My top 3 observations of successful people:
📌 They act right away. There’s almost no gap between a bright idea they’ve made up their minds to build and when they start working on it.
📌 They don’t stay confused for long. They pick up their phones, call others who may know the answer or consult to get to the answers quickly.
📌 They don’t stay around trying to make good, perfect. They have a threshold for ‘decent’ and they optimise for that. They do not sit around too long for details that don’t matter.
When you scrap FAAC, you will see the economic power of the North
Then you will realise corn, soybeans and cows are as valuable as oil and gas
The North that should face lithium and silica are chasing “oil-producing” status
The Sarduana built a world-class economy based on groundnuts, tin, and columbite. Today, his legacy holders are chasing NNPC for contracts to import PMS
FAAC is fake life
Sheikh Isyaku Rabiu, BUA's father was also a billionaire and one of the richest men in Africa in his time.
Some of his major businesses and investments included:
1. Isyaku Rabiu & Sons Ltd – The group's flagship trading and holding company.
2. Bagauda Textile Mills Ltd – Textile manufacturing.
3. Kano Suit and Packing Cases Factory Ltd – Suitcases and handbags manufacturing.
4. Kano Vehicle and Accessories Ltd – Vehicle and spare parