How We Made It – – 10 Compelling Nigerian Entrepreneurial Stories

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How We Made It – 10 Compelling Nigerian Entrepreneurial Stories

“Some of the inventions I have seen in the last 12 months of my life, I wouldn’t believe are
possible in Nigeria… I am shocked at how digitisation of the world has actually opened up
huge opportunities for this. The dynamics have totally changed.”- Dr Christopher Kolade

“One of the things that entrepreneurs did not have in the old days is, say thirty years ago,
they didn’t really have access to mentors through media channels.”
– Dr Ola Brown, Founder, Flying Doctors

“I opened my first Art gallery, at the age of 17, in my bedroom…I started with one
shilling and today my business has grown to more than N500 million. ”
– Nike Okundaiye- Davies, Inventor of Adire Alabela and Founder, Nike Art Gallery

“LAPO started in a very modest manner, with just three hundred Naira as startup fund, which
I gave to two women and a very young lady who had not completed her secondary school then.
On every traditional market day in Ogwashi-Uku in Delta State, where the whole idea started,
I would then go around and make collection.”- Dr Godwin Ehigiamusoe, Founder, LAPO

“I started with nothing…I hope this encourages people who despair so easily, those waiting
for certainty before taking the leap. If there is one secret I can share, it is for you to always
take genuine interest in others” – Olajide Abiola, co-founder, Kiakia, Gidanka

“Taking the plunge into entrepreneurship, the way I did, was probably reckless.”
– John Obaro, Founder, SystemSpecs

“… there are two things that can happen, its either tragedy keeps rolling itself over, to prove
and show to us that we are on the wrong track or tragedy can mask itself as opposition.”
– Temitope Olagbegi, Founder, Sixth Sense

“..a very vast man, offered me an advice. He said, ‘Rich men don’t keep assets, they turn them
over’… I said ‘Sir, what do you mean?’ He said, that is the way to grow wealth. That wealth is
grown, not just kept.” – Tayo Sonuga, Founder, Haven Homes

“There is no short cut to good success, you must take the staircase. Leverage on digital
revolution to re-skill and discover the genius locked up in you…People invest in people not just
the idea.” – Dr Funmi Adewara, Founder, MobiHealth

“Our focus is to produce for the local market, innovate enough… and then create the kind of
niche within the system that will compel foreigners to come and look for us. The market we
seek elsewhere is here in Nigeria.”- Retson Tedheke, Founder, NCGS Farms

“…the future is Nigeria, the future is here. We just need to tell our own story, have our own
narrative…We have the critical mass.” -Chris Ubosi, Founder, Megaletrics.