Came out tops: Ololade Eniola Okedare (Founder & CEO, Emerge Story Company) Congratulations are in order for the NGN5,000,000 grand prize winner of Access Bank’s Womenpreneur Pitch-a-Ton, Ololade Eniola Okedare (Founder & CEO, Emerge Story Company). Emerge Story Company specialises in refining and polishing the budding storyteller’s narrative, ensuring it captivates audiences and propels their storytelling to new heights, therefore elevating their projects for both big and small screens. Other Womenpreneur Pitch-a-Ton prize winners received grants, ranging from five women entrepreneurs who got a sum of N500,000 to our four other womenpreneurs who won a grant of N4,000,000 to N1,000,000…
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L-R): Fola Adeola (Founder & Chairman, FATE Foundation); Juliet Ehimuan (Founder, Beyond Limits), Nnamdi Ezeigbo and guest; Adenike Adeyemi (Executive Director, FATE Foundation) Engr. Nnamdi Ezeigbo (Founder & CEO, SLOT Systems Limited) – an indigenous Telecommunications, Information and Technology Company with over 70 retail stores nationwide and an online store – has won the prestigious FATE Foundation Model Entrepreneur award for the year 2023, for his outstanding vision and excellence. The award was presented by the Chairman of the Foundation and co-founder of GTBank, Mr. Fola Adeola. Incorporated in 1998, the SLOT brand has become a household name for good…
(3rd L): Babatunde Akin-Moses – Founder, Sycamore.NG Nigeria’s Co-creation Hub (CcHUB) in collaboration with i13 Ventures has selected Sycamore.NG, Kunda Kids, Doktorconnect, and BioCertica, amongst a handful of other African startups to take part in its Africa to Europe scaling program, holding in Dublin this entire week. Says Babatunde Akin-Moses (Founder, Sycamore.NG): “Once you get past the cold around this time of the year, you can’t help but notice the number of major tech companies like Meta, Amazon, and others, that have major operations here. Then lots of pubs too – not sure I’ve seen this many before.” The Africa to Europe scaling programme…
Ugochukwu Aronu (Founder & CEO, WiCrypt) It’s official (announced on X, formerly Twitter): African startup WiCrypt – a company that enables users share and monetise their WiFi connections – is breaking into the Chinese market through a strategic partnership with Singaporean tech company, Onega Ventures. The deal will see Onega Ventures become the exclusive distributor of WiCrypt devices in China, in addition to providing customer support and management services. Sharing his vision of creating a passive income stream for millions of people simply by turning their devices into WiFi hotspots, WiCrypt CEO Ugochukwu Aronu says he is thrilled about partnering…
(L-R): Theresa Ribera (Vice President of the Government of Spain & Minister for Ecological Transition and Demographic Change), Tony Elumelu CFR (Founder, Tony Elumelu Foundation); US Secretary Hilary Clinton Day 02 at the ongoing COP28 in Dubai sees Tony O. Elumelu, C.F.R (Founder, the Tony Elumelu Foundation) serving a panelist at the Clinton Global Initiative Discussion. He was joined by Theresa Ribera (Vice President of the Government of Spain & Minister for Ecological Transition and Demographic Change), in a session moderated by Secretary Hilary Clinton, titled “Taking Action Together for the Most Vulnerable on the Climate-Health Nexus”.
The team from the Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) have only just arrived Dubai for the 2023 United Nations Conference of the Parties (COP28), and they have been quick to make things memorable. Watch the videos of TEF Founder, Tony Elumelu and Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (Director-General, World Trade Organisation), speaking succinctly about what can be done to support young entrepreneurs in the Green space, across Africa. 🎥 TEF #BoldMission #AmplifyingImpact #GreenEconomy #Africa
Wetech will be hosting its first-ever Female Founders Conference – where founders and investors get connected, hire talent, and get funded. – on December 09, 2023 at the Four Points By Sheraton, Victoria Island, Lagos. The conference features a pitch competition where emerging female founders will showcase their startups to a panel of investors, competing for a grand prize and other startup benefits provided by our partners. Beyond the pitch session, the event is structured to encourage networking, knowledge-sharing, and collaboration among attendees, making it a can’t-miss opportunity for women looking to make their mark in the tech ecosystem. With…
(L-R): Stanley Uzochukwu (owner, The Delborough Lagos); Lagos State Governor ,Babajide OlusolaSanwo-Olu Owned by businessman Stanley Uzochukwu, The Delborough Hotel Lagos was recently launched on Saturday, November 25, 2023 – presenting a five-storey, state-of-the-art hospitality haven, located at Plot 1502 Bishop Aboyade Cole Close, in Victoria Island. Introducing The Delborough Lagos Says Lagos state Governor, Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu: “I attended the grand opening of The Delborough Hotel in Lagos and witnessed its magnificent addition to our hospitality landscape. This opening showcases the vast opportunity to establish high value hospitality projects to cater to our local and increasing tourist population.” Some…
(R-L) Olawale Rotimi Opeyemi (promoter of ‘Food for Nations); Olivier Becht (French Minister for Foreign Trade, Economic Attractiveness and French Nationals Abroad); Ebun Feludu (founder, Kokari Coconut); Ndidi Nwuneli (founder, aace Foods) Last weekend, the French Minister for Foreign Trade, Economic Attractiveness and French Nationals Abroad, Olivier Becht, inaugurated the “Food for Nations” agri-food platform – a one stop platform designed to assemble, host, and connect multi-sectoral stakeholders across the agri-food value chain, in order to facilitate food export and import. Says farmer Akin Alabi (R): “Congratulations my brother @OlawaleJRFarms. FOOD FOR NATIONS was a success!!” 📸@akinwale_cfi Spearheading the digital…
Inedoye modelling her beachwear line with her husband, Made Kuti (Afrobeat singer, songwriter and instrumentalist) 🎥 TheDoyeBrand Fashion, Beauty and Lifestyle CEO, Inedoye Adanne Anikulapo-Kuti graduated from the Institut Supérieur de Communication et de Gestion (Republic of Bénin) with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Language and Literature. A few years later (in August 2022), she founded The Doye Brand, a full beachwear luxury line, produced in Nigeria, but more importantly with a vision of campaigning for body positivity. Inedoye Adanne Anikulapo-Kuti (Founder, The Doye Brand) 📸 @__Inedoye Inedoye’s focus is as much to produce creatively simple pieces, as…