MEET THE TEAM

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Ifeanyi Igwebike Mbanefo

Museums and Monuments Academy Limited, has vast experience in journalism, public service, community relations, public affairs, corporate communication and speech writing. He had previously worked with The Guardian Newspapers {Nigeria}, as Copy Editor, African Concord Magazine as Assistant Editor, Independent Newspapers {Nigeria} as Political Editor, Reuters International News Agency as Stringer and Federal Civil Service {Nigeria} as Chief Public Affairs Officer.

African Gold Quill Award winner for Crises Communication, finalist for World Gold Quill Award Competition (IABC, 2011) and finalist Golden World Awards for Corporate Communication, International Public Relations Association 2011, Igwebike has vast connections within the media at local, regional and continental {African} levels.

Igwebike who retired from Nigeria LNG Limited in December 2017 held several positions, including Manager, Corporate Communication and Public Affairs, Manager, Community Relations and Manager, Corporate Business Logistic Services. He is currently a visiting member of the Editorial Board of several newspapers, Nigeria.

Igwebike is mostly remembered in Nigeria for his weekly profile columns in The Guardian, and for initiating Africa’s most prestigious prizes – The Nigeria Prize for Science and The Nigeria Prize for Literature – sponsored by Nigeria LNG Limited, the yearly prestigious gala for award of the prizes – The Grand Award Night, the company’s N500 million Microcredit Scheme for host communities and extensive reforms of the company’s host community.

Onyedika Mbanefo

Onyedika Mbanefo has a strong background in data-driven digital strategy and deep expertise in platforms like Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Movable Ink, and Persado.

She has spent her career building personalized, scalable digital experiences — and now brings that expertise into the cultural space, creating an interactive platform where users engage with AI-powered personas of historical and influential figures.

A graduate of Wilfrid Laurier University with a degree in Communication Studies and Social Entrepreneurship, Onyedika takes a cross-disciplinary approach that blends communication strategy, digital technology, and personalization. She specializes in transforming complex systems into intuitive, engaging user experiences — combining technical skill with a deep understanding of how people connect to stories.

As a certified expert in marketing automation and analytics, her work is rooted in using data to enhance both engagement and accessibility. These principles now power the AI Hall of Fame, where users explore history through conversation, curiosity, and connection.
Driven by a passion for cultural preservation, Onyedika is on a mission to make legacy interactive, inclusive, and alive for future generations — using the power of technology, storytelling, and social impact to inspire what comes next.

Rosemary Ebele Nwangwu

Rosemary Ebele Nwangwu holds a PhD. in Education accompanied with a teaching career that spans through secondary to tertiary up to Senior Lecturer in the University of Lagos. With over thirty years post PhD research and practice experience work in both emergency, humanitarian and development contexts, Rosemary is a seasoned technocrat grounded in education at policy and implementation levels and versed in issues and challenges of massifying education and learning in developing contexts.

Constantly exploring strategies and techniques for widening access for every child, Rosemary has engaged governments, communities, parents, and guardians in evolving sustainable solutions to widening access. With programming experience in UNESCO, UNICEF, and extended partnerships with development agencies including the World Bank, USAID, FCDO among others, Rosemary has started and concluded participatory conversations that have generated evidence and sustainable strategies that successfully addressed access and quality in education. Rosemary has worked with government partners in Nigeria, Eritrea, Erbil (Iraq), South Sudan, and Liberia and developed for these countries, strategies and frameworks for addressing out-of-school children, planning for education and training teachers for enhanced quality in their art of teaching and service delivery.

As a Research Fellow and Assistant Team Lead in the conduct of a landmark Japan-in-Trust funded, and UNESCO supported Education Sector Analysis (ESA, 2001-2003), Rosemary managed 45 consultants who worked on primary 45 studies spanning from early childhood education to tertiary education including adult and non-formal education; editing and summarizing the reports and coming up with a synthesis that has been tagged with the responsibility of re-engineering the education sector in Nigeria.