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laudate:
Mrs. Ibukun Awosika has been profiled on pages 67, 107, and 110. It was mentioned that she was the Chairman of First Bank /FBN Holdings, as well as the founder of Sokoa Chair Centre.

Ibukun Abiodun Awosika is a Nigerian business magnate, author and motivational speaker. She currently serves as Chairman of First Bank of Nigeria.

Born as the third child of seven children in Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State, Ibukun completed her primary and secondary school education at St. Pauls African Church Primary School, Lagos and Methodist Girls' High School, Yaba respectively before she proceeded to the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) where she graduated with a B.Sc in Chemistry. She holds post graduate and MBA certificates upon the completion of several business programmes at the Lagos Business School and IESE Business School.

While on her compulsory one-year National Youth Service Corps service, Ibukun worked as an audit trainee at Akintola Williams & Co. upon her love for architecture before she left for Alibert Nigeria Ltd. as showroom manager. In her quest to be independent, she established a furniture manufacturing company called Quebees Limited in 1989 before it evolved into The Chair Centre Limited and later SOKOA Chair Centre Limited following a venture merge with SOKOA S.A and Guaranty Trust Bank in 2004.

A fellow of the African Leadership Initiative and Aspen Global Leadership Network, Ibukun is a member of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group, member of the board of Nigerian Sovereign Wealth Fund and Chairman, Board of Trustees of Women in Management, Business and Public Service. In 2011, she co-founded the Afterschool Graduate Development Centre, a career centre established in order to checkmate the high rate of unemployment in Nigeria.

On September 7, 2015, Ibukun became the first woman to be appointed Chairman of First Bank of Nigeria following the resignation of Prince Ajibola Afonja.

iblawi:
Please the link to the igbo thread.

I was following at a time but they keep repeating everything from page to page.

mercyville:
Igbos too are trying but what I hate are the lies the FKO81 guy is posting as Igbo coys and when told with evidence,he will still retain them...he uses different monickers..mind you...

Charterhouse Pharmaceutics is a new and innovative dimension for the face of healthcare in Nigeria. We manufacture medicinal products, appliances and cosmetics of good quality, safety and efficacy to service the ever growing Nigerian healthcare demand. Furthermore, our initiative is to enhance the capacity of Nigeria in collaboration with the government and local authorities to effectively prevent and treat diseases that are of major concern to public health.

Healthcare particularly in developing countries remain an ever growing need. The ability to efficiently manage the needs and risks associated with Nigeria and its healthcare would be at the forefront of our business initiatives. As an organisation,we intend to develop our core competencies which would be QUALITY,SAFETY and EFFICACY of all our product lines aswell as AFFORDABILITY and ACCESSIBILITY. These would be reflected in the way we conduct business, by ensuring that all our product lines are continually available and affordable, thereby avoiding any levels of shortage in the pharmaceutical retail market within the developing African countries.

Ope Oyinlola was certified as a Master of Pharmacy in the United Kingdom in 2008. Over the years, Ope has gained experience within the pharmaceutical field of clinical dispensing, retailing and distribution of medicines, medical appliances and cosmetics on behalf of multinationals and small Pharma alike.

As a UK licensed and registered Pharmacist, he worked in hospital, community and industrial sectors of the pharmaceutical field. He had managed several outlets of the largest retail pharmacy chain in the UK before been appointed the Superintendent pharmacist of Accordia Investment Ltd. Upon completion of his task with the investment company in 2013, he returned home to Nigeria to establish Charterhouse Pharmaceutics.

He remains a member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB) and a member of the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) since its inception. Currently a licensed and registered member of the Pharmacist Council of Nigeria(PCN) and the Pharmacist Society of Nigeria(PSN).

Sogenal Ltd. is a 100% Independent Exploration and Production Company incorporated in 1992 in Nigeria. Sogenal and its technical partners started with the provision of services including Engineering, Integrated Project Design & Management, Procurement and Inspection through which it has earned nationwide recognition from its satisfied clients. Today, the company is a foremost Independent E & P company in Nigeria

OUR VISION
To be the most efficient Independent Oil and Gas company operating under the best health, safety and environmental standards in Nigeriaand all of Africa.

