Special with TY Bello

#TMB #HOTM #TyBello #Photography #Music

"Don't be #scared of been #Confused

Pay attention to who #you are that what you are #supposed to be."

Background
She started with asking God why am I here?
She missed an opportunity to study abroad. Therefore enrolled in a beauty school instaed.
She became the lead song writer in her church after The choir of her church had decided to sing a song to reteach what the pasteror taught.

KUSH was born as a result of her time with friends, singing together. 

She snapped just to show the different  hair style she made. She was introduced to another photograher who made better picture thats how she got into photography.

Why didnt you pursue more in th Olajumoke story?

This what life is about
"See a situation that need light shine it
see a situation that needs salt flavor it"

TY bello and Music

Muisc has always be to encourege me firts.
But in turn inspire people also.

Why didnt you go on stage?

Bukky George founder of HealthPlus Pharmacutical company

 #TMB #BukkyGeorge #HealthPlus

Find the #need and #Fix the #problem out for #profit

Create #value

Get #business #skills

#Focus

Bukky George founder of HealthPlus Pharmacutical company

About
"I worship in a church that focuses on purpose.
I saw discord between the study and practice of pharmacy.
....I practice of community Pharmacy.

"How She Finance Her Business"
1. Personal saving
2. Borrowed from Family
3. Supplier credit from supplier
4. Reinvesting profit
5. Fund from access bank gender equality program
6. Local bank FCMB and IFC

Fund is available for Entrepreneur with Integrity and Accountability

Advice
1. See the gap
2. Find the need and Fix the problem out for profit
3. Create value
4. Get business skills
5. Focus
6. Networking not just exchanging business card but connecting and engaging with people
also having a mentor

The women featured on this show have overcome the numerous challenges faced by small and medium enterprises in Nigeria, from the lack of access to funding to the power outages.

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Women's Business Growth in Nigeria:

#TMB #entrepreneur #grow #Africa #educate #CherieBlair #Foundation for #Women

She #discovered that

"I needed an #account

and #Remit every #money gotten."

by Mrs Udoka Nwosu #owner of #UdokaPlace

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Nike Davies-Okundaye founder and CEO Nike Art Gallery and Culture Nigeria

Nike Davies-Okundaye founder and ceo Nike Art Gallery and Culture Nigeria

Nike's painting is permanently featured at The Smithsonian Museum as of 2012, and her work is also part of the collection of The Gallery of African Art and The British Library, in London.

Her Take About Funding a Business
1. "I had to work fetching water to get money"
2. Big fund was based on recommendation from abroad, to train foreigners. My work had been sold in museum

How She Give Back To the Society
1. I train people for free
2. Show case their work (the trainees) on my art gallery to be sold

Needs In the Nigeria Art World
Printers for Adiere

Vision
1. Rugs with Adire design
2. Coca-Cola with Adire design

Her Core Business Values
1. I don't not reproduce my design, One design per customer
2. I don't not copy other artist
3. I promote Nigeria

Her Advice
Think Positive Promote Positive
Adire colour (indigo) is the colour of Love

The women featured on this show have overcome the numerous challenges faced by small and medium enterprises in Nigeria, from the lack of access to funding to the power outages.

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wikipedia.org/wiki/Nike_Davies-Okundaye

Adenike Ogunlesi founder and Ceo of Ruff N Tumble

Adenike Ogunlesi founder and Ceo of Ruff N Tumble

Background
"I wanted to buy pajama for my kids and didn't find the one I need so I made it for them. My Brother in law requested should do the same for her and I did.
Then I made more which I sold at my children schools whenever drop them off.
My husband advice I shouldn't stop there, so I made clothes for my kids.
I did a market survey and saw the problem of expensive and not matching clothes for kids...

I got the name when helping a friend make a teddy bear for a friends party. She asked what type of clothes I made I said ruff clothes children can play with. She said she would draw a drum of in which children were rolling out of it, then the name was set RUFF N Tumble.

How She Handled Competition
"I First challenged my workers that will they let a none Nigeria company send the Nigeria out of business? Therefore we got our mind set right.
1. There is fault with big
2. Build a brand that is proudly made in Nigeria
3. Then we expand and improve the quality we offer and value
4. Then I went to Lagos business school to study.

How She Handled Price And Quality.
1. Time to market
2. Feature what makes it special
3. Reliability

cost was minimized with
1. local production cheaper
2. More indigenous details on the clothes

Her View About Export
"No, I decide not to export because we have a greater population thet has not been met
We can create blue ocean here
We can create cotton factories"

Her Take On Fund
"No secret"
1. Hard work
2. Focus
3. Perseverance
4. Building a team that believe and want to participate
5. See opportunities where no one sees it

Giving Back to the Society
"help in training"

The women featured on this show have overcome the numerous challenges faced by small and medium enterprises in Nigeria, from the lack of access to funding to the power outages.

