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Helping female businesses grow through discounted access to finance is one of the many unique value propositions under the Access Bank’s W Initiative.  Tracy Batta, co-founder, SmoothieExpress and a Loan beneficiary of the initiative, recently emerged on Forbes Africa’s 30 under 30 list.

Tracy Batta co-owns Smoothie Express, a healthy focused brand known for providing consumers with healthy fast foods. Prior to her recognition under the 2020 class of Forbes Africa’s 30 under 30, Tracy was recognized under Business Day’s Top 100 Fastest Growing SMEs. She has since grown to become a household name in Lagos.

Since its launch in 2018, the W Power loan has impacted the businesses of growing female entrepreneurs with N14bn for expansion whilst seeking opportunities and exposure to the global market.

Speaking on the impact of the W Power Loan on female owned businesses, Ada Udechukwu, Head, Women Banking at Access Bank says, “Ensuring access to affordable finance for SMEs and opportunities to access new markets is an integral part of Access Bank’s economic ecosystem for SMEs. Since the introduction of the W Power Loan, more women can now sit at the helm of entrepreneurial affairs and grow their businesses to be internationally recognized.  Westrengthen female-owned SMEs in Nigeria by being a pillar for them to lean on for growth and expansion”.

Access Bank’s support for female-owned home-grown businesses is undeniable and this is evident in the resultant benefits from its discounted financing initiative, The W Power Loan.

Access Bank plc, commonly known as Access Bank, is a Nigerian multinational commercial bank, owned by Access Bank Group. It is licensed by the Central Bank of Nigeria, the national banking regulator. >>>https://www.e-nigeriang.com/access-bank-w-power-loan-beneficiary-tracy-batta-make-forbes-africa-under-30-list/

Not so much of his private affairs are in public domain, however billionaire business mogul, Mike Adenuga has one woman in his life that he doesn’t joke with. Ebony skinned and extremely gorgeous, she is fleshy just exactly the way Mike Adenuga prefers his women; e-nigeria! can now confirm.
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VIDEO: AJIMOBI BURIAL TODAY IN HIS OLUYOLE PRIVATE ESTATE IN IBADAN

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Ajimobi's Burial : The media debacle and counter reports bordering on the true state of Senator Isiaka Abiola Ajimobi was finally laid to rest earlier today, June 26, 2020 as news of his death was eventually broke and was confirmed by family sources and aides.

However, in an exclusive discovery by e-nigeria!, the former Oyo State governor is yet to be buried according to Muslim custom>>>https://www.e-nigeriang.com/family-battle-autopsy-stall-ajimobis-burial/

IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, today announced a $50 million loan to Nigeria’s First City Monument Bank - FCMB Limited to help it expand lending to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) so they can sustain business activities disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The loan, made through IFC’s COVID-19 fast-track financing support package, reflects IFC’s commitment to Nigeria’s private sector following the severe challenges brought by the health and economic crisis. The funds will allow FCMB to support hundreds of businesses with trade financing and working capital loans.

FCMB’s Chief Executive, Adam Nuru, said, “IFC’s loan facility will allow us to keep credit flowing to SMEs as well as corporate companies across all sectors of Nigeria’s economy, including in the health, pharmaceutical, food and trading industries.”

IFC’s Country Manager for Nigeria, Eme Essien Lore, said, “Supporting financial institutions like FCMB is vital to keeping smaller businesses solvent, saving jobs, and limiting economic damage in the face of a challenge as formidable as COVID-19. Although Nigeria has a strong and dynamic private sector, it needs liquidity now to ensure it remains viable during and after COVID-19.”>>>>e-nigeriang.com

Chinwe Bode-Akinwande - CBA Foundation, a non-governmental organization in Nigeria, has called on the government to implement and enforce the Violence Against Persons (Prohibition) Act (VAPP), which gives protection to widows in the country.

The foundation stressed that the government needs to create more awareness about the act for widows to know their rights and also for people to tread with caution.

Speaking with newsmen through virtual conference in Lagos on Tuesday in commemoration of the 2020 United Nations’ International Widows’ Day, the founder of the foundation, Mrs. Chinwe Bode-Akinwande, said the call became necessary following the rise in cases of rape, sexual harassment, confiscation of properties, violence, dehumanization, discrimination, poverty and all manners of molestations suffered mostly by women, especially the widows and their children.

According to her, “Nobody wishes to lose a loved one; losing someone is never easy and having to live life without your partner is even harder.

“For women all over the world, the loss of a spouse is even bigger as they have to struggle for their basic needs, rights and dignity. As we mark International Widows’ Day 2020 today, June 23, I implore us all to take a closer look at our immediate environ, culture/tradition, families, history and significance of the day.

“According to the United Nations, there are an estimated 258 million widows around the world, and nearly one in ten lives in extreme poverty. Apart from that, 2.7 billion women are denied access to the same choice of jobs as men due to certain unconfronted restrictions, and lots face gender-based violence even today.

