Nigeria Leadership Initiative | Fellows

Audu Maikori

NLI Fellow

Audu Maikori

NLI Fellow

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

NLI Fellow

Cyril Azobu

NLI Fellow

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

NLI Fellow

Hadiza Bala Usman

NLI Fellow

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

NLI Fellow

Hakeem Shagaya

NLI Fellow

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

NLI Fellow

Hauwa Magoro

NLI Fellow

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

NLI Fellow

Ibrahim Dikko

NLI Fellow

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

NLI Fellow

Juliet Anammah

NLI Fellow

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

NLI Fellow

Kehinde Ojuawo

NLI Fellow

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

NLI Fellow

Mary Ikoku

NLI Fellow

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

NLI Fellow

Michael Nzewi

NLI Fellow

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

NLI Fellow

Mohammed Garuba

NLI Fellow

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

NLI Fellow

Niyi Tayo

NLI Fellow

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

NLI Fellow

Reginald Udom

NLI Fellow

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

NLI Fellow

Safiya Musa

NLI Fellow

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

NLI Fellow

Taiwo Oyedele

NLI Fellow

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

NLI Fellow

Lamé Verre

NLI Fellow

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

NLI Fellow

Yewande Adewusi

NLI Fellow

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