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Where is that novice that claimed Nigerians can't create self employment? How many Nigerians are on the list?

How many Kenyans did you see? Binoculars please.



Here are the Nigerians who made the 2018 Forbes Africa Under 30 list

Aderemi Ojekunle | 11:12 | 07.06.2018
The 2018 Forbes Africa features under 30 individuals that are making waves in the areas of business, technology and creativity.

2018 edition of Forbes Africa under 30 featured popular Nigerian singers like Davido, Falz, Wizkid in the creative category.
Forbes Africa captured under 30 Nigerians who are making waves in the areas of business, technology and creativity.

Forbes Africa has released a list of the 2018 Forbes Africa under 30 individuals that are making waves in the areas of business, technology and creativity.

2018 edition of Forbes Africa under 30 featured popular Nigerian singers like Davido, Falz, Wizkid in the creative category.

Other celebrities across Africa that made the list are Yemi Alade, Beverly Naya, Sonia Irabor and so on. Also, named are fashion entrepreneurs Adebayo Oke-Lawal of Orange Culture and Tania Omotayo of Ziva Lagos; beauty entrepreneurs Anita Adetola Adetoye of Anita Brows, Joyce Jacob and among others.

Forbes Africa said: "This year is our fourth edition of the list and for the first time, inspired by the growing number of young men and women entrepreneurs, we have expanded it to bring you 30 game-changers, all under the age of 30, in each of the three sectors. The 90 in total are challenging conventions and rewriting the rules for the next generation of entrepreneurs, creative and tech gurus."

The publication describes this year's list as its most comprehensive yet.

Business Insider Sub-Saharan Africa takes a look at Nigeria's under 30 young entrepreneurs and next-generation billionaires running their own businesses.

In Business
Ladipo Lawani, 29

Founder: L&L Foods

L&L foods source agricultural produce from local farmers and transform it into quality snacks and package it for the Nigerian market.

Emmanuel Ademola Ayilara, 29

Founder: LandWey Investment Limited

LandWey is a real estate development and management company with development projects across the Real Estate spectrum. The company operates within the commercial, retail and residential property segments and provide real estate advisory services.

Abubakar Sadiq Mohammed Falalu, 28

Founder: FaLGates

Falalu founded FaLGates, a rice mill producing a variety of rice products and raked in over $450,000 in 2017.

Anita Adetola Adetoye, 26

Founder: Anita Brows Beauty

Adetoye, popularly known as ‘Anita Brows’, is an Irish-Nigerian professional makeup artist, beauty educator, and entrepreneur. She is also the founder of Anita Brows Beauty based in Lagos. With over seven years of experience, she has single-handedly built an award-winning brand, creating jobs for young Nigerians.

Akinwande Durojaye, 28

Founder: JustBrandIt

Durojaiye started the idea of printing and branding while at Covenant University before starting JustBrandIt in 214. JustBrandIt is a printing, branding and advertising agency competing with larger companies in Nigeria.

Bidemi Zakariyau, 28

Founder: LSF|PR

LSF|PR is a fashion PR agency

Kene Rapu, 28

Founder: Kene Rapu

Through her first product line, ‘Slippers by Kene’, launched in 2011, Rapu became an entrepreneur who promotes the growth of Nigerian industry by using locally-sourced materials to make slippers and sandals. She says running a business is hard work, even more so in Nigeria.

Gozie Coker, 29

Founder: Coker Creative

Coker is the ultimate planner who own a boutique event company and has executed events for private and corporate clients in Nigeria and internationally since he launched four year ago.

Under 30 Technology
Olaoluwa Samuel-Biyi, 27

Co-founder: SureGifts,

Director: SureRemit

Samuel-Biyi has been at the forefront of some of the most innovative technology ventures in Africa, either as a critical employee, investor, or entrepreneur.

Mahmood Oyewo, 26

Co-founder: RubiQube

Oyewo is a developer of RubiQube, a cross-platform (iPhone, Android, Nokia, Windows Mobile) mobile application platform for the burgeoning Nigerian mobile market.

