Our WCW is Oladoyin Taiwo! Oladoyin Taiwo is a Business/Brand Strategist, she holds an MBA in Marketing from Keller School of Management, Chicago. She is also an entrepreneur, coach, a prolific speaker and convener of the annual “The Evolving Woman Conference”. She has facilitated training for non-profit making organizations, profit making organizations and churches, on the aspect of entrepreneurship, branding…
Written by Ivie M. Eke. Recently an acquaintance of mine asked me the question, ‘are you happy?’ in lieu of the standard ‘how are you?’ or ‘how far?’ which I am accustomed to hearing as a greeting in Nigeria. Am I happy? Am I happy? Well…yes. I think so. This simple question led me down a rabbit hole of…
So by now you should know that 9to5chick is all about empowering career women with the skills to succeed in the work place and life in general! That’s why we have created the power breakfast series, an intimate time of learning, development, sharing, networking and off course…FUN! To kick of the series it was important for us to achieve two…
We love Wednesdays!!!! Although we crush on women everyday, Wednesday gives us an extra excuse to shed the spotlight on our latest crush and the ‘amazingness’ that they are! Meet Folu Storms Also known as Ada Afoluwake Ogunkeye, an actor, broadcaster and explorer in addition to being a trained Barrister and Solicitor with, a love for travel, a thirst for…
From when I was young, I struggled with my body. In my mind, i was always the fattest one, the ugly friend, the one who didn’t have as much as others, the one who always seemed to need everyone’s help. Then one day the unthinkable happened. I woke up and my skin was covered in thick scaly rashes. The one…
Written by Glory Edozien Secondary school was definitely not my favourite period in life. The process of preparing for boarding house life was just as tedious as being there. One cutlass, one hoe. 2 yellow checked skirt and blouse housewear. Two white short sleeved shirts and 2 very dull grey skirts as school uniforms. One mop, one broom and one…
SEUN KUTI HEADLINES PADMAN’s EVENT [#UNBOXWASAHABLEPADS]
PadMan is an initiative of the Giving Garage aimed at getting men to be deliberately involved in issues of humanity especially issues bothering on gender equality. Giving Garage’s PadMan initiative is adopting the United Nations’ #HeForShe model to encourage men to act in advocating and funding of girl/women causes. PadMan promotes loudly and unashamedly the role of good Menstrual Hygiene…
Heyy IBG Community! Our WCW of the week is Chinwe Egwin! Chinwe is a seasoned Economist with specialisation in Public Finance, Macro, Development Economics as well as Fixed Income analysis. She currently works in the Fixed Income & Macro Economic unit at FBN Capital (The Investment & Asset Management arm of FBN Holdings) where she handles frontier research problems for…
Meet Bilikiss Adebiyi; Bilikiss has always been a woman of incredible vision. A graduate of MIT Sloan School of Management with a sought after career with multinational companies such as IBM and now as the founder of WeCyclers, Bilikiss is creating opportunities for social change. Her company offers waste collection and recycling services to the Lagos informal settlements, where an…
About Francesca Francesca is a Public Relations and Communications expert with 12 years experience in media strategy and management, perception management, image consulting, perception and crisis management, and event planning and management. In case, you thought the name was familiar, she is also the founder of Leading Ladies Africa a women empowerment non-profit that celebrates the lives of African women…