Uche Pedro nee Nze; the brain behind BellaNaija, is a 30 years old Nigerian entrepreneur and blogger. She grew up in Nigeria but travelled to Canada to further her studies in the prestigious Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario in Canada where she obtained a Bachelors degree in Business Administration (HBA) and graduated with distinction in 2006.
Bella Naija started sponteneously in july 2006, after Uche graduated from the university prior to resuming her first post-graduation job with Shell. After her stay in Canada, she lived in London UK for a year and then moved to Nigeria. She also has held positions in multinationals including the Cadbury Middle East & Africa Unit, based in the UK, and Cadbury Nigeria.
BellaNaija was primarily an accumulation of scanned magazine articles, pictures and interviews on Nigerian fashions and fashion personalities. It was the first of its kind in Nigeria and as the online media sector in Nigeria developed, its popularity increased, and it improved and got rebranded, its now one of the most viewed Nigerian lifestyle, entertainment and fashion website with over 10 million page views every month from readers all over the world and a net worth of over N20mn and its vision is to provide relevant African content online to inspire people.
This Media blog; BellaNaija has won several awards including the Outstanding Contribution to Fashion Communication Award (2010 Africa Fashion Week, held by Africa Fashion International (AFI) in Johannesburg). the Best Event Coverage Online Award (2011 and 2012 Nigerian Event Awards). and in February 2011, it was chosen as one of 50 high potential Nigerian SMEs, and was awarded a British Airways Opportunity. In 2012 BellaNaija.com also won the Online Publication of the Year award at the FAB Awards.
Uche Pedro has been an inspiration to several people like Linda Ikeji, Ladybrille and myself. She has been featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show, and in September 2010 she was interviewed on CNN International. In 2011, she was selected as a Nigerian Leadership Initiative (NLI) Associate, In January 2011, Uche was honoured as a “Young Person of the Year” finalist at the Future Awards. In September 2011, she was awarded the TW Magazine Protégé Award for Business Entrepreneurship, Forbes has also listed Uche Pedro, as one of the 30 Most Promising Young Entrepreneurs in Africa in 2014 and 2015.
In 2012, Uche got married to Bode Pedro, son of the former deputy governor of Lagos State. Bode is the founder, chief executive officer and chief technical officer of VEDA Technology, a computer manufacturing start-up business. And in February 2015, their union got blessed with a baby girl.
When you talk about beauty and brain, you talk about BellaNaija Uche Pedro, she is a power lady and these are just her stepping stones. I would really like to be like her when I grow up, LOL…
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