3E Foundation — Actuarial Education in Emerging Economies

About the Foundation

Actuarial discipline
should have no borders.

3E Foundation — Education, Employment, and Emerging Economies — was established in 2001 by Olawale Opayinka as a UK registered charity. The purpose was specific: to ensure that actuarial students in emerging economies had access to the same resources, guidance, and professional infrastructure available to their counterparts in the most developed markets.

The Foundation was built on a direct observation: actuarial talent existed across Africa. What did not exist was structured access to the study materials, tutoring support, examination guidance, professional journals, and career mentorship that qualification required. 3E Foundation was created to fill that gap.

Between 2001 and 2010, the Foundation operated resource centres, distributed study materials, provided financial concessions, organised professional events, and maintained a network of career mentors — systematically, across three countries and three universities.

It was also the personal expression of a founder’s conviction: that the actuarial discipline — rigorous, quantitative, evidence-based — was precisely what emerging economies needed to manage the risks that were growing faster than their institutional capacity to price them.

The 3E Mission

To support the development of actuarial education and the actuarial profession in emerging economies — creating career opportunities for actuaries in traditional and non-traditional roles, in both developed markets and the countries that trained them.

How We Supported Students

Free access to actuarial study materials and textbooks
Financial concessions for Institute of Actuaries examination entry
Dedicated tutoring at university resource centres
Professional journals and actuarial software access
Career guidance and mentorship from qualified actuaries
Guidance on membership of professional bodies

Supported By

Find Actuaries (findactuaries.com) — whose partnership provided the professional network and resource infrastructure that made 3E Foundation’s work effective across all three countries.

Our Impact

Where the work happened.

From the Barbican to the Kennedy Center, from Lagos lecture halls to Nairobi classrooms — documented in photographs, lived by hundreds of students. See the photo archive ↓

400+

Students supported
with grants & resources

40+

Students introduced to
professional examinations

4,000+

School children reached
through maths outreach

Infrastructure
projects completed

Nigeria

University of Lagos

The flagship programme. The Lagos Resource Centre provided a dedicated space — staffed and managed — with study materials, professional journals, actuarial software, computers, and tutoring. Free of charge to all students. The physical home of the actuarial profession in Nigeria.

Lagos Resource Centre established
Study materials and journals distributed
Lagos Actuarial Conference organised
Student tutoring and mentorship
Examination preparation support

Ghana

University of Ghana, Accra

Supporting actuarial students in Accra with study resources, financial concessions, and professional guidance — building West African actuarial talent.

Actuarial study materials supplied
Professional journals and software
Financial concessions for examinations
Professional body membership guidance
Career pathway mentorship

Kenya

University of Nairobi

Extending 3E Foundation’s reach into East Africa — supporting Nairobi actuarial students with the tools needed to enter and progress through the profession.

Study centre support
Textbooks and study materials
Actuarial modelling software
Examination guidance and financial support
East African actuarial community links

The Work in Pictures — 2001–2010

The programme
in the room.

These photographs document 3E Foundation’s active programme years — the meetings, the students, the awards, and the moments that turned a conviction into a movement. Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya. Universities, conferences, lecture halls. The actuarial profession built from within.

International Actuarial Association delegates at the Lagos meeting, February 2003 — 3E Foundation brought global actuarial leadership to Nigeria

International Actuarial Association (IAA) — Lagos, Nigeria, February 2003. 3E Foundation convened international actuarial leadership with Nigerian and West African professionals in Lagos. One of the landmark moments of the Foundation’s programme — the global profession meeting Africa on African soil.

Peter Clark FIA presenting the 3E Award for Excellence to Robert Oppong on stage

Peter Clark FIA presents the 3E Award for Excellence to Robert Oppong. The awards programme — Person of the Year, Award for Excellence, Research Sponsorship — recognised outstanding students and contributors. Peter Clark, founding supporter and Past President of the UK Institute of Actuaries, was integral to the Foundation’s recognition events until his passing in 2006.

