Profiles

Kanu Godwin Agabi is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria with 40 years under his belt. In 1997  he served two-terms as the federation’s Attorney General.   Agabi was also Minister of Justice, where he distinguished himself as Nigeria’s Chief Legal Officer and top attorney in the country. On September 15,…

Fresh out of the University, Claudia Oputa had big dreams and plans but becoming a shoemaker was not part of that. It was an accidental detour that has become a calling of sorts. Initially, people didn’t believe she had the entrepreneurship spirit in her, let alone the chance of succeeding…

Kwame Anyimadu-Antwi is a Ghanaian lawyer and politician who was born in the Ashanti Region. He has served as the Ashanti Region’s Asante-Akim Central constituency’s representative to the Seventh and Eighth Parliaments of the Fourth Republic of Ghana since 2009.  He obtained his legal qualification as a barrister at the…

Isa Hayatu Chiroma is an Adamawa state-born Nigerian attorney and a professor of law at the University of Maiduguri. President  Muhammadu Buhari named him the Director General of the Nigeria Law School in February 2018. He served as the Nigeria Law School’s assistant director in Yola from 2011 until 2016…

Oluwatodimu Ige is a seasoned entrepreneur and lawyer at Oluwatodimu Ige and Associates who has experience in property law practice, commercial law practice, and arbitration.  He is a member of the UK’s Chartered Institute of Arbitrators as an associate arbitrator. In addition, he is a director at the real estate…

Obsessed with colours and ethnic cultures, Nigerian fashion designer Dumebi Iyamah created a clothing line, Andrea Iyamah. She developed her tailoring abilities and educated herself about design because she had a passion for the arts and fashion. This sparked the creation of her brand at the young age of 17.…

Award-winning fashion designer Aisha Ayensu is well known for creating the stage costumes and clothing for Sandra “Alexandrina” Don-Arthur, Jackie Appiah, Genevieve Nnaji, and Beyonce. She is the creator and creative director of the Ghanaian fashion business, Christie Brown. Founded in 2008, Christie Brown is a high-end Ghanaian fashion brand.…

At a very young age, Melissa Bime was already making a mark in her chosen nursing career. But while working at a Cameroonian hospital, an event happened that left a lasting impression on her mind and changed the trajectory of her career forever. A 5-year-old patient admitted to the hospital…

Climate change is an ever-present threat to the world’s economy, and it is estimated that as much as 18 percent of the global Gross Domestic Product could be wiped out by 2050 if the global temperature rises by 3.2°C. But while the scourge of climate change is a global phenomenon,…

The story of Phares Kariuki teaches that every time you fall, you need to rise, dust yourself off, and give that dream yet another go. It’s okay to make mistakes, don’t brood over them, but learn from them and move on. Following boardroom brawls with venture capital investors at his…