As a continental leader and influential figure in Africa’s ICT space, Adedoyin Odunfa’s authority in IT Governance, Risk and Compliance processes cannot be subjected to scrutiny.

Through Digital Jewels Limited, a leading IT Governance, Risk Management and Compliance (GRC) Consulting firm which she founded and presently sits atop as its Managing Director/CEO, Odunfa has continued to lead impactful industry initiatives, designed and facilitated training programmes that are helping to equip different generations of ICT experts with the skill set to function in today’s ICT world.

With three decades of professional experience in Information/Cyber Security, IT Governance, Risk & Compliance, Business Strategy, Business Development, and Capacity Development, Odunfa is leading industry initiatives to strengthen and enhance IT Governance, Risk and Compliance processes, practices and skill set to significantly impact business.

A Computer Science and Economics graduate from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife; and a Master of Business Administration holder in (IT Management) from the CASS Business School, Barbican Centre, London (formerly City University Business School). 

With her footprints across nine African countries, Odunfa’s career trajectory, which is inspiring young women and showing them the endless possibilities of a career in the ICT sector, earned her a spot on the list of women MTN Nigeria selected for recognition in celebration of the 2023 International Women’s Day.

Breaking glass ceilings is not new to Adia Sowho. In August 2021, when she made history as MTN Nigeria’s first-ever female Chief Marketing Officer, it didn’t come as a surprise to many who were already familiar with her track record.

Born to Urhobo parents in Delta State, Nigeria, the MTN executive earned a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Electrical Engineering with a major in Communications from the University of Sheffield, the United Kingdom. Adia also has a Master of Business Administration from Kellogg School of Management with majors in Strategy, Analytical Consulting, Strategic Marketing, and Entrepreneurship.

Adia started her career in 2001, immediately after her first engineering degree, as a Radio Frequency engineer at the US Cellular Corporation America, she spent over five years there before moving to Deloitte Consulting LLP in 2000 as a Management Consultant. After spending three years on the job she moved back to Nigeria and joined Etisalat Nigeria, now 9mobile, as Director of Digital Business. She went on to spend eight years in that position while developing strategies that increased the company’s revenue to $100 million in four years.  

In 2018 when she left 9mobile, she joined Migo, a fintech platform that enables companies to extend credit to consumers and small businesses from a mobile app. From Migo’s Managing Director, she rose to become Vice President of Growth. 

During her time at Migo, she is credited with helping the platform build the pilot operation for the digital credit start-up. In 2020 when she left, she took on a new challenge as the interim CEO at ThriveAgric, an agricultural investment platform, to help them through a financial crisis post-pandemic in which they had lost over 100 million naira worth of produce.

Within a year, with the help of her implemented strategies and management, she helped the company back on its feet while sorting out hundreds of unpaid retail investors before she joined MTN Nigeria in September 2021 to become its first-ever female Chief Marketing Officer.

With over 20 years of using tech to provide finance, agriculture and telecom solutions, MTN Nigeria is celebrating Adia Sowho and how she has successfully led tech-driven platforms that have seen remarkable growth.

Bukola Ajayi has been on a mission to ensure we all stay connected and keep up with the fast-paced digital world.

Ajayi, who is the General Manager of Architecture and Engineering at MTN Nigeria – a leading ICT company in Nigeria, has over 20 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. She is responsible for designing and implementing new technology solutions to improve MTN’s network infrastructure and operations. 

Before her time as General Manager with MTN Nigeria, she had worked in different capacities with the company; her penultimate role as Senior Manager Enterprise and Customer Experience Operations ensuring the delivery of key services such as the ERP, CRM, Post Paid and Interconnect billing, Mediation, Reporting, Number management, Voucher provisioning and more. 

“When you have people who are role models, the younger people will be willing to grow and the gender gap in the profession (STEM) gets narrower,” Dr Elizabeth Eterigho said in an interview.

True to her words, she has been using her office as the 17th president of the Association of Professional Women Engineers of Nigeria (APWEN), to influence and drive diversity and inclusion, and bridge the wide gender gap in STEM through continuous advocacy and programmes. 

