Nuhu Fulani Kwajafa was born in 1970 in Lagos State, the 6th child of a devoted protestant family. His father, Fulani Kwajafa, hails from Borno State, Nigeria, and is a retired Commissioner of Police (he was also the second Chairman of the Nigerian Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA). His mother, Monday Kwajafa has remained a very loyal house wife to Rt Fulani Kwajafa, till date. With a deep-seated love for humanity, Mr. Nuhu Kwajafa has been a natural giver since early childhood, often giving away his clothes and shoes just to make others happy and enjoy part of his privileged childhood. Nuhu once sold his only car to provide the medical bills for a sick child.
EDUCATION/QUALIFICATIONS Ireti Primary School Lagos 1980 – 1981 King College Lagos SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL LEAVING CERTIFICATE (SSCE) 1984 -1989 American College, London, UK BANKING & FINANCE 1989 – 1993.
HONORARY AWARDS Abuja Young Entrepreneurs Award (2012). Abuja Young Entrepreneurs Award (2013). Abuja Grand Award for Charity (2013). Rotary Club of Asokoro Award (2014). Nuhu registered an NGO, The Global Initiative for Peace Love and Care (GIPLC) in 2006, and started numerous charity projects for and on behalf of vulnerable Children in Nigeria and beyond.
In May 2014, Nuhu addressed 1000 delegates from over 80 countries in Puerto Rico at a world conference on Early Child Care Development. GIPLC has worked relentlessly to improve and expand access to healthcare, education, water, environmental sanitation & protection for vulnerable children (especially those of single digit age 0-9 years); mobilized resources worth up to $5.0m from the private, public and corporate sectors, to support children with critical health conditions and others living in extremely difficult circumstances within suburban/rural communities, orphanages, and IDP camps.
Notable amongst its various projects are Okikijesu Olawuyi, then a 3-year-old girl born with less than 50% of her skull (a first in medical history), and Ali Ahmadu Chibok, a spinal cord injury victim of Boko Haram, in Chibok LGA of Borno State, Nigeria. Both are thriving today. GIPLC raised $234,000.00 for Miss Okiki Jesu, and relocated her and her family to the United States of America for treatment at the renown John Hopkins Hospital. GIPLC has been running three humanitarian programs in Nigeria, has so far de-wormed over 100,000 Nigerian children.
In March 2014, Team GIPLC travelled to South Sudan on a humanitarian mission (where they donated malaria drugs, deworming drugs treated mosquito nets and food items worth over N20.0m to women and children at refugee camps in Juba, South Sudan). Thereafter, The President of South Sudan, H.E. Salva Kirr Mayardit, invited Nuhu and officially thanked him.
Since inception, GIPLC has been supporting over 34 orphanages on a monthly basis, and remains the only NGO in Nigeria that has worked with enviable results in the humanitarian sector for over a decade without any support from Government or foreign donors.
Nuhu Fulani Kwajafa has been given a National Honors Award, Member of the Order of the Federal Republic (MFR, notified this year 2023, and soon to be conferred by the President and Commander in Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria).
In 2023, GIPLC raised over N100m which was disbursed to various patients needing critical surgeries in Nigerian hospitals, and overseas.
The Board and Organizing Committee of Humanitarian Service Diamond Awards hereby present Nuhu Fulani Kwajafa MFR, National Coordinator, Global Initiative for Peace, Love & Care as Philanthropic Personality of the year.
