Beautifulllll

deomelo:





















Mr. Lanre Okupe (Chairman) ProperTeam

Laudate, did you just get banned?

hilroy:
I want to use this opportunity to encourage other tribes (excluding chestbeating Osus of course) to create a thread like this. During my course of researching for this thread, I have found Nigerians from different tribes doing spectacularly well. Minor tribes can combine based on their geographical location. I am willing to contribute to such thread with relevant posts.

Brilliant idea!

neoOduduwa:
Great idea. Check out this handle @Know_Nigeria on twitter, it's about the achievements of Nigerians in general but noticed the people being celebrated are mostly Yorùbás. It'll surely be a good head-start.

@Know Nigeria?

I don't care about Nigeria lol.

totit:


Let's start by sharing twitter handles, facebook,yoruba forum,international,local forums et al..we know.

We must spread the gospel.

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Sall:



Am 100%. How do we get started.

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Michael004:
This is good. I like it. I am in

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StOla:

For this gospel, I am ready to forsake all I have, carry my laptop and follow you.

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GoldNiagara:
Paragon Holdings Limited (PHL) is a diversified Pan African conglomerate with interests in strategic sectors of the economy in Nigeria and across Africa. The overriding objective of the Group is to create thriving businesses manned by competent human resources to deliver the value proposition for each business initiative.
Our mission is to continue building on the platform of our success in Nigeria and West Africa to expand our reach to other parts of the world. The Paragon Group has significant presence in different sectors of the economy, and has a rich portfolio of companies developing various projects with both local and international partners. PHL’s strategy is to seek and form partnerships, joint ventures and consortia with proven equity investors to work with from conceptualization to completion of bankable projects. Paragon Holdings has a number of landed properties in Lagos and other choice locations in Nigeria for real estate projects.
PHL is involved in key sectors of infrastructure developments but not limited to
Power (Generation, Transmission and Distribution),
Transportation (Logistics, Railway, Waterway, Bus Rapid Transport Concessions, Shipping & Marine Services),
Environmental & Waste Management,
Solid Minerals Exploration (Gold Mining),
Process Engineering,
Infrastructure Development Projects(Real Estate Development, Building and Engineering Construction, Port Construction, Harbour, Bridges)
Hospitality & Tourism,
Oil & Gas Projects,
Financial Services, Insurance Brokerage,
Special Development Projects (Industrial Park, Dry Dock Facility).
©2017 Paragon Holdings LTD. All rights reserved.

www.nairaland.com/attachments/5792634_caf957b80ab68d4c717bd32cf86217e4f45_jpeg989258e3e5aed4ea258333baf83f6645

Yorubas own Zobo?

laudate:
Kehinde Olajide, President and CEO of Hemisphere Beverages — makers of ZOBO TEA products, exhibited the Nigerian hibiscus drink at an international trade event, hosted by the North Carolina District Export Council and the U.S. Commercial Service Global Business Forum, in Raleigh, North Carolina USA.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cw5wbVZGjAg



The firm currently offers its Zobo products in a variety of flavours suitable for hot or cold drink consumption: Original, LemonLime, Vanilla, Pineapple, Strawberry, Ginger and Ginger Mint tea. It exports them to different parts of the world.

[img]http://3.bp..com/-UdEGL67JAes/UjngL0dLz0I/AAAAAAAAomw/XFhBrmagR8g/s1600/Zobo.jpg[/img]

IboEnvyYorubas:
Yorubas own Zobo?

The day I see am, me too I shock just like you! The guy is doing good sales, bro'!

deomelo:










Mr. Lanre Okupe (Chairman) ProperTeam

Isn't this the owner of Cornerstone Real Estate in Oregun, Ikeja area? They spent over 1 billion naira developing that estate, o!

Finally on page 207

Vivere:


The day I see am, me too I shock just like you! The guy is doing good sales, bro'!

Lol Yorubas na silent achievers.

hilroy:
Jimi Agbaje

Founder/Managing Director Jaykay Pharmaceutical and Chemical Company Limited

Lmaoooo for real? Where is he now?

iblawi:
You guys didn't even post the owner of Nairaland seen osewa. The guy that gave Igbos opportunity to see make noise.

