Women Entrepreneurs

At $1 million per post, Kylie Jenner has the most lucrative account on Instagram, according to HopperHQ‘s 2018 Instagram Rich List. And in an unexpected twist, football icon Cristiano Ronaldo generates more Instagram value than Kim Kardashian and Beyoncé.  HopperHQ is an Instagram planning and scheduling tool that analyzes internal and publicly available data to …

In a breakfast meeting in Lagos, Head of Digital Media and Partnerships for Forbes Africa and founder of Aim Higher Africa Peace Hyde, was amongst a handful of influential leaders selected to explore innovative solutions to tackle issues like youth entrepreneurship development, ease of doing business and progressive leadership that …

President of Women’s World Banking, Mary Ellen Iskenderian, says there is a growing recognition that women’s financial inclusion is not only important in achieving every other social goal, but it makes financial sense. Women’s World Banking is a global NGO has provided low income women in developing countries access to …

As I was growing up, these were the women I wanted to be: triumphant at the highest levels of commerce, assailing stereotypes of what a successful businessperson looked like, with smarts and vision and the will to outwork everyone in sight. Being a “one or only” in the room where …

African Fashion Fund (AFF) announces a new official partnership with Parsons School of Design, establishing their first long term, presence in Africa. AFF was established in 2014 by Roberta Annan with the hope to support Africa designers establish themselves across the world and give “access to the disadvantaged in assisting …

Queenstalina Charity Foundation a non- governmental organization on Saturday 16th June donated clothes and food items like soft drinks, rice, noodles, water, soap, toiletries and many others as part of their “Caring for the Uncared project”. Donating the items to the school, the project manager for the organization Mr. Abdul …

Recognized leader in private and hybrid cloud landscapes in Ghana and the West Africa region, IBM Ghana has been awarded Ghana’s best Cloud Service Provider at the recently held 8th Ghana Information Technology & Telecoms Awards (GITTA), the most prestigious awards program in the industry held at the Movenpick Ambassador …

The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has launched a business ideas competition, dubbed the “Presidential Pitch”, aimed at realizing Government’s ambition of helping to unleash an entrepreneurial revolution in the country. According to President Akufo-Addo, the country has not done so well incubating business ideas and developing …

The Head of Reinsurance of GLICO General Insurance Co. Ltd. (GLICO General), Mrs. Angela Asante has been appointed as Head of National Sales. Mrs. Asante’s appointment is in line with the ambition GLICO General’s new Managing Director, Andrew Achampong-Kyei, to take the company to higher heights in the non-life sector ranking. Mrs. Angela Asante …

GirlEmpowered, a flagship network under The African Network of Entrepreneurs has successfully hosted the 2nd edition The GirlEmpowered Conference promoting entrepreneurship among teenage girls. The event which was hosted in the auditorium of Accra High School in Accra, saw over 300 girls participate from various high schools in Accra. Speaking …