In just a year in charge at APWEN, one of the remarkable initiatives launched by the association is the ‘invent it, build it’ programme, a sort of ‘catch them young’ initiative that focuses on bringing up the younger ones from primary schools and helping them understand that engineering is not as difficult as they perceive it to be.

With three decades of experience as a lecturer at the Federal University of Technology, Minna, in Niger state, she is not just influencing a new generation of women and making STEM attractive to them, she’s also training and equipping them with the skills needed to build a successful career.

Her influence, power and contributions to the growth of women in STEM earned her a spot on the list of 27 Nigerian women MTN Nigeria is celebrating for being trailblazers in Nigeria’s ICT industry in commemoration of the 2023 International Women’s Day.

With over 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry, having worked for multinational companies such as Verizon Communications, Transcorp, MTN Nigeria, Opeke serves as the CEO of MainOne Cable, a leading provider of innovative telecoms and network solutions in West Africa. 

In 2010, Opeke founded MainOne Cable to bridge the digital divide in West Africa and provide high-quality broadband connectivity to businesses and individuals in the region. Today, MainOne Cable operates one of the largest data centres in West Africa and has an extensive fibre optic cable network that spans over 7,000 kilometres across the region.

Opeke has received numerous awards and recognitions for her contributions to the telecommunications industry in Nigeria and beyond.

Kofo Akinkugbe’s commitment to excellence and her unwavering dedication to customer satisfaction have earned her numerous awards and accolades, making her a true icon of the Nigerian business community.

The founder and group CEO of SecureID Ltd, “Africa’s leading manufacturer of smart cards” and identity management solutions, Akinugbe is a highly respected business leader and entrepreneur, with over 25 years of experience in the financial services and technology industries. 

Under her leadership, SecureID Ltd has become a leading provider of identity management solutions, serving clients in the financial services, telecommunications, and government sectors across Africa. Certified by VISA, Verve, and Mastercard, SecureID is the first sim production plant in Nigeria and it now produces smart cards and exports sim cards to 21 other African countries.

“The woman bettering the lives of Nigeria’s farmers,” that’s how she has been described in the media.

Dr Lola Masha’s work is most notable in her present role as the Deputy Managing Director of Babban Gona, a social enterprise that works with local farmers in Northern Nigeria and helps them to increase their yields, improve their incomes, and also help them to live better lives.

In a country where UNICEF said 25 million people are at high risk of food insecurity in 2023, Masha, through her work at Babban Gona, is helping local farmers, who are the most affected by the many challenges confronting the Nigerian agricultural sector, to access financing, provide them with training and access to marketing services at harvest. 

Babban Gona has worked with over 250,000 farmers across 19 states in Nigeria, and playing actively at the centre of this innovative social enterprise is Masha.

Masha’s journey didn’t start at Babban Gona where she’s presently deploring the possibilities of technology to innovate and eliminate complexities in the agricultural value chain. Before joining Babban Gona in 2019, Masha, who holds a PhD in Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, was at McKinsey, the defunct Bank PHB, Google and OLX 

At Google, she led various Product Partnerships efforts across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and Emerging Markets. In over two decades, she has deservedly cemented her place as a leading light who exemplifies the ideal woman many youngsters look up to and draw inspiration from in Nigeria and Africa’s ICT space.

If there is one technology professional taking active steps to grow Nigeria’s SMEs, it would be Lynda Saint-Nwafor. In 2018, when a huge billboard of a man in a box going about his activities stationed right along Lekki Expressway Lago, social media platforms went into a frenzy to find out what the idea was all about. At the forefront of this discussion was MTN, as it was a campaign geared towards symbolising their unwavering dedication and desire to help support business growth and transformation, using a wide range of world-class business solutions backed by cutting-edge technology.

The campaign was carried out just two years after Lynda became the Chief Enterprise Business Office at MTN Nigeria. Five years later, MTN’s Enterprise Business Solutions is still thriving under Lynda Saint-Nwafor’s leadership. It comes as no surprise as Lynda has expertise in Network Planning, Project Management, Organisational and Business Transformation, and People Management.

