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OPCNAIRALAND:
Are you talking to me? If that was meant for me i believe i had a badge and a signature. Nothing else!

Upon earning her BA from Oberlin University in 1997, Funmilayo began her career in development at New York Presbyterian Hospital in the annual fund and then in major gifts. Through this experience she was able to develop a deep understanding of fundraising best practices. After five years in the role, Funmilayo pursued her MPA in Financial Management at NYU’s Wagner School of Public Service. After graduating in 2004, she returned to New York Presbyterian as an Operations and Financial Analyst. In this role, Funmilayo worked across departments to align funding streams with operational needs.

Wanting to deepen her financial acumen, Funmilayo transitioned to the private sector and joined JPMorgan as a VP, Financial Investment Advisor. At JPMorgan, she advised a portfolio of clients helping them to increase their wealth while minimizing their market risk. At the same time, Funmilayo taught financial literacy at a variety of community organizations. In 2009, she left JPMorgan and pursued this consulting work exclusively.

In 2011, Funmilayo joined Choices in Childbirth (CiC) as its Executive Director, returning to her passion of serving women and children. As ED, she scaled the organization's startup budget by 40%, established an individual giving program, and re-shaped programming, positioning the organization better to receive grants. Funmilayo also worked with the founder and board of directors to help the organization systematize its operations. In 2012, she transitioned to Carter Burden Center for the Aging (CBCA) as its Director of Development. Funmilayoworked to establish a strategic fundraising plan that has enabled CBCA to scale its budget from $4M to $7M in three years.
Funmilayo has a deep passion for SHOFCO’s mission and focus on gender equality and firmly believes in empowering women to achieve broader societal change.

tpiadotcom:
why did you remove your gif referencing homeland security?

O.Funmilayo Makarah is a writer and director of films and videos that explore cultural identity, as well as an educator. She came to Los Angeles in 1974 and entered the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. After spending a decade in Europe, she returned to the MFA program in the late-1980s. She later founded In VISIBLE COLORS, a network of film and video makers.

In 1988, Makarah wrote and directed the short video DEFINE, a piece which examines ethnic female identity. She later made The Joke Series (1994), which was shown at the School of Art Institute in Chicago, and Creating a Different Image: Portrait of Alile Sharon Larkin (1989), a short that affirms Larkin’s identity as an artist. She also made a video installation on the Rodney King incident for the California African American Museum in Los Angeles.

Makarah has contributed scholarly works on race, representation and media to various publications, such as Black Women Film & Video Artists (Routledge, 1998) and Afterimage. She has also served as director and founder of the Heritage Film Festival in Prince George’s County, Maryland, as well as Chair of the Media Committee for the Cultural Affairs Dept. of the City of Los Angeles. Makarah is also a founding member of L.A. Freewaves, a worldwide media arts organization.

A woman of substance, Dr Olufunmilayo Olopade is known both in the diaspora and at home for her numerous accomplishments in the medical field, particularly as an Oncologist. A sector known for its few females, she has simply engraved her name in the heart of medical achievements as not only an expert in cancer risk assessment and treatment for several aggressive types of breast cancer, but has equally proved her worth through the attainment of several awards and honours. Olopade at the height of her career was appointed by the President of the United States, Barack Obama to the National Cancer Advisory Board.

This remarkable woman was born in 1957 in Nigeria. Daughter of an Anglican Minister, Dr Olopade is the fifth born of her parents out of six children. Seeing as doctors where scarce in the Nigerian villages where she was raised, her parents decided to train one of their children to become a doctor. Dr Olopade had been the first to show interest in the practice, which encouraged her parents.

Dr Olopade attended the Medical School at University of Ibadan, where she graduated with an MD in 1980. She was a Medical officer at the Nigerian Navy Hospital in Lagos for her National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) programme, before going abroad for internship, serving as a medicine intern at Cook County Hospital, Chicago Illinois from 1983 to 1984. She equally became an internal medicine resident at Cook County Hospital from 1984 to 1986. Again Dr Olopade became chief resident at same hospital from 1986 to 1987, she received a post-doctoral fellow in hematology/oncology, at the University of Chicago, from 1987 to 1991 and was assistant professor of hematology/oncology at Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, from 1991 to 2002.

Progressively, Dr Olopade realised becoming a director at the Cancer Risk Clinic at the University of Chicago Hospitals in 1992, and an associate professor of medicine, University of Chicago in 2002. She did not stop there, but also became professor of medicine and human genetics, University of Chicago, in the early 2000s.

