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[size=18pt]Founder and artistic director of Style House Files
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Founder and artistic director of Style House Files, a creative development agency for Nigerian and African designers, Omoyemi Akerele is widely regarded as a driving force behind the burgeoning Nigerian fashion industry. A pioneering agency in image consultancy and creative direction within the West African country, Style House Files works with Nigerian brands on brand positioning and retail strategies. Akerele also helps brands gain essential international exposure through presenting showcases at Pitti Immagine in Italy, and through Lagos Fashion and Design Week.


Mrs. Omoyemi Akerele is the Creative Director of Style House, a Style, Fashion and Image Consulting Company with years of experience in the fashion industry. She is a graduate of University of Lagos with a Bachelor degree in Law. She furthered her studies in law by obtaining a Masters in International Economic Law from the University of Warwick. After her degree at Warwick, Omoyemi returned to Nigeria and worked as a lawyer for three years at Olaniwun Ajayi & Co.; a prestigious law firm in Lagos. Thereafter, she studied and qualified to be an Image Consultant at Aston-Hayes, a leading London Image Consulting Company.

Prior to her establishing Style House Files, Akerele worked as senior style editor at popular fashion magazine, True Love and set up an image consulting agency with a local Nigerian celebrity stylist, Bola Balogun. As a result of her experience being a self-starter, Omoyemi pioneered the concept of Fashion Styling and Image Consulting in Nigeria.

Her company, Style House Files is aimed at providing a creative environment for Nigerian and African designers to develop themselves. Omoyemi Akerele is widely regarded as a driving force behind the burgeoning Nigerian fashion industry as Style House paved the way for image consultancy and creative direction within West African. Style House Files works with Nigerian brands on brand positioning and retail strategies. It also has an online platform for fashion insiders, industry professionals and the savvy internet user to. Akerele also helps brands gain essential international exposure through presenting showcases at Pitti Immagine in Italy, and through Lagos Fashion and Design Week.



Her passion for the growth and development of a sustainable Nigerian fashion industry led to the creation of Lagos Fashion and Design Week (LFDW) in 2011; a platform that aims to position itself as a business of fashion and design platform targeted at presenting the best of the Nigerian fashion industry, building it and ultimately uplift its profile within the Nigerian economy. LFDW in partnership with the British Fashion Council runs a four day schedule featuring a select list of talented up and coming designers and fashion entrepreneurs. The show has been instrumental in raising the profile of the Nigerian fashion industry, and has drawn international attention and acclaim from journalists such as Suzy Menkes and Cristina Manfredi, as well as attracting a host of international buyers. Omoyemi was also a part of the Fayrouz L’Original Expression Show designed to give young undergraduates with unique creative abilities a platform to showcase their original works for a chance to cash prize and other opportunities.MTN Final

Omoyemi’s contribution to the development of fashion in Nigeria and beyond recently got her listed as a member of the BOF Global 500. (Business of Fashion’s List of 500 most influential people in fashion globally).She is happily married to Tokunbo Akerele, the chairman of Business Connexion Nigeria and an advisor with Samsung Electronics West Africa.


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[size=18pt] “Face of Architecture” in Nigeria[/size]


She is a multiple Award winning Architect, and has been called the “Face of Architecture” in Nigeria. She was recenty featured on CNN African Voices, and profiled on CNN as Africa’s Star Architect, and has been featured in the world’s leading Architectural Publications such as America’s Architectural Record Magazine. In 1999, she founded Awesome Treasures Foundation to raise Transformational Leaders, its summits and other initiatives have attracted well over 50,000 attendees.

Admitted to the University of Ife to study Architecture at the age 14, she graduated at 19 with a BSc. (Hons) and subsequently with a record breaking distinction in Masters of Science (MSc) in Architecture (a first in the several decades of the history of the Institution). While in the University, she won several faculty awards for her academic work including best student in design in the BSc. Hons and MSc. programs and best overall student, Best Housing Studies Student amongst several others. In 1991, she was included in the “Who will be who in the 21st century” (young achievers section) by the International Biographical Centre Cambridge, England. She is an alumnus of a number of prestigious institutions including the Lagos Business School Chief Executive Programme (2002) and The IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Barcelona, Spain (2005).

As a chartered architect, she worked with leading Nigerian firms and at Femi Majekodunmi Associates where she had the privilege of designing the Federal Ministry of Finance, Abuja. She later started her own multiple award winning Architecture and Interior Architecture firm, AD Consulting with just 400USD in 1994 and has held the position of Principal Partner till date. The firm has gone from its small cubicle in central Lagos to 3 offices and is now recognised as the flagship boutique that pioneered Interior Architecture in Nigeria. AD Consulting, a boutique architectural firm providing bespoke interior design and architectural services to a discerning clientele, has executed the design and overseen the construction of over 70 outstanding projects for the Nigerian federal and state governments, multinational corporate organizations and private individuals. AD Consulting is the architect of note to MNCs such as Coca Cola International, L’Oreal, CRI, NGC, GTBank, amongst others. Possessing a deep understanding of branding, AD Consulting deploys design of the built space as a brand enhancer. AD has won several international awards for its designs and is the only Nigerian architectural firm recommended by the British Chamber of Commerce for architectural services in Nigeria.

