Tag: Nigeria

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Meet Dr. Murisiku Raifu

Dr. Murisiku Raifu obtained his BA in biology and black studies at Amherst College, where he designed single universal primers for blind PCR amplification of mice immunoglobin genes, which are currently used in many research laboratories across the world. He then went on to receive his MD at the University of Minnesota Medical School. His …

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Meet Onyeche Tifase

Onyeche Tifase is an experienced Engineering Professional with extensive experience in the power, engineering and consulting industries. She graduated with a BEng (Hons) in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from the University of Nottingham and completed her Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cambridge. She started her career with Siemens in 2001 as an Engineer in the Power Distribution Division …

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Meet Michael Ugwu

Michael Ugwu is the pioneer general manager for Sony Music Entertainment West Africa, one of the largest record labels in the world. Prior to that Ugwu was and still is an investor in Freeme Digital. Freeme Digital is the premier 3rd party digital distribution company in Nigeria with a growing array of artists, comedians and …

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Meet Rimini Haraya Makama

Rimini Haraya Makama is a Nigerian lawyer and business executive, who is the Head of Corporate & Government Affairs at Microsoft Nigeria. She studied law at the University of Jos, graduating with a Bachelor of Laws. She followed up with a Diploma in Marketing, obtained from the London School of Marketing. Later, she obtained a Master of Laws from the University of Reading. For two years, from …

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Meet Tolulope Ayomide Agbeyo

Agbeyo Ayomide Tolulope is the Founder/CEO Botosoft Technologies, who considered to be an  inventor and innovator that is passionate about solving day-to-day live issues with the use of technology and always eager to learn in the process and loves to come up with new products, services, and business models to fuel new waves of growth …

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Meet Chinonso Emehelu

In September 2010, Chinonso Emehelu was appointed the Director, Sub-Saharan Africa, International Government Relations, ExxonMobil Corporation. In this role, he supports international government relationship building, energy policy and influencing strategies for Sub-Saharan African countries from Washington, D.C. Chinonso joined ExxonMobil in 2008 as an Upstream Public and Government Affairs Advisor in ExxonMobil Production Company Headquarters in Houston. …

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Meet Kabiru Rabiu

Kabiru Rabiu serves as Group Executive Director of BUA International Limited.  Rabiu served as General manager of BUA since 2005. He joined Nigerian Oil Mills Limited owned by BUA in 2002 as Assistant General Manager and was promoted to the post of General Manager in 2005. He has been a Director of Cement Company of …

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Meet Ngozi Okonkwo

Ngozi Okonkwo joined Oando PLC in 2009 as the Senior Legal Advisor. She was appointed the Chief Legal Officer in 2011. She currently manages the general affairs of the Legal Services unit comprising downstream, finance and upstream and key transactions. She serves as a member of the Group Leadership Council, the Disciplinary Committee, the Related …

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Meet Nichole O. Yembra

  Nichole is the Chief Financial, Risk and Investment Officer for Venture Garden Group (VGG) and a Managing Partner at GreenHouse Capital (GHC), the investment arm of VGG. GreenHouse Capital, which launched formally in April 2016, began investments in startups since 2014 under the VGG umbrella. When Nichole joined the VGG and GHC team in …

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Meet Ayiri Oladunmoye

  With an intimate passion for event management, Ayiri Oladunmoye began her career in the event planning industry, when she planned her own wedding in 2002 and several other events for charity organizations and friends. Urged by family and friends to pursue her passion in event management, fully led to the birthing of Oaken Events …