Tekedia Institute rejoices with all the women accepted into DOCTOR MUHAMMAD BALOGUN FOUNDATION to spend 8 weeks in our Institute. DMB Foundation through its annual Women Enterprise Program supports small businesses to scale their missions. Recently, it selected Tekedia Institute as its training and development support partner. We thank Dr. MKO Balogun for the opportunity to serve these amazing women innovators through the advancement of entrepreneurial capitalism. Thank you.
Welcome Vincent Adeoba and the Transtura team to Tekedia Capital. I must note that your story was moving: “I never met my dad. I lost my mum at age 4. I lost my grandma at age 5. I hawked bread at age 6. I started primary school at age 7. I ran away from home at age 7…”, you had shared on LinkedIn – and then you also added that you attended Obafemi Awolowo University, read management and accounting, and went to work for one the best – PwC.
Transtura is a public transportation management company that provides comfortable, convenient, reliable, safe, and affordable on demand bus ride sharing service. Our smart ride hailing service enables people to commute within their cities at the cheapest price using our tech-driven solutions.
I used to be a teacher who could only write articles with limited financial means to support young people who I see can change communities. In the past, I could have just said “good luck” when you reached out. But thank gracious heavens, we can offer good luck and provide capital now.
Just reading your note today, I want to congratulate you as you move from PwC to lead Transtura.
The future has promises and I am very confident that Transtura will thrive. Many young people have passed this path and today, they are changing communities and advancing the world. Yes, out of Lagos to Canada, United States and beyond. Nations rise when pioneering entrepreneurs emerge: you will serve your world.
Welcome to Tekedia Capital https://lnkd.in/evnUEs3 and let’s advance Africa together.
Feel free to throw the verbal flames. Yes, why should this village boy from Nigeria be discussing what is happening in the UK. I have to because it is a free world. When the UK voted for BREXIT, they voted for “freedom”. Yes, that guy is coming for my lunch. But interestingly, that guy coming for your lunch may be the one making sure you have breakfast and dinner.
Today, there is a massive shortage of truck drivers in the UK. Magically, instead of converting doctors, engineers, politicians, etc to truck drivers, the UK wants to issue emergency visas to get “foreign truck drivers” – a rare group of people the UK cannot produce in days!
Of course, they will get the drivers because people need wages. But over time, the world will begin to understand one thing: those who are castigated as being “useless” are actually the people driving the world. Like during the peak of covid-19, I saw garbage collectors at work, when everyone was even afraid to open his or her windows.
The greatest shame in this world is associating prestige or influence to where we work or what we do to earn a living. If that is not the case, the UK would not have frozen truckers only to be begging them to return!
The UK government is poised to temporarily ease visa rules to attract more foreign lorry drivers, reports said Saturday, as it grapples with a growing shortage that has now hit fuel supplies.
The lack of tanker drivers has led to huge queues at petrol stations in recent days, as people ignore government pleas not to panic-buy fuel after some garages closed due to the lack of deliveries.
Up to 5,000 temporary visas could be issued under the short-term scheme, according to media reports, amid an estimated shortfall of around 100,000 heavy goods vehicle (HGV) drivers.
Of course you may ask if Nigerians drivers will begin an exodus to the UK just as our doctors are relocating to the UK. Who knows, provided the UK will honour their trucking licenses issued by the Nigerian government. And if that is the case, another Sheraton Hotel recruitment will happen, but this time for truckers and not doctors.
“The biggest victory in life is victory over your time. If you master your time, you will win your future. Greatness has been achieved not because of special talent but rather via total dedication, perseverance and commitment through the mastering of time. A man who cannot manage his seconds will wander through the boundless of time.” Ndubuisi Ekekwe
Learn how to do it: using 5 minutes to plan your day will help you save (or improve productivity by more than) 3 hours in a day. But having the discipline for those special 5 minutes is where outperformance comes. It is like a brilliant student in an exam: you first scan the questions, and then decide within yourself how to allocate time.
What is tomorrow going to look like? Take 5 minutes to think what it would look like before you sleep or if you prefer, in the early hours of tomorrow, plan it. Remember: write the important tasks of the day down, and as the day flies, adjust if necessary.
Enjoy your time.
Good People, we are finalizing a major product and a portfolio company team wants to speak with those who manage cement and/or broad building materials distributorships in Nigeria. In other words, if you sell cement or building materials, we want to speak with you. We want to make your sector better, but we need to understand your frictions beyond what we have gathered.
Please you can also ask your friends, partners, associates, uncles, sisters, etc in this space to reach out. I will surely appreciate it the way teachers do: lol.
Simply, email here and we will be in touch.