MayorofLagos:
Laudate, great job! Dont forget Main One and Main Street.

Sunky200:
laudate, referring to yourself as someone that come from a minority tribe disgust me. i may be wrong, but i strongly frown at that expression judging from the negative psychological effects and or interpretation on the mind of the uninformed.

i love the good works you guys are articulating together with the view of promoting the quality of our productions and image. God bless you.

keep it up

The idea of running a 7,000-kilometer undersea high capacity cable submarine from Portugal to Lagos, Nigeria seemed unachieveable, too ambitious and maybe utterly ridiculous, but Funke Opeke had a vision and she was willing to give her all to make it happen.

In 2005, after moving back to Nigeria to take on the role of Chief Technology Officer of MTN Nigeria, Funke Opeke noticed the low internet connectivity in Nigeria and decided to do something about it. In 2008, she started MainOne, West Africa’s leading communications services, and network solutions provider.
https://techpoint.ng/2017/05/05/things-didnt-know-funke-opeke/

Everywhere she looks in Nigeria, Funke Opeke notices missed opportunities. But the founder and CEO of Main One Cable Company also sees ways to address them.

When the 54-year-old returned to Nigeria in 2005, after 20 years and a successful telecoms career in the US, she was shocked by the low level of internet connectivity in her country of birth. "While the developed world was fully connected, here in Nigeria the average young person didn't know what the internet was," she remembers.

One reason was that most of the online communication in Africa's most populous country ran through satellite networks. There was no stable physical connection to the internet.

The trained electrical engineer realised that the core infrastructure for the internet needed to be fixed. At first, she tried to do this by joining the Nigerian public telecoms company, NITEL. When that didn't work out, she decided to fix it herself.

"We can't leave an entire generation of young people without proper access to the internet," she says.

In 2008, Funke Opeke started Main One Cable Company, which proceeded to lay a 7,000km fibre optic cable across the bottom of the ocean, from Portugal to Nigeria. The project required $240m to be raised.

It was an adventure, but one she isn't necessarily sure she would embark upon again. Still, she pulled it off, and the result caused nothing short of a cyber-revolution in what is now Africa's biggest economy.

Since its launch in 2010, the Main One Cable Company has become the provider to the providers, the broadband connection without which they couldn't exist. Internet banking in Nigeria has taken a giant leap forward because of the possibilities broadband offered, and local e-commerce has blossomed with the emergence of mail order companies like Konga and Jumia, online booking agency hotels.ng, discount site DealDey, and the introduction last year of the Uber app in Lagos.

When Google comes to Nigeria, it is Funke Opeke they talk to, and when the University of Lagos is thinking about a broadband network on campus, it is Main One with whom they partner. In 2012, she received the CNBC All Africa Businesswoman of the Year award.

Fola Adeola is the chairman of Main One Cable Company. He got involved with Opeke's start-up after a promise he made out of guilt, but he hasn't regretted it. "Main One was the most memorable experience in my career," says the celebrated businessman who established GTBank, one of Nigeria's most respected and fastest growing banks.

Long before the Main One adventure, Adeola had asked Opeke to come and lead the privatisation process of NITEL. She left her high-profile job as chief technical officer for MTN Nigeria, a telecoms company, a position for which she had returned to her home country in 2005. Opeke figured she could turn around the dysfunctional government institution for the good of the community.

In a country already rife with graft, NITEL had a reputation for being one of the most corrupt public services, or, as Adeola diplomatically puts it: "A place where self-interest overruled the company's interest." Because of that, it didn't take long before the former banker concluded the project wasn't working for him, and stepped back.

However, he felt guilty about leaving Opeke behind. "I called her into my office and said: 'Funke, the moment this job is not fulfilling for you any more, if there is anything you want me to help you with, you know where to find me,'" Adeola says.

Less than a year later, she showed up at his office with the biggest request he had ever gotten. http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/my-nigeria/2015/09/funke-opeke-nigeria-cyber-revolutionary-150921085229827.html

Flying Doctors is an indigenous air ambulance in Nigeria and West Africa. We have been in operation for about 10 years. Where I was coming from in the United Kingdom, everybody was using private jets and helicopters to transfer patients and I thought this would be the best thing to bring to Nigeria.

