Ibrahim Muazzam Shehu is a certified teacher, activist, gender advocate, and policy ambassador based in Abuja. He is the founder of Society For Gender Equality, Educational Advancement & Struggles Against Educational Injustices. Through the support of the incubator, Ibrahim plans to keep using his organization to carry out COVID-19 awareness campaigns and distributing essential supplies such as face masks to vulnerable communities.
Iyanuoluwa Moyinoluwa Shittu is an SDG 6 (clean water and sanitation) advocate based in Ondo State. Driven by her passion to ensure access to clean water for all, Iyanuoluwa carried out a borehole project in her host community during her time in the The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC). Her incubator project is Water Works, an initiative that will link vulnerable communities to sources of clean water and also allow Iyanuoluwa to advocate for water sanitation and hygiene in Ondo State, particularly as a containment measure for Covid-19. Follow her on Twitter.
Halima Idris hails from Bauchi State and is an alumnus of the Kennedy-Lugar Youth and Exchange Study program of the United States Department of State. She's passionate about holding elected representatives accountable and, through the incubator, is developing the Beyond Election Candidate Accountability Project (BECAP) for this purpose. BECAP is a sensitization and awareness campaign that aims to help communities hold political candidates accountable for the promises they made during their election campaigns by equipping citizens with knowledge and training.
Catherine Ugochinyere Stephen is an Education Counselor and women's advocate based in Abuja. She is also a member of the Young African Leaders Initiative Network and likes to counsel children and adolescents. Through the incubator, Catherine is building Cathy Ventures, an anonymous accountable platform that can raise tuition for children from poor backgrounds who would otherwise not be able to access education. Her project was inspired by her own childhood experiences. Connect with her on LinkedIn.
Anne Obode is an entrepreneur, startup business coach, speaker, blogger and podcaster based in Abuja. She is also the founder of the SecureMe initiative that aims to use digital methods to solve the problem of insecurity in Africa. Through the incubator, Anne is developing an application called Secureme.ng that will combat crime in Nigeria by using technology to enhance the means of communication between victims of crime and the police. The impact of this project would be increases in both the levels of security in Nigeria and accountability on the part of the Nigerian Police.
Ezekiel Opeoluwa Oyeyemi is a social entrepreneur and climate change advocate based in Kwara State. He is the Chief Executive Officer & Founder of the social enterprise Freedom Recyclers. Through the support of the incubator, Ezekiel aims to use climate change awareness and sensitization of the youth in his community to promote a sustainable COVID-19 recovery that benefits both the people and the planet through the circular economy. Follow him on Twitter.
Moses Albert is a child protection and welfare expert and a social entrepreneur based in Edo State. He has a passion for community engagement and awareness campaigns. He is currently supervising the Living Your Dreams Initiative, a project that focuses on protecting the rights of children. He is also a Co-founder of the Icare African Initiative. Through the support of the Incubator he is developing the Justice4her project, which is aimed at building an effective reporting and evidence gathering system that will increase the rate of getting justice for survivors of child defilement/rape and reduce child defilement through a community [...]
Lilian Elochukwu Efobi is a Lagos-based advocate of quality education for all, good governance, accountability, transparency, and youth inclusion in the governance process. Through the incubator, she is developing the Governance Barometer Project, a monitoring and evaluation mechanism which will collect and measure data that contributes to the overall national development of Nigeria. Through her Governance Barometer, she will measure the performance of elected political leaders and appointed public servants through certain defined metrics.
Wilson Atumeyi is an anti-corruption activist and a communication specialist with over 5 years of experience working across diverse sectors in the development space to achieve better life outcomes for marginalised and vulnerable communities. Wilson Atumeyi is the founder of WaterWide, an initiative that tracks government spending for water and sanitation and amplifies the voices of people living in rural communities in Nigeria. Poor access to water and sanitation are linked to the transmission of diseases such as cholera, diarrhoea, dysentery, hepatitis A, typhoid, and polio. Absent, inadequate, or inappropriately managed water and sanitation services expose individuals to preventable health [...]
Arole Mariam Odunayo is a legal practitioner with two years of post-call experience. She is also the Director of Programme for the Pro bono Centre, an emerging public interest litigation initiative. The initiative provides pro bono legal services to indigent, disadvantaged and marginalised residents of Lagos State, particularly victims of gender-based violence, child abuse and unfair dismissals. Through the incubator, she also intends to create an Accountable Endowment fund to cover the out of pocket expenses of pro bono lawyers such as transport, cost of filling, fines and court costs.
