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The company, founded by Shola Akinlade and Ezra Olubi, initially caught the eye of industry commentators as it was one the first Nigerian tech company to be accepted into the world-famous Y Combinator progam, based in Silicon Valley. Since then, having taken Paystack through Private beta, and securing $120,000 early-stage investment from Y Combinator, Akinlade [CEO] and Olubi [CTO] have quietly been building the company, working to secure this Seed investment round, whilst also building a network of partner merchants in Nigeria, over 1,500, who are now using the platform to accept online payments.

I spoke to Paystack's CEO, Shola Akinlade, to find out how the company is working to fix Nigeria's fragmented online payments system.

Olayinka, a transplanted Lagosian ,founded BUYOVERCHAT TECHNOLOGIES LIMITED after validating the experiment Balogunmarket.ng, a chat commerce platform that connected traders in West Africa’s biggest market with city residents to facilitate commerce using their primary mode of entry into the digital age format,Whatsapp simple messaging.

This experiment validated the idea of and provided learnings in building BuyChat for Africa.

He keeps up interest in Fine-Art Photography in his spare time

The last few years have brought a sudden rise in companies inherently enabled by new messaging technologies. So when Olayinka Oluwakuse pivoted his defunct Balogunmarket.ng to a conversational style, it was seen as a welcome development.

In July 2015, Femi Kuti, a doctor and an investment banker, launched Kangpe, a service that connects patients with verified doctors via SMS, mobile app and web 24 hours a day. Interestingly, the startup has been in the news of late. First Kangpe secured $2,500 at a recent TechCircle-organized Meetup, and then went on to win Seedstars Lagos 2016.

Bankole has always taken a keen interest business concepts, which propelled him to study Accounting and Business/Management, a business-related degree at Boston College, USA. Through Easy Taxi Nigeria (founded in 2013), he developed the Easy Taxi app which is a technology-driven app that provides convenience for passengers in booking for taxis anywhere and anytime with the click of a button. Bankole has been featured in Forbe Magazine's 30 Most Promising Young Entrepreneurs in Africa 2014 and CNN Africa Startup, also in the same year.

Mosunmola Umoru: CEO, Honeysuckles PTL Ventures
Mosunmola needs no introduction in the Nigerian agricultural space. An agro business entrepreneur who specializes in food production, farming, processing and distribution, Ms. Umoru is known by the moniker “Pretty Farmer” because her passion for agriculture through her company Honeysuckles PTL Ventures which she founded in 2004 wasn’t quite the norm of your average Nigerian female entrepreneur. A Fellow of Ashoka and Founder of a social enterprise ABIRA Agribusiness Support Initiative, Mosunmola has served on several Panels as an inspiration to women in various African countries.

Bola Adesola was appointed Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Standard Chartered Bank Nigeria Ltd in March 2011.

Prior to joining the bank, she was an Executive Director in First Bank of Nigeria Plc where she was responsible for the Corporate Banking business, and later managing the entire business in the Lagos Directorate including retail, corporate and commercial banking. Previously, she was Managing Director of Kakawa Discount House, Nigeria, where she drove record business performance. She also worked in Citibank for 9 years in senior leadership roles in Nigeria and Tanzania.

As MD/CEO of one of Standard Chartered’s most promising markets, Bola provides leadership for the Group in Nigeria through developing overall country strategy and direction. Her deep knowledge of the Nigerian market, strong client and regulato

Her irrepressible love for arts and her desire to diversify her talent led her quit a job at Nestle to start her own production outfit, Yellow Tamarind Productions. Today, Isabella is an award winning essayist, writer, film journalist and OAP. She currently has three TV shows ‘Clapperboard’ ‘The Movie Buff Show’, and ‘Africana Literati’, shows that focus on her love for all things African cinema and literature.

[b]Mrs. Eniola Fadayomi serves as Principal Partner of Eniola Fadayomi & Co. Mrs. Fadayomi was the Legal Adviser to First Bank of Nigeria. Mrs. Fadayomi has been the Chairman of Africa Prudential Registrars Plc since April 17, 2012. Mrs. Fadayomi served as the Chairman of Afribank Nigeria Plc, Millennium Harvest Ltd and Telegraphique. She served as a member of the Board of Directors of May and Baker. She was an Attorney General & Commissioner for Justice in Lagos State, Commissioner for Establishment, Training and Pensions and First Commissioner for Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation on the Lagos state cabinet. She served as Chairman of Audit Committee at Nigerian Aviation Handling Company Plc. She serves as a Member of Audit & Risk Committee at Starcomms Plc. She served as a Member of Audit Committee at Oando PLC. She is a member the Nigerian Bar Association, the Institute of Directors and the International Federation of Women Lawyers. Mrs. Fadayomi holds a Bachelor of Laws Degree from the University of Lagos, Nigeria.
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A Social Entrepreneur and a Philanthropist.

