Olasunkanmi Opeifa

Olasunkanmi decided that he would become a teacher at the age of eight. As a student, he volunteered as a teacher in a free tutorial centre that prepared underprivileged students for secondary school examinations and university entrance. He served for a year in a very remote part of the country, Koma, Adamawa, as the only English teacher in a village school of over 200 students. There, he helped build the school’s first ever library. In 2012, Olasunkanmi moved to Government Day Secondary School Karu, with more than fifty students per class, he grappled with teaching English to children who had poor writing skills, some degree of reading disabilities and relative poverty. He turned this situation around by introducing edutainment, fun-based learning, online videos and the Flip Classroom Model in his teaching. In 2018, Olasunkanmi was awarded Maltina Teacher of the Year, and in 2019, his school was among the top ten schools nationwide in the Global Diamond Challenge.

Nnaemeka Andegede Chukwuone

Chukwuone Nnaemeka is the Director of the Resource and Environmental Policy Research Centre (REPRC)- EfD Nigeria. He is also a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Agricultural Economics University of Nigeria Nsukka. He holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics with a specialization in Resource and Environmental Economics. For over twelve years, he has been working, carrying out research and policy advocacy on local and global issues in agriculture, environment and resource economics, and development economics. He has published widely and presented at different international conferences and meetings. His research focuses on climate change, fisheries and marine economics, forestry, agricultural finance, economic valuation, and lately, carbon pricing. Some of his publications include;

• Fisheries performance in Africa: An analysis based on data from 14 countries
• Socioeconomic factors affecting households’ use of indigenous forest management practices in managing non-wood forest products: evidence from forest communities in Nigeria derived savannah
• Policy Note: Policy Responses to Ensure Access to Water and Sanitation Services During COVID-19: Snapshots from the Environment for Development (EfD) Network
• Fisheries Performance in Africa: An Analysis Based on Data from 14 Countries DP 20-24
• Natural Resource Valuation and Damage Assessment in Nigeria: A case Study of the Niger Delta

Prof Anthonia Ifeyinwa Achike

Achike Anthonia Ifeyinwa is a Professor of Agricultural Economics, University of Nigeria. She is a Research Fellow in REPRC, EfD Nigeria. She holds a PhD degree in Agricultural Economics. She has participated as a consultant and trainer in many Gender evaluations, mainstreaming and training activities at both national and international levels. She has also conducted many baseline, evaluation, benchmarking and impact studies for various national and international organizations. Her research interest is on Environment and Gender Issues and some of her publications include;

• Scenario planning for climate adaptation in agricultural systems
• Contributions of Non-Wood Forest Products to Household Livelihood and Poverty Reduction among Farmers in Enugu State, Nigeria
• Contributions of Non-Wood Forest Products to Household Livelihood and Poverty Reduction among Farmers in Enugu State, Nigeria
• Large-Scale Land Acquisitions by Foreign Investors in West Africa: Learning Points.

Rochas Foundation

Rochas Foundation is a non – governmental, non-profit and charitable organization founded in 1998 with headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria. It was founded by Rochas Okorocha, a Nigerian Businessman and politician. Rochas Foundation has several subsidiary foundations which include Rochas Foundation College of Africa. Rochas Foundation focuses on empowering less privileged children on the streets of Africa through access to quality education through provision of free education scholarships. It has 21 tuition-free schools across 12 states in Nigeria. In October 2019, Rochas Foundation budgeted one billion Naira to help out-of-school children in Nigeria. In 2018, it offered scholarships to one thousand children in Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps in Benue State.

NEEDCSI

NEEDCSI creates cross-cultural leadership teams and gives young people the skills to overcome disadvantages and become peer-leaders and agents of peace. Founded in 2007, New Era Educational and Charitable Foundation fosters youth leadership development that promotes pluralism and rejects corruption

TY Danjuma Foundation

TY Danjuma Foundation is an independent private Nigerian philanthropic grants making organisation committed to improving the quality of life for disadvantaged Nigerians, by supporting primarily health and education interventions implemented in Nigeria. Our Vision is to see a Nigeria where all people have access to affordable quality health care, education and equal opportunities to realize.

Young Entrepreneurs Of Nigeria (YEN)

Young Entrepreneurs of Nigeria (YEN) also known as Association of Youth Entrepreneurs of Nigeria was founded as the umbrella body for Nigerian young entrepreneurs to promote and support youth entrepreneurship development in Nigeria. Young Entrepreneurs of Nigeria (YEN) as a non-profit private sector led organization promotes youth entrepreneurship development and Nigeria’s economic growth. Membership of the organization is open to all Nigerian young entrepreneurs including aspiring entrepreneurs from the ages 18-45.