A graduate of Engineering, Lynda obtained her Bachelor’s degree from Enugu State University (ESUT) in 1996, before she officially began her career in 1994 as Trainee System Analyst with Data Sciences Nigeria Limited before she left in 2001 to head the Engineering, Development & Project Management Department at EMIS Telecoms Nigeria.

Lynda joined MTN Nigeria in 2002, and in those years, she has risen through the ranks with her expertise. When she joined the team, she was working as a Systems Planning Engineer in the Networks Division. Since then, she has performed in various positions as; Core Network Planning Manager (2003), Senior Manager, Systems Planning (2004), General Manager, Network Planning (2005), and Chief Technical Officer (2011). Currently, she leads the enterprise and ICT strategy in MTN as the Chief Enterprise Business Officer at MTN Nigeria.

Aside from her great contribution to SMEs through MTN, Lynda served in a key advisory position as a member of the Presidential Committee instituted by Former President Goodluck Jonathan.

In recognition of her contribution to ICT for over 25 years by creating business solutions with technology, MTN Nigeria is celebrating Lynda Saint-Nwafor alongside 28 other Nigerian women wielding influence in the ICT space.

With a passion for promoting gender equality in the tech industry, Martha Alade has spent years blurring barriers and empowering women to succeed in a male-dominated field. 

In 2002, she founded Women in Technology in Nigeria (WITIN), a non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting the role of women in technology and entrepreneurship. During her career in the technology industry, she experienced first-hand the challenges that women face in male-dominated industries and was inspired to create WITIN as a platform to support and mentor women in tech.

Through WITIN, Martha has positively affected the lives of hundreds of thousands of women and girls in Nigeria and has a presence in the 36 states of the federation including the FCT, with over 20,000 active women in her network and currently in Special Consultative Status with the UN. Out of 966 submitted projects, 360 nominations for online voting and over 1.3 million votes cast, WITIN’s WomenPRIDE.Africa project emerged WSIS Prize 2022 runner-up in May 2022.

“With our hashtag #WomenPRIDEdotAfrica trending for the first time. We saw people we have never met speaking up and acknowledging our efforts of two decades globally. This is motivating us enormously to work even harder, surpassing our target. Also, it gives us a platform to reach out to more partners”, Martha Alade revealed in her response to the recognition.

In 2010, when Mary Uduma became the President of the Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NIRA) after serving as its Vice-President in 2009, she started advising the commission on the telecommunications market, tariff regulations, policy, licensing, and consumer code of practice issues.

Uduma, an accounting graduate from the Institute of Management Technology, Enugu (IMT) and the University of Lagos (UNILAG), is presently the Managing Director of Jaeno Digital Solutions.

Before Jaeno Digital Solutions, she has garnered a range of experience in finance and communications in the public sector. At the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), she was the Finance Assistant Director, Deputy Director in the Tariff and Charges department, Corporate Planning, Director of Licensing, Head of Consumer Affairs before she later took up the role as Director of Consumer Affairs Bureau.

As the chairperson of the Nigeria Internet Governance Forum (NIGF), Uduma has used her role to help Nigerians understand the opportunities, risks, and challenges of the use of technology. She’s also a two-time President of the Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NIRA), an association that oversees Nigeria’s country code top-level domain, .ng.

In a career spanning over 20 years in the infotech sector, she has advised and developed community development projects in ICT while empowering women and young people. This is why MTN Nigeria is recognising her alongside 28 other Nigerian women for their contribution and influence in the ICT space.

Nkemdilim Uwaje Begho is known for setting trends in the Nigerian tech space. The serial entrepreneur who has been in the industry for over 15 years successfully turned her first venture, Future Software Resources Ltd, a digital agency & IT solutions company, into one of Nigeria’s leading IT Service companies offering business solutions to scaling African enterprises.

The graduate of Bioinformatics from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany, started her path into entrepreneurship in 2015 and has been able to design and implement innovative digital marketing while building globally recognised technology brands.