OUR MISSION
To be one of the best managed and most progressive Independent Exploration and Production companies in Africa through the best engineering and logistics practices in order to ensure the best safety and environmental standards, while maintaining second-to-none community relations.

Mr. Funso Lawal, OON serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Charterhouse Group. Mr. Lawal is a very experienced businessman with varied interests in the Energy, Real Estate and Banking sectors of the Nigerian economy. He served as Banker and Senior Executive of Citibank. He has over the years made valuable inputs to Government policy on agriculture, oil, gas, manufacturing, solid minerals and tourism matters. He serves as the Chairman of the Corporate Forum and Sogenal Ltd. Mr. Lawal served as a Director of Transnational Corporation of Nigeria Plc. He served as a Director of NUB International Bank Limited. He obtained B.Sc and M.Sc high honors degrees in Mining Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison USA in 1977 and 1979 respectively

“One of the greatest misconceptions that people have about Africa, still, is that it is too risky. What they need to realize is that risk is easily translated into opportunity,” says Bolaji Balogun, CEO of Chapel Hill Denham. Balogun set up Chapel Hill, a financial services advisory firm based in Lagos, in 2005 but with keen ambitions to develop his business into a full-service investment bank, Chapel Hill merged with Denham Management in 2008, with Balogun at the helm. He has firmly established the business as one of Nigeria’s most trusted and well-connected advisers. “The integration process when we first merged with Denham was interesting to begin with,” he explains. “We had tripled our number of employees and our client base had become a lot more diversified: Whereas we were used to serving institutional clients, we now had to increasingly serve retail clients as well.” After quickly overcoming these initial difficulties, Chapel Hill Denham has become the backbone of Nigerian investment banking, with leading positions in M&A, debt and equity capital markets. Any risks that were initially felt soon dissipated. Throughout his career, Balogun has proved to be a self-starter and keen business-person, stepping away from the family business and carving out his own career. One highlight for Balogun and Chapel Hill Denham was the advisory work the investment bank did during the banking crisis that hit Nigeria in 2008. Alongside Deutsche, Balogun and his team were brought in to advise Nigeria’s central bank on the rescue and recapitalization of the failing banks. Chapel Hill Denham led the work stream leading to the formation and funding of the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria (Amcon). “In effect we saved depositors from losing N4.5 trillion [$27.7 billion] in savings – a fate that people elsewhere were not able to avoid,” he says. “We worked well with the central bank and others to ensure that the taxpayer didn’t bear the burden of the downfall. This was a massive achievement for us, pivotal to cementing faith into the banking sector in Nigeria and supporting it.” And as part of the banking recapitalization process, in 2011 Amcon issued zero-coupon bonds for three years with a face value of N5.6 trillion – the first time zero-coupon bonds were issued in Nigeria. “Before the bonds were due to mature in December 2013, there were concerns that Amcon could default, but we successfully lead managed a landmark N3.8 trillion refinancing deal for it,” says Balogun.

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Chief (Mrs.) Fadayomi holds a LL.B Hons from the University of Lagos, and was called to Nigerian Bar in 1972. Her professional experience spans several years in both the Public and Private Sectors. She was the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice of Lagos State at a time.
She was the first Commissioner for Women Affairs & Poverty Alleviation, as well as the Commissioner for Establishment, Training & Pensions at different times in the State.In the Private Sector, she is the Principal Partner at Eniola Fadayomi & Co. and was the Legal Adviser to First Bank of Nigeria, Chairman Board of Directors, Afribank Nigeria PLC. She currently serves on several boards, both in the Public and Private Sectors.

iblawi:
Please someone need to compile this list. At least, we should have a copy to educate most of us the still think Igbos have most of the industries in South West.

