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Post by Her Highness on Dec 12, 2015 3:06:01 GMT
 Olusegun Paul Andrew, is the Chairman of Blackpace Group. The Group owns Cros Agro Allied Limited, the leading Agribusiness firm in Africa, which is headquartered in Abuja, Nigeria. Olusegun Paul Andrew also functions as the CEO of the firm.   Cros Agro is fully engaged in the entire agriculture value chains - from farming, to food processing, and commodities. Currently, the firm occupies 3,200 hectares of land Kaduna & Plateau States, containing different crops including Coffee, Potato farm, Oil Palm Plantation, Ginger farm, Soya beans, Banana. Focusing on both the farm production of crops, to the processing lines of its business, Cros Agro is changing the agribusiness landscape of Africa. Cros Agro Allied Ltd, is planning to invest about $65 million into the potato sector of agriculture in the country. This is expected to generate over 30,000 new jobs in the potato value chain, as well as out-grower opportunities for an additional 5,000 farmers. The funds would be used to procure new equipment and farm machinery, for expansion in order to produce more crops that would be exported. The company intends to set up potato processing facilities, which would be run by Rosenqvists Food Technologies AB, a Swedish company, to produce French fries and potato flakes.  Cros Agro focuses on the value chains that cover the following commodities - potato, ginger, banana, coffee, soya and beans. The company has made significant progress in its potato farms and in addition to this, it will also set up an industrial processing plant for French fries and potato flakes in Gurara, Kaduna State. It will be the largest in Nigeria and West Africa. Recently Cros Agro signed a MoU (memorandum of understanding) with Elof Hansson International, a German global trading company, to act as a 'super supplier' of the processing lines, and other equipment for the farm.  www.proshareng.com/news/AGRICULTURE/Potato-Farm-and-Processing-in-Nigeria---The-Cros-Agro-Potato-Farm/33853 |
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Post by Her Highness on Dec 12, 2015 3:08:57 GMT
Samson Adewale Adeyemo, is the Founder and Managing Director of Diamond Pearls Agro Allied Limited, a fast growing edible oil processing company, located in Kwara State. The company has a vegetable oil refinery, which refines crude palm kernel and palm oil, to produce vegetable oil for industrial and domestic use. The company's strategic location allows it to satisfy the current vegetable oil supply gap in northern Nigeria, while making it close enough to the south‐west, to provide products to its growing market. It has also expanded its' operations, to become one of the largest vegetable oil processors in its region, with major market share in the northern part of the country.  Diamond Pearls Agro Allied Ltd intends to develop and expand its oil palm plantation, in order to strengthen its supply chain; in line with government’s efforts to develop the local production capacity of the sector. Due to its great performance, the company has been able to attract the attention of a group of fund managers known as Sahel Capital, that have invested some funds, into its' operations.
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Post by Her Highness on Dec 12, 2015 3:15:49 GMT
Leke Ojikutu - tech whizzkid, and graduate of Chemical Engineering from Lagos State University, declined to participate in the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) programme for 4 good years, in order to make his tech dreams, a reality. Today, he is the founder of VoguePay, a pioneering online payment solution, that offer buyers and sellers a secure and easy channel to transact business online. VoguePay - a secure payment gateway has won the “Best Fintech Startup” at the 6th edition of the Cashless Afria Awards 2017, organised by Mobile Money Africa in Lagos. Already, VoguePay is the biggest payment gateway by merchant size in Nigeria, and also serves customers in four continents, from North America, to Europe, Asia and Africa.  Leke Ojikutu is also a seasoned Programmer and Software Developer, with years of experience in PHP, JAVA, DOTNET, SQL, etc., as well as a professional server administrator and an experienced trainer, coach and speaker.  Leke also has a number of achievements under his belt. He is: Founder of VoguePay - Africa's largest payment processor, Founder of Afrisoft Interactive Ventures Limited, Founder of Estore Bulk SMS Company, Founder of Creative Manufacturing Solutions Limited, Co-founder of BlueBox Macromedia West Africa Limited.  Other works done by Leke Ojikutu, include the development of the following programmes: First Interactive Learning Software in West Africa, First Commercial Bible Software in West Africa, Lagos State IRS Tax Management and Audit Solution, ELC's Supreme Court Quartly Law Report: Web, Desktop(Windows, mac and Linux) and Mobile Applications, AMS Solution for Kainji Dam (Nigeria's Largest Hydro-Electric Power Generation Station), Shiroro Dam and several other power stations; Nigeria's most widely used Bulk SMS Web Solution - SMS Portal Creator,Epistoo Enterprise Resource Planning Solution amongst many many others.  Leke Ojikutu is also known for establishing Afrisoft Interactive (www.afrisoft.org), a software solutions firm, that provides its core services in programming, software development, dynamic web design/development, multimedia authoring and 2D animation. Afrisoft Interactive has developed ground breaking commercial solutions such as sms portal creator, elearning studio, Asset management EDBMS, 2-way SMS Server e.t.c. Afrisoft solutions are being deployed within and outside Nigeria. Leke Ojikutu is popularly known on NL by his Nairaland Moniker - 'Lojik.' 
