Ikuba John Ona

Ikuba John Ona has over eight years’ experience lecturing at the University of Agriculture Makurdi in North Central Nigeria. Ikuba John Ona is the founder and president of Royal dream Builders Initiative, an NGO registered in 2010 that organizes workshops and seminars for students, graduates and unemployed youths to equip them to innovate and acquire adaptive technology and requisite entrepreneurial skills. He also works to provide information that promotes the creation of small and medium enterprises and is skilled in community mobilization, ideas generation, networking, project planning and development. Ikuba holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Applied Chemistry from the University of Jos, Nigeria and a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Strathclyde in Scotland. Upon completion of the Mandela Washington Fellowship, he intends to partner with government, universities, individuals and religious organizations to promote the development of a viable entrepreneurship ecosystem, through customized mentorship programs, for entrepreneurs in North Central Nigeria.