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Post by Her Highness on Dec 11, 2015 6:08:28 GMT
Andela/Founder
Iyinoluwa Aboyeji
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Post by Her Highness on Dec 11, 2015 6:30:33 GMT
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Post by Her Highness on Dec 11, 2015 6:36:44 GMT
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Post by Her Highness on Dec 11, 2015 6:39:36 GMT
Bukky George
She is the Founder & CEO of HealthPlus Limited and CasaBella International Limited – a one stop beauty store. HealthPlus is Nigeria’s first Integrative Pharmacy and Healthcare Provider and the fastest growing pharmacy chain in West Africa. Bukky’s strengths include a strong academic foundation, a passion for excellence and a determination to raise the standards in retail.  She is a registered pharmacist with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain and the Pharmacists Council of Nigeria. She shares the benefits of focus, knowledge, networking and going the extra mile to succeed in life and business. In 1987, I enrolled at the School of Pharmacy, College of Medicine, now Faculty of Pharmacy, at the University of Lagos to study Pharmacy. In 1992, I graduated with five awards as the best student on completing my Pharmacy degree. I began my internship at Lagos University Teaching Hospital. In the evenings of my Internship year, I got my first hand experience on retail pharmacy, or community pharmacy as some like to call it, at Onyx Pharmacy, GRA, Ikeja. My national youth service was at Smithkline Beecham – now GSK. I enjoyed my time in production, quality control and sales departments. After service, I worked at May & Baker for a little while as a medical representative, and then returned to Smithkline Beecham, still as a med rep. The excellent training I received from these organisations helped me to hone my selling, exhibiting and presentation skills; transforming me into a confident young professional. I added value and often emerged the best representative of the month. I worked for a total of four years with May & Baker and Smithkline Beecham, after which I got restless. I was aware of the need to find my true passion and fulfill my purpose in life. I had become a good salesman as a med representative. I loved organizing; I was enterprising, and always paid great attention to detail, which are some of the key success factors of a retailer. In 1999, I resigned as an assistant manager. HealthPlus was incorporated as a limited liability company in December 1996 and started full operations as a registered pharmacy in April 1999. The company started small in an eighteen square meter store located in GRA Ikeja. Worthy of mention is the great advice I received from a good friend who worked for a consulting firm at the time. She told me not to start my business without articulating our mission, vision and core values. She gave me a Harvard Business Review article which taught how to craft a company’s mission, vision, core values, big hairy audacious goals (BHAGs) and strategy. In 2008, we incorporated another company, CasaBella International Limited. CasaBella Beauty Supply, a one-stop store for grooming and beauty solutions for men and women, opened in July 2010 at The Palms Mall Lagos, but with ten branches now. CasaBella is a perfect compliment for HealthPlus, making use of the same back-end services: human resources, supply chain, accounts, audit, marketing, facilities and admin, IT. While HealthPlus is serious and conservative; CasaBella is fun and edgy. Over the past fifteen years, the business has grown to thirty strategic branches –with eleven more in the pipeline in 2014 – and over four hundred and twenty nine employees. We are taking steps to institutionalise the business. We aspire to be the Boots pharmacy of Nigeria. 
