 Main time participants at the ongoing Wimbays conference have been charged to be inspired and leave with a desire to take action and do something to change the trajectory of their lives. This was the submission of the Executive Director of Wimbays, Hanzatu Adigbiter while speaking at the opening ceremony of the ongoing 2023 conference in Lagos. Plus the evening's correspondent Lafiko Koeidoko brings us more in this report. Seated are women from different backgrounds, color are rays. Once again, they have traveled far and wide to listen, learn, unlearn and relearn, motivate and inspire one another to activate the seed of greatness in them in order to reach their highest potentials. Veteran broadcast journalist Bimbo Uluyedi kick-started the event. She took participants on a journey of how their thought process can activate those seed of greatness inherent in them. For you who is made in this image, I ask that you speak it as an invocable fact that I am possible and I love to hear it. The 22nd edition was an expository, educative, inspiring and motivational like previous ones. The women were challenged to dare to dream and make it come through. Volcano speaker Paul Awunibe emphatically encouraged participants to take chances, be resilient and stay in power. We have done more, at least as much and probably more than all the men in the world, right? The problem is a narrative. It's taking control of our own destiny and making sure we talk about it and we push it out there and not be afraid. I don't believe in the glass ceiling. As a matter of fact, I think the term should be scrapped. There isn't a ceiling. We've just got to go because they do what we need to do. But you know, it's not tomorrow. It's not when I'm more comfortable. It's not after I have my children. It's not after my children grow up. It's now. The opportunity of a lifetime can only be realized in the lifetime of that opportunity. As the different planaries discuss and re-echo the importance of networking, owning their environment, being confident, optimistic and passionate. As a woman, you have to tell yourself, of course, I may need to win it. I'm not just going to be a figure in the male-dominated world. You have to make your stamp known. Like Sherry Sandbag said, don't be afraid to speak up and sit at the table. So don't just be in such sectors. Be there to make a mark. I only come to Nigeria, I think one year before 2040. That's 2030. Occasionally I come here to look at the business market and I find and surprise, why this country? Anywhere is the used car. So that's caused my attention. There must be some business there. That's key in my mind. Then I do the research and I go back. I went back to China and then when I decide I want to come to invest in Nigeria, so we choose automobile as the industry will enter. Han Satu Adeguite is executive director of Wimbis. She speaks on the choice of the theme for the 2023 conference. I want you to look at yourself in the mirror as a young girl child and believe that you carry a seed. The thing with seeds is that all it needs is what will activate it to produce fruits. Surround yourselves with the people that will inspire your thought process. Let that seed in you be activated and let your path to greatness be a step at a time, a day at a time and one day your story will be heard. Highlights of the one of the Wimbis conference included raffle draws which saw two participants smiling home with three million Naira in the impact investment award. The conference continues on Friday. Love Ikuku Iyiduku plus TV news.