laudate:

No mind di small chipmunk. He is only good at providing comic relief. I don't blame him, Iblame the person who bought him that small chinko phone and dashed him free MB. That is what gave him the courage to misyarn on this thread.

okway2:
laudate and deomelo,

We need profiles on these Yoruba startups:

BuyPower
Metro Africa Xpress - MAX
Smart Systems Nigeria
Mobile Forms
UniSmart
Paystack

“For us, the question is – what’s the biggest challenge that online merchants are facing in Africa and what is the most effective way to address it?”

MAX is adopting an interesting model, backed by a powerful technology platform while also leveraging ideas that have worked in other parts of the world – both developing and developed – and combining these with deep local understanding.

The new company on the block is eliminating the bottlenecks in logistics, such as sorting centres, hubs and weights in a bid to bring in efficiency while also accelerating the entire delivery process. Online merchants can now focus on marketing and inventory management while the likes of MAX can handle fulfilment on their behalf. “For MAX, it’s an African vision. We are telling a new African story and building a world-class African company, led by Africans.” says Adetayo. https://techpoint.ng/2015/09/15/max-mission-transform-urban-logistics-across-africa/

Last December Disrupt Africa reported that MAX came in second place at the TechCrunch Startup Battlefield event in London, while it also won a “Top 12 Global Inclusive Growth Idea” from the World Economic Forum (WEF) and the Harvard Center for International Development. It was also the first African team to gain admission into the Techstars startup accelerator programme in New York. http://disrupt-africa.com/2016/09/nigerias-max-acquires-food-delivery-startup-easyappetite/

laudate:

Paystack has already been profiled on this thread. Kindly check page 142 and a few others. I will research the other ones you have mentioned and get back to you.

Deedeedee0:

Potor Biafran boy, you should not be here.
This is a Yoruba thread.
Vamoose!

Deedeedee0:

Potor Biafran boy, you should not be here.
This is a Yoruba thread.
Vamoose!

When it comes to healthcare, Nigeria is faced with a number of challenges.These include everything from lack of adequate internal technology infrastructure and high operational costs to the manual submission and processing of health claims.

Simply put, Health Insurers and Providers don’t have the capacity to manage all of these non-core functions, while still giving their patients the proper care they need.

To address these, we have developed a shared outsourcing infrastructure, to help manage non-core functions such as record keeping, claims processes, administration services and much more. This means that health insurers and care providers, are no longer burdened with these time-consuming tasks, and can focus on keeping their patients healthy instead.

Switch to Smarthealth

Smarthealth is an automated service platform that outsources day-to-day operations and administration easily and efficiently. This intuitive technology also offers biometric identification at hospitals, online submission and processing of claims, capitation payments and other payments such as salaries, vendors, suppliers, taxes and pensions. https://www.interswitchgroup.com/ng/solutions/industry-solution/health-solution

‘Lanre's financial services industry career spanned more than 15 years. He is a Chartered Accountant with experience in Accounting, Internal Controls, Financial Reporting, Venture Capital Funds Management, Strategy and Research. He has extensive financial services experience. Lanre's industry-wide knowledge cuts across Audit, Mortgage Banking and Venture Capital. He was a pioneer member of staff First Fund Limited (a subsidiary of First Bank of Nigeria Plc). He joined PanAfrican Capital (then Spring Capital Markets Limited) in 2007 as head of Small and Medium Enterprise Equity Investment Scheme (SMEEIS) desk with the responsibility to oversee the Legacy Banks of Spring Bank Plc's Investments in the Scheme.

He was subsequently mandated to set up the Company's Research & Strategy Unit in year 2008, with a view to providing investment Research & Advice to the Company's growing Clientèle and shape the strategic policy direction for PanAfrican Capital Group. Until his appointment as the Managing Director/CEO of Factoring & Supply Chain Limited to champion and deepen the development of Receivables/Supply Chain Finance in Nigeria, he was responsible not only for PAC Group's Corporate Strategy & Execution but had oversight functions across Financial Control & I.T. Support departments. Lanre is also an alumnus of Oxford University Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. He has attended several courses in Finance and Strategy locally and abroad.

