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Ibukun Awosika: An Inspiration to Nigerian Entrepreneurs

Mrs Ibukun Awosika exemplifies the Nigerian entrepreneurial spirit, represents the true face of Nigerian business and highlights the opportunities that Nigeria presents to entrepreneurs. When Awosika took up work for a furniture company as a young, fresh-faced 25 year this

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CFI.co Meets Wilson Endy Opuwei

Wilson Endy Opuwei is an oil and gas entrepreneur with business interests in exploration and production, manufacturing, power and marine sectors, as a player in the global industry marketplace, Wilson has midwifed multi-currency boardroom transactions, even as he contributes to

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CFI.co Meets Badaru Adeoti

Badaru is a computer science graduate of Babcock University (one of the first private universities in Nigeria). He worked for/with different telecoms and media companies in various capacities ranging from Head/ Lead Engineer to Regional Manager before starting up with

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CFI.co Meets ‘Jibola Odedina

CEO’s Profile The new management team appointed in October 2005, was led by Mr. ‘Jibola Odedina, who brought to bear over 22 years of cognate experience in principal investments, securities trading, portfolio management, and property development. ‘Jibola assembled a team

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CFI.co Meets Chief Andrew Oziri Emeri

Chief Andrew Oziri Emeri, (or OZ as he is popularly known) was born on 27th June, 1960 to the families of Mr. & Mrs. Emeri O. Alexander aka (Alexander De Great) of Umunede Kingdom in Ika North East Local Government

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Nigeria’s Minister of Agriculture: Sustainability and Growth in Investments from Private Sector, but Banks Overcharge

The expected gains of the N450billion Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk-Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL) special credit portfolio set aside by the Central Bank of Nigeria is yet to be seen due to high interest rates pegged on it by banks,

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Revenue Watch: 4 out of 5 Companies Fail in Good Governance

The Resource Governance Index (RGI) measures the quality of governance in the oil, gas and mining sector of 58 countries. From highly ranked countries like Norway, the United Kingdom and Brazil to lowranking countries like Qatar, Turkmenistan and Myanmar, the

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Oil Producers with Success in Nigeria

London Stock Exchange listed oil and gas producer, Afren, reports a strong start to the year driven by a year-on-year increase of 14% in net production principally from the Ebok and Okoro fields, offshore Nigeria. The group says it remains

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Nigeria’s Economy Grows by 6.6%

At a time when Europe’s growth is stalling and in recession, Nigeria’s economic output is continuing to motor away. However, this growth comes at the cost of inflation which is also running high at 9% per annum and for food even higher

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CFI.co Meets Didelou Falobi

Dideolu Falobi, a certified engineer, graduated from the University of Lagos in 1987. He started his career as a Design and Supervision Engineer (1987-89) and later Junior Partner (1992-1996) with Edison Group & Partners, a foremost Electrical power engineering consultancy

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