3E Foundation in Ghana — Peter Clark FIA, Mrs Bukola Opayinka, and the 3E Foundation team on the Accra coast

Ghana — 3E Foundation with Peter Clark FIA and Mrs Bukola Opayinka. The Foundation team on the Accra coast in Ghana. Peter Clark (Past President, UK Institute of Actuaries and 3E founding supporter) and Mrs Bukola Opayinka alongside the wider 3E delegation. The breadth of people gathered — the sheer fact of being there together — is what 3E Foundation was built to create.

Formal meeting — Nigerian actuaries and university leadership convened by 3E Foundation

Nigeria — formal partnership meeting. Leading Nigerian actuaries and university representatives at a 3E Foundation convened meeting. Building the institutional relationships that made the programme sustainable.

Olawale Opayinka at an actuarial conference in Nigeria, 2003

Olawale Opayinka — Nigeria, 2003. The founder at an actuarial conference in Nigeria during the Foundation’s most active years. The Makaya Plantation cap. The crossed arms. The quiet attention. Keep it simple and honest.

3E Foundation visit to a partner university — faculty and Foundation representatives together

University faculty visit. 3E Foundation representatives meeting with university department heads and academics at a partner institution. These visits — building curriculum, placing tutors, establishing resource centres — were the operational core of the programme.

Olawale Opayinka seated among actuarial science students in a full lecture hall at the University of Nairobi, Kenya

Olawale Opayinka with students of the University of Nairobi, Kenya. The founder of 3E Foundation seated among the actuarial science students whose education the Foundation existed to support. A full lecture hall. Smiling faces. This is what 400+ students, 4,000+ school children reached, and nine years of committed work look like. This is the point.

Olawale Opayinka in conversation with the late Chief Adigun, pioneering Nigerian actuary, at a conference in Nigeria

Olawale Opayinka with the late Chief Adigun. The founder of 3E Foundation in conversation with Chief Adigun — one of the pioneering figures of the Nigerian actuarial profession. Chief Adigun has since passed. This photograph captures two men committed to the same mission: the growth of an indigenous profession that could serve Africa on Africa’s own terms.

IAA actuaries dancing at the Federal Palace Hotel, Lagos, Nigeria, 2003 — the conference social evening

Federal Palace Hotel, Lagos — IAA social evening, 2003. International Actuarial Association delegates letting loose at the Federal Palace Hotel during the 2003 Lagos conference. When the global actuarial profession comes to Africa, this is what happens. The profession, built one relationship — and one dance — at a time.

The Lagos Resource Centre — The Physical Infrastructure

3E Foundation established a dedicated resource centre at the University of Lagos — a free-of-charge space for students preparing professional actuarial examinations. Study materials, textbooks, journals, actuarial software, and tutoring support. A physical home for the profession in Nigeria.

The 3E Foundation Lagos Resource Centre Manager working at her desk

The Resource Centre Manager at work. The Lagos Resource Centre was staffed and managed, ensuring students had access to materials, guidance, and a place to study. This is the person who made the centre function day to day.

The 3E Foundation Lagos Resource Centre office space — study desk, laptop, materials

The Resource Centre space. A dedicated desk, computer, and study environment at the University of Lagos — provided free of charge to actuarial students preparing their professional examinations. Before 3E Foundation, this space did not exist.

Equipment delivery to the 3E Foundation Lagos Resource Centre — computers, printers, professional resources

Equipping the centre. 3E Foundation furnished the Lagos Resource Centre with the equipment students needed — computers, printers, and professional materials. The moment a resource centre becomes real is when the equipment arrives.

Olawale Opayinka at the Joint Actuaries Office in Hong Kong with Pat Kum and Stuart Leckie FIA, June 2006

Joint Actuaries Office, Hong Kong — June 2006. From left: Pat Kum (Joint Actuaries Office liaison), Olawale Opayinka, and Stuart Leckie FIA (resident actuary representing the Actuarial Profession in Hong Kong). 3E Foundation visited the Joint Office in June 2006 to share learning and foster exchanges between the actuarial profession in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. The same model — institutional capacity-building in a developing context — applied on two continents.

