18/09/2025
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS - NEISA 2025 Impact Investment Awards & Gala
Celebrating Purpose-Driven Capital — Honoring Nigeria’s SDG Champions
📅 Date: Friday, 21 November 2025
🕕 Time: 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
🎟️ Access: Red-carpet | Strictly by Invitation
The NEISA Impact Investment Awards & Gala is a prestigious evening of recognition, elegance, and purpose-driven celebration. Designed as the highpoint of the NEISA 2025 Summit, the Gala convenes Nigeria’s most influential entrepreneurs, global investors, policymakers, corporate leaders, and changemakers under one roof to celebrate innovation, impact, and sustainability.
This invitation-only red-carpet event honors Nigeria’s SDG Champions — exceptional leaders and institutions transforming challenges into opportunities and advancing the nation’s economic rebirth. Beyond the awards, the Gala embodies elegance, inspiration, and networking at the highest level.
🔹 What to Expect
✨ Red-carpet reception, media highlights & premium networking
🏆 Presentation of the NEISA Impact Investment Awards
🌍 Recognition of Nigeria’s SDG Champions in enterprise & impact
🎤 Inspiring keynotes & goodwill messages from visionary leaders
🎶 An exclusive evening of fine dining, music, and elegance
📖 Official unveiling of the Eminence Magazine (NEISA Special Edition)
🔹 Why Attend
✔ Celebrate and honor leaders of purpose-driven capital
✔ Network with Nigeria’s top entrepreneurs, investors & policymakers
✔ Gain visibility and recognition within Nigeria’s enterprise ecosystem
✔ Be part of a movement shaping Africa’s sustainable economic future
✔ Witness the unveiling of Eminence Magazine – NEISA Special Edition
🔹 Nominations Now Open!
!📝 Eligibility Criteria:
✔ Nominees must have made remarkable contributions to entrepreneurship, investment, innovation, or public service delivery.
✔ Demonstrable impact in job creation, MSME empowerment, policy reforms, or advancing national development.
✔ Open to entrepreneurs, investors, institutions, government agencies, and public service leaders driving measurable change
🔹 The NEISA 2025 Awards Nomination Form invites entries across three tiers of recognition:
Reserved for outstanding statesmen/women, institutions, and leaders with transformative national impact.
✨ NEISA Personality of the Year – The highest individual honor, recognizing a leader whose vision, influence, and impact have shaped Nigeria’s enterprise and investment landscape in an exceptional way.
✨ Enterprise Lifetime Achievement Award – Celebrating a distinguished individual with decades of outstanding contributions to business, entrepreneurship, or investment in Nigeria.
✨ Governor of the Year in Entrepreneurship & Investment Promotion – Awarded to a state governor who has implemented transformative policies and initiatives that foster entrepreneurship, attract investment, and drive inclusive growth.
✨ Best Performing State in Entrepreneurship Development – Recognizes a state that has made the most progress in creating a thriving entrepreneurship ecosystem (SMEs, hubs, youth innovation).
✨ Business-Friendly State of the Year – Awarded to the state with the most enabling environment for ease of doing business, regulatory reforms, and investor confidence.
✨ State PPP Initiative of the Year – Celebrates a state with the most innovative and impactful Public-Private Partnership project(s) that drive infrastructure and economic growth.
✨ Minister of the Year (Enterprise & Investment Promotion): Awarded to a serving minister whose policies, programs, and leadership have significantly advanced entrepreneurship, attracted investment, and promoted enterprise growth in Nigeria.
✨ Outstanding Public Servant of the Year – Honoring a government official whose policy actions, reforms, or leadership have directly advanced entrepreneurship and investment.
✨ Diaspora Investment Champion Award – Recognizes a leader, initiative, or platform that has successfully mobilized diaspora capital, knowledge, and networks for national development.
🔹 Celebrates individuals, enterprises, and institutions driving innovation and sectoral transformation.
✨ Entrepreneur/CEO of the Year (Male & Female) – Recognizes outstanding CEOs or entrepreneurs (male & female) who have demonstrated resilience, innovation, and business growth.
✨ Business & Industrial Personality of the Year – For a business leader making exceptional contributions to Nigeria’s industrial and economic advancement.
✨ Tech Entrepreneur of the Year – Honors innovation-driven founders in ICT, fintech, AI, and other tech-enabled enterprises.
✨ AgriPreneur of the Year – Celebrating trailblazers in agribusiness and agro-innovation who are transforming food security and rural development.
✨ Creative Entrepreneur of the Year – Recognizes entrepreneurs in film, music, arts, and culture who have built successful brands with national/global reach.
✨ Fashion Entrepreneur of the Year – Celebrates designers and fashion innovators redefining Nigeria’s fashion industry and promoting it globally.
✨ Young Entrepreneur of the Year (Under 30) – For rising young entrepreneurs under 30 who are building impactful and fast-growing ventures.
✨ National Brand of the Year – Awarded to a leading Nigerian-born brand with strong national presence, recognition, and impact.
✨ Indigenous Brand of the Year – Celebrates proudly Nigerian brands making remarkable contributions to enterprise and culture.
✨ Enterprise-Friendly Financial Institution of the Year – For banks, MFIs, or fintechs providing innovative financial solutions for entrepreneurs and SMEs.
✨ Entrepreneurship Development Institution of the Year – Recognizes incubators, accelerators, universities, or agencies nurturing Nigeria’s entrepreneurs.
✨ Impact Investment Platform of the Year – For platforms channeling capital into businesses with measurable social and environmental returns.
✨ Institutional Capital Partner of the Year – Celebrates investors or institutions strategically funding enterprise and innovation.
✨ Development Partner of the Year – Recognizes international/local agencies supporting entrepreneurship, SMEs, and sustainable development.
✨ Legislator of the Year (Enterprise & Investment Promotion) – For a senator/representative championing laws and motions that strengthen entrepreneurship and investment.
✨ Real Estate Personality of the Year – Celebrates a real estate leader advancing innovation, affordability, and urban development.
✨ Transport & Logistics Company of the Year – Honors an enterprise transforming mobility, logistics, and trade infrastructure in Nigeria.
✨ Hospitality & Tourism Brand of the Year – Recognizes excellence in hospitality, tourism promotion, and destination branding.
✨ Enterprise Media House of the Year (TV, Radio or Digital) – For a media brand amplifying entrepreneurship, innovation, and investment success stories.
✨ Future of Work & Innovation Award – Celebrates thought leaders, enterprises, or institutions shaping Nigeria’s future workplace with innovation, digital skills, and new business models.
✨ Digital Economy Leader of the Year – For champions of Nigeria’s digital transformation and e-commerce ecosystem.
✨ SME Support Institution of the Year – Recognizes organizations (public/private) that provide critical support to SMEs through funding, mentorship, or infrastructure.
🔹 Reserved for human-centered leadership, philanthropy, and sustainability impact.
✨ Humanitarian & Philanthropy Leadership Award – Honoring individuals or foundations dedicated to philanthropy and humanitarian interventions.
✨ Green & Sustainability Enterprise Award – Celebrating businesses advancing renewable energy waste management, and climate-friendly innovation.
✨ Social Impact & Youth Empowerment Leadership Award – For leaders and institutions empowering youth, communities, and creating social value beyond profit.
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