Osayi Alile (CEO, Aspire Coronation Trust Foundation) 📸OsayiAlile Even within a difficult operating environment, opportunities are rife for entrepreneurs to start or enhance a business targeted at solving problems, no matter how minute. However, this is also a great time to analyse an important, yet often overlooked aspect of the entrepreneurial journey: the tricky link between the founder’s mental health and their business success. So, is there a connection between entrepreneurship and mental health conditions? A 2021 global sample study (72% Of Entrepreneurs Suffer From Mental Health Issues. Here’s Why—And What To Do About It) reveals an alarming truth -…
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Abiola Adediran (Private Wealth & Family Office expert) 📸A. Adediran Increasingly, more businesses fail to pass on the reins to the next generation, either through a lack of planning, or simply because younger family members may be terribly ill-equipped to take on the burden of responsibility. In a lucid piece shared online (Many Boomer Retirees. Few Succession Plans), Private Wealth & Family Office expert, Abiola Adediran, weighs in, outlining the several challenging familial conditions that may exist (often in combination), and sharing thoughts on how so many of these obstacles could be remedied with some forethought and openness. Adediran says:…
Emerging Africa Group launches in Port Harcourt (Rivers State, Nigeri): Founder, Emerging Africa Group, Dr. Toyin Sanni (4th-R) and the team: Adaku Ijara (2nd-R); Collins Olise, Olutoye Sanni, Kuburat Yakubu, Felicia Sonubi, and Mahmoud Kasandubu Leading provider of financial services, Emerging Africa Capital Group recently launched in Nigeria’s South-South region with the unveiling of a brand new office in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Says Founder, Dr. Toyin F. Sanni: “Today we opened [the] Emerging Africa Group, Port Harcourt branch, and brought opportunities for deeper financial inclusion and wealth creation to the people of Rivers State. Going by its mission to grow…
Moruf Oseni (Managing Director & CEO, Wema Bank) Nigeria’s youth are reminded that entries to the 5th edition of Wema Bank’s flagship youth and startup-focused tech competition – Hackaholics 5.0 – are open. Hackaholics, described as the largest community of problem-solvers, visionaries, creative thinkers and innovators in Africa, is an annual tech and innovation competition created by Wema Bank in 2019 to provide a platform for young Nigerians with tech-driven ideas to bring their game-changing ideas to life, scale their ventures or startups and access a wider market for these tech-enabled solutions. Announcing Wema Bank Hackaholics 5.0 recently, in Lagos. (L-R): Ololade…
(L): Amede Olisa-Achingale, (Founder, Bosaz Global Ventures) 📸 @BplantoNG/ food_champions_initiative Amede Olisa-Achingale doubles as the National Internal Auditor of the African Women Entrepreneurs Programme (AWEP), and Founder of Bosaz Global Ventures – an agro-processing enterprise producing a diverse range of African foods that include plantain flour, potato flour, and orange-fleshed sweet potato flour, catering to the needs of health-conscious people. For those who want to achieve lifestyle goals through a healthy diet, Bosaz Foods processes locally grown produce and packages them for the benefit of gluten intolerant persons of all ages in both local and international markets, under the brand…
(2nd L) Florence I. ‘Cuppy’ Otedola – Founder, Cuppy Foundation Global DJ and music producer, Florence I. ‘Cuppy’ Otedola, is celebrating one year since Cuppy Foundation’s Africa Oxford Scholars Fund announced a gift of £100,000 to an existing African Graduate Support Fund – a brainchild of the Africa Oxford Initiative (AfOx), which is designed to meet the needs of the most vulnerable African graduate students at Oxford University, including those with any form of disability and caring responsibilities. 📸 CuppyFoundation The Cuppy Africa Oxford Scholars Fund provides awards of up to £2000 to African graduate students currently studying at the University of Oxford, thereby…
Amb. Maryben Omollo (Founder, Maryben foundation) Five years ago, when Maryben Omollo needed therapy, she couldn’t afford it. She was so broke that even securing a meal was not guaranteed. However, she bumped into a complete stranger on LinkedIn who offered to pay for her therapy. Describing her case as ‘urgent’ and needing someone to save her, she says her new-found psychologist called Kiarie “never saw the short, ugly way I described myself or how I was described by someone close. I remember each time I would say that, he would burst with laughter and ask me to look at…
The African Leadership Institute is delighted to announce the 24 Associates – – a group of exceptional African leaders – who have been selected for the 2024 Class of the Tutu Fellowship programme, after emerging from the more than 400 nominations received. Affiong Williams (Founder, ReelFruit) is one of 24 entrepreneurs selected for the 2024 Tutu Leadership programme The 2024 cohort includes associates from Algeria, Cote d’Ivoire, Egypt, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Their current endeavours span the domains of private business, public governance and civil society, and their areas of influence…
📸 Ifeoma Dike Created in 1998, PAD was the 1st created Design fair in the world, after 24 editions, remains the leading event for international Design collectors. The Paris edition, which held between April 3-7, 2024 was no exception, bringing together the best International and French galleries of Historical and Contemporary Design. Art Pioneer, Adviser, Curator, and Collector Ifeoma DIke (Founder, Idioblast Dynamic Development UK – IDDUK), was present at PAD Paris 2024, and had these detailed insights, with spots of realist humour) to share: “PAD Paris got design enthusiasts like me into Paris last week. Fortunately, it was happening…
Serlina Boyd (Founder, the Cocoa School of Journalism & Creative Arts) Serlina Boyd (founder of Cocoa Girl magazine – the first major Black children’s magazine in the UK) has hit another first. On Monday, April 08, 2024, Ms. Boyd opened the Cocoa School of Journalism & Creative Arts, which is the UK’s first Black-owned journalism school for children, with the aim of inspiring and nurturing children of all ages, who are interested in news journalism, podcasting and story writing. The curriculum will teach the young ones all about the elements of journalism, including news reporting, video editing, and illustration. Said the…