Fellows

Audu Maikori
Audu Maikori

Audu Maikori is a lawyer and the Founder/CEO of Chocolate City Group, one of Africa’s biggest indigenous entertainment companies. He obtained his law degree from the University of Jos and was called to the Nigerian Bar in 2001.

Cyril Azobu
Cyril Azobu

Cyril Azobu is a Petroleum, Power and Mining specialist with experience spanning over 19 years covering business advisory, consulting, accounting, external and internal auditing, and taxation services for companies both within the public and private sectors of Nigeria.

Hadiza Bala Usman
Hadiza Bala Usman

In April 2014, she co-founded the global movement #BringBackOurGirls which has been agitating for the rescue of the 219 girls abducted by the terrorist group Boko Haram from Chibok Secondary School in Borno State Nigeria.

Hakeem Shagaya
Hakeem Shagaya

Hakeem Shagaya is founder of Keemmla Standard Alliance, an Agricultural input supply and logistics company currently distributing Agro inputs through 31 warehouses in 4 states with a farmers database of over 150,000 farmers.

Hauwa Magoro
Hauwa Magoro

Hauwa Magoro studied her undergraduate degree in Pharmacology at the University of Portsmouth. She holds an MSc and a Diploma of Imperial College in Health Management from Imperial College Management School (UK).

Ibrahim Dikko
Ibrahim Dikko

Ibrahim is a self-driven Senior Operations Manager and leader with 22 years quality work experience in the Oil & Gas industry and a major player in the downstream sector that helps in Business Operations.

Juliet Anammah
Juliet Anammah

Juliet Anammah is the Managing Director in charge of Products Operating Group in Accenture Lagos. A role in which she is responsible for Accenture’s consulting practice in Fast Moving Consumer Goods, Retail and Transportation in West Africa.

Kehinde Ojuawo
Kehinde Ojuawo

Kehinde is a senior legal counsel at Banwo and Ighodalo. He is a versatile commercial lawyer, with an uncommon analytical mind and ability to understand and attend to complex instructions.

Mary Ikoku
Mary Ikoku

Mary is a Communications and Public Relations Professional with ample experience developing and implementing communication and public relations strategies to assure brand visibility and promote corporate image, policies and positions.

Michael Nzewi
Michael Nzewi

Michael Nzewi is one of the co-founders of CardinalStone Partners Limited and has over the last 6 years, nurtured CardinalStone into one of the leading investment firms in Nigeria.

Mohammed Garuba
Mohammed Garuba

Mohammed Garuba is one of the founding partners of CardinalStone Partners Limited, an Investment Banking Firm based in Lagos, Nigeria where he oversees the Asset Management Division.

Niyi Tayo
Niyi Tayo

Olaniyi Tayo is a management and technology consultant with Accenture. He is currently the Director of the Technology Group. He has over 20 years of consulting experience across several sectors of the Nigerian economy including oil and gas, banking, manufacturing, telecommunications and government.

Reginald Udom
Reginald Udom

Reginald is a Partner in Aluko & Oyebode, one of Nigeria’s largest law firms. He focuses on finance, energy and infrastructure, and has advised sponsors, lenders, issuers, underwriters and borrowers in a number of transactions involving LNG plants, oil fields, telecommunications infrastructure, shopping malls, cement plants, and steel mills.

Safiya Musa
Safiya Musa

Safiya Musa is an accomplished finance and banking industry professional with strong track records of sales, marketing, and customer and public interface accomplishments.

Taiwo Oyedele
Taiwo Oyedele

Mr. Taiwo Oyedele is the Head of Tax and Regulatory Services at PwC Nigeria (the world’s leading professional services firm). He has been in the forefront as a thought leader and prominent speaker on key

Lamé Verre
Lamé Verre

Lamé Verre is an Upstream Oil and Gas professional with more than 13 years’ experience covering Africa, Middle East, Europe and most recently the Americas.

Yewande Adewusi
Yewande Adewusi

Yewande Adewusi is a strategy and mobile financial services specialist and keen advocate of financial inclusion. Yewande has over twelve years of experience in a variety of strategy, marketing and business