She is Miss Ifeoma Phillipa Okenyi.
how it all started;
Du Material Fabrics;
"Du Materiel Fabrics started as a side hustle. I'd moved back to Nigeria for NYSC and afterwards headed straight to law school, I missed working and the independence the pay brought plus dipping into my savings was not funny. I'd dabbled in a bit of fashion sales here and there whenever I was home for the holidays but this was reality. I'd always liked fabrics, had even done a textile texture course over a long summer during university and everyone wanted the new silk buba and Iro look. I asked around about prices and it seemed people in Abuja and it's surroundings were buying from Lagos. There are major markets in Abuja but it seemed people were looking for something different. I did a few trials, both with fabrics from Nigeria and overseas and though it was meant to be a short side hustle I enjoyed it, and I've just carried on along side my career and other businesses trying to get it to its zenith."
Legal IP Coach;
Legal IP Coach is me, I am legal IP coach (that's my Instagram name by the way). My love for teaching is what inspired the legal ip coach brand. My team and I under our law firm niche out a legal educational platform called the IPHUB to help businesses who are building their Intellectual Property Portfolios meet and interact, learn and grow together. What I didn't foresee was the gap in knowledge of the benefits of what owning ones IP rights were to business so as the demand arose for one on one consultations to teach clients about this gap i created the Legal IP to better assist and fill in those blanks spaces.
S.O.S Needs Foundation;
The name of the foundation is "S.O.S Needs" Foundation (in its full terms it means "SIBLINGS OF SPECIAL NEEDS FOUNDATION").
"I am a sibling to the most beautiful young teen you'll ever meet, she is diagnosed as high functioning autistic and she's my inspiration for creating the foundation.There's a lot of behind the scenes work still going on so we haven't launched yet. There's a gap in knowledge for siblings within the home where there's a child or adult with a special needs, there is also an automatic transference of the said child or adult to a sibling or family member where the carer mostly the child's mother passes away without caution or real concern if the new guardian is indeed the right person to take care of the child or adult. There are also gaps in insurance, legal guardian documents, travel documents, trusts & monetary accounts that should be raised for such precious ones and the biggest issue, government, interstate and federal lapses for people with special needs. These essentially is why I do everything else I do to be able to move such a programme into society."
However, one of the challenges she is facing is the lack of a proper textile company in Nigeria amongst others but with the right spirit, Ifeoma and her team made a choice to look above them.
Catch a glimpse of Ifeoma doing what she does best below;
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