In her capacity as the CEO of Futuresoft, she has successfully served over 200 clients across 20 industries while offering training that has earned her multiple awards, including the Jim Ovia Prize for Software Excel­lence and the Etisalat Prize for Innovation. She has also been recognised on Forbes’s Top Ten Female Tech Founders in Africa, Global Digital Women’s top 10 Most Inspiring Women in Africa, Lionesses of Africa’s top 100 Women, and Ventures Africa’s 42 most Innovative Africans, amongst others.

Aside from her roles in creating tech-related solutions, she also volunteers for empowerment programmes for young Nigerians and women. One of her many volunteering works is at the Women’s Technology Empowerment Centre, W.TEC, where she works with the non-governmental organisation to empower girls and women using ICT.

Nkemdilim Uwaje Begho currently serves in varied capacities in companies, including Novare Investment Fund Ltd, Lagos State Research & Innovation Council (LASRIC), Stanbic IBTC Holdings PLC, and the Society for Corporate Governance Nigeria.

Whether she’s speaking at a UN conference or collaborating with grassroots organisations in developing countries, Nwakanma is a true champion of the open web and a driving force for positive change in the digital age.

As the former Chief Web Advocate at the World Wide Web Foundation, an organisation that works to promote access to the internet and digital rights around the world, she was a renowned advocate for open data, open government, and digital rights, and has been recognized for her work in promoting digital inclusion and social justice.

Prior to joining the World Wide Web Foundation, Nnenna worked as a consultant for a number of international organisations, including the African Development Bank, where she functioned as a Communication Assistant.

Nwakanma has been instrumental in launching a number of initiatives and campaigns aimed at increasing internet access and promoting digital literacy and has worked closely with governments, civil society organisations, and private sector companies to advance these goals.

Currently, she is a Board Member of the International Digital Health & AI Research Collaborative (I-DAIR).

Odunayo Eweniyi is one of the most inspirational Nigerians in tech with a commendable list of startups and successful tech solutions under her belt including West Africa’s first online app for personal savings and investment, PiggyVest, while still committing to ensuring that women across Africa who are in the early process of launching a startup have access to angel funds with her initiative, FirstCheck Africa.
The computer engineering graduate from Covenant University started her journey into the tech space in 2013 after she met her co-founder, Somto Ifuezue, an engineering graduate from Covenant university as well. As they worked together and explored startups like Somtos Parolz where she honed her skill as a tech expert to PushCV, their company was profitable and sustainable.
In the search for the next big thing, Josh Chibueze, one of Odun’s eventual co-founders struck gold with his idea of a digitalised ‘Kolo’, a local method of saving money. This idea gave birth to PiggyVest, an online savings platform that makes saving and investing possible.
Aside from creating tech solutions, she is also committed to creating women-focused communities. In 2018, she co-founded Wine and Whine Nigeria with Dami Odufuwa, a space that was created in an effort for women to relax, party and be themselves. In July 2020, the duo went on to create another community, Feminist Coalition (FemCo), a community that was dedicated to promoting women’s rights and safety. This movement went on to be instrumental in the distribution of resources during the #EndSARS protests as they ensured the protection and safety of protesters with funds donated by Nigerians.
In her almost ten years as a tech expert, she has received multiple accolades, including the 2018 Future Awards Africa Prize in Technology, the 2019 Forbes Africa 30 under 30 Technology list. In 2019 she was also named one of 30 Quartz Africa Innovators for 2019 and was on Forbes Africa’s list of 20 New Wealth Creators in Africa 2019. In 2020, she was listed on the Bloomberg 50’s list and Time100 Next list in 2021 for her joint contributions during the End SARS protests of October 2020. In March 2022, she won the Forbes Woman Africa Technology and Innovation Award.
In recognition of her over ten years of contribution to empowering women with tech while co-founding West Africa’s first online app for savings and investment, Piggyvest, MTN Nigeria is celebrating Odunayo Eweniyi alongside 28 other Nigerian women wielding influence in the ICT space.

Ogo Ofomota who currently serves as the Director of Digital Business at Airtel Nigeria has been instrumental in driving digital transformation initiatives and improving customer experience in the ICT sector.