But after few years I realised that, in this market, expecting a patient to pay up to $10,000 or more for a transfer between cities was not feasible. What we did was to bring down the price. We forged a partnership with a number of commercial airlines we now have a way of placing all the life-support equipment inside a commercial aircraft, thereby reducing the price from $20,000 to as low as N200,000 for air ambulance transfer. It is just a small closed-up cabin, the curtain would be around the patient so nobody knows the patient’s identity, while the rest of the passengers sit in their seats.

We are the only air ambulance service that specialised in doing this, and I realised that, in Nigeria and most of West Africa, the affordability is quite low for the private jet model. That is how we designed this to fit into any commercial airline. Maiduguri to Lagos, Benin to Lagos, Kaduna to Abuja are journeys that patients need to make every day for treatment. It has really changed the lives of a lot of people that would have not been able to seek the best care for them without the use of our service.

What is the nature of the staff you employ?
We have critical care doctors, nurses and paramedic doctors, among others. Some patients that we transfer are unable to breathe on their own so they need to breathe with a ventilation machine and the role of this machine is like taking the place of the lungs, which is like a life-support machine.

So, because of that complexity in controlling the machine, how they are breathing, the pressure at which they are breathing, we need critical care specialist. For the regular cases, we use nurses or paramedics. http://sunnewsonline.com/why-i-started-air-ambulance-orekunrin-md-flying-doctors/

"Sub-Saharan Africa has the world’s smallest number of motorized vehicles but the highest rate of road traffic fatalities, with Nigeria and South Africa leading the pack.

Trauma has become a silent epidemic in Africa, an epidemic that will only spread as the economy grows. More and more Africans are buying cars and working in heavy and dangerous industries. At the same time, infrastructure is poor, safety laws lax, and cars badly maintained." http://www.lionessesofafrica.com/lioness-ola-orekunrin/

Superflux International Limited was incorporated as a private limited liability company in 1995 and commenced business in 1998 in Victoria Island, Lagos. It subsequently moved its security printing facility to a 12,000 square meter purpose built factory complex located at 3 Vori close, Ogba Industrial area. It has a staff strength of over 300 employees.

Accredited by the Central Bank of Nigeria, Central Bank of Zambia and other West African Central Banks, it is the industry leader for cheque provision and other security printing solutions in Nigeria and has become the preferred supplier of cheques to major banks in Nigeria, having over 80% market share. Its services cut across the financial, manufacturing, entertainment, education sectors as well as Government agencies in Nigeria and across several African countries. http://www.superfluxnigeria.com/about.aspx

Tokunbo Talabi is the founder Superflux International Limited. Prior to starting up Superflux, Tokunbo was a pioneer staff of Guaranty Trust Bank Plc. where during his 8-year stint, he served and headed various positions in the bank, such as Corporate Banking, Retail Banking, Corporate Services and Banking Operations. Tokunbo has since grown Superflux from a 2-man trading company at inception to a business with over 300 employees in its employ, with the head office located on a purpose built 12,000 square meter full fledge ultra modern printing/manufacturing facility in Ikeja, Lagos.

Tokunbo’s excellent management of the company’s businesses is evidently proven as Superflux has since become a conglomerate with several active interests in the Financial and Real Estate sectors having diversified investment portfolio interests in agro-allied, steel manufacturing, sectors in companies like Great Nigeria Insurance Plc, Courier Plus, TnT Express, Flux Logistics, Speedy Prints, Papyrus Limited. In 2008, Superflux International Limited competed and won the prestigious Legatum Pioneers of Prosperity Africa Awards as Grand Prize Winner. https://www.bitfluxng.com/directors.html

Sunky200:
laudate, referring to yourself as someone that come from a minority tribe disgust me. i may be wrong, but i strongly frown at that expression judging from the negative psychological effects and or interpretation on the mind of the uninformed.

i love the good works you guys are articulating together with the view of promoting the quality of our productions and image. God bless you.

keep it up

PenSniper:
My people, @areonakakanfo, @laudate, etc, i've been off circulation for close to a year as a result of a ban. Please is there any other platform apart from this where we can discuss issues germain to our tribe in relative confidentiality ?
Cheers and thanks for the good job being done here.

