MrMaestro:
Ogun is clearly the industrial hub of nigeria.

okway:
Laudate, do you by any chance have a list of some industries in Ogun state?

okway:
Laudate, do you by any chance have a list of some industries in Ogun state?

Ihatepork:
Ayodele Aderinwale - Justrite stores

Adeshina Adeola - Addide stores

laudate:

Justrite has been profiled on page 272 of this thread, but I don't think Addide stores has been featured, yet.

Muhtar Bakare attended a free public school, but, based on his performance in the entrance examinations, was later admitted to the prestigious King's College, where, he says, the fees were remarkably cheap. "Everything I've been able to achieve has been due to the largesse of Nigeria," he reflects, referring to the free education he benefited from but which, today, no longer exists.

At 16, Bakare entered the University of Lagos to study chemical engineering. A year later, he switched to architecture, at the then University of Ife (where Wole Soyinka was teaching), partly because the lecturers had a reputation for being progressive.

In 1982, he won a prize in a children's short story competition organised by Longman Nigeria. This publisher released his book in its Leopard Series, a range of children's titles that still exists in the market today. http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/my-nigeria/2015/09/muhtar-bakare-nigeria-revolutionary-capitalist-150921095020723.html

MrMaestro:
Ogun is clearly the industrial hub of nigeria.

olril17:


Ogun state is so overrated,its becoming incredible...

despite its enormous potential,companies and industries,its comfortably and by a long distance the worst state in south west.

go to.
ifo
sangoota
papa
ijoko
ofada
sagamu
ota
ofada
mowe and ibafo....

Ogun state is overrated.

okway:
SIMILARITIES OF THE TOP STARTUP FOUNDERS IN NIGERIA LISTED ABOVE

Did you notice that they are all males? It seems like Nigerian ladies are not venturing into technology at all, that needs to change.
They are all young people.
All of them have Bachelor Degrees.
Six out of eleven of them have Master’s degrees (MBA inclusive).
Four of them have MBA’s.
All of them have worked at firms at one point in time.
Most of them are Co-Founders which means they teamed up with other likeminded people to achieve their goal.
Majority of them have been educated (Bachelor’s degree, Master’s degree, Certificate Courses) in developed countries – USA, UK, Germany.
Many of them – Jason, Tunde, Ayodeji and Gbolahan did not read technology related courses.
All of them are Southerners – Does it mean Northerners are not technologically inclined?


@jeetkundo Check the bolded

olril17:


Ogun state is so overrated,its becoming incredible...

despite its enormous potential,companies and industries,its comfortably and by a long distance the worst state in south west.

go to.
ifo
sangoota
papa
ijoko
ofada
sagamu
ota
ofada
mowe and ibafo....

Ogun state is overrated.

JeetKuneDo:


Well. That list is old. A lot of things have changed. You could argue that the men owned the bigger startups but there were many startups out there at that time owned by females

The idea that Nigerian ladies aren't venturing into technology is false. The writer didn't do his research well. Fashpa, DIYLaw, Dressmeoutlet, Flying doctors, Lifebank, are all owned by females. Yorùbá too. Infact, Lifebank just raised $200,000 2 days ago. Ire, Moyin, Bukola, Omolara are some of the most brilliant Devs in the country and Africa possibly. One of the co-founders at Piggybank is female. Odun Eweniyi. The list is long.

If you go to Andela, you'd find plenty females there. And there are some Devs like Moyin that have programs catered for females interested in programming

JeetKuneDo:


But the poster wasn't talking about infrastructure, he was talking about industrialization. Ogun is the most industrialized state in Nigeria.

Those places you mentioned despite being industrialized are fuc.ked up in terms of infrastructure tho.

okway:


The guy probably didn't do his research. And it was written recently too.

Glad to see Yoruba women representing where it matters.

JeetKuneDo:


The list is old. It was written in 2016.

Yoruba women are the most represented in tech. I mean, you can tell who is more productive when you see the people going back and forth with men to do afonja and Igbo.

Not like I was expecting anything else from wo(men) with beards and yam legs anyway

okway:


We need Ogun state to increase its budget for infrastructure so that more industries will come and those already here will stay.

How can we keep what we have?

JeetKuneDo:


You can only budget based on how much you think you can make. As the state's revenue increases, then the budget will also increase.

Also, the state will continue to get more industries as long as Lagos remains Lagos. As long as tax remains lesser than it is in Lagos. They are making more than they are losing so they won't leave anytime soon regardless of how bad infrastructure is

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