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Adeyinka Samuel is a seasoned Oil & Gas expert. He has worked with the Aker Solutions Group for over a decade and was largely responsible for their Europe & Pan Africa Operations, managing a highly skilled workforce whose central focus was on providing Greenfield and Brownfield services to the regions. With excellent international leadership and management experience

With more than 25 years of experience doing business in Nigeria, mainly in the real estate sector, Tayo founded Persianas and has been instrumental in its growth and continued success since then. The major project to date is the world-class 'The Palms' shopping mall, which is rated to be the biggest such property in Nigeria, if not West Africa. The Palms has become the benchmark for other developers in Nigeria and raised the quality standards in the Nigerian real estate market. Since then, he has successfully launched shopping centers in Enugu, Kwara and Ibadan, with more in the pipeline.

Tayo serves on the board of several Nigerian companies including African Paints Nigeria Limited and is also the Chairman of Resourcery Limited.

Persianas Palm Courts

Persianas Palm Courts were conceived and built in 1992, in the heart of the vibrant city of Victoria Island, Lagos. One of the first compounds of its kind, the project was executed at the highest standards of finishing and fittings, and comprises of 2 blocks, housing 24 executive apartments and 3 penthouses.

Providing functional facilities, a swimming pool, squash courts, a state of the art gymnasium and children’s play area, the estate provides luxurious lodging to discerning residents who have been accustomed to exceptional service, maintenance and security.

laudate:
Chief Suara Olayiwola Alani Bankole is a Nigerian businessman and chieftain from Ogun State. He is Chairman of West African Aluminum Products(WAAP) Plc. He holds the aristocratic titles Oluwo of Iporo Ake and Seriki Jagunmolu of Egbaland. He attended Baptist Boys High School in Abeokuta, and later went to the University of Ghana for further studies.

West African Aluminum Products(WAAP) Plc is involved in manufacturing and sale of aluminum products including, importing, buying, selling and exchanging aluminum products in Nigeria. The firm was established in 1975 and listed on the stock exchange, on 6th September 1989. As at 2012, it had an investment of over three billion naira, with volume of business in the region of N500 Million.

In 2008, NITEL's head office - 37-storey landmark building standing over 160m (520ft) high skyscraper on Marina, Lagos known as NECOM house was sold to West African Aluminum Products (WAAP) Plc, for =N=4 billion naira. The sale was carried out by the Liquidator of NITEL/M-Tel Staff Pension Fund, Messrs Olusola Adekanola and Co.

However, a former Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information, Ambassador Stephen Willoughby, challenged the sale claiming that former President Olusegun Obasanjo, in a memo dated May 16, 2007, had approved the Presidential Task force’s recommendation that NECOM House be retained in the schedule of NITEL’s core operational assets, due to its strategic importance to the SAT-3 operations. This led to the revocation of the sale in 2011.

Alani Bankole put the set back behind him, and focused on his other key business concerns, such as Freight Agencies Nigeria Ltd, the first freight company in West Africa, through which he became a multimillionaire at the age of 34. Alani Bankole is currently the Chairman, Board of Trustees, of the newly registered Action Democratic Party, ADP. His son is Dimeji Bankole, used to be the former Speaker of the House of Representatives.

deedeedee1:
Is he the founder of the company or just an employee?

EFIKO is a mobile social quiz platform designed to enhance learning through self-assessment with topical quizzes tied to the National School Curriculum. EFIKO is available on multiple platforms such as Android, Nokia S40 and mobile web for other mobile devices (www.efiko.com.ng) and for download from the Samsung Apps and Google Play stores.

EFIKO was conceptualized and developed at Tech-In-Education (www.tech–in.org), a 48-hour gathering of ideas, people and digital tools aimed at creating novel web & mobile solutions to improve learning at primary and secondary school levels in Nigeria run by the Co-Creation Hub (www.cchubnigeria.com) in February 2012. The Team behind EFIKO came first at the end of the competition and since then has been working towards releasing the product to the market.

‘Bosun Tijani, C.E.O. of Co-creation Hub said ‘Following a successful and highly insightful pilot of EFIKO in eight ( secondary schools across Lagos State, we are further convinced that EFIKO will enhance learning amongst Secondary school students by helping them take responsibility for their own performances in a fun mobile environment with minimal supervision.

According to Mr. Oyekanmi Bolade who is in charge of Digital, Mobile Content and Services, Samsung Electronics West Africa, “We will always support creativity and innovation this is why we have partnered with the Co-Creation Hub, to support the Efiko project. We believe that the wealth of this nation is not only its natural resources but majorly in its human capital potential. We will always be willing to support the realisation of this potential.”

