Uchenna Pedro Eze popularly acknowledged as Uche Eze is a Nigerian entrepreneur, Founder and managing director of Bain Stone Limited founded (2009) and Bellanaija.com (based 2006) a pioneer media enterprise in Nigeria.
PERSONAL LIFE
Uche Pedro Eze is married to Bode Pedro, Son of one time deputy Governor of Lagos state, Femi Pedro. Uche and her husband welcomed two set of twins.
EARLY LIFE &EDUCATION
She was born on 26 July 1984. She hails from the eastern part of Nigeria. She had her number one and secondary college training earlier, then transferred to Canada where she completed her education in Ivey school of business, University of western Ontario, Canada and graduated with a bachelor degree in science and administration. During the holidays, she could tour to Nigeria to take a look at her own circle of relatives and friends . One time while she was on vacation in Nigeria, she was surprised to see humans taking style seriously and the entertainment industry started to grow like never before.
UCHE’ CAREER
She saw the developing upgrades in fashion, entertainment, and business so she was stimulated to start something that represented this thrilling younger vibe in the country. Bella Naija was established in July 2006 as an interest she was always scanning magazine articles, pictures interviews, and posting . she commenced with Google loose web, web website hosting platform ‘www.bellanaija.blogspot.com’ and she later moved to ‘BellaNaija.
BellaNaija portal started to have over 1 million hits each month at which era she unveiled the media. Uche found out the capacity of what she has turned into constructing and she went in advance to arrange the enterprise. She took a step in organizing the commercial enterprise with the aid of registering a parent organization, Bainstone limited.
Bainstone limited is centered on growing and managing revolutionary and interesting online media content for Africans. The enterprise turned into 50 excessive capability SMEs selected, and presented a Britishing Airways opportunity grants. She is a Nigeria leadership initiative partner and a fellow of TEDGLOBAL. Uche is likewise a member, Board of Director of LEAP (Leadership, Effectiveness, Accountability, and professional) Africa a nonprofit organization.
The main issue about the BellaNaija platform is that Uche instilled ethics and a manual in their publishing. There’s stability within the platform and they aren’t pushed with the aid of using the fashion to post something only for traffic. In the year 2008, Punch magazine rated Uche the N0.1 twenty second person among a hundred humans that shaped the 12 months. Her weblog earns $40,000 and $50,000 in a month from Google AdSense alone, she makes additional $10,000 from direct adverts, subsidize publish, and wedding features.
Today the BellaNaija platform is one of the pinnacle one hundred websites in Nigeria, and keeps to develop its visitors base, attracting fashion savvy audience who needs to spend time on a portal that knows fashion, music, trends. Uche Pedro has been building and increasing the Bellanaija brand and ‘productizing’ different segments of the brand for instance there’s the BellaNaijastyle.com. The BellaNaija brand excellent feat ultimate year and worth of point out is their partnership with the United Nations Office of the Commissioner for Human right for International women’s Day.
On May 2015, Uche has an expected net worth of $45million. She has been recognized in so many ways i.e .2019 Speaker BBC “Countering Fake News” Even Speaker 2018, “Bloomberg Africa Business Media Innovators”, Forum Keynote Speaker .#ADICOMDAYS 2018 Okay Africa100 Women campaign Gates, Foundation/Gates Africa# GatesLetter Campaign 2017 Obama Summit – “Civic Leader Making a Difference around the World, Stanford Seed Transformation Program SME 100 List of 100 most innovative female-owned businesses in Nigeria, Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards, African Blogger of the Year. In 2010 she was nominated as Young Person of the Year and The Best Use of Technology at The Future Award, She gained the Outstanding Contribution to Fashion Communication Award at African Fashion Week in 2010. She received Online Publication of the Year at FAB Awards in 20122, 2013 Business Portege Award at TW Magazine Phoenix Gala Awards Uche gained Young Media Entrepreneur Award by The British Council and lots other.