AYEEN

AYEEN attracts and engages over 25, 000 entrepreneurs from the 36 States in Nigeria and the FCT with diverse businesses/ideas in various sectors of the economy who are screened annually and several hundreds directly empowered with grants, mentorship, equipment, training and loans. Africa’s Young Entrepreneurs (A.Y.E) is committed to empowering young entrepreneurs across Africa by creating platforms that facilitate intra-trade on the continent.

Uchenna Onwuamaegbu-Ugwu

Uchenna Onwuamaegbu-Ugwu is the founder of Edufun Technik, a Social Enterprise that focuses on the implementation of Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education for children and youth from 3-18 years old in underprivileged and underserved communities in Eastern Nigeria. They ensure that 60% of their students and clients are girls. They also focus on developing students’ skills and talents by providing them with quality hands-on-training on coding, design thinking, engineering and robotics, and guiding them to make informed STEM career-decisions that will set them moving into a big future of STEM.

Halima Abdulkareem Onyekehi

Halima Abdulkareem Onyekehi was born on 20th November 2012 to the family of Mr. and Mrs. Abudulkareem Onyekehi Suleiman from Ajaokuta Local Government, Kogi State. She is a child speaker and advocate who have earned for herself an audience all over the world. She has delivered speeches on Girl Child rights at several public functions including the Kogi State Independence Day event, TEDx Okene, International Girl Child Day event organized by AIT, NTA programs, Northern Nigeria Award, Ned Nwoko Zero Malaria Project, and many more, She has been involved in several debates in and out of her school. Halima is home-mentored by her parents in public speaking. Her future ambition is to become a legal practitioner. This is motivated by her respect for human rights especially the Girl Child rights. Halima loves to read, write, screenplay and strives for success.

Emmanuella Samuel

Eleven-year-old Emmanuella Samuel became an international sensation when she starred in a Mark Angel comedy skit, This Is Not My real Face Oh. She went on to break a few records, becoming the first African to have a million YouTube subscribers. She has received both national and international recognition and won multiple awards, including the G Influence Niger Delta Special Talent Award, City People Award, NEA Award, and Australian awards Princess of Comedy and Most Prominent Kid Comedienne. In 2018, She landed a contract to feature in a Hollywood movie shot by Disney Studios. She was nominated alongside Davido, for Nickelodeon 2018 Kids Choice Awards, under the category of Favorite African Stars, and in 2021, she won the Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Award for Favorite African Social Star.

Uchenna Onwuamaegbu-Ugwu

Uchenna Onwuamaegbu-Ugwu is the founder of Edufun Technik, a Social Enterprise that focuses on the implementation of Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) education for children and youth from 3-18 years old in underprivileged and underserved communities in Eastern Nigeria. They ensure that 60% of their students and clients are girls. They also focus on developing students’ skills and talents by providing them with quality hands-on-training on coding, design thinking, engineering and robotics, and guiding them to make informed STEM career-decisions that will set them moving into a big future of STEM.

Oyindamola Aje

Oyindamola Aje, a student of Jesuit Memorial College, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, emerged winner of the second edition of the InterswitchSPAK National Science Competition held in Lagos. He defeated eight other finalists in an intense quiz session to win the grand prize of N7.5 million worth of tertiary education scholarship which will be spread over five years.

Enehizena Michael

Enehizena emerged as the winner of the 2019 junior category of the cowbellpedia mathematics secondary school quiz show. The final battle night saw Enehizena Michael from Scholars Universal Secondary School, Ogun State emerge the Cowbellpedia champion in the junior category by garnering 125 points at the end of the two-round encounter.

Oghenero Ologe

Oghenero emerged as the winner of the 2019 senior category of the cowbellpedia mathematics secondary school quiz show. Oghenero Ologe from Zionsfield Private School, Lagos State took the win at the expense of Akinyemi Dabira of The Ambassadors College, Ota, Ogun State and Hezekiah Olabisi of Bibo Oluwa Academy, Ilesha, Osun who emerged first and second runner-up respectively.

Alada Bukola Fatimah

24 year old Bukola Fatima Alada, emerged as the best student out of the over 4,000 students called to the bar this week by the Nigerian Law School.Bukola graduated with First Class and won the overall best graduating law student award.

Nathan Kevin Peter

26 yr old Nathan Kevin Peter, an indigene of Mubi North Local Government Area of Adamawa State in Nigeria has set an unprecedented record at Debrecen University, Hungary, as he graduated with a 4.51 CGPA in Medicine.

Maryam Oluwadamilola Oloko

This 21 year old best graduating student of the Achievers University, Owo in Ondo State, for the 2020/2021 academic session, led the 339 graduands of the university with a Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 4.80 in International Relations at the 10th convocation.