Ibebe:


Understably that I may have broken rule #2 on another thread with my IlekeHD ID, but banning other IDs and another ID that I wasn't even using? lmaooo Pathetic. It's not even that serious......this is online for goodness sake. Sketchy azz mofos.

When will you be ready?

Aareonakakanfo:


I don't know.I will just randomly reveal it.

Ibebe:

[size=15pt]Ifon ceramic industry’ll provide 1, 500 jobs, says Ondo govt[/size]



The Ondo State Government has said that the Golden Ceramic Products Company, located in Ifon, Ose Local Government Areas of the state, which is being resuscitated, would provide about 1,500 jobs for the unemployed.

The Secretary to the State Government, Mr. Rotimi Adelola, said this, at the weekend, in Akure, while signing the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), on behalf of the government in collaboration with the Jac-Estee Nigeria Limited.

Adelola disclosed that the 24- year-old, moribund Golden Ceramic Products Limited, would boost income generation for the people and the state as a whole.

He explained that development was part of efforts by the state government to prioritise industrialization, which was included in the “Caring Heart” mantra of the Mimiko government.

“It will aid genuine development of the state economy, and so a need to rejuvenate the industry, which has proved a hard nut to crack for previous administrations”, Adelola said.

Ibebe:
Segun's website is awesome...but I'm a bit iffy about the eurocentric characters. I don't see european/asian game designers designing for afrocentric audiences. shit it took us years to get apple to diversify their emoticons or wii u to diversify its avator selection.

Can we please represent ourselves?

ShymmeXS:


Who're the masses?

The folks who ought to be the masses are the ones scrounging for crumbs everywhere and the useful idiots who think flowery words and window-dressing is leadership.

Both the leaders and followers in Nigeria are utter failures. You can't even separate the two.

Aareonakakanfo:



Well...He's just following the trend.Don't forget gamsole is trying to go global.They don't make games for the African audience alone so he has no choice.He probably has fears Afrocentric characters won't be accepted.I think I once told you about a friend of mine who wanted to go the Okupe way but had fears it was going to flop

OPCNAIRALAND:
Hmm, a ki gbogbo gbo, a ku kale, a ku laakaye. Mo k'ile, mo k'ode, mo fi owo fun agba, mo ju ba o! Mo ki omode, mo ki odo. Mo ki abo, mo ki ako. Oodua a ye wa si, a segun fun wa!

I have not been around nairaland for some weeks. This is something else! Plenty to read, learn and comment on. Too many thoughts in my head, im lost, where do i start to comment?

God bless the OP, Aareonakakanfo and all the respondents and commentators. Ise yi o ni ja s'asan lagbara Edumare.

At a certain point I gave up trying to catch up, too many ideas and thought provoking inputs. I think Im better off staying on sideline observing, i will just flow with you all going forward, i wll never catchup on past submissions.

Bigger blessings to you my brother.The thread moves very fast and one has to be consistent in order to avoid missing out on anything.I know you've commented on this thread before but with another ID. Ejo e ran mi leti

OPCNAIRALAND:
Hmm, a ki gbogbo gbo, a ku kale, a ku laakaye. Mo k'ile, mo k'ode, mo fi owo fun agba, mo ju ba o! Mo ki omode, mo ki odo. Mo ki abo, mo ki ako. Oodua a ye wa si, a segun fun wa!

I have not been around nairaland for some weeks. This is something else! Plenty to read, learn and comment on. Too many thoughts in my head, im lost, where do i start to comment?

God bless the OP, Aareonakakanfo and all the respondents and commentators. Ise yi o ni ja s'asan lagbara Edumare.

At a certain point I gave up trying to catch up, too many ideas and thought provoking inputs. I think Im better off staying on sideline observing, i will just flow with you all going forward, i wll never catchup on past submissions.

[size=15pt]FEMI AKINDE – FOUNDER AND CEO SLIMTRADER[/size]



Femi Akinde, is the founder and CEO of SlimTrader, a company which is focusing on mobile payment technologies, mobile storefronts empowering consumers, and widening the reach of businesses in Africa.

SlimTrader, (founded in 2009), provides an e-commerce marketplace that enables brands and customers to conveniently and efficiently transact through text messages, no Internet access required is required.

SlimTrader continues to grow, and it provides services in West Africa, South Africa and East Africa.

The event that led to Akinde founding SlimTrader happened when he was travelling in Nigeria and had to purchase an airline ticket. He was in an area that did not have Internet access, the transaction took a day to close, because he could not do it online or on phone.