Some of the key features of EFIKO include:

Topical based learning: Students learn as they are taught according to the National Curriculum
Standardized content: This is especially important for Students in Schools with a shortage of Teachers for certain subjects
Instant scoring with a leader board: Students are challenged to do better when they see their current scores and ranks as well as that of their peers
Social based learning: Peer-to-peer engagement makes learning fun for students. Students can challenge each other on social media to become top student for different subjects
Recognition: In form of incentivising high performing students and their schools on the platform
Geographical mapping: Tied to the leader board, students can see where top students go to school
Covers Senior Secondary Classes i.e. SS1, SS2, SS3
Service is free for students to download and use
EFIKO Secondary School Challenge

EFIKO was formally launched with a National Secondary school challenge competition. For the next six (6) months, the top student on the EFIKO leader board in five (5) subjects will win a mobile phone i.e. fifteen (15) students every month for six (6) months totalling ninety (90) students.

ODVanguard:
Chairman means he's practically the oga patapata (owner). He's also former Speaker of the HOR Dimeji Bankole's dad.

Olubunmi Ekundare is the Managing Director of Intel Corporation, West Africa. In this interview with Emeka Aginam, he outlined Intel plans for the Nigerian market. Assuring continued innovation from Intel to support the market, he said that Chip maker will continue to provide connectivity and relevant content to the Nigerian market. Excerpt My career journey I actually joined in 2005 as an Education consultant; it has been a very rewarding and exciting journey. Intel is a very dynamic company and being given the opportunity to impact lives with what we do is most rewarding. Again the greatest influence you can make to the society is to impact lives in a positive way, sometimes when you are doing this, you do not realise that people are watching; being recognized for the work we do is like winning the Nobel Prize especially when it is done independently and one is also recognised amongst the great pioneers of ICT in Nigeria

Nothing excites me more than hearing about Nigerians with sound business nous, who work hard, focus, and dominate in their chosen field. And every time I hear about one, I’ma blog about them. That being said, I know we’re tardy to the party, but as this is a new blog, we have some catching up to do.

Presenting Ladi Delano: at the age of 22, the jet-setting Nigerian serial entrepreneur made his first millions as a liquor entrepreneur while living in China. He founded Solidarnosc Asia, a Chinese alcoholic beverage company that made Solid XS, a premium brand of vodka. To do this, Delano took language lessons and traveled the country in order to sell his product and get it into the mainstream.

During the first six months, volumes were not rising but the marketing budget was dwindling. He took the bold step along with a business partner to pack up shop from the UK and relocate to Hong Kong and simply try to figure it all out. In three years, Solid XS went on to achieve over 50% market share in China and was distributed across over 30 cities in China, and pulled in $20 million in annual revenue.

Ladi-Delano 2Delano subsequently sold the company to a rival liquor company for over $15 million and ploughed his funds into his next venture-The Delano Reid Group, a real estate investment holding company focused on mainland China. Today, Delano is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Bakrie Delano Africa (BDA) – a $1 billion joint venture with the $15 billion (market cap) Bakrie Group of Indonesia. Bakrie Delano Africa serves as the investment partner of the Bakrie Group in Nigeria.

I honestly can’t understand what it is about him I find so attractive…

The Public Affairs Section of the U.S. Mission Nigeria invites applications from qualified Nigerians wishing to teach Hausa or Yoruba languages and cultures to American students in U.S. universities and colleges.


The Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA) program is a nine month non-degree course funded by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and administered by the Institute of International Education. The objective of the program is to strengthen foreign language instruction at U.S. colleges, universities, and some high schools, while providing career or future teachers from abroad the opportunity to refine their teaching skills, increase their English language proficiency, and expand their knowledge of U.S. society and culture. FLTA fellows must return to their home countries upon completion of their programs to teach English at the secondary or university level.


Access the online application at https://apply.embark.com/student/fulbright/flta/27/
Application Closes: September 1, 2017


Required Qualifications
• Applications must be completed and submitted online.
• Applicants should request that the academic office of their institution send a stamped copy of their transcripts in a sealed envelope to: The Public Affairs Section, U.S. Embassy, Plot 1075 Diplomatic Drive, Central Area, Abuja, Attention: Cultural Affairs Officer.
• Other documents to be submitted include academic credentials, signed, and stamped letters of reference, and the photo page of a valid Nigerian passport.
• Applicants must be career teachers of English or in training to become teachers of English.
• Applicants must possess a university degree in English, Language Arts, or combined honors.
• Applicants must be fluent in English, demonstrated by a TOEFL score of 79-80 (Internet based testing) or 6.0 (overall score International English Language Testing System-IELTS). This will be administered through the Embassy.
• Applicants must be between 21 and 32 years old at the time of application.
• Applicants must demonstrate maturity, dependability, integrity, and professionalism.
• Applicants must be physically present in their home country throughout the nomination and selection process.


