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Itoro Eze-Anaba is the founder of Mirabel Centre, a Sexual Assault and Referral Centre (SARC), established and managed by the Partner for Justice; a programme by the British Council.
Winner of the prestigious British Council Alumni Awards 2017 in Nigeria, and founder of a solar-powered project that is currently revolutionising learning outcomes in Nigerian Schools.
A former participant of the British Council’s African Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (AKTP) designed to help businesses improve their competitiveness and productivity
Thanks to you Shuaibu Mohammed Kurawa and the hugely successful Premier Skills initiative, run by the Premier League and the British Council, women and girls in Nigeria are being empowere
Joshua Joseph is a 2018 British Council Business Acceleration Bootcamp participant, and social entrepreneur, helping farmers in Nigeria with their productivity issues.
Emmanuel Okoro brought Nigerian fashion onto the world stage when former British Prime Minister, Theresa May chose one of his designs to wear on her state visit to Nigeria.
Ibrahim Aminu is a founder and lead designer at House of Kaya, the first haute couture house in conservative, mainly Muslim northern Nigeria. Participant in the British Council’s Fashion DNA
Mohammed Bayero Yayandi a 2018 participant of the British Council supported Creative Hustle in Kano is teaching children in Nigeria how to code and use digital data to transform their lives
Chika Jones, an alumnus of the British Council’s 2017 Young Critics’ Programme, is a Nigerian performance poet and budding theatre critic.
Bode Asiyanbi is an emerging writing talent has strong roots in British Council support via the Lagos Theatre Festival and his winning of the BBC/British Council Playwriting competition.