Hundreds of primary school children in blue uniforms gathered for a 3E Foundation Love of Mathematics outreach event in Nigeria

Love of Mathematics — primary school outreach, Nigeria. Hundreds of primary school children gathered for a 3E Foundation outreach visit in Nigeria. Over 4,000 school children in Nigeria and Kenya received 3E Foundation presentations on mathematics and the actuarial profession across the programme years. Plant the seed at primary level. The profession grows from there.

Awesome Praise — awesomepraise.com

Gospel across the nations.

Awesome Praise is a multi-national gospel concert created and produced by Olawale Opayinka to orchestrate praise across the nations — a grand platform for gospel artists, church and independent choirs to come together in celebration. A charity concert that raises funds for and promotes the work of 3E Foundation.

Awesome Praise — vibrant African art used to promote 3E Foundation’s work across the nations

“A truly overwhelming performance … fulfilling the promise of bringing musicians from such different traditions together: to make a joyful noise unto the Lord that reflected and inspired awe.”

Andrew Malone — The Washington Post, Washington DC

“A night stacked with celestial fare.”

London Evening Standard

“Awesome Praise looks to create a moment of power and realisation that we have the ability to praise God in a way that’s just awesome.”

Rev Bazil Meade — London Community Gospel Choir

September 2002

Barbican Hall — London

The inaugural Awesome Praise, performed at one of Europe’s great concert venues.

September 2003

The Ocean — London

Second outing. The series grows, the artists multiply, the reach expands.

July 2004

Kennedy Center — Washington DC

Awesome Praise crosses the Atlantic to perform at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts — America’s national cultural centre. Reviewed by The Washington Post.

November 2007

Johannesburg — South Africa

Taking the concert to sub-Saharan Africa — bringing the Awesome Praise experience to the continent whose development the Foundation exists to serve.

November 2011

Freedom Park — Lagos, Nigeria

“Remembering Our Freedom.” Artists including Panam Percy Paul, Midnight Crew, Tim Godfrey, Eben and an 250-voice Daystar Choir perform at Freedom Park, Lagos.

Featured Artists Across the Series

Panam Percy Paul Midnight Crew Tim Godfrey Eben Gena West Tosin Alao Dupe Olulana Mira Opalinska International Quartet Healing Streams of God — Daystar Choir (250 voices) James Okon & Music For All Seasons London Community Gospel Choir

Makaya Plantation — Recording Artist

The same spirit that produced Awesome Praise has found expression in the studio. Olawale Opayinka has produced in excess of 14 original songs under the artist name Makaya Plantation — gospel and praise music that draws from the same wells of faith and African heritage that the concerts celebrate. The music and the mission share the same soul.

Makaya Plantation is the creative, musical expression of the same values that run through 3E Foundation and Awesome Praise — keeping it simple, keeping it honest, keeping the praise going.

Make Poverty History — 2005

Alongside Awesome Praise, Olawale Opayinka served on the coordination team for the 2005 Make Poverty History campaign — one of the largest global advocacy movements of the decade, calling for debt cancellation, trade justice, and increased aid for the developing world.

Community Impact — Onipe, Ibadan, Oyo State

Built for the community.

Beyond actuarial education, the Foundation has delivered permanent infrastructure to Onipe — the ancestral community of its founder. A new primary school classroom block, a commissioned secondary school hall, fully equipped playgrounds for both schools, clean water via borehole, and 15 bathrooms built from nothing. These are not temporary interventions; they are generational assets.

Primary School
Classroom Block

A new multi-classroom block constructed for the primary school — solid structure, proper windows, covered verandah, yellow-and-brown finish that will stand for decades.

Secondary School Hall
Engr. Seyi Makinde Hall

A large, fan-cooled assembly and examination hall at Community Secondary School, Onipe. Donated by Olawale Opayinka and commissioned by the Executive Governor of Oyo State on 9 November 2024.

Playgrounds —
Primary & Secondary

Fully equipped, fenced playgrounds on artificial grass for both schools — slides, swings, and trampolines. Safe, permanent spaces for children to simply be children.

