holds a bachelor’s degree… read more »

Mohammed Kabir Ibrahim is a town planning officer and volunteer for the deaf. He has gained considerable experience working with the Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing as well as associations for disabled persons. In town planning since April 2014, he has been involved in designing layouts for low-cost housing developments and undertaking development-control… read more »

Faridah Onyioizah Ibrahim is an independent researcher with interests in education and poverty. Her work aims to explore the policies and institutional responses, or lack thereof, of the Nigerian state to the challenges it faces in education and poverty. Her current project involves exploring the outcomes of educational interventions that have a skills-heavy approach in… read more »

Fatima Ibrahim currently teaches entrepreneurship and has initiated entrepreneurship projects and women forums aimed at uplifting the socio-economic status of women. Fatima Ibrahim works for the Centre for African Entrepreneurship Research and Training in Bayero University, where she is responsible for facilitating the entrepreneurship education program across different faculties of the university. As part of… read more »

Joseph Uchenna Ibeh is a software developer with over three years’ experience in the eduTech and social enterprise sectors. Currently, Joseph works as software design lead for the Youth for Technology Foundation, an international nonprofit organization, where he focuses on the intersection of education and technology, using emerging technologies to create an interactive learning experience…. read more »

Aishat Teniola Hussain is a human rights activist with over four years’ experience in youth and gender advocacy, community development, and motivational speaking. Currently, she works as a company secretary and legal consultant to corporate clients and also in private practice. She is the founder of Project Dare To (Know Your Rights, Speak Out and… read more »

Rilwan Hassan has over 16 years’ experience in entrepreneurship, media, and farming. Currently, he is the managing director of Focal Point with interest in cleaning, construction, agriculture, publishing, and printing. He served his country as a member of a ministerial committee on Madrasah Education which helped build the current blueprint used in creating access to… read more »

Ishaku Lemu Haruna has over four years’ experience in the academic sector. As a lecturer in Gombe State University, Ishaku is passionate about education as a tool for driving social changes. Having identified the high rate of illiteracy as one of the causes of Boko Haram insurgency in his community, Ishaku Lemu Haruna founded a… read more »

Emmanuel Umoru Haruna has over seven years of experience in socioeconomic policy programming at the federal, state, and local government levels. Currently, Emmanuel Umoru Haruna is a senior economic policy and research analyst at the Federal Ministry of Budget and National Planning, where he designs, formulates, coordinates, and evaluates government plans, policies, and programs. Haruna… read more »