The Igbos import low quality goods and rebrand them as Aba made (apart from shoes which we also make in SW). If their claims were true where do raw materials come from. There is no way industries will exist in state and they don't buy raw materials as input. I won't be surprised if Ibadan is also more industrialized than and igbo state.

Onitsha is more of a market not industrialized city. Nnewi is full of Chinese helping to repackage toothbrushes, iron wires instead of copper wires, etc.

It is funny for people to claim they developed another man's land when their land have nothing close.

Olukayode A. Olusunmade is a leadership development expert with many years of helping organizational leaders effectively achieve results through their team members. He is the Founder/CEO of COPE Leadership Consulting, the Master Licensee of Crestcom International LLC for Nigeria, and has since 2004 trained hundreds of managers and senior executives on leadership, customer service, mentoring, change and performance management, and goal setting, among other skills, applying the unique and functional Crestcom Bullet Proof manager training methodology. Prior to his current role as leadership skills trainer, Kayode trained as an economist and marketing practitioner holding first and second degrees in Economics from the Universities of Ibadan and Lagos respectively, and the professional qualification of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, England. An Alumnus of the Lagos Business School from where he undertook the Advanced Management Program in 1996.

His career took off in 1983 teaching Economic Theory at the Lagos State Polytechnic, and soon after commenced extensive sales, brand, and marketing management experience working in Nigeria for multinational corporations, including Chesebrough-Pond’s, Unilever, and Johnson & Johnson. Olusunmade joined Academy Press Plc. as Marketing Controller in 1992, and between 1997 and 2002 served as the leading printing company’s Executive Director, Corporate Services with strategic responsibilities for Marketing, Finance, and Human Resources and Administration functions.

He is also involved in nonprofit initiative in line with his aspiration to become a change agent on how the Nigerian education system can become a true platform for transformational development. Kayode is passionate about teacher leadership competency. In this regard, he recently authored two educational leadership books. On the family front, he is married to Funmilayo, and they have two children. His hobbies include athletics, football, basketball, and engaging in community volunteering work.

Olugbenga Ladipo is the Managing Director. He is a qualified Accountant, a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria an d the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria. He holds a Higher National Diploma in Accountancy from the Lagos State Polytechnic.

He joined Academy Press Plc as Head, Accounts in 1998 from a background of over ten years post-qualification professional experience both in practice with one of the top practicing firms and in industry with one of the top Multinationals in the Food & Beverages Industry. He has assisted in repositioning the financial functions of the company to meet the modern day challenges. He is married with children.

Shoreline Energy International (SEI) is a leading energy and infrastructure company. Founded in 1997 with offices around the globe our focal operations expand across Sub-Saharan Africa. Operating over 16 companies with over 3000 employees recognized as a multinational company we purposefully acquire Infrastructure and Energy related assets at attractive levels, that can be managed for maximum returns to leverage the company's portfolio of assets. Our strategy upholds our portfolio's growth through proprietary positioning, proprietary transactions and executive capabilities. Maintaining capital, strong investments and admirable operational experience our horizons continue to expand making SEI one of the leading corporations in Africa.

Yusol International Foods™ is a California based wholesale and distribution outlet for African and Caribbean food products. We have a diverse clientele ranging from small independent restaurants, institutional food service establishments as well as supermarkets and grocery stores. From modest beginnings twelve years plus ago, Yusol International Foods™ and it's parent company Fayus Inc. have developed into a food distribution network system, serving numerous clients Worldwide. This family owned and operated business is a steadily growing business and is currently one of the largest wholesalers of African food products in the United States.

deomelo:
He won't logically debate you or offer anything sane and intelligent. He's good with insults and immature rants and actually, he's a troll and internet nuisance and he's been trolling you endlessly.

There's a method to his madness s keep going back and forth with that troll at your own risk.

I've been ignoring that clown.