The Cancer Risk Clinic has demonstrated expertise in treating high-risk cancer patients and also conducts studies on the disease, focusing on genetics. It was during her work here that Dr Olopade became conscious that the African-American women she treated for breast cancer seemed much younger than other sufferers of the disease. Going to Nigeria for a niece’s wedding, she noticed same at a breast cancer clinic she visited, most of the breast cancer patients were young in their 20s, 30s and 40s while caucasian women who had the disease where in their 50s or 60s after menopause.

Dr Olopade became intent on researching the reason why this was so and how to come about a preventive. Not resting on her laurels, she worked extensively on clinical work surrounding the role of the mutations in two genes namely, BRCA1 and BRCA2 in the occurrence of breast cancer in women of African descent occurred in patients with early onset breast cancer. This continuing study, which commenced in 2003, has looked at cancer patients in Nigeria and Senegal. Investigative results have produced new, ground-breaking methods to treating breast cancer in this population. Dr Olopade is one of four main investigators involved in the study.

She has developed innovative management procedures centred on an understanding of the altered genes in individual patients and emphasises on comprehensive risk reducing plans and prevention in high-risk populations, as well as previous detection through advanced imaging technologies.

Her memberships include; American Association for Cancer Research, American Board of Internal Medicine, American Association for the Advancement of Science American College of Physicians, American Philosophical Society , American Society for Clinical Investigation, American Society for Preventative Oncology ,American Society of Breast Disease, American Society of Clinical Oncology, American Society of Hematology , Association of American Professors, Human Genome Organisation, Institute of Medicine , National Cancer Advisory Board, Nigerian Medical Association, Women in Cancer Research board, Y-Me National Breast Cancer Organisation

Dr Olopade’s Awards include; Nigerian Federal Government Merit Award, 1975; Nigerian Medical Association Award for Excellence in Paediatrics, 1978; Nigerian Medical Association Award for Excellence in Medicine, 1980; University of Ibadan College of Medicine Faculty Prize, 1980; University of Ibadan College of Medicine departmental prizes in paediatrics, medicine, and surgery, 1980; University of Ibadan Sir Samuel Manuwa Gold Medal for Excellence in the Clinical Sciences, 1980; Association for Brain Tumor Research/Ellen Ruth Lebow Fellowship, 1990; American Society for Clinical Oncology Young Investigator Award, 1991; James S. McDonnell Foundation Scholar Award, 1992; Doris Duke Distinguished Clinical Scientist Award, 2000; Phenomenal Woman Award for work within the African-American community, 2003; Access Community Network’s Heroes in Healthcare Award, 2005; MacArthur Fellow, 2005.

A dynamic doctor, Olopade is happily married to a physician, Christopher Sola Olopade. They have two daughters and a son.

Aareonakakanfo:
Ibebe but OLX is not Yoruba-owned na. OPCNairaland does it mean your posts on this thread were deleted?

has added another e-payment gateway solution for its customers with its recent launch of its Virtual Prepaid MasterCard. The card which is issued instantly via Internet Banking, provides an added comfort for security conscious online shoppers who prefer not to use their regular debit/credit cards when making online payments.

The GTBank Virtual card has all the essential features of a physical card and can be used to make both international and local online payments. It also serves as a fall back option for customers who have forgotten or lost their card, but need to perform urgent online purchases. The introduction of the virtual card has bridged the gap between traditional e-wallets and bank accounts by providing a low cost alternative to physical debit cards. Customers also have the option of converting the virtual card to a physical card.

Segun Agbaje
Commenting on the launch, Segun Agbaje, Managing Director / Chief Executive Officer of GTBank said: “This marks another milestone in our quest to make banking more seamless for our customers. As a bank, we remain firm on our objective to deliver value adding services that are tailored to meet the diverse needs of our ever-growing customer base by leveraging technology to make banking more convenient for all our customers.”

He further stated that “the launch of this product attests to our commitment towards encouraging a cashless culture in our country by promoting the use of alternative payment channels for transacting both locally and internationally. Our desire to be at the frontier of banking excellence enables us to pioneer innovative products aimed at making banking more simple and attractive to the unbanked and unserved.”

Guaranty Trust Bank plc is one of the biggest issuers of payment cards in Nigeria. In Partnership with Mastercard, the bank has rolled out all variants of GTBank Mastercards in all countries where it has business presence and continues to offer rewards and priceless experiences to its cardholders. One of such promos will include the POS Cash Back Promo; a loyalty reward scheme where customers can earn cash for paying for products and services on POS terminals using their MasterCards. The Bank also rewards Card Holders with shopping and movie vouchers. POS merchants are also rewarded with several incentives to encourage patronage of the bank’s POS terminals.

