Meet the 10 outstanding and aspiring young women in South-south Nigeria’s fastest emerging big city, Uyo.
The compiled list is in two categories, the Outstanding and the Aspiring. Outstanding features women who have been through the storm and carved a niche for themselves in their various fields of endeavor and remain focused to emerge society icons that other younger ones aspire to be like.
For the Aspiring group, the list is made of younger women that have small businesses, pursuing other career paths and are exceptional in their work, even at budding level and also have created considerable impact, even amongst their peers.
Check out the list below. Note: The list is in no order of performance.
Outstanding Category
Nsikak Benson
The brand name ‘Netima’ rings a bell from the length to the breath of south-south Nigeria where ever it is being mentioned.
She had quit her banking job to pursue a fashion career, making her undoubtedly one of the finest female Entrepreneur-extraordinaire who has carved a niche for herself over the years.
This entrepreneur known as Nsikan Benson, is the CEO of The Netima Design and Beauty Academy (NDBA), a Fashion Design and Beauty Training School.
Apart from being a beauty designer, she is a Certified Entrepreneurial Manager/Coach, beneficiary of YouWin, Fellow – Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme, The Obama Yali network poised to drive community financial growth. Nsikan Benson is an ardent preacher of the entrepreneurship development gospel!
Joyce Daniels
Joyce Daniel is a professional compere, founder and CEO of Talkademy Training and finishing school for Master of Ceremonies.
She is ranked amongst the top 10 event comperes in Nigeria, hosting long list of high-profile events, and has also trained and raised many comperes under her Talkademy school. For her, speaking is a calling just like Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry and she’s ready to speak until the host of heaven and earth will pause for a while to say ‘’here lived a great speaker who did her job well’’. She is currently a certified Dale Carnegie Trainer.
Mmanti Umoh
She Is an amazing business woman. She has single-handedly pioneered Purple Patch consulting and training service corp from the scratch to a success level where it is today.
Purple Patch is an image consultant and idea developing firm, which has helped in promoting and maintaining the public image of several top Nigerian and International brands.
In 2015, Mmanti Umoh became the founding Curator of the Uyo Hub of the Global Shapers Community, she joined 450 Curators from around the world attending the 2015 World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers Annual Curators Meeting (ACM) in Geneva, Switzerland Organised by the World Economic Forum.
Later that same year, she was part of the Nigerian youth delegation to Commonwealth Youth Council General Assembly at the recently concluded 2015 Commonwealth Heads Of Government Meeting – CHOGM in Malta, to discuss how young people can contribute and add value to upholding and enhancing the Commonwealth Charter.
She is Akwa Ibom’s first female Huffingpost Blogger and South Nigeria’ Amethyst award winning Keynote speaker. In 2015, she was named an Emerging African Leader and was awarded GESTONE. She is the Founder of African Young Professionals and Entrepreneurs Network.
Rhoda Nduesa
It takes guts and courage, especially for a young woman to come out of her comfort zone to launch herself out to the creative contemporary world as an entrepreneur.
Rhoda Nduesa, started way back as a graphics designer/page planner for an Uyo-based lifestyle magazine and later on, created her online lifestyle news platform, www.rhodiesworld.com. Also, she is one of the frontline female bloggers in south-south Nigeria, who has been very consistent in her area of specialization over the years.
Apart from being very relevant in pushing her online news website, she has launched the hard copy and glossy version of Rhodies World Magazine, with several A-List Nigerian entertainers gracing the cover page.
More so, she has hosted numerous editions of the Rhodies World Photo Contest, which has helped young beauty and model enthusiast to explore their talents.
Cleo Tao
Cleo Tao has been phenomenal on the radio with her fast paced talk, top-notch delivery and amazing voice behind the microphone while reaching out to millions through the airwaves.
Her career spans over 15 years with a major part of it at Rhythm Fm studios in Lagos, Port-Harcourt and then Benin. She has impacted lives with various programs and shows, especially during the morning belt which cuts across every aspect of human endeavor and living.
