Wema Bank, Nigeria’s oldest indigenous, most progressive and pioneer of Africa’s first absolutely digital {bank}, ALAT, has introduced the Top 10 nominees for its women-focused award initiative, SARA Gives to Empower Her Awards; the second version of its She Empowers Her Award.
The Top 10 nominees are: Social Entrepreneur, Bosede Nwachi; NGO Founder, Chigozie Blessing; Customer Success Leader, Ekwutosi Cynthia; Coach and Public Speaker, Franca Ozini; Ted X Speaker, Hassanat Abubakar; Mentor, Ikepo Osawaye; Marketing Professional, Jennifer Edem Ekong; World Safety Ambassador, Ambassador Mabel Abel-Onaiwu, Founder, Patrick Stephen Purple Heart Foundation for Widows; Oluwaseun Joan Stephen and Virtual Assistant Coach, Victoria Ezechukwu-Obiya.
Launched in 2024 by the Bank’s women-focused proposition, SARA by Wema, the Wema Bank She Empowers Her Award is designed to have fun, honour and highlight girls who’ve made vital affect or constructed a legacy of empowering different girls personally and professionally. Deriving from the worldwide IWD 2026 theme “Give to Gain”, Wema Bank’s 2026 IWD will deal with the subject “When She Gains, We Grow”, emphasising the necessity to give time, alternatives, assets and help to girls. In line with this, this 12 months’s version of the She Empowers Her Award is tagged “SARA Gives To Empower Her Award & Grant”, spotlighting and rewarding girls with a legacy of giving to different girls.
To make the collection of winners for the SARA Gives To Empower Her Award & Grant, Wema Bank has included a mix of public nominations, an inner jury and a voting course of, all vetted by an unbiased audit physique. The first stage was the decision for nominees, which Wema Bank opened to the general public on February 12, 2026, and closed on February 22, 2026. A pool of two,332 nominations was obtained for a complete of 351 girls, who had been then shortlisted to Top 10 primarily based on their affect and clear observe report of giving to different girls.
The SARA Gives to Empower Her Award ceremony will happen on March 4, 2026, on the Wema Bank International Women’s Day occasion which holds in Lagos. The ceremony will culminate within the emergence of 5 winners.
Voting is now open for the 5 winners, and anybody can vote at https://bit.ly/VoteSARASheEmpowersHerAward
To discover out the Top 5 winners of the SARA Gives to Empower Her Award, watch Wema Bank’s International Women’s Day Event reside on YouTube @Wema Bank from 10 a.m. on March 4, 2026.