In 1999, she founded Awesome Treasures Foundation to raise Transformational Leaders, its summits and other initiatives have attracted well over 50,000 attendees.

She is a speaker of note in demand at summits and conferences including the Harvard Business School (African Business Club), the Inspiring Woman Businessday Series, churches, and media platforms.
She hosts her own syndicated radio program Voice of Change on Leadership. She is an author of several books including the much lauded “Lifespring the Mothers’ Prayer Manual” and her most recent work “Designed for Marriage”. She writes a popular column on interiors in Thisday Style and is also a lyricist.

She serves on the board of several businesses, institutions and social initiatives. Including the Board of Governors of the elite British School of Lome, the Board of Fountain Holdings Limited, the National Think Tank, the Ekiti State Economic Council, amongst several others. She has been honoured with several awards a few of which are the Rare Gems award by WODEF in conjunction with the United Nations Information Centre, the International Property Awards (Best Public Service Architecture, 2012), African Property Awards (Best Mixed-Use Architecture), ( Best Office Architecture and Best Public Service Architecture, 2013), IDEA Awards (Best Commercial Designer 2012), (Best interior Architect 2013), (The Ekiti State Merit Awards 2014), IDEA Awards (Best Institutional Architect 2014), and honoured as an “Ambassador of Excellence” for outstanding achievements in Architecture and women development by her Alma mater.

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Yoruba

[size=18pt]Meet Africa's Oprah: Why Mosunmola 'Mo' Abudu wants to change the world's view of her continent[/size]


Mo is the founder of Ebony Life Television and Inspire Africa Foundation. She’s also the host of ‘Moments with Mo,’ a popular Pan-African talk show. As a TV producer, media personality, human resources management consultant, and entrepreneur, Mo is the poster child for those who keep evolving – for the better. Back in 2006, with her two children having reached their teens, Mosunmola 'Mo' Abudu decided she wanted to make a rather abrupt career change. Though she was a successful human-resources executive for oil giant ExxonMobil, her heart was set on migrating from the boardroom chair to the chat-show sofa. There was just one problem. The Nigerian businesswoman had no TV experience whatsoever.

So she attempted to contact the woman best placed to provide some pertinent advice. "The first thing I did was to buy a box collection of Oprah's 20th anniversary, which had about 20 tapes of various episodes that she's done," Abudu explains. "Then I somehow got the details for her studios in America. I must have sent Madam Oprah Winfrey tons of emails. I was really hoping that she would give me the necessary guidance and mentorship to become Africa's talk-show hostess and executive producer of my own show. Alas, the world's first black female billionaire never replied to Abudu. But that didn't stop her. In the seven years since she made her first sketchy TV pilot, the 49-year-old has created Moments with Mo, the first African daily talk show to be syndicated across the continent. She has interviewed the likes of Hillary Clinton, IMF chief Christine Lagarde, musician R Kelly and designer Diane von Furstenberg; journalists around the world have been quick to label her 'Africa's answer to Oprah'.


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They're powerless to oppose.

The same bills Yorubas have been opposing while una keep mute?

Enugu can't escape the bill though. The state belongs to Fulanis.

Yoruba


[size=18pt]Founder of awpnetwork.com[/size]

Mary Olushoga is founder of awpnetwork.com, a platform powering small business success for African entrepreneurs. [size=14pt]She is a 2015 Vital Voices Global Leadership Fellow, the first-ever GOOD Maker/Oxfam America International Women’s Day Challenge Winner[/size], a Nigeria Leadership Initiative (NLI) Associate, and an Oxfam America Sisters on the Planet Ambassador.

Olushoga received a bachelor’s degree from Union College in Schenectady, New York and a Master of Science degree from Baruch College. She has served as a Public Policy Fellow at the University at Albany, Center for Women in Government and Civil Society and participated in the Sub-Saharan African Women In Public Service Fall Institute. Olushoga has featured on BBC World News, Black Enterprise, iwantherjob.com, AFK Insider, Applause Africa, BET Networks, and has presented her work on women entrepreneurs at the Columbia University Africa Economic Forum, the United States Department of Labor Strategy Meeting on Inclusion, Entrepreneurship, and Disability, W!se Institute, the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, the United Nations ECOSOC Youth Employment Forum, and the Rockefeller.

