WEMA BANK ANNOUNCES TOP 10 NOMINEES FOR SARA GIVES TO EMPOWER HER AWARD

Wema Bank, Nigeria’s oldest indigenous, most revolutionary and pioneer of Africa’s first absolutely digital financial institution, ALAT, has introduced the Prime 10 nominees for its women-focused award initiative, SARA Provides to Empower Her Awards; the second version of its She Empowers Her Award.

The Prime 10 nominees are: Social Entrepreneur, Bosede Nwachi; NGO Founder, Chigozie Blessing; Buyer Success Chief, Ekwutosi Cynthia; Coach and Public Speaker, Franca Ozini; Ted X Speaker, Hassanat Abubakar; Mentor, Ikepo Osawaye; Advertising Skilled, Jennifer Edem Ekong; World Security Ambassador, Ambassador Mabel Abel-Onaiwu, Founder, Patrick Stephen Purple Coronary heart Foundation for Widows; Oluwaseun Joan Stephen and Digital Assistant Coach, Victoria Ezechukwu-Obiya.

Launched in 2024 via the Financial institution’s women-focused proposition, SARA by Wema, the Wema Bank She Empowers Her Award is designed to rejoice, honour and highlight girls who’ve made important influence or constructed a legacy of empowering different girls personally and professionally. Deriving from the worldwide IWD 2026 theme “Give to Achieve”, Wema Bank’s 2026 IWD will deal with the subject “When She Beneficial properties, We Develop”, emphasising the necessity to give time, alternatives, sources and help to girls. In keeping with this, this 12 months’s version of the She Empowers Her Award is tagged “SARA Provides 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 Provides To Empower Her Award & Grant, Wema Bank has included a mixture of public nominations, an inner jury and a voting course of, all vetted by an impartial audit physique. The primary 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 have been then shortlisted to Prime 10 based mostly on their influence and clear observe report of giving to different girls.

The SARA Provides to Empower Her Award ceremony will happen on March 4, 2026, on the Wema Bank Worldwide Girls’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 search out out the Prime 5 winners of the SARA Provides to Empower Her Award, watch Wema Bank’s Worldwide Girls’s Day Occasion stay on YouTube @Wema Bank from 10 a.m. on March 4, 2026.