Ifeoma Hope Uddoh, or Ifeoma Nwakwesi Uddoh is a Nigerian social entrepreneur. She is founder of Shecluded, a

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company aimed at

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. In December 2019 Uddoh was one of five female entrepreneurs to emerge as winners of a UK-Nigeria Tech Hub competition sponsored by the

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. The winners received sponsorship to travel to the

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for the January 2020 UK-Africa Investment Summit.

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Finalists announced for the International Tech Hub Network’s Female Tech Founders and TeXchange programmes
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