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Born as the third child of seven children in Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State, Ibukun completed her primary and secondary school education at St. Paul's African Church Primary School, Lagos and Methodist Girls' High School, Yaba respectively before she proceeded to the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) where she graduated with a BSc in Chemistry although she had initially ...
SME 100 List of 100 most innovative female-owned businesses in Nigeria. Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards - African Blogger of the Year. Nigeria's 100 Most Inspiring Women – #YWomen100 #LLA100Women 2016 [27] Forbes 30 Most Promising Young Entrepreneurs in Africa- 2015 [28] QUARTZ’S List of 30 African Innovators. [29]
Ndidi Nnoli-Edozien (born 1972), social entrepreneur; Mary Nzimiro (1898–1993), businesswoman, politician and women's activist; Sunny Obazu-Ojeagbase; Uche Pedro founder and CEO, BellaNaija; Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu; Adeola Odutola; Stella Chinyelu Okoli; Festus Okotie-Eboh; Omu Okwei; Lawrence Omole; C. T. Onyekwelu; Seun Osewa; Bisoye Tejuoso ...
Additionally, traditional gender roles and cultural norms continue to limit the potential of women in Nigeria. [10] The social role of women in Nigeria varies according to religious, [11] cultural, [12] and geographic factors. However, many Nigerian cultures see women solely as mothers, sisters, daughters and wives.
Nkem Okocha is a Nigerian social entrepreneur and activist who founded Mamamoni, [1] a FinTech social enterprise that empowers [buzzword] poor rural and urban slum women with free vocational skills and mobile loans. [2] [3] She is the 2016 winner of the LEAP Africa Social Innovators Programme (SIP) by Union Bank of Nigeria. [4]
Equipping entrepreneurs for survival and success in post-pandemic Africa (interview with Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala) Africa, China, and Women (essay) by Hafsat Abiola; Nigeria's Orphan (profile), Time magazine (1998) [8] The opportunity gap for women in Africa is #Solvable (curtesy of the Rockefeller Foundation)
Nwuneli was born on March 22, 1975, at the University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital in Enugu, Nigeria to a Nigerian professor of Pharmacology—Paul Obuekwe Okonkwo [3] and an American professor of History—Rina Okonkwo. Her father, who is from Awka, Anambra and her mother who is originally from New York, met at Cornell University in 1965. [4]
Francesca Onomarie Uriri is a Nigerian social entrepreneur. She is the founder of a non-profit Leading Ladies Africa, which aims at providing skills to African women necessary for their success and promoting gender inclusion. [1] [2] [3] As of 2018, she served as the Head of Communications in West Africa for Uber. [4]