Zikoko’s Naira Life Conference Returns to Help Nigerians Build, Grow, and Keep Wealth
Following a successful debut in 2025, Zikoko, Nigeria’s leading youth publication, has announced the return of the Naira Life Conference, its personal finance and wealth-building event. The live experience explores money, work, business, and wealth through practical conversations and real-life stories. The second edition of the conference will take place on August 22, 2026, in […]
GLG Communications, MIPAD Roll out Customised PR Solutions for MIPAD Honourees and UNGA Attendees
The Most Influential People of African Descent (MIPAD) is set to host the MIPAD Recognition Week, honouring some of the most impactful figures of African descent from around the world during the UNGA High-Level Week from September 23-30, 2024, in New York. MIPAD 2024 As this year’s grand celebration also marks the conclusion of the […]
Somewhere in Nigeria, Girls Between the Ages of 7 And 13 are Used as Collateral for Loans aka Money Wives.
A few days ago, Chess-in-slums founder, Tunde Onakoya took to Twitter to announce their next project. It is to focus on teaching chess to women in Becheve, a community in Cross-river state. But these women aren’t just ordinary women but young ones who are referred to as “money wives”. Twitter went agog when he shared […]
Season of Love: Medplus Gives Back to Vulnerable Communities, Partners with Chess in Slums Africa.
Medplus Pharmacy, Nigeria’s leading health and beauty retail company is adding colour to this year’s valentine’s season; by making it all about the underprivileged. The company is breaking the status quo of the established lover’s day by spreading love to the vulnerable communities around us instead. They have termed this ‘Redefining Love’, an advocacy campaign […]
Glazia Black History Month 2022 – Tunde Onakoya
Tunde Onakoya, founder, Chess-in-slums, is our subject for today’s Glazia Black History month celebration. Onakoya was born in 1995 and had a rough childhood in Ikorodu, Lagos. He is a computer science graduate from Yabatech. In 2018, he started Chess-in-slums after his encounter with a boy whom he saw begging in the rain. Tunde Onakoya […]
Glazia Black History Month 2022 – Tanitoluwa Adewumi
As the Glazia Black History Month celebrations proceed, we continue to honour Nigerians (home and abroad). Especially those who are making the nation proud, flying the flag high, and building lasting legacies. Today’s spotlight honouree is Tanitoluwa Adewumi Glazia Black History Month 2022 – Tanitoluwa Adewumi 11-year old Nigerian-American Tanitoluwa Emmanuel Adewumi is a bestselling […]