“Having been trained as a nurse-midwife, with over three decades’ experience in nutrition, nursing and development activities, I am interested in income generation using local products, and in what our grandparents used in those days that made them look younger,” she said.

In the course of her search, she came across Moringa popularly called 'miracle tree or tree of life,' because it is said to contain a lot of anti-oxidants, which helps prevent skin cancer, and also has a lot of vitamin-E which keeps the skin well nourished.

“Along the line, I stumbled on Moringa plant and since then, we have done a lot, and we have produced the Vidsamor Moringa Tea and Powder which can increase longevity. It is particularly gratifying for me, because I know that we need simple things that can make our people live longer, especially pregnant women and growing children. This nutrient-dense plant contains a lot of micronutrients, that add value to life,” she said. Read more at: https://www.vanguardngr.com/2013/04/i-am-interested-in-rural-devt-income-generation-grace-oluwatoye/

laudate:


Chief (Mrs) Grace Oluwatoye is the Managing Director of Vidsa Multiventures Ltd, a food processing company established in 2001, specializing in the production of Moringa herbal tea, bean flour, soya bean powder and other staple food products. The company is based in Ibadan. Grace Oluwatoye is a graduate of Public Health Administration, and a Masters' degree holder in Population Programme Management, from the University of Exeter, UK.


















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Oluwatoye who is also the founder of Lifebuilders, a non-profit, non-governmental organisation, said Lifebuilders, was established because they believe that “the integration of health, non-formal education and agricultural services, at the rural and semi-rural communities of Nigeria, will ensure poverty alleviation; increase people’s quality of life, and usher in sustainable development of the majority of people currently living below poverty line.”



Lifebuilders, is a registered social, non-governmental and not-for-profit organization, that is geared towards providing health and sustainable development interventions targeted at youth, women and rural dwellers. It was registered in 2004, and tasked with the responsibility of providing information and services on Health, Economic Empowerment and Model services.

It has its core values - Integrity, Service, Partnership Molding and Accountability. Numerous resources have been utilized to implement high impact remedial programmes, and provide services that have significantly improved the standards of living and quality of life, of vulnerable groups including children, young people and women.

laudate:


Dr. Labo Osude is a dentist and a passionate believer in the use of organic, natural products to revitalise the skin and body. She set up Kalos Health and Beauty Products in order to make herbal products that were beneficial to her community, and the general public. Her agro-processing firm, makes the following products:









Moringa Bearberry Soap, Face Mask, Glow Lotion, Hair Oil, Lip Balm, Luxury Soap, Papaya Soap, Peppermint Soap and Oil are part of her range of products. She also manufactures Kalos Hibiscus Zobo Tea Packs. She has a farm in Ilishan-Remo in Ogun state where she grows Moringa leaves and processes them into user-friendly herbal products and supplements.

deedeedee1:

Egbon laudate, you are the best.
More eweddu to your amala
.

laudate:


Hehehe.... why you dey flatter me like dis? I just enter supermarket for my area, na im I see all these fine-fine products. I come dey check the name for internet. I was surprised to see that they were actually made, right here in Nigeria.

ACCION prides itself as a model Microfinance Bank with unique and well researched products and services to delight its customers. ACCION Microfinance Bank led by Bunmi Lawson commenced operations in May 2007 with one branch and 18 staff has today grown to become a National Microfinance Bank with over 259,313 customer accounts and 37,800 active borrowers serviced in over 50 branches in Lagos, Rivers and Ogun, Oyo and Anambra states and over 1000 total staff members as at July 2017. In line with its National expansion strategy, the bank opened its first branch outside Lagos in Port Harcourt in September 2015. It followed suite with the opening of its first branch in Ogun state in May 2016, Oyo and Anambra States in August 2016 respectively with plans to increase presence to six other states in the next four years. Accion Microfinance Bank recorded a gross turnover of N4bn as at December 2016 and has disbursed over N72bn in loans from inception to date and has total assets of N7.5bn as at December 2016. Its shareholders are ACCION Investments, Citibank, Ecobank, International Finance Corporation and Zenith Bank Plc.
Ms. Lawson holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the IESE Business School, University of Navarra and is an alumnus of the Lagos Business School. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria and a Member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria.
She is also a Fellow of the following Institutes; Institute of Credit Administration of Nigeria, Institute of Credit & Collections Management of Nigeria and Association of Investment Advisers & Portfolio Managers of Nigeria. She is also a Committee member of the following; Technical Research and Public Policy Committee of ICAN, Working Group of the MITC Committee of the Microfinance Platform and Strategic Review Committee of Developing Effective Private Education, Nigeria (DEEPEN). Enterprise Development Centre (EDC), Pan-Atlantic University, Steering Committee on the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women (CBFW) ‘Technology for Change’ (T4C) project and member SME, Finance & Financial Markets Policy Commission (SFFPC) of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group. She is also on the Board of CIBN Press Ltd. She is an Advisory Board Member of Bridge International Academies, Nigeria, Co-Creation Hub (CcHub), Nigeria, MaTontine Inc. New York, USA; and Simply Exponential Consult Limited as an independent director.
She has attended several courses both locally and internationally at renowned institutions including Harvard Business School, INSEAD and the Boulder Institute for Microfinance and has successfully completed the CBN/CIBN Microfinance Certification Programme. She has presented several lectures/speeches both locally and internationally in Microfinance and other areas of capacity building for small scale industries and young entrepreneurs, SME Financing as well as been part of special workgroups on various topics bothering on several aspects of the Nigerian economy.
Prior to joining ACCION, Bunmi was the Executive Director of FATE Foundation Ltd/Gte, a leading business development service provider, a co-owner and Executive Director of VLA Lawrence & Associates, a leading Human Resources services organization and has over 27 years post graduate experience in finance, insurance, marketing, auditing and banking.
She is a mother with 2 lovely children.

