Florence ‘Bodex’ Hungbo, Lead Consultant and Group Managing Director of Bodex Media, is a misunderstood personality, to use a favourite term.
Another reason many believe her meteoric rise in the media and entrepreneurship worlds is due to pure chance and fluke.
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At the IIM, Florence Bodex Hungbo is now a Senior Professional Member. |
It’s a common misconception that she rose to her current position by some miracle rather than through sheer force of will, tenacity, and fervent prayer.
Despite coming from a well-to-do family in Badagry, Lagos, Nigeria, she has worked hard since she was a child to build a name for herself in the sector she selected.
She opted to leave the comfort of her parent’s home in search of a greener pasture disassociating herself from her parent’s wealth.
At first, different tongues wagged on her over the decision to abandon the luxuries of her father’s home to carve a niche for herself in the media space. Today, those who cast aspersions on her persona are currently praising her for the unusual feat and impeccable success in the media and communication terrain.
A few years ago, she kick-started the annual Bodex Social Media hangout in Lagos. What originally started as a tribe has grown to be one of the most anticipated social media hangouts in the country, where all the new/traditional media and stakeholders converge to discuss ways of harnessing basic social media tools for the projection of human values and also how to use social media in nation-building.
Despite the events brief hiatus due to the deadly pandemic in 2020, she has launched the third season which would hold at the prestigious 5-star hotel Raddisson Blu GRA in Lagos a few months from now, with attendance from the industry’s top professional practitioners.
Florence ‘Bodex’ Hungbo
In the celebration and appreciation of her contribution to the media profession in the country, with an endless list of satisfied clientele to her credit; her reward for hard work came as she was recently inducted as a Senior Professional Member of the Institute of Information Management at a well-attended investiture ceremony held at the Main Auditorium, University of Lagos UNILAG.
The Institute of Information Management (IIM) is a professional membership-driven Institute, developed to serve the growing community of Data, Information, Records, Document and Archives Management professionals who are tasked with managing the dynamic information life cycle within the enterprise.
It is the goal of the institute to provide our members with objective insights and guidance on their career paths and technology options.
Bodex in the company of other Senior Professionals sauntered into the auditorium in a procession headed by the Chairman Board of Directors and Governing Council of the institute, Ambassador Dr Oyedokun Ayodeji Oyewole among other high-ranking members of the institute.
Sources said; The institute has contacted Bodex years ago on the investiture but due to her work schedule, and travel itinerary she was unable to attend.
The event started at about eleven am with an educative session that emphasizes Data Challenges, Risks and Solutions and concluded with the induction by the Chairman Board of Directors and Governing Council of the institute, Ambassador Dr Oyedokun Ayodeji Oyewole.
An alated Bodex disclosed that; the investiture is a reward for years of hard work. ” I am never relenting despite all means for detractors to discredit my hard-earned achievements in the media profession.
I will continue to shame critics with more records and achievements.” She said this while showing of her plaque to show her acceptance into the Institute.