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Yoruba


[size=18pt]Founder and creative director of eponymous fashion label, Jewel by Lisa[/size]

She is the founder and creative director of eponymous fashion label, Jewel by Lisa. The brand that has continually captivated people from Lagos to Cape Town, London, Paris, New York and Hollywood. With the launch of her diffusion line – J Label, and other household items, Lisa Folawiyo is steadily expanding the “jewellette” empire.

Nigerian fashion designer Lisa Folawiyo is celebrated for her colourful collections that fuse traditional West African fabrics with modern tailoring and beaded embellishments. Since starting her label in 2005, Folawiyo has spearheaded the movement of Nigerian designers achieving international recognition for their work. She has a knack for elevating traditional African prints above the status quo, making them relevant for a global audience. She has showrooms in both Nigeria and New York and her collections are stocked in the UK, the US, South Africa and Nigeria itself.

In 2012, Folawiyo won the African Fashion Awards, nominated alongside Maki Oh and Kofi Ansah, two more prolific designers from the Nigerian fashion scene. Championed by Vogue Italia, Folawiyo has also partnered with L’Oreal and done a trunk show on Moda Operandi . Her line is currently stocked in Selfridges.

Having originally trained as a lawyer, Folawiyo came to fashion with no formal training. She founded her own line, Lisa Folawiyo - previously known as Jewel by Lisa – in 2005. Her collections are exclusively crafted from Ankara textiles; vibrant wax-resistant dyed fabrics characteristic of West Africa. “Our mothers, grandmothers and probably great-grandmothers have worn this fabric.” Folawiyo has told the BBC. Her garments are embellished with beads, sequins and crystals all sewn by hand in local workshops in Nigeria. She attributes her success to finding and sticking to this unusual aesthetic.


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Kemi Adetiba

Kemi is a music video director, filmmaker, and television director whose works have appeared on Channel O, MTV Base, Soundcity TV and BET. She has seen tremendous success as a music video director, and has directed music videos for an impressive variety of international artistes. Kemi’s other upcoming projects include multiple films and a social-media-driven charity, #PayItForward.

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Yoruba


[size=18pt]Founder and CEO of The Chair Centre Group[/size]


Ibukun Awosika is the founder and CEO of The Chair Centre Group- The companies in the group include The Chair Centre Limited, Sokoa Chair Centre Limited, Furniture Manufacturers Mart Limited, and TCC Systems and Services Limited and are involved in furniture manufacturing, retail and bank-way security systems services. Ibukun serves on a number of corporate and not-for-profit boards amongst which are: First Bank of Nigeria Limited, Cadbury Nigeria Plc., Convention on Business Integrity (CBI), and the Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority.

She chairs the boards of FBN Capital Limited; Afterschool Graduate Development Centre (AGDC) - a facility which she promoted to help address youth employability and enterprise issues in Nigeria; and was past Chairman, FBN Life Assurance Limited. Ibukun is a graduate of Chemistry from University of Ife, Nigeria; an alumnae of the Chief Executive Programme of Lagos Business School; the Global Executive MBA of IESE Business School, Barcelona-Spain; and Global CEO Programme of Wharton, IESE and C.E.I.B.S Business Schools. With high interest in social issues including women, Ibukun is a co-founder and past chairperson of Women in Business and Management, and Public Service (WIMBIZ). An ordained Pastor and founder of the Christian Missionary Fund; Ibukun, through this faith-based organization works with hundreds of missionaries spread across Nigeria to change lives through provision of medical, educational, and other supplies.

As a fellow of the African Leadership Initiative and Aspen Global Leadership network, member of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG), served on National Job Creation Committee (NCJC), and sits on the International Advisory Board of IESE Business School, Barcelona-Spain. She loves to watch investigative and legal series in her leisure time. She is happily married to Abiodun Awosika and they are blessed with three wonderful sons.

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[size=18pt]Yoruba women - You have my respect[/size]

[size=18pt]Helen Paul[/size]


Entrepreneurship
Helen opened a bridal and fabric boutique in Lagos in 2012, called "Massive Fabrics and Bridals". She has since proceeded to open three other outlets of the Boutique in different parts of Lagos. In 2014, she opened a film and theater academy, named "Helen Paul Theater and Film Academy". The Academy is equipped with the latest facilities in the world of technology. It consists of a dance studio, a makeup studio, a recording studio, a rehearsal studio, a photo studio, a mainly digital library, an editing studio, and a hostel for students who enrol for courses in the Academy and are interested in taking up such accommodation. The Academy is a multi-million naira project and Helen would later state, in the various interviews she granted, that the opening of the Academy is a dream come true, "having nurtured the ambition from childhood". She further explained that the initiative is geared towards contributing her own quota to the development of the entertainment sector, and education in general. Some of the courses that will be offered in the institution include Cinematography, Acting, Video Editing, Photography, Dance, Basic Presentation, Costuming and Sewing, Hair Styling, Sound Engineering, and Graphics Design.