Business Interest

Nike is the Managing Director/CEO of Nike Center for Art and Culture, Osogbo where trainings are offered free of charge to all Nigerians in various forms of arts. The center was established in 1983, by Nike solely from her earnings as an artist and without governmental assistance. Nike opened this center with 20 young girls who were marching the streets in Osogbo aimlessly and who had no hopes for the future. In their tender age, Nike withdrew these girls from the streets and provided them with free food, free materials and free accommodation at her residence at Osogbo and taught them how to use their hands to earn decent livings through the art. So far, over 3000 young Nigerians have been trained in the center and who are now earning their decent livings through art. Many African countries now send their students to study textile art at the center.

The Nike Center for Art and Culture, Osogbo now admits undergraduate students from many universities in Nigeria for their industrial training programs in textile design. Over the years, this center also now admits students from all over Europe, Canada and the United States of America. International scholars and other researchers in traditional African art and culture also visit the center from time to time for their research works into Yoruba "Adire" fabric processing and African traditional dyeing methods.

Nike is also the Owner/Curator of the Nike Art Galleries at Lagos, Osogbo, Ogidi-Ijumu and Abuja. In 1996, Nike established a textile (Aso-Oke) weaving center at Ogidi-Ijumu near Kabba in Kogi State for the women of the village, employing and empowering more than 200 women in the weaving center. In June 2002, Nike established an Art and Culture research center at Piwoyi village, FCT Abuja with an art gallery and a textile museum, the first of its kind in Nigeria which will provide functional platform for research into Nigerian traditional textile industry in the Federal Capital Territory area of Abuja. In furtherance of these noble endeavors, Nike is currently the managing director and founder of the following organizations in Nigeria; "Nike Art Productions Limited" which she incorporated in 1994, "Nike Art Gallery Limited" which she incorporated in 2007 and the "Nike Research Centre for Art and Culture Limited" which she incorporated in 2007. Also in 2007, Nike founded the "Nike Art and Culture Foundation" with some notable eminent Nigerians as trustees, with the main aims and objectives of fostering Nigerian cultural heritage

FKO81:
Aghalieaku Airways: Nigerian Billionaire Floats Airline In Swaziland

A Nigerian tycoon, Chief Benjamin Aghalieku Arinze, has floated an airline in Swaziland, southern Africa.

Aghalieaku Airways, the airline commenced operations last month with its base at the Manzini King Mswati III International Airport, Swaziland.

A statement on the airline’s website said: “Aghalieaku Airways is an aviation company that has a business strategy to set up base in the Beautiful Country of Swaziland. Developing the Cargo Aviation Sector with a powerful and dynamic vision to Create a Hub Site that will become your Channel Partner to Servicing the Aviation Sector, Locally, Nationally, Internationally and Globally

Commenting on the operation, Chief Arinze, who is the President of Aghalieaku Airways said on the ailine webiste that it is: “Driven by Passion for People, Development, Growth and Positive Changes coupled with a Strong Will and Sheer Determination, my Dream is to Capture the Aviation Market Sector, Develop the African Continent though Global Standards".

He said: “My Vision is to leave a legacy behind that will inspire and motivate the future generation to strive for greater heights, leaving no stones un-turned in achieving their goals and vision, by beating all odds in turning their dreams into reality”.

The Popular Destinations for the flight incldues South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Egypt, Congo and Algeria.


https://www.nigerianbulletin.com/threads/aghalieaku-airways-nigerian-billionaire-floats-airline-in-swaziland.222299/

FKO81:
23 Yrs Nnamdi Ekeh owner of Yudala

Yudala is Nigeria's first true e-commerce and offline retail chain. Yudala is the only African retail e-commerce platform that combines the online store with offline

HISTORY MADE AS YUDALA ACHIEVES FIRST DRONE DELIVERY IN NIGERIA
http://www.africatelecomit.com/history-made-as-yudala-achieves-first-drone-delivery-in-nigeria

FKO81:
Ignore the E-goat (Ewu Osun)

Scholes007:
You will clearly.not see because you are blinded by sentiments. If you had brought up things like you are not active in this sector or that the you likely see a reasonable argument but bring down and calling billion/million dollar conglomerates fourth class investment shows you are not reasonable or biased with the worst motive one can think of.

