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Peace Hyde And Others Named As Influencers For 2017 Eloy Awards

Posted on by Lawrencia Larbi-Amoah

The Exquisite Lady of the Year (Eloy) Awards is created by Exquisite Magazine. This is one of the most prestigious award ceremonies in Nigeria celebrating exceptional women in Africa’s leading economy.

The goal is to place the spotlight on change makers in Nigeria and around the world as policy makers and business support organizations wake up to the idea that women are good for the economic prosperity of the nation. The Eloy Awards has over the years sought to provide a platform that highlights the achievement of women from all walks of life.

This year marks the 9th edition of the Awards with the theme “The Year of Inspiration”. To drive home the message of this year’s theme is, the newly appointed Head of Digital Media and Partnerships and West Africa Correspondent for Forbes Africa, Peace Hyde. She who joins a quartet of other inspirational influencers including veteran Nigerian actress Joke Silva, Founder of Eloy Awards and Exquisite Magazine, Tewa Onasanya and owner of eponymous leading fashion brand Lanre Da Silva.

“ELOY Awards is aimed at inspiring, motivating and empowering women, celebrate their successes and showing that it can be done. Our distinguished influencers are carefully selected and they embody ladies who are doing exceptionally well in their chosen fields and are great examples of strong women doing great things. We want other women to be inspired by these women and strive to be the best they can be,” says Onasanya.

Peace Hyde has consistently been globally celebrated as both an inspirational broadcast journalist and a change maker through her work with her NGO Aim Higher Africa where the organization helps to empower young millennials and grassroots entrepreneurs to identify their passion in order to build scalable and sustainable businesses that will change the lives of those living in impoverished communities. Her work has led to the establishment of over 500 businesses in Africa earning her several prestigious awards as well as being featured on numerous international publications for her powerful voice and impact globally in the media landscape.

The ELOY awards have provided a launch pad for highlighting the works of today’s leading change makers and the caliber of this year’s inspiring influencers provides a back drop for the high level of female change makers the Eloy Awards is looking to celebrate in its 9th Edition.

Source: Brenda Omawumi

Peace Hyde appointed Head of Digital Media and Partnerships for Forbes Africa Online

Posted on by Lawrencia Larbi-Amoah

The ABN Group owners of the prestigious Forbes Africa and CNBC Africa platforms have recently appointed Peace Hyde as its new Head of Digital Media and Strategic Partnerships.

Hyde will still be maintaining her current role as the West Africa Correspondent for the leading business publication but will also head up the new digital platform, www.ForbesAfrica.com and drive user and engagement as well as create ongoing partnerships with brands and affiliates to cement the dominance of the magazine which is the number 1 read business magazine amongst Africa’s affluent according to a recent Ipsos EMS Survey.

“The publishing game has changed dramatically in recent years. Forbes Africa has always had a passion for celebrating the people changing Africa and our new digital platform is in line with reaching that goal. The biggest trigger for the change we are experiencing is the imminent shift to digital. Companies like Forbes Africa who have already began investing in this direction as well as creating engaging content will have a competitive advantage and we are excited that this new medium will create a paradigm shift in the way our loyal readers consume content”, says Hyde.

Forbes Africa is the sixteenth local language edition of the highly successful Forbes magazine – renowned for exploiting various matters as well as many listed based on the level of global wealth and power, offering topics such as “The World’s Most Powerful People” Global High Performers” and “The World Billionaires”. Forbes Africa was launched in October 2011.

“The managing editor, Chris Bishop is the visionary behind the immensely successful brand that we all love today. In just 6 years, Chris has managed to create a platform that is not only aspirational but also highlights the success stories from the continent while still maintaining the glitz and glamour of the prestigious Forbes brand. Through his guidance the new digital platform will have the same strict editorial standard but now we are widening our scope across the African region to pull in more stories that impact the continent as well as exciting content”, says Hyde.

“Forbes Africa is now 6 years and with this major push towards digital media, the company is simply carving out strategies to make us ready for the future. We are proud to appoint Peace Hyde to this role to help drive engagement from our millennial audience onto the online platform”, says Frederic Van Devyver, Executive Director, CNBC Africa and Forbes Africa.