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OUR PAST WEBINARS

Investable Agribusiness

Join us for a deep conversation on how to position your agribusiness to attract third party investment. Investable companies don’t occur by accident. There are things to do, learn, and practice from the get go. 

Agribusiness Entrepreneurship Webinar Series. Topic: Profitable Agribusiness

The Agribusiness Entrepreneurship Webinar Series is brought about through collaboration between Washington State University, Osun State University, and Farmwella Social Purpose Corporation.
Members of panel for this webinar include Ibrahim Maigari Ahmadu of Livestock247.com, Juliet Ndianekwu of Elrad Enterprise, Dr. Cornelius Adewale of Washington State University, and Prof Labode Popoola of Osun State University.

Financing Agribusiness & Small Farms

Join us for a deep conversation on how to finance agribusiness and small farms.
How do you build credit worthiness? How do you go about accessing loans, grants, and different forms of financing options available to any individual that wants to engage in agribusiness? There are things to learn, do, and practice from the get go. With this webinar, you are in for a treat on details of  options available to finance your farms or any other form of agribusiness.

Financing Small Farms and Agribusiness Webinar Audio

Click on the link below to listen to the audio recording of the webinar.

Members of the Panel

Olajide Abiola

CEO, KIAKIA and GIDANKA

Olajide has a certiticate of Army Education and Map reading, and.holds a B.Sc in Computer Science from the University of Ilorin. A veteran of the Nigerian Army. He has 12 years post~graduate professional experience cutting across technology, legislation, business administration and finance. Before co~founding and leading KiaKia, one of Nigeria’s pioneer fintechs and Gidanka, a travel company, he was the pioneer Regional Manager for ConSol, Nigeria’s leading Business Process Outsourcing company for Abuja and Northern Region. Olajide has consulted on technology implementation projects for a vast number of marque clients across industries.

Daniel Adeniyi

Co-Founder, Gidicakes

Daniel is the CEO of One Hub Company and the co-Founder of Gidicakes. He is also the Founder of Bloomr Hub (A Business Narrative Hub). He facilitates training’s for small and medium scale businesses that want to improve their mindset to achieve excellence and more profound result.
Daniel is a graduate of Psychology from Covenant University. He’s the former Assistant National Sales and Business Development Manager to one of Nigeria largest FMCG – Rite Foods Limited.
Daniel as served as consultant to various business institutions in Nigeria teaching and training employees on his customized Sale to Sales Training Equation called The Ultimate Sales Quadrant.

Aisha Raheem

Founder, Farmz2u

Aisha Raheem is the founder of Farmz2U an agritech enterprise based in Nigeria and serving Sub-Saharan African markets.
A British-Nigerian national, Aisha moved back to the continent to address the challenges of food sustainability.
Under her leadership Farmz2U has received recognition as a leading startup like; a £5,000 grant from ShellLivewire in 2016 and recognition as a leading female entrepreneur by the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2019. She was Nigeria’s 2019 World Summit Awards National Nominee and is a participating enterprise on the United Nations Development Program’s project on Innovation in Sustainable Agriculture, Cultiv@te.

Dr. Apeh Omede

CEO, GreenRise Hub

Dr Apeh is the CEO and Co-Founder of The GreenRise Innovation Hub, an accelerator and incubator that is specifically focused on empowering agri-foodtech startups and entrepreneurs across Nigeria. He is also a Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Program Fellow.
Dr Apeh Omede is also a Marie Curie Fellow under the Research Leaders 2025 Project at Teagasc – Irish Agriculture and Food Development Department. His current research (Milkobiome) is looking at the influence of porcine milk bioactive fractions and microbiota on gut health and immune development in pigs. 
Dr Apeh is passionate about agri-foodtech and entrepreneurship. He spends his free time mentoring agri-foodtech startups and entrepreneurs.

Testimonials From Past Webinars

"Very timely webinar with an excellent balance of information, practice and interaction. I take away knowledge I can apply in my agribusiness endeavors. This is very inspiring. I won't miss any subsequent webinar. My special appreciation to Dr. Cornelius Adewale for putting this together "
Opeyemi Ibrahim
Graduate Student, Bayero University
"I have seen a need to internship, change perspective about learning in the Agricultural sector. The value of Agricultural finance and insurance has become vivid to me and has changed a lot within about 2 hours for me. Thank you Dr. Cornelius and the rest of the team, I look forward to more times like this!
Dorcas Awojobi
Student, University of Ibadan
“My first takeaway is the power of knowledge. Why it is important to consider internship and the need to go after knowledge and experience first. Also, I now know more about agricultural insurance and the role it plays in making my agribusiness investable. Thanks to the organizer.”
Racheal Bamigbade
Student, University of Ibadan
"The webinar was quite explicit and eye-opening. Learning from the wealth of experience of people already in the business was just the best. Now I know the basic steps and things to put in place to make my agribusiness investable. I won't miss subsequent webinar for a thing. Thumbs up for the organizers!"
Damilola Oladele
Agricultural Journalist