Skye Bank Plc has unveiled an online store for the sale of mainly made-in-Nigeria products and services.

The new online store, called YesMall, offers a unique experience for the bank’s current and prospective SME and retail customers who can buy and sell their products and services from the comfort of their homes by using electronic devices such as phones, tablet, laptop, or desktop. They can also do their transactions by using ATM machines nearest to them.

Speaking during the unveiling of the new online mall in Lagos at the 8th Skye Bank SME seminar series, the group managing director/chief executive officer of Skye Bank Plc, Mr Timothy Oguntayo, said that the bank came up with the platform after noticing that some SME operators find it difficult to sell their goods as most of the finished goods end up as items of inventory in the warehouses. Noting that e-commerce had gained recognition in both national and global trade, Oguntayo said that the bank planned to facilitate the participation of Nigerian SME operators in the global e-commerce sales which is currently estimated at $1.5 trillion.

In addition, he explained that the potential worth of e-commerce in Nigeria, put at an estimated $10 billion per annum, offers a huge opportunity for discerning businesses to explore and tap into to grow their market share.

“Available statistics show that the e-commerce sector in Nigeria currently boasts of about 300,000 online orders daily. Our desire at Skye Bank is to substantially grow these figures and make e-commerce the new trade highway in Nigeria,” he said.

OPCNAIRALAND:
It is proper that my first observation should come to the owner of this thread. I hope you don't mind.

I have not visited Segun Samson's , my review of his artfolio found what i needed to know. Very nice artworks and quite trendy but lacking originality and culture.

SlimTrader continues to grow, and it provides services in West Africa, South Africa and East Africa.

OPCNAIRALAND:
Hmm, a ki gbogbo gbo, a ku kale, a ku laakaye. Mo k'ile, mo k'ode, mo fi owo fun agba, mo ju ba o! Mo ki omode, mo ki odo. Mo ki abo, mo ki ako. Oodua a ye wa si, a segun fun wa!

I have not been around nairaland for some weeks. This is something else! Plenty to read, learn and comment on. Too many thoughts in my head, im lost, where do i start to comment?

God bless the OP, Aareonakakanfo and all the respondents and commentators. Ise yi o ni ja s'asan lagbara Edumare.

At a certain point I gave up trying to catch up, too many ideas and thought provoking inputs. I think Im better off staying on sideline observing, i will just flow with you all going forward, i wll never catchup on past submissions.

Aareonakakanfo:
Well...He's just following the trend.Don't forget gamsole is trying to go global.They don't make games for the African audience alone so he has no choice.He probably has fears Afrocentric characters won't be accepted.I think I once told you about a friend of mine who wanted to go the Okupe way but had fears it was going to flop

Aareonakakanfo:
I don't know.I will just randomly reveal it.

Aareonakakanfo:
Hmmmn Seun is viewing the thread.Interesting!

Aareonakakanfo:
Like I said, there's a strategic ploy to kill off this thread.How can 7 people get banned within the same period I skimmed through all my CabbieAC posts and I was looking for an offensive comment,I couldn't find.Interloper got banned same with Drmoffy,Shymm3x,CabbieAC and you as well.Make I no talk

Speaking of the games,when I'm ready, I'll tell you

Aareonakakanfo:
Iya Agba we missed you .So you got banned as well? smh

Speaking of brothers,no be younger ooo.Elder brothers.Mii nu igbe eni kankan oo grin cheesy

cornel00:
don't mind those idiots
instead of them to focus on what they are good at (rape and rituals) they are here claiming other people's land

cornel00 post=40057892:
what is this confused baboon saying
have you eaten your 0femmanuu

ndi Yoruba kwenu yaaaa!!!!!

maestroferddi:
I googled the name Dr Opeyemi Enoch and was expecting him to be feted by the international media for making a such groundbreaking stride.

To my chagrin it was the motley of Nigerian blogsites reporting the news.

This so-called solution get serious k-leg. How can an epoch making intellectual feat that can possibly fetch the doer unparalleled international recognition at par with the Nobel Prize just fly under the radar just like that?

Nigerians and their mental laziness...

Aigbofa:
Fayose raising what? How did Fayose come into this?

Nicepoker:
is kogi in south west?

Aderupoko2:
How den take know say he Don solve am.... Any student wey get zero too Don solve something for exam papers naar