Rasheed Sarumi is a 1989 Agricultural Engineering Graduate of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife. He served as the pioneer Managing Director of Saro AgroSciences Ltd from inception in 1991 until 2010 and has been pivotal to the growth of the Group of companies. He is an astute Entrepreneur, well travelled and an alumnus of the Harvard and Lagos Business Schools.

saintfieldcastro:





We should post to enable u guys have a lot to repost and discuss on ur useless thread?

Tell me what is here that u guys haven't copied and pasted in ur thread just to increase the page number..

I lost interest when I found out over 95% of what is obtainable from ur thread is just exaggerations, repetitions, recycling, reposting of our posts and comments and bogus images from internet and Computer generated graphics

GoldNiagara:
DabuIIIT now lives on this thread! Bet when you walk past any Yoruba you watch in awe.

DabuIIIT:


yep,just like geomaloo lives on the 'other side' and the other conehead who ports posts frm 'there' to boost and widen the gutter on here,huh? And of cos,i watch in awe,in awe of yall .......cos of Awo lemme nah say it

GoldNiagara:


So you live in a gutter. Always impulsive and thoughtless typical of Ipods.

DabuIIIT:

side by side with yall Ps dammit,if u say so...make no mistakes,am only on here cos....i wanna help lolsss so yall get outter da damm ghóta
sai Awo
Psy baba..

GoldNiagara:


we create the thread and you wan die put.

DabuIIIT:
If not for Awo,nat geo wild wud concentrate on the eweduside 247

hilroy:


Your posts are just totally void and bereft of anything sensible. Stop derailing the thread with your illogical and childish posts

"I got into the doll business by chance. At that time my daughter was young, and I realized she was going through an identity crisis,’ Taofick tells me when I reach out to the Lagos-based founder over the phone. He further adds, ‘She wished she was white, and I was trying to figure out where that came from."

I used to always buy her white dolls, and it never got to me that it was relevant which color, her dolls were. On top of that, we have DSTV in Nigeria where children watch the Disney programs, and all her favorite characters were white. I started to understand why she’d feel the way she did, ‘cause it was all that she’d been exposed to,’ the Queens of Africa dolls creator explains.

Upon realizing the non-existence of black dolls within the Nigerian market, he decided to create a brand of his own. Lucky for him, he made international headlines seven years after the brand’s inception, for outselling Mattel's Barbie dolls, Barbie in his native Nigeria (selling between 6000 and 9000 dolls a month) according to Reuters reports.https://www.forbes.com/sites/declaneytan/2016/05/18/nigerias-leading-doll-brand-is-coming-to-america/#6b30976d3a1c

GoldNiagara:



Dude you be tout! You insufferably hilarious.lmao.

hilroy:


In honesty, there has never been any zeal from start. The pages on this thread increase because there were many Yorubas that were exposing the lies and chestbeating on this thread. The moment they stopped making comments on this trashy thread, the pages started dwindling because you guys struggle to post anything sensible. And please stop playing victim of being banned, you aren't the only people that get banned. I have being banned several times, and I just came back from a weeklong ban.

kn23h:
@Laudate,

Have you started with the categorization?

If not, I believe this is a task we can split across the members here....by pages.

I'd like to execute it by this weekend.

totit deomelo, hilroy ODVanguard scholes0 etc.

kn23h:



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hilroy:


Are we gonna do the categorization on this thread? or do we have to create another thread for this purpose?

hilroy:


Are we gonna do the categorization on this thread? or do we have to create another thread for this purpose?

hilroy:


Kn23h, I so much love this pix