Credit:

CNBC@youtube.com

Ibukun Awosika Founder Chair Center Ilmited

#Purse your #idea and give it #life.

#TMB #IbukunAwosika #Africa #entrepreneur #Advice 

Ibukun Awosika founded of the Chair center estimated $1.7 billion

She currently serves as Chairman of First Bank of Nigeria.

How She solved funding
"1. I didn't have any money but savings
2. I know when I hire carpenter they come with tools
3. I don't have to pay them for the first month Free labor
4. The heavy machinery there were places I can use them and pay for usage (rent).
5. The smaller machinery I bought
6. I also know that customer pay 70% of money for the product before ts completed."

How She Got Her Big Sales
She attending the time leisure exhibition where key company and people give contract for their office furniture.
"We were well package like a really big company, we put our all while for the other companies its was just a normal business."
She  eventually got the contract and that was how she made her big sale.

How She Overcame Furniture Importation Ban
"I went to the company we preferred the most and made a deal that they start a production company in Nigeria, they refused.
I let them know I will do it with or without their help and thereby lose the benefit.
They accepted to serve 5% and provide all technical support a little help.
Two weeks after they changed their proposition and made a better one 21% investment and provide all support needed."

Advice
1. Joy and fulfillment when you  pursue your idea and giving what ts takes
2. To build for the long term, build with right structure and value system.
3. Identify what is right with the industry and laws of the land.
4. Purse your idea and give it life.
5. There is nothing more satisfying than its established.

The women featured on this show have overcome the numerous challenges faced by small and medium enterprises in Nigeria, from the lack of access to funding to the power outages.

Credit:
CNBC@youtube.com

"Physically Challenged Businessman"

#2016 #bettabox #handicap #africa, #african, #disabled, #BUSINESS, #bettabox, #Nigeria, #entrepreneur, 

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Slot Telecoms: "The Big Back Story"

#telecommunication #NnamdiEzeigbo #story #africa #technology

"So #Tecno was the #child of #Slot ?

Yes. In fact, we #registered it as a #subsidiary of Slot"

He started from the scratch with no job for two years. But unknown to Nnamdi Ezeigbo, the Founder and Chairman of Slot Group, the nation’s number one phones and accessories outfit, fate had other plans. Equipped with degrees in Electrical Electronics and Computer Engineering, he got tired of roaming the streets and decided to take his destiny in his own hand. After a six-month ‘apprenticeship’ with a friend, he started a small business with his younger brother as the only employee. For Nnamdi, the coming of GSM was a turning point. From computers, he diversified to phone accessories. Today, with over 700 employees, he runs the Tecno and Infinix phone brands. Ezeigbo shares his life’s journey to the top with Samuel Ajayi, recalling years of struggle,as he turns 50 in August

Most people in your business and financial pedigree are on the island. So why have you or do I say didn’t you join your fellow millionaires on the island?

My business head office is in Ikeja. Though most of my friends stay on the island but I want to be close to my business headquarters. Convenience and the stress of navigating the Third Mainland Bridge everyday make it more sensible to stay on mainland. Besides, the cost of getting an office on the island is killing. Maybe in the future we might go there but I am quite comfortable here, close to the office.

You are an engineer. What is your area of specialisation? Mechanical, chemical or electrical?

I think I cut across. I have two degrees. I have one in electronics and also another one in computer electronics and I also have master degree in information technology. My MBA was done here but presently doing my entrepreneurship programme in Harvard.

Have you always been fascinated by gadgets like phones, accessories and so on during those formative years?

I have flair for computers. In the 90s, there was nothing like mobile phones but computers. However, when I went to school, there was nothing like computer engineering then until I finished my HND and I had to go back to Lagos State University to do my degree in electronics and computer engineering. This equipped me with the training I needed but I did not start with that formal education. I still went to spend six months with a friend of mine who had a computer engineering outfit and it was those six months that gave me the necessary training and expertise for me to start as a computer engineer.

Did you go for that internship to start a business afterwords?

I didn’t start my computer engineering vocation to start a business. My venture into business was a child of necessity because I could not find a job for two years. That was why I actually joined my friend who was running his computer engineering outfit then. I could not find a white collar job and I needed to do something to keep myself busy. That was why I joined my friend and found myself in this place now. In order to do business, I needed the right computers and there was no way I could have started on my own. And let me also say I could not have gone into fashion or any other thing. When I started, businesses were just interested in making money and I did not expect entrepreneurs to be so crazy about money but more concerned about creating values. This changed the game for me and I said I was going to be involved and make something different. You won’t believe this but when I started, I would fix computers for people and won’t ask them for money and it was customer that would be asking to pay?