Clean Water
Borehole

Borehole-fed clean water supply delivered to the school community — a resource that was entirely absent before the Foundation intervened.

15 Bathrooms
Fully Equipped

Fifteen fully equipped bathrooms installed across both the primary and secondary schools — built from nothing, serving hundreds of children and staff every day.

New primary school classroom block, Onipe, Ibadan — yellow exterior with green roof, completed

New primary school classroom block — Onipe, Ibadan, Oyo State — funded and delivered by 3E Foundation

Primary school block from a different angle, showing full length of new building

Primary school block — completed with green roof, covered walkway and young trees planted

Covered verandah corridor of the new primary school block

Inside the covered verandah — fresh plaster, fitted windows, ceiling installed

Secondary school hall block under construction — yellow render, workers visible

Hall block mid-construction — rendering complete, finishing works underway

Secondary school hall completed — yellow exterior nearing final stage

Hall exterior nearing completion — Community Secondary School, Onipe

Interior of the Engr. Seyi Makinde Hall — large open space, ceiling fans, tiled floor

Hall interior — ceiling fans, abundant natural light, generous floor area for assemblies and examinations

Dedication plaque — Engr. Seyi Makinde Hall, donated by Mr. Olawale Opayinka, commissioned 9 November 2024

Dedication plaque — Engr. Seyi Makinde Hall, donated by Olawale Opayinka, commissioned 9 November 2024

Community Secondary School, Onipe · Commissioned 9 November 2024

Engr. Seyi Makinde Hall

The school hall at Community Secondary School, Onipe is formally named the Engr. Seyi Makinde Hall — donated by Mr. Olawale Opayinka and commissioned by His Excellency Engr. Seyi Makinde, Executive Governor of Oyo State on 9 November 2024. The hall was presented to the communities of Onipe and Aba Otun. It is a space of scale and permanence — ceiling fans, a tiled floor, large windows on all sides, and the capacity to host the entire school community. A hall of this quality was simply not possible before the Foundation delivered it.

Commissioning ceremony — community gathered outside the hall, November 2024

The commissioning ceremony — community turnout outside the hall, 9 November 2024

Commissioning ceremony — press and community members at the hall entrance

Media and community leaders gathered for the official commissioning by the Governor of Oyo State

Children’s playground — fenced, artificial grass, slide, swings, trampoline

Fully equipped playground — fenced with security mesh, artificial grass on concrete base, slide, swings, trampoline

Both Schools · Project Three

Playgrounds — Primary & Secondary Schools

3E Foundation installed fully equipped playgrounds for both the primary and secondary schools — each fenced with green security mesh, laid with artificial grass on a concrete plinth, and fitted with slides, swings, and a trampoline. A space for children to simply be children. Properly bounded, properly equipped, properly maintained. Which should not be rare — but in Onipe, before this, it was.

New perimeter wall with gate at the school compound, Onipe

School compound perimeter wall and gate — securing the school grounds

Community Secondary School Onipe sign on the school building wall

Community Secondary School, Onipe — established 29th September 1980

The community the Foundation serves — Onipe, Ibadan, Oyo State

Official opening of the new school buildings at Onipe, 9 November 2024 — large crowd, Oyo State government representative at the microphone, green and white balloons

Official opening — Oyo State government representative addressing a packed community gathering at Onipe, 9 November 2024. Green and white balloons. The completed school building stands behind the crowd.

Young children in school uniform walking to school at Onipe, Ibadan

Children on their way to school at Onipe — the community the Foundation was built to serve

Onipe family in traditional adire dress on the school grounds, completed school building visible behind

An Onipe family dressed for commissioning day — school buildings completed and standing behind them

2027

Looking Ahead — 3E Foundation Nigeria

Plans are in place to incorporate 3E Foundation Nigeria — continuing and expanding the philanthropic work in education and community infrastructure in Ibadan, Oyo State and across Nigeria.

People

The people who built
the Foundation.

