₦airaland Forum

Drogbs:
I'm ashamed that my Igbo brethren don't know the extent of Igbo youths breaking unimaginable academic records in the USA, the demography alone is frightening, when I get back from church I'll flood these thread cause it seems Igbos don't care much about important threads like this but focus on Biafra and IPOB(which is good) but we need to focus on success stories of Igbos.

SonofDevil:
pictures of innoson alone in this thread is more than 3pages.

It seems innoson is the biggest investment in igboland

BabaRamota1980:
Ibo developing Australia.
See proof...

adetoya234:
We afonjas should stop jealousing igbo people.

OkoYibo:
In line with the unrivalled Yoruba celebratory practices, we should throw another party to celebrate your return to Nairaland.

SonofDevil:
do u have picture of mazi- osu-chukwu the one the owns Lagos state

Given her impressive track record as the former Minister of Communication Technology, when news broke of Dr. Omobola Johnson’s appointment as the lead general partner for TLcom Capital’s Lagos arm, we were elated.

Founded in 1999, TLcom Capital has invested in targeted businesses that address technological issues in either large established global markets, or in the development of emerging markets with the potential for a global scale. The firm just raised a $40 million seed fund for African startups. Making the announcement at her office today, Omobola Johnson said



So if you run a tech-enabled startup with the potential to scale globally here in Nigeria and other Sub-Saharan African countries, now is the time to get your books in order and your pitch decks properly done. You never can tell; they might be reaching out to you soon.

raker300:
they are the ones replying each other and liking each other.

These guys do nothing but troll Igbo threads on nairaland all day.

Their inferiority complex is beyond appalling

Nigerian startup LawStrive has launched a platform that aims to make legal service accessible in a faster and cheaper way.

Launched in March, LawStrive provides a single platform where users can connect with lawyers almost instantly, get answers to questions, and get their jobs done.

The startup was formed after co-founders Odunayo Adesokan and Samuel Olabamiji realised the convoluted means by which most Nigerians went about obtaining the services of a lawyer.

“You would have to ask someone, and that person will ask another person and then they may finally get a phone number to call. This may take between two and three days, and we thought if we could make people talk to lawyers instantly, yeah, that would be nice. So, we started LawStrive,” Olabamiji told Disrupt Africa.

“We also observed that several people are not sure what the law says about certain situations and they would love to understand the facts, but they don’t have anyone to ask. Now they can.”

LawStrive has not received any form of funding as yet, but is open to investment.

“We have crossed the early adopter lines and we are hoping to growing rapidly, we now have lawyer from all the major business hubs in the country,” Olabamiji said.

“Startups and new companies that cannot afford to employ a lawyer internally are coming to us to get lawyers to assist them with registration and legal documents. Law firms are also reaching out to us for partnership. Right now, we have about 50 lawyers with varied areas of specialisation.”

LawStrive has so far served clients in Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, Oyo and Ekiti states, and plans to have lawyers working with it in every state.

“We also plan to expand to other some African countries, especially Ghana, Kenya and South Africa,” said Olabamiji.

ChopUp is a social platform that connects mobile device gamers across Africa and then allows them interact based on in-game achievements and points which can be transferred across games.

The platform supports content across feature (limited feature) devices and smart phones in recognition of Africa’s unique mobile device spread. This platform sits behind all our games and will eventually be opened up to allow other developers create mobile apps that integrate seamlessly with ChopUp. Our target segment also includes Africans in diaspora

hilroy:
[size=14pt]Olumide Oresegun
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Oresegun Olumide is a Nigerian hyper-realistic artist. On 8 March 2016, he received media attention in Nigeria and beyond after he posted some of his oil on canvas paintings on social media website Facebook. Born in Ikorodu, a suburb of Lagos, Olumide's love for drawing and painting started when he was 4. He is an alumnus of Yaba College of Technology, Yaba, Lagos where he graduated with a distinction in Fine Art. He cites Pablo Picasso and Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni as his role models.


These hyper-realistic photos are actually oil paintings
By Esra Gurkan, for CNN.

Nigerian artist Oresegun Olumide is taking the internet by storm
His artwork is so realistic that it's hard to believe they're not photographs
He uses water as a recurring theme and paints people from his local community

Water droplets slide down the faces of children as they stare directly at what you could easily believe is a camera.
In fact, they are all paintings by Lagos-born Nigerian artist Oresegun Olumide.
The hyperrealism created in the oil paintings makes his work seem so life like that it is hard to believe they aren't.

