laudate:


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.







Other products of the company are;

Ayoola Plantain Flour

Ayoola Rice Flour

Ayoola Beans Flour

Ayoola Cassava Fufu

Ayoola Yam Flour

Ayoola Brown Beans





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.

Ikeolu Biobaku

CEO Mix N Bake Confectionaries

Mrs. Ikeolu Biobaku is the CRO (Chief Responsibility Officer) who ably leads the Mix and Bake team. An Economics graduate of the University of Ibadan; a Graduate of Daystar leadership Academy, a Graduate of Lagos Business school, now Pan-Atlantic University. She was formally a banker, who resigned from her banking career, to develop and pursue her passion in confectionery and sugar-craft and in recent times ORGANISING CSR PROGRAMS TO EMPOWER WOMEN AND YOUTHS.

She runs programs where men, women & youths are taught the confectionery art absolutely free to participants with record number of transformed lives: Spiritually, physically, emotionally &financially. She is highly committed to making the best use of her talent and what GOD has entrusted unto her, thus over the years, She has honed her skills & knowledge of the confectionery craft with constant training/personal development. As part of her commitment to “know her craft” She regularly attends Sugarcraft and Cake Trainings and workshops all over the world.

hilroy:
Sola Giwa
Owner, Airflow Engineering Works Limited

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From a bean cake vendor to a multi-million naira business owner: the story of Ayodeji Megbope.

The food and catering business in Nigeria is not an easy one as a lot of time and energy is invested into the business. It is no secret that most caterers and food vendors spend sleeplessness night after sleepless night so as to meet their target and satisfy their customers.

So the story of the owner of No Left Over Nigeria plc should ordinarily not be astonishing or surprising. However, the fact that she was able to turn a ₦1000 business into a ₦50 million company, selling what most people would term ordinary is the focus today.

No Left Over plc is a Nigerian catering outfit run by the CEO, Ayodeji Megbope. Ayodeji Megbope who received training in secretarial studies worked for a primary school as a confidential secretary for a period of nine years.

All through the period Megbope worked for the school, she always nursed am ambition of owning her own crèche and playgroup school. Megbope’s aim was to create a safe and secure environment where working parents can keep their children while at work.

After nine years of service to the administration of the school where she worked, Megbope left the school in pursue of her ambition. In a bid to actualize her ambition, she enrolled into a Montessori teaching programme. The programme was meant to last for about six months.

Towards the end of the programme, after religiously attending it, Megbope lost interest. Despite all the money she has spent, Megbope didn’t want to engage in something that we wouldn’t give her all. So with no job and no prospects of starting up the daycare center she had intended, Megbope was thinking about the next step to take in her life.


One other thing Megbope had going for her was her culinary skills. Megbope’s food has always received commendation from her family and other relatives. So she decided to take up cooking so as to keep herself busy.

Megbope had a sister-in-law who was a career woman and was always extremely busy. So Megbope took up the job of cooking for this sister-in-law of hers.

One of megbope’s special delicacies was her bean cake popularly called moi moi in Nigeria. So tasty was her bean cake that her sister-in-law requested that Megbope include it in the food menu she prepares for her.

She charged her sister-in-law the sum of ₦1000 for that.

From there, Megbopes bean cake grew famous that other relatives and friends began placing orders. Using the 1000 she charged her sister inlaw as capital, megbope began producing bean cakes and selling to those who requested them.

At the end of three months, Megbopes capital grew from ₦1000 to about ₦40000. It was at that point that the realization dawned on her that this could be a very fruitful venture.

Megbope decided to take the business farther than just her immediate environment. She started producing bean cakes and going to sell them at the school where she worked previously.

When parents came to drop their children at school, she would beckon on them to purchase the bean cake. From there, her fame spread even further, bring more customers who placed demands on her bean cake.

The big break came for Megbope when she applied for a training organized by an organization known as Goldman sachs in conjuction with the Pan-African university. The training exposed megbope to various entrepreneurship tools such as record keeping, duty delegation as well as customer relations.

After the training, Megbope was ready to take charge of her business. It was at this point that No Left Over plc was born.

Megbope make some changes to her business. She opened a record keeping book, a bank account, trained and employed more hands, and moved her business from her house to an office. All this changes helped Megbope place her business in a proper prospective

She was able to take on more jobs and even expanded her business from one item –bean cake- to a fully catering outfit.