Founder & Chairman

Olawale Opayinka

“Keep it Simple and Honest”

LinkedIn → makayaconsult.com →

The Common Thread — 25+ Years

The journey did not start today. Over more than 25 years, every endeavour that Olawale Opayinka has undertaken has been characterised by the same sincere commitment — and the same four words that have never left his personal credo: keep it simple and honest.

Trained as an actuary, Olawale’s professional life began in the discipline of risk, probability, and the long view. That rigour informed everything that came after: the conviction that Africa needed its own actuaries; the Foundation built to create them; the concerts staged to fund the mission; the songs written as quiet creative expression of the same faith; the real estate career that translated ambition into generational assets; the community hall donated and commissioned by a Governor; and the children now playing on a playground that simply did not exist before.

The drive towards doing more in the future remains. Ibadan man. Pan-Africanist. Motivator. Christian. Father. Golfer. The connecting thread through everything — 3E Foundation, Awesome Praise, Makaya Plantation, Makaya Consult, Onipe — is the same person, showing up with the same values, decade after decade.

Real Estate & Actuarial

Former MD/CEO, Eko Development Company Limited. Delivered Azuri Towers — Nigeria’s tallest residential tower at Eko Atlantic. Now CEO, Makaya Consult FZE.

3E Foundation

Founder and Chairman since 2001. 400+ students supported. Infrastructure delivered across two Onipe schools. Education and community — built to last generations.

Awesome Praise & Makaya Plantation

Creator and producer of Awesome Praise — Barbican, Kennedy Center, Johannesburg, Lagos. 14+ songs produced as recording artist Makaya Plantation. The music and the mission share the same soul.

Advocacy & Community

Make Poverty History coordination team (2005). Donor of the Engr. Seyi Makinde Hall, commissioned by the Governor of Oyo State (2024). Ibadan, always.

Peter Nigel Stuckey Clark FIA — founding supporter of 3E Foundation

Peter Clark presenting the 3E Award for Excellence to Robert Oppong

Presenting the Award for Excellence to Robert Oppong

In Memoriam — 1947–2006

Peter Nigel Stuckey Clark FIA

Founding Supporter · Member, Advisory Board · Past President, UK Institute of Actuaries

Peter Clark was a founding supporter of 3E Foundation and a member of its Advisory Board. In February 2003 he travelled with Olawale Opayinka to Ghana, attending the Actuarial Society of Ghana meeting at the University of Legon — a visit that directly led to the preparation of a new actuarial degree syllabus and the establishment of a full programme.

He passed away suddenly and unexpectedly on 11 June 2006, aged 59. In tribute to his love of Africa and his commitment to the profession’s development on the continent, his family donated his entire personal library to the University of Nairobi, Kenya.

Peter was, in the words of the Foundation, “a truly great man … committed to the development of the actuarial profession in Africa out of his heartfelt love for the continent.” He is irreplaceable.

Board of Trustees

Trustee

Guy Vanner

Managing Director of AKG Financial Analytics Ltd — an independent organisation specialising in assessment, ratings, information and consultancy to the UK financial services industry, covering life companies, friendly societies, offshore providers, platform operators, and discretionary fund managers.

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Trustee · FIA

Nick Silver FIA

Chair, Callund Consulting (30+ governments). Founder, Climate Bonds Initiative & Blue Bond Accelerator. Director, New Capital Consensus (Chatham House). Visiting Fellow, Bayes Business School. Winner, The President’s Award for outstanding contribution to the Actuarial Profession. Author, Finance, Society and Sustainability.

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Trustee · FIA

Olajide Majekodunmi FIA

Fellow of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries. A highly experienced Nigerian-based actuary, Olajide provides the essential bridge between 3E Foundation’s UK governance roots and its Nigerian mission — bringing deep actuarial expertise and local market knowledge to the Board.