Apart from these projects, Helen continues to work on several others that are in the pipeline. These include a talk show, movie projects, music projects, etc.


Endorsements
In 2014, she was appointed as an ambassador by Telecommunications giant, Globacom. Speaking about the endorsement, she admitted that she is extremely happy about it, as Globacom is a massive brand that everybody loves to be associated with.[9] In 2015, she was appointed as Ambassador for the Harpic brand. She was also appointed as an ambassador for the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), which appointment was made before the March 28 General Elections in Nigeria. She also has other endorsements to her credit, including GoTV,[10] a cable television station owned by Multichoice, and Olumide Emmanuel's "School of Money[11]".

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Yoruba


[size=18pt]CEO & Founder of Lotus Capital Limited[/size]


Hajara Adeola is the Managing Director of Lotus Capital Limited, a Nigerian pioneer in Shari’ah compliant Asset Management, Private Wealth Management Advisory Services and Financial Advisory Services. A first class graduate of Finance, [size=14pt]her company is also the first to successfully raise a Halal fund in Nigeria.[/size]


Hajara Adeola is the Managing Director of Lotus Capital Limited, a Nigerian pioneer in Shari'ah compliant Asset Management, Private Wealth Management Advisory Services and Financial Advisory Services. She comes to Lotus Capital from UBS Warburg where she was a Director heading their London Islamic Finance Desk. Prior to joining UBS, she was a Convertible Bond Research Analyst at BNP Paribas, London.



Hajara Adeola began her career as a consultant at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). From there she joined ARM Investment Managers as a pioneer staff and rose to Vice-President and Head of the Research and Financial Advisory Units. In all, she has over 20 years of international experience in research and analysis, investment management and corporate finance.



She holds an M.Sc in Finance from Durham University where she specialized in Islamic Finance. She also holds an MBA in International Management from Exeter University and a B.Sc in Pharmacology from King's College, London. Mrs. Adeola is the first President of the Fund Manager's Association of Nigeria and a West African Fellow of the Aspen Leadership Initiative. She is also the Chairperson of the Securities & Exchange Commission’s non-interest capital market 10 year master plan committee and a Director of the Aliko Dangote Foundation.


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[size=18pt]CEO & Founder of Gbemisoke Shoeline
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From her early days as an OAP on Cool FM, Gbemi has displayed a consistency and earthiness, that is so refreshing. Now at Beat FM, Gbemi continues to be at forefront of On Air Personalities that are a genuine delight to listen to.
She also launched her shoe line earlier this May- Gbemisoke.

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[size=18pt]Multi-award-winning Journalist, broadcaster and blogger
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Iyanda is a multi-award-winning Journalist, broadcaster and blogger. She is the host of Talk With Funmi, a highly popular TV show which journeys Nigeria, from state to state, capturing people and conversations around the country. She is an African Leadership Institute Tutu Fellow and a fellow of the ASPEN Institute’s African Leadership Initiative.

She is an award-winning broadcaster, journalist, columnist and blogger. She produced and hosted Nigeria’s popular and authoritative talk show New Dawn with Funmi, which aired on the national network for over eight years. She was recently named one of Forbes 20 Youngest Power Women in Africa. Funmi is also something of a thought leader and a social commentator. We love her energy, her passion and her focus, and yes, we want her back on T.V!


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Yoruba


[size=18pt]Emerging Female Entrepreneurs To Watch In Africa - Forbes[/size]

Imoteda Aladekomo, Heels In The Kitchen


No one expected West African food to emerge as the world’s healthiest when Lancet Global Health’s reviewed of dietary habits from around the globe earlier this summer. Unfortunately, you won’t find much African food on the world stage as other cuisines such as Italian, Chinese and Indian are the go-to choices for international palettes. Cordon Bleu trained chef Imoteda Aladekomo has plans to change that by globalizing African food, starting with her native Nigerian dishes. She wants to use television as a platform to show the richness and diversity in the dishes and make it more accessible to non-Africans. With a show already filmed and plans underway to expand to merchandising, Chef Tomi may become the next biggest cooking star.


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Kasope Ladipo-Ajai, Omo Alata Foods


Omo Alata, the Yoruba name for spice seller is a budding food processing company that wants to simplify the way Nigerians cook their food. As a busy wife and computer science graduate Kasope Ladipo-Ajai no longer had the 2-3 hours it took to make a standard stew or soup after facing hours of traffic plus a full workday. Spending time abroad she saw how quick service and prepackaged meals made life easier for busy families, especially working moms. While busy urbanites are having trouble accessing and cooking fresh meals, millions of pounds of produce go to waste during long transit times to urban centers. Kasope and her husband Olatayo founded Omo Alata Foods to provide ready to cook pepper and stew products and tap into the rapidly growing middle class consumer and desire for high quality packaged foods.

