Author: Stillborn & Captain Africa; Founder: IMNI; Starter: This is MiNe (Made in Nigeria) movement
Joined January 2012
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After months of wrangling with Chinese suppliers, Aba shoemakers and market leaders, Lagos fashionistas... I finally had the eureka moment and hired women!
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Grateful to DTN @100 for this Award for our modest efforts to create a better future for the African and Nigerian peoples. Time to do more to industrialize Africa.
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🇳🇬 Episode 5 is out!
Built on Sand: Why did Nigeria's industrial ambitions fail?
📺 youtu.be/RL-0wxGFr28?si=L6No…
🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/3nq…
#Nigeria #Podcast
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May 5-6 we launched a transformative initiative called Transformed Communities (TransCOM) in partnership with the SWDC. It creates communities of productivity, prosperity and peace out of Poverty and insecurity. Poverty must End.
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Highlights from the Groundbreaking Ceremony of the Oyo State Agribusiness Industrial Hub held on Saturday, 2 August 2025. Watch.
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🎥 Prof. @BanjiOyeyinka highlights the remarkable surge in investor interest in #SAPZNigeria, showcasing how the program is set to address deep-rooted challenges in Nigeria’s agricultural value chains and foster sustainable development.
Watch 👇 #AIF2024
🎥 At the #AIF2024: The @SAPZNigeria Presidential Boardroom, the programme secured over $2.2B in commitments to grow #SAPZNigeria during the #AfricaInvestmentForum Market Days in Rabat, #Morocco.
@AbdulBKamara3, Director General Nigeria Country Department @AfDB_Group speaks👇
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Honored to join H.E. Makinde & Oyo state officials for the groundbreaking ceremony of the Eruwa ATC November 21. The facility supports farmers productivity that ensures sustainable SAPZ Hub at Ijaiye. Congrats to all partners. Africa will industrialize!
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Delighted to meet & brief the Honorable Minister of Agriculture, Abubakar Kyari, and the Minister of State for Agriculture, Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi today at the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Abuja on onboarding 20 new SAPZ in Nigeria.
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It’s time for Nigeria to rethink its Industrial Policy for strategic domestic manufacturing including in pharmaceuticals. 50 years of missed opportunities. Large market, rapid urban growth. Industrialize by supporting domestic companies. India did it 1970.
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How do you build innovation capabilities for sustainable industrialization? @BanjiOyeyinka @nacetemng1 @egbetokun @joykaleb @IsaacOluyi @AyodeleShittu1 @AfricaLics @Globelics
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The John Randle Centre for Yoruba Culture & History, coming soon. Thanks to my team for an amazing effort. #fortheculture
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It's been a privilige working with @diekoye and having a front row seat watching Boost Nigeria take off!
New Founders Series Post: Meet Koye Oyeyinka CEO of @withboost #Nigeria
blog.withboost.co/p/founder-…
Excited for the next stage in the incredible journey with @withboost
New Founders Series Post: Meet Koye Oyeyinka CEO of @withboost #Nigeria
blog.withboost.co/p/founder-…
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With my world-class team! We just raised $8.9 billion for the African Development Fund (ADF). We set a record, the highest in 50 years since the Fund was established! Well done team!! Hurrah!!!🙌🏼🙌🏼
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✍📚 After reading 230+ short stories (up to 4k) as a first reader for a national UK comp here's what I learnt about what seems to work and what doesn't in #shortstory writing (just some thoughts not set rules):
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This is beautiful and emotional.
A Cameroonian in Toronto who walked into Canada’s Dragon Den asking investors $60,000 for his business, but left with $600,000K total funding after investors tasted his Jollof Rice 😄.
His tenacity, industriousness & persistence are admirable.
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Sharing the goals of #SAPZNigeria , the Senior Special Adviser on Industrialization of @AfDB_Group Prof @BanjiOyeyinka reveals that the #SAPZ seeks to:
👨🌾 enhance productivity,
🍂reduce post harvest loss,
🚜 reduce cost of operations and;
📈 increase value addition.
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SAVE THE DATE: The President of Nigeria, @MBuhari, jointly with the @AfDB_Group, the @isdb_group and the @IFAD will launch the Special Agro-industrial Processing Zones (#SAPZ) initiative for #Nigeria on 24 and 25 October 2022.
More info on #SAPZNigeria: bit.ly/3CKdVml
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Earlier today, we met with a team from the @AfDB_Group led by Prof Oyebanji Oyelaran-Oyeyinka, to finalise on the $37 million financing from the AfDB for the Special Agro Processing Zones (SAPZ) project in Oyo State. The formal launch will take place at the end of October.
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OMG In the Penguin Random House/S&S antitrust trial it was revealed that out of 58,000 trade titles published per year, half of those titles sell fewer than one dozen books. LESS THAN ONE DOZEN.
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This seems to be a misunderstanding of annual punishing statistics which show sales of all books regardless of year of publication. It's definitely not true that most newly published books manage less than a dozen sales.
countercraft.substack.com/p/no-most-book…