Chris Kwekowe, 25 & Emerald Kwekowe, 21

Founders: Slatecube

Slatecube helps job seekers develop job-relevant skills, gain work experience, and land well-paying jobs through upskilling courses and virtual internships.

Sunkanmi Ola, 26

Founder: Syracuse Digital

Established in 2012, Syracuse Digital is a digital advertising and product development agency. They help businesses grow through digital engagement marketing. Syracuse counts Adidas, Tecno Mobile, Mitsubishi Motors and Infinix among its clients. The company has reached Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, Ethiopia, South Africa, Cameroon and the UK.

Kola Olajide, 26

Co-founder: Bridge Labs

Olajide co-founded Bridge Labs and has designed solutions in education, marketing, insurance and banking.

Timothy Adeyele, 29

Founder: Optiweb Communications

Optiweb, a digital and mobile solutions company that specializes in mobile educational solutions, digital content, social media solutions, specialized CRBT, contest & gaming, mobile insurance solutions, among other services.

Adeyele got a breakthrough in business with a Globacom partnership to found Glo Mobile School, an interactive educational SMS platform that inspires students to learn outside traditional classes.

Maya Horgan Famodu, 27

Founder: Ingressive

Famodu founded Ingressive, a tech integration company that provides market entry services and tech research for corporates and investors.

Ink Eze, 28

Founder: Aso Ebi Bella

Eze is the founder of Aso Ebi Bella, an online community connecting traditional fashion enthusiasts with SMEs in the fashion, beauty and wedding industry primarily in Nigeria with growing interests across Africa and beyond.

Obinna Okwodu, 27

He developed a love for real estate, went off to study at MIT where he was one of the co-founders of Exposure Robotics Academy, a six-week summer robotics training camp that teaches secondary school kids how to program robots.

Under 30 in music, art, media, film and fashion
Yemi Alade, 29

Singer, Songwriter

Alade is a singer and storyteller. She travels the world performing and telling African stories through song.

Falz, 27

Folarin Falana Rapper, Actor

Davido, 25

Singer, Songwriter

David Adeleke, popularly known as Davidor his acclaimed 2012 debut studio album, Omo Baba Olowo, earned him the household name.

Joyce Jacob, 28

Founder: Joyce Jacob Beauty

A renowned celebrity makeup artist with an eye for striking detail, she launched Joyce Jacob Beauty in 2009.

Adebayo Oke-Lawal, 28

Fashion designer, Founder of Orange Culture

Oke-Lawal has been designing clothes since the age of 10. He founded Orange Culture in 2011 after working with several Nigerian designers to turn his unique vision of fashion into reality.

Wizkid, 27

Singer, Songwriter

Wizkid is arguably currently running the world of Africa music. The Nigerian singer and songwriter is spreading the Afrobeat sound to the world.

Beverly Naya, 29

Actress, Entrepreneur

Naya is an award-winning actress and budding entrepreneur. She studied script-writing and film-making at the University of Roehampton in the UK before relocating to Nigeria to join the Nigerian film industry.

Sonia Irabor, 28

Writer, Filmmaker, Actress

After spending time as a writer and PR guru. She has appeared in a number of classical plays such as her critically-acclaimed work as Helen of Troy in Trojan Women, and the Tanya Ronder play, Table, where she played three characters in the two-hour production.

Tania Omotayo, 26

Model, Entrepreneur

Omotayo is creative director of a fast-growing fashion brand, Ziva Lagos. With a dedicated in-house design team, her collections are on trend.



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Kenyanstar right now.

Kenyanstar:
Thats where your ignorance fails you.... Progressive Country's currently are focused on skills rather than degrees. Nigerians focus on degrees that cannot earn them a job rather than a skill than readily provides a job. Nigeria is a nation churning out millions of degree holders looking for jobs instead of being like Kenya churning out skilled labor ready to create self employment. Reason why 419 scammers have knowlege but lack jobs thus turning into criminals. Japan is an example of country that has concentrated on skills.

I thought you peeps were dragging about having better universities, why are you speaking another tongues?


You are a novice. Now tell me, how many Nigerians can you count from 30 most promising entrepreneurs in Africa 2018 by Forbes?

9 is the answer but Kenya only has 5.

