Obadare Peter Adewale — Nominated for Lifetime Achievement in Industry Leadership at the MOI Awards

Obadare Peter Adewale — Nominated for Lifetime Achievement in Industry Leadership at the MOI Awards

Co-founder of Digital Encode, Obadare Peter Adewale has been at the forefront of cybersecurity, audit, and compliance for years, helping enterprises meet rigorous benchmarks while cultivating trust in digital channels. He received a BusinessDay Lifetime Achievement Award in 2022, after a career of firsts, including being recognised as Africa’s first EC-Council Licensed Penetration Tester. His
Nkechi Obi — Nominated for Lifetime Achievement in Industry Leadership at the MOI Awards

Nkechi Obi — Nominated for Lifetime Achievement in Industry Leadership at the MOI Awards

As Group MD of Techno Oil, Nkechi Obi helped localise value in oil and gas, championing lubricant blending, LPG adoption, and integrated downstream infrastructure. Her work strengthened supply chains, safety practices, and local participation. She received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Nigeria International Energy Summit in 2023, which shows a career dedicated to domestic
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Engr. Ikechukwu Nnamani — Nominated for Lifetime Achievement in Industry Leadership at the MOI Awards

Engr. Ikechukwu Nnamani — Nominated for Lifetime Achievement in Industry Leadership at the MOI Awards

An engineer-operator to the core, Ikechukwu Nnamani has spent his career building the digital backbone that keeps West Africa connected. As CEO of Digital Realty Nigeria, he has advanced carrier-neutral facilities and interconnection that power cloud, content, and commerce. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award at Africa’s Beacon of ICT Merit & Leadership Awards in
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Mustafa Chike-Obi — Nominated for Lifetime Achievement in Industry Leadership at the MOI Awards

Mustafa Chike-Obi — Nominated for Lifetime Achievement in Industry Leadership at the MOI Awards

From investment banking to asset management and now as Board Chairman of Fidelity Bank, Mustafa Chike-Obi has been a steady hand through multiple economic cycles. His career spans market development, advisory leadership, and institution-building across Nigeria’s financial system. He received a Lifetime Achievement honour at the ThisDay Awards in March 2025, joining a select group
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Femi Aluko — Nominated for Young Executive to Watch Under 40 at the MOI Awards

Femi Aluko — Nominated for Young Executive to Watch Under 40 at the MOI Awards

Ex-Paystack principal engineer Femi Aluko co-founded Chowdeck and, in 2024, secured a multi-million-dollar seed round to scale on-demand delivery, then pushed into POS/restaurant tech with a 2025 acquisition of Mira. Operationally, Chowdeck has reported crossing tens of billions of naira in deliveries and, three months after launching in Accra, surpassed 1,000 daily orders, rare momentum
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Kelvin Umechukwu — Nominated for Young Executive to Watch (Under 35) at the MOI Awards

Kelvin Umechukwu — Nominated for Young Executive to Watch Under 40 at the MOI Awards

Kelvin is co-founder & CEO of Bumpa, a mobile-first commerce OS for African SMEs. Bumpa has raised venture funding and integrates directly with Meta to let merchants sell, invoice, and manage orders from one place. The platform keeps shipping product education, partnerships, and an acquisition (Fyyne) to expand into new markets, all in service of
Odunayo Eweniyi — Nominated for Young Executive to Watch Under 40 at the MOI Awards

Odunayo Eweniyi — Nominated for Young Executive to Watch Under 40 at the MOI Awards

As co-founder & COO of PiggyVest, Odunayo Eweniyi helped build one of Nigeria’s largest consumer fintech platforms—crossing millions of customers and paying out hundreds of billions of naira to users in 2024. She’s also a TIME100 Next and Bloomberg 50 alum for broader social impact. Beyond product scale, she co-founded FirstCheck Africa to back female
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Ossai Ifeanyi Nwabuonwu — Nominated for Young Executive to Watch Under 40 at the MOI Awards

Ossai Ifeanyi Nwabuonwu — Nominated for Young Executive to Watch Under 40 at the MOI Awards

Ossai co-founded CribMD in 2020 to deliver subscription telemedicine and doctor house calls, supporting families and SMEs with accessible primary care. The company raised a multi-million-dollar seed round to expand product and team. CribMD’s model blends virtual care with home visits, an approach spotlighted by regional tech media and sector events as it works to
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Blessing Abeng — Nominated for Young Executive to Watch Under 40 at the MOI Awards

Blessing Abeng — Nominated for Young Executive to Watch Under 40 at the MOI Awards

Co-founder and Director of Communications at Ingressive for Good (I4G), Blessing Abeng drives programs that increase the earning power of African youth through tech training, scholarships, and partnerships with global platforms. She previously co-founded Disha, which was later acquired by Flutterwave. I4G’s mission targets training 1 million youths and connecting thousands to jobs; independent coverage
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Kennedy Ekezie-Joseph — Nominated for Young Executive to Watch Under 40 at the MOI Awards

Kennedy Ekezie-Joseph — Nominated for Young Executive to Watch Under 40 at the MOI Awards

Kennedy co-founded Kippa to help MSMEs digitise bookkeeping and back-office finance, earning Forbes 30 Under 30 recognition and positioning him among Nigeria’s most visible Gen-Z founders. Like many fintechs, Kippa has navigated hard market turns, shuttering KippaPay and facing app discontinuation, yet the founder has stayed publicly engaged on entrepreneurship and identity, modelling resilience and
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Orondaam Otto — Nominated for Young Executive to Watch (Under 35) at the MOI Awards

Orondaam Otto — Nominated for Young Executive to Watch Under 40 at the MOI Awards

Orondaam Otto founded Slum2School Africa in 2012, growing it into a volunteer-driven education nonprofit that builds learning centres, STEM labs, and provides psychosocial support across hundreds of underserved communities. Global platforms have profiled the organisation’s reach to hundreds of thousands of children, and Otto was named to the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders Class
Tiwalola Olanubi Jnr. — Nominated for Young Executive to Watch (Under 35) at the MOI Awards

Tiwalola Olanubi Jnr. — Nominated for Young Executive to Watch (Under 50) at the MOI Awards

Founder & Group CEO of Dotts Media House, Tiwalola built one of Nigeria’s prominent influencer-marketing outfits and created Trendupp Africa—the platform behind the pan-African Trendupp Awards for digital creators. The awards’ fifth edition was held in 2025, reflecting sustained industry relevance. His ecosystem work includes the Nigerian Influencer Marketing Report and creator programs run through
Adebola Williams — Nominated for Young Executive to Watch (Under 35) at the MOI Awards

Adebola Williams — Nominated for Young Executive to Watch (Under 50) at the MOI Awards

Adebola Williams co-founded RED | For Africa and helped build one of the continent’s most recognisable youth-focused media portfolios—home to Red Media Africa, YNaija, StateCraft Inc., and The Future Awards Africa. He led the group for years before handing the baton to a successor in 2022. Beyond media, Williams’ career bridges advocacy and political communications;