At the weekend, five Nigerian business women all smiled to the bank after sharing N1,250,000 during the maiden edition of Dear Dammy Women’s Initiative business conference and empowerment programme aimed at helping women.
Speaking with our correspondent, the conveyer of the programme, Damilare Alabi, a Managing Director of one of the leading betting companies in Nigeria, Nairabet, said she decided to put up the empowerment programme so as to help women, something that has been her passion. “The response has been good and obviously women need empowerment, role models and that is why you can see the turnout was great.
“We gave out a total of N1,250,000 in grants to five women. This will be an annual event but we will have other smaller events maybe online with women being enrolled in training.”