Maryam Lemu

Maryam Lemu is a Nigerian international speaker and seminar facilitator with a career spanning over three decades. She is Head of Administration and Resource Management at New Horizons College in Minna, a faith-based school, and one of the directors of ProStart Consultants, a capacity-building consultancy in Nigeria. ¹

Her biography gives her birth as 29 January 1973. She was born to a Nigerian father, Dr Sheikh Ahmed Lemu, and a British mother, Bridget Anne Aisha Lemu; she is the youngest of two children from her mother, with an older brother, Nuruddeen Lemu. ¹

She travels internationally delivering seminars on team building, leadership and personal development, and gives public talks on Muslim identity, living a life of purpose, and marital and pre-marital topics, with a particular interest in relationship coaching and counselling. She is a familiar face on Nigerian television: she hosts the Islamic talk show Sisterly on Alif TV and Ramadan shows on several networks, produces YouTube video series, and her lecture podcast on Muslim Central has run since February 2020. She also consults for Islamic schools on character development, social responsibility and values-driven leadership. ^{1 2}