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Antonia Ally

Nigerian social entrepreneur

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ134170067 ↗
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Antonia Ally is a Nigerian social entrepreneur, former CEO of The How Foundation, a non-profit organisation founded by Dr. Herbert Wigwe, in January 2016.

Through HOW Foundation, Ally has distributed over 10,000 free mosquito nets, 5,000 free medicines for preventing and curing malaria and won the Global Peace Ambassador in 2017 by the United Nations.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016, 2017—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Antonia, Ally and Nigerian is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Antonia Ally” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.