Who is creating more self employment?

https://www.google.com.ng/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/mfonobongnsehe/2018/04/18/30-most-promising-young-entrepreneurs-in-africa-2018/amp/&ved=2ahUKEwifwP6_hdXeAhWulIsKHckWDocQFjAAegQIARAB&usg=AOvVaw0BvZfJ3N5fFhB6afCTJShL&ampcf=1

NairobiWalker:
Kenya has 1 University in the top 10. How many does Nigeria have?

Kenya has 2 or 3 (depending on which ranking you use) universities serving 45 million people, how many people do your 7 universities serve?

Only two universities out of 50! Poor Kenyans.

NairobiWalker:
Will 200 million Nigerians be able to study in 0 universities?

Only when the ranking is done by lying Kenyans here.

Yobeezy:
When it comes to offering quality education standards,most Nigerian universities are ranked lower than Kenyan universities,this one has been said many times in this thread but you people are just full of ignorance and narcissism.

Our universities offer more quality education than yours and that's even why just recently Kenya was ranked first in Africa by UN in producing highly skilled and productive human capital making our university graduates to work in any part of the world.

Our best public universities which are University of Nairobi,kenyatta university,Jkuat,egerton and moi are enough for your 200+ plus congested uuniversities.
Just ask a Nigerian studying in daystar,UoN or Strathmore university.

Stop this nonsence and show me the current ranking.

If you overrated universities are for Nigeria's 200+ universities, the ranking would have shown but you lied.

kikuyu1:
We posted the true rankings at least 7 x!!

Show me again or I don't believe.

rvp2018:
Don't cherrypick university ranking - and pick one that shows more of your university in some arbitrary top 50. Why not try top 10? or top 20 or top 200?

Will 50 million Kenyans be able to study in only one university in top 10?

If I bring top 100, we still have higher percentage of universities rated highly than your 309b dollars universities. Bhuhahahaha!

Slaveryisgood:
Forget the stupid and jealous massai . Let those fools compare with the stupid backward South Africa, we are too gone for them.

They are very ignorant. . But I am here to educate them. It is my civil duty.

68816419:
Damn u actually took this from my mouth, hahaha, these Kenyans are no body, they tends to be too delusional, they even don't know that we have more foreign students at ABU Zaria, UNI LAG, O.A.U and other places , I was once at the African University of Science and Technology (AUST) at Abuja I was so surprised to see that large % of the students were from Eastern ,central and southern Africa.

I think they are bloody liars.

How can Kenya spend billions on Education yet Kenya has only two universities in the top 50 best universities in Africa. Meaning nothing to show for it.

Are we daft to know there are juries evaluating the performance of universities? Or should we ignore established facts from reliable and trustworthy sources just to swallow fat lies from these lying Kenyans here?

rvp2018:
peanut compared to 7.3 trillion naira from Oil.

But you ignorantly thought we generate revenue only from oil. Didn't you?

Now, you can see we generate from several sources. This is just one of them.

Now, are you cleared from your ignorance?

That's a good one.

tlann:
hawa manaija hunibamba sana so if you have 7 universities in top 50 and you education system is a crap kenya has one of the best education system in africa and it invests alot in education better than a country of 200million which invests peanuts in education have you heard in your lifetime a kenyan coming to study in naija but nigerians are full in kenya universities i said there is nothing that nigeria and tanzania beat kenya absolutely nothing

Kenyans are poor to attend university without government loan. How can they afford to travel out to study abroad?

If you invest 300b dollars in your education but you can produce only 2 out of the 50 best universities in Africa then Kenya is just wasting money or your government deceived you big time after chopping the money alone.

Besides, we have Americans, Japanese, German, South Koreans, British etc studying currently in our universities.

Yobeezy:
Nigerian students are flooded all over our universities both public and private which are;

University of Nairobi
Kenyatta university
JKUAT
Mount Kenya university
USIU
CUEA
African Nazarene university
Maseno university
Daystar university
TUK
Multimedia university of Kenya
And among others.

Most of them do come here to seek for higher learning because their university system of learning is in disarray plus most of them do find it difficult to gain admission into their own varsities.