Why should we praise him for that?

IboEnvyYorubas:


Why should we praise him for that?

The guy have achieved something really great. But you know how Igbos think na. This mentality of any that is mine is mine but anything that is yours is ours. Same is happening with Niger delta now.

ibkayee:

We don't want you

lmaoooo we fit you to am o

iblawi:
The guy have achieved something really great. But you know how Igbos think na. This mentality of any that is mine is mine but anything that is yours is ours. Same is happening with Niger delta now.

kini kini jor. If I begin with him matter, his villagers go come beg me.

Fine Yoruba woman

deomello:




Lola Masha

COUNTRY MANAGER, OLX NIGERIA

Finally on page 198

laudate:


Toyosi Olugbenga Olawepo is the Chairman of Bresson Energy Limited UK, an oil and gas firm specialising in Independent Power Production (IPP) in emerging economies, and Bresson A.S Nigeria Limited, one of Nigeria's pioneer Independent Power Producers. Olawepo is a graduate of the University of Lagos Nigeria, and also holds a Masters' degree in Global Affairs from the University of Buckingham, UK, where he won the prestigious Max Bellof Award for Best Student in Global Affairs. He trained at the International Human Resource Corporation (IHRDC) in Boston Massachusetts, where he completed a certificate in International Petroleum Management.





Toyosi Olugbenga Olawepo is also the Chairman of Oilworld Limited. He has been in private business for about 23 years, working substantially in the energy sector worldwide. Olawepo is the President of Transnational Energy Corporation, TEC in the USA, which specializes in oil and gas exploration and trading.

Bresson Magboro Power Project is a pioneer Independent Power Project (IPP) conceived in the wake of the Lagos State/Enron partnership. It was then the only IPP without financial involvement of any State or Federal Government. In 2004, the project received the approval of Federal Government as an IPP to sell electricity under a Power Purchase Agreement to PHCN.



The Bresson Magboro Project has evolved over the years, seeking the right policy environment, such as the availability of a Cost Recoverable Tariff for the grid, credible off-taker, and reliable fuel supply.

On February 28, 2012 the EPC contract for the construction of a 90megawatts plant for Magboro, was signed. The plant has a configuration of 2 units of GE LM 6000.



Toyosi Olugbenga Olawepo has been recognized nationally and internationally. He was awarded the Kwame Nkrumah's Leadership Award by The Africa Students Union (AASU) and the Veteran Award in Caracas, Venezuela in 2005 by the World Federation of Democratic Youths.





Bresson A.S Nigeria Limited, has also signed a 250MW power generation agreement in Paris, France with Aggreko Regional Director, Mr. Christopher Jacquin. Aggreko Plc, is the world's largest temporary power generation company. The project is to be sited in industrial clusters, across the country. An additional 20MW project which is a joint project between Bresson and Aggreko, is designed to serve the immediate neighbourhood of Magboro in Ogun State, as an embedded generation option.

The international angle of most Yoruba businesses is
what always excites me.Little wonder Yorubaland is the third economy in Africa

IboEnvyYorubas:


@Know Nigeria?

I don't care about Nigeria lol.

Lol. Just a headstart. Their repository is quite impressive.

Forte Oil to compete with Dangote, others on acquisition of refinery
ripplesnigeria.com Aug 5, 2017 1:31 PM
Forte Oil to compete with Dangote, others on acquisition of refinery
What looks like a healthy rivalry may soon come to play in Nigeria’s downstream oil and gas sub sector, as an indigenous oil major, Forte Oil, says it is holding talks with the Warri Refinery to form a strategic partnership for increased local output capacity.

Disclosing this on Friday, Mr Akin Akinfemiwa, Forte Oil Chief Executive Officer, said though details were still being worked out, the agreement was aimed at exploring partnerships and joint ventures for local refining of petroleum products.