Alhaji Muneer Bankole serves as Chief Executive Officer, Executive Director of Medview Airline Limited. He has experience in the Aviation Industry having being in the Industry for almost 30 years. He joined Nigeria Airways Limited in 1978, having obtained Diploma certificate in business studies in the United Kingdom. Being a career minded young and dedicated member of staff, he was among the very few selected by the then management of Nigeria Airways for the all-embracing commercial cadet course that ran between 1983-1986. The successful completion of this course heralded a new era of stories of success in his career. His quest for knowledge combined with his strong strive for excellence, motivated him to obtain another Diploma in-Law, Lagos State University (LASU) and B.A Marketing, Institute of Business Administration, Karachi. He was appointed as a Traffic/Ramp & Duty Manager and later as a Marketing Manager of the Airline at Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. He was in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia as a district Manager from year 2000 – till the compulsory liquidation of the airline by the Federal Government of Nigeria in September 2004.

Metropolitan Motors Limited was incorporated in the year 2001 by a group of Nigerians with over 50 years-combined experiences in the Automobile Industry.

Our after Sales Service Center is located at No. 1-3, Akilo Road, Ogba, Lagos.

Our company has demonstrated its competence in the successful execution of major contracts awarded to it both in the public and private sector.

Our Company was appointed by TOYOTA NIGERIA LIMITED as one of the accredited distributors of Toyota brand of vehicles in Nigeria. By this appointment our company does not only maintain the various brands of Toyota vehicles but also execute Warranty Agreement.

With over a decade of quality Sales, After-sales and service experience under our belt, we are renowned for our excellent sales and after-sales service offering. This is no coincidence, but a product of our excellent investment in best-in-class equipments and continous, up-to-date training of our Toyota certified Engineers and Technicians.

Co-founder Tomi Ayorinde, who told Disrupt Africa that Mobile Forms had innovated a new way of collecting data, said the startup would also soon allow for the analysis of data using dashboard reports on the platform.

The aim of the technology is to collect data better including pictures, GPS locations, sketches, audio and video, with the platform working both online and offline.

Mobile Forms initially launched a prototype app in September of last year, and is now live with 200 users, 25 per cent of which converted to the paid model last month. Ayorinde said the startup also has in its pipeline an organisation with 3,600 users, which it hopes to on-board by this year. _{http://disrupt-africa.com/2016/05/nigerias-mobile-forms-is-taking-data-collection-mobile/}

millhouse:
Back then, academics were not known to be wealthy, so how did he acquire the resort’s expansive land?

“In 1980, I won election to be the Provost of the College of Medicine, University of Lagos and the university had trouble with their vice chancellor, [Professor Babatunde] Adadevoh, who was removed; the deputy vice-chancellor was removed, the Registrar was removed by government and six other professors were removed. According to the statute of the University of Lagos, in the absence of the vice chancellor or the deputy vice chancellor, the provost of the College of Medicine is next to govern the university.

“So I was to have three positions; acting Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos; Provost, College of Medicine and Chief Medical Director, Lagos University Teaching Hospital. Now, that would be three jobs for one pay so I told my wife one night, 'iku ti de, death has come' .We must have a retreat or else we will die on these three jobs. In January 1981, I started looking for land. I decided to work very hard from Mondays to Fridays; Saturdays and Sundays were free days to look for the retreat because I made up my mind that I would not die on the three jobs. That was how this place started. We are very happy; what gives us fulfilment is that we can make Nigerians happy. Many people don’t realise that the very essence of governance is to make the people happy.”

Funding the billion naira project, expectedly, was not a piece of cake as he reveals: “We sold our houses in Lagos in order to build this place; we sold our houses and land in Agbara in order to concentrate on this place. I told my wife, there’s no point having too many houses in Lagos or Agbara. Let’s put everything in one place so that we can supervise it. We used to live at Agbara but we sold the house for N24 million because I told her going back to Agbara at night is risky.

I said let’s sell the house, put the money into this place. That’s what we did to survive and of course we had some stocks which we also used to finance this place, but even then the finance was not enough.” _{http://www.tribuneonlineng.com/people-called-crazy-i-started-whispering-palms-prof-pearse/}

“When you don’t have too much money, you can’t have a masterplan. Government can have masterplan but here everything depends on what is in your pocket,” he says still laughing. “Master plan can be developed when you have big capital or maybe you have stolen big government money and you want to do something huge. But when you are doing something for pleasure, it’s a day-by-day event. We thank God that our ideas have come out as if we had a big master plan. We had no master plan; all we wanted was something for the family and ourselves.