With over 18.7k followers and counting on Instagram, his work is fast gaining momentum online.
Read about Nigerian breadseller turned supermodel
Water is a recurring theme in his art because according to a popular adage in his native Yoruba language, "water has no enemy," Olumide told CNN.

The use of water gives a translucent effect and, he says, is "why it's difficult for many people to do."
Olumide pushes himself to create art that his community hasn't seen before and that is challenging for him.
He became interested in art at the age of four and started professionally creating art in 2005, Olumide said.
The 35-year-old majored in Fine Art at the Yaba College of Technology , Lagos, graduating with a distinction.
Drawing inspiration from his community, he is creating pieces that reflect the lives of those around him.
His work, he says, is "a gradual process," taking around two to three weeks to create individual pieces.
"And depending on the intricacy I want to achieve, it can take a couple of months," he added.

Is an education outfit based in Nigeria, West Africa which provides admission processing services and counseling for international students who want to school abroad be it at high schools, colleges and universities for Foundation, Undergraduate, Pre-masters, Post graduate, PHD.

Founded by Mr Michael Adekanle who is the managing director/CEO in 2010, the company has since risen as an educational outfit to be reckoned with in the country being a representative to over 100 universities in different parts of the world.

With our branches in Ibadan, Uyo, Port-Harcourt, Ilorin and Abuja, students who are in other parts of the country now have access to our services. The option of variety is also a trademark of AMA-Dove Nigeria limited as there are unlimited courses to pick from in any Ivy League school of any student's choosing.

At Funda, we develop learning management systems and provide content development services to higher institutions to take their courses online so that the general public can access them at a cheaper price," says Nigerian-born Kolawole Olajide, one of Funda's founders.
The flexibility that comes with e-learning is just one of the many reasons Olajide says the online education tool has found success.
Where electronic waste becomes art

"It's responsive to the students' schedules," says the 22-year-old entrepreneur. "But also managers who want to do courses but are too busy to do them can now use [Funda] and sign in when they get back from work and access the resources online."
Olajide came up with the concept for Funda -- which means "to learn" in Zulu -- at university when he found he couldn't take school home. He had hoped to start the company in his homeland of Nigeria, but the obstacles were too great.
"It was very difficult because they were not digitally ready," he recalls. "They did not understand what I was trying to do. The second problem I faced was internet penetration in the country. I thought South Africa was more stable so Funda had a higher chance of success there because many people already have the Internet."
Alongside four other young entrepreneurs -- Kennedy Kitheka (Kenya), Jason Muloongo (Zambia), Sameer Rawjee (South Africa) and Kumbirai Gundani (Zimbabwe) -- the e-learning portal took shape and each founder provided a different perspective for the startup.
None are over the age of 25, yet these innovators are simply doing what is natural to the millennial generation -- using technology to find solutions to problems they've experienced.
"We bring together the problems we've seen in different parts of Africa and we are all trying to create together solutions to the problems we have experienced in different parts of the continent," says Olajide.
He adds: "I was aware of user experience because user experience of technology in Nigeria was not very good. One of the other partners was keen on developing the mobile application because he said in his area of the world, there are more mobile users. So we are bringing together solutions made by the problems we've faced in Africa."
Olajide explains that Funda offers a free mobile app that can be downloaded to a user's smartphone. Students can access the e-learning portal via a keycode provided by the university they are registered to.
"At the moment, [mobile] is very limited. Mobile phones are good for getting your results, educators checking attendance reports and all that stuff. But the real core experience is from the desktop machine."
Since its launch in 2009, Funda has been recognized by several international bodies, including the United Nations Development Programme and the World Economic Forum. It has also received a number of accolades, including the "Best Tech Innovation and Education" award at the U.N.'s World Youth Summit in 2012 and Mazar's "Best Sustainable Business Model" prize.
Looking ahead, Olajide has big plans for the startup. "Our major goal is to be a major education technology provider in Africa," he says. "So we're just trying to strategically position ourselves, so when Africa is ready we would also be ready."
For the time being however, the company's main focus is creating sustainable growth before proceeding to roll out the platform across the continent.
As for Olajide, the passionate Nigerian says he is determined to keep on working to help increase accessibility to education in the continent.
"The future of the continent lies in how educated people are," he says." All the major problems can be solved with education -- education is the key to the future.