And of course,there are no Kenyans studying in their universities,you're right!

How many of Kenya's universities are in top 50 best universities in Africa? Just 2 or 3.

What about Nigeria? 7

While South Africa leads with 16 universities, we follow behold with 7 universities beating Egypt and the rest of you.

Kur17:
Kenya has a target of Ksh1.7trillion, while they have a target of Ñ1.3trillion or appr Ksh400B

Most Nigerians use Benin republic port because it is cheaper.

Besides, we already passed that target. See the amount generated after June.

Show me your source that proves Kenya made up to that target.

Kur17:
Hahaa washenzi sana, with all that population they're collecting Ksh150B only, Kenya collected Ksh1.1 trillion almost ten times, in the first half with all the political interruptions that was...

How many countries are sharing your Port? 4.

Yet, you are making noise.

Show me where Kenya is making Ksh 1.1 trillion from custom duties else I see it as another fat lie from cronic liars.

kikuyu1:
Its a national characteristic we've observed that leads to full blown delusion. Someone said they ALL NEED FASTING,PRAYERS AND COMPULSORY THERAPY!

I have told you you don't have intelligence. Think.

tlann:
nigerians comparing their cities with kenyan cities nigerian cities are always ranked among the worst in africa not even the world in africa and you are busy comparing mombasa to port harcout that polluted place nigeria and tanzania doesnot beat tiny kenya in anything we outshine you in everything that is why you are posting lies and rumours here

Your Nairobi was not counted among the 140 livable cities because 60 - 80% of the city is slum.

Whereas, Lagos made the list though came third from behind

kikuyu1:
556 bn naira in six months!? A country of 180 mn?? That's only 150 bn kshs or 1.5 bn USD! WE TOLD YOU YOUR PROBLEM IS POVERTY AND YOU'VE PROVED IT. BTW,we also looked at your throughput which is very low.
Dude, YOU'RE TELLING ON YOURSELF!

I can see you are not intelligent enough to understand that 556 bn naira is for custom duties alone.

You are shouting poor as if Kenya can buy one village in Nigeria if your whole country is sold.

My friend, tell me what you make from Custom duties before you start shouting poor ignorantly.

Even your President dare not say Nigeria is poor because we can buy him and your country together.

Rail terminal in Lagos for Lagos- Ibadan standard gauge railway.

Jonraid:
Didn't even write this nonsense.I don't use bold in my writing.Nigerians with their dirty tricks yet again!

Sorry, that was a mix up. You didn't write it but it is written in that source.

rvp2018:
What is being shared? Oil windfalls. Therefore I find help you x (expected oil revenue) and IGR(Y = this is very very minimal because you just don't pay or collect taxes).

Let find x. 2M barrels per day * price per barrel*365 days - and you've got your federal, state & local gov budget - at least 80-95% of your budget.

We can give a ballpark estimate that this year your 90% budget will be around 30B - you see we get the same answer

Now I know you are a novice.

Who told you Nigeria generates from only oil?

My friend, you don't know fadin about Nigeria.

rvp2018:
Google - I think anything close to 3B dollars - with about 1/3 from Lagos city. So 28B+3B=31. In Kenya it's 30B+1B=31. So officially this year tiny kenya with 90B economy has the same money in gov coffers with mighty Nigeria.

I am asking for where you got this from because I don't believe you but you are asking to Google what you claim to know.

Now, show me your source.

Jonraid:
For a country of 50 million people our numbers are interesting than yours! and that 71% growth is way more impressive!

Does that change the fact that Port Harcourt and Abuja is not Mombasa mate?

Kur17:
Nigerians have a problem with compression, go back so that u'll understand what I'm referring to

Kur17:
You ignore the fact that Nigeria is four Kenya combined in terms of population, and you're slightly ahead, you should be ashamed of that

Then explain the bolded. Mr comprehension.

rvp2018:
Whatever rank you choose - Nairobi will always be top 5 africa city - and easily the 3rd important city - after Joburg & Egypt - sometimes Lagos & Cape town are slightly better - but overal Nairobi is hot on the heels of Joburg - and the South African is not happy.