Later, we changed and decided to open it up to the people because it was getting more expensive to maintain even that time. But we have no regrets in the sense that we’ve opened it up to people to enjoy themselves. To keep Nigerians happy is our mission and we are happy we have fulfilled that mission.” _{http://www.tribuneonlineng.com/people-called-crazy-i-started-whispering-palms-prof-pearse/}

laudate:


No, you don't want to go down this road. Not here. The Yoruba people too have a lot of their sons and daughters, who have recorded a lot of 'firsts', in their respective fields! Do your own research, before you come in here to blow the trumpet of your people. I will sit on the fence and act as a referee!

Fineman87:
We Igbos like to think we're the most successful people in Nigeria today, but we still have a long way to go when looking at Yoruba businesses in both tech and non-tech sectors. Even before and after the civil war, Yorubas has been advanced more than other tribes, that’s why the other tribe in Nigeria can’t do without the SW.”

What unique features differentiates your MedEnhanz from other players in the space? "I will say that we are unique, and what we do - no other startup does it, in Nigeria. Currently today, most people access CPD through the traditional means, where they have to leave their practices to travel for conferences to do all that, but with our platform, they can easily have that.

We are the only organisation that is recognised by the Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN), to provide Online Continuing Professional Development (CPD) programmes. Doctors can improve themselves, brush up their medical education and get credit for it. I tell you today, we have clients from different states in Nigeria, that come to our platform to access CPD materials irrespective of where they are, some as far as Borno state.

Also, we have a mobile platform where people can get on and ask questions, and the questions will be responded to, by one of our doctors within a couple of minutes, but that has not been well adopted yet." _{http://digitalhealth.com.ng/2017/06/13/founder-interview-medenhanz/}

It is said that the health tech ecosystem in Nigeria is non-existent. Do you believe that this is true? What are your thoughts on this? "I will say 'Yes,' and I will say 'No.' 'No' in the sense that startups like us, are becoming common place in Nigeria, because everybody is trying to put their hands in the space, but we have not been able to recall the level of success that others have been able to recall.

If you look at it from that perspective, you will not see any measurable success, and you can say the ecosystem is non-existent. But look at your platform, the digital health network coming to help boost the ecosystem, if there is nothing in place you won’t be talking to us and our other peers. That means we already have an ecosystem but is the ecosystem at an advanced stage or a mature face then-No. But at an infantry phase then yes we do have an ecosystem, is it thriving yet - 'No.' I must commend digital health because I think your organisation is one of the ones doing an underappreciated job of helping everybody see this ecosystem." http://digitalhealth.com.ng/2017/06/13/founder-interview-medenhanz/

Asehinde Oladipo and his partner Benjamin, met at one of Nigeria’s emerging technology development services companies in Abuja. In the hard-charging startup world that the two men entered, there was little time to remember the minutiae of everyday life — like paying bills on time. “In the midst of our busy schedules we would try to find time to dash down to the electricity company to get electricity for the house,” Benjamin said. Sometimes they wouldn’t make it in time.

“If they are closed you have to stay in darkness till Monday when they open,” said Benjamin. “You have circumstances where people are traveling and they have to come to the utility company and there are long queues.”

Some weekends, the founders said they would see dozens of people milling around outside, waiting for the chance to get to the power company to pay their bills. “It was that frustration that convinced us to do something about it.” The men rallied utilities in Abuja, to start working on the problem. Over the course of 2015, they pitched BuyPower, saying they would handle the cost of rolling out a payment service, all the utilities company had to do was integrate with their software.

That proved to be a challenge in itself. “They had a very antiquated technology,” said the founders. So together, they set about upgrading the back end of the utility company's payments system. “We started doing the cleanup and that was the first layer of the challenge. It took us about half of the year.” By April of 2016, the co-founders had a product. They did a small email blast to their followers and rolled up their first 50 customers by the end of the day. _{https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/16/buypower-aims-to-ease-the-pain-of-utility-payments-in-nigeria/?ncid=rss}

Realizing the importance of on time medical attention, Dr. Afonja laid the groundwork for Dokita247 while Richard Cobbinah a technology savant, respectively, shared the vision to transform the healthcare industry’ and deliver affordable health services to the remotest places.