Prepclass.com is an e-learning platform that uses the latest web technologies to ensure that relevant local content such as past questions, past tests, class notes; interactive audio and 2D/3D videos are available to users (high school students, undergraduate students and Job seekers) on demand via their digital devices.
With our adaptive learning technology, users identify their weak subject areas with high frequency of repetition and get firsthand knowledge on how to solve such questions with detailed solutions.
Currently, with more than 2000 users, Prepclass helps students prepare for JAMB which is the most popular national examination in Nigeria, written yearly by almost 2 million students around the country.

strenghtt:
Why must u repeat CHINEDU ECHERUO ? how many time u want post this ? You no get another person to post again? Let me help u, visit Yoruba thread to borrow the names of tons of brilliant IT entrepreneurs and post it here so that we can at least see new names rather than than d repeated names u have posted and still posting.

naturalman:
Jikas furniture

Jikas furnitures tops the best Furniture Companies in Nigeria and offers hundreds of solid creations of custom furnishings in wood, ranging from the traditional to the modern design, all possessing a unique design, aesthetic with a contemporary touch such as furniture for a living room, dining room, bedroom complete, office furniture, kitchen cabinets, sanitary facilities, the goods and fixtures . Our company is specialized in the supply of furniture top of the range. We are now serving in the movable hotels, businesses, buildings and residential buildings. Our headquarters is located in Lagos and our branches in Port Harcourt, Abuja, Enugu, Kano and Ilorin. We are a company with basic skills in the production and marketing of complete movable household. We offer you various ranges of products at very affordable prices. We offer furniture of various styles manufactured on measurement at the request and designed by the artisans authentic having more than ten years of experience in the business; and the quality of our products is validated by the satisfaction of our customers who are always impressed beyond the expectations. We are very proud to achieve this level of satisfaction and we strive to continually provide furniture designed beyond their imagination. Jikas furniture is your one stop shop for all your furniture full of home.

naturalman:
Jikas furniture

Jikas furnitures tops the best Furniture Companies in Nigeria and offers hundreds of solid creations of custom furnishings in wood, ranging from the traditional to the modern design, all possessing a unique design, aesthetic with a contemporary touch such as furniture for a living room, dining room, bedroom complete, office furniture, kitchen cabinets, sanitary facilities, the goods and fixtures . Our company is specialized in the supply of furniture top of the range. We are now serving in the movable hotels, businesses, buildings and residential buildings. Our headquarters is located in Lagos and our branches in Port Harcourt, Abuja, Enugu, Kano and Ilorin. We are a company with basic skills in the production and marketing of complete movable household. We offer you various ranges of products at very affordable prices. We offer furniture of various styles manufactured on measurement at the request and designed by the artisans authentic having more than ten years of experience in the business; and the quality of our products is validated by the satisfaction of our customers who are always impressed beyond the expectations. We are very proud to achieve this level of satisfaction and we strive to continually provide furniture designed beyond their imagination. Jikas furniture is your one stop shop for all your furniture full of home.

naturalman:
Jikas furniture

Jikas furnitures tops the best Furniture Companies in Nigeria and offers hundreds of solid creations of custom furnishings in wood, ranging from the traditional to the modern design, all possessing a unique design, aesthetic with a contemporary touch such as furniture for a living room, dining room, bedroom complete, office furniture, kitchen cabinets, sanitary facilities, the goods and fixtures . Our company is specialized in the supply of furniture top of the range. We are now serving in the movable hotels, businesses, buildings and residential buildings. Our headquarters is located in Lagos and our branches in Port Harcourt, Abuja, Enugu, Kano and Ilorin. We are a company with basic skills in the production and marketing of complete movable household. We offer you various ranges of products at very affordable prices. We offer furniture of various styles manufactured on measurement at the request and designed by the artisans authentic having more than ten years of experience in the business; and the quality of our products is validated by the satisfaction of our customers who are always impressed beyond the expectations. We are very proud to achieve this level of satisfaction and we strive to continually provide furniture designed beyond their imagination. Jikas furniture is your one stop shop for all your furniture full of home.

SolidGenius:
DrinksNG really?? I give up on you confuse roaches... This is a terrible start idea. Very uglyyyy site, who will even buy from his classless inventories.

