Essential is the need, to make known, the essence of an online-presence morality, given a contemporary world in which online/internet events have contributed a huge chunk to its marred state.
Social media engagements with sane, morally upright and knowledge-dishing social profiles, authored by upright individuals, is therefore believed to be a social media hack that will restore or reborn the lost online-community sanity.
In light of this note, efforts have been painstakingly made, to contribute our own quota in achieving the ‘online sanity’ aim, by presenting a list of tested and verified moral filled profiles, authored by virtuous men who are excellently performing across their distinctive fields. Let us do well, to note and engage with them as they take us through their beneficial contents that will not only benefit us, but be a blessing, as well, to generations to come, bi idhniLLAH.
Here are some Muslim men from Nigeria you can follow in 2023 on social media:
1. Abdulkabeer Taiwo Kuye
Abdulkabeer Taiwo Kuye is an astute finance professional with over 9 years of accounting and business advisory experience delivering value to various organizations across several industries and sectors of the economy including financial services, consumer/industrial markets, oil & gas, manufacturing, telecommunications, etc., within Nigeria, Africa and Globally.
Taiwo has vast experience in leading accounting, bookkeeping and financial reporting engagements setting up of accounting systems for start-up clients, maintenance of accounting records using various accounting software packages (such as QuickBooks, Peach-tree, SAGE Pastel, Microsoft Dynamics 365, SAP Business One), account reconciliations, preparation of financial statements and audit schedules, audit support services, computing performance indicators, financial statement analysis, as well as IFRS related advisory services.
He is a fellow of the Institute of Islamic Finance Professionals (IIFP) and an associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN).
He holds a BSc. Degree in Accounting from the University of Lagos, after completing his HND and ND in Accounting from Lagos State Polytechnic, Ikorodu.
He is happily married with Children.
2. Abdulkareem Musa Olayinka
Abdulkareem Musa Olayinka is a well-seasoned young emerging leader with a record of accomplishment in youth and community development and he has demonstrated a history of working with both local and international non-governmental organizations to achieve sustainable development.
Having served and still serving in leadership roles, he has gleaned and implemented requisite skills in people management, team building, interpersonal relationships, emotional Intelligence, communication, and conflict management.
Musa understands the essence of diversity and he has successfully worked with people of diverse backgrounds across geographical lines and sexual identity, disability, gender, and religion.
He was the 2021 project lead coordinator for the Young African Leader Initiative (YALI) Lagos state where he selflessly led over 1000 network members. YALI is a United States signatory effort to invest in the next generations of African leaders. Because of his outstanding performance, he was nominated to contest for YALI national elections amidst the end of his tenure as the network coordinator for Lagos state. He contested in the elections, won with highest votes, and elected as YALI RLC Alumni Nigeria southwest regional coordinator in December 2022 with a record of being a serving coordinator for Lagos state and elected coordinator for the southwest region.
Musa is a member of Junior Chamber International (JCI EKO chapter) and in 2020, he served as a member of board of director and director of Life After School Project where he carried out soft skills projects to empower young graduates amid Covid-19 pandemic. At the end of the year 2020, he was appointed as Ambassador, African continent for Global Socio-economic and Financial Evolution Network (GSFEN) and he is currently serving as membership director.
As a social entrepreneur who loves to change the narrative, he founded an NGO called Rising Hope initiative in 2019 with the aim to rise the hope of underprivileged children in his community and beyond through education and empowerment (SDGs 1,2,4) and currently operates in seven states of Nigeria (Lagos, Kwara, Kaduna, Osun, Ogun, Enugu, and Abuja).
Musa is an alumnus of the Accra Business school and member of boardroom institute, Ghana. YALI RLC Alumni, Nigerian Prize for leadership, World literacy foundation, African Young Leaders Fellowship Program, etcetera.
He had been recognized and received notable awards for his diligence and commitment to societal development, such as volunteer of the year 2019 by Youth Art initiative, Community advocate of the year 2019 by YALI Network Lagos, best cultural humanitarian of the year 2020 by ASA festival USA (virtual), 2020 nominee for Young African Leader award under the category of Nelson Mandela, Excellence Leadership award 2021 by Ladies of honor, Young Global leader, World Economic Forum nominee for the class of 2022, 2021, 100 most influential young people by opportunity hub, among others.
3. Bello, Kamaldeen Idowu (M.Sc.,)
Bello, Kamaldeen Idowu is a trained Physiologist of repute. He bagged his first degree and Master’s degree in Physiology from the prestigious University of Ilorin, Ilorin Nigeria. He is a certified Health, Safety & Environment as well as Project Management expert.
He is an alumnus of the prestigious Metropolitan School of Business and Management, United Kingdom, Rome Business School, Italy, The Billionaire Conclave, Dubai amongst others.