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International Advisory Board

In Memoriam — 1932–2025 · Advisory Board

H.E. Dr Christopher Kolade CON

One of Nigeria’s most revered elder statesmen, Dr Christopher Kolade served on the 3E Foundation Advisory Board during his tenure as Nigeria’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom (2002–2007). His career spanned broadcasting — rising to Director-General of the Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation — corporate leadership as Chairman of Cadbury Nigeria Plc, and academia at the Lagos Business School. President Tinubu described him as “among the finest of men — exceptionally brilliant, statesmanly, diligent, and with unimpeachable integrity.” Holder of the Commander of the Order of the Niger. Dr Kolade passed away peacefully on 8 October 2025, aged 92.

Advisory Board

Marion Amartey

Head of International Development, Charities Aid Foundation (CAF). Brought deep expertise in international charitable development and philanthropic strategy to the Foundation’s Advisory Board.

Advisory Board

Carol Madison-Graham

Author and former Executive Director of the UK Fulbright Commission, bringing transatlantic perspective and expertise in educational exchange to the Foundation’s Advisory Board.

History

A decade of commitment.

From incorporation in 2001 to the completion of the active programme in 2010, 3E Foundation built a sustained infrastructure of support for actuarial students across Africa — then concluded its programme having achieved what it set out to do.

The Next Chapter →

2001

Foundation established

3E Foundation incorporated as UK Registered Charity no. 1090314. Mission: support actuarial education in emerging economies across Africa. US-equivalent 501(c)3 status also obtained for tax-effective donations from the USA.

2002–2004

University partnerships formed

Formal relationships established with University of Lagos, University of Ghana, and University of Nairobi. Study material distribution and tutoring begins across all three. Over 40 students introduced to professional actuarial examinations.

2003

Ghana actuarial degree breakthrough

Olawale Opayinka and Peter Clark FIA (Past President, UK Institute of Actuaries) visit the Actuarial Society of Ghana and the University of Legon, Accra. The visit directly results in a new actuarial degree syllabus — the first step toward a full Actuarial Science programme at the University of Ghana.

2004–2006

Lagos Resource Centre; first exam successes; Peter Clark

Dedicated resource centre opens in Lagos. In April 2004, four students pass professional actuarial exams on first attempt under the Foundation’s tutorship — a landmark proof of concept. Over 4,000 school children reached through Love of Mathematics presentations in Nigeria and Kenya. Peter Clark FIA passes away on 11 June 2006; his personal library is donated to the University of Nairobi.

2002–2011

Awesome Praise — concert series

Olawale Opayinka creates and produces Awesome Praise — a multi-national gospel concert series benefiting 3E Foundation. Venues include the Barbican (London, 2002), The Ocean (London, 2003), the Kennedy Center (Washington DC, 2004), Johannesburg (2007), and Freedom Park, Lagos (2011). Reviewed by The Washington Post and the London Evening Standard.

2005

Make Poverty History — coordination team

Olawale Opayinka serves on the coordination team for the Make Poverty History campaign — one of the decade’s largest global advocacy movements calling for debt cancellation, trade justice, and increased aid.

3E Person of the Year Award, Award for Excellence, and Research Sponsorship introduced. Lagos Actuarial Conference organised. 3E attends International Professional Meeting in Nairobi, Kenya (June 2007). New Board of Trustees and Advisory Board appointed.

2013–2017

3E Actuaries Open — Equatorial Guinea

Olawale Opayinka founds, hosts and produces the 3E Actuaries Open — an international professional golf tournament at the Presidential Golf Course, Mongomo. Prize fund reaches US$150,000; 26+ countries; qualifiers in Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Ibadan Golf Club, Nigeria. PGA Tour, MENA Tour, EuroPro Tour and LPGA professionals compete across five editions.

Onipe infrastructure delivered

Primary school classroom block, secondary school hall (Engr. Seyi Makinde Hall — commissioned by the Governor of Oyo State, November 2024), playgrounds for both schools, borehole water supply, and 15 bathrooms constructed across Onipe Community Schools, Ibadan, Oyo State.

2010

Programme concluded

Active programme completed having supported 400+ students across Nigeria, Ghana, and Kenya. Foundation dissolved on the UK Charity Commission register following successful conclusion of its original objectives.