Doublecheck:
The thing pain the isi busu

Doublecheck:
Scratched faced Afonja Muslim your brain is still failing you if not you would realize that those pictures are not thesame, idiot. Are you blind? or is it just brainache

Scholes007:
I once called one of you out to compare notes but he chickened out when I told him to start after I have shown him how they play Catchup in E&P and oil services. I challenged him on petroleum distribution he chicken out by calling seplat,oranto,nest oil chicken investment. When left with little choice he called our arguments dick measuring as if I didn't know before I engaged him.
I challenge you too. Lets start from transportations.(shipping,airline n air services n road transports).

Doublecheck:
Olodo afonja your brain have failed you, just commit suicide you can't have sense again if you had any sense you would have thought it wise to post the link, for all I know you could be posting from the Afonja thread.

Olodo Afonja Muslim with a failed brain.

shukuokukobambi:
I have an airflow AC at home and I never ever knew it was made by an omoluabi company!!

Doublecheck:
Any Afonja that says this is recycling should refer me to the page that these pictures have been posted on this thread, they have not been posted on this thread but on the Afonja thread that is how we kicked the Afonja thread to 115 pages before they settled to posting agege bread and packaged beans

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Engr. Segun Emmanuel Olaye is a man who loves challenges. Determined, methodical and thorough, Olaye has managed to turn his micro agro-allied enterprise known as Ayoola Foods Limited, into a major food-processing company, whose products are highly sought-after, both at home and abroad. His company's turnover runs into hundreds of millions of naira, annually.

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Ayoola Foods introduced Ayoola Beans Flour – a brilliant product that makes preparation of all these local delicacies fast and stress free. It can be used in the preparation of bean cakes (Akara), Moi-moi and other local delicacies that require a lot of tedious work like soaking of the beans, cleaning, peeling, grinding, etc.

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Imagine you are travelling to Lagos for business. When you reach there you realize you are short of visiting cards in a new city. Or if you are a local, you realize a few days before your wedding that you suddenly need another 100 invitation cards. What do you do? Don’t worry. The founders of Printivo have a solution.

Printivo.com is a Lagos-based DIY (do it yourself) web-to-print-to-doorstep platform. This startup is trying to redefine the digital printing business in Nigeria by offering consumers and SMEs a radically easy and practical model for meeting their printing requirements. The startup helps SMEs by printing and delivering materials such as point-of-sale displays, business cards, letterheads, stickers, handbills, greeting cards, calendars, envelopes, invitation cards and banners, right to the customer’s doorstep.


Serial entrepreneur
Printivo was co-founded in Nigeria by Oluyomi Ojo, Ayodeji Adeogun and Ibukun Oloyede. YourStoryAfrica spoke to the serial entrepreneur Oluyomi Ojo to record his journey leading up to Printivo.

Since he was 18 years old, Ojo has been an entrepreneur. Before founding Printivo.com, he was running a design and branding agency called Urbanbaze in Lagos. He has experience of working with reputable brands like Etisalat, Honda, Pfizer, Kuramo, Alabukun and Asoil energy; helping them with design, branding and marketing communications. The ad agency is still running simultaneously but under a different management.

‘How I met my co-founders’
Ojo met his two co-founders while he was pursuing his previous venture. Ibukun joined him as a graphic design intern at Urbanbaze ad agency in 2009 and grew to be the Art Director in four years. Now Ibukun is his co-founder at Printivo.


Once Ojo needed help in GIS related stuff for Urbanbaze and went to the University of Lagos to meet a professor in the field, and instead bumped into an old acquaintance, Ayodeji Adeogun. They struck a deal then and there and Ayodeji came on board to Urbanbaze. Now he is as a co-founder of Printivo.

“Doing small things in great ways is the only business model that has worked for me,” says Ojo. According to him, “This one-stop online print-shop offers high end personalized products such as calendars, posters, photobook, diaries, large prints on paper and canvas etc. Printivo has a very interactive drag-and-drop online interface where customers can choose and customize from hundreds of templates to create business cards, brochures, posters, personal diaries, photo books and invitations. This personalized product approach helps customers reduce printing time and costs, while increasing choice.”


