A 21 year old lady, Modinat Idowu Onabanjo from Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, is a budding entrepreneur, who believes that, \u201ctruly, Nigeria is a big market, but with a proviso,\u201d asserting that, \u201cas big as it is as a market, it isn\u2019t for everybody but only for hardworking people with sellable ideas.\u201d \u00a0<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n
In an encounter with our correspondent in Lagos weekend, the cheerful, humble and ever smiling pretty upcoming business tycoon told her story.<\/span><\/p>\n Briefly, what are you called?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n I am Miss Onabanjo, Madinat Idowu. I am from Ijebu-Ode in Ijebu Ode local Government of Ogun State, south-west, Nigeria. I am 21 years old. I am single and not in a hurry to dabble into marriage yet.<\/p>\n Is there any other thing more to your introduction?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Yes Sir. I’m a budding entrepreneur. I believe success comes only after hard work. Currently, I’m an undergraduate student of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (UNAAB), capital city of Ogun State. I am studying Plant Biochemistry and Crop Production.<\/span><\/p>\n Why did you choose that as a course of study?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n I chose that discipline because it tallies with my career goal. My ambition in life is to become a force to reckon with in food processing business in Nigeria and Africa as a whole.<\/span><\/p>\n What are the hobbies you have chosen as vocation to make money as a student?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n At present, I process and sell packaged local foods like Powdered Pap (Ogi) Dates Powder (Dabinu), Iru Powder (Locust Beans), Palm Oil (Epo Pupa), Ofada rice and more to come in future.<\/span><\/p>\n My brand’s name is MIDEY FOODS.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n I am also into\u00a0 buying and selling of women fashion wares such as fancy hijab, abaya, ear rings, wrist watches, turbans and jelilbab ( Islamic women outer garment).<\/p>\n What motivated you into dabbling into all the vocations you have mentioned?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n During my JSS3 days in DE EXPERT PRIVATE COLLEGE we had an excursion to PARDEE FOOD NIG LIMITED the makers of PARLEE G, the CEO, a white man, explained to us how to process food, value addition and earn more while doing so\/ He also encouraged us to look into the food industry in the nearest future. I developed keen interest in\u00a0his speech and it motivated me to become a FOOD TECHNOLOGIST and also own a FOOD PROCESSING company to my name.<\/span><\/p>\n His speech motivated me to think out\u00a0of the box and\u00a0 try to solve one of the challenges being faced by Nigerian food processors<\/span><\/p>\n How profitable is the venture?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Not too bad, you know half a loaf is far better than none at all. I am paying some bills and moving around comfortably. It gets me gainfully engaged during my free periods.<\/span><\/p>\n When are we to expect the wedding bell to toll?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Marriage comes naturally in human’s life. So, when Almighty Allah says it’s time, I will announce it and also invite you. (Giggles).<\/span><\/p>\n Can we know the type of man you would love to have in your life?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n Do you mean type of man of my dream? Okay, I prefer a conscious Muslim, an innovative business partner, goal oriented, domestic in nature and also God fearing.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A 21 year old lady, Modinat Idowu Onabanjo from Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, is a budding entrepreneur, who believes that, \u201ctruly, Nigeria is a big market, but with a proviso,\u201d asserting that, \u201cas big as it is as a market, it isn\u2019t for everybody but only for hardworking people with sellable ideas.\u201d \u00a0 In an encounter […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8683,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5070,5072,5071,92],"class_list":["post-8682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interviews","tag-big-market","tag-budding-entrepreneur","tag-hard-workers","tag-nigeria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8682"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8684,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8682\/revisions\/8684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}