https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fatZF0JMlOg The Cece Yara Child Advocacy Centre – a non-profit organisation established in 2016 to prevent child sexual abuse and provide free access to care, information, protection and emergency intervention – recently celebrated the graduation of 30 professionals from the justice, child protection, and law enforcement sectors. The training program was designed to equip stakeholders in the criminal justice system with specialised skills for sensitive forensic interviews of children survivors of abuse. Tutoring of the graduands who completed their specialised course as Child Forensic Interviewers, was conducted by the Zero Abuse Project and sponsored by The Cece Yara Child Advocacy Centre,…
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CAIRO, Egypt, September 30, 2024/ — The Africa’s Business Heroes (ABH) Prize Competition, Africa’s leading philanthropic initiative supported by the Jack Ma Foundation and Alibaba Philanthropy, is proud to announce the Top 10 finalists for the 2024 ABH Prize.These exceptional entrepreneurs were chosen after an intense round of semi-final business pitches and judging held on September 27-28 at Kamelizer Spaces, with community events until September 29, all in the historic city of Cairo, Egypt. This marks ABH’s first event in North Africa, highlighting Egypt’s growing role as a key hub of entrepreneurial innovation in Africa.The Top 10 finalists are (in…
Seated (L-R): Temitope Adeyemi (Co-Founder & CEO, Pay-U) in a recent meet-up with legendary Angel Investor, entrepreneur, philanthropist and adviser to tech companies Harry ‘Tomi Davies to brainstorm 📸TemitopeA Imagine that you drive a NGN50,000,000 car from Ikeja to Victoria Island within 1 hour and you get to pay a premium of just NGN1,141 – instead of worrying about paying NGN2,500,000 as upfront annual premium, especially when you can’t afford the upfront cost. Or Imagine… that you drive a car valued at NGN10,000,000 from Lekki Phase 1 to Ikoyi – which is about 30-minute journey – and you pay NGN80…
📸 @TonyOElumelu Congratulations go out to Dr. Awele V. Elumelu OFR on completing the 42.195km Berlin Marathon (2024)! It’s her 5th marathon in the bag, after having completed the New York, Manchester, Chicago and London marathons! Dr. Elumelu is Founding Director at Heirs Holdings, co-Founder of the Tony Elumelu Foundation, and Chairperson at Avon Healthcare Interesting Read Resource: Thriving in the Hustle: Holistic Wellness Strategies for Entrepreneurs [By Jerome Knyszewski via Medium.com]
TEDxLagos. September 12, 2024: A comedian’s take on self motivation – Isaac Olayiwola (aka Layi Wasabi) 🎥 TEDx In this super engaging TEDxLagos talk, ISAAC A. ỌLÁYÍWỌLÁ (more popularly known as Layi Wasabi) exhibits a mastery of stage control, using the fine art of storytelling. Using the law of inertia to describe his journey as a small-town giant pursuing a thriving city life – all the while throwing in a pinch of self-motivation anecdotes – Layi Wasabi displays once more his uncanny but natural gift of humour. Wasabi has unsurprisingly taken social media by storm with his unique blend of…
Tola Alade (Founder, Marmalade Ventures) In case you missed it, Marmalade Ventures – along with Benjamina Ebuehi, a London based food writer, cookbook author and food stylist – are hosting a panel + party with two culinary tastemakers (Lerato Umah-Shaylor and Kiano Moju) on September 20, in London. Marmalade Ventures have been spectacularly in the news following the launch by its Founder & CEO, Tola Alade, of DÒDÒ – the world’s first plantain-infused brandy. Marmalade Ventures’ DÒDÒ, a plantain-infused Rum is up for pre-order: https://www.drinkdodo.com/ Says Alade about the upcoming London panel + party event: Get ready for a deliciously…
Ayobami Oyaleke (co-Founder & CEO, Mainstack) Ayobami Oyaleke, co-Founder of Mainstack, is thrilled to officially announce his company’s expansion into the United Kingdom! 🇬🇧Mainstack, based in Dallas, Texas is the platform for creators, businesses, and entrepreneurs to receive payments for their products and services in 135+ currencies. By providing multi-currency pricing solutions, billing, subscription management, and a tax compliance infrastructure, Mainstack ensures that companies can be local yet act globally. Referring to the development, Oyaleke says: This is a significant milestone in our journey toward becoming a merchant of record (MoR), empowering ambitious businesses with software and payment solutions to…
🎥Paralympics With Paris 2024 drawing to a close, some of the Paralympic community say a few words of thanks to Paris and its people: ‘MERCI!’ [in different accents and languages 😊] What a spectacle: The 2024 Paralympics closing ceremony kicks off at Stade de France And for an unforgettable event that has marked a first gender-inclusive Olympics hosted by the beautiful city of Paris, the world says bravo to Anne Hidalgo (Mayor of Paris); Tony Estanguet (President, Paris 2024 – Comité d’organisation des Jeux Olympiques et Paralympiques de 2024); and Etienne Thobois (Director-General, Paris Organising Committee). Numeris Média is officially…
UNSTOPPABLE 🇳🇬. Folashade Oluwafemiayo beats her own power lifting world record on final day of Paralympic Games🎥@Paralympics Nigeria is unstoppable. On the final day of the 2024 Paris Paralympics, Folashade Oluwafemiayo has obliterated her own previous 165kg world record with an incredible 167kg lift, securing gold in the Women’s Over 86kg Para powerlifting category🏅 Nigeria’s medal haul now stands at a total of seven (see story on previous six wins: Paris2024: Good things do come to an end. Nigeria’s never-give-up trait earns it six medals as the Paralympics draw to a close 🙌]. Folashade Oluwafemiayo lifts Paralympic gold!After breaking both…
📸2024 Getty Images Despite no-one wanting Paris 2024 to come to an end, the Closing Ceremony of the Paralympic Games will bring the curtain down on 12 days of intense sporting activity in France’s capital, on Sunday 8 September, starting at 20:30 local time. After nearly two weeks of competition and jaw-dropping feats of athleticism, the medal table tells a story of grit: So far, throughout the Paralympics’ 549 medal events, China tops the table in terms of gold medals (71) and total medals (163). After Great Britain (82 total, 35 golds), Team USA athletes have brought home 77 medals in all, including 27 golds.…