She’s presently using her about 20 years of experience to lead the Digital Business at Airtel Nigeria.

While stakeholders are making efforts to gradually close the gender gap in STEM, Ofomota’s determination and positivity are not just inspiring, they have also earned her a prominent seat on the ICT table largely dominated by men.

Besides helping Airtel Nigeria to lead a new wave in Nigeria’s data centre landscape, the Computer Science graduate from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, is also using her role as the telco’s Director of Business to deliver data service to large, small and medium-scale businesses. 

With over 20 years of experience in ICT, Olatomiwa Williams has been helping organisations explore the power of tech to achieve their business objectives.
In her role as the Country Manager for Microsoft in Nigeria and Ghana, she leads a team of Solution Specialists helping enterprise customers achieve their organisation’s Digital Transformation goal by leveraging Microsoft Cloud Solutions.
Before joining Microsoft, she was a Lead Consultant with Dimension Data, Nigeria, and at Microsoft she was formerly Digital Transformation and Cloud Solution Director for the Microsoft Middle East and Africa (MEA) Multi Country Cluster (MCC).
Olatimiwa has been described as a passionate mentor of aspiring female leaders, and as part of her commitment to seeing more women succeed in tech, she leads female-focused initiatives to support and inspire women and girls to develop an interest in ICT.

From the time she owned her first computer in 1986, Prof Olayinka David-West has not looked back on her journey into the ICT world.

A graduate of Computer Science from the University of Lagos where she earned her first degree and the City University of London and Alliance Manchester Business School where she earned her master’s and doctorate degrees respectively, Prof David-West has gone far and beyond to stamp her feet as an authority in Nigeria’s ICT sector.

As one of the women using their influence and knowledge of tech to impact society and business, it will not be out of place to describe her as one of the forebearers of the industry.

She credits her tech journey to the guidance and support she got from her parents who instructed her to pursue a career in computer science at a time one may not need a rigorous survey to determine the number of offices and households with computer systems in Nigeria. Her parents’ actions provided the launch pad for Prof Olayinka’s career in tech.

“Technology is my deep passion,” she once said in an interview.

In over three decades, she has built a career in being an intersection between technology and the business world and in her role as an Associate Dean and Professor of Information Systems at the Lagos Business School, Pan-Atlantic University, in Lagos, Nigeria, she is helping businesses have a deeper understanding  of technology and how to apply its possibilities to better do their work and achieve greater results.

With expert certifications in financial inclusion policy and digital money, Prof David-West’s passion and advocacy for digital transformation and inclusive finance is admirable. Her work and impact in the ICT and financial services industry in over three decades earned her a spot on the list of women MTN Nigeria is recognising in celebration of the 2023 International Women’s Day.

Omobola Johnson’s tech-savvy aspirations and achievements are as diverse as a box of chocolates, with a mission to bring a wide range of digital treats to the people of Africa.

A Nigerian technocrat and the former Minister of Communication Technology in Nigeria under President Goodluck Jonathan, Johnson has over 30 years of experience in the technology industry and has held various senior positions in both the private and public sectors. Prior to her appointment as Minister of Communication Technology, she was the Country Managing Director for Accenture in Nigeria.

As Minister of Communication Technology, Johnson played a key role in developing Nigeria’s National Broadband Plan, which aimed to increase broadband penetration in the country to 30% by 2018. She also championed initiatives to promote the use of technology in education, healthcare, and other key sectors of the economy.

Johnson currently serves as the Chairperson of the Global Alliance for Affordable Internet, a coalition of public and private sector organisations that seeks to promote affordable and universal access to the internet worldwide. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of several companies, including MTN Nigeria.

When you think of the brains behind MTN’s thriving business strategies, their General Manager, Fixed Broadband, Onyinye Ikenna-Emeka is one name that should come to mind as she has built a reputation for developing winning commercials and cutting-edge business strategies that have led to the telecommunications company establishing themselves in new markets.