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Post by Her Highness on Dec 12, 2015 3:24:27 GMT
  DR. BAMIDELE O. MAKANJUOLA
The Chairman, Vitafoam Group. |
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Post by Her Highness on Dec 12, 2015 3:36:42 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 12, 2015 3:44:12 GMT
 Akinwunmi Odumakinde began his career with Chevron Refinery, Richmond, CA, USA where he was engaged as Summer Chemical Engineer between July and September 1987. He then left for Dow Chemical, Pittsburgh, CA, USA as Research/Process Engineer between July and December 1988, and also worked with Arco Oil & Gas, Bakersfield, CA, USA as Operation/Analytical Engineer between June 1990 and May 1994. But his determination to succeed, and further pursue the cause of local capacity building, made him return to Nigeria, where he floated a company called DeltaTek Engineering Limited. The success of DeltaTek Engineering Limited in the Nigerian Oil & Gas Industry today, under his able leadership led to his pioneering the formation and operation of companies like DSV Pipetronix Limited where he served as Vice President, Operations; DeltaTerratek, another company he founded; Prime Atlantic, where he serves as Director and DeltaAfrik Engineering Limited (a Joint Venture Company between DeltaTek and WorleyParsons) where he is currently the Managing Director. He combines experience, creativity, and proven management skill with sound business sense to deliver excellence in these positions.  All the listed subsidiaries including Delta Afrik are part of the Delta Tek Group which is run by Odumakinde. The company has offices in Nigeria, Ghana, Equatorial Guinea, Sierra Leone, Angola, Mozambique and USA.   |
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Post by Her Highness on Dec 12, 2015 4:05:02 GMT
Atunde Shamsideen Olayinka did not set out to be shoemaker, despite his love for shoes. But along the line he learnt the trade and fell in love with it. Today he owns a shoe making outfit that specialises in making not just dress shoes, but school sandals, dress shoes, industrial safety shoes for construction and oil & gas companies; and combat/jungle boots & service shoes for the military and paramilitary institutions. His company is known as Yiko Deen Footwear, and their slogan is "Keep Nigeria Walking."   His firm boasts of a capacity to make 1,000 pairs per day. The factory, which is located in the Surulere area of Lagos, makes footwear built to the best acceptable international standards.  Just this year alone, the company has manufactured and supplied over 6,000 of pairs of shoes and boots to the Nigeria Police Force, and donated over 2,000 pairs of children school shoes to kids in different parts of Lagos. Yiko Deen Footwear designs were exhibited at the Micam shoe festival at Milan, in 2016 on the same platform as designs made by renowned brands like Gucci. By the time they returned, the firm had secured a deal to produce and deliver 1,000 pairs of safety boots, for oil companies in Serria Leone. www.linkedin.com/pulse/yiko-deen-footwear-putting-nigerian-shoes-industry-global-festus 
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Post by Her Highness on Dec 12, 2015 4:14:00 GMT
 Olajide Adeniran, the public relations & marketing strategy professional launched his company Core Media Services in 2008, but by 2013, he had relocated his firm to a brand new multi-million naira building called Core Media House, along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway in Isheri North area of Lagos. Core Media started beaming its programmes to Nigerians through LTV, DStv 129, TVC, MITV and GALAXY TV. But in 2014, Adeniran launched Core TV news, a 24-hours digital TV news station, to provide news and current affairs reports, to not just the teeming residents of Lagos and Ogun states, but other parts of Nigeria.   Core TV News is a 24-hour free-to-air, cable news channel, owned and operated by Core Media Services Ltd, with an unbeatable reach all over Nigeria and Africa, as well as parts of Europe. The TV station broadcasts as a channel on the NTA-Star Times satellite channel platform. Through that platform, their Core TV station which focuses on news, sports and documentaries, has been received in 33 states of the country.  With its live streaming service on the internet, Core TV News captures high volume of viewership within the country, and beyond. Just last year, Core TV News station made its live debut in Abuja, as a newly launched digital terrestrial television, which was switched on by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, at an impressive ceremony.   