Aramide Elizabeth Kehinde Oikelome, a Media Practitioner,Consultant and an ace journalist/writer with over twenty years cognate experience garnered from both private and mainstream media.

A Girls’ Right Advocate and Founder Bestspring Foundation - Girls Arise Initiative, Aramide Oikelome was at the forefront of the vanguard to safeguard the girl-child against all forms of abuse and provide a safe space for her conquer all obstacles and maximize her potentials. She promoted advocacy against early child marriage, child-labour, rape, human trafficking and other forms of exploitation that tend to keep the girl-child down and out. Through Girls’ Arise Initiative, she inspired and supported girls to acquire a good education and build life skills in spite of financial hardship and cultural barriers. She upheld that girls should be resilient in pursuing a great career/leadership opportunity despite all odds.


By extension, she also ran an Adolescent Mothers Club to bring healing to pregnant girls, teenage mothers/out of school girls and built a strong support system for them by giving them a second chance to rebuild their lives through education and economic empowerment. 

While her passion was for the youth she understood the structure needed to achieve for them included the parents and she gravitated to the Mother's, women like. In the Ijegun community she served she involved the Mother's who faced a lot on economic hardship with special attention to women who were widowed. She supported them in a bid to support their childeren.

A Social Entrepreneur and Change-maker, Aramide Oikelome  demonstrated great leadership skills, passion, resilience and unparalleled love for humanity. She was the Executive Director of Bestspring Children and Youth Development Foundation and Goshen Home & Orphanage (NGO) where she worked passionately to heal hurts, restore hope and empower orphans and vulnerable children and youths in Nigeria.

Through Bestspring Foundation and Goshen Orphanage, she advocated for the rights of vulnerable children/youths in underdeveloped communities by providing them with the much -needed educational, psycho-social and nutritional support which enables them to enjoy steady, qualitative and holistic education.

Aramide Oikelome was a graduate of the Voices of our Future (VOF) signature training program of World Pulse, a Featured Changemaker and a valued Ambassador for the platform.

She was also a recipient of the D & Ksuomi 2018 Foundation Humanitarian Award and 2019 Sail Edutainment Blogspot Outstanding Humanitarian of the Year Award

Indeed, Aramide Oikelome was a woman of many parts- a Wife, Mother, Sister, Friend, Journalist, Public Speaker, Counselor, Child’s Rights Advocate, Girls’ Right Advocate, Care-giver, Philanthropist, Social Entrepreneur and much more.

She will be sorely missed by her husband, Dr. Albert Oikelome, an Associate Professor of Music, University of Lagos, her children and the many that knew her a "Mummy Bestsprings"