Nigeria

Fatima Oyiza Ademoh is the founder of Ajima Youth Empowerment Foundation and has over five years of experience in business development, entrepreneurship, agribusiness, and more recently, the energy sector. Fatima Oyiza Ademoh is currently the project manager for the US African Development Foundation-funded off-grid energy project implemented by Ajima Farm in Nigeria. She is an… read more »

Adams Adeiza has over ten years’ experience as a university lecturer, teaching entrepreneurship and leadership development at Bayero University, Kano. Through his innovative teaching and community engagements, Adams has assisted more than 3500 young entrepreneurs (mainly women) in Northern Nigeria to secure business grants and other services which have tremendously enhanced their success and livelihoods…. read more »

Adediran Olasile Adegoke’s experience spans the fields of Information Technology, Human Resources & Public Management. He is currently an Administrative Officer in the Human Resources division of Joint Admissions & Matriculation Board (JAMB), where he championed the move for the computerization of the human resources processes. He is a Teens’ Counselor and Youth leaders in… read more »

Adebayo Ibidapo Adegbembo has over five years of experience in the technology sector with an emphasis on helping children learn native languages and customs through digital games and storytelling. Presently, Adebayo Ibidapo Adegbembo is the Lead Programmer at Genii Games Limited where he manages the development of interactive storybooks and games for Android and iOS…. read more »

Adeniyi Jimmy Adedokun has over seven years of experience in securities and investment, in the education and research sector in particular. Currently, Adeniyi Jimmy Adedokun is a lecturer and academic advisor at McPherson University, a private institution in Nigeria, and the University of Ibadan Distance Learning Center respectively. He performs several roles in teaching, advising,… read more »

Babafemi Afolabi Adebola is a physician providing health care services to underserved populations, especially children of low-income earners and young people. Babafemi Afolabi Adebola combines his medical practice with over five years’ experience in sensitization and outreach programs to bridge the gap in access to satisfactory health care delivery. Currently, he works at Lagos University… read more »

Oluwafunmilayo Adebimpe Ilori has been a green ambassador and preschool educator for nine years and is founder of iRead Network, the celebrated mobile children’s library in Nigeria. Growing up seeing the damaging and value-eroding educational system in her country, Funmi understood that in order to improve the quality of education, a new approach to learning… read more »

Adetosoye Moses Adebanjo has over five years of experience in program management and coordination for under-served and hard-to-reach communities. Currently, Adetosoye Moses Adebanjo is a Program Coordinator for an NGO where he is reaching out to under-served children, women, and families, especially those infected or affected by HIV/AIDS. He implements sustainable HIV prevention, care, and… read more »

Olorunfunmi Adebajo has six years of experience in youth and social development. She is the founder of Jade Academy, a youth-development organization aimed at bridging the gap between formal and informal education. Olorunfunmi Adebajo also recently founded Kindle Africa, where she focuses on initiating, developing, and executing strategies of poverty eradication in urban slums by… read more »

Keturah Adams has over six years’ experience in community development, with special focus on community healthcare interventions and women empowerment programs. Keturah Adams is the founder of Kabash Love Foundation (KLF), a Nigeria-based organization which focuses on providing solutions to issues relating to maternal and child health, under-five mortality, and women’s empowerment. Her intervention programs… read more »

Chinweoke Busola Abuwa has over four years of experience in the Petroleum Industry, with a specific focus on Energy Policy development and implementation. Currently, she is an Economist with the Ministry of Petroleum Resources where she focuses on Energy Policy Evaluation and works with the Senior Technical Adviser to the Minister on Petroleum Fiscal Policy…. read more »

Fatima Madaki Abubakar has over seven years of experience working in areas related to education, environment, peace building, gender, and leadership. She is the Conflict Management Research Fellow for Mercy Corps Nigeria and is responsible for coordinating programs related to inter religious peace building in Northern Nigeria. Fatima Madaki Abubakar is the founder of Education… read more »

Dr. Aishatu Abdullateef Abubakar has over seven years of experience in the field of psychiatry and has recently been focusing on child and adolescent mental Health. Currently, she is a Senior Registrar in the Department of Psychiatry at Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, where she is involved in the provision of clinical services, research, teaching… read more »

Ibrahim Mohammed Aboki is a social entrepreneur, trained Geographer and Educator that founded mobile solar technology company in Nigeria four years ago. The company has constructed more than 1000 mobile solar for small-holder farmers, eases their works and finally reducing harmful effect of carbon monoxide. He also lightens up more than 2000 rural homes in… read more »

Oluwatosin Niyi Abiri has over five years of experience in Nigeria’s emerging civic tech space, focused on innovative use of GIS to create simple solutions for social issues. Currently, Niyi is the co-founder and the Team Lead of cMapit, a GIS company and one of Nigeria‘s leading startups focused on democratizing GIS use for social… read more »