Oladipupo Ajiroba, a graduate of Botany from Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ogun State, must surely be the youngest political appointee in Nigeria today. Oladipupo, 24, is a special assistant to Hafsat Abiola Costello, the commissioner for Millennium Development Goals, Ogun State. It is no wonder some people are already referring to him as the “new Obama.”

Apart from that, the young trailblazer is also the initiator of The Environment Advocates Managers, TEAM, an agency which employs interactive youth-to-youth workshops, quarterly forums, rural agricultural extension services and environment protection services to build youth awareness and understanding of environmental management. This arose from his interest in nature from a tender age.

Young and bright inventors are emerging on the scene in Nigeria. Oboro Owhe, 14, a Senior Secondary School 2, SS2, student at James Welch Grammar School, Emevor, Delta State, is one such youth. He has invented a Ditching Machine. He was able to use the principle of simple hydraulic to power this machine with the use of local materials like planks and syringe to construct the ditcher. His achievement was unveiled recently at the 2011 Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Simplified, STEMS, talent hunt organised in Delta State.

Among the 25 young talented students who participated in the contest, Owhe, aspiring to become a Mechanical Engineer, emerged the overall winner based on the way his invention would improve farm mechanisation in Agricultural Science. With inventions like these, there is hope for mechanised agriculture in Nigeria.

Olaboludele O. Simoyan is one Nigerian who is very passionate about her country.  In fact, Simoyan would have preferred to be called Nigeria if that would not lead to any problem for her. That is how much she loves Nigeria.

She was born in Washington DC  USA to a Nigerian diplomat. With that background, she is entitled to an American passport. But Simoyan opted for a Nigerian passport instead to demonstrate her love and pride for her country.

As part of the manifestation of this patriotism, she chose to school in Nigeria. She graduated from the University of Lagos in 1988. She has two other degrees to her credit in Architecture and Construction Management, apart from the one from Unilag. 

But, instead of constructing buildings, she once again demonstrates her nationalistic spirit by embarking on what she calls ‘social architecture’ through inspiring and motivating Nigerians to view Nigeria as a great nation that it is. This led her to write a book called The 8th Wonder of The World-Made in Nigeria. The book became popular among secondary school students across the country and was even presented to the 2011 best graduating students of the Shaddaiville Leadership Academy in London, UK.