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Yoruba


[size=18pt]CEO & Founder of Zapphaire events[/size]


Diminutive, bright, sparky and creative. Funke Bucknor-Obruthe is the CEO of Zapphaire events; one of Nigeria’s biggest event management companies. She’s also the author “The Essential Bridal Handbook,” and is set to begin airing her own television series on events management.

Zapphaire Events is an Event Consultancy, Marketing, Planning and Management company. We are also Event Producers and Public Relations Consultants with the sole mission of consistently providing excellent services for all event needs.
Recognizing the immense significance of managing every event – individual or corporate – with great poise, our visionary Creative Director - Mrs. Funke Bucknor-Obruthe, founded Zapphaire Events in 2003.With a staff strength of over 10 Event Co-ordinators and over 200 liaison staff, Zapphaire Events has become the benchmark of planning all categories of events. At Zapphaire Events, the emphasis is on making each event unique, distinct, and excellent.
Our organizational flair and serious attention to detail provides the platform upon which we transform the mundane to magical.


OUR STRATEGY
From our initial consultation, our team of Event Designers will take your brief and make it peculiar to you or your company on your ideal event. Every information obtained from you will be handled with our expertise to ensure that your vision for the event is realized. A proposal is presented which outlines every aspect or area for which we would be working on and once approved, the job agreement is signed.


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[size=18pt]The richest black woman in the world[/size]


The richest black woman in the world, Folorunsho has business interests spanning fashion, oil and gas, and printing. She’s also a philanthropist and is the founder of the Rose of Sharon Foundation.


Mrs. Folorunso Alakija is a businesswoman who has forayed into uncharted territories. She is a philanthropist with a sincere desire to help the needy, a fashion icon with an infallible sense of style, a loving wife, a caring mother and doting grandmother, a friend in deed. Educated in Europe, she first embarked on a career in office administration, then she went into banking where she remained, until she took a leap of faith and followed her heart and creative calling to establish her own business in the Nigerian fashion industry. Her fashion house “Supreme Stitches” rose to prominence and fame within a few years, and later, as “Rose of Sharon House of Fashion”, became a household name.

As National President and lifelong Trustee of the Fashion Designers Association of Nigeria (FADAN), she left an indelible mark, promoting Nigerian culture through fashion and style. Ever the entrepreneur, Mrs. Alakija has set up related businesses: The Rose of Sharon Prints & Promotions which specializes in monogramming, heat/picture transfer and screen printing for promotional and gift items, and Digital Reality Print Ltd which specializes in highly technical digital large format printing. She remains the only female in that industry in Nigeria to date. She included a direct imaging paper printing press to coincide with her 60th birthday in July 2011. She oversees the Rose of Sharon Group as the Group Managing Director and she is also the Executive Vice Chairman of her family’s oil exploration and production business, FAMFA Oil Limited , seeing to its strategic planning and day to day administration. In addition to these, Folorunso is the Executive Vice Chairman of Dayspring Property Development Company Limited, a real estate company with investments in different parts of the world.


When reflecting on her achievements, Folorunso’s foremost reaction is always to give glory to God and to share the secrets of her success. A born again Christian since 1991, she draws her strength from her unfaltering belief in the power and glory of God. With a sincere desire to give to those in need in the name of the Lord, her philanthropic endeavours, such as the Rose of Sharon Foundation, continue to influence her native land positively by empowering widows and their families, as well as orphans, to be successful through educational programmes and scholarships. In obedience to the word of God and working according to His will and purpose, Folorunso and her husband founded a house fellowship which has grown to become a full-fledged Christian Ministry known as the Rose of Sharon Glorious Ministry International. She has authored several books including, “University of Marriage”, “Alone with God”, (a free Christian Devotional) her autobiography, “Growing with the Hand that Gives the Rose”, and “The Cry of Widows and Orphans”. Most of them are available online at – www.amazon.com.


At 64, Mrs. Alakija oversees her businesses and philanthropic enterprises working tirelessly and with boundless energy. She follows her evangelical calling with unbridled devotion, hoping to inspire the public, most especially the youth and women from all walks of life by sharing her values and her motto: “whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well” through motivational talks and speeches. In her speeches, as an encouragement to others, she reveals and introduces her covenant keeping God.

She accepts many invitations to speak and is acclaimed, nationally and internationally, in recognition of all her philanthropic work and endeavours.

She lives in Lagos, Nigeria with Modupe Alakija her beloved husband of almost four decades, their four sons and grandchildren.





[size=14pt]Mama in her 60s ....... Yoruba's black don't crack [/size]


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[size=18pt] Tiffany Amber label[/size]


In the late 90s, Folake Coker launched her Tiffany Amber label, revolutionizing the way women saw themselves, and fashion. Her timeless, feminine and floaty pieces are considered fashion must-haves.

Folake Coker first entered the world of fashion in 1996 when she designed a collection for herself upon returning to Nigeria to start Law School.

