Lagos – For the fourth year of AWE, the U.S. Consulate General in Lagos in partnership with Ascend Studios Foundation and Venture Garden Foundation has officially opened the 2022 application for the Academy for Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) - a U.S. Government initiative set up to empower female entrepreneurs all over the world. participants will be selected from [...]
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Mastercard Foundation and My World of Bags’ Kafawa Training Program graduates its first cohort of young talent
Ibadan, March 2022 – Following its launch in October 2021, the Kafawa Training Program, a partnership between My World of Bags and the Mastercard Foundation, has formally graduated its first set of fully-trained leather industry artisans, entrepreneurs, craftsmen, and women. The program's focus is to train young Nigerian women and men in leather and non-leather [...]
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In preparation for a more result-driven 2022, Borderless Trade Network surveyed her members to better serve them. Guess what they found? FUNDING! Yes, they found out that at the core of the needs of entrepreneurs is funding. Certainly, you can resonate with this need, right? In line with meeting this important need, Borderless Trade Network [...]
NIGERIA’S SANMI ADEGOKE BECOMES THE FIRST BLACK RECIPIENT OF ENTREPRENEUR OF THE YEAR AT THE UK PROPERTY AWARDS 2021
CEO, Rehoboth Property International (RPI), Sanmi Adegoke has become the first black recipient of the Property Awards Entrepreneur of the Year award which he received at this year’s ceremony held at the Intercontinental at the O2, London. Property Week is one of the biggest property publications in the UK and this award category is the [...]
U.S. Consulate Announces Application for 2021 Academy for Women Entrepreneurs (AWE)
Lagos — The U.S. Consulate General in Lagos and Ascend Studios Foundation have partnered to implement the 2021 Academy for Women Entrepreneurs (AWE), a U.S. Government initiative that supports women entrepreneurs around the world, now in its third year. 200 participants will be selected from the 17 states of southern Nigeria for the 2021 cohort. [...]