The co-founder of Women Radio, Toun Okewale-Sonaiya, has been inducted into the Women Hall of Fame of the Maryam Babangida National Centre for Women Development, MBNCWD. She was inducted as the first Nigerian woman to establish the country’s only radio station for women and Africa’s only commercial radio station for women.
Okewale-Sonaiya was honoured as an achiever and role models in Nigeria who has broken the glass ceiling in her profession. Her achievements were written on a plaque and placed among others gracing the Maryam Babangida National Center for Women Development Hall in Abuja.
The media entrepreneur co-founded the first women radio station, WFM 91.7 in 2015, with his brother, Dr Babatunde Okewale, founder of St Ives Hospital Group. The station has amplified the voices of Nigerian women by focusing on female-centric programmes that fosters national development.
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