Eight Nigerians have made the 2019 Forbes 30 under 30 nomination list. Forbes 30 under 30 is a set of lists issued annually by Forbes magazine and some of its regional editions to recognise business and industry figures.

300 trailblazers from 20 industries with an average age of 26 made the list. Over 55 per cent of them are founders or co-founders.

Nigerians who made the list include Taofeek Abijako, Kayode Ojo, Obi Omile Jr, Adegoke Olubusi, Tito Ovia, Dimeji Sofowora, Olaoluwa Osuntokun and Emmanuel Acho, NAN reports.

Taofeek Abijako is a 20-year-old designer who started his men’s streetwear brand when he was a high school teenager.

Kayode Ojo is a 28-year-old photographer who has had solo shows in Paris, Berlin, New York and Dallas.

Communication expert, Obi Omile Jr. is the co-founder of the Cut, a technology platform that allows users and barbers to schedule and manage appointments.

Adegoke Olubusi, 25, Tito Ovia, 25, and Dimeji Sofowora, 26 are founders of Helium Health a platform used by 5,000 doctors, with data from 500,000 patients across West Africa.

Olaoluwa Osuntokun, 25, is the co-founder of Lighting Labs which has raised $2.5 million to turn bitcoin into a more viable form of payment by making smaller transactions more cost-effective.

Also, Emmanuel Acho, 28, serves as the youngest national football analyst for ESPN and runs a charity that has built a hospital in Nigeria.

Ghanaian, Shadrack Frimpong, who founded Cocoa360, a ‘farm-for-impact’ model that uses revenues from community cocoa farms to fund educational and healthcare services.

International musicians Post Malone, 23, 21 Savage, 26, photographer Tyler Mitchell, 23 who photographed Beyonce for her Vogue September 2018 cover, and actor Storm Reid, 15 made the list.

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Son of our leaders

Is Forbes endorsing 'Three.some'?
Two guys sharing one Lady....

Good

Yoruba Amaka!

Those we host as settlers litter this forum disparaging our young people while they shine out there.

Someone ask that m.or.on below if 100k has ever passed through his miserable bank account before.

Lols... U mean forbs poorest millionaires?

This could have been me, but my people said I should comeback to Nigeria for one yeye NYSC while I stay back for a while to understand our culture and people for political reasons in the nearest future, now BUGHARIA barbaric and lifeless policies ended up amputating my career endeavors, if only I knew.

Come 2019, it's only boogharia leaves or I leave for him..

Meanwhile e no go better for village people that instigated in my people the idea of telling me to comeback to this damnation called Nigeria.

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Woow like seriously?

West side best side

Fulani and yorubas country

Laudable

Haaaa my name is not there...why

My name will be there by 2020. Emmanuel Akpe. You can screenshot this comment for future reference.

Oduduwa dominating

Reserving my place in the next forbes both by faith and by hardwork. Me To is Possible!!!!

NIGERIANS rock

Cool

Ok. Please If I Kill Somebody, Will The Person Die?

My dream too.
I will keep working and hustling smart till I get there.
NOTE: The hustling smart is not fraudster. My blog is in my signature and what I do. Thank you.

modestbrowser:
Lols... U mean forbs poorest millionaires?

oh really?? see how you think

That barbing idea website I always have it for over 5 years but no money to pursue it.

see young achievers, and some people will waste their entire day on nairaland, forming NCAN, shouting afonja and Igbo, and screaming articulation like idiots...



see una mates!!

Afonja Amaka!!! Buafra Ajoka

Wow...

I just saw my name on the lists

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