Prior to founding SlimTrader, Akinde had held a number of positions at Microsoft and T-Mobile.

Femi Akinde is an alumnus of the University of Chicago where he earned his MBA, and was named to the the TEDGlobal Fellows class of 2011.

The company recently raised $1 million from Interswitch’s ePayment Growth Fund. At its core, SlimTrader provides the eCommerce infrastructure for businesses – airlines, hotels SMEs among others – with an online presence

SlimTrader continues to grow, and it provides services in West Africa, South Africa and East Africa.

Aareonakakanfo:





Speaking of Gamsole,I have a friend who works there.Extremely talented guy.Check out his works.

https://www.artstation.com/artist/segunsamson

http://segunsamson..ca/

Olaniran probably has the best team among all those game guys.I also know a guy whom I used to teach when I was in Artarmartra.Extremely talented guy.He also works with gamsole but I can't find his works online

Ibebe:


Hey dude.... welcome back!

Start anywhere jor. Don't sideline yourself because we need strong voices like yours. Eyin le moh ibere ati ipinle ile Yoruba....eyin na le ma bawa so.

Glad to see this handle again.

OPCNAIRALAND:


It is proper that my first observation should come to the owner of this thread. I hope you don't mind.

I have not visited Segun Samson's , my review of his artfolio found what i needed to know. Very nice artworks and quite trendy but lacking originality and culture.

Skye Bank Plc has unveiled an online store for the sale of mainly made-in-Nigeria products and services.

The new online store, called YesMall, offers a unique experience for the bank’s current and prospective SME and retail customers who can buy and sell their products and services from the comfort of their homes by using electronic devices such as phones, tablet, laptop, or desktop. They can also do their transactions by using ATM machines nearest to them.

Speaking during the unveiling of the new online mall in Lagos at the 8th Skye Bank SME seminar series, the group managing director/chief executive officer of Skye Bank Plc, Mr Timothy Oguntayo, said that the bank came up with the platform after noticing that some SME operators find it difficult to sell their goods as most of the finished goods end up as items of inventory in the warehouses. Noting that e-commerce had gained recognition in both national and global trade, Oguntayo said that the bank planned to facilitate the participation of Nigerian SME operators in the global e-commerce sales which is currently estimated at $1.5 trillion.

In addition, he explained that the potential worth of e-commerce in Nigeria, put at an estimated $10 billion per annum, offers a huge opportunity for discerning businesses to explore and tap into to grow their market share.

“Available statistics show that the e-commerce sector in Nigeria currently boasts of about 300,000 online orders daily. Our desire at Skye Bank is to substantially grow these figures and make e-commerce the new trade highway in Nigeria,” he said.

OPCNAIRALAND:


It is proper that my first observation should come to the owner of this thread. I hope you don't mind.

I have not visited Segun Samson's , my review of his artfolio found what i needed to know. Very nice artworks and quite trendy but lacking originality and culture.

Looool I don't mind but I'd have preferred you dropping some salutations to my comrades first.They're more crucial than me.

They're like my spine .Yeah I'd have preffered samson doing something more Afrocentric but like I said,he's only doing what his boss wants him to do

Aareonakakanfo:


Bigger blessings to you my brother.The thread moves very fast and one has to be consistent in order to avoid missing out on anything.I know you've commented on this thread before but with another ID. Ejo e ran mi leti

Aareonakakanfo:



Looool I don't mind but I'd have preferred you dropping some salutations to my comrades first.They're more crucial than me.

They're like my spine .Yeah I'd have preffered samson doing something more Afrocentric but like I said, he's only doing what his boss wants him to do

has added another e-payment gateway solution for its customers with its recent launch of its Virtual Prepaid MasterCard. The card which is issued instantly via Internet Banking, provides an added comfort for security conscious online shoppers who prefer not to use their regular debit/credit cards when making online payments.

The GTBank Virtual card has all the essential features of a physical card and can be used to make both international and local online payments. It also serves as a fall back option for customers who have forgotten or lost their card, but need to perform urgent online purchases. The introduction of the virtual card has bridged the gap between traditional e-wallets and bank accounts by providing a low cost alternative to physical debit cards. Customers also have the option of converting the virtual card to a physical card.

Segun Agbaje
Commenting on the launch, Segun Agbaje, Managing Director / Chief Executive Officer of GTBank said: “This marks another milestone in our quest to make banking more seamless for our customers. As a bank, we remain firm on our objective to deliver value adding services that are tailored to meet the diverse needs of our ever-growing customer base by leveraging technology to make banking more convenient for all our customers.”