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Post by Her Highness on Dec 11, 2015 14:37:18 GMT
.    Edward Ola Akinlade studied accounting at the South Bank University, in the United Kingdom, and became a fully qualified accountant through the London School of Accountancy, England. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) U.K, and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN). Akinlade incorporated the Suru Group (“SGL”) in November 2008, as a private limited liability company. It started by trading in real estate, an activity which gave rise to the property arm of Suru Group Ltd. The group has invested massively in hospitality, real estate development, agriculture, and financial services. It plans to further invest in energy generation, mining, and manufacturing.   Suru Group has successfully developed and marketed luxury residential apartments, in the district of Ikeja GRA, an upper-class segment of Lagos metropolis. Their Chairman, Edward Akinlade pioneered the development of co-operative upscale developments, of luxury terraced housing units, in the local Nigerian market, which completely redesigned the Ikeja GRA Lagos skyline. He also possesses excellent advisory and project implementation skills. Suru Group is a subsidiary of Haldane McCall Plc, UK which is also owned by Akinlade.    In the hospitality sector, Suru Group has successfully built a few tastefully furnished three star hotels. These hotels have a strategic relationship with Best Western International, a foreign hotel brand, and they operate under its brand name in West Africa, trading as "Best Western Hotel’’. Each hotel is managed by African Sun, a South African company. Suru Group also owns different budget hotels in Lagos, operating under the Suru Express Brand, which serve as a prototype for West Africa. The Group is also the owner of 94 self serviced apartments in the city of London, which cater for the growing short-let accommodation needs of international visitors to the city of London.    Suru Group wants to develop further five three-star Hotels under the Best Western brand, 45 budget hotels under Suru Express Brand, and build 900 units of low cost residential estate, to support the federal government drive of affordable housing for all. It has acquired large expanse of land in Lagos state, the commercial nerve centre of Nigeria, to build the low cost housing units.     |
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Post by Her Highness on Dec 11, 2015 14:42:40 GMT
 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.  |
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Post by Her Highness on Dec 11, 2015 14:45:00 GMT
Sijibomi Ogundele: Sijibomi “Sujimoto” Ogundele is the founder and lead partner of Sujimoto Group of Companies, which comprises of real-estate, finance and energy divisions. The organization operates offices in Paris, Accra, Madrid, Dubai, Riyadh, and Lagos. With the umbrella of Sujimoto Investment Ltd. and its principal partner, Yazeed Alrahji, Sujimoto has been able to bridge the venture capital industry with more than 47 successful business acquisitions and restructurings. As the Chief Executive Officer of Sujimoto Construction, a real estate development firm, Siji is one man to watch – as far as the revolution of Nigeria’s prime real estate sector is concerned. The company, which describes its obligation as bridging the gap in the provision of quality, affordable, and luxury buildings, that are analogous to modern cities and towns like Cape town, Monte Carlo, and Miami, has over the years proven its mantle in this highly competitive field. With its flagship development in Lagos known as the Medici by Sujimoto on Milverton Road, Ikoyi to the upcoming Lorenzo by Sujimoto on Bourdillon in Ikoyi, the company has shown that it is force to reckon with as far as luxury real estate development is concerned in Nigeria.     |
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Post by Her Highness on Dec 11, 2015 14:48:44 GMT
The richest black woman in the world
