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Enoch Adeboye

Enoch Adejare Adeboye

Enoch Adejare Adeboye is a Nigerian Pentecostal pastor and the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God worldwide. A former mathematics lecturer, he has led the church since January 1981.

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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…

Femi Gbajabiamila

Olufemi Hakeem Gbajabiamila

Olufemi Hakeem Gbajabiamila is a Nigerian lawyer and politician serving as Chief of Staff to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. He previously served as Speaker of the 9th House of Representatives after a long parliamentary career representing Surulere 1 Federal Constituency in Lagos…

Femi Otedola

Olufemi Peter Otedola

Olufemi Peter Otedola, commonly known as Femi Otedola, is a Nigerian businessman and Group Chairman of First HoldCo Plc. His career has included leadership and investment activity in Nigeria's downstream oil-and-gas and power sectors, notably through African Petroleum and Forte…

Festus Osifo

Festus Osifo is a Nigerian engineer and labour-union leader who serves as President of the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria and is also identified as President of the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria.

Félix Tshisekedi

Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo

Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo, commonly known as Félix Tshisekedi, is a Congolese politician serving as President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. First inaugurated in January 2019, he began a second five-year term in January 2024 and previously chaired the African…

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George Elombi

Dr. George Elombi

George Elombi is a Cameroonian legal and banking executive who has served as President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the African Export-Import Bank since October 2025. He joined Afreximbank in 1996 and advanced through its legal, governance and corporate-services…

Godswill Akpabio

Godswill Obot Akpabio

Godswill Obot Akpabio is a Nigerian politician and lawyer who represents Akwa Ibom North-West in the Senate and, as of August 22, 2026, serves as President of the Senate. His earlier public offices include Governor of Akwa Ibom State and Minister of Niger Delta Affairs.

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Goodluck Jonathan

Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan

Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan is a Nigerian politician who served as president from 2010 to 2015. He is particularly associated with Nigeria's 2015 democratic transfer of power and has since undertaken election-observation, mediation and democratic-governance work in Africa.

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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…

Inger Andersen

Inger La Cour Andersen

Inger La Cour Andersen is a Danish international development economist and environmental executive serving as United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme. Her second four-year term began on 15 June 2023 and is…

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Iyinoluwa Aboyeji

Iyinoluwa 'E' Aboyeji

Iyinoluwa 'E' Aboyeji is a Nigerian technology entrepreneur and investor associated with Future Africa and the establishment of Andela and Flutterwave. He has also served as a non-executive director of Learn Africa Plc. Flutterwave's publications use differing language about…

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Iziaq Salako

Iziaq Adekunle Salako

Iziaq Adekunle Salako is a Nigerian public-health physician and public official serving, as of 2026-08-22, as Minister of State at the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare. He entered the health portfolio after serving as Minister of State for Environment and…

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Jean Kaseya

Jean Kaseya is a Congolese medical doctor and public health executive who has served as Director-General of the African Union's Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention since April 2023. His public role centers on continental health security and the coordination of…

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Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum

Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum is a Congolese physician, microbiologist and virologist known for Ebola outbreak investigation, therapeutic research and public-health leadership. Institutional sources identify him as Director General of the Institut National de Recherche…

Jensen Huang

Jensen Huang, also known as Jen-Hsun Huang, is an electrical engineer and technology executive who co-founded NVIDIA in 1993 and serves as its president and chief executive officer. His public significance centers on his leadership in graphics processing, artificial…

Jide Idris

Dr. Olajide "Jide" Idris

Dr. Olajide "Jide" Idris is a Nigerian physician and public-health administrator who, as of 2026-08-22, serves as Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention. His earlier public service included senior health roles in Lagos State and leadership of…

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Jim Ovia

Jim Ovia is a Nigerian banker and business executive who founded Zenith Bank Plc and led it as its pioneer chief executive. He later served as Group Chairman until retiring in May 2026 and also holds documented leadership roles at the Jim Ovia Foundation and James Hope…

Joash Amupitan

Professor Joash Ojo Amupitan, SAN

Joash Ojo Amupitan is a Nigerian professor of law and Senior Advocate of Nigeria who was sworn in as the sixth substantive Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission in October 2025. He previously held academic and leadership roles at the University of Jos.

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Joe Ajaero

Joe Ajaero, also identified by the International Labour Organization as Joe Chiaka Ajaero, is a Nigerian trade-union leader and president of the Nigeria Labour Congress. Elected to lead the Congress in February 2023, he previously worked in journalism and held senior roles in…

Johann Rupert

Johann Rupert is a South African business executive who founded the luxury-goods group Richemont in 1988 and serves as its Chairman. He also holds senior roles in Remgro, Compagnie Financière Rupert and Reinet Investments Manager.

John Dramani Mahama

John Dramani Mahama is a Ghanaian politician serving as President of the Republic of Ghana as of August 22, 2026. A former member of Parliament and vice president, he first held the presidency from 2012 to 2017 and returned to office after winning Ghana's 2024 presidential…

John Onaiyekan

John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan

John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan is a Nigerian Catholic cardinal and Archbishop Emeritus of Abuja. His public significance rests on senior church leadership, interreligious dialogue and peacebuilding, alongside interventions on governance, insecurity and interfaith solidarity in…

Julius Malema

Julius Sello Malema

Julius Sello Malema is a South African opposition politician, founding leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters and its President and Commander-in-Chief. As of 22 August 2026, Parliament listed him as an EFF National Assembly member and a representative on the Judicial Service…