WBetty Abah is a Nigerian journalist, author and a women and children's rights activist. She is the founder and Executive Director of CEE HOPE, a girl-child rights and development non-profit organization based in Lagos State.
WChief Ganiyu Adams, popularly known as Gani Adams, is a Nigerian activist, politician, traditional aristocrat and the 15th Aare Ona Kakanfo of Yorubaland.
WOluTimehin Kukoyi is a Nigerian writer, editor and activist. Her work concentrates on questions of gender, sexuality, poverty and feminism.
WDeji Adeyanju is a Nigerian social commentator, an activist and a former Head of New Media for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). He is the convener of Concerned Nigerians, a pro-democracy and good governance group.
WMichael Akanji is a Nigerian of Yoruba descent. He is a Sexual Health and Rights Advocate. He was the director of The Initiative for Equal Rights (TIERs) and presently, Nigerians key population advisor for Heartland Alliance International.
WSamuel Akisanya, was a Nigerian trade unionist and nationalist based in Lagos, Nigeria during the colonial era, one of the founders of the Nigerian Youth Movement. He was also the Oba of Isara, an office which he held from 1941 until his death. He is today widely regarded as the greatest king in the history of the city.
WHenry Dele Alake is a Nigerian journalist, activist and technocrat recognised as one of the heroes of Nigeria's democracy. He is a former commissioner for Information and Strategy in Lagos State between 1999 – 2007 under the then Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu. He got involved in active politics in Nigeria as the communication advisor and confidant of Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale Abiola - the winner of the annulled June 12 presidential election in Nigeria in 1993. In December 2014, Dele Alake resurfaced in national politics in Nigeria through its appointment as the director of Media and Communication of the Buhari Campaign Organisation to help Nigeria's former head of state, General Muhammadu Buhari to victory in the presidential election in Nigeria in February 2015.
WMuiz Adeyemi Banire SAN ph.D is a lawyer and activist. Muiz Banire formed the United Action For Change which serves as a pressure group and think tank with the drive to build a society where people are valued and treated equally, enjoy their rights as full citizens.
WNnimmo Bassey is a Nigerian architect, environmental activist, author and poet, who chaired Friends of the Earth International from 2008 through 2012 and was Executive Director of Environmental Rights Action for two decades. He was one of Time magazine's Heroes of the Environment in 2009. In 2010, Nnimmo Bassey was named a Laureate of the Right Livelihood Award, and in 2012, he was awarded the Rafto Prize. He serves on the Advisory Board and is Director of the Health of Mother Earth Foundation, an environmental think tank and advocacy organization.
WBello Shagari is a youth activist and a documentary filmmaker. He is the Managing Director of Royal African Young Leadership Forum (RAYLF). He was appointed shortly after resigning as the President of The National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN)
WImrana Alhaji Buba is a Nigerian social entrepreneur and activist who founded Youth Coalition Against Terrorism (YOCAT), a volunteer-based organisation in northern Nigeria working to unite youth against violent extremism through peace education programs in schools and villages.
WSegun Toyin Dawodu is a Nigerian Physiatrist and lawyer with the WellSpan Health, he served as an Associate Professor of Pain Medicine at Albany Medical College.
WAmina Doherty is a Nigerian/Antiguan feminist, Artist and women’s rights advocate. As an African-Caribbean feminist and women’s rights advocate, her work is centered around raising awareness for social justice through movement-building, and innovative approaches to philanthropy and grantmaking. Amina's work takes many forms: art exhibitions, community programs, cultural events, philanthropic advising, and grantmaking initiatives.
WPaschal Uche Ejikeme, better known by his stage name Etcetera Ejikeme, is a Nigerian singer, songwriter, social activist, columnist and radio personality. Born in the Niger Delta town of Warri, Delta State to a father who was a Prison Warder and a mother, who was a petty trader. In 1998 Etcetera Ejikeme discovered his talent for music as a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church Kirikiri Town, Apapa Lagos, Youth Organisation Band. He later began pursuing a musical career in 2000 by enrolling to study music at MUSON in Onikan, Lagos. In 2004 Etcetera Ejikeme met OJB Jezreel and Joekaynie to record his first studio song Michelle, which gained nationwide airplay. That same year, he recorded two more songs, Love Should Last and Life For You. In 2007, he met Steve Babaeko through a friend and signed to X3M Music on a three-year and two albums contract that expired in 2010.