He stated that the venture might be one that could prepare Forte Oil to eventually go deeply into refining of petroleum products to see if Africa’s top oil exporting country could refine products for local consumption in a few years to come.

The Warri Refinery, initially built to supply 100,000 barrels per day (bpd) output at its inception in 1978, was in 1987 upgraded to run a bigger capacity of 150,000 bpd. Further equipped in 2000, it went for 200,000 bpd, but lack of maintenance has seen it run less than 40 per cent of its full capacity since 2016.

But in May, another major oil group, Oando Plc, announced that it was having talks to work with Italian energy company, Eni, to rehabilitate the Port Harcourt refinery.

Also, Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote is building an $17 billion oil refinery with a capacity of around 650,000 bpd, planned to start operation by 2019.

Nigeria has four refineries but still depends on importation of over 70 per cent of its petroleum products needs due to the poor condition of its refineries.

But Minister of State, Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu recently lamented how lack of cooperation of stakeholders had stalled take off of the policy of having private investors participate in the dream to have the refineries back to full capacity.

He stated that Nigeria could not afford the luxury of spending scarce resources importing fuel when the solution lies on having investors inject funds with which to refurbish the decrepit refineries.

Kachikwu further said that the old refineries were having a daily domestic refining capacity of six million litres, while the daily consumption stands at 35 million.

Forte Oil, which is largely owned by oil mogul, Femi Otedola, had its shares rise by 4.99 per cent on Friday to reach N60.37, giving it a market value of about $216 million.

It would be recalled that the firm’s shares suffered great load shedding in 2015 and 2016 financial years, having fallen to 74 per cent and 32 per cent, respectively.