Born in Lagos, Folake schooled in Switzerland, England and Scotland. Despite qualifying as a lawyer with a Masters degree in Petroleum Law, her love for the world of fashion reigned supreme over all.

In November 1998, Folake launched Tiffany Amber revolutionizing the Nigerian Fashion Industry. Having spent most of her childhood in Europe, Folake successfully translated her passion to a foremost fashion brand in Africa with outstanding global recognition.

In 2008, Folake for the first time showcased at the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in New York. The collection was heralded by such rave reviews that she was invited to showcase for the second time, making her the first African based designer to showcase for two consecutive shows at the New York Fashion Week. By 2009, in addition to her main line, Folake extended her creative borders by adding two more lines under Tiffany Amber Nigeria: TAN by Tiffany Amber (a Diffusion line) and Folake Folarin (a Couture line). Each line in distinctive but represents the designers iconic style.

The multi-award winning designer received the Designer of the year at the inaugural African Fashion Week (AFI) in 2009 in Johannesburg. In 2012, Franca Sozzani, Editor of Vogue Italia, met with Folake on her visit to Lagos, and was so impressed with the brand, she invited Folake to be a part of the Fashion for Development Project.

In 2013, Folake became the first African Fashion Designer to make the Forbes Women Power List. Also in 2013, the designer was awarded the Enterprise Award by the Women Inspiration and Enterprise (WIE).

In 2014, Folake launched her home line, Tiffany Amber Living, fortifying Tiffany Amber as a complete lifestyle brand. The home line captures the rich African culture embodied by the brand, and the high sophistication of fine living. In celebration of her brands 15th year anniversary, Folake launched a Women of Vision campaign, in partnership with Diamond Woman as a platform to mentor a younger generation of entrepreneurs.

16 years going, Folake remains one of the strongest forces in the African fashion industry.



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Whathaveidone:
You dey mind the werey. He should tell us how much all the Yoruba achievers being posted on this thread got during the civil war.

They claim to have a competitive nature, but that nature goes out the window when it concerns Yoruba. I wonder why.

Yoruba


[size=18pt]Leading Lady of African fashion[/size]

One of the fore-runners of the Nigerian fashion industry, Deola has been crafting timeless pieces and gorgeous designs for over 25 years. She has placed Nigeria on the world map for all the right reasons. She seems to have passed the baton on to her daughters who are making waves with their CLAN label.

She was appointed Nigeria's representative to the United Nations World Food Program 'Catwalk the World: Fashion for Food' with the goal of raising money towards halving the number of hungry people in the world, particularly children, by 2015. Deola frequently exhibits her couture collection at Cape Town Fashion Week and has been an invited guest of New York Fashion Week in the past.

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[size=18pt]CEO of the Bobby Taylor Company
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The focused, vivacious and hardworking Bukola, is the CEO of the Bobby Taylor Company; a dynamic, steady and strong voice in the PR Industry.

The Bobby Taylor Company is a Publicity Services Company located in Lagos Nigeria. The company services sectors such as Corporate, Entertainment, Lifestyle, Fashion, Luxury Beauty, Health, and Special Events.

Providing services such as Media Relations, Reputation Management, Strategic Communication, Advisory Services, Event Management and more, The Bobby Taylor Company is one of the go to companies in Nigeria for all of your PR needs.

Bukky Karibi-Whyte is also a motivational speaker and a women's advocate.


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[size=18pt]Founder & CEO of HealthPlus Limited and CasaBella International Limited[/size]

Bukky George is the Founder & CEO of HealthPlus Limited and CasaBella International Limited – a one stop beauty store. [size=15pt]HealthPlus is Nigeria’s first Integrative Pharmacy and Healthcare Provider and the fastest growing pharmacy chain in West Africa.[/size] Bukky’s strengths include a strong academic foundation, a passion for excellence and a determination to raise the standards in retail.

She is a registered pharmacist with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain and the Pharmacists Council of Nigeria. She shares the benefits of focus, knowledge, networking and going the extra mile to succeed in life and business.

In 1987, I enrolled at the School of Pharmacy, College of Medicine, now Faculty of Pharmacy, at the University of Lagos to study Pharmacy. In 1992, I graduated with five awards as the best student on completing my Pharmacy degree. I began my internship at Lagos University Teaching Hospital. In the evenings of my Internship year, I got my first hand experience on retail pharmacy, or community pharmacy as some like to call it, at Onyx Pharmacy, GRA, Ikeja. My national youth service was at Smithkline Beecham – now GSK. I enjoyed my time in production, quality control and sales departments. After service, I worked at May & Baker for a little while as a medical representative, and then returned to Smithkline Beecham, still as a med rep. The excellent training I received from these organisations helped me to hone my selling, exhibiting and presentation skills; transforming me into a confident young professional. I added value and often emerged the best representative of the month.