For further inquiries, please contact Cultural Affairs Assistant, U.S. Embassy, Plot 1075 Diplomatic Drive, Central Area, Abuja: email: CulturalAbuja@state.gov or U.S. Consulate General, #2 Walter Carrington Crescent, Victoria Island, Lagos.

He is the go-to “ideas guy” and is responsible for the vision and business and technology strategies for the company. He drives his staff to succeed and helps to create a dynamic and innovative environment to work in which is fundamental in placing Digital Bananas as the leader in the industry of technology and development.

Keji specialises in analysis, the development and deployment of social commerce applications across multiple platforms, and is committed to the vision that usability and user experience is always at the heart of design.

When he is not thinking up pioneering ideas and implementing global strategies, he can usually be found in front of a cinema screen. Keji is a verified movie buff and is also addicted to his iPhone, constantly searching for the latest apps and development news.

Keji holds a Bsc Hons degree in Computer Science, he is a Prince2 Practitioner and is an Agile Scrum Specialist.

HEYDEN PETROLEUM LIMITED was incorporated in 30th October 2001 as an independent Oil Trading Company in Nigeria and in the United Kingdom. Our trading activities range from refined white products to semi-refined black products. We explore our formidable network structure to access and expand business relationships wherever profitable and feasible while promoting and sustaining professionalism.

HPL is actively involved in the trading and distribution of Automotive Gas Oil, Diesel, Fuel Oils, Bitumen, Crude and some intermediate components within and outside Nigeria. HPL continues to negotiate strategic cooperation and agreement with several refineries in UAE, Europe and Russia which enables HPL to procure at discounted prices that allows us to offer unbeatable selling prices in the market place.

Our Ijora Jetty and Depot

We own and operate a dedicated jetty which enables demurrage-free operations and explains our efficiency of service. Our Jetty and tank farm in Ijora, with a combined onshore and floating storage capacity of 54,000 metric tons but considering that our property is over 65,000 square meters we are now expanded to 70,000MT for PMS, AGO and Kero and building 2 Nos Jet Fuel storage tanks of 15,000MT capacity with a separate loading gantry equipped with modern and state-of-the-art loading facilities undoubtedly enables us to stock up petroleum products all year round and reduce our delivery lead times to the minimum. We currently have the ability to load 5,000MT in one day.

We have sea-going vessels and barges (MT Orion1 – 5000 metric tons and MT Shujah5 – 6000 metric tons, Barge Heyden Lamissa – 14,000MT, Barge Heyden Bamidele – 40,000MT) that undertake marine haulage of petroleum products to our storage terminal and other third party terminals. We have over seventy (70) trucks for inland deliveries of petroleum products to our client’s locations.

As a compliment, we have a trailer park that can accommodate between 300 400 tanker/trailers at any point in time. All these enable us to operate efficiently without unnecessary demurrages

Our Services

HPL has defined its development strategy and Focus on Increasing its market/sales through expansion of its supplies and sales network, differentiation, customer centric focus, distinctive branding, Optimizing economic, logistic and operational processes at every stage of its activities, developing, establishing and sustaining international supply agreements with our chain of suppliers around the globe.

HPL has established very strong relationships with many customers nationally and internationally over the years; particularly the major Petroleum Retailing Companies and the armed forces with whom we maintain spot, medium and long term contracts.
Geography of our Operations
Heyden Petroleum Limited (HPL) is strategically located in Abuja, Lagos and London with our affliliates in Dubai UAE and Cape Town in South Africa.

Client Base
HPL has established very strong relationships with many customers nationally and internationally over the years; particularly the major Petroleum Retailing Companies and the armed forces with whom we maintain spot, medium and long term contracts.

Industry Partners

Our industry affiliates include among others, Projector S.A in the UK, Texaco, Conoil, Total, Vitol, Mobil, Addax, Oando Plc and African Petroleum
Our Strategy

HPL has defined its development strategy and Focus on:

Increasing its market/sales through expansion of its supplies and sales network, differentiation, customer centric focus, distinctive branding, Optimizing economic, logistic and operational processes at every stage of its activities, developing, establishing and sustaining international supply agreements with our chain of suppliers around the globe.

