Africa’s First Olympic Bobsled Team (Relentless, focused and
determined: Seun Adigun, Ngozi Onwumere and Akuoma Omeoga are the first
African, the first Nigerian bobsled team to ever qualify for and compete
in the Winter Olympics.
The team raised funds to participate in the
Olympics using GoFundMe. They did not just meet their fundraising goal,
but were also able to sign a sponsorship deal with VISA.
The AWP Network
is proud of these women for inspiring the next generation of women and
girls and for showing the world that “impossible is nothing.”
Funke Opeke is Chief Executive Officer of Main One Cable company, a
privately-owned company with an open access 7,000-kilometer undersea
high-capacity cable submarine stretching from Portugal to South Africa
with landings along the route in Accra, Ghana and Lagos, Nigeria. Opeke
is also founder of Main Street Technologies. Prior to founding her
company, she served as the Chief Technical Officer for MTN Nigeria.
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