“The issue of rape, sexual harassment and all manners of molestations are suffered mostly by women not to think of the most vulnerable amongst them – the widows.”

She added that sufficient evidence suggests that widowed women “are severely affected financially, psychologically, sexually and socially and these are rooted in cultural and traditional practices as well as the socialization processes that condition women to dependence. These conditions have erected enormous difficulties for women to creatively initiate new robust relationships with both men and women in social and economic spheres upon widowhood.

“It’s even sadder that widows are not looked after by families, private sectors , governments etc. and to worsen the matter, societies curse them.

“Their children also face several problems like being withdrawn from the school and becoming more vulnerable to abuse. The CBA Foundation has joined to lend its voice for the past five years.”

CBA added that there was a need to develop policies and programmes to address the problems that widows face in the world, which is the reason she founded the CBA Foundation.

“The day is important as it brings about awareness among the public the problems that widows face all over the world. It is a time to reflect on the progress that has been made, and to celebrate acts of courage and determination by ordinary women. It is also a day to draw the attention of the people to take action and provide full rights and recognition for widows. The purpose for marking this day is clear - to care for widows and their children, and to change the culture that discriminates against them.

“We are therefore calling on well-meaning Nigerians to join us today to give them hope, stop dehumanization and injustice towards them,” Bode-Akinwande said.

International Widows Day is a United Nations-ratified day of action to address the "poverty and injustice faced by millions of widows and their dependants in many countries". Established by The Loomba Foundation, the day takes place annually on 23 June. This year, the theme is ‘I am Generation Equality: Realizing Women’s Rights’, which is aligned with UN Women’s new multi-generational campaign, Generation Equality.

Established in 2015, the CBA Foundation, under its 5-point agenda, has reached out to thousands of underprivileged widows and children through skills acquisition training, health intervention, business start-ups and provision of clothing, nutrition and tuition fees for the children.

In breakdown, 5,600 widows have been empowered through its women empowerment and capacity building initiative; over 3,500 underprivileged widows have received health intervention; over 3,500 have also received food items. The foundation has also reinstated 45 children in school, empowered 120 widows financially to start a business of their own and also, provided palliative to 250 widows during the COVID-19 pandemic lock-down.
More about CBA Foundation on www.cbafoundation.org

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There is serious panic as a senior staff of First Bank at its head office in Marina, Lagos has tested positive to Coronavirus (COVID-19).

According to a statement by the bank, all staff of the branch have been asked to go on self-isolation and get tested, while the branch and its entire vicinity have been thoroughly disinfected...>>>READ ALL THE DETAILS: https://www.e-nigeriang.com/e-nigeria-first-bank-staff-tests-positive-to-covid-19/

It’s exactly 6 years today that late Aare Musulumi of Yorubaland, Edo and Delta States, Alhaji AbdulAzeez Arisekola Alao died. On July 8, 2016, two years after his demise, Professor Afis Oladosu, who is now dean of the faculty of arts at the University of Ibadan, wrote the tribute below.

In the Name of the Almighty, the Beneficent, the Merciful

“A generous person is close to God, close to Paradise, close to people, and far from Hell. However, a miserly person is far from God, far from Paradise, far from people, but close to Hell. God loves more an ignorant man, who is generous than a worshiper who is miserly.” -Prophet Muhammad.

Brethren, it was on Monday. I had gone to the city centre in pursuit of life and living; I left the ‘sanity’ in the academy for the city centre to deliver the message of the Almighty. Each time I ventured into the city, I am always prepared for the known and the unknown; I usually guide my loins in expectation of good, the bad and the ugly. But I had not gone far enough when I found myself in a traffic hold-up. I looked at my wrist-watch. Time was some minutes after 4 p.m.

There was no escape route. Then I remember that the city is in the festival mood; the Id al-Fitr was a couple of hours away. The roads had become occupied. I mean occupied.

Traffic was simply heavy. It felt as if the whole city was migrating either away from itself or into itself. It felt the whole city had congregated at that particular moment and on that particular road whose cry for reconstruction would probably be heard when the village headmaster gets a third-term in office! Wait a minute. Granting second-term in office to their Excellencies is like giving a man the opportunity to eat the ‘forbidden fruit’ twice.

Excepting for one or two former governors, whenever they find themselves in office for the ‘second time’, these “Excellencies” become authoritative; they become authoritarian. They punish the masses with under-performance and for making the mistake of casting their ballots for them for the second time!

After close to thirty minutes, luck smiled on me. The road suddenly became open to traffic. But it was only for a moment. Soon there was a grid-lock again. But where I now found myself was close to a spot where I could make a detour and escape from what was proving to be a ‘hell’ on the road. Quickly, I sought an escape. The small road that I took led me to that section of the city where the rich constantly cry. It is the suburban; the city within the city. There the rich constantly cry.

