This was my 30-ton-per-day rice processing factory building.
When we started the construction in 2020, a bag of cement was around ₦3k, and within months, it moved to ₦5,500.
And we bought a full truckload [2 trucks in total] for the building project.
We completed the factory, built a 10k-capacity poultry pen, a 10k-capacity fish pen, and 6 rooms of staff quarters and office.
By the time we were done, our rice processing machine was trapped in China due to the COVID-19 lockdown.
When it finally arrived in Nigeria?
I chose the wrong port [Onne Port in Rivers State], and the machine was seized by customs officers.
According to them, they were suspecting the container to have loaded firearms [funny set of people].
So, they broke the container, opened the boxes, and saw only my rice processing machine.
It was closed back.
It was time to release the container, right?
Story that if I share with you, you’ll cry blood.
I cried and paid unnecessary bills in that port before they finally released the machine.
When it finally arrived in Makurdi that particular night, the drivers were insisting we offload at midnight🙈
I told them it was not possible.
All my staff were sleeping by now, and we could not get them to come there.
So, they slept.
The next morning. It was time to offload the container, right?
As the truck was driving to an Industrial Layout in Makurdi where we were to offload, ALL the jobless youths in Makurdi followed behind on bikes.
When they arrived, they demanded we pay ₦250k before offloading anything on Benue soil.
Bro, I am a Benue boy ooooh. A younger boy [I was less than 30 then] building a business in this country.
Guess what? We had no choice but to pay those boys cash. Though we negotiated, begged, and paid less than ₦200k.
Then, we offloaded the machines. I was extremely happy😍😍😍
The event that followed? I will share later. Difficulties continued.
Here is the lesson I want you to get today.
“As an entrepreneur in Nigeria, many times, you’ll spend more money and time fighting external battles than internal ones that you know well”
✍🏻 Unstable prices of inputs
✍🏻 Settling useless street boys
✍🏻 Battling extortion from government regulatory bodies
✍🏻 And more.
You can know your business A-Z and still fail due to external battles you were not prepared for.
It is like that for every entrepreneur in Nigeria, including Alhaji Aliko Dangote. You watched his external battles recently with regulatory bodies.
You see this Agriculture? I know it very well. Is not pride. I was born as a farmer.
But I am learning to beat those external demons programmed into the systems in this country.
And I MUST win them. You have to learn how to win them too my brother.
Good luck. Stay connected.
I will tell you what happened after the installation of the 30-ton-per-day rice processing machine in my factory that year.
See you soon.
#BillionaireFarmer
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@Equityoyo@LNCtoday So why can’t few of us get to work with this guy and provide this to small small circle of buildings??
We can crowdsource funding. Please can you link me up with this guy? Thank you
@LuizaJarovsky Just make them defend the thesis in the hardest way to ensure learning
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Access Holdings is one of Africa's most powerful financial institutions, and that is not a small thing.
But power and accountability must move together. When they do not, it is ordinary depositors who carry the cost.
All figures in this thread are drawn directly from the audited 2025 financial statements of Access Holdings Plc, signed off by KPMG on 30 April 2026.
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@Tunde_OD@egi_nupe In my book, I narrate my unforgettable experiences with local bukaterias like this: the swallow served in these local bukaterias is quite delicious.
I referenced your good work in my book @Tunde_OD
@TomolaGroup Lol, you’re saying only 3% of Nigerians invest like it’s a mindset problem. Be serious. Most people are struggling to meet basic needs where’s the money to in vest coming from? You can’t call it a “wealth creation event” when the majority are locked out.
Here is how I would fix the Nigeria power problem if I were minister. We cannot start this analysis without first understand where the population of Nigeria lives. The below map I made shows this - population of Nigeria is quite concentrated in particular areas. Power must work in this priority order, not "equity", but just simply - how many people had 24/7 power.
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