Theme: Flip the next page

Have a deep thought and consider what opportunities may avail you when you take that next step; The world would have been like a stagnant ship if we had refused to try out new things in different productive and counter-productive ways. Individuals have a great role to play, in sailing the ship forward with decisions made daily. Innovations and novelty is key in this regards, but only if we FLIP THE NEXT PAGE to explore the world unknown!

Senate building
University of Benin, Ugbowo campus
Benin-city, Edo, 234
Nigeria

Bidemi Zakariyau

Public relations consultant

Bidemi Zakariyau is an outstanding female icon; a lawyer by profession and an entrepreneur by practice. She is the Founder and CEO of LSF|PR as well as The Luxe Digest- a Pan-African luxury content platform where she currently serves as CEO and head of business development. She has been bestowed with numerous local and international awards including being listed by SME100 as one of the leading Nigerian female entrepreneurs under 25 and in 2016, she was awarded The Future Awards Africa Prize for Media Enterprise. Just recently, Bidemi was listed by Leading Ladies Africa as one of the most 100 influential women in Nigeria.

Caleb Okereke

Author, screenwriter and literary blogger.

Caleb Somtochukwu Okereke is an author, screenwriter and literary blogger. His works have appeared in Sun and Vanguard newspapers, Kalahari Review, Catapult and countless other magazines. He is renowned for his lifestyle column on Bellanaija and Bahati Books UK published his first book in 2016. He also won the 2016 ACT award for his short story, Stations of the Cross, has annually convened a free spoken word concert, 1000 Books for 1000 students initiative and is part of a new NGO that protects the rights of persons living with HIV/AIDS. Caleb currently spends his time travelling, working on his first fiction Novel, co-writing a feature film and teaching Creative Writing online.

David Osaghae

Youth advocacy and civic engagement

Osaghae Osamudiamwen David is actively involved in civic engagement and advocacy in Nigeria He is the Founding Executive Director of the Centre for Research and Sustainable Capacity Development (CRSCD). David has travelled across continents on various national missions including a delegation in 2015 to the 9th UNESCO Youth Forum in Paris, France.

Nedo Osayande

Chairman Belemaoil producing limited

Nedo Osayande is a Geophysics thought leader, he at different times was Shell Nigeria’s Head R&D, Geosolutions Manager, Crude Handling and Unitisation manager, and General Manager Sustainable Development and Community Relations reporting to the Managing Director/Country Chair of Shell Companies in Nigeria. A Fellow of The Nigerian Association of Petroleum Explorationists, he maintains strong links in the industry and academia and was responsible for the creation of the nationally-recognized leading Centre of Excellence in Geosciences and Petroleum Engineering at the University of Benin.

Ohimai Godwin Amaize

Media personality, political strategist and publisher.

Ohimai is a voluntary adviser to numerous youth-led non-profit initiatives, including work in the EFCC's Popular Culture Programme under the Commission's former Fix Nigeria Initiative department and later under the Commission’s Strategy and Re-orientation Unit (SARU). In October 2008, he became an ambassador, Microsoft Internet Safety, Security and Privacy Initiative for Nigeria (MISSPIN). One of the major highlights of his work with the organization was B.L.I.N.G. (Brilliant. Legitimate. Inspired. Nigerian. Great), a pop-culture strategy with which he assembled some of Nigeria’s top music artistes to produce the song/music video – “Maga No Need Pay” – Nigeria’s first ever music collaboration against cyber-crimes. In 2016, Ohimai made it into the list of the world’s top 500 most influential CEOs in the social media alongside media mogul Virgin boss, Richard Branson, Apple CEO, Tim Cook and Oprah Winfrey.

Osas Omijie

Inventor and researcher

Omijie Osas is a Nigerian based electronic and telecoms Engineer with specialty in embedded systems. Once referred to as a local village boy, Osas has grown to become an international genius with groundbreaking achievements such as building a touch-less GSM phone. He has been featured on CNN MarketPlace Africa, MetroFM Lagos, EbonyLife on DSTV, NTA, etc and has won dozens of national and international award.

Stanley Harcourt

Social Performance & Sustainable Development practitioner

Harcourt Stanley is a Social Performance & Sustainable Development practitioner, a private Social Conscience advocate, who until recently was Social Performance Adviser for Shell Nigeria upstream projects. With extensive experience in Social Impact Management (SIM), he has contributed to the completion of over 30 Impact Assessment projects in Shell. Before this he had the singular privilege & honor of directly impacting undergraduate & post graduate Nigerian Students using the under listed Shell vehicles: Shell Summer School program: A program aimed at using Exploration & Production industry personnel to teach/tutor undergraduates the E&P industry practice. Shell Eco marathon program: A program that enable Nigerian undergraduate students to design, build & drive fuel efficient cars at European meet with their peers in Europe.

Tochukwu Okafor

Writer and programmer

Tochukwu Emmanuel Okafor is a prolific writer and professional editor with his works featured across numerous national and international media platforms such as The Guardian(Nigeria), Litro Magazine(UK), No Tokens Journal(New York), Warscapes Magazine(USA), Columbia Journal(USA), just to mention but a few. Tochukwu holds a First Class Honours Degree in Electrical/Electronics Engineering from the University of Benin and his insatiable desire for excellence has crowned him an international hero, bagging over twenty(20) national and international merit awards. Apart from being an avid reader and inventor, Tochukwu is also a passionate photographer, programmer, artist, mentor and life coach.