How did the idea come about?Printivo Bike Delivery
Ojo says he observed a market need that was not served well locally. He saw people ordering cards on Moo.com (UK-based printing service) and wait for 26 days for delivery. Surprisingly, Moo’s Nigerian traffic accounts for 0.8% of their overall site visits.

Printivo founder Ojo feels that the West Africa printing industry is hugely unorganized, and the customer is under-served in terms of quality and reliability. Printivo’s vision is to make printing accessible and hassle free starting from Lagos to other cities and eventually establishing outlets across the West African region.

Services like Printivo which provide a local solution for a local problem are the need of the hour in Africa. Nigeria has a lot of designers who were not accessible to customers before, now thanks to Printivo they have a platform where they can congregate and offer their art to customers. Designers across Nigeria are becoming mini-entrepreneurs, working with the Printivo team to build the largest database of customizable templates of business cards, letterheads and other printing products for customers.

With a modern store design, well trained staff and cutting-edge equipment, Printivo is Nigeria’s number one online print provider. Born out of love for paper and ink, Printivo aims to help Nigerian startups and SMEs print business and marketing materials with ease. They believe your business should not start and end on the internet. According to Ojo, “Printivo has made printing easy for both businesses and individuals. Our templates are free for everyone to customize and use. We are empowering people to create their own marketing materials, this is our contribution to the Nigerian entrepreneurial drive.”

Printivo handles its own logistics and delivery for Lagos. For out station cities, it has local partners. Its consumer-driven experience comes as a novel concept in the Nigerian printing industry.

Challenges to overcome
The challenge for Printivo is to prove product-market fit very quickly then achieve scalability and efficiency without any compromise on their quality of services.
Raise funds from people who not only bring in money but also human capital with right connections for expansion.
Decrease the delivery time from maximum three days in Lagos and five days outside Lagos, to one day in Lagos and three days for outstation.

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New York based visual artist, Kehinde Wiley has firmly situated himself within art history’s portrait painting tradition. As a contemporary descendent of a long line of portraitists, including Reynolds, Gainsborough, Titian, Ingres, among others, Wiley, engages the signs and visual rhetoric of the heroic, powerful, majestic and the sublime in his representation of urban, black and brown men found throughout the world.

By applying the visual vocabulary and conventions of glorification, history, wealth and prestige to the subject matter drawn from the urban fabric, the subjects and stylistic references for his paintings are juxtaposed inversions of each other, forcing ambiguity and provocative perplexity to pervade his imagery.

Wiley’s larger than life figures disturb and interrupt tropes of portrait painting, often blurring the boundaries between traditional and contemporary modes of representation and the critical portrayal of masculinity and physicality as it pertains to the view of black and brown young men.

Initially, Wiley’s portraits were based on photographs taken of young men found on the streets of Harlem. As his practice grew, his eye led him toward an international view, including models found in urban landscapes throughout the world – such as Mumbai, Senegal, Dakar and Rio de Janeiro, among others – accumulating to a vast body of work called, “The World Stage.”

The models, dressed in their everyday clothing most of which are based on the notion of far-reaching Western ideals of style, are asked to assume poses found in paintings or sculptures representative of the history of their surroundings. This juxtaposition of the “old” inherited by the “new” – who often have no visual inheritance of which to speak – immediately provides a discourse that is at once visceral and cerebral in scope.

Without shying away from the complicated socio-political histories relevant to the world, Wiley’s figurative paintings and sculptures “quote historical sources and position young black men within the field of power.” His heroic paintings evoke a modern style instilling a unique and contemporary manner, awakening complex issues that many would prefer remain mute.

Kehinde Wiley is a New York-based portrait painter who is known for his highly naturalistic paintings of black people in heroic poses. The Columbus Museum of Art, which hosted an exhibition of his work in 2007, describes his work with the following: "Kehinde Wiley has gained recent acclaim for his heroic portraits which address the image and status of young African-American men in contemporary culture."