The richest black woman in the world, Folorunsho has business interests spanning fashion, oil and gas, and printing. She’s also a philanthropist and is the founder of the Rose of Sharon Foundation. Mrs. Folorunso Alakija is a businesswoman who has forayed into uncharted territories. She is a philanthropist with a sincere desire to help the needy, a fashion icon with an infallible sense of style, a loving wife, a caring mother and doting grandmother, a friend in deed. Educated in Europe, she first embarked on a career in office administration, then she went into banking where she remained, until she took a leap of faith and followed her heart and creative calling to establish her own business in the Nigerian fashion industry. Her fashion house “Supreme Stitches” rose to prominence and fame within a few years, and later, as “Rose of Sharon House of Fashion”, became a household name. As National President and lifelong Trustee of the Fashion Designers Association of Nigeria (FADAN), she left an indelible mark, promoting Nigerian culture through fashion and style. Ever the entrepreneur, Mrs. Alakija has set up related businesses: The Rose of Sharon Prints & Promotions which specializes in monogramming, heat/picture transfer and screen printing for promotional and gift items, and Digital Reality Print Ltd which specializes in highly technical digital large format printing. She remains the only female in that industry in Nigeria to date. She included a direct imaging paper printing press to coincide with her 60th birthday in July 2011. She oversees the Rose of Sharon Group as the Group Managing Director and she is also the Executive Vice Chairman of her family’s oil exploration and production business, FAMFA Oil Limited , seeing to its strategic planning and day to day administration. In addition to these, Folorunso is the Executive Vice Chairman of Dayspring Property Development Company Limited, a real estate company with investments in different parts of the world. When reflecting on her achievements, Folorunso’s foremost reaction is always to give glory to God and to share the secrets of her success. A born again Christian since 1991, she draws her strength from her unfaltering belief in the power and glory of God. With a sincere desire to give to those in need in the name of the Lord, her philanthropic endeavours, such as the Rose of Sharon Foundation, continue to influence her native land positively by empowering widows and their families, as well as orphans, to be successful through educational programmes and scholarships. In obedience to the word of God and working according to His will and purpose, Folorunso and her husband founded a house fellowship which has grown to become a full-fledged Christian Ministry known as the Rose of Sharon Glorious Ministry International. She has authored several books including, “University of Marriage”, “Alone with God”, (a free Christian Devotional) her autobiography, “Growing with the Hand that Gives the Rose”, and “The Cry of Widows and Orphans”. Most of them are available online at – www.amazon.com. At 64, Mrs. Alakija oversees her businesses and philanthropic enterprises working tirelessly and with boundless energy. She follows her evangelical calling with unbridled devotion, hoping to inspire the public, most especially the youth and women from all walks of life by sharing her values and her motto: “whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well” through motivational talks and speeches. In her speeches, as an encouragement to others, she reveals and introduces her covenant keeping God. She accepts many invitations to speak and is acclaimed, nationally and internationally, in recognition of all her philanthropic work and endeavours. She lives in Lagos, Nigeria with Modupe Alakija her beloved husband of almost four decades, their four sons and grandchildren. Black don't crack- this woman is in her 60s...  
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Post by Her Highness on Dec 11, 2015 14:53:22 GMT
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Post by Her Highness on Dec 11, 2015 15:04:23 GMT
       MEET THE COUPLE BEHIND NIGERIA’S LARGEST STEEL SHEET FACTORY
Alhaji Kamoru Yusuf and his wife Bolanle
The brains behind Nigeria’s first independently owned cold roll steel complex, KAM INDUSTRIES (NIGERIA) LIMITED, a wholly owned indigenous company, was registered in 1997 under the Companies and Allied Matter Act (1990) of Nigeria as a manufacturer of steel products such as, Roofing Nails, Couper Nails, British Reinforcement Concrete (BRC) Mesh wire and Binding Wire. The company started its manufacturing operations in 1997 with a few nail cutting machines at a noble location on Asa Dam road, Ilorin with three members of staff as operators. At the inception, the incumbent Vice Chairman/CEO, Alhaji Kamoru Yusuf was the company’s Engineer. From its humble beginning as a manufacturing company, Kam Industries has grown into one of the largest privately owned steel production company in Nigeria. Subsequently, company added new products profiles such as Black and Galvanized EM8, EM10, A142, PP packaging such as woven sacks, shopping bags and Nylons. KAM Industries (Nigeria) Limited is the only 100% indigenous steel and allied manufacturing company in Nigeria. |
