Hassan Nurudeen is currently the Programs and Operations Manager for Raising New Voices, a non-profit that advocates for good, inclusive governance and promotes civic education among the youth in Nigeria. The New Voices Citizen fellowship is a citizens participatory program geared towards encouraging, educating and supporting citizens in the grassroots communities advocating for local community issues. Fellows are required to identify a community challenge or issue that they are passionate about and will be working to solve during their fellowship. Issues the organization’s fellows are currently working on include access to quality education, maternal health challenges in primary health care [...]

Honey-Ann Ndubuisi is a lawyer turned filmmaker. She believes that film is a powerful tool for advocacy and has spent the last three years building her capacity in filmmaking. Her debut film “Numb” addresses the issue of child abuse. It was screened at various film festivals including African International Film Festival (AFRIFF), Eko International Film Festival and Abuja International Film Festival. She has produced other films including “Man On the Bridge”, a documentary on domestic violence supported by the United States Embassy and Premonition. She is also an alumnus of the Integrity Icon Film Fellowship during which she was a [...]

Ismail Auwal is an anti-corruption advocate with a passion for building tranparent, accountable institutions. He was inspired to become an innovator due to his passion for technology, which he believes should be an enabler in fighting corruption. At the age of 25, he became the Anticorruption Thematic Area Co-lead in the Kano State Open Governance partnership (OGP). He plans to mobilize and work with Community members in curbing the menace of corruption. He is among the three winners of the 2020 edition of the SDG 16 innovation challenge in Nigeria organised by Accountability Lab. Through the incubator he plans to [...]

Ajibola Mujidat Oladejo is a sustainability practitioner and women’s economic empowerment advocate. She is the team lead at The Sustainability Hub, an organization that provides social and environmental sustainability education and solutions to organizations, communities and schools. She has worked with different organizations and schools in the last two years, helping them to adopt environmentally smart and socially responsive practices. The Sustainability Hub is a social enterprise that provides environmental management and social inclusion education to schools and organisations to help them incorporate sustainability into their teaching methods and value chains respectively. This is done to develop students, schools, organisations [...]

John Oluwafemi Olla is an information scientist (M.Sc. Information Science), trained at the University of Ibadan. Currently, he provides access to quality education in the rural communities of Nigeria and encourages young people to become active in civic issues. As a multi-talented Community Based Development Expert with proven experience and vast knowledge in areas of Educational Training, Capacity development, Teens’ Mentoring, Research, Analysis and Project Management. I have organized several trainings on Freedom of Information, Tracking, Advocacy and Evidence Gathering for youths in Oyo state. The initiative he wants to develop through the incubator investigates the documentation of EIA and [...]