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Samaila Zubairu

Samaila Zubairu is a Nigerian infrastructure-development-finance executive who has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Africa Finance Corporation since July 2018. His earlier senior positions included chief executive of Africapital Management Limited and pioneer…

Abdul Samad Rabiu

Abdul Samad Rabiu is a Nigerian industrialist and philanthropist who founded and chairs BUA Group. He also chairs BUA Cement Plc and BUA Foods Plc and founded the Abdul Samad Rabiu Africa Initiative, known as ASR Africa.

David Oyedepo

David Olaniyi Oyedepo

David Olaniyi Oyedepo is a Christian cleric and the Founder and President of Living Faith Church Worldwide, also known as Winners' Chapel International. His public roles also include serving as chancellor of Covenant University and Landmark University.

Tunji Alausa

Tunji Alausa is a Nigerian physician and nephrologist serving as Nigeria's Minister of Education. He entered the education portfolio in October 2024 after serving as Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare.

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Damilola Ogunbiyi

Damilola Ogunbiyi is a Nigerian sustainable-energy executive serving as Chief Executive Officer of Sustainable Energy for All and as the United Nations Secretary-General's Special Representative for Sustainable Energy for All. Her work spans international energy coordination…

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Muhammad Ali Pate

Muhammad Ali Pate is a Nigerian physician and public-health leader serving as Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare. His career spans Nigerian health administration, the World Bank Group and other global-health institutions.

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Tim Cook

Tim Cook is a business executive who joined Apple in 1998 and has served as its chief executive officer and a director since 2011. As of August 22, 2026, he remained CEO, with Apple having announced that he would become executive chairman when John Ternus assumes the chief…

Ralph Mupita

Ralph Mupita is the Group President and Chief Executive Officer of MTN Group. His career spans telecommunications and financial services, including earlier service as MTN's Group Chief Financial Officer and as Chief Executive Officer of Old Mutual Emerging Markets.

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Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo

Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo is Nigeria's Minister of Interior. He entered the federal cabinet in August 2023 after serving in the House of Representatives for Akoko North East/Akoko North West Federal Constituency in Ondo State.

Lateef Fagbemi

Lateef Olasunkanmi Fagbemi

Lateef Olasunkanmi Fagbemi is a Nigerian lawyer and Senior Advocate of Nigeria serving as Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice. He took office in August 2023 following Senate screening and confirmation.

Bosun Tijani

Bosun Tijani is Nigeria's Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy. A former technology-sector executive, he co-founded and led Co-Creation Hub before joining the federal cabinet, where his portfolio includes digital-economy policy, innovation and…

Ibrahim Traoré

Ibrahim Traoré is a Burkinabè army captain and President of Faso who has led Burkina Faso's military-led transition since October 2022. A revised charter adopted in 2024 extended the transition for five years from July 2, 2024. He also holds the rotating presidency of the…

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Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa

Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa is a South African political leader, former trade-union leader and business figure who has served as President of South Africa since 2018 and was elected by the National Assembly for a further term in 2024. He is also president of the African National…

Ousmane Sonko

Ousmane Sonko is a Senegalese politician and former tax inspector who founded and leads PASTEF-Les Patriotes. He served as prime minister from April 2024 until his dismissal by presidential decree in May 2026 and subsequently became President of Senegal's National Assembly.

Bola Tinubu

Bola Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu

Bola Ahmed Adekunle Tinubu is a Nigerian politician who has served as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria since May 29, 2023. His public career has included service in the Nigerian Senate, two terms as Governor of Lagos State, pro-democracy activity during military…

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Femi Falana

Femi Falana is a Nigerian lawyer and human-rights advocate known for civil-liberties and public-interest litigation. A Senior Advocate of Nigeria since 2012, he has represented clients before Nigerian and ECOWAS courts, led the West African Bar Association and worked through…

Olusegun Obasanjo

Olusegun Obasanjo is a Nigerian former military officer and political leader who served as military head of state from 1976 to 1979 and as elected president from 1999 to 2007. He later undertook senior peace and mediation assignments for the United Nations and African Union.

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Seyi Makinde

Oluseyi Abiodun Makinde

Oluseyi Abiodun Makinde, widely known as Seyi Makinde, is a Nigerian engineer, businessman and politician serving as governor of Oyo State. Elected on the Peoples Democratic Party platform in 2019 and re-elected in 2023, he declared an intention in 2026 to contest Nigeria's…

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Kevin Warsh

Kevin Warsh is a United States central-banking official who became chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in May 2026. He previously served on the Federal Reserve Board from 2006 to 2011 and has held economic-policy, financial-sector, and academic…

Sidi Ould Tah

Sidi Ould Tah is a Mauritanian economist and development-finance executive who has served as President of the African Development Bank Group since September 2025. His earlier career included a decade leading the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa and senior…

Winnie Byanyima

Winifred "Winnie" Karagwa Byanyima

Winifred "Winnie" Karagwa Byanyima is a Ugandan United Nations official serving as Executive Director of UNAIDS and a United Nations Under-Secretary-General. Her career spans Uganda's parliament, gender and development work in African and United Nations institutions, and…

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Christian Happi

Christian Tientcha Happi

Christian Tientcha Happi is a Cameroonian molecular biologist and genomics researcher based at Redeemer's University in Nigeria. He is known for applying pathogen genomics to infectious-disease surveillance and outbreak response, including work on malaria, Ebola virus disease…

Bayo Ojulari

Bashir Bayo Ojulari

Bashir Bayo Ojulari is a Nigerian energy-sector executive and the Group Chief Executive Officer of NNPC Limited. Appointed in April 2025, he previously held senior positions at Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company and Renaissance Africa Energy Company.

Simon Stiell

Simon Emmanuel Kervin Stiell

Simon Stiell is a Grenadian former government minister and the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. In that role, which he has held since August 2022, he leads the secretariat supporting implementation of the UN climate convention,…