50 most Innovative Nigerian Youths in 2021

50 most Innovative Nigerian Youths in 2021

Millions of Nigerian youths have been doing exponentially well for themselves, the nation, and the global community. These Nigerian youths have been exceptional in their ability to identify some fundamental social, economic, and environmental problems both in the country and the international community… And also have put in some efforts, focus, commitment to render significant solutions to eliminate the problems or abate them.

We at insight.ng love to call them innovative Nigerian Youths. Or insightful Youths in Nigeria… and in our culture of celebrating great Individuals who have been contributing to the progress and development of humanity, both in Nigeria and abroad, we have collected a list of 50 young Nigerians between the age bracket of [16 and 35 years old] who have been innovative in their respective industries and have been able to create some grand successes we can all recon with.

We cover industries like Business, Science and Technology, Politics and leadership, Civil service and law, Entertainment and Sports, and several others.

50 Most Innovative Nigerian Youth

S/N	Name	Industry / Sector	Firme	Age
1	Olugbenga Agboola	FinTech	Co-founder, Flutterwave	35
2	John Obidi	Internet Marketing	Founder, Headsta	35
3	Iyinoluwa Samuel Aboyeji	FinTech	Co-founder, Flutterwave	30
4	Bella Disu	Telecommunications	Executive Vice Chairman, Globacom	35
5	Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu (Burnaboy)	Entertainment	Musician	29
6	Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun	Entertainment	Musician	30
7	Shola Akinlade	FinTech	Cofounder, Paystack	34
8	Ezra Olubi	FinTech	Cofounder, Paystack	34
9	Iyinoluwa Samuel Aboyeji	FinTech	Cofounder, Andela, and Flutterwave	30
10	Oluseun Onigbinde	FinTech	co-founder and CEO of budgIT	35
11	Maya Horgan Famodu	Venture Capitalist	Founder, Ingressive Capital	30
12	Juliet Ehimuan	Internet technology	Google's Country Manager in Nigeria	28
13	Odunayo Eweniyi	FinTech	Co-founder PiggyVest	28
14	Yele Bademosi	Cryptocurrency	Founder, Microtraction and Bundle Africa	30
15	Temie Giwa-Tubosu	Banking	CEO, LifeBank	34
16	Tito Ovia	Health care	Cofounder, Helium Health	28
17	Jessica O. Matthews	Venture Capitalist	co-founder, Uncharted Power	33
18	Dr. Olamide Orekunrin	Healthcare and Venture Capitalist	Founder, Founder Flying Doctors Nigeria	35
19	Kelechi Iheanacho	Footballer	Forward, Leicester City	25
20	Romeo Oriogun	Author	Author,	26
21	Edmund Olotu	FinTech	CEO, G-Pay	33
22	Bankole Cardoso	Transportation	CEO, EasyTaxi Nigeria	32
23	Oluwatosin Olaseinde	Online Magazine	Founder, The Money Africa
24	Adegoke Olubusi	Health	Cofounder, Helium Health	29
25	Florence Ifeoluwa Otedola (Dj. Cuppy)	Entertainment	DJ	29
26	David Adedeji Adeleke (Davido)	Entertainment	Musician	28
27	Folarin Falana (Falz)	Entertainment	Musician	31
28	Oluwatomi Solanke	Social media	Founder, iCreate Africa	31
29	Edirin Edewor	Writer	Founder, online publisher	30
30	Eyitayo Ogunmola	Social media	Founder, Utiva	32
31	Fred Oyetayo	Internet Technology	CEO, Fresible	27
32	Ire Aderinokun	FinTech	Co-Founder, Buycoins	31
33	OLuwastobiloba Oyinlola	Venture Capitalist	IoT Evangelist, Itel	29
34	Ola Brown	Health	Founder, Flying Doctors Healthcare Investment Group
35	Ayodeji Osowob	Activist	Executive Director, STER	29
36	Tomi Adeyemi	Novelist & Writing Coach	Author, Children of Blood and Bones	28
37	George Omoraro	Media	CEO, The Rage Group	31
38	Abubakar Sadiq Falalu	Farming	CEO, Falgate	31
39	Ben Eluan	FinTech	Co-founder, Flux	23
40	Nick Ionita	FinTech	Co-founder and CEO, Flux
41	Hamzat Lawal	Legal PR actioner/activist	Founder, Follow The Money	34
42	Stephanie Coker	Television Presenter	Presenter, MTV Base Africa	32
43	Jessica Anuna	E-commerce	Founder and CEO, Klasha	29
44	Akin Jones	FinTech	Founder, Aella Credit
45	Abubakar Falalu	Farming	Founder, Falgates	31
46	Dimeji Sofowora	Health care	Cofounder, Helium Health
47	Onyeka Akumah	Farming	CEO, Farmcrowdy	35
48	Oluwatobi Ajayi	Transportation	Chairman/CEO, Nord Automobiles Limited	32
49	Fidelis Ozuawala	Blogger	founder/CEO of Waploaded	28
50	Toyin Omotoso	Internet Marketing	CEO, Expertnaire

NOTE!

Insight.ng updates the list of the 5o most innovative Nigerian Youths every 6 months. I.e Januaries and Junes.

However, in special cases where a young Nigerian steals the limelight, we feel compelled to update the list as soon as we can. And this also applied to innovators on the list whose source of income is confirmed illegal by the appropriate authority.

Also, some mistakes may be in a few of the data entered above. If you see any, kindly help to correct it by sending a mail to info@insight.ng.

Also, you can still nominate towards the next update by sending Name, Company Section, Name of company and position, and the person’s age to info@insight.ng or fill the form below.