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Post by Her Highness on Dec 11, 2015 15:09:51 GMT
 Michael Adeniyi Agbolade Ishola Adenuga Jr, (popularly known as Mike Adenuga), is a Nigerian business tycoon, and the second-richest person in Nigeria. His company Globacom is Nigeria's second-largest telecom operator, and also operates a GSM telecoms network in Ghana and Republic of Benin. Forbes estimated his net worth at $5.8 billion as of 2017, which makes him the second-wealthiest Nigerian behind Aliko Dangote, as well as the third-richest person in Africa with a net worth of $14.1 billion.  In 2003, Globacom was the first telco to launch Per Second Billing (PSB) which caught on like wildfire. Nigerians rushed to the network in droves, and other networks were forced to follow suit. Since then, Globacom has, through its various subsidiaries, pioneered several innovative services in Nigeria such as Mobile Internet, Blackberry subscription and Vehicle Tracking services. In 2010, Globacom launched Glo-1, an undersea submarine fibre cable which cost over US$650 million (about N90 billion).  In 2015, Mike Adenuga made a bid to buy Ivorian mobile telecoms operator Comium Cote d'Ivoire, for $600 million USD. Comium CI has more than 900,000 mobile subscribers according to L’Autorite de Regulation des Telecommunications.  Adenuga also established Equitorial Trust Bank and Devcom Merchant Bank in the 80s. Both were merged to become a fully fledged bank and finally sold to Sterling Bank Plc, a few years back. Adenuga owns an oil firm Conoil (formerly Consolidated Oil Company). The company is a leading downstream oil firm which markets refined petroleum products, while it also manufactures and markets lubricants. It sells Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) for domestic and industrial use in Nigeria. Conoil Plc retails petrol, diesel, kerosene, gas, and other petroleum products through approximately 300 outlets and stations. It markets coolant products to commercial, industrial, and retail customers. Its' range of lubricants are the Quatro, Okada Golden Super, and Golden Super brands.   His exploration outfit, Conoil Producing, operates 6 oil blocks in the Niger Delta. He also owns real estate firm Proline Investments, which has hundreds of properties throughout Nigeria. His company, Consolidated Oil was the first indigenous company to strike crude in December 1991. Adenuga studied in the United States, and obtained a bachelor's degree from NorthWest University and a Masters degree in Business Administration (MBA) at Pace University in New York. Those who know him well, say he detests the following words: "no, can’t, won’t" and "impossible." Fondly called The Guru or 'Chairman' by his disciples, Adenuga is said to be very shy, a fact which is unknown to many. Adenuga resides in a magnificent building inside Banana Island, in Ikoyi, Lagos. He also owns another home called The Gold Digger’s Place in Iyaganku GRA, Ibadan, where he spends most weekends. He has other apartments around the world like the one in York Terrace, Regent Park and St. Johnswood, both in London. He is also alleged to be one of the largest owners of prime properties on Victoria Island.  He has a couple of private planes, which are run under the name Southern Airlines, as a private chartered jet operation. In its fleet is a $27 million (N3.2bn) brand new, customised aircraft built by Canadian aircraft maker, Bombadier Aerospace. The Challenger 604 aircraft was flown into Nigeria by an all-white crew, and delivered to Southern Airlines owned by Adenuga in 2005.  In 2010, Globacom sponsored the African Handball tournament in Benin Republic as well as the biggest cultural festival (FITHEB) held in the Benin Republic. Globacom has also sponsored the annual Confederation of African Football (CAF) Awards since 2005, and also a proud sponsor of the annual Glo Lagos International Half Marathon.. Globacom, was recently honoured as the best provider of 4G LTE services in Lagos by the National Independent Wireless Broadband Quality Report (NIWBQR). Meanwhile, Mike Adenuga's daughter Mrs Belinda Ajoke Adenuga-Disu, has been appointed into the Board of Directors of Julius Berger Nigeria Plc, as a non-executive director. Industry watchers say that this appointment to the board, proves that billionaire investor and owner of Globacom, Mike Adenuga is now the single largest majority shareholder in Julius Berger Nigeria Plc. Another director of Globacom, Gladys Olubuse Talabi was also appointed as a Non-Executive Director of Julius Berger, with appointments effective from June 2017.   |
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Post by dansoye1 on Dec 11, 2015 15:14:17 GMT
Funkes have today.