Megbope has received recommendations from within and outside her country. She has been invited on international platforms to give motivational talks and addresses on business and career.


One of those was the annual general meeting of Goldman Sachs in New York, where she gave an address. She has also been invited by former American President, Bill Clinton to his annual Clinton Global Initiative.

Her advice at these lectures for young entrepreneurs was for them to never be afraid to start small. She admits that although the journey might not be smooth, but with a proper business plan, record keeping and perseverance, they would succeed.

Sixth Sense Limited is an Interior decor/furniture company specializing in the decoration and enhancement of living areas to reflect personality and provide a relaxing atmosphere for homes, living quarters, hotels, guest houses and offices et al.


Sixth Sense is a professionally orientated company, backed by a qualified design team, supplemented by our manufacture, installation and retail departments.

The services we offer range from consulting services to turnkey interior decor solutions. We ensure we understand the needs of our clients and translate these needs into a tailored proposal. We take this proposal from concept through installation to final conclusion.

shukuokukobambi:


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

ModsWillKillNL:
@kn23h

What of the founder of printivo? Have you profiled him yet?

He was recently interviewed by Familusi Akin Babajide, anchor of Under40CEOs.

Dr. Olatunde Aiyedun Agbato, a Knight of John Wesley of Methodist Church Nigeria, was born at Ogere Remo on 4th August. He attended Wesley School, Ogere Remo, Ijebu Ode Grammar School and the university of Ibadan. where he studied Veterinary Medicine and Obtained the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree in 1975 with distinctions in pathology and parasitology.
He served for about 16 months as a lecturer in the Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Ibadan before enrolling for a Master of Business Administration program at the University of Lagos; thus graduating 15 months later with an MBA degree; becoming the first veterinarian in the country to do so.

laudate:
Deebee Limited started as a wine manufacturer, but it’s product range now includes non-alcoholic fruit juices, bottled water, and will soon include a line of functional/energy drinks. Dr. D.B.A. Ogutuga, Ph.D (CANTAB), the Founder and Executive Chairman of Deebee Company Limited, established the firm in June 1977, with the purpose of commercially implementing his research results, on the process of manufacturing wine from kola nuts.



Today, from the complex factory machinery used for purification, PET blowing, filling, labeling, capping and shrink wrapping (and that’s their bottled water product alone), to the logistics software used to communicate raw material and finished goods orders between offices, Deebee Company Limited utilises high end technology to enhance its' operations, and add significant value along its entire value chain.

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laudate:
Asiko International Nigeria Limited, is an energy company with interests in Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) Trading, Storage and Distribution. Its' subsidiary Asiko Power was established as a specialist power company, offering one-stop captive power plants to various clients (large and small). It specializes in “OFF GRID” gas captive power generation – by bringing gas directly to its' customers, and generating all their energy needs (power, cooling and heating) at their site.

Asiko is also the promoter and the largest (non institutional) investor in Gas Terminalling one of the largest LPG Gas trading, transportation, distribution and retailing companies in Nigeria. Gas Terminalling is one of the major off takers of Liquefied Petroleum Gas, moving over 2,000 MT of the product from Bonny to Lagos, every month for onward distribution to its numerous clients.



Asiko assembles and sells a wide range of LPG-fueled gas generating sets, LPG-powered cooling systems or air-conditioners, LPG-driven Cooling / Refrigeration Systems, as well as other gas-powered appliances. The firm also holds the franchise for the distribution of Robur appliances, in west Africa. The company is owned by Engr. Alex Ogedegbe, Mr. Mustapha Fasinro, Mr. Felix Ekundayo, Segun Adebanji, Abubakar Folami and a small team of a few other investors.







Asiko is able to deploy small, medium and large power systems in areas where there are no gas pipelines, or reliable power lines. In this way, the firm is able to bypass the inefficiencies and problems of the national power system, and deliver uninterrupted, cheap and efficient power to its' clients.

kn23h:
My people and friends of my people,

I come with a proposal.
It can't be a one man mission.
We have to, need to, and must access and reawaken our people.