In terms of what?

rvp2018:
They are valuable thanks to shortage - it sign of un-development and unmet demand. If you go to south sudan or somali - you'll find very valuable tent hotels.

For an economy that want to rival South Africa - you need 10 times their hotels - you bed capacity of 7,000 branded hotels - pale in comparison to their 60,000 or our 20,000.

What causes shortage? Higher demand.

That is economics for you.

This for your information. 10,313 guestrooms has been proposed and under construction. See one of them.

Jonraid:
Already 61 hotel projects and more branded guestrooms-10,313-have been proposed in Nigeria more than any other country in Africa.

Kenyans like

https://www.google.com.ng/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.hotelmanagement.net/development/marriott-international-signs-seven-new-hotels-across-africa&ved=2ahUKEwigvtKa5M7eAhWEL8AKHZM4DLYQFjARegQIBRAB&usg=AOvVaw2CauTRttY3OVXDXlo9HDid&cshid=1542026595114

darfay:
Nawa for you o, shey u no fit let them face theirselves. U gats chuk mouth ni. Abeg just cheer d Tz guy e go pepper dem well well

Bros, I wish to ignore but when I see lies, my spirit no gree me rest matter.

Anyway, day TZ guy is doing a great job.

Kur17:
You ignore the fact that Nigeria is four Kenya combined in terms of population, and you're slightly ahead, you should be ashamed of that

Did I hear you say slightly?

At least, you have agreed for once Nigeria is Kenya's father.

rvp2018:
The internet I did this - I added 36 state +federal budget - and removed the federal allocation.

Federal Gov Budget (USD)
1999:$13.6bn
2000:$8.2bn
2001:$8.3bn
2002:$9.5bn
2003:$11.4bn
2004:$9.8bn
2005:$12.4bn
2006:$14.7bn
2007:$18.8bn
2008:$21.1bn
2009:$25.8bn
2010:$29.3bn
2011:$31.8bn
2012:$31.4bn
2013:$31.2bn
2014:$31.1bn
2015: $26.7bn
2016: $31.9bn
2017: $23.6bn
2018: $28.2bn — BudgIT Nigeria (@BudgITng) November 10, 2017

Add up state budget and remove the federal allocation - so you don't double count.

Or just add federal allocation (28B) PLUS IGR from the 36 states (only Lagos seem to generate some serious money -1B dollars)

Show me the 2018 budget of 36 states with reliable source.

Jonraid:
Notwithstanding, average values are the third highest in Africa, behind only the Seychelles and Mauritius.

Already 61 hotel projects and more branded guestrooms-10,313-have been proposed in Nigeria more than any other country in Africa.

Kenyans like

https://www.google.com.ng/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.hotelmanagement.net/development/marriott-international-signs-seven-new-hotels-across-africa&ved=2ahUKEwigvtKa5M7eAhWEL8AKHZM4DLYQFjARegQIBRAB&usg=AOvVaw2CauTRttY3OVXDXlo9HDid&cshid=1542026595114

Kur17:
Seeing the countries we're numbered with and the pace of growth, we're really not doing bad by all African standards...I just love my "tiny kenya", a country like Namibia which has a quarter population of what Tanzanian has is ranked higher than it... Not to speak of Nigeria vs Kenya...

Kenya is in Tanzania's level. Way below Nigeria.

rvp2018:
Uhuru will leave us when will be around 140-150B dollars (15 trillion Kshs) in 2023. That is Treasury projection based on 6% average growth rate. I think we might re-base again around there and realize the economy is larger - Ghana are aggressively doing this - their base year is recommended 5yrs - ours is 10yrs and I don't see that changing - because for re-basing you need lots of data that you can only get from census - the developed world have 5yr census circle - we can't afford to do that. Anyway IMF/WB think we will be around 130B in 2022.

10 yrs from now - we should be comfortably around 270-300B - not far from where South Africa & Egypt are currently - and by then I am betting we would be 3rd biggest economy after Egypt & South Africa - I think Egypt will certainly overtake South Africa soon.

Nigeria GDP is over-inflated and everyone with a pair of eyes can see that. Their budget at 30B - combined state+federal - tells you there is nothing there to see.

Where did you get that fact from?