There the rich live in barbed-wired encampments; in walled dwellings which remind you of the wall Donald Trump dreams of building between the US and Mexico. In that part of the city, the rich live in mansions whose entrances are reminiscent of gated quarters of the prison yards. There the rich live as if in an asylum; they live completely quartered away from having close contact with the ordinary masses. Soon, I found myself on the road that led directly to the house of the former popular Muslim philanthropist, the former ‘king’ behind the ‘kings’, the former power behind the powerful- late Alhaj Abdul Azeez Arisekola Alao (d. 2013).

Brethren, when Alhaji Arisekola Alao was alive, there were two types of security walls around his then sprawling mansion in the city: the physical and the human. The physical comprised iron and steel. It was made up of concrete and sheet. It consisted of guns and bullets. The human, on the other hand, could be divided into two: the security detail and the ‘insecure’ detail- the pauperized legion of hangers-on featuring professional and unprofessional beggars, loafers, lazy denizens and occupiers of the periphery of life. When he was alive, the visitor would get to know of the presence of Alhaji Arisekola Alao in the mansion not so much by the presence of the security details, but by the convergence of the poor and the needy at the gate to the mansion.

Thus when I passed by the mansion a couple of days ago, it was like a passage through history. Neither the security details nor the insecure ‘details’ were there anymore. The gates were firmly under lock. But I noticed the presence of new occupiers at the entrance to the mansion. From a distance, I noticed gradual take-over of the mansion by its real owner-Time. Weeds had begun to grow on the terraces which used to shine and shone like the lights in the Haram in Makkah.

Then I asked myself: where are the friends of the former strong-man of Yorubaland? Where are those who, unless they came to him, life had neither pleasure nor treasure? Where are those who thought that without him, life was simply impossible? Alhaji’s mansion has now become a haunting space: a space lacking in mistress and master; a mansion with doors that none now open nor closes but the wind. The only dinner that seems to be taking place in the mansion now, from the point of contemplation outside the walls, would probably be that of ants and termites.

Brethren, I thought the best mansion we could and should build after-all, is that which time would not and cannot destroy. It is the mansion of piety and righteousness. Somebody asked: “What’s the use of a fine house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?” I ask: of what use is the dwelling that would not guarantee eternal life and eternity? If indeed Alhaji Arisekola had fans and friends while on earth, it should grieve them to discover that his estate is fast becoming a ‘mansion’ for termites and rodents.
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There seem to be a close in on music Star Dbanj lately as e-nigeria! can now report that Heritage bank, a financial institution in Nigeria which reluctantly unveiled Dbanj as its brand ambassador on his 40th have now suspended his endorsement...>>>https://www.e-nigeriang.com/rape-dbanj-endorsement-with-heritage-bank-suspended/

Tinubu vs Aregbesola: Aregbe Finally Erased from Lagos Political Structure

To further reduce the political influence of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola’s in Lagos State, e-nigeria! gathered that Tinubu has allegedly erased him from the political structure of Lagos State.

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Tinubu vs Aregbesola: Aregbe Finally Erases from Lagos Political StructureTo further reduce the political influence of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola’s in Lagos State, e-nigeria! gathered that Tinubu has allegedly erased him from the political structure of Lagos State.

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To further reduce the political influence of Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola in Lagos State, e-nigeria! gathered that Tinubu has allegedly erased him from the political structure of Lagos State.

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FINALLY RESEARCHERS DISCOVER CURE FOR COVID-19...
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BREAKING: Adams Oshiomhole Lobbies Edo PDP Leader to Reject Obaseki | e-nigeria!

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Aliko Dangote: Wondering how Naira Marley found his way to Abuja or how he was transported to Abuja to attend the controversial concert regardless of Covid-19 lock-down? Here’s the true picture…READ MORE: https://www.e-nigeriang.com/dangote-jet-flew-naira-marley-illegally-to-abuja/

Covid-19: Tension as Ex-Gov. Abiola Ajimobi goes into Coma | e-nigeria!

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Covid-19: Tension as Ex-Gov. Abiola Ajimobi goes into Coma | e-nigeria!

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Immediate past Oyo State governor, Isiaka Abiola Ajimobi, is in coma, e-nigeria! authoritatively reports. Senator Ajimobi, who was moved to a Lagos based highbrow hospital, First Cardiologist, after he was diagnosed of the dreaded Covid-19 about 17 days ago, sources said, slipped into unconsciousness on June 8 while doctors have since been battling to revive him...READ DETAILS: https://www.e-nigeriang.com/covid-19-ajimobi-goes-into-coma/

Lagos Senator, Bayo Osinowo aka - Pepper, Dies of Covid-19 | e-nigeria!

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Lagos Senator, Bayo Osinowo Dies of Covid-19 | e-nigeria!

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APC Disqualification: Wait for Our Next Move, Obaseki Says
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