2027

3E Foundation Nigeria — re-establishment

Planned incorporation of 3E Foundation Nigeria to continue education advocacy, actuarial support, and community development in Nigeria and across Africa.

Golf — A Vehicle for Development

Using golf to elevate and educate.

Golf is not simply a sport in Olawale Opayinka’s world — it is a tool for development, a platform for elevation, and a vehicle for community transformation. The track record is international and documented. The vision is planted in Nigerian soil.

The Proof of Capacity — 2013–2017

3E Actuaries Open
Equatorial Guinea

Founded, hosted and produced by Olawale Opayinka across five editions from 2013 to 2017, the 3E Actuaries Open was a fully-fledged international professional golf tournament held at the Presidential Golf Course in Mongomo, Equatorial Guinea — a Ritson Golf Design course of which half is set within equatorial forest.

With a prize fund of US$150,000 and a field drawn from over 26 countries, the tournament attracted PGA Tour players, MENA Tour champions, EuroPro Tour professionals, and former LPGA players. Qualifying rounds ran in Dubai (Al Badia Golf Club), Abu Dhabi (Emirates Golf Club), and — significantly — at Ibadan Golf Club, Nigeria. The tournament was sponsored by the Government of Equatorial Guinea, covered by Worldwide Golf and The National (UAE), and endorsed by the Presidential Golf Club.

$150k

Prize fund

26+

Countries represented

Editions, 2013–2017

64+

Pros per edition

“As we continue to tirelessly grow the professional game here in Equatorial Guinea and our region of Africa — those who visit can expect to be pleasantly surprised. As a tourist destination it is filled with undiscovered gems. As a golf destination, it is a country on the rise. All are welcome to the ‘Sunrise on the Equator.’”

Olawale Opayinka — Tournament Host, 3E Actuaries Open

2013

Inaugural Pro-Am International, Hotel Sofitel Sipopo Le Golf, Malabo. The foundation of something remarkable.

2014

Road to Mongomo Golf Trophy — the tournament moves to the Presidential Golf Course, Mongomo.

2015

3E Actuaries Open. 60 international players, $70,000 prize fund. Nigeria’s Andrew Odoh wins for the second time. Gulf qualifiers begin.

2016

$150,000 prize fund. 50 male and 14 female professionals from 26 countries. Dubai qualifier at Al Badia Golf Club. MENA Tour champion Craig Hinton wins, setting a new national course record of 65.

2017

Ibadan Golf Club hosts Nigeria’s first national qualifier. PGA Tour player Charlie Wi and LET’s Camilla Lennarth join the field. $300,000 prize fund proposed. The Road to Mongomo comes home to Ibadan.

The Unrealised Vision — In Progress

The Farming Golf Village

The future remains to educate and empower future generations. Olawale Opayinka is passionate about rural development — not as an abstract cause, but as a lived commitment evidenced over 25 years of action.

The unrealised vision is a Farming Golf Village in South West Nigeria — a pioneering development that uses golf as an instrument for education, community elevation, and sustainable rural transformation. Not a resort. Not a private club. A village — where golf, farming, and the development of young people coexist and reinforce each other.

Good progress is being made on finding the right land in Ibadan, Oyo State — the same city where Onipe stands, where the 3E Actuaries Open Nigerian qualifier was held, and where the Foundation’s community roots run deepest.

Golf

A world-class golf facility as the anchor — using the sport to attract investment, tourism, and aspiration to a rural setting.

Farming

Productive agricultural land integrated with the village — food security, livelihoods, and a model for sustainable rural enterprise.

Education

The elevation of young people through sport, skills, and structured learning — the same mission that drove 3E Foundation from the start.

Community

A village, not just a facility. Permanent, generational, rooted in Ibadan and Oyo State — built to last beyond the founder.

The 3E Actuaries Open demonstrated that an African golf vision, produced from scratch, could attract players from 26 countries and a six-figure prize fund. The Farming Golf Village is the next chapter of that same conviction — rooted in Nigerian soil.