FKO81:
Stop quoting me if you are ignorant, Dupe Olusola is CEO his in not the owner
http://teragro-ng.com/site/

Who We Are

Teragro Commodities Limited is the agribusiness subsidiary of Transnational Corporation of Nigeria Plc (Transcorp), a publicly quoted conglomerate with a diversified shareholder base of about 290,000 investors, the most prominent of which is Heirs Holdings Limited, a pan-African proprietary investment company.


Heirs Holdings (HH) is an African proprietary investment company with interests in financial services, power, oil & gas, real estate & hospitality and healthcare.[1] Its operations are rooted in the economic philosophy of Africapitalism which proposes private sector-led long-term investment in Africa by Africans. It carries out philanthropic work through the The Tony Elumelu Foundation, named after its Founder and Chairman of the group. It is the major shareholder in the Transcorp (Transnational Corporation of Nigeria) conglomerate.

Management

Chairman – Tony O. Elumelu, CON
CEO, Heirs Holdings - Emmanuel Nnorom
Director, Finance & Investments - Sam Nwanze[10][11]
Chief of Staff to the Chairman - Udochi Nwaodu


Transnational Corporation of Nigeria plc

Conglomerate
Industry Energy, agribusiness, hospitality
Headquarters Lagos, Lagos State, Nigeria


Key people
Tony Elumelu, group chairman
Emmanuel Nnorom, president/CEO
Tony Chukwueke, director, energy

totit:
It's so annoying so say the least, but it's Ok

How can somebody, somewhere in his village, sitting on his yellow bombom be pulling off figures we are this, we are that without well conducted stats/figures

Some time I doubt if these ibokews are normal sef, I swear something is abnormally wrong somewhere.

That's how one of them went to download picture on Google claiming it's one yeye ibojews business in alambra.. Must dey lie just to chest beat . And mind you,most of the yeye companies he listed there has already be updated on this thread like 10times already. Sooooo sooo boring ..
Their deceits and lies has been exposed and we will continue to expose them..

FKO81:
Now is time to show your work no more propaganda

Anambra health sector

RebelChip:
These Are politicians... So no biggie!

Show me where a civilian is kneeling down willingly (not begging for a favour like the pic) for a politician in Igboland and I will deactivate now!

No Igbo man has ever knelt down for any politician in Igboland

modath:
I dey... Gidigba for NL 24/7

It is crapola like this that made me swerve & miss for here, presently in a spot where time spent on NL "gives back " to me..

I do peep in but 90% of the time, the quality of discuss is not worth engaging in... you see some posts & wonder if the person dey ok at all...

RebelChip:
No Igbo man has ever knelt down for any politician in Igboland not to talk of a rat in Lagos named Joe Hoe-gbokwe.

For the fact people are kneeling for him is getting people like Tinubastard, Fash-Ole and AmboFool worried.

Just watch out... Am becoming a jew very soon. Nigeria should get worried.


BUHARI IS A MAD MAN- Nnamdi Kanu 2016

Turaki4Presiden:
Trash! Get all federal infrastructures out of Lagos and let us see what remains; and why can't the so called Lagos success story be implemented in other States in Nigeria

Fashola Vs Akpabio. Updated:: Projects And Pictures

https://www.nairaland.com/2322688/fashola-vs-akpabio-updated-projects

VaselineCrewBos:
I'm Yoruba fam

VaselineCrewBos:
He was calling out his fellow thief and looter
"The real enemy is the man that stole the city hall. The enemy is the Iragbiji upstart who seized the local government Secretariat at Glover street in Ikoyi. Our collective enemy is the greedy man who bought the old Nurses House, the Falomo shopping complex, the Lagos state Polytechnic property at Ojota, the stretches of acres at Lekki, the old Strabag yard at Alausa, the innumerable beach front properties long owned by the people of Lagos state, the billion naira Queen’s Drive mansion, the illegal Lekki Toll Gate, the First Nation Airline, the strings of media conglomerates, the Vault and Garden Cemetery, the vast Estates on the shores of Oniru beach , the endless choice hotels and high-rises, the shopping Mall in Ikeja and Lekki, and many great assets of our people this Iragbiji man has stolen with manic desperation. That is the real enemy we must chase back to Iraghiji.

With all these crazy and bewildering acquisitions , it is obvious that this Iragbiji upstart suffers from a disease called AFFLUENZA. It is an incurable malady which makes the pathetic sufferer to pursue blind, greedy, desperate and infectious craving for acquisition after acquisition. Here , the demented sufferer can never stop the craving for unnecessary endless accumulation of wealth. He does not know what is enough. Here wealth is glorified in place of the Almighty God. This is the dreadful disease Tinubu is suffering from."

VaselineCrewBos:
Even Ex-Convict Bode George was outraged by Tinubu theft
https://www.youtubPE