2013 TOP 7 YOUNG NIGERIAN ENTREPRENEURS

2013 TOP 7 YOUNG NIGERIAN ENTREPRENEURS

Forbes recently released a list of the top 30 young entrepreneurs in Africa under the age of 30. Interestingly, 7 Nigerian enterprising youths made the exclusive list. They are presented to you in no particular order.

OLUWASEN OSEWA

Founder, Nairaland

Oluwaseun Osewa

is the founder of Nairaland, Africa’s largest online forum. He founded the site in March 2005 as a general purpose discussion forum with a bias towards issues of interest to Nigerians. The site took off. Nairaland now has close to 1 million registered users and is the most popular Nigerian website today. For perspective: In Nigeria, Nairaland gets more visits than Wikipedia. Nairaland earns its revenue through its ad inventory.

OPEYEMI AWOYEMI

OLALEKAN OLUDE &

AYODEJI ADEWUNMI

Founder, Jobberman

The trio founded Jobberman, Nigeria’s biggest job search engine and aggregator. Jobberman went live in August 2009, and today the site attracts over 50,000 unique users each day. Through simple, yet cutting-edge technology, Jobberman helps link qualified personnel to the right job opportunities. Jobberman is one of the few companies in Nigeria’s tech space that enjoy venture capital backing.

OLA OREKUNRIN  

Medical Doctor, Founder, Flying Doctors

A Nigerian healthcare entrepreneur and medical doctor, Orekunrin, 25, is the founder of Flying Doctors Nigeria, West Africa’s first Air Ambulance Service. Flying Doctors Nigeria provides urgent helicopter, airplane ambulance and evacuation services in Nigeria and other countries across West Africa

CHUDE JIDEONWO &

ADEBOLA WILLIAMS

Founders, Red Media/The Future Project

Jideonwo and Williams are co-founders and Partners of Red Nigeria- a leading full service media-content, communication and Development Company in Nigeria. The firm also owns The Future Project (TFP) – a strategic social enterprise/change communications firm which hosts the

annual Future Awards, Nigeria’s most important awards for outstanding young Nigerians.