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  • Impact beyond learning – Layal Jade Tinubu empowers over 20 women to start, scale, and sustain their business by awarding grants of over N70 Million!

    Impact beyond learning – Layal Jade Tinubu empowers over 20 women to start, scale, and sustain their business by awarding grants of over N70 Million!

    The second edition of Be Empowered, hosted by Layal Jade Tinubu and Noella Foundation, was held on Saturday, 12 April 2025, in Lagos, Nigeria. The event convened over one hundred and fifty (150) guests for a one-day summit focused on supporting women-led businesses.

    This year’s programme attracted more than two thousand five hundred (2,500) applicants. From this pool, two hundred (200) business owners were shortlisted to attend the summit, and the top five (5) finalists were invited to pitch their businesses before a panel of judges on Thursday, 10 April. At the summit, nine (9) winners were announced, with the highest grant winners emerging from the pitch session and others selected based on their application. Following the event, an additional eleven (11) attendees were further selected to receive grants, bringing the total number of grant recipients to twenty (20).

    In her welcome address, Layal Jade Tinubu spoke about her passion for empowering women in business, highlighting that these financial empowerment will help them START, SUSTAIN and SCALE.

    The summit featured engaging sessions with speakers including Elizabeth Isiorho, Founder of BETH Model Management, and Ibiyinka Ibru, CEO and Lead Financial Advisor at Moneystart.

    A fireside chat with Layal Tinubu, Founder and Managing Director of Tots Toys and Co-founder of the Noella Foundation, delved into her entrepreneurial journey, from transitioning out of the corporate world to balancing family and business.

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    Previous grant recipients from the 2024 edition returned to share how the programme transformed their businesses. They spoke about how the funding and, more importantly, the intensive bootcamp equipped them with the tools to improve operations, build stronger structures, and pursue growth with clarity.

    This year, the twenty (20) grant winners have successfully completed a rigorous five-week bootcamp designed as the culmination of the Be Empowered initiative. The bootcamp provided expert-led sessions on strategic planning, financial management, operational efficiency, and long-term scalability.

    By combining funding with an integrated learning experience, BE EMPOWERED founded by Layal Tinubu continues to set a benchmark for impactful entrepreneurship development for Nigerian women in enterprise.

  • Layal Tinubu moves from strength to strength

    Layal Tinubu moves from strength to strength

    Layal Jade Tinubu looks so soft from the outside but those close to this woman of valour have wowed and continue to wow her critics and leave her detractors dumbfounded with achievements upon achievements.

    This ageless mother of two has shown that with dedication, focus, and determination nothing is too big to be achieved.

    Not many know that she’s a woman of many parts, who is quite involved in a lot of activities that cater for and support people in Nigeria.

    From ensuring capacity building in women to supporting widows, giving out scholarships, and grants to youths to start up small businesses and more, Layal has been there, done that and unrelenting.

    She’s popularly known as the owner and founder of kiddies flagship store, Tots Toys but way beyond this, she has created platforms like Higher Heights – a safe and empowering space to visually map out the year ahead for women – and Noella Foundation.

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    With Higher Heights, Layal has supported the continued growth of women in her community and recently hosted 60 women to a transformative and impactful experience.

    For the Noella Foundation, Layal and her team made an impactful difference in various areas including education, employability, sickle cell awareness and support, hunger eradication, business support and more. Doling out over N150m in grants, and sponsorship, with over 30,000 individuals benefiting in over 30 impactful programs, Layal has distinctly distinguished herself from her peers. No wonder she remains the apple of Seyi Tinubu’s eyes.