RipplesNigeria ….without borders, without fears

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7 funds available for Nigerian entrepreneurs in 2017
by ODINAKA ANUDU & JOSEPHINE OKOJIE  January 28, 2017  1:25 am
Even though experts generally agree that finance is not the biggest problem facing Nigerian entrepreneurs, many of them still believe that it still ranks among the first five.
Understanding the critical importance of funding to Nigerian business owners and entrepreneurs, Start-Up Digest, in its characteristic manner, has dug up some of the easy-to-get funds available in the country this year.
Criteria
The general criterion for accessing these funds is the capacity to present a bankable and viable business plan. The entrepreneur should be clear on where he wants to be in the near future, and must also be able to describe the market for his or her products.
BoI Funds
If there is anywhere entrepreneurs can get cheap or single-digit funds (often at nine percent lending rate), it’s from the Bank of Industry (BoI).
This development finance institution (DFI) has been rated by many local and international agencies as one of the best managed banks in the world.
The BoI has a number of funds that entrepreneurs of all levels can access. First is the Graduate Entrepreneurship Fund (GEF), which is meant for serving members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC). Candidates are allowed to submit their business ideas, which are then reviewed by a team of experts. The NYSC members whose ideas are marketable and bankable are then selected, trained for four weeks and then given between N500,000 and N2 million.
There are also the Cottage Agro Processing (CAP) Fund for small and medium agro processors; Nolly Fund for players in the Nollywood industry, as well as Fashion Fund for designers and other players in the value chain.
In fact, the bank has other matching and managed funds, including a fund for the automotive industry. Through 122 business development experts, entrepreneurs can access funds easily. It is also easy to access some of the bank’s products through its website.
The bank has a N5 billion fund from Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote to finance SMEs at a single digit rate.
“We want to continue to create opportunities for Nigerian entrepreneurs and support the industrialisation efforts of the government,” said Waheed Olagunju, acting CEO and MD of BoI, at a forum in Lagos in 2016.
Tony Elumelu Fund
Tony Elumelu Foundation has $100 million for 10,000 African entrepreneurs. This will continue to be available for another seven to eight years. If you are in agriculture, fashion and design, light manufacturing, ICT, and solid minerals, among others, then apply for the on-going Tony Elumemu fund. You can be lucky to be one of 1,000 entrepreneurs to be shortlisted.
Through the Elumelu fund, Momarr Mass Taal, the CEO of Tropingo Foods in The Gambia, who got $5,000 seed capital in 2015, turned his enterprise into a $1.2 million revenue business.
GroFin Fund
GroFin, a development financier, has committed over $500 million to funding Nigerian micro, small and medium business (MSMEs) across the country.
The firm has five different types of fund: the Aspire Nigeria Fund, the Growth Africa Fund, the Small Growing Business Fund, the Aspire Small Business Fund and the Aspire Growth Fund.
The Aspire Nigeria Fund, the Growth Africa Fund and the Small Growing Business Fund cater for all parts of Nigeria except the Niger Delta.
The Aspire Small Business Fund provides a minimum of $100,000 and a maximum of $1.5 million to SMEs in Nigeria.
The Aspire Small Business Fund and the Aspire Growth Fund cater for the Niger Delta.
The Aspire Small Business Fund provides between $10,000 and $100,000 to small business owners in the oil-rich region, while the Aspire Growth Fund frees between $100,000 and $3 million to businesses to stimulate growth in the area. GroFin provides its funds mostly for a maximum of six years.
Shell LiveWire
The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited has a number of funds for young entrepreneurs, including women.
Through the programme , Shell provides support, access to training, guidance, and business mentorship to young entrepreneurs and potential entrepreneurs between the ages of 18 and 35.
The programme operates mainly in the Niger Delta region and aims to inspire, encourage and support young people to start up their own businesses through the provision of finance and training for young entrepreneurs, according to Shell.
Lagos State Employment Trust Fund
Lagos State has N25 billion to support SMEs. The fund is divided into two categories; micro and small businesses. Under the micro, businesses can access up to N500, 000 loans with an interest rate of five percent and a tenor of one year. For the small business category, businesses can get up to N5 million for a tenor of three years. The criteria for accessing the funds include: membership of a business organisation, which will recommend the business for the loan; Lagos State tax receipt for at least six months, and Lagos state residency card. This takes three weeks for processing.
“There are various funding available to owners of small businesses. In our business organisation we have access to the government Social Intervention Fund, Lagos State Employment Trust Fund and the Bank of Industry micro lending fund,” Femi Egbesola, national president, Association of Small Business Owners (ASBON), told Start-Up Digest.
Social Intervention Fund of FG
A total of N6 billion was allocated under the Social Intervention Fund of the 2017 budget. The criteria for accessing the fund include membership of a business organisation. The fund is for artisans and owners of micro businesses. The artisans of business owners can only access a maximum of N100, 000 at three percent interest rate on a year tenor.
Oxfam
Oxfam has a number of funds for Nigerian entrepreneurs.Oxfam, an
international confederation of charitable organisations focused on the alleviation of global poverty, recently disbursed €100 million to high-impact SMEs in Nigeria through Nextzon.
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IboEnvyYorubas:
Laudate, did you just get banned?

Yes, o! Just got released from the spambot jail. It appears to be happening on a daily basis! So frigging annoying...!!

laudate:

Yes, o! Just got released from the spambot jail. It appears to be happening on a daily basis! So frigging annoying...!!

Welcome back the general!

laudate:


Sam and Sara have already been profiled on page 47. Delta Afrik is very much alive and kicking. They opened a new massive head office complex in Lekki area of Lagos, just 2 years ago. It is actually a subsidiary of a foreign firm. The MD of the Nigerian arm is Akin Odumakinde.

Update: Sorry, just got more info. Delta Afrik was actually set up by a Yoruba man, Akin Odumakinde. They now have offices in other African countries as well as about 5 other subsidiaries. One of their firms is actually a partnership, with a foreign firm called Worley Parsons. My bad.

Profile?

deomello:




Lola Masha

COUNTRY MANAGER, OLX NIGERIA

Laudate, she never marry ooo. How far? make i do alarina?

deomelo:








Mr. Lanre Okupe (Chairman) ProperTeam

Lanre Okupe is also the Chairman/Chief Executive of Cornerstone Real Estate Ltd (COREL), a subsidiary of Cornerstone Construction (Nigeria) Limited (CCNL) which he established twenty-five (25) years ago. For now, Cornerstone is developing a 26-units of duplexes and terraces on a four -acre estate in the Oregun area of Lagos with the phase one already completed while the phase II is ongoing. The project is strategically located at the Ikeja end of Kudirat Abiola way, Oregun.



