Leading financial institution, ECOBANK Nigeria is teaming
up with Africa’s foremost media
entrepreneur and blogger, Linda Ikeji to host the latest edition of her popular
empowerment programme, ‘Selfmade Woman Conference’.
Linda Ikeji started Selfmade Woman Conference in 2013 as an
advocacy project with the sole aim to mentor and provide financial empowerment
to young female entrepreneurs or aspiring ones.
"Selfmade Woman Conference" which is in the second
edition will hold on April 25th, in Lagos, Nigeria.
Linda who has been dubbed the number one blogger in Africa
held the first edition of the conference in April 2017 with over 3,000 young
women in attendance.
Linda Ikeji has over the years used her voice and platform
to encourage young Nigerian women to be financially independent and resourceful
while providing funding and support for them to kick start their businesses.
Since 2015, Linda Ikeji has given N30million of her own
personal money to empower over 40 female entrepreneurs, with quite a few of
them going on to have successful small scale businesses
Speaking about the 2020 edition, Linda said she took time
off the conference so as to plan better and she had to attend to her new role
as a mum.
‘I am very passionate about women and very inspired by
successful women. I want more women to believe in themselves, fight for their
dreams, be financially independent, believe that there's nothing they can't
accomplish. The conference is to mentor and inspire women with dreams and
aspirations."
Speaking further, Linda said, "It seems the world is
more skewed towards making a man more successful than women, or at least that’s
the narrative most of our generation were given.
So, those of us who have broken through the myth have the
duty to take as many other women as possible with us. We need more women to
succeed. We need more women to head conglomerates. We need more women making
impact. We need more women shattering tables."
Linda appreciates ECOBANK for coming on board the project.
‘Having ECOBANK on board the project is so heartwarming. It is like coming
together of liked minds. Now we can make ‘Selfmade Woman Conference' bigger and
better.
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