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Lightbox Session for the Week: Leveraging Brand Partnerships and Sponsorships as a Professional
This week, we will be discussing how to leverage brand partnerships and sponsorships, to get maximum returns, as a professional. Our speaker this week is a renowned Business Strategist, Tolulope Dopemu.
Tolulope Dopemu is a Business strategist, Travel consultant, experience Curator, and Founder of Travelotus luxury tours limited with over 8 years of experience in the travel, tourism, and hospitality industry.
She is on a mission to help get back 1000 travel jobs by the year 2023 by empowering travel agency owners with the skills and expertise needed to increase their income and survive beyond.
Tolulope has worked with clients such as Eat and Go limited owners of Domino's pizza and continues to help people grow through her passion for Travel, creating impeccable experiences and creating rewarding impacts in people's lives.
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CONFIDENCE STAVELEY BECOMES FIRST NIGERIAN FINALIST OF THE CYBERSECURITY WOMAN OF THE YEAR AWARD
Confidence Staveley, fondly described as the 'Relatable Cybersecurity Queen' was announced a finalist of the prestigious Cybersecurity Woman of the Year Award 2021. She is not just the first Nigerian to become a finalist but also the first African to be a finalist in her category, Cybersecurity People’s Choice.
The Cybersecurity Woman of the Year Award is an annual event celebrating female cybersecurity leaders changing the world. Hosted by Inteligenca, winners of each category will be revealed at the Cybersecurity Woman of the Year 2021 Awards GALA, scheduled to hold in Las Vegas on August 3rd, 2021.
Confidence needs your vote to win in her category and bring this award home from Las Vegas.
How to vote:
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This global industry recognition comes on the heels of the outstanding contribution she is making through her organization, Cybersafe Foundation. Cybersafe Foundation is a Non-Governmental Organization on a mission to facilitate pockets of human behavioral and capacity changes to ensure a safer internet for everyone with digital access and resident in Africa.
She recently launched CyberGirls, a free 1-year fellowship designed to equip girls with globally sought-after cybersecurity skills, positioning them to start a career in cybersecurity. Through the CyberGirls fellowship, she is training 100+ girls in Calabar, Enugu, Lokoja, Yola, Kaduna, and Ibadan. She uses her social media accounts to teach her followers about cybersafety in a very relatable way, sometimes using insightful TikTok style videos. Confidence is also contributing to combating cyberfraud through Cybersafe Foundation’s NoGoFallMaga initiative. Led by her, Cybersafe Foundation has in the recent past, launched cybersecurity awareness campaigns reaching over 10,000,000 people in Nigeria and organized cybersecurity training for over 4,426 SMEs in partnership with the UK Government. These and many more of her contributions to fighting cybercrime in Nigeria has earned her recognition across Africa, including emerging as one of the Top 50 Women in Cybersecurity Africa 2020.
Business
World’s richest man – Jeff Bezos resigns, earns $4 billion in a day, worth $203 billion
The world’s richest man, Jeff Bezos, worth about $203 billion recorded a daily gain of about $4.02 billion and has officially resigned his position as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Amazon, the world’s biggest e-commerce company. Read more…
Inflation, devaluation eroding N30,000 minimum wage, TUC, others lament
Stakeholders, including the Trade Union Congress of Nigeria, the Nigeria Labour Congress, have expressed concerns over the continued refusal of some states to pay the N30,000 minimum wage amid the rising cost of living in the country. Read more…
Nigeria’s leather exports could generate over $1 billion in 4 years – Osinbajo
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has stated that the value of Nigeria’s leather exports could reach over $1 billion by 2025. Read more…
Wealthy Nigerians, not the poor, benefitting from fuel subsidy – FG
The Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Clem Agba, on Tuesday, reiterated the need to deregulate the downstream petroleum through the removal of subsidy on Premium Motor Spirit. Read more…
Nigerian political parties must work together towards national development – China
The Chinese Government urged Nigeria’s two largest parties, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC) to work together in a bid to achieve greater national development. Read more…
GDP growth: Nigeria to record improved Q2 and Q3 GDP growth – LCCI
The Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) revealed that Nigeria will experience improved GDP growth in the second and third quarters of the year 2021. Read more…
Oil price tumbles to $74 amid OPEC+ crisis
The international oil benchmark, Brent crude, pared some of its recent gains on Tuesday, after the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, read more…
World’s richest man, Jeff Bezos and ex-wife post daily gains of over $11 billion
Jeff Bezos, the world’s richest man reached a record $211 billion net worth after shares of the world’s biggest online retailer, Amazon, surged by nearly 50%, read more…
Infectious Delta Variant Is Now The Dominant Covid Strain In U.S., CDC Says
The highly infectious Delta variant is now the dominant coronavirus strain in the U.S., according to the latest Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates, read more…
U.S. Consulate opens application portal for 2021 Academy for Women Entrepreneurs
The United States Consulate General in Lagos and Ascend Studios Foundation have partnered to implement the 2021 Academy for Women Entrepreneurs (AWE). Read more…
AfDB appoints new director-general for Nigeria
the African Development Bank Group has appointed Mr Lamin Barrow as the director-general of its Nigeria office. Read more…
Social
Britney Spears' court-appointed lawyer offers to resign
Britney Spears' court-appointed lawyer has asked to resign from his role, as the fallout from the pop star's dramatic court testimony continues. Read more…
Customers fed up with Covid excuse for bad service
Firms are being accused of using the pandemic as an excuse for long waits on the telephone or late deliveries, the UK Institute of Customer Service said. Read more…
AGS Quote of the Day
“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
George Bernard Shaw