Olaniyan Olushola
CHAIRMAN
He's an Experienced Media Strategist, Social Entrepreneur, and Google-certified Project Manager with over two decades of notable accomplishment in digital communication, capacity and community building, cross-sector partnership-building, and advocacy campaigns across public, private, and non-profit organizations. Expertise in personal and corporate brand management with high-level organizational and strategic leadership. An Open Knowledge Advocate, Wikimedia, and pioneer leader of the Wikimedia community in Nigeria with experience producing a regular radio program. An active contributor to other Wikipedia siblings like Meta-Wiki, Wiki data, Yoruba Wikipedia, and Outreach Wikipedia.
Olatunde
Olalekan Isaac
SECRETARY
Olatunde Isaac is a Nigerian scientist, food safety specialist, open knowledge advocate and social entrepreneur. He’s a long-term Wikipedia editor and Wikimedia community manager in Nigeria.Isaac is a versatile personality whose works in the open movement, specifically on Wikipedia, have been extensively covered by national and international media and have received numerous accolades for his contributions. He is one of the most prolific contributors to Wikipedia in Africa, and in 2015, he founded Wikimedia User Group Nigeria (now a charitable organization in Nigeria) that focuses on promoting Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects in Nigeria. The organization focuses on promoting content relating to Nigeria in the digital space of the internet. Having realized that millions of articles on Wikipedia are lacking CC Licensed photos to illustrate them, Isaac launched an international campaign called "Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos Campaign" in 2020 to engage volunteers during the COVID-19 pandemic by encouraging Wikipedia editors across the world to add images to Wikipedia articles lacking photos. This campaign has added photos to more than 300,000 Wikipedia articles in more than 270 languages.
Kayode Yussuf
Board Member
Kayode Yussuf is an open advocate and CEO of Securepoint Technologies Ltd. Kayode is Co-founder, Wikimedia Nigeria Usergroup, board member of the Wikimedia Nigeria Foundation, and African Representative on the Wikimedia 2030 Design team. He was the Chair, Membership Committee of the Creative Commons Global Network Council and he currently serves as on the Executive Committee on the Creative Commons Global Network Council. Kayode is an Atlas Corps Fellow. He loves adventurous travel and meeting new people.
Fatai Erewunmi
BOARD MEMBER
Fatai Erewunmi is a Barrister and Advocate of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, a Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales, and called to the bar of the Supreme Court of New York. He is an associate of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, London and holds a LLM in International Law. He began his legal career as a state counsel and in Legal Aid, before moving into corporate practice where he garnered valuable experience in green field commercial transactions, working with Promoters on corporate pre-incorporation and post-incorporation concerns. He has consulted on numerous projects involving industry specific market entry due diligence and compliance requirements. He is positioned and experienced to help foreign interests entering or doing business in Nigeria to navigate the maze of federal, state and local statutory obligations.
Olusola Olalekan Elekofehinti
BOARD MEMBER
Dr. Olusola Elekofehinti is a faculty member at the Biochemistry Department, School of Sciences, Federal University of Technology Akure, Nigeria. He holds a Bachelor degree in Biochemistry from Ondo State University, Ado Ekiti in 1997 and Master degree in Biochemistry from University of Lagos in 2002. Dr. Elekofehinti obtained his PhD in Plant Biochemistry and Drug metabolism in 2015 in a split-site programme between the Bioquimical Toxicologia Unit, CCNE, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria RS, Brazil and the Department of Biochemistry, Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti, Nigeria. He was the first person to bag a PhD degree in Biochemistry from the Department of Biochemistry, Ekiti State University since inception of the University in 1982. He started his career at the Biochemistry Department, Adekunle Ajasin Univeristy, Akungba Akoko (AAUA), Ondo State as Assistant lecturer in 2009 and rose to the position of Lecturer 1 in 2015.
Livingstone Imonitie
BOARD MEMBER
Livingstone Imonitie is a highly skilled transportation engineer specializing in traffic safety and mobility. With a deep understanding of the field, Livingstone builds advanced models to meticulously analyze and identify the underlying causes of crashes in the United States. Through comprehensive research and a data-driven approach, Livingstone develops innovative solutions aimed at alleviating these issues and improving overall road safety. He started his career at the Biochemistry Department, Adekunle Ajasin Univeristy, Akungba Akoko (AAUA), Ondo State as Assistant lecturer in 2009 and rose to the position of Lecturer 1 in 2015.