Entrepreneurship

With a recent UNICEF report estimating that about 18.5 million Nigerian children are out-of-school and on the streets, about 60 per cent of which are girls, stakeholders have highlighted actionable strategies to make education more inclusive and accessible..

In a bid to promote policy reforms and enhance the capacity of women-owned businesses for public and private opportunities, women have been urged to incorporate diversity through advocacy, improving the rate of procurement of goods, services and funding for such enterprises.

Poised to ensure that more women use their voices effectively, transform lives and scale new heights across sectors in the economy, a social enterprise serving as a catalyst to facilitate women’s journey, SpeakHer, recently held its maiden conference in Lagos.

Women and girls around the world continue to make strides and break down barriers. But despite decades of work to achieve gender equality, the disparity between men and women remains, and is growing at an alarming rate.

Asher Segun-Olasanmi, a young mental health advocate and aspiring Structural Engineer, is one of the 2022 Rise Winners from Nigeria who promote female participation in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics). An initiative of Schmidt Futures and the Rhodes Trust, Rise is the anchor programme of a $1 billion commitment from Eric and Wendy Schmidt…

Born as a princess and Ada to the late HRH Igwe na Ezuruoha one of Obinagu Uwani Akpugo of Enugu State, a role she didn’t apply for, Dr. Dorothy Jeff-Nnamani through this fate, which later set her apart in life learnt benevolence, humility, respect for others, wisdom, hard work, confidence and integrity. While the palace…

Cynthia Mbamalu is a human and gender rights advocate and development practitioner. The lawyer by profession, with an LLM in Comparative Constitutional Law from the Central European University (CEU), specialises in human and women rights advocacy, constitution building, elections and inclusive political leadership.

Hajia Oj Awa-Ibraheem is a serial entrepreneur and philanthropist. She holds a degree in Political Science from then Ondo State University, now Adekunle Ajasin University.

In a bid to accelerate the economic inclusion of women in Nigeria and boost the beauty and jewellery business, Betty Jewellery Limited has mentored young ladies with entrepreneurship skills to run jewellery business on a small scale leveraging online.

Chichi Uchendu is a dynamic Social Entrepreneur, Digital Marketing Consultant and passionate advocate for financial literacy. As the founder of “SixFigureMom,” she dedicates herself to empowering women with the essential principles of financial literacy..

Shecluded, a fintech company dedicated to empowering women entrepreneurs with funding and business training, has launched a transformative collaborative coworking, training, corporate event and content creation space exclusively designed for female entrepreneurs dubbed ‘Shecluded Hub’.

Ijeoma Ibijoke Jummai McDougall (nee Iheme) is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of The Kairos Initiative. The human resources professional has worked as a producer with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in the United Kingdom and has impacted the lives of thousands of less privileged people both in the UK and Nigeria.