The two men are highly regarded in their respective fields, a combination that is truly “bridging the gap” between medicine and technology. Being one of the earliest companies to provide telehealth services on a global scale, Dokita247 leverages mobile application services and hosts web-based application services on cloud environment with enhanced security. _{https://www.cioapplications.com/vendor/dokita247-delivering-borderless-patient-care-cid-621-mid-43.html}

Dokita247 provides instant and affordable services to numerous treatable conditions. From allergies to tonsillitis and cramps to migraine, the company helps patients to connect to a network of physicians instantly and seek advice. It creates a platform empowering physicians to work flexibly, expand their reach, and generate revenue without additional overhead costs.

The application also gives an opportunity for those physicians residing and practicing abroad to extend their expertise and serve fellow native men leveraging Dokita247 app. Physicians with multiple licenses can reap more benefits by serving beyond boundaries right from their comfort zone. _{https://www.cioapplications.com/vendor/dokita247-delivering-borderless-patient-care-cid-621-mid-43.html}

Fineman87:
Igbos are the most successful people in Nigeria today, both tech and business, even before and after the civil war, Igbos has been advanced more than other tribes, that’s why the other tribe in Nigeria can’t do without them.”

okway2:
Yorubas don't let these fools divide and rule us along religious lines.

laudate:

'Most successful' and 'more advanced' in your dreams, abi? Keep dreaming! What did that novelist say? "Dreams die first..."

ofai:

see this loser talking

laudate:


The founder of the popular resort, Whispering Palms - a scenic resort in Badagry - is Professor Deji Olufemi Pearse, an 85-year-old retired Professor of Medicine. Witty and quick to poke fun at himself, he is delighted that the objectives of the resort have been realised, especially since people didn’t think he would succeed. Some say he must have got his creative & artistic inclination from his late mother Elsie Femi-Pearse, who was into politics in the 50s. She was a member of the old Action Group, back then. That is why a street was named after her – Elsie Femi-Pearse Street in Victoria-Island, Lagos. Due to her active involvement in politics, people had thought that she would be Chairman of the Lagos City Council, in those days. But she lost, because some of her colleagues in the AG – all male – said 'though Mama was good in social work, hospital work, and that education and social services would improve under her', but she did not know “business.”



“Our vision has been well realised. We are happy that we are making Nigerians happy. This is a beautiful country, but we don’t seem to know it. We are showing Nigerians that it’s a beautiful country. When we came here in 1981, people said the man must be crazy. He’s a professor; he has read too many books, he doesn’t know how to spend money. He’s wasting money in this bush but now they say something different. It’s a matter of mission fulfilled for us.”















From that humble root, Whispering Palms has since become a popular get-away for couples on honeymoon, pre-wedding photo shoots, companies and organisations who appreciate quality. Professor Pearse, whose father was also a medical doctor, laughs heartily when asked if there’s a masterplan for the resort.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mxf5fEIVWXw











[img]https://unravellingnigeria.files./2017/06/whispering-palms-resort-fun-facts.png?w=640[/img]

victorDanladi:

omo yiibo

laudate:


The founder of the popular resort, Whispering Palms - a scenic resort in Badagry - is Professor Deji Olufemi Pearse, an 85-year-old retired Professor of Medicine. Witty and quick to poke fun at himself, he is delighted that the objectives of the resort have been realised, especially since people didn’t think he would succeed. Some say he must have got his creative & artistic inclination from his late mother Elsie Femi-Pearse, who was into politics in the 50s. She was a member of the old Action Group, back then. That is why a street was named after her – Elsie Femi-Pearse Street in Victoria-Island, Lagos. Due to her active involvement in politics, people had thought that she would be Chairman of the Lagos City Council, in those days. But she lost, because some of her colleagues in the AG – all male – said 'though Mama was good in social work, hospital work, and that education and social services would improve under her', but she did not know “business.”



“Our vision has been well realised. We are happy that we are making Nigerians happy. This is a beautiful country, but we don’t seem to know it. We are showing Nigerians that it’s a beautiful country. When we came here in 1981, people said the man must be crazy. He’s a professor; he has read too many books, he doesn’t know how to spend money. He’s wasting money in this bush but now they say something different. It’s a matter of mission fulfilled for us.”















From that humble root, Whispering Palms has since become a popular get-away for couples on honeymoon, pre-wedding photo shoots, companies and organisations who appreciate quality. Professor Pearse, whose father was also a medical doctor, laughs heartily when asked if there’s a masterplan for the resort.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mxf5fEIVWXw











[img]https://unravellingnigeria.files./2017/06/whispering-palms-resort-fun-facts.png?w=640[/img]

ofai:
see this loser talking