List of all articles filed under “nigeria-interviews” category.
Dr Adebola Akindele gives an overview of Courteville Business Solutions, a Nigerian e-business solutions and advisory company, and the biggest company that renders data capture service in Sub-Saharan Africa. Its principal focus is the development of e-business solutions for process re-engineering in all sectors. Courteville operates in Nigeria as well as the Caribbean.
Anita Okuribido, affectionately referred to as Mama Renewable, shares her assessment of the renewable energy sector in Nigeria and explains what the advantages of using renewable energy, solar energy, green energy over more traditional types of energy are. She also explains what drives her to be so active in the renewable energy sector.
Nkemdilim Uwaje Begho presents Futuresoft Nigeria, a full service digital agency and IT solutions company, providing a broad range of business solutions for the scaling African enterprise. She also shares her assessment of the digital space in Nigeria and mentions some of the company’s success stories, as well as current projects and her vision for the future of the digital sector and Futuresoft.
Folabi Esan gives an overview of Adlevo Capital, a private equity fund manager founded on the belief that meaningful development in sub-Saharan Africa will be driven by the application of technology to business processes across all sectors. Adlevo makes equity and equity-linked investments in rapidly growing private companies in various stages of development.
“Every month Expedia ranks the top 10 hotels that have been booked via Expedia and we are always in the top 10 and very often in the top 5 and the other hotels are all international hotels which have their brand all over and big companies will only book with them. This shows that what we are doing is hitting the right target.”
Benshore Maritime Services has an ambition to become the number one dredger in West Africa in 2017.
“For over 50 years we have been in the wheat milling business and in that time we have imported wheat from various countries to produce the raw material for various industries. For instance, the flour that we produce from wheat we supply to the bakery industry. We also supply flour to the biscuit industry. We supply flour to the pasta and noodle industries and we supply flour to the confectionary industry which is very important.”
“Sakr is a holding group; our head office is in Lebanon but we are present in more than 13 countries worldwide. We have been in Nigeria for the past 18 years.”
“Fortunately for us we have moved past the challenge of being a small local firm and therefore you won’t succeed. After 23 years we have crossed that bridge and we certainly compete aggressively with even the big firms.”
“The group is quite diversified from various industries; we are opening new factories in different fields such as hospitality, real estate, industry and food beverage and quite a few more sectors that we will be entering as part of Eko Atlantic as well.”
