Bosun Tijani
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20 July 1977
Bosun Tijani | |
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| Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy | |
| Assumed office 21 August 2023 | |
| President | Bola Tinubu |
| Preceded by | Isa Ali Pantami |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Olatunbosun Tijani 20 July 1977 Ogun State, Nigeria |
| Spouse | Moji Tijani |
| Children | 3 |
| Education | |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur |
| Known for | Co-Founder and CEO of Co-creation Hub (CcHUB), iHUB, Truppr and STEM Cafe |
| Awards | Desmond Tutu Leadership Fellowship |
| Website | bosuntijani |
Olatunbosun Tijani ⓘ(born 20 July 1977) is a Nigerian-British entrepreneur who is the current Nigerian minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, since 2023.[1][2]
In 2019, under his leadership, CcHUB acquired Kenya's iHub[3] and launched the CcHUB Design Lab in Kigali, Rwanda in the same year.[4]
Tijani was born in Agege, Lagos, Nigeria and spent his formative years there before moving to Abeokuta, Nigeria for his secondary education. In 1996, he then went on to Jos, Nigeria to study at the University of Jos where he first started off studying for a diploma in Computer Science before going on to study Economics, graduating with a Bachelor's degree in 2002. He later obtained an MSc in Information Systems and Management from the Warwick Business School, United Kingdom in 2007.
In 2023, Tijani earned a PhD in innovation and economic development from the School of Business, University of Leicester.[5] His doctoral research focused on contributing to a better understanding of how the network perspective to innovation capacity could provide a contextually relevant framework for explaining the adoption and adaptation of innovation in developing countries and specifically offer an alternative path to how African countries could effectively organise their innovation ecosystems[6]
Tijani has also been part of the Innovation for Economic Development executive programme at Harvard Kennedy School in 2013 as well as being a 2014 Draper Hills Fellow of the Centre for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) at Stanford University.