The graduate of Geology from the University of Calabar, Cross River State over the years has shown her strengths in B2B Marketing, Commercial Strategy, and Sales Leadership. The Marketing professional holds an MBA in general management from the University of Manchester United Kingdom. She also holds executive education certifications in Leadership, Commercial Strategies, and Technology Innovation with Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, and the Lagos Business School.

Onyinye started her career as the pioneer Corporate Sales Executive within the Business Sales team in 2001. In 2004, she became Sector Sales Manager, Energy, and Logistics before she was promoted 2 years later to the Sector Sales Manager, Finance and Services. She has remained in the MTN Nigeria family in different capacities including as Senior Manager, Corporate Accounts and subsequently General Manager, Enterprise Sales and General Manager, Enterprise Marketing, before she took up the role of General Manager, Fixed Broadband, at MTN Nigeria in 2021.

As General Manager, Fixed Broadband, MTN Nigeria she provides leadership for fixed broadband operations while establishing resources to meet customers’ requirements. With over 23 years’ worth of experience in telecommunications, logistics, and education she has been able to develop profitable business models for MTN Nigeria.

Aside from her role in MTN, she is a public speaker on topics ranging from technology to Women in leadership while being a member of the Forbes Business Development Business Council, an invitation-only platform that empowers successful, driven sales and biz dev executives to connect, collaborate, publish, and grow through membership.

In her capacity in the educational sector, she is a guest faculty at the Tekedia Institute, the PearlMutual Academy, and the co-founder of theOIEHub where shares her wealth of knowledge with marketing professionals. Also, she is currently a Member of the governing council for The Grange School in Lagos.

In recognition of her over 23 years of contribution to ICT by creating successful business strategies with the help of technology, MTN Nigeria is celebrating Onyinye Ikenna-Emeka alongside 28 other Nigerian women wielding influence in the ICT space.

With a flair for innovation and global business knowledge, Teju Ajani, the Managing Director of Apple, Nigeria, is not your average tech exec. 

Shaking up the tech scene for more than two decades, Ajani is responsible for overseeing Apple’s operations in Nigeria, as well as driving growth and innovation in the company’s products and services. 

Prior to joining Apple, she worked in various senior management roles at Fortune 100 technology companies across North America, Europe, and Sub-Saharan Africa, including Google and YouTube. During her time at Google, she played a key role in developing the company’s business in Nigeria and was instrumental in launching several new products and services. At YouTube, she led the company’s developer and platform evangelism efforts across Sub-Saharan Africa, helping to build a vibrant ecosystem of partners.

Under her leadership, Apple has expanded its presence in Nigeria, launching new products and services that cater to the needs of Nigerian consumers. 

For Ajani, “the ability to operate comfortably as a business and technical person made her stand out and gave her flexibility in her career that she has interestingly found to be an advantage”, writes Kemi Ajumobi of Businessday.

Ude Enebeli manages and oversees MTN Nigeria’s IT infrastructure, including its cloud computing operations. With over 20 years of experience in the IT industry, Enebeli delivers services such as Solutions Delivery, Value Creation, Quality Management and Assurance, Project management, Operations management, Change Management etc., within her capacity as the General Manager of IT Infrastructure and Cloud Engineering of the telecommunications company. 

Having spent over 10 years with the company, Enebeli, an expert in cloud computing and IT infrastructure management, is committed to ensuring that MTN Nigeria’s IT infrastructure is secure, reliable, and scalable, and is constantly working to improve the company’s technology systems to meet the needs of its customers. 

Under her leadership, MTN Nigeria has implemented innovative solutions that have improved the efficiency and effectiveness of its IT operations, making it one of the leading telecom companies in Nigeria.

Ugonwa Nwoye started out in MTN Nigeria 20 years ago as a product manager responsible for customer relationship management services by creating products and services that endeared customers. Now, she has morphed into a customer relations expert who understands her audience enough to create specific plans to suit their needs.

In her years as a Chief Customer Relations Officer at MTN Nigeria, she has increasingly worked to aid the digitalisation of the MTN business with the introduction of channels like the MyMTNApp and the MTN Marketplace, both platforms which are ways for customers to interact and connect with other people. She also developed loyalty programmes that helped MTN connect better with its audience. Through her experience, she has mentored small business owners to help them decode the ever-changing customer behaviour and create customer relation models.