Other interests
Other interests take shape as subsidiary companies Heyden Shipping and Maritime Services, whose activities and operations compliment and provide shipping and other related maritime and clearing services to Heyden Petroleum Limited.

We also have Heyden Estates which is our real estate division with an impressive real estate portfolio.

I launched UrbanGeekz to fill a much-needed gap in the marketplace. This digital news platform is the first-of-its-kind content site that covers technology, business, and entrepreneurship from a multicultural perspective.”

“I always identified as being British-Nigerian. When I was younger, I traveled back to Nigeria, so that helps when you go back home. The first time I went was at 13...”
Growing up, Kunbi heard the language, went to Nigerian parties, and had friends from all walks of life – Asians, Africans, and Jamaicans.

Her identity was never a question.

Intro to Journalism

At the University of Cambridge, one of the world's leading academic centers, Kunbi’s cultural foundation never wavered within a predominately White student and faculty population.

She decided on a dual program where she earned her Bachelor’s and Master’s in Social and Political Science. And by the time Kunbi graduated, she knew journalism was her calling.

Her career began as a reporter for London’s Evening Standard newspaper, and the signs of a promising journalist sprouted – placing BBC News on alert. They picked her up and gave her the opportunity to solidify her presence in broadcast journalism.

For a couple of years, Kunbi took on multimedia roles, including working as a Web Content Producer and TV Producer at BBC South East Today, and a TV Producer at BBC World News.



A personal getaway became a turning point in Kunbi’s life. Simply visualizing a Black middle class filled with Black professionals, she saw an opportunity. And an added bonus: commerce, nightlife, real estate, and even the weather were all great!

“For me, Atlanta just worked.”

In 2011, Kunbi emigrated from the UK to America; making Atlanta her new home along with theGrio – an American website with news, opinion, entertainment and video content geared toward African-Americans.

*theGrio originally launched as a division of NBC News in 2009, and became a division of MSNBC in 2013.

theGrio

“I had such a great experience at theGrio. At the time, Joy Reid* was the Managing Editor at theGrio. She hired me. She is a phenomenal, amazing manager; such a great person and role model.”

*Joy-Ann Lomena-Reid, also known as Joy Reid, is a host and national correspondent at MSNBC covering politics.

When Kunbi joined theGrio as a News Correspondent for the southeast, the company’s head office was based at the Rockefeller Center in New York, but she was based in Atlanta. This distance afforded her flexibility and the opportunity to essentially be her own boss.

She was responsible for dictating the agenda for what needed to be covered in southern states, particularly Georgia and Florida. In addition, Kunbi reached out to several national and international connects to cover stories from Africa, Europe, as well as domestic headliners.

Through theGrio, Kunbi got a taste of independence within the world of journalism. For almost 4 years, she primarily worked from home and enjoyed every bit of it. So when it came time for her to make her next career move, working for someone was unfathomable.

“…I knew I wanted to do my own thing. The next thing was to build a great brand

deedeedee1:
Yudala is owned by and Igbo person right? Why post employees? We want industrialist not employees.

deomeelo:
Unquote me.


I don replace am.

Jobberman was started from a dorm room at the Obafemi Awolowo University. Fast forward to 2016, and Africa’s largest jobs website is one of the most recognisable startup success stories on the continent. Its founding trio are constantly feted with congratulatory confetti — recently, Mark Zuckerberg name-checked them.

Now, one of them, Opeyemi Awoyemi and Passion Incubator’s Olufunbi Falayi are starting a fund to get behind the ideas of Nigerian university undergrads and recent graduates who are possibly building the next Jobberman. Along with Nigerian university alumni and other high net-worth individuals, Fast Forward plans to invest up to N200 million (just over $600,000), with a ticket size of between N250,000 and N2,000,000, for up to 25 percent equity in each venture.

Opeyemi describes the thinking behind Fast Forward.

“Graduate unemployment in Nigeria is at an alarming high which begs the question — what is being taught in our schools? If education is supposed to be the way to be empowered, what changed? A lot has changed and it’s clear today that the way to create jobs is by encouraging innovation and entrepreneurship.”

While seemingly unconnected, the move seems to have precedent. Jobberman recently made a strategic investment in Stutern, which is essentially a bet on the prospects of two green twin entrepreneurs, fresh off the school boat themselves.

Techpoint.ng is a news publishing platform dedicated to chronicling the impact of technology on the African narrative.