Location — In Progress

Ibadan, Oyo State — South West Nigeria

Land search active. Progress being made. The vision is being built.

The Next Chapter

Re-establishing
in Nigeria — 2027.

The actuarial profession exists to manage risk. In emerging economies, the greatest unmanaged risks are those no one has yet been trained to model.

— 3E Foundation Rationale, 2001

The Foundation’s first chapter demonstrated that with the right support, actuarial students in Nigeria, Ghana, and Kenya could compete with and qualify alongside their counterparts anywhere. That proof of concept is the foundation for the next chapter — now with a Nigerian entity at its centre, and a broader mandate for community development alongside professional education.

3E Foundation Nigeria

Planned incorporation as a Nigerian entity — bringing the Foundation’s work formally into the jurisdiction where the majority of its impact has been felt.

Actuarial Education

Resuming structured support for actuarial students at Nigerian universities — study materials, tutoring, examination guidance, and career mentorship as the profession grows across Africa’s expanding financial and insurance sectors.

The Farming Golf Village

An active, unrealised vision for a pioneering rural development in Ibadan, Oyo State — integrating golf, farming, education and community into a permanent generational asset for South West Nigeria. Land search underway. The 3E Actuaries Open proved the capacity; the village is the next chapter.

Community Infrastructure

Building on the Onipe legacy to deliver further infrastructure — education facilities, community spaces, and resources creating lasting generational impact in Ibadan, Oyo State and beyond.

Professional Advocacy

Advocating for the recognition of African actuarial qualifications and the development of emerging-market frameworks suited to the specific risks and economic realities of Nigerian and African economies.

A decade buildingthe actuarial professionacross Africa.

The Foundation completed its active programme in 2010 and has since been dissolved on the UK Charity Commission register.

Actuarial disciplineshould have no borders.

The 3E Mission

How We Supported Students

Supported By

Where the work happened.

Nigeria

Ghana

Kenya

The programmein the room.

Gospel across the nations.

Barbican Hall — London

The Ocean — London

Kennedy Center — Washington DC

Johannesburg — South Africa

Freedom Park — Lagos, Nigeria

Make Poverty History — 2005

Built for the community.

Primary SchoolClassroom Block

Secondary School HallEngr. Seyi Makinde Hall

Playgrounds —Primary & Secondary

Clean WaterBorehole

15 BathroomsFully Equipped

Engr. Seyi Makinde Hall

Playgrounds — Primary & Secondary Schools

Looking Ahead — 3E Foundation Nigeria

The people who builtthe Foundation.

Peter Nigel Stuckey Clark FIA

Guy Vanner

Nick Silver FIA

Olajide Majekodunmi FIA

H.E. Dr Christopher Kolade CON

Marion Amartey

Carol Madison-Graham

Recognising excellence.

3E Person of the Year Award

Award for Excellence

Research Sponsorship

A decade of commitment.

Foundation established

University partnerships formed

Ghana actuarial degree breakthrough

Lagos Resource Centre; first exam successes; Peter Clark

Awesome Praise — concert series

Make Poverty History — coordination team

3E Actuaries Open — Equatorial Guinea

Onipe infrastructure delivered

Programme concluded

3E Foundation Nigeria — re-establishment

Using golf to elevate and educate.

3E Actuaries OpenEquatorial Guinea

The Farming Golf Village

Re-establishingin Nigeria — 2027.

3E Foundation Nigeria

Actuarial Education

The Farming Golf Village

Community Infrastructure

Professional Advocacy

Support the2027 mission.

Study Resources

Mission Partnership

Mentorship

Get in touch.

A decade building
the actuarial profession
across Africa.

Actuarial discipline
should have no borders.

The programme
in the room.

Primary School
Classroom Block

Secondary School Hall
Engr. Seyi Makinde Hall

Playgrounds —
Primary & Secondary

Clean Water
Borehole

15 Bathrooms
Fully Equipped

The people who built
the Foundation.

3E Actuaries Open
Equatorial Guinea

Re-establishing
in Nigeria — 2027.

Support the
2027 mission.