Ugonwa earned a degree in Engineering from the University of Nsukka (UNN) and a Master’s in Business Administration from the Harvard Business School, Boston, USA. She started out her career in 1995 when she worked as a Senior Field Engineer at Schlumberger. Between 2000 and 2001 Nwoye worked at Harvard Kennedy School of Government in the United States as Researcher and Associate at Mercer Management Consulting in San Francisco, California. Prior to joining MTN Nigeria, she had worked at Bain & Company Inc. South Africa as a Strategy Consultant before she accepted the position of Product & Services Manager in 2003 at MTN Nigeria.

In her 20 years of experience in customer relations, she has found a method that works for her. “When it comes to keeping the customer happy, only one approach really works. The hands-on approach. Every member of the team that I lead understands this and is how we ensure that you continue to experience effective and high-quality service,” she wrote in her MTN biography.

This method has earned her recognition from MTN Nigeria as they celebrate her work alongside 28 other Nigerian women wielding influence in the ICT space.

Uzoma Ekwebelem is the Technology Public Sector Director for Oracle Nigeria, Africa Operations, a multinational information technology corporation considered the third largest software company in the world. 

With over 15 years of experience in telecommunications and creating IT Solutions, Uzoma has been at the forefront of cybersecurity initiatives.

In her almost seven years of working with Oracle, she has collaborated with 

Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Communication and Digital Economy, and the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) to aid cyber security. The engineer who started her career in 2006 as a Process Technician at Karisto Industrial Systems Limited, Switch Gear Manufacturing, successfully transitioned into telecommunication in 2006 when she took up the role of a Switch Technician at the defunct Nigeria Telecommunication Limited (NITEL).

She has worked as an IT Consultant and engineer at Visafone Communications Limited, and TechExpress Service Center Limited before moving to IBM in 2012 as the Territory Sales Manager, Public Sector, where she developed key initiatives to grow the IBM business across boards in the public sector before she joined Oracle as the Senior Territory Sales Manager Technology, Public Sector in 2016. 

After developing key strategies for the company and significantly increasing its stand in the Public Sector, Uzoma was promoted in 2018 to the role of Technology Public Sector Director, at Oracle Nigeria before she eventually got her role as Country Leader Cloud in August 2021.

Aside from her work as a Cloud Country Leader at Oracle, she is also a member of the Africa Chamber of Digital Commerce with a Bachelor’s in Electrical/Electronics Engineering from Igbinedion University, Okada, and a Master’s in Technology and Business from Manchester Business School.

Veronica is the Managing Director at Telko Managed Service, where she is focused on driving strategic growth at businesses in Africa.

When she became the Vice President of Airtel’s Mobile Money segment in 2017, she was tasked with driving Airtel Money’s business segment to profitable growth. Before the appointment, she had successfully led the South Region of the Airtel business to profitability with a financial success that earned her commendation as the best-performing region.

In her two decades of experience in driving businesses in strategic directions, Veronica has provided innovative and strategic solutions to help businesses achieve desired goals while maximising human and financial resources.

Veronica holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Jos and is an Alumnus of the Harvard Business School, Lagos Business School, and the Indian Institute of Management. She is also an Associate Member of the Nigerian Institute of Management.

Her extensive skills in business transformation and leveraging technology as a tool for business growth and sustainability have led MTN to honour her contribution to ICT alongside 28 other women making great strides in the technology space with their influence.

Yetunde Ojo is a Nigerian technology executive and the General Manager of IT Operations at MTN Nigeria, a leading ICT company in the country.

Ojo has over 20 years of experience in the technology industry and has worked in various roles across several companies, including Barclays and The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE). At MTN Nigeria, she is responsible for overseeing the company’s IT operations and ensuring the smooth functioning of its systems and infrastructure.

A member of the Information Security Community, Ojo has received several awards and recognitions for her contributions to the technology industry in Nigeria.