Cleo has trained and tutored other On Air Personalities who have become top names in the radio broadcasting industry.
Aspiring Category
Nseabasi Valentine
Nseabasi Valentine is a renowned television personality that brings lots of energy and humour to the microphone business.
Over the years, she has been able to carve a niche for herself and becoming a household name, she has worked with several media houses and has also hosted over numerous events as a compere and still counting.
To add to her credit, she has worked Akwa Ibom Broadcasting Corporation(AKBC), The Bridge Tv, and is currently working with NTA Asaba as a news presenter which is her PPA as a youth corp member in Delta State.
She hopes to feature on national television and own her own talk show, just like Oprah Winfrey.
DJ Ritzy
Coming from down South Nigeria, where livelihood is hinged on education and a civil service job, the case is different for DJ Ritzy, with real names – Precious Solomon Andrew. She started 6 years ago and side by side while in the university, playing in gigs and major events outside Akwa Ibom which include the Calabar Christmas Carnival.
Ritzy is the first female Disc Jockey and was a one-time Welfare Officer of the Deejay’s Association of Nigeria in Akwa Ibom, releasing a couple of excellent mixtape materials for her teeming online fan base.
The theatre arts graduate has received several awards and honours, with the recent one given to her by the rule Nigeria Interactive for Girls – RUNING for her contributions in the Akwa Ibom entertainment industry as a young woman.
DJ Ritzy is set to pursue her dreams of spinning the wheels of steel on an international stage, and leaving her footprints on the sand of time in the Nigeria’s booming entertainment industry.
Emem Brownson, App Developer
Emem Brownson is the Founder/CEO of AfroPot and the Manager, Women Techmakers, Akwa Ibom State Chapter.
Her Afro-Pot is a lifestyle mobile application makes having lunch during work hours fast and fun. It enables users to place order for food from their favourite restaurants while AfroPot picks and deliver at your office or home without hassles, with pay-on-delivery options.
Apart from growing her startup, Emem also likes exposing more young women to technology by empowering them with software development skills leveraging Start Innovation Hub as a platform.
She is a certified Android developer with laurels like NASA International Space Apps Challenge Nigeria 2015 and Global Entrepreneurship Ideas Contest 2015.
Enwongo Cleopas
Despite her tight schedule as Lawyer, she continues to find time to influence her world positively. Enwongo Cleopas, a Barrister and Solicitor in the Supreme Court is a thorough bred and quintessential writer, poet, strong advocate of Feminism and violence against women.
Despite her tight schedule as Lawyer, she continues to find time to influence her world positively. Enwongo Cleopas, a Barrister and Solicitor in the Supreme Court is a thorough bred and quintessential writer, poet, strong advocate of Feminism and violence against women.
Over the years, she has been a source of inspiration and motivation to her teeming fan base online and offline through deep articles and short notes. She has a strong passion for nature photography and African arts.
Also, as part of her support to students in the high school level, she grooms a small group of aspiring young ones who want to tow the law advocacy path.
Enwongo, who is an activist and advocate per excellence is an impeccable description of the adage ‘’The beauty and the brain’’.
Glory Udom
When it comes to bead making and Gele tying in the city of Uyo, the name Dache Pearls never fails to popup. Glory Udom, the graduate of Microbiology from the University of Uyo has been in the business for over two years, training over 127 young men and women to acquire both skills.
Self-teaching has been one system of education she relied on while growing up, so finding herself as an entrepreneur today is not something really surprising.
Her beads are bespoke and would go for a luxury brand, although having products for various class of people.
In 2015, she bagged the Best Accessory Designer at the Kardynal Style Selection Awards, featured in www.knotandrings.com and wedding plus Nigeria as wedding vendor of the month both in November 2015. Glory now runs a nationwide delivery service between 24 to 72 hours for her clients and plans to expand with an online outlet set to launch later in the year.
CREDITS: HYPESTATION
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