Organizational continuity
Connecting OLICON’s founding period and earlier leadership with the organization’s present generation.
Board of Trustees
Guided by experience. Grounded in service.
The Board of Trustees brings experienced members of the OLICON community together — helping preserve the organization’s values, institutional memory, and long-term direction.
About the Board
Experience that helps sustain OLICON
The Board of Trustees is part of OLICON’s leadership presence — helping preserve organizational values, institutional memory, and long-term direction alongside the National Executive and chapter leaders.
The members listed on this page reflect the official List of Board of Trustee Members 2025.
The role of the Board
Continuity, memory, and shared responsibility
Presented here is the Board’s documented relationship to OLICON’s leadership, service, and continuity — without claiming formal powers not stated in the organization’s published materials.
Institutional memory
Carrying experience, relationships, and hard-won lessons that help sustain the fellowship over time.
Service & responsibility
Supporting OLICON’s shared mission through steadfast leadership, sacrifice, and collective responsibility.
Legacy for the future
Helping preserve the values and unity that allow OLICON to carry its legacy into the next decade.
Current trustees
Members of the Board
Members of the Board of Trustees as published in the official List of Board of Trustee Members 2025.
- No portrait available for H. E. John Akel Ballout Jr.
H. E. John Akel Ballout Jr.
Chairman, Board of Trustees
- Ambassador
- No portrait available for Chief Clifford Nzeruem
Chief Clifford Nzeruem
Member, Board of Trustees
- No portrait available for Queen Mariam Bright
Queen Mariam Bright
Member, Board of Trustees
- No portrait available for Deacon Steven T. Ampey
Deacon Steven T. Ampey
Member, Board of Trustees
- No portrait available for Nurudeem Lemu
Nurudeem Lemu
Member, Board of Trustees
- No portrait available for Wede Edherue
Wede Edherue
Member, Board of Trustees
- No portrait available for Hilton D. Blay
Hilton D. Blay
Member, Board of Trustees
- No portrait available for Daoda Kanneh
Daoda Kanneh
Member, Board of Trustees
- No portrait available for J. Francis B. James
J. Francis B. James
Secretary, Board of Trustees
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Featured trustee
H. E. John Akel Ballout Jr.
Chairman, Board of Trustees
- Ambassador
Leadership continuity
Past. Present. Future.
The Board stands within a wider tradition of people who have served OLICON across seasons — helping connect where the organization came from with the community it is becoming.
From founding service
OLICON’s early leadership helped establish a national fellowship among Liberians across Nigeria.
Through present stewardship
Experienced leaders continue to support unity, purpose, and institutional continuity today.
Toward the next decade
Anniversary messages call the community to carry OLICON’s legacy forward with renewed purpose.
Experience & legacy
A tradition of community service
OLICON’s leadership culture has been shaped by long-serving community leaders whose work strengthened fellowship long before — and after — the organization took its present form. These stories belong to the broader tradition of service from which OLICON’s leadership has developed. They are not presented here as Board memberships.
Supporting Liberians across decades
Mother Danlette Bedell Okafor is remembered for supporting Liberians in Nigeria for decades and helping establish an organized Liberian community in Enugu — an example of sustained community care.
Early leadership that endured
Pa. Mohammed Kengo is described as an early leader of the Liberian community who continued serving after the community became part of OLICON — illustrating continuity of service across generations of organization.
Unity through difficult seasons
Convention messages honor leaders and members who mentored others, strengthened relationships, and helped Liberians through difficult periods far from home.
Board & OLICON’s future
Carrying unity into the next decade
Board members speak of a future marked by unity, renewed purpose, inclusion, and collective responsibility — building a stronger community together.
- Restoring unity
- Redefining purpose
- Embracing all
- Collective responsibility
- Progress & harmony
- Legacy carried forward
A trustee’s voice
“Unity is not merely an ideal — it is our chosen way forward. We redefine our purpose through renewed focus and collective responsibility, and we embrace all as we build a stronger community together.”
Daoda Kanneh
First National President · Board of Trustees
National Executive
Meet the officers who lead OLICON day to day
The Board of Trustees is distinct from the National Executive Officers, regional coordinators, and state chapter leadership listed separately in OLICON’s organizational structure.
Built by service. Sustained by responsibility.
Explore the history, purpose, and leadership that continue to shape OLICON’s fellowship across Nigeria.