CeterisXVII:

Laudate is currently unavailable, but has requested that I keep an eye on this thread in his absence. Yes, there is a place where you can discuss Yoruba-related matters. Pls check: www.yorubaparapo.com

@ wyttecat and other yoruba Nairalanders, i'm using this medium to urge you all to write to the local government, elders, omo onile's and baales of your communities.

Draw their attention to this particular post and enlighten them on the dangers ahead if we fail to act now by neutralizing the threats nonindegenes,especially ibos pose to the yorubas in SW.

I'll also do same, i'll reach out to many people as much as i can.
Pls don't discard this advise, we have to start somewhere.

Write as much as you can and draw the attention of your friends, neighbours and relatives to this thread cos most yorubas are not even aware of the evil plans of the people they are accomodating.

Agreed 100%. I have friends and families in development. I will start talking to them 1 by 1 and tell them to spread the same message. I'll start writing emails today. If you want to reach out to your government, I'll list them below. Don't just post on this forum. If you write an email that can apply to all Southwest states, just send it to all of them and change the letterhead respectively. Stop writing on here, and start writing and talking to real Yoruba people around you. Also, we need to start migrating to yorubaparapo.com. Many ex nairaland Yoruba users have migrated there.

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MrMaestro:
As a result of this thread: https://www.nairaland.com/4253733/amosun-burden-non-indigenes-ogun/11
And this one: https://www.nairaland.com/4253705/non-yoruba-indigenes-south-west-regroup

I think it's time to renew this thread and take action. Brush up on the listed threads to understand why I'm bumping this thread back up. Here's my last post on those threads.

This thread is specifically for any positives coming from Yorubaland, how to move the region forward, the Yoruba diaspora and Yoruba success stories in general so we can discuss. Please let's endeavour to keep up this page.

laudate:
Dr. Olamide Orekunrin is a medical doctor, a trained helicopter pilot, and the healthcare entrepreneur & founder of Flying Doctors Nigeria, West Africa’s first Air Ambulance Service. She's dedicated to bringing trauma care to the most remote parts of Western Africa and her company, an air ambulance service based in Lagos, is doing just that.

Her meteoric rise in the field of medical studies took her to Japan, after she had won the MEXT Japanese Government Scholarship. There, she conducted clinical research in the field of regenerative medicine, at the Jikei University Hospital. However, the catalyst for a major life and career decision came when her sister became very, very ill on holiday whilst staying with relatives in Nigeria. The local hospital was unable to manage her sickle cell anemia condition.

After she lost her younger sister tragically on that visit to Nigeria, due to the lack of a medical air ambulance service to transport her to a hospital, Ola Orekunrin was motivated to set up the service. Ola graduated as a medical doctor from the University Of York in the UK, and is a member of the American Academy of Aesthetic Medicine.

Ola currently resides in Lagos, Nigeria where she is considered a national expert of disaster medicine and pre-hospital care. Her company has been featured on various local TV and radio stations as well as the BBC and CNN. _{http://www.lionessesofafrica.com/lioness-ola-orekunrin/}

Here are some of her views:




Orekunrin's company Flying Doctors Nigeria (FDN), is a Medical Emergency Service that specializes in air ambulances, medevac, medico-logistics services, remote site medical solutions services, medical infrastructural development and medical training services. The doctors on her team, are not just doctors; they have received training in Aviation medicine. They also have years of experience in both acute medicine and the aviation industry,”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNImiFpD-XY

xtolax:
My friends and I had so much fun during the Osun festival and we were glad we found cheap hotels in Ile-Ife to stay throughout the period of the celebrations.

BankeSmalls:


We love cheap things in our region too much. This is the hotels in my area in ibadan .

Cosbyrich:


Why are you so hurt,bankesmalls?
Is it because Ibadan city only is more than thrice developed than the entire Igboland?

LegendHero:


Please don’t engage the Igbos in argument on here. I am just seeing this thread and it’s a great thread.

Just ignore any Igbo that’s trying to pollute the thread with hate and envy.

Do not reply coz the essence of this thread will be defeated.

Odua a gbe wa o