I worked for a total of four years with May & Baker and Smithkline Beecham, after which I got restless. I was aware of the need to find my true passion and fulfill my purpose in life. I had become a good salesman as a med representative. I loved organizing; I was enterprising, and always paid great attention to detail, which are some of the key success factors of a retailer. In 1999, I resigned as an assistant manager.

HealthPlus was incorporated as a limited liability company in December 1996 and started full operations as a registered pharmacy in April 1999. The company started small in an eighteen square meter store located in GRA Ikeja. Worthy of mention is the great advice I received from a good friend who worked for a consulting firm at the time. She told me not to start my business without articulating our mission, vision and core values. She gave me a Harvard Business Review article which taught how to craft a company’s mission, vision, core values, big hairy audacious goals (BHAGs) and strategy.

In 2008, we incorporated another company, CasaBella International Limited. CasaBella Beauty Supply, a one-stop store for grooming and beauty solutions for men and women, opened in July 2010 at The Palms Mall Lagos, but with ten branches now. CasaBella is a perfect compliment for HealthPlus, making use of the same back-end services: human resources, supply chain, accounts, audit, marketing, facilities and admin, IT. While HealthPlus is serious and conservative; CasaBella is fun and edgy. Over the past fifteen years, the business has grown to thirty strategic branches –with eleven more in the pipeline in 2014 – and over four hundred and twenty nine employees. We are taking steps to institutionalise the business. We aspire to be the Boots pharmacy of Nigeria.


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[size=18pt]Nigerian Entrepreneur Maureen Obaweya Brands Her Luxury Designs With Developing World Market Flavors
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"Morin O Handbags (www.morin-o.com) makes a stunning addition to our new women's line of products." states Sakina Iskender, fashion director at Washington D.C's Take 5 Boutique, offering upscale Washington clientele a unique mix of exclusive European and global designs. (Take5Boutique.com). "We have sold quite a few from her collection."

According to a Babson College study, she is among the over 126 million women entrepreneurs running businesses in over 70 countries worldwide. The National Women's Business Council estimates there are over 8 million women-owned businesses in the United States. Despite a hectic schedule of operating three small businesses in Africa's fastest growing economy, Maureen (known as Morin in Nigeria ) expects to join their ranks. The open air craft markets of Senegal, Ghana, Cote' D'Ivoire and India which she visits at every opportunity, bring an excitement and flair to her new line of exotic leather good


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Igbos are so confused


If we tell you to stay, you'll claim that we can't live without you.

If we tell you to leave, you say we're jobless




The type of people that want ibos to leave are the ones tired of bitter hatred ibos have for Yorubas.

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[size=18pt]Meet UK Born Nigerian, Olajide Olatunji Who Made Over $4.5 Million This Year on Youtube
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Olajide "JJ" Olatunji (born 19 June 1993),
better known by his YouTube username
Ksiolajidebt (stylised as KSIOlajideBT) or
simply KSI, is an English videogame
commentator, comedian and rapper. He is
best known for his YouTube channel, which
has, as of October 2015, reached over 10.6
million subscribers.Born in Watford,
Hertfordshire, he can sometimes be seen
wearing traditional Nigerian dress in his
videos. His surname "Olatunji" means
"Wealth awakes again" in Yoruba.
Before his successful channel, Olajide had a
YouTube channel (which is still online) called
JideJunior, which he created on 24 April
2008. Olajide opened his current YouTube
account on 24 July 2009, with a video about
the FIFA video game franchise.[ According to
his website, YouTubers such as Wepeeler and
Hjerpseth inspired him to start his own
YouTube career. His main channel is
primarily focused on FIFA, although he plays
other games such as Grand Theft Auto V and
other PC-based modifications on his
secondary channel. Olajide's family often
appear in his videos, especially his younger
brother Deji and his father.


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[size=18pt]Interview with 20 Year Old Millionaire Stock Trader – Elijah Oyefeso[/size]


20 year old Elijah Oyefeso isn’t your typical uni dropout. In fact, he’s now a stock-trading high roller driving three sports cars (2 featured on The Daily Mail today). After just 4 months at Buckingham University studying International Football Business Management, Elijah decided to leave, telling Student Cheddar “Uni was decent, my course was very standard but at the end of the day it just wasn’t my passion. I found that I really started to fear the fact of working under someone else”.

Elijah, who grew up in South London now makes over £26,000 a month trading ‘binary options’. Binary options are basically estimates of an underlying asset’s performance during a given time frame. Instead of buying and selling stocks ‘in the market’, Binary Options just involves placing a bet on the direction of a stock without having to purchase a stock.

If the above hasn’t already inspired you enough then check this video of Elijah purchasing his new Lamborghini.

Interview with Elijah Oyefeso
So Elihaj, when & why did you start trading?