Techpoint.ng defies the generic rule because we do not rehash news from what is obtainable. We report the stories happening in our backyards; we will bring you closer to the African startup ecosystem, going where the rubber meets the road in local technology and start real conversations about the ecosystem and how technology impacts the lives of real people and businesses.

Our team is made up of seasoned minds who have worked in various capacities in the Nigerian tech space, and we will offer the opportunity for people outside the tech space to learn about the basics and the intricacies of the Nigerian tech industry.

Aside allowing users to list events on the platform, Truppr also helps companies organise events for their staff. So far, Truppr has organised a couple of fitness events for brands, and the startup gets commission for putting the events together.

Truppr also has an online store for sport items and currently owns 100% of the inventory. There are possibilities that the store would be open up to retailers of sporting materials to showcase and sell their wares on the store. Sport wares stores would also be able to showcase their wares as time goes.

Truppr is available on Google play store and as well as the Apple app store.

deedeedee1:
Is he the founder of the company or just an employee?

Chief Alani Bankole’s business drive also led him into establishing the foremost Aluminum Company in Abeokuta, the West African Aluminum Products Plc in 1977. From 1980 till date, he is Chairman of Vuysteke Construction Company Limited. He is equally the Chairman, S.O.A. Properties Limited from 2003 till date and the chairman, WAAP foods and Allied Products, from 1990 till date. http://www.asabeafrika.com/2016/09/20-interesting-things-you-dont-know.html

laudate:
Yes, Chief Bankole is the founder of WAAP.

deedeedee1:
AMNI PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT COMPANY
Chairman/CEO
Tunde Afolabi is the founding Managing Director/CEO of Amni International Petroleum Development Company in 1993, now the Chairman/CEO of the company.
SEE FINE MAN

TUNDE AFOLABI’S SUCCESS SECRETS | THISDAY Newspapers | 29 Nov 2015

It is no exaggeration that Tunde Afolabi, MFR, Chairman & CEO of Amni Petroleum Company, one of the most successful indigenous oil production companies in Nigeria, knows his onions, having been in business since 1996. In spite of the vagaries of the business, his company has remained afloat with a lot of success stories.

His company was awarded the Okoro Field and Setu Field located in OML 112 in shallow water offshore Nigeria, as part of the Nigerian government’s indigenous licensing programme. The total gross production at the Okoro field in 2013 was 6.5 million barrels of oil, representing a gross average daily rate of 18,041 barrels per day.

In 2015, he shared his testimony of how the Almighty God pulled his firm through what would have been a financial crisis, earlier that year. That was when Afren Plc, his foreign partners in the Okoro field, experienced a major crisis in their operations. Desperate not to go under, Afolabi ran to God in prayers; and by divine intervention, his own firm was protected from the fallout, and things ended on an upbeat note for him and Amni.

Prior to that incident, God’s might had been manifested in his business, when he was awarded all the three oil and gas assets he had bidded for, during the last round of bids for oil blocks.

Afolabi, a silent billionaire, has lifted a number of less privileged members of the society; his philanthropy beggars description. He is also known as an ardent supporter of churches within the Anglican denomination. The professional geologist with over 40 years of oil and gas exploration and production, started his career with Texaco Inc, New Orleans Louisiana in 1974 after he received his a B.A Geology in 1973 from Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster Pennsylvania USA, and an M.Sc. in Geology in 1975 from Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, US.

He later joined Mobil Inc in Dallas, Texas in 1979. In 1993, Chief Afolabi incorporated Amni Production Development Company Ltd, and has been the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer.

Afolabi is a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG), and a past President of the Nigerian Association of Petroleum Explorationists (NAPE) as well as a council member of the Nigerian Association of Indigenous Production and Exploration Companies (NAIPEC).
https://www.pressreader.com/nigeria/thisday/20151129/282449937942745

laudate:
Yes, Chief Bankole is the founder of WAAP.

deomeelo:
What we are doing here is the typical Yoruba sense of accountability, checks and balances, fairness, sound judgement and principles.

Unlike the other fraudulent liars and jokers without any qualms about posting fake and 419 rubbish without.

deomeelo:
What we are doing here is the typical Yoruba sense of accountability, checks and balances, fairness, sound judgement and principles.


Unlike the other fraudulent liars and jokers without any qualms about posting fake and 419 rubbish without.

vonxe:
check out tunde afolabi
owner of Amni Petroleum
bought the compny from sanni bello
He was formerly the MD/CEO of the company but He now owns the company