Each year over 300,000 youth graduate from Nigerian Youth Corps (NYSC), a mandatory service established by the government, and enter into the job market with high hopes of landing their dream job. For many graduates, this dream rarely includes aspirations of working on a farm. However, for Dr. Ayoade Oyedotun, Nigeria’s booming agriculture sector was …
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How Afrimash is Leveraging Technology to Help Nigerian Farmers Find Quality Goods
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Nathaniel Okwoli’s Booklify is Encouraging a Better Reading Culture
It has often been said that many Nigerians don’t read. While some have attributed the country’s low reading culture to a lack of interest, others, like Nathaniel Okwoli, believe it has more to do with a lack of access. In Nigeria, there are only 316 libraries for a population of almost 200 million, making access …
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Ifedayo Durosinmi-Etti Pays Her Knowledge Forward with the Launch of her new Book
It was a pleasure to support Ifedayo Durosinmi-Etti, in Lagos last Thursday, July 26th at the launch of her book “Accessing Grants for Startups”, which serves as a roadmap to funding opportunities for African entrepreneurs. Having benefited tremendously from her participation in various business development opportunities, Ifedayo has attempted to pay some of her knowledge …
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TEF Alumni Wins Silver Medal & £10,000 Cash Prize From the UK Royal Academy
The UK Royal Academy Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation, is an internationally coveted award that seeks to identify talented sub-Saharan African engineers from across disciplines who are applying their skillset to developing novel solutions to critical challenges within their communities. This year, Ifediora Ugochukwu, an Alumni of the TEF Entrepreneurship Programme, received a silver medal …
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From Ghana to the World: Abraham’s Farmart is the Solution to Farmers’ Post Harvest Loss
As an undergraduate student of Agricultural Science at KNUST, Abraham Omani Quaye became passionate about farming and wanted to start my own farm after school. During a search for land to start his farm, he met couple of farmers who had difficult farming experiences and they shared complaints about low yield and waste of produce …
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Disrupting the African Fashion Industry with Serah Kassim Ready to Wear Brand
Textile and clothing is the second largest sector in the developing world after agriculture, this sector is dominated by SMEs and holds the potential to create jobs for millions of women and youth across Africa. Discussions on African inspired clothing takes the centre stage at forums on fashion and exhibitions around the world. From the …
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Dainel Oulai’s Multiple Solutions to Tackling the Challenges of Food Security
Across the world Food security brings a huge debate with organisations, individuals and governments taking a centre stage in the tackling the interrelated elements of: availability, access, utilisation and stability. Grainothèque founded by a young agroecology activist and, Daniel Oulai (2017, Agriculture), is one of such organizations that is driving the agenda of food security. As a young boy …
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Inside Chigozie Bashua’s World of Nut Processing
With a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, one would expect Chigozie to focus on a career in line with her degree but in her words, “I believe I was called to do more than just my degree, I was out to fight the rising cost of food prices and bring innovation and the …
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Nana Asomaniwaa is Caring for Care Givers Through Erith Health Service
Nana Asomaniwaa is a young pharmacist turned entrepreneur, her entrepreneurial inclinations began when she started working in a cancer unit and realised that nurses, doctors, pharmacists and other medical caregivers can contract cancer just through administering care to the patients. This scary thought gave her a business idea. As a student, Nana had her internship …
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From Passion to Profit: Meet Temitayo, the Swimming Entrepreneur
A popular saying in Ogun state, South West Nigeria that descendants of Ijebu land do not go swimming may have been true until Tony Elumelu Entrepreneur Temitayo Orekoya (2016) came in contact with the sport. Growing up, Temitayo never had any encounter with sports but rather was seen as a nerd with a gift for …
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