Kamaldeen is a renowned celebrity Realtor and multiple awards winning Real Estate Consultant.
He is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Belkalid Consults Nigeria Limited a leading real estate investment company based in Lagos Nigeria.
Kamaldeen is an Author and a member of several reputable associations including American Society For Neurochemistry, ASN United States of America, International Society for Neurochemistry, ISN Switzerland, The Physiological Society, United Kingdom, Physiological Association of Nigeria, Billionaire Realtors Group, Adloyalty Business Network amongst others.
4. Dr. Abass Adeola Toriola
Dr. Abass Toriola hails from Abeokuta, Ogun State. After having studied Biochemistry at Olabisi Onabanjo University, he proceeded to the University of Lagos, where he studied Medicine and Surgery.
Dr. Toriola is a staunch advocate of preventive medicine who has a strong passion for enlightening the public on medical myths and harmful traditional practices.
A general practitioner, Dr. Toriola runs his own private medical facility in Abeokuta. He’s happily married with kids.
5. Dr. Arowolo Babatunde Kazeem
Arowolo Babatunde Kazeem also known in some circle as DrBrown. He is from Ibadan, Oyo state. Kazeem had his primary and secondary education in both private and public institutions within Ibadan after which he gained admission to study Medicine and surgery at Obafemi Awolowo University.
Dr. Kazeem graduated from OAU in 2016 after which he did his housemanship and NYSC within Oyo state before leaving the country after NYSC to the United Kingdom after gaining an employment within the NHS. He is presently working and doing his post graduate medical training in UK and hopefully will finish in some years time inshaAllah.
Like other regular kids that grew up within a Muslim family in south west Nigeria, he attended Islamiyyah popularly known as Ile-keu from when Kazeem was a child till his days as an undergraduate in OAU with the hope and plan of returning fully to citadel of Islamic knowledge after completion of his postgraduate medical training.
Today, Kazeem reside in a lovely silent city-Carlisle, a border city within England facing the border of Scotland.
Dr. Kazeem is happily married to his wife who is a pharmacist and the marriage has been blessed with 2 lovely daughters.
His hobbies include reading-mostly historical related content, surfing the internet and being with friends and family. Kazeem is also a military aviation enthusiast-this is a passion he developed since secondary school days.
His friends would say he is friendly, love informalities, down to earth and happy to help people.
6. Dr Idris Olabode Badiru
Dr Idris Olabode Badiru is a senior lecturer at the Department of Agricultural Extension and Rural Development, University of Ibadan, where he conducts researches in the area of development communication and project impact assessment.
He teaches courses such as Diffusion and Adoption of Innovations, Community Development Practice, Development Communication (Theories and Practice), Behavioural Change Communication, Contemporary Issues in Agricultural Extension and Agricultural Journalism at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He also facilitates course components such as Development Communication and Diffusion of Innovations in the MBA (Agribusiness) programme of the UI School of Business.
Before joining the academia, Dr Badiru had worked with rural communities across the length and breadth of Southwest Nigeria, first as a Community Journalist with the defunct Ibarapa Watch Magazine, later as a Community Facilitator in the Second National Fadama Development Project and afterwards as Southwest Zonal Project Support Officer in the Third National Fadama Development Project. He also had a stint as Special Administrative Assistant to the Managing Partner of Design Variation – an architectural firm responsible for the design of many landmark projects in Nigeria.
He has over 16 years’ cognate experience in planning, management, monitoring and evaluation of development projects in Nigeria and has consulted for governments at different strata in managing World Bank Assisted rural development projects such as Fadama, WAAPP and APPEALS. He has participated in a number of Joint World Bank/FGN Supervision Missions to different states in Nigeria.
Dr Badiru has been engaged as a resource person by consulting firms to train project and ministry staff of many states and government agencies on topics ranging from community development, strategic management and project monitoring and evaluation at different times.
He was a guest researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden and a fellow of AgriFoSe 2030 programme. He was a recipient of Egba/AG Leventis Scholarship award for postgraduate students during his masters and doctoral programmes and was an Ogun State scholar during his undergraduate days. He is currently a Senior Fellow in the Agriculture Sectoral Deepening Cluster of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group’s Non-Residential Fellowship Programme.
Dr Badiru publishes regularly in reputable local and international journals. He is a member of Agricultural Extension Society of Nigeria (AESON) and Rural Sociological Association of Nigeria (RuSAN). He is happily married and blessed with children.
7. Lawal Olalekan Olohungbebe
Lawal Olalekan Olohungbebe was born in Ota, Ogun State where he had his primary and secondary education. He is a native of Ilorin from Abidogun compound, Ode Alfa Nda area. Lawal is a community development practitioner.