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Post by Her Highness on Dec 11, 2015 15:15:24 GMT
Jubril Adewale Tinubu has pioneered the execution of world-class initiatives in the region, as an ethical business leader, entrepreneur and philanthropist. He has been Group Chief Executive Officer of Oando Plc, since January 2005. Wale Tinubu served as its Executive Director of Finance and Administration, before becoming Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer of Oando Plc. He is also the Executive Chairman and Director of Oando Energy Resources., its' upstream arm.  He began his career as an attorney, working on corporate and petroleum law assignments, with his family's law firm, K.O. Tinubu & Co. In 1994, he co- founded the Ocean and Oil Group, then guided its strategic development to the acquisition of Unipetrol in 2000. In 2002, he led the largest ever acquisition of a quoted Nigerian company, with the acquisition of Agip Nigeria, through an international bid conducted by Agip Petroli International BV.He is widely recognised for his role in the successful transformation of Oando from a petroleum marketing concern to an integrated energy group with investments across the energy value chain, and subsidiaries that are market leaders in their respective sectors.  In 2007, he was named ‘Global Young Leader’ by the World Economic Forum in recognition of his achievements, as a leading business executive under 41. In 2010, he was named ‘Business Leader of the Year’ in the African Business Awards for his outstanding leadership and contributions to the development of the African oil and gas industry. Jubril Adewale Tinubu is also the Chairman of Gaslink Nigeria Ltd, Oando Supply and Trading, Oando Power, Oando Energy Services, Oando Exploration and Production, Ocean and Oil Holdings Limited, Oando Ghana, Oando Togo, Oando Sierra Leone, Tilca Nigeria Limited and Trojan Estates Limited.In 2015, he led Oando Plc to sell off an equity stake of its downstream business to HV Investments for $276 million. HV Investments II B.V. (HVI), a joint venture owned by a fund advised by Helios Investment Partners and the Vitol Group. Under Tinubu's watch, Oando also purchased the shares of Phillips (Brass) Ltd. (PBL), which holds a 17-per-cent shareholding interest in Brass LNG Ltd. The company paid $435-million to acquire those shares.       
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Post by Her Highness on Dec 11, 2015 15:16:09 GMT
Ebenezer Ajayi Fashogbon is a Medical Radiation Practitioner(MRP) resident in Australia. He is the owner of GIG Radiology in Australia.  GIG Radiology was founded in Traralgon in May 2005, and was known as Gippsland Imaging Group. GIG quickly grew by acquiring MDI Pakenham and MDI Rosebud sites, in 2009. It was then that Gippsland Imaging Group became GIG Radiology. In February 2012, GIG Radiology opened a new clinic in Cranbourne North, and soon after that was 100% privately owned by GIG Radiology's very own Senior Sonographer - Ebenezer Fashogbon. Eb led the way with his small and hardworking team to open the fifth clinic at the Arena Shopping Centre in Officer which launched in April 2015. The centre is fully equipped with different kinds of specialised equipment and well-qualified staff. CT Scanning  X-Ray Services  Dental X-Ray Services  Musculo-Skeletal Ultrasound  Obstetric ultrasound 
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Post by Her Highness on Dec 11, 2015 15:27:19 GMT
Oluyemisi Iranloye is the founder of Psaltry International Limited (PIL), an indigenous agro allied company set up in 2005, to market cassava produce, in Southwestern Nigeria. It later expanded its business line, to include farm development, and production of food grade starch from cassava. The company held its first out-grower programme in 2012.  Iranloye studied Biochemistry at the Federal University of Technology Minna, before getting an MSc. from the University of Ibadan. She had previously worked with Nigerian Breweries, before moving to Ekha Agro Processors as a manager. She left after a few years to establish her own firm. PIL has created a supply chain involving up to 5,000 farm families which include more than 2,000 registered and unregistered outgrower farm families, marketers, the labourers, the traders, the transporters, the retail input suppliers. The company produces High Quality Food Grade Cassava Starch (HQCS). PIL also has a 20-ton/day starch factory, which was incorporated in 2012, and an additional production line of 30 tons/day capacity, which was added in 2015, to meet customer demands and satisfaction. The company also has 400 hectares of cassava farmland located at Alayide-Wasimi Village, Ado-Awaye, Oyo State, in a farming community of about 10,000 hectares of farmland. The company’s asset base as at December 2015 was about $5million USD comprising its factory, farmland and equipment. It generated $3.5million as revenue in 2015, and has saved the nation more than $7million in forex, in the past two years. PIL has also provided employment for over 300 people including 200 permanent staff and 100 temporary staff. Nigerian Breweries (NB), the largest brewing company in Nigeria that markets well-known brands of beers, malt drinks and minerals has signed on PIL, a local cassava processor, as a supplier of high-quality cassava starch. psaltryinternational.com/  
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