Meet the Judges' Panel for Alumni Awards 2024-25

Victoria is a filmmaker based in the UK with a filmography that spans across both short and long form content across fiction and documentary which have screened at festivals internationally, broadcast on TV and garnered awards and nominations including BAFTA Scotland. Her film discovery app, which she founded in response to the difficulties faced by independent filmmakers to get their films to audiences won the first ever Canon Innovation award at the Rotterdam International Film Festival.

Blessing Omakwu, Esq. works as a Policy Consultant. She has completed projects for The Presidency, The Nigerian Permanent Mission to the UN, The National Planning Commission, The National Human Rights Commission and UNDP Nigeria. She also runs a blog where she explores the intersection of gender equality with public policy, popular culture, religion and literature. Her global vision for change is 'A world where gender equality is achieved and women’s rights are upheld'. 

Israel is a pioneering Nigerian medical doctor and disability advocate, honored as the first Nigerian to win the Global Study UK Award by the British Council.

He holds two master’s degrees: public health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and another in International Comparative Disability Law and Policy from the University of Galway. He led the first Disability Audit in a Humanitarian setting for the British Government's Northeast Transition to Development Initiative.

Omavia Maternity is a brand that uses innovative ideas to provide expecting mums with quick options to shop for beautiful comfortable clothing via the Omavia maternity app and adding beauty to their outfits with the Omavia Smart wrist watch. 

Medjigbodo Ossa Medeho tells an inspiriration story about two teachers and one child that has impacted on his teaching profession. His story was selected to feature as one of the five outstanding stories.

Read his inspiring #WorldOfThanks story here

Femi is a seasoned researcher and impact expert specializing in youth development interventions across Nigeria, Kenya, Senegal, and Ghana.

With a decade of experience, he has spearheaded projects in job creation, employability, social innovation, and entrepreneurship. He is recognized for his contributions to evidence-based policy making and partnership building. He holds master's degrees from King's College London and the University of Lagos, with a bachelor's degree from Covenant University. 

A fashion label that caters for custom, Unisex,ready to wear outfits. Mabela's style is rich in versatility, Indigeneous & contemporary collections. Mabel Sontan is also the Founder of Adirebizhub.com, a virtual one-stop shop and innovative community on everything Adire.

Morayo started out as an actor and is now a writer with ambitions to direct. Her debut short film, tense period drama 1745 – in which she also starred - was funded by the Scottish Film Talent Network via Creative Scotland and BFI.NETWORK. Morayo has been nominated for the 'Best Writer Award' at the Underwire Film Festival 2017, she is one of the 17 participants selected for the BFI London Film Festival Talent Lab Network. 

Opubo Braide is a Pianist, Music producer and Sound Engineer. 

He has a BSc. Maths and Statistics / Computer science (University of Calabar), a Diploma in Sound Production (SAE INSTITUTE Cape town), a Diploma in Computer science (University of Calabar), a certificate in Music business  and a degree in Sound Production (SAE INSTITUTE Cape town).

Early in his career, he composed soundtracks for Nigerian television shows and our popular Nigerian “Nollywood” movies.

Prisca talks about her inspirational and creative grade four teacher Mrs Awatt who help developed her writing skills early enough and instilled the right attitudes, beliefs and behaviour in her.

Read her full inspiring #WorldOfThanks story here