I started trading when I was just 17 years of age. However, I never really took it seriously until I left university. Starting early defintely helps with your general market perception, but I don’t think that it is essential!

The reason I started trading was because I was once browsing YouTube and came across a video of Tim Sykes (a famous penny stock trader) make over $5000 in a 15 minute video! I thought ‘if he can do it, why can’t I?!’.

What does a typical day for you involve?

A typical day for me involves getting up quite early to get a general awareness of the market, and I often start trading at around 10am. After I have finished trading (this varies between 30 minutes to 3-4hours) I go to the gym to let off some steam! I also put a lot of focus in to starting other businesses (I have around 5 projects going off at the minute). I go to my local church 3 times a week and I think most of my success comes from my faith.

How did you learn how to trade so profitably?

I learnt a lot through different media outlets, namely YouTube, blogs and books. I highly recommend YouTube as you can find exact trading strategy walk-throughs by experts such as Tim Sykes.

Most importantly, I learnt from my very expensive mistakes. It’s all good reading books about how not to follow your emotions when trading, however when you make a loss of £2000 because of following your heart not your head, the lesson really sinks in!

What do you think are the most important skills you need in order to trade successfully?

Three skills: Discipline, time and patience. All these skills can be developed, however you’ll never make profits trading in the long run without them.

Whats been your biggest profit [and loss]in one day?

My biggest profit in one day was £10300 in March this year. However, I’ve also had some pretty hefty losses (great lessons), of which my worst was £2000 in one day. Trading is a rollercoaster of profits and losses, however if there are more ups then downs, it’s a very fun ride!


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Emilokoiyawon:
10 pages! Chai you be badt guy

They deleted 4 good pages. I will repost those information and move on to Science & Technology and Academia afterwards.
Had this thread been filled with anti-Yoruba propaganda, trust me, it would have moved to the front page. But because it's filled with Yoruba success stories, they deleted half the page.

See the bias they exhibit towards Yorubas?

AmuDimpka:
They should be ashamed


Igbo fought war
Given just £20 to start up and they lost their money
The Yoruba had 1967 to 1980 to take over the economy ...yet they messed it up prodigally

They shouldn't even be competing with Igbo but Igbo has surpassed them


So I don't argue with them

LMAO don't you even dare try to devalue another man's success with your victim mentality. At leasT Ibos got 20 pounds, how much did Yorubas get from the NIgerian government? When did Yoruba individuals benefit from the government? The lies y'all keep perpetuating catches up to you eventually. These new startups Yorubas are controlling, which government help did they get?
Many Ibos even benefitted from Awolowo's free education. So keep hush.
You will never surpass Yorubas. Trust me Your miracle center can keep helping you sha.
Why do you think Yorubaland controls e-commerce, industries, and agriculture? You think it was done overnight?
You lots claim that Ibos are businessmen, but Lagos and Ogun controls the business sector. Better wake up. You think Onithsa's market is business?


[size=14pt]aressssa, modath, whathaveidone, and other Yorubas... how much money did your people get during the war? Igbos keep claiming that the war only affected them [/size]

I'll start reporting the deleted Yoruba businesses. They can't shut us up!

Oga mi at the top aressssa, great job!

oyb:
To those jokers defending #dinotherapistsenator, because remi tinubu 'insulted' him, it shows how little you know of how to be a politician. A politician is expected to be mentally quick. A smart man would have used the comment as an opening. Dino is however little more than a lucky thug like so many senators.

Winston Churchill was the master of such rejoinders which became a part of history. A woman at a party once said to him loudly, mr Churchill you are drunk! To which he replied and you madam are ugly. But tomorrow morning I will be sober.

The late Felas mother was also a master of the riposte. A white district officer once shouted at her to 'shut up your women!' in a large meeting. The women fell silent in shock. And then Felas mum responded ' you may have been born, but you were not bred. Can you speak to your mother like that?'


This is an excerpt from wole soyinkas ake. That retort became a local legend at that time.

That's what politicians do. What is really disturbing is that this thug deceived a lot of us for a time, when he was forming progressive. Animal.

He is the face of a lot of Nigerian men, who feel women should be seen and not heard and are only useful in the bedroom. I can imagine how louts like this will feel when Hillary becomes president.

#dinotherapistsenator

I love your reply. Thank you.

dunkem21:
The message has sunk in..

Now, over to Shepopotamus*.. PEJ is also a bully


It's a long night.

Keep supporting female brutality. Soon Dino will move on to your sister Stella. The company your women keep. FFK after disrespecting Bianca moved on to another Ibo babymama. No taste.

chudicareer:
@sonofyoruba, u obviously can't read. U missed the part Remi first called him a thug. Linda now a bully? Keep justifying ur hypocrisy. It's good you now feel how it hurts.

Dino is a thug. How is that an insult?
What does your village call a man with Dino's character?