The production arm of Core Media Services, has worked in Nigeria, and other parts of the country for almost 10 years. They have good professionals who use high standards and techniques, to create vibrant media productions, fused with a local communications style, that can be understood and well received by the Nigerian audience. Their professional values are based on reliability, professionalism and exacting standards, that one would expect from a world class production company. It was at LTV that his story changed for life! As a diligent reporter, he was assigned to cover different beats and he carried out his assignment accordingly. In the course of the discharge of his duties, he was able to meet the Nigerian society bigwigs who started showing interest in him. At a time when his career was blossoming at LTV, he took the risk of resigning to float his own media firm, Core Media Services Ltd, that deals with advertising, marketing, Public Relations, media buying and other media related activities. He actually started Core Media Services, with no office, because there was no money to rent an office at that time! He normally held meetings with his team under the tree, or right inside the car! Later, he was able to raise some money and he rented an apartment at Opebi, Lagos and that’s where Core Media corporate office took off from. Today, the rest as they say, is history! |
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Post by Her Highness on Dec 12, 2015 4:35:42 GMT
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Post by Her Highness on Dec 12, 2015 5:38:01 GMT
The wings tower, from concept to reality. Own by wale tinubu   |
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Post by Her Highness on Dec 14, 2015 14:59:50 GMT
  Hygeia Nigeria Limited is a healthcare group, which has been active in Nigeria for over 27 years. It was founded by Prof. Adeyemo Elebute and Prof. Mrs. Oyinade Elebute, in 1984. Hygeia is the largest healthcare provider in Nigeria, and provides medical care through 4 distinct world-class organizations: Lagoon Hospitals, Hygeia HMO, Hygeia Community Health Care and Hygeia Foundation.  Hygeia is currently involved in the management of hospitals and work site clinics, through the Lagoon Hospitals Group. Hygeia expanded to provide health insurance, through Hygeia HMO (a wholly owned subsidiary of Hygeia Nigeria Limited), and Hygeia Community Health Care, a donor-funded initiative that aims to improve access to quality healthcare to low income groups in Nigeria. Through the Hygeia Nigeria Limited Foundation, the company builds capacity for the medical personnel in and beyond its provider network.  Through these four companies, Hygeia is able to deliver primary, secondary and tertiary healthcare to the Nigerian population. In 2016, the founders of Hygeia Group, Prof. Adeyemo Elebute and Prof. Mrs. Oyinade Elebute, sold part of its shares, in the Lagoon Hospital Group to CIEL Healthcare Africa Limited, a foreign pan-African healthcare company. This led to a change in the board structure. The International Finance Corporation (IFC), the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, has led a group of investors to make a $66.8 million USD (N13.3 billion) investment in Hygeia Nigeria Limited, Nigeria’s leading private healthcare provider.  Lagoon Hospitals Group is the 1st Hospital in Sub-Saharan Africa, to earn accreditation from Joint Commission International (JCI), a US based international endorser for excellence in clinical practices in patient care and safety. Hygeia HMO one of its subsidiaries, is run by Mrs. Fola Laoye the daughter of the founders, Prof & Prof (Mrs.) Elebute.  They acquired another leading healthcare centre recently, the prestigious Goldcross Hospital located in the highbrow Ikoyi area of Lagos. The acquisition also includes Gold Cross MRI Diagnostics located in Ikeja, a fully operational diagnostic centre with MRI, CT Scan and other diagnostics facilities. Established in 1989, Gold Cross Hospital over the last 25 years has risen to become one of the leading private medical facilities in Nigeria. It was established by Dr Ladi Okuboyejo.    |
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Post by Her Highness on Dec 14, 2015 15:03:02 GMT
    Anthony Ayeni. President and CEO at Westown GroupWelcome to Westown Hotel, Lagos. As a luxury four star hotel in Lagos, Westown hotel can boast of some of the best staff in the industry. Our newly restructured team have been trained to deliver optimum service to our guest. When you walk into Westown Hotel, you instantly get the feeling that you are in a civilized safe and secure environment. Our interior designs sets us apart from other hotels in Ikeja, our facilities are top shelf, designed to give you the comfort you demand. Westown Hotel is the desire of all nations. We play host to guest from around the globe. As a multi-nationally staffed hotel, our guests feel at home when they meet some of our staff from their home country. |
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Post by Her Highness on Dec 14, 2015 15:54:17 GMT
          Tayo Aderinokun
Founder Founder
Day Waterman School
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Post by Her Highness on Dec 14, 2015 15:56:37 GMT