He further stated that “the launch of this product attests to our commitment towards encouraging a cashless culture in our country by promoting the use of alternative payment channels for transacting both locally and internationally. Our desire to be at the frontier of banking excellence enables us to pioneer innovative products aimed at making banking more simple and attractive to the unbanked and unserved.”

Guaranty Trust Bank plc is one of the biggest issuers of payment cards in Nigeria. In Partnership with Mastercard, the bank has rolled out all variants of GTBank Mastercards in all countries where it has business presence and continues to offer rewards and priceless experiences to its cardholders. One of such promos will include the POS Cash Back Promo; a loyalty reward scheme where customers can earn cash for paying for products and services on POS terminals using their MasterCards. The Bank also rewards Card Holders with shopping and movie vouchers. POS merchants are also rewarded with several incentives to encourage patronage of the bank’s POS terminals.

WARACAKE’S AMBITION TO BE THE “AMAZON OF CAKES” IN NIGERIA



Tunde Ayilara is the founder of Waracake. Alongside 3 other co-founders, he is making “cake” business happen with ease in the Nigerian eCommerce scene. “We saw the opportunity in the space, and it was also based on a personal experience,” says Ayilara.

He sure has eyes that identify an opportunity at the quickest uptake.



Waracake is an offshoot of a business run during university days at OAU around 2012, which has overtime pivoted into what it is today. The word “Waracake” is a fusion of the Yoruba language expression “Wara”, meaning “come and buy” and “cake”.
Waracake is a two-sided cake marketplace for retailers and consumers. For the retailers’ part, most of whom are women that lack the tech savviness to bring their business online, Waracake provides the much needed tech support to push their cake to the market and as such, helps them earn more income.



The model, which has been run for a little over a year, is not just only making its clients (customers and cake merchants) satisfied, but also generating some significant amount of income to sustain itself. While a Waracake model appeals the minds of the customers by offering the comfort of ordering cakes online from within the confines of their homes and also ensuring prompt home deliveries, it ensures the retailers (Cake vendors) on the other hand find their satisfaction in a ready market for their cakes, a loosened competitive pressure (since it has a handful of retailers signed under its platform) and a zero cost of creating awareness for their product — with it’s only pressure bordering around constantly meeting up with quality cake production.

The platform offers the flexibility of customers’ order/selection of cakes from its inventory, and also allow customers to be able to give specifications, rather than limiting the mode of operation to one particular aspect.

“We are in the right direction”, says Ayilara, “we are basically learning everyday, and we’ve been able to learn ways by which we can tweak our model to improve our performance”

Prospects

Waracake is on a mission to becoming the “Amazon of Cakes” in Nigeria, and wouldn’t stop delivering delicious baskets. It’s customers patronage, which spreads across the borders of the country is a testament of its desire of excluding no one from having a fair share of its attractive package. According to Ayilara, Waracake sees every customer as a potential customer.

Ayilara tells us they even handle deliverys from Nigerians in diaspora; from countries like UK, USA, Switzerland etc.

“We get a lot of orders from Nigerians in diaspora. We get a lot of online orders from those people more compared to people who actually stay in Nigeria”

Waracake is indeed out there to provide cake solutions that have never been experienced. It would be having it’s next cake fair in Lagos and Abuja in early 2016.

All said and done, thank you Tunde Ayilara for reminding everyone out there that it’s a man’s world afterall. And what a woman can do, a man can do better.

Aareonakakanfo:
Ibebe but OLX is not Yoruba-owned na. OPCNairaland does it mean your posts on this thread were deleted?

Aareonakakanfo:
Ibebe but OLX is not Yoruba-owned na. OPCNairaland does it mean your posts on this thread were deleted?

Aareonakakanfo:
Lets celebrate another Odua Son doing big things.Inspired!

OPCNAIRALAND:


I dont know but i had my own thread series in which I strongly posited that the credit of entrepreneurship wit. Ibo people is grossly misplaced. I had about three or four opened and they kept deleting them. At long last they banned me.

You know they hate to hear the truth.I see Anti-Yoruba threads all the time in this same section and they don't get deleted.Anyways we want to try as much as possible not to talk about Ibos on this thread except when its very neccessary.Once again welcome.I dey gbadun your inputs die You're like a Super-sub in a soccer match

A woman of substance, Dr Olufunmilayo Olopade is known both in the diaspora and at home for her numerous accomplishments in the medical field, particularly as an Oncologist. A sector known for its few females, she has simply engraved her name in the heart of medical achievements as not only an expert in cancer risk assessment and treatment for several aggressive types of breast cancer, but has equally proved her worth through the attainment of several awards and honours. Olopade at the height of her career was appointed by the President of the United States, Barack Obama to the National Cancer Advisory Board.