Due to ignorance, we have multiple Yorubas 1) clamoring for one Nigeria 2) thinking like FFK, Kemi Ololoyo and Fayose (who sent Ekiti people to go learn nonsense in Aba, when he could have sent them to Ogun or Lagos).

It seems like a great number of Yorubas are ignorant of the intellectual and businesses they own. They've been fed so much lies about some traders owning this percentage and that percentage, and the unfortunate thing about it is that, many have come to believe the lies.

Can we take the knowledge we've amassed on this thread beyond NL?

I am proposing creating a

1) FB &
2) Twitter

accounts to celebrate our people. However, this has to be carried out as an executable and SUSTAINABLE project.

The group would be used to share knowledge about Yorubas' economic, interest and many other things. We'll also accept guest posts. So it's a content based groups where people write pieces and submit to admin. People can also ask questions to foster conversations. The groups would also be used to reawaken Yoruba consciousness cos most of those silly Yoruba Facebook groups aren't doing anything meaningful other than posting pictures of babies wearing agbada and telling people to like posts


If you're in, please reply my quoting me and letting me know your stance. I give each man a week to stake his ground. Can we guarantee 200 members for a start?

Whatever you choose will not change my wonderful opinion of all of you. Much love


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mercyville:
Pls do these if they have not been profiled..
Kayode Thomas..Ladi bada...olusegun agbaje...dada thomas frontier oil...avis nigeria...kola karim..jabffat oil....prudent energy...first exploration and petroleum dev coy ltd...thanks

Michael is a qualified Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. He spent the first 10 years of his career in Investment Banking, Treasury and Strategy before pursuing a career in Interior Design in 2004.

Between 2000-2003, Michael gained substantial and valuable experience working in an advisory role at both Federal and State Governments levels in the areas of budgeting and strategy.

Since 2004, he has grown the Black Pelican Group (with 2 subsidiaries) into a reference name in interior design. IL Bagno, specializing in the sales and distribution of high end interior finishes exclusively represents the leading manufacturing companies in Europe for the Nigerian market whilst Bagno Technik, with its multinational team of trained engineers and installers specializes in installation solutions.

Michael is married to Adetola Oloruntoyin Okeyemi and they have 3 children.

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.

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.

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.

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.

"The 'DISCOVER' event is an excellent opportunity to showcase ZOBO hibiscus drink to numerous international markets in one setting. The tradeshow, exhibits and business matchmaking sessions will allow us to present ZOBO to international buyers from around the world at one time," said Mr. Olajide. The three-day event was open to companies and individuals with an interest in international market development.

From its' headquarters in Durham, NC, Hemisphere Beverages manufactures and distributes ZOBO and other refreshing "all natural" beverages, with high nutritional values. Made from all-natural hibiscus, ZOBO is caffeine free, and has 100 percent of the daily recommended dose of Vitamin C. ZOBO has zero empty calories, no additives and no preservatives.
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kn23h:
My people and friends of my people,

I come with a proposal.
It can't be a one man mission.
We have to, need to, and must access and reawaken our people.

Due to ignorance, we have multiple Yorubas 1) clamoring for one Nigeria 2) thinking like FFK, Kemi Ololoyo and Fayose (who sent Ekiti people to go learn nonsense in Aba, when he could have sent them to Ogun or Lagos).

It seems like a great number of Yorubas are ignorant of the intellectual and businesses they own. They've been fed so much lies about some traders owning this percentage and that percentage, and the unfortunate thing about it is that, many have come to believe the lies.

Can we take the knowledge we've amassed on this thread beyond NL?

I am proposing creating a

1) FB &
2) Twitter

accounts to celebrate our people. However, this has to be carried out as an executable and SUSTAINABLE project.

The group would be used to share knowledge about Yorubas' economic, interest and many other things. We'll also accept guest posts. So it's a content based groups where people write pieces and submit to admin. People can also ask questions to foster conversations. The groups would also be used to reawaken Yoruba consciousness cos most of those silly Yoruba Facebook groups aren't doing anything meaningful other than posting pictures of babies wearing agbada and telling people to like posts


If you're in, please reply my quoting me and letting me know your stance. I give each man a week to stake his ground. Can we guarantee 200 members for a start?

Whatever you choose will not change my wonderful opinion of all of you. Much love


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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.

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.

vonxe:
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“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.