 Soni Olufemi Olubunmi Oyekan is a Nigerian-American chemical engineer, as well as the President and Owner of Prafis Energy Solutions,, an oil refining and energy consulting services firm in Richmond, Texas. Oyekan is an expert in oil & gas, and oil refining. He earned his BS in Engineering and Applied Sciences at Yale University, and his MS and PhD in Chemical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University, USA. Dr. Soni Oyekan also doubles as the Reforming and Isomerization Technologist of Marathon Oil Company.  Dr. Soni Oyekan was born in Nigeria in 1946. He came to the United States to study in 1966. Soni was a recipient of an African Scholarship Program of American Universities (ASPAU) award, administered by the African American Institute (AAI) in 1966. Till date, Oyekan has provided technical and process technology management to more than 30 refineries worldwide, including 20 refineries of Sunoco, BP/Amoco and Marathon Petroleum between 1986 and 2012. He also managed precious metals catalyst systems for Sunoco and Amoco. His early career included R&'D work at Exxon, Engelhard, and DuPont, which resulted in two U.S. and eight foreign patents, before 1985. He received his third U.S. patent for a catalytic reforming process in 2014. His inventions for catalytic naphtha reforming are used globally to enhance the production of transportation fuels. He received the 2009 Percy Julian Award from the National Organization for Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE) in recognition of his contributions to oil refining.  The Percy L. Julian Award is the most prestigious award presented by NOBCChE. The award recognizes and honors a recipient's scientific contributions and achievements, dedication to research, commitment to the educational development of others, and passion for the chemistry profession. Dr. Oyekan was specifically recognized for his contributions in oil refining and chemical engineering. He currently has 14 patents including 5 US patents and over 70 publications, on a variety of topics in petroleum refining and catalysis.  ccrhq.org/sites/default/files/community/aichecommunitysite/minority-affairs-committee-mac/291906/oyekanstranscriptmac.pdf |
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Post by Her Highness on Dec 14, 2015 16:01:45 GMT
Kase LawalNot your average oil baron (CNN) -- Nigerian-born entrepreneur Kase Lawal is the epitome of the American dream. Arriving to the US a young, idealistic student, Lawal has carved a name for himself in one of the most competitive industries in the world: Oil. Now head of a multi-billion dollar empire, his Houston-based company, CAMAC, is one of the largest black-owned businesses in the U.S., generating over $2 billion dollars a year. Founded nearly 25 years ago, Lawal built CAMAC (which stands for Cameroon-American) from a small agriculture business into a global oil company. But it's taken a lot of hard work, determination and guts to get him to the top. Born and raised in Ibadan, Nigeria in 1954, Lawal became interested in America and its civil rights movement during his teens. After finally persuading his father, a local politician, to send him to university in America, Lawal headed to Georgia and then Houston, where he attended the Texas Southern University. After graduating with a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering in 1976, Lawal, like many of his classmates, started out as a graduate in the energy industry. First as a chemist for Dresser Industries (now Halliburton) and then as a chemical engineer with Shell Oil Refining Co. During this time he met his wife, Eileen through a mutual friend and had his three children. Now married and settled, it wasn't long before the innovative young Nigerian started to implement his business ideas. In 1986 he established CAMAC, a company trading agricultural commodities such as sugar, tobacco and rice. In the early 90s he made the leap into the energy sector after the Nigerian government started to develop its energy market. With his knowledge of Nigeria and his Houston address, Lawal was ideally positioned to attract major oil companies. In 1991 CAMAC made a deal with the oil giant Conoco, agreeing to jointly operate and share production from any Nigerian discoveries. This turned out to be Lawal's big break. With his political contacts, local market knowledge and now with the backing of a major oil firm, Lawal's Houston-based company became an instant player in the energy industry. As Lawal told CNN: "That partnership I believe was the cornerstone of the CAMAC that you know today. Subsequently with that credibility and the advantage of partnering with Conoco, we were also able to partner with BP and also with Statoil of Norway and currently we have made a partnership with Eni, the largest Italian company, which is one of the top five oil companies in the world." Now CAMAC has offices in London, Johannesburg, Lagos and Port Harcourt, Nigeria and is involved in oil exploration, refining and trading.He was awarded the USAfrica Business Person of the Year in 1997 and in 2002 CAMAC was named the largest African-American owned company on the Black Enterprise 100s list. 
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