If this is your idea of a yeroba start up, then over 10,000 fast and more successful selling drinks joint in Aba should install a wordPress website and throw in some bottles as a homepage. Some things are rather disgraceful and shameful to present as a counter to the igbo thread.

Such a wasted tribe... Osunbade what do you have to say??

Nigeria’s first online one-stop shop for beverages and alcohol drinks, drinks.ng has said that it has recorded 105 percent growth within one year of operations. Founder/Chief Executive Officer of Drinks.ng, Lanre Akinlagun stated this while speaking with Vanguard on the operations of the online drinks portal and state of e-commerce in Nigeria.




[b]According to him, “We have generated over N65 million so far this year. This represents about 105 per cent of our growth and we still have the festive period to come. This has been achieved through key partnerships with the likes of Diageo, Guinness, Pernod Ricard and Moet Hennessy. Our next day delivery service has proved popular with consumers.” Akinlagun explained that Drinks.ng is an innovative tech solution which helps beverage owners who are bringing new drinks into the market; give them easy platform to get their products visible to a large amount of people all at once. “We have also provided a platform that allows consumers to find easy way to find transparency while searching for products. People know a lot of drinks but they don’t know the prices or where they can get it. With drinks.ng, you don’t need to worry about that. You just let us know what you want and they will deliver it for you,” he said. Explaining further, he said: “The opportunity is really there for all three tiers of the beverage and alcohol business. The consumers get accessible way to make choices from a variety of products. We have over 1,300 drinks and they get to pick through all of them through the categories. “The manufacturers and the importers on the other hand get an opportunity to display their products in a biggest landscape where more people can see them.[/b]

If you go to the market, the problem that you have is that everybody displays the common drinks, the ones that they think everyone wants. These include the Red Label, Hennessy, Jack Daniels, Remmy Martins etc. The smaller and obscure drinks are not seen, and that is where we come in. So the opportunity is really a partnership between the manufacturers, importers, and also a social agreement between us and the consumers, to help them get what they want.” Akinlagun said the opportunity in online dinks market is huge as its values runs into billions of dollars, adding that with the necessary support, e-commerce should acquire reasonable stake of the industry. “The complete value of the beverage industry in Nigeria is $8.8 billion a year. The alcohol industry alone is about $5.5 billion and the soft drinks industry is about $3.8 billion.

Drogbs:
Lol okay dude I'm confused af right now, how I'm I a liar when you don't know me or my accomplishments? What exactly do you want me to prove to you? oh you want me to create a 100 page thread of why Igbos are this or that? every of that information is obtainable on the internet so why waste my time culling up stats on the achievements of others when I'm striving to be better so I can be a positive statistic myself? Igbos are great in their respective endeavours ditto yorubas, what I won't do however is mudsling myself in baseless comparisons on who is doing better than who..ain't none of my business, Nairaland is a minefield of exaggerations..and it applies to all and sundry whether Yoruba" Igbo, Hausa, Ijaw etc...as everyone wants to project these "my tribe is better than yours" superiority bullshyt...when the average Yoruba man is hungry on the street seeking a better life, same as an Igbo, Hausa and the rest...and your leaders keep keeping you in a box of delusion, suffering and mediocrity, what exactly do you want me to prove? Okay yorubas are the best in the world, they are so perfect that even heaven marvels at their unrivalled perfection...happy now?

Drogbs:
By all means please lay out your facts and stop boring me with your trash

Established by Lanre Akinlagun, a graduate of marketing and multimedia at the London Guildhall University, the platform allows its visitors to discretely order all kinds of drinks – both alcoholic and non-alcoholic, popular energy drinks and choice spirits.

With his 9-year experience working in digital marketing at various international establishments, the marketing and multimedia expert said he was exposed to lots of technology. But that wasn’t enough.

It took the plight of his friend who had issues with ordering drinks at his wedding for Lanre to realize that there is a great challenge in Nigeria’s drinks supply chain – something that is also an opportunity for a smart businessman who has no experience in selling drinks; the only link he had then with drinks was as a consumer buying his own drinks, and maybe tipping the barman

Bibors:
Undoubtedly its a fact that while Biafrans were given 20 pounds each for their thousands and millions, that Afonjas were given loans in millions to buy into multinationals.
50 years down the line the difference isn't much.

Close your eyes and imagine if Afonja land was leveled by war and their wealth stolen. What do you think would have been of them?