WBeatrice Jedy-Agba is a Nigerian lawyer and anti-human trafficking advocate. She is the first Nigerian to be honored by the U.S. Department of State with the Trafficking in Persons Heroes Award 2014. She was Director-General of National Agency for Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) between 2011 and 2016.
WNnamdi Okwu Kanu is a Nigerian pro-Biafra political activist, who is also a British citizen. He is the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). Kanu founded IPOB in 2014. The main aim of IPOB is to restore the separatist state of Biafra which existed in Nigeria's Eastern Region during the Nigerian Civil War of 1967–1970.
WFestus Keyamo is a Nigerian lawyer, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria SAN, critic, columnist and human rights activist. In April, 2018, Keyamo was appointed as the Director of Strategic Communications of the 2019 re-election bid of the President of Nigeria. He was appointed minister of state for Niger Delta ministry and later minister of state for Labour and employment. The position he presently occupies. He has since been a politician.
WAbdul Mahmud is a Nigerian lawyer, social critic, columnist, human rights advocate, knowledge worker, essayist, poet, former Students' union leader and activist. He is currently the President, Public Interest Lawyers League (PILL), a body of professional and independent group of lawyers committed to the promotion and enforcement of the rights of vulnerable and minority groups, deepening of democracy and governance and the expansion of public interest law. He is a third-generation Nigerian poet whose works appear under the nom de guerre, Obemata. Some of his poems have also been translated into Polish, Lithuanian and French languages.
WOkechukwu Ndibe, better known as Okey Ndibe, is a novelist, political columnist and essayist of Igbo ethnicity. Ndibe was born in Yola, Nigeria. He is the author of Arrows of Rain and Foreign Gods, Inc., two critically acclaimed novels published in 2000 and 2014 respectively.
WZuriel Elise Oduwole is an American education advocate and film maker best known for her works on the advocacy for the education of girls in Africa. Her advocacy has since made her in the summer of 2013 at the age of 10, the youngest person to be profiled by Forbes. In November 2014, at age 12, Zuriel became the world's youngest filmmaker to have a self-produced and self-edited work screened, after her film showed in two movie chains, and then went on to show in Ghana, England, South Africa, and Japan.
WGideon Oluwaseun Olanrewaju is a Nigerian social entrepreneur and educational development practitioner who created Aid for Rural Education Access Initiative (AREAi), non-profit organisation that creates multiple quality informal and alternative learning systems in rural communities and has facilitated access to education for over 6,000 disadvantaged children in Nigeria.
WBisi Olateru-Olagbegi was a Nigeria activist and the Director of the Women Consortium of Nigeria (WOCON). She was a prolific writer and author of the book "Path to Women’s Development: Thoughts, Vision and Passion ."
WGbenga Toyosi Olawepo is a Nigerian human rights activist and businessman.
WJapheth Joshua Omojuwa is a Nigerian blogger, author, public speaker, socio-economic, political commentator and social media expert. A columnist with The Punch newspaper, Leadership newspaper and Naij.com, Omojuwa's articles have appeared on CNN, ThisDay and other platforms across the continent. His works have been repeatedly translated into several languages, including various platforms for German, French, Portuguese and Greek audiences.
