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🎥 TiannahsPlacEmpire Toyin Lawani – Nigerian celebrity fashion designer, author, philanthropist, and serial entrepreneur – celebrated her 42nd birthday yesterday, March 01, 2024. Toyin is CEO of Tiannahs Place Empire, a group reportedly compromising 33 businesses. A self-taught fashion stylist and designer, Ms. Lawani has held the public fascinated with her unconventional and controversial yet extremely creative fashion designs. Toyin Lawani (Founder & CEO, Tiannahs Place Empire) Toyin had notably served as a costume designer on the movies King of Boys: The Return of the King, and Shanty Town. She also features in the TV show, The Real Housewives of Lagos (released on Showmax in 2022).…

Do you run an MSME business? If so, Abiodun Kayode-Alli (Senior Manager at PwC Nigeria) invites you to join him and his team in a Masterclass as they take you through the intricacies of taxation in Nigeria. Holding on February 29, 2024, session attendees will receive cogent information about positioning their business to take advantage of Nigeria’s tax laws in the 2024 financial year. Signup for the tax masterclass by clicking here.

📸 @CrusaderSterling Pensions In a bid to foster financial inclusion for all, CrusaderSterling Pensions (CPL) took to the streets to raise awareness for its Micro Pension plan, which enables self-employed individuals and those working in firms with less than three (3) employees to make financial contributions towards their retirement. Rotimi Adebiyi (MD/ CEO, CrusaderSterling Pensions) The one-on-one campaign was led by the company’s MD &CEO, Rotimi Adebiyi, with the CPL team interacting with existing clients, sensitising potential customers, showcasing the product’s unique value proposition, and emphasising the significant benefits to be had from owning a pension account.

Jade Kearney (Co-Founder & CEO, She Matters) Black maternal health platform She Matters Inc has secured $2M to launch its life-saving symptom tracker app. The tool is designed to empower pregnant users to monitor vital signs and symptoms associated with complications like preeclampsia, eclampsia, and Hemolysis, Elevated Liver enzymes and Low Platelets (HELLP) syndrome.This technology is especially crucial for Black mothers who, in the USA for example, face a maternal mortality rate three times higher than their white counterparts.

Brothers, Adrian and Ronnie Wright (Co-Founders, XP app Two brothers, Adrian and Ronnie Wright, have launched the XB app to change how residents discover and connect with Black-owned businesses in their area. The XB app is not just a directory of Black-owned businesses – it goes the extra mile by featuring local events and spotlighting Black entrepreneurs. The “X” in XB represents the multiplication sign, while “B” stands for Black, which symbolises the amplification of Black culture. The XB app is available on Google Play and the Apple App Store.

If you’re on a budget but need some of the best guides available for starting and growing your business, these free introduction courses will be some of the best online resources you will come across. And they are all self-paced: Side Hustle “From Zero to 100” by City, University of London: Udemy’s Side Hustle “From Zero to 100” is in partnership with the City, University of London’s entrepreneurial arm CityVentures. Side hustles are how some of the most successful entrepreneurs got their start, and this course is excellent preparatory material for growing a social media following, networking, and knowing when to go…

🎥 Facebook/VoA A 19-year-old Malawian school dropout, Ernest Andrew, has brought free electricity to his village, using a self-made air-powered generator, which bypasses the use of fuel, oil or batteries. When Ernest Andrew dropped out of school in 2018 due to a lack of fees, he started collecting scrap materials that he slowly built into his Air-generator invention, which is hinged on the use of the untapped power of air. Ernest Andrew explaining how his air-powered generator works to officials of the Malawi government. Says Ernest: “The air fills the bottle where there are wires that produce an electromagnetic field.…

Fawn Weaver (founder, Uncle Nearest, Inc.) Globally-recognised, top-selling, and Black-owned premium spirits brand, Uncle Nearest Inc., is close to reaching unicorn status, with a valuation nearing $900 million. Despite the odds, Uncle Nearest has flourished under the leadership of founder Fawn Weaver, expanding its presence to over 30,000 stores, bars, hotels, and restaurants across 12 countries. The business now has a 432-acre distillery in Shelbyville, Tennessee, and a newly acquired 100-acre property in Cognac, France, which testify to the brand’s ambition. Weaver’s approach to funding has been crucial to the success of Uncle Nearest. By avoiding traditional venture capital and…

Mr. Eazi (Founder, Banku Music) Nigerian singer, songwriter, music executive and founder of Banku Music record label, Oluwatosin Oluwole Ajibade, popularly known in the entertainment industry as Mr. Eazi, has won the Young Entrepreneur Award at the 2024 African Prosperity Champions Award held at the Kempinski Gold Coast Hotel in Accra (Ghana). The award recognises Mr. Eazi’s drive in setting up businesses on the continent and projecting Africa positively as a destination for foreign investors. Giving credit to his alma mater, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), where he started his entrepreneurial journey, Mr. Eazi said: “… that…

Late Kofi Annan: Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Secretary-General of the United Nations between 1997 and 2006, and the founding chair of the Kofi Annan Foundation The Austrian Federal Chancellery, together with the Kofi Annan Foundation, invites entrepreneurial start-ups with a proven business model and a demonstrated social impact to submit their business plans in order to bring their impact to scale and benefit as many Africans as possible. With a grant of EUR 25000 available to nine social enterprises, the focus of the 2024 edition of the Kofi Annan Award for Innovation in Africa (KAAIA) is on Sustainable Development Goal…