So it was not about money but the excitement that I could even fix computers. And that was what kept me going. It was not even about the money I was making. And I saw so many people coming to my office to fix their computers.

You started when computers were not yet a fad among users. Owning a laptop or even a desktop was a status symbol then…

(Cuts in) Yes. People even had to be comfortable to be able to buy a computer. That was the case then. However, we had a reasonable number of people and organisations that owned computers then because it was basically a way of having efficiency in your operations. I remember fixing computers for Daily Times, University of Lagos and Standard Chartered Bank. Those were using computers but were using very outdated computers… They were just carrying computers when there were already the likes of 4ACs, 3ACs and when Pentium and other fast computers were already in the market then. But we started having more people becoming more passionate about computers. It was a good business. We started with computer engineering and gradually, we dabbled into sales of computers and with the advent of GSM in 2001, we diversified into GSM and mobile phones.

Nigeria’s Stunning Real-life Painter - Oresegun Olumide

#OresegunOlumide #art #may, #2016, #Nigeria, #africa, #african, #painter, #Opportunity, #BUSINESS, #ARTICLES, #hardwork, 

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Nigeria's Young Creative Inventor - African & Technology

#2016, #June, #young, #technology, #inventor, #bettabox, #african, #africa, #student, #secondary, #Hope, #Nigeria

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4 Africa Women Entreprenuers

Emerging African Women Entrepreneurs, featuring #NanaAmaYankah, #MariemeJamme, #GloriaWavamunno, Rubona #basket #weavers association, #IvoryCoast Women #Rice #farmers, and #Mali #Women turning #SheaButter #trees in #Money
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Anzisha Prize 2016 for Africans top young entrepreneurs $75000 prize & more

Application Deadline: 15 April 2016

Are you one of Africa’s youngest entrepreneurs? Do you know someone who may be?

The 2016 Anzisha Prize application window is officially open!  The prize is open to any African national under the age of 22 with an active project, social venture or for-profit business based on the continent. The judging criteria for the prize has been refined for 2016 to better represent the entrepreneurial talent that the Anzisha Prize wants to uncover and support.

Hosted by the African Leadership Academy (ALA) in partnership with The MasterCard Foundation, the Anzisha Prize celebrates initiative and innovation. Now in its fifth year, the Prize has grown into one of the most sought after awards for young entrepreneurs on the continent.

‘Anzisha’ means ‘initiate’ in Swahili, and that is what the Prize is about. Africa’s solutions lies within its youth, and the Anzisha Prize is looking for young leaders between the ages of 15 and 22 who are using entrepreneurship to solve problems in their communities and inspire change.

Eligibility Requirements

You must be between 15 and 22 years old with an ID document or Passport to present as evidence. Anyone born before April 16, 1994 or after April 16, 2001 will not be considered.
You must be a national of an African country with a business based in Africa for African customers/ beneficiaries.
Your business must be up and running. The Anzisha Prize is not for great ideas or business plans – you must have already started, and be able to prove it! You have time to get started now and have tangible results to share before applications open.
Your business, invention or social project can be in any field or industry (science and technology, civil society, arts and culture, sports, etc.). Any kind of venture is welcome to apply.
Individuals who apply must be one of the founding members of a business (for example, 2 or 3 co-founders who started a business together). One person can apply for the Prize, on behalf of the team.
Fellowship Worth:

Value of the Fellowship- Additional investment of $8 000/ $10 000 in each fellow

Monetary Reward of a shared amount of $75 000
$2000 access to a world- renowned Entrepreneurial Leadership curriculum and training with the potential for further investment based on engagement and performance
$2 500 worth of rewards from consulting and mentorship services
$2000 worth of rewards from Global speaking events or Experts in Residence support
$1000 worth of rewards from Regional Indabas across the continent
$500 worth of equipment
Each fellow also gains access to the African Leadership Academy network.

Selection Criteria:

Relevance: Has the young entrepreneur identified a clear business opportunity or social need in Africa?
Effectiveness: Does the venture created by the young entrepreneur effectively respond to this relevant need or opportunity?
Jobs Impact: Has the venture created any jobs to date and does it have the potential to create more jobs with support from Anzisha?
Scalability: If the venture is a for-profit business, does it already earn revenues and does it have potential increase revenues with the support of Anzisha? If the venture is a not-for-profit enterprise, does it already reach beneficiaries and does it have the potential to reach many more beneficiaries with support from Anzisha?
Leadership Potential: Does the young entrepreneur have clearly demonstrated leadership potential and an ability to inspire others? Can this potential be accelerated by being part of the African Leadership Academy community?
Timeline:

Semi-finalists will be chosen on a rolling admissions basis, so get your application in early! If you have a very strong application, we could be visiting you very soon!