WEmmanuel Onwubiko is a Nigerian journalist of eighteen years standing, he worked for seven years as a sole senior Court /judicial reporter in the nation's capital for The Guardian, the flagship of Nigeria print journalism, he has maintained consistent weekly column " Rightswatch" in Leadership, a national newspaper based in Abuja. He is a philosopher by professional training; he is a Nigerian Human rights activist, a blogger and a writer. He was a former Federal Commissioner of Nigeria's National Human Rights Commission, an appointment made by the then President Olusegun Obasanjo, and presently he heads the Human Rights Writers' Association of Nigeria (HURIWA). Onwubiko is a publisher, editor-in-chief of Icons of Human Rights monthly newsletter and executive director of ParadiseFound media company limited. Chairman of Epikaya Communications Limited. Board of trustees member of the US-funded NGO called Heartland Alliance Nigeria and board of trustees member of the Association of African Writers on Human and People's Rights. He is also a member of the National Think Tank of the Nigerian Catholic Secretariat in Abuja since 2012.
WOperation Nigeria or by the abbreviation OpNigeria is a group created by members of Anonymous. The members that took part in the EndSars movement were LiteMods, WhiteRabbitGang, YounesAnonymous, NigeriaOp, LorianSynaro, YourAnonNews and HackDown2. The members include numerous hackers or hacking groups who in 2020 supported the EndSARS movement that is going on in Nigeria. The group has hacked multiple Nigerian government websites and banks as well.
WFlorence Ozor is a Nigerian women's rights activist and businesswoman, and one of the pioneers of the Bring Back Our Girls movement. She has been called a "resolute feminist".
WMiss Sahhara is a British Nigerian beauty queen, fashion model, singer/songwriter, and a human rights advocate. She is known for representing Nigeria in international beauty pageants to draw attention to the plights of LGBTQI+ people in Africa. In 2011, she became the first Nigerian trans woman to come out publicly on international press during the Miss International Queen beauty pageant in Pattaya, Thailand. On 19 July 2014, she was crowned the first ever Super Sireyna Worldwide in Manila, Philippines. Making her the first black trans woman to be crowned winner in an international beauty competition. After winning Super Sireyna Worldwide, she founded a global transgender awareness news curation organisation called TransValid She is also a vocal critic of the 14 years imprisonment law of LGBTQI+ people in Nigeria.
WKenule Beeson "Ken" Saro-Wiwa was a Nigerian writer, television producer, environmental activist. Saro-Wiwa was a member of the Ogoni people, an ethnic minority in Nigeria whose homeland, Ogoniland, in the Niger Delta has been targeted for crude oil extraction since the 1950s and which has suffered extreme environmental damage from decades of indiscriminate petroleum waste dumping.
WJohn Yima Sen was a Nigerian intellectual and radical political activist. He was deeply involved in the political movements that challenged the Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida military dictatorship. He was the Secretary General of Campaign for Democracy (CD) and an active member of the Democratic Alternative that forced General Babangida out of power after his unpopular annulment of the 12 June 1993 Nigerian presidential election. He was also a member of the Olusola Saraki led Northern Union and a frontline participant of the Bring Back Our Girls campaign.
WAugustus Taiwo "Tai" Solarin was a Nigerian educator and author. He established the famous Mayflower School, Ikenne, Ogun State in 1956. In 1952, Solarin became the principal of Molusi College, Ijebu Igbo, a post he held till 1956 when he became the proprietor and principal of Mayflower School.
WOmoyele "Yele" Sowore is a Nigerian human rights activist, pro-democracy campaigner, former presidential candidate, and founder of an online news agency Sahara Reporters.
WMonday Owens Wiwa is a medical doctor and human rights activist. He is the brother of executed Ogoni leader Ken Saro-Wiwa, and the son of Ogoni chief Jim Wiwa. Wiwa is an internationally renowned expert on the effects of globalisation, especially as it relates to the highly controversial business practices of Royal Dutch Shell in the Niger Delta. Vice-chairman of the Toronto chapter of the Sierra Club Canada and an active member of Amnesty International, Wiwa is frequently called upon to advocate for development programs in Canada and abroad and to campaign for increased corporate responsibility. This work has taken him to Ireland, which he visits in support of the Shell to Sea campaign. Currently, he is the Global Vice President Human Resource for Health, Director for West Africa and Central Africa and Country Director, Nigeria for Clinton Health Access Initiative.