Social Conscience

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Africa is rising they say, but Africa must rise with its people; There is no Africa without its people... how then do we harness Africa's wealth in people... through Social Change and Development.
Social Conscience with 'Nasa commits to Aspiration 6 of the Africa Agenda 2063 and the Global Development Goals.
We advocate social change and development that will inspire the transformation that keeps Africa rising.

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Societal Ills Plaguing the Girl Child: Cultural Norms that serve as Enablers

May 08 2021 60 mins  
Apart from sexual gratification itself, sexual violence against women is often a result of unequal power equations, both real and perceived between men and women, and is also strongly influenced by cultural factors and values. Sexual violence is likely to occur more commonly in cultures that foster beliefs of perceived male superiority and social and cultural inferiority of women.

VFD Group #ChoosetoChallenge The Marketplace Lens

Mar 22 2021 72 mins  
The Council on Foreign Relations and the McKinsey Global Institute indicated that Nigeria’s gross domestic product could grow by 23% by 2025 if women participated in the economy to the same extent as men.” However, limited access to finance remains a major challenge that prevents women from fully participating in the economy. Some of the recommendations made to a financial inst

VFD Group #ChoosetoChallenge The Workplace Lens

Mar 15 2021 62 mins  
The International Women’s Day campaign theme was #ChooseToChallenge – set on the premise that "We can all choose to seek out and celebrate women's achievements. Collectively, we can all help create an inclusive world. From challenge comes change, so let's all choose to challenge”. SCwN partnered with VFD Group – a proprietary investment company that focuses on building posi

21st Century Capitalist’s Dilemma: Social Impact or Profitable Value Creation

Feb 19 2021 59 mins  
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the shift in business norms that stakeholder activism pursues and the imperative of moving from words to actions. With this context, Business leaders the world over are forced to reflect and perhaps make some necessary adjustments, because quite frankly, it’s a stakeholders’ world we operate in. In conversation with two business leaders to

Road to Development: Opportunities for Impact Investment in Africa

Feb 16 2021 56 mins  
Meghan is the West Africa Director for Acumen, where she sets strategy, oversees investing and Academy programs, and leads business development for the organization's work in the region, based in Lagos, Nigeria. Meghan joined Acumen in 2013 and was leading the global Talent function before relocating to West Africa in 2018. Meghan's commitment to this work is rooted in her experien

Nigeria's Socio- Economic Outlook for 2021 - Tayo Fagbule

Feb 01 2021 61 mins  
Tayo Fagbule is the Editor of BusinessDay, prior to this, he worked as a researcher at Danne Institute for Research where he oversaw projects: Transformation of Lagos; Protests in Nigeria; Connectivity & Productivity in Lagos.He was the Deputy Editor and Chairman, Editorial Board at BusinessDay where he is responsible for researching and writing about the socio-economic environment

2020-Awakenings; Recalibration, And Social Development

Dec 21 2020 57 mins  
Temitope Obasanya is currently the Vice President & Treasurer at Chapel Hill Denham, Nigeria’s leading Investment Bank, with several years of work experience spanning regional financial markets across sub-Saharan Africa. She is a CFA charter holder and Society Leader at CFA Society Nigeria, where she contributes to building the integrity of the Nigerian capital markets and to dev

Losing Borders And Integrating For Greatness - Simeon Umukoro

Dec 14 2020 55 mins  
Simeon Umukoro is an International trade expert, an economist and a member of the World Economic Association, United Kingdom. His 17 years of professional experience spans two Forbes 500 Companies, developing and facilitating international trade in west Africa, the United Kingdom with the Department for International Trade, of the Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO),

The Role of Entrepreneurship in Diversifying the Nigerian Economy

Dec 02 2020 56 mins  
Entrepreneurial activities have been found all over the world to be capable of making positive impacts on the economy of a nation and the quality of life of the people, which in turn stimulates economic growth and empowerment of the marginalized. Many countries have been able to energize and transform the entrepreneurship sub-sector which has in turn reduced to the barest minimum t

The African Dream - Entrepreneurship Stories from Ghana And Zimbabwe

Nov 24 2020 58 mins  
The African Development Bank showed that Africa has the highest entrepreneurship rate in the world. Small and Medium Enterprises are now the biggest formal employers in Sub-Saharan Africa and will undoubtedly be key in creating the 54 million jobs that Africa is expected to create by 2022. While the job creation potential is promising, it is a far cry from the demands - Africa will