15 March 2016: Early Bird applications reviewed.
15 April 2016: Application Deadline.
July/ August 2016: Semi-finalist due diligence visits and and final selection.
September 2016: Anzisha Prize Finalists  for 2016 announced.
November 2016: Anzisha Prize Week & Awards Ceremony.

Apply Now for the Anzisha Prize 2016

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the 2016 Anzisha Prize

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BMCE Bank of Africa - African Entrepreneurship Award 2016 (USD$1 Million for African Entrepreneurs)

Application Deadline: May 6th, 2016.

African Entrepreneurship Award (AEA) 2016 powered by BMCE Bank of Africa.

Do you have a business idea that will create jobs and improve lives in your region?

Applications are now been accepted for the 2nd edition of the African Entrepreneurship Award. What does that mean for you?

The African Entrepreneurship Award, powered by BMCE Bank of Africa, offers a mentoring journey for business ideas that can impact and improve lives in Africa. The goal of the African Entrepreneurship Award is to inspire African entrepreneurs – living in Africa and abroad – to develop businesses across the African continent, creating jobs that improve lives.

The Award partners with entrepreneurs, business leaders and leading academics from Africa, Asia, Americas, UK and Europe. These partners are mentors who provide coaching to African entrepreneurs at every step of this journey.

Eligibility

You, the entrepreneur, must meet the following criteria as you submit your business proposal:

You must be a citizen of an African country
You must be a minimum of 18 years old as of October 1, 2016
Your business must be applicable in an African country
Your business proposal must include a technological component (digital, machinery, computers, ICT, automated processes, field related technologies, etc.)
Your business must be for profit.
Your business must be relevant to one of these categories:
Education – positively impact education in Africa
Environment – positively impact the environment in Africa
Uncharted – a high-impact business venturing into unexplored territory or untested markets
Additional Information

You can submit a proposal as a resident of any country worldwide – keeping in mind that you must be a citizen of an African country
For example, a resident of the United Arab Emirates with Egyptian citizenship is eligible for this Award
Your business can operate in any African country even if you are not a citizen of that country
For example, you can submit a proposal for a different country in Africa than your personal, African citizenship (e.g. a Ghanaian citizen can submit a proposal for a business in Liberia)
You can submit a proposal for a business already in operation
Your business can operate across borders in multiple African countries
Your business should demonstrate the potential to scale beyond one region in Africa to pan-African impact
You can operate in multiple countries, but you will be asked to designate a primary community in Africa that will benefit or be impacted by your business.
Categories:

Your business proposals will be reviewed in one of our three categories:
Education, Environment, and Uncharted

Education is essential to equip Africans in the 21st century. As 11 million young Africans enter the job market every year, we are looking for business ideas that will impact education with the potential to scale across Africa.
It means you could…

The Environment is critical to ensure Africa works together in all sectors to promote innovations that will protect the livelihood of current and future generations. As 11.3 million hectares of land are ravaged every year by poor agricultural systems, over-grazing, and deforestation, we are looking for business ideas that will impact the environment with the potential to scale across Africa.

Uncharted means unexplored, not yet attempted. What is so difficult to do in your community that no one has tried before? Like explorers and inventors throughout history, what will propel Africa into a stronger position in the 21st century? We are looking for business ideas that boldly go where no one has gone before in Africa.

Benefit from personalized, online mentoring over the next few months by people in your region, across Africa and around the globe
Learn by reading relevant advice proven to help African entrepreneurs,
Join a new network that can lead to new customers and investors, and
Have an opportunity to share in the $1M Award.

Apply Now for the BMCE Bank of Africa -African Entrepreneurship Award 2016 

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the BMCE Bank of Africa -African Entrepreneurship Award 2016

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The African Mother I grew To know

With  great sacrity she keeps her Virginity.

With utmost humility presents herself to her Authorised better half.

With Obedience and first class moral, she doth tie her wrapper.

As the fish swim in the ocean, so does she in her legally acquired in-home

Generosity are her pick when relation is concerned.

Gracefully she doth conceive
Yet in her pregnancy, respects her head.
With the right attire she doth carry her pregnancy.
At birth, she stresslessly shit it out.

With her long acquired moral she trained the child
Foods are the last resort when her breast is readily milky.
With much love, the baby enjoys the natural heat at her back
With great morals the child grew to become what the mother wanted.

Oh New mothers of africa!
What befell thy once acquired doctrine
Thy dignity had become the cheapest of all wares
Like a satchet water in a trade fair
Thy marriage are no longer before birth!
The kids you begot, are fed in the white men's way,
Your better half no longer commands respect as of old
Kneeling to you as become a taboo.
Why loose your value
Why forget thou thy culture?
Rise up thou women of africa
Bring back the Once availing dignity in the African culture.

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