How a mindset of Innovation transformed millinery in Nigeria [🎥 @john3v3millinery] Eme Akenzua founded the renowned upscale millinery brand John 3v3 Millinery in 1991, a company she has grown into a thriving manufacturing and retail concern. As a Milliner with 33 years+ of experience and exciting creativity under her belt – and a journey filled with challenges and triumphs – Ms. Akenzua is thrilled to introduce her new series “The Creativepreneur Guide to Success” – where she shares valuable lessons intended to help rising entrepreneurs navigate their own creative paths and build thriving businesses. From the highs of ROYAL ASCOT…
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The Anzisha Prize, Africa’s leading program for young entrepreneurs has announced that applications for the 2025 cohort are now open! The Anzisha Prize is Africa’s biggest award for her youngest entrepreneur changemakers aged 15 – 22 years, and hands out over USD $140,000 every year in business support and prize money to very young entrepreneurs from all over the continent. The 2024 Prize winners were announced at the annual Entrepreneurship Education in Africa Awards (EEA) gala event held in Johannesburg, South Africa: Mathias Charles Yabe from Ghana won the prize for job creation. Through his business, Ako Fresh, Yabe offers farmers…
The ‘Dream 10’: Moniepoint Women -in-Tech interns 2024 In 2020, the Moniepoint Group kicked off its Women -in-Tech initiative whose objective was to ensure that young women gained access to building a career in technology, through an internship. Past cohorts had always consisted of five talented interns – brilliant women who have pressed on to make incredible strides – but 2024 has seen Moniepoint double the intakes to 10 females who will gain hands-on experience in building products across the company’s Cloud Engineering, Backend Engineering, Technical Product Management, Data Engineering, Systems Administration, Technical Support, and User Experience teams. 📸 @Moniepoint…
Adedayo Oluwole (Founder, Kasher Organics) 📸@Dayo.Oluwole With growing concerns about unhealthy diets as one of the leading risks for the global burden of disease (mainly noncommunicable disorders such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and cancer), evidence has shown the immense health benefits of a diet high in whole grains, vegetables, fruit, legumes and nuts in effectively countering disease. In comes Adedayo Oluwole who runs Kasher Organic Farms – a proudly Nigerian organic farm in Ogun State which she founded to grow and sell fresh produce, microgreens, fruits, vegetables, potted herbs, and derivatives such as cold brew coffee, honey, flour, and artisan…
FinTribe Fuunder, Jennifer Awirigwe, invites women across Africa to the FInTribe Finance Fair It’s that time of the year again, and the FinTribe Finance Fair – an exclusive women-only trade event – will be taking place on October 14, 2024 at the Landmark Event Centre in Lagos-Nigeria. The trade fair presents a fluid platform for attendees to interact and connect one-on-one with financial experts in several areas of financial services including savings, investments, Real Estate, Pension, Insurance, Cryptocurrency and much more. The theme? ‘Becoming the Bag’, which points to a milieu for not just gaining insights, but also making decisive…
Kigali, Rwanda. Introducing the 2024 GoGettaz Africa Agripreneur Prize Competition (GAPC) winners! 🏆 The GAPC is an annual event that seeks to identify and support the most innovative and promising agripreneurs in Africa. The competition is open to all African entrepreneurs between the ages of 18 and 35 who have innovative ideas for agricultural businesses. The first winner, emerging from the Northern region of Africa is Fatima El Khou (Founder, CEO, and Head of Research & Innovation at Jafife, Morocco. Jafife uses digitalised solar dryers to transform food into natural ingredients for sustainable supply chains. The second winner, emerging from…
Leading African Women in Food Fellowship (LAWFF) Fellows head to #AFSForum 2024: the world’s premier forum for African agriculture (Kigali-Rwanda, September 2-6) 📸Ady’s Agro The Leading African Women in Food Fellowship (LAWFF) – a transformative program designed to empower and celebrate women leaders in the African food and agriculture sector – is sending its 2024 Fellows to Rwanda to attend the Africa Food Systems Forum (AGRF), taking place September 02-06. AGRF is the world’s premier forum for African agriculture that brings together stakeholders in the agricultural landscape to take practical actions and share lessons for moving African agriculture forward. Attending…
Reviewing and advising on the Godman Sachs and Saïd Business School 10,000 Small Businesses UK program: (2nd-R): Dr. Elizabeth Shaw (Founder, 1000 Black Voices) as one of several panel members Taking a stand on embracing culture, intersectionality and inclusion, Goldman Sachs and the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford recently convened a strategic consultation team to review and render advice on their 10,000 Small Businesses UK program. The aim was to help increase the number of Black Founders on the program and demonstrate how welcoming it is for Black and under-represented founders. Dr. Elizabeth Shaw (Founder, 1000 Black Voices) was…
(L-R): Tola Odeyemi (NIPOST Postmaster General) and Charles Odii (SMEDAN Director-General) Logistics and transportation costs in Africa are among the most expensive in the world. These high costs hurt businesses of all sizes, including the growing number of vendors and traders selling online. In a bid ease the cost of doing business for smaller size businesses, the Small & Medium Enterprises Association of Nigeria (SMEDAN) have just signed a strategic partnership agreement with the Nigeria Postal Service (NIPOST) to offer SMEs registered nationwide with SMEDAN a 15% discount on logistics. The discount comes into effect on Monday, August 26, and will be…
In today’s digitally dominated world, exclusive merchandise and souvenirs are becoming a symbol of uniqueness. They are the only really distinctive alternative to endless advertising budgets on social media and digital platforms, allowing you to leave a lasting mark on the lives, hearts, and minds of the purchasing customer. This is what Tagowear has done with its limited-edition Paris 2024 Olympic Mascot Crocs, whose playful design features the official mascot of the Games. The Paris 2024 Olympic Mascots, known as the Phryges, adorn the clogs in a variety of colours and poses, adding a touch of pleasant eccentricity to this…