TOP KWARAN ENTREPRENEUR TAUGHT ENTREPRENEURSHIP TO IDISD SUMMER LESSON STUDENTS

TOP KWARAN ENTREPRENEUR TAUGHT ENTREPRENEURSHIP TO IDISD SUMMER LESSON STUDENTS

“Entrepreneurship is the cornerstone to African development and the key to local value creation” –Tony Elumelu

Mr. Toba Adeyeye giving entrepreneurship talk

If Nigeria will produce great entrepreneurs in future and continue the trend of the present stride in improving Nigeria’s economy, we need to start stepping down entrepreneurship development to young people in secondary and primary schools. We need to diversify educational development programmes to encouraging positive attitude and acquisition of skills, rather than just focusing on academics only.

One of such ways that IDISD (Impact Driven Initiative for Sustainable Development) is innovating educational development is by inviting professionals to impart skills into our summer lesson students and introducing intellectual games into the programme.

It was a great Friday for our students when they got to meet Mr. Toba Adeyeye, founder/CEO of Akot Prints (www.akotprints.com). Mr. Adeyeye is a young kwaran entrepreneur that founded a printing and design company which now employs more than twenty staff. His presentation was mixture of analysis, practical examples and, questions and answers time.

Mr. Adeyeye counseled the students that they had the capability to achieve whatever they wanted to achieve in life, most especially owning a big company. All they needed to do was to harness their skills, not being lazy and facing their studies. He cited examples of how person like Saidat Fatima became a popular singer by harnessing her innate skills. He explained that entrepreneurship has many benefits like the opportunity to create good lives for others by employing them, being able to decide your own life and making money in a legal way.

During the questions and answers section, Mr. Adeyeye had to answer questions of how he started his entrepreneurship career and if he ever dreamt of becoming an entrepreneur. Responding to the questions, explained that he had been exhibiting entrepreneurial skills right from childhood where he used to charge commission from customers for delivering drugs from his mom’s shop to them. He explained that it was his decision to tap into that type of opportunity which earned him the nickname of Doctor then, without his mom knowing the secret behind the nickname. His present entrepreneurship journey, as he explained to the students started during his university days. He said, “ It started from my university days. I studied computer science but I was doing many hustling by buying and selling, doing computer related business services, printing jobs, and so on. All I had to do was to convince my friends to patronize me and so I began making money. Later on, I streamlined my activities and focused mainly on printing.”

The entrepreneurship talk ended with giving of gifts to the students who responded well to Mr. Adeyeye’s question and his promise to support the programme in order to support the development of the young people.

Mr. Adeyeye with the students 

As at the period of writing this post, Mr. Adeyeye has decided to sponsor Scrabble Competition among the students with the aim of expanding it in future. This means, the birth of ‘Toba Adeyeye Scrabble Competition’ which will be conducted by IDISD.

Written by Olanrewaju Rabiu Hanafi

Edited by Oladele Salaudeen Hanafi