by Jewel Stephen

“I started My Fashion Label with N10,000, just 2 years ago –Google Connected Award Winner, British Council Award Winner, nominee for the Tony Elumelu Award for Entrepreneurship on the Future Africa Awards 2014.”

Eseoghene Odiate, 24 year old Founder and Creative Director of Heasay designs was the special TFA 2014 nominee guest on this week’s edition of Business Connect.

On the show, she told the audience that she started out learning how to design bags by watching videos off the internet. She also shared some key lessons anyone who is interested in getting into the fashion industry should know.

The esteemed guest on the Business connect radio programme, Managing partner RED Media and the Director of the Future Africa Awards, Chude Jideonwo, spoke on starting a business on a lean budget and the fundamental characteristics of every Entrepreneur. He also discussed the rationale for the Future Africa Awards and why the expansion of the Awards from Nigeria to the entire African Continent is as timely as it is strategic.

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Every week, on Business Connect, hosts; Brian Oji and Charles Odii explore several important topics around the subject of starting and growing sustainable businesses in the peculiar Nigerian economic environment. The Show airs every Tuesday at 9:00am on Metro 97.7 FM.

Business Connect is a Media Property of Inversion Ltd. Inversion is a content marketing firm that owns a series of media properties that engage the business class; from SME owners, business minded undergraduates, job seekers, business moguls young and old and every person who is inclined to improving their capacity to generate more income. Their media properties span, television, online, live events and radio; For more information, please visit www.inversionideas.com or call 08032301046, 08177743650.

Kolapo Olapoju