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Akerele-Ogunsiji founded Passnownow in 2012 with the aim of helping indigent and deprived secondary school children to access and use Curriculum Compliant Education Content, from the comfort of Mobile Devices. She also founded, Printmagicng, a Printing firm that delivers 24 hours Printing Service at
339:, Lagos for her Junior Secondary Education from 1994 to 1996 before proceeding to Egbado College (now Yewa College) from 1998 till June 2000 for her Senior Secondary Education where she graduated as the best Student in the Essay Competition organised by the Aionian Group of Schools in 440:. The trip was described as providing "a veritable platform for Engagement for Harvard Students and Faculty to learn more about Urban Development and Innovation, Economic Competitiveness, Democratic Governance and emerging Trends in the Public Policies of Lagos and Nigeria." 564:, Women in Management, Business and Public Sector, Youth Africamp organized annually by Open Society Institute of East Africa, Women of West African Entrepreneurship, Africa Wide Consultation on Post 2015 Development Agenda and Expert Group Meeting, and the 579:, as one of her personal inspirations in a televised address to America as a prelude to her arrival in Africa for the Young African Women Leaders Forum of which Akerele-Ogunsiji remains the only Nigerian member to date. In 2014, 546:
Member of The Right to Know Initiative, a Nonprofit focused on Human Rights and Open Data Issues and their social impact on Citizens in 2011 * Appointed the Youngest Member of the Victims of Terrorism Funds
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Recipient of the 2008 Future Africa Awards Best Use of Advocacy Category and the Nigerian Youth Leadership Awards jointly organized by Leap Africa, International Youth Foundation and NOKIA.
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In May 2010, Toyosi was selected for the Nigeria Leadership Initiative's Future Leaders Fellowship. NLI is a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.
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Named on the 2015 Honours List of Genevieve Magazine's Top 21 most Outstanding Nigerian Women and in 2016 as one of Nigeria's youngest achievers under 35.
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and public leadership. She is the founder and chief executive officer of Rise Networks, a Nigeria-based private and public sector funded Youth Interest
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Honoured by 234 GIVE, a Social Initiative that encourages Nigerians to donate to the adopted Charities and improve livelihoods for the less privileged
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Member and a Mentor of the African Entrepreneurship Awards & a Mentor on the Bank of Africa's Africa Entrepreneurship Awards
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One of the honorees’ of the Top 100 Young Leaders’ Recognition at the Nigeria's Centenary Celebrations by the Federal Government
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named Akerele-Ogunsiji as one of the 20 most Powerful Young Women in Africa. In the same year, she was also nominated for the
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Jury Member of the Get Started Africa Entrepreneurship Challenge initiated by NESCAFÉ to empower Youth across the Continent
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Akerele-Ogunsiji had several papers and publications on leadership, youth and business development, including authoring:
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in April 2007. Akerele-Ogunsiji is A Mason Fellow and Mid Career Master in Public Administration alumnus of the
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In 2014, she married Adekunle Ogunsiji, an ICT professional, in a low key wedding at her family house in
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Recipient of the 2011 Excellence Awards of the School of Media and Communication, Pan African University
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and an Executive Masters’ Certificate in Project Management from The Project Management College,
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She has delivered Papers and presentations as well as led focused group discussions at the
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which was launched at the Center for Public Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School in May 2017.
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Akerele-Ogunsiji was born to the family of James Ayodele and Felicia Mopelola Akerele in
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Selected as one of 101 Young African Leaders by the African Business Forum in 2007
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Strate-Tricks: strategies and tricks, the winning formula for emerging businesses
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We Have to Belong: Why the Poor Majority of my Rich Country cannot wait anymore
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Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2011 of Success Digest Entrepreneurial Awards
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Recognition by Crans Montana Forum in Europe as a New Leader of Tomorrow
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Recipient of This Day Awards for Nigeria's Women of Distinction
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in 2017, Akerele-Ogunsiji led international students of the
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Oil and Gas PLC. She moved on to the Ministry of Youths and
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