In our quest to motivate young aspiring entrepreneurs in Nigeria and beyond,the CEO brings to you in this piece on outstanding Nigerians who are doing well in their chosen fields and career.It is all about you!YOU CAN MAKE IT! IT'S IN YOU.
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Ayeni Adekunle [38]
This one media guru that defines the norm. He successfully created and hosted Entertainment conference on the 21st of April bringing together Entertainment stakeholders. It was one of the biggest gathering ever witnessed in a long time and many adjudged it as a turning point in the industry. He runs Nigeria’s biggest online Entertainment platform, TheNetng.com as well as the Weekly newspaper Nigeria Entertainment Today. He is also CEO, Black House Media, a PR firm managing industry leaders such as The Headies, Hennessy artistry and Viacom. Ayeni the great as he is fondly called is a leader to watch out for.
Dr. Akudo Anyanwu Ikemba [29]
Was shortlisted as one of the 3 finalists for the Ogunte Women’s Social leadership Awards in the category: Leader Charitable Organizations and Campaign 2013 which she won.
Akudo founded Friends Africa (Friends of the Global Fund Africa) as an African voice in support of the Global Fund and the fight against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Friends Africa mobilizes and builds the capacity of the African private sector, civil society and government to improve Africa’s health and is the recipient of the 2012 Stevie Award for Non-profit of the year and finalist for the 2012 ONE Africa Award.She serves on a number of boards including Roll Back Malaria, the Global Health Council and the Nigerian arm of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF). Through her leadership, Friends Africa has been able to mobilize over $560 million USD to countries in Africa for the purpose of integrating family planning and HIV services. This integration will reduce maternal mortality rate and reduce the number of infants born with HIV across Africa. She is constantly giving an African voice to high-level meetings across the globe, campaigning tirelessly for increased commitment to Health from government and organizations both African and Foreign. Under the leadership, Friends Africa has trained over 2700 SMEs across Africa to create a healthy workforce. Dr. Anyanwu Ikemba is a World Economic Forum 2012 Young Global Leader, Stevie Award Female Entrepreneur of the Year 2012 and Stevie Award Innovator of the year 2012. She is also a member of the Nigerian Leadership Initiative. She holds a Doctorate degree in medicine from Tufts University, a Master’s degree in International Public Health from Harvard University, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Molecular Biology from Lehigh University. She also has diplomas in non-profit management and non-profit leadership from Duke University and she has done post graduate studies at the University of London and the London Hospital for Tropical Diseases. Anyanwu Ikemba is the recipient of two 2012 Stevie Awards: Female Social Entrepreneur of the year and Female Innovator of the year respectively.
Akudo Anyanwu Ikemba is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Friends Africa, a pan- African organization that fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria using the capacity of African governments, African businesses and African community-based organizations. Anyanwu Ikemba serves on the Board of Roll Back Malaria and Nigerian arm of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF). She is also a member of the Nigerian Leadership Initiative and the Vice-President of her alumni class at the Harvard School of public Health. Anyanwu Ikemba holds a PhD in Medicine from Tufts University, an MA in International Public Health from Harvard University and a BSc in Molecular Biology from Lehigh University. She has two diplomas in non-profit management and leadership from Duke University and has done post-graduate studies at the University of London and the London Hospital for Tropical Diseases. She has received multiple awards in leadership and academia.
He was born in 1982. He is the author of a collection of poetry, Listen to geckos singing from a balcony (Bewrite Books, 2004) and a novella, Conquest & Conviviality (Hodder Murray, 2008). In 2007, he was awarded a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg poetry prize, in 2008 the Nordic Africa Institute Guest Writer Fellowship, and in 2009 a Cadbury Visiting Fellowship by the University of Birmingham. His fiction and poetry have been published in The London Magazine, Wasafiri, Farafina, PEN Anthology of New Nigerian Writing, Litro, Brand, Orbis, Nano2ales, Stimulus Respond, Sable, Magma, Stanford’s Black Arts Quarterly and World Literature Today, among others.
Linda Ikeji [23]
She once tried her hands on different things as a young girl before getting it right. She was a popular runaway model, reporter, fashion consultant, event manager. Publisher of a fashion magazine, even a beauty pageant consultant in 2003 Miss Nigeria. She must have weathered a lot of storm and still rose above mediocrity.
Apart from making millions from her enterprise, she has been mobilizing thousands of readers in her online community, Linda had the ability to provide a voice to Blessing Effiong, a girl who had actually been apprehended for 4 years in prison without a trial. Four months after the tale was reported on the blog site, Blessing went out of jail with her freedom, grateful to all advocates including Linda Ikeji.Whether you agree with her methods and material or not, we need to hand it to Linda, she has actually captivated, engaged, inspired and promoted Nigerians for 7 years doing what she loves best. She has actually turn blogging into a profitable company and shows no indication of stopping. With well over 40,000 hits daily, LIB, stands as one of the most profitable ventures in Nigeria. Last year August Forbes profiled her as the highest paid and most powerful blogger in Nigeria, a feat you won’t achieve by sitting at a corner. She is a shining example for this generation.
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