Wole Obayomi is a Partner & Head of Tax, Regulatory & People Service (TRPS) Practice of KPMG. He has been with the firm for 27 years and has significant experience in Taxation, Litigation, and Corporate/Commercial Legal and Regulatory Compliance and Advisory Services. He is a thought leader on investment regulation and promotion in Nigeria and had occasionally been invited by the Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC) to serve as a resource person to the Honorary International Investor Advisory Council, Office of the President, Federal Republic of Nigeria. Wole has advised on several tax, legal, business regulatory issues in various commercial transactions and has been instrumental to notable tax, legal, regulatory and institutional reforms in Nigeria. His advocacy for improving the operating environment for manufacturing companies led to the trail blazing granting of income tax holiday to existing manufacturing companies expanding or investing in new factories or production lines or products in Nigeria.




Education and qualifications
Master of Laws (L.L.M., International Economic Law) with Distinction, Warwick University, UK
Master of Laws (L.L.M.), University of Lagos, Nigeria
Nigerian Law School, 2nd Class Honours (Upper Division)
Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.), 2nd Class Honours (Upper Division), University of Lagos, Nigeria

Kunle qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1986 and has led various strategic and transformational projects for local & global clients. He was admitted as a Partner in 1996 and over the years led the Financial Services Audit Practice; Financial Advisory Services and was the Head of Advisory Services with responsibility for Deal Advisory, Management Consulting, Risk Consulting and Information Technology Advisory.

He is a member of the KPMG Africa Board, as well as the KPMG Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMA) Board. He currently serves as an Executive Member of the KPMG Africa Global Infrastructure Group. Kunle serves on various not-for-profit Boards such as the Nigerian Economic Summit Group; Society for Family Health and American Business Council, amongst others.

afonjadie:
Tell me one lie bursted on this thread?

raker300:
Nnamdi ezigbo: tecno mobile, slot

Tecno Mobile is a Chinese mobile phone manufacturer The company began operations in July 2006 in Hong Kong. With its first research and development centre in Shanghai, China, Tecno Mobile was founded as Tecno Telecom Limited, but later changed its name to Transsion Holdings with Tecno Mobile serving as one of its subsidiaries. Tecno focused its business on Africa and the South Asian market. However, following market research conducted in Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin America, the company found that Africa was the most lucrative region.[/b]As a result of this, in 2008, it stopped doing business in Asia to exclusively focus on Africa. The Tecno Camon C8 helped the mobile phone manufacturer compete with market share of Samsung, and Apple in Africa

afonjadie:
Tell me one lie bursted on this thread?

In a bid to create a stronger bond and reward customer’s loyalty, Lucky Fibres, makers of Nobel carpets in partnership with Gerflor Group, have introduced affordable floor covers into the market.

They include Taraflex, designed for sporting events; Mipolan Ambiance Ultra, for hospitals and clinics as they are anti-bacterial & anti-fungal while Taralay Emotion was designed specially for the hospitality industry.

Speaking at the company’s showroom in Lagos, the General Manager, Lucky Fibres Limited, Mr. Jitesh Pamnani pointed out that they have been providing beautiful floor covers for Nigerians for over twenty-one years, saying, “For as low as N5, 000, anyone can get a Nobel rug. As the manufacturer of Nigeria’s premium interior floor covering brand, we have consistently sought avenues to improve our offerings to meet the needs of our numerous customers who demand quality products at affordable prices.


https://guardian.ng/news/lucky-fibres-roll-out-affordable-flooring-solutions/

afonjadie:
Mr man is it not clear to you that Igbo's are not interested in this thread even the OP has abandoned it after he was called out from page one as a matter of fact it is Afonjas that have been dragging this thread, Igbo's listed more on the Afonja thread but have not listed anything here, because it was not welcomed, Mr man I don't have time for back and forth cause this thread is Irrelevant check others Igbo related threads and cure yourself of ignorance.

TechCabal Office Hours will be held on the 28th of this month, with an interactive Q&A session led by Olumide Olusanya, CEO Gloo.ng.

Before Gloo.ng, Olumide Olusanya oversaw the building and development of the local and international payment networks of majority of Nigeria’s Tier-1 banks. In Q4 2003, he led the team that developed the POS system that processed Nigeria’s first online-realtime POS transaction. He also led the team that rolled out West Africa’s first indigenous international payment card, Ecobank MasterCard.

These days, he’s devoted to leading Gloo.ng to become the largest online supermarket in Africa.

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