Lawal did a diploma programme in Sharia and Common Law at the College of Arabic and Islamic Legal Studies (CAILS), Ilorin. He holds a BSc. in Sociology and Anthropology from the University of Maiduguri, Shariah and Common Law (LLB) from University of Ilorin, MSc. Social Works and Community Development from Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso. Lawal is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in Community Development at Bayero University, Kano.
Lawal is a product of St. Francis Xavier University, Canada where he obtained a Certificate in Facilitation and Training Approaches to Community Change. He attended the Knowledge Train Institute, Barbican in London where he underwent project management training. He also did short courses in Adult Education and Community Engagement at University of Würzburg, Germany. He successfully completed his Ibtidahiyat at Zumratul Hujaaj School, Ota and Idaadiyah at Mahdul Mujahideen, Ota, while he bagged his Thaanawiyyah certificate at Mahdul Kamaaliy in Ilorin.
Lawal has served as a community development facilitator with some NGOs in Nigeria including the Initiative for Peoples’ Good Health (IPGH) Ugep, Global HIV/AIDS Initiative Nigeria (GHAIN) Calabar and Enhancing Nigerians Response to HIV/AIDS (ENR) all in Cross River State, Nigeria.
Olohungbebe Lawal Olalekan is currently the Coordinator of the Kwara State University’s Centre for Community Development. He is the Chief Volunteer of the Volunteers of Ilorin Community and the Emirate (VOICE) and the Volunteer Coordinator of Hannis Institute for Development Studies (HIDS) and Haashim Initiative for Community Advancement (HICA). Lawal is the convener of the popular Kwara Candidates’ Forum and the Countryside Emerging Leaders Fellowship (CELF).
Lawal speaks Yoruba, English, Arabic fluently and basic Hausa and German.. He is happily married with children.
8. Muhammad Shamsuddin Ibrahim
Muhammad is a climate justice activist, digital storyteller, grassroots mobilizer, and certified teacher. He currently supports a variety of donor-funded institutional building initiatives, with a focus on energy transition, climate change education, understanding, and mitigation. Committed to strengthening capacity, understanding and citizens engagement mechanisms for better approaches towards transparency and accountability in energy transition, environmental governance, climate change mitigation and adaptation in Africa through research, policy, advocacy and practice.
He has four years of experience implementing, supporting, and working on donor-funded projects on a variety of institutional building initiatives, with focus on energy transition, climate change education, understanding, and mitigation.
In our neighborhood, numerous homes were flooded 18 years ago during an unusually wet season, resulting in the loss of life, destruction of property, and the relocation of numerous households. This occurred in June 2004, when I was only 10 years old and had just moved to the new community. It was extremely unusual for me at the time, especially given that my birthplace and the early years of my life were in a region where such events weren’t common; it is not unusual to still see similar occurrences today. My family farm, which practices subsistence agriculture, suffered post-harvest losses in 2020 due to a prolonged rainfall, causing us to lose about 15 tonnes of maize. This also had an impact on various semi-urban communities, including the one where my family currently resides.
More recently, I have seen many farmers unable to maintain their farms even during dry seasons, and this has significantly contributed to food scarcity in rural communities. I am aware of the impact that a changing environment has on human life, and this understanding has been my main motivation in looking for solutions and ideas to these issues.
9. Rilwan Akeyewale
Rilwan Akeyewale is an ex-KPMG financial analyst and business strategist. Until recently, he was also the Head of the Tech Market Segment at FCMB.
Rilwan is the founder and CEO of TechPlan Africa, where he helps tech startups and SMEs maximize their profits and write business plans and financial models. He’s also the founder of ScaleFund.io, a startup that connects startups at growth stage to investors.
10. Saheed Oladele
Saheed Oladele holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in linguistics (first class hons) from the University of Ibadan. During his Master of Arts programme in linguistics, he was a University of Ibadan Scholar. He had an opportunity to co-teach English syntax, morphology, sociolinguistics and dialectology at both the University of Ibadan and Obafemi Awolowo University in 2012 and 2013 before venturing into full entrepreneurship. Saheed Oladele’s passion for creating job opportunities and solving some societal problems led to his establishment of Erudite Millennium Ltd, now one-of-a-kind educational institute in Africa preparing students for international examinations and foreign admissions.
Using the instrumentality of Erudite Millennium Ltd, Saheed Oladele, has trained English language teachers and teachers of other subjects on effective use of English and up-to-date communication in over 200 schools in Nigeria and has built a vibrant community of young scholars and leaders making Nigeria proud in many universities in the United States, Canada, UK, Europe and Asia.
To correct the irony of teaching oral English on boards and testing it on paper, Saheed Oladele, earlier launched Remedial English Pronunciation Software (REPS) in 2014. Interestingly, REP-Software received the immediate approval and recommendation of the Federal Ministry of Education and the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council for practical oral English teaching across Nigerian schools. Saheed Oladele hails from Ibadan and he is happily married with children.
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