I am passionate about empowering African youth & communities in fighting poverty and economic hardship in Nigeria & African continent through Knowledge, skill sharing and capacity development mechanisms as tools for improving Africa’s human capital development. According to the Goal Keeper report, by 2050, 86 percent of the world’s extreme poor will live in sub-Saharan Africa, with more than 40 percent living in just two countries: Democratic Republic of the Congo and Nigeria. It has however become more important that Africa chart a new course for development by investing in its young and fast growing population.
As a young leader passionate about development of Africa, I am motivated by the saying of Tony Elumelu that “the solution to Africa’s problems lays in the innovative, transformative and disruptive hands of Africans”.
As part of my contribution in promoting entrepreneurship among young entrepreneurs over the past five years, I volunteered my experience, time and resources in working with undergraduates, graduates and budding/ enthusiastic entrepreneurs in empowering them with skill and developing work, business and technical capacity through knowledge, skill sharing and volunteering most especially in the areas of setting up and running small businesses; and skill acquisition.
I am interested in creating a platform for providing necessary support for societal growth in Nigeria and the world at large.
Startups
Hub67 – Co-Founder
Bolaji and Tojola Bolaji are co-founders HUB67: (https://www.hub67.com); a for profit social enterprise dedicated to promoting economic prosperity through entrepreneurship and capacity building among underserved and marginalized groups in the underprivileged community of Ibadan, Nigeria. we offers innovation & collaboration spaces for creative, tech innovation and business entrepreneurs providing them with needed support (ideation, documentation, etc, resources (internet, access to funding) and more.
Wawooh - In 2018, Bolaji lead the team Wawooh (https://new.wawooh.com/) in creating and launching what is gradually becoming Africa’s largest fashions designers’ platform; with the vision of promoting trade & investment opportunities for African Fashion designers globally.
Bolaji continues to lead and contribute to the development of the African start up and entrepreneurship community; some of the many startups with which he is engaged include …
SkillNG – (EduTech) a private skill tutoring platform that makes it possible for young Africans to learn most in-demand global skills by connecting them to professional skill tutors and critical learning materials through a peer-to-peer learning network while positioning them to be accessed by businesses and startups in Africa.
F&K Savings – (FinTech) – A digital Savings, loan & Investment platform that helps people (youths most especially) to imbibe the much needed habit for savings and investment; helping youths prepare adequately for their future through strict savings and diligent investment
CedarCliff Services: An information technology services provider with years of experience in the building, innovating, creating and coding solutions to everyday challenges. Cedarcliff services aim to satisfy the needs of SMEs by providing simple solutions and services that solve very complex challenges.
PROJECT & VOLUNTEERING
ZMCorps
In 2017, Bolaji created a network of corps member in Zamfara state with the purpose of supporting several youth and community development initiatives; lead a team of young graduated to volunteer their time, skills and resources in educating, empowering the indigenes of the state. He used the then platform to mobilize community action for community development.
Strong Girl Network
He is volunteer and strong supporter of the Strong Girl Development Foundation on SUGAR DADDY AWARENESS PROJECT with a vision to ensuring that every young girl may realize her full potential by empowering her with tech & life skills, information and more.