This remarkable woman was born in 1957 in Nigeria. Daughter of an Anglican Minister, Dr Olopade is the fifth born of her parents out of six children. Seeing as doctors where scarce in the Nigerian villages where she was raised, her parents decided to train one of their children to become a doctor. Dr Olopade had been the first to show interest in the practice, which encouraged her parents.

Dr Olopade attended the Medical School at University of Ibadan, where she graduated with an MD in 1980. She was a Medical officer at the Nigerian Navy Hospital in Lagos for her National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) programme, before going abroad for internship, serving as a medicine intern at Cook County Hospital, Chicago Illinois from 1983 to 1984. She equally became an internal medicine resident at Cook County Hospital from 1984 to 1986. Again Dr Olopade became chief resident at same hospital from 1986 to 1987, she received a post-doctoral fellow in hematology/oncology, at the University of Chicago, from 1987 to 1991 and was assistant professor of hematology/oncology at Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago, from 1991 to 2002.

Progressively, Dr Olopade realised becoming a director at the Cancer Risk Clinic at the University of Chicago Hospitals in 1992, and an associate professor of medicine, University of Chicago in 2002. She did not stop there, but also became professor of medicine and human genetics, University of Chicago, in the early 2000s.

The Cancer Risk Clinic has demonstrated expertise in treating high-risk cancer patients and also conducts studies on the disease, focusing on genetics. It was during her work here that Dr Olopade became conscious that the African-American women she treated for breast cancer seemed much younger than other sufferers of the disease. Going to Nigeria for a niece’s wedding, she noticed same at a breast cancer clinic she visited, most of the breast cancer patients were young in their 20s, 30s and 40s while caucasian women who had the disease where in their 50s or 60s after menopause.

Dr Olopade became intent on researching the reason why this was so and how to come about a preventive. Not resting on her laurels, she worked extensively on clinical work surrounding the role of the mutations in two genes namely, BRCA1 and BRCA2 in the occurrence of breast cancer in women of African descent occurred in patients with early onset breast cancer. This continuing study, which commenced in 2003, has looked at cancer patients in Nigeria and Senegal. Investigative results have produced new, ground-breaking methods to treating breast cancer in this population. Dr Olopade is one of four main investigators involved in the study.

She has developed innovative management procedures centred on an understanding of the altered genes in individual patients and emphasises on comprehensive risk reducing plans and prevention in high-risk populations, as well as previous detection through advanced imaging technologies.

Her memberships include; American Association for Cancer Research, American Board of Internal Medicine, American Association for the Advancement of Science American College of Physicians, American Philosophical Society , American Society for Clinical Investigation, American Society for Preventative Oncology ,American Society of Breast Disease, American Society of Clinical Oncology, American Society of Hematology , Association of American Professors, Human Genome Organisation, Institute of Medicine , National Cancer Advisory Board, Nigerian Medical Association, Women in Cancer Research board, Y-Me National Breast Cancer Organisation

Dr Olopade’s Awards include; Nigerian Federal Government Merit Award, 1975; Nigerian Medical Association Award for Excellence in Paediatrics, 1978; Nigerian Medical Association Award for Excellence in Medicine, 1980; University of Ibadan College of Medicine Faculty Prize, 1980; University of Ibadan College of Medicine departmental prizes in paediatrics, medicine, and surgery, 1980; University of Ibadan Sir Samuel Manuwa Gold Medal for Excellence in the Clinical Sciences, 1980; Association for Brain Tumor Research/Ellen Ruth Lebow Fellowship, 1990; American Society for Clinical Oncology Young Investigator Award, 1991; James S. McDonnell Foundation Scholar Award, 1992; Doris Duke Distinguished Clinical Scientist Award, 2000; Phenomenal Woman Award for work within the African-American community, 2003; Access Community Network’s Heroes in Healthcare Award, 2005; MacArthur Fellow, 2005.

A dynamic doctor, Olopade is happily married to a physician, Christopher Sola Olopade. They have two daughters and a son.

Aareonakakanfo:



You know they hate to hear the truth.I see Anti-Yoruba threads all the time in this same section and they don't get deleted.Anyways we want to try as much as possible not to talk about Ibos on this thread except when its very neccessary.Once again welcome.I dey gbadun your inputs die You're like a Super-sub in a soccer match