Within the project, there are 14-units of various duplex types comprising of two-units of three-bedroom detached houses with one boys’ quarters; six- units of four-bedroom semi-detached houses with one room boys’ quarter and six-units of three-bedroom terrace houses.

About a year-and-half after construction works commenced, the first phase of the Cornerstone Housing Estate in Oregun area of Lagos State has been delivered, while work has begun on the second phase.

A joint venture between Cornerstone Real Estate Limited, the Dr. Oladele Ajose Family and Mutual Benefit Assurance, as well as some private investors, the project sits on five acres of land with both phases consisting of 26 housing units.

Twelve units have been delivered under the first phase, which consists of 10 semi-detached and two fully detached duplexes. The second phase will feature six semi-detached and two detached units, as well as six terrace units.

The Chairman, Cornerstone Real Estate Limited, Mr. Lanre Okupe, said during a tour of the estate, that the cost of the first phase was about N700m, while the combined estimated cost of the two phases was N1.4billion



The portion of the estate that has been completed features tarred road network, street light, perimeter fence, electric transformer, treated water and security service, all of which will be extended to the second phase.

However, the selling prices of units in the second phase will be slightly higher, according to Okupe, because of the low land nature of the sight, which will require about 26-metre deep pilling foundation.

The semi-detached unit is a four-bedroom duplex with all rooms having en-suite facilities, and has a self-contained boy’s quarter attached to it. The unit features the guest room downstairs together with visitors’ bedroom, kitchen with marble top cabinets and the dining area.

The remaining three bedrooms, the family lounge and balcony are located on the upper floor, which is connected to the ground floor with a network of stairs and stainless balustrade railings.

According to Okupe, each duplex, sits on an approximately land area of between 350 and 400 square meters compromising of four bedrooms en-suite and the ground floor space has entrance lobby, foyer, main living room, dinning, kitchen, visitor’s toilet and en-suite guest room as other compliments.

The first floor area includes the family lounge with balcony, two bedroom and the master’s bedroom all en-suite; spacious living and dining areas(s) with exquisite woodwork, well finished wardrobes and kitchen cabinet as well as P.O.P ceiling. It also comprises stainless steel aluminum railings.The floor areas are finished in vitrified tiles, while the ceiling of the ground floor is made of POP. The upper floor ceiling is made of PVC tiles, while the doors are largely imported and the wardrobes are elegantly finished. Each unit has parking space for four cars.https://guardian.ng/property/cornerstone-seals-pact-with-u-s-estate-firm/

Okupe said with 30 percent down payment, the house could be purchased, while the balance is spread over 12 months. Also, the company, which has delivered over 10 residential housing estates across Lagos metropolis and won several awards, has bungalows and serviced plots for sale at its 50-acre Cornerstone Ofada Estate located within the strategic real estate development corridor of Ogun State.

Cornerstone Construction Nigeria Limited has also completed a 12 units duplex in Lekki Peninsula area of Lagos. In the last 20 years, they have built estates in Allen Avenue, Ogudu, Oko Oba and Alausa, all in Lagos State.



Nigeria’s foremost indigenous housing estate provider, Cornerstone Real Estate Limited, has stepped up its operations, and struck a partnership deal with the largest real estate franchise in the world, Keller Williams Realty (KW).

Under this pact, Cornerstone can now buy, sell, lease or manage property for Nigerians seeking such services, in any parts of the United States while those who desire to buy, sell, manage their homes or invest in property in the US, can repose their confidence in Cornerstone.

Chairman of Cornerstone, Lanre Okupe, who made the disclosure, said the deal was in right direction at the right time, which would in turn boost the nation’s real estate market as well as yield good returns to would-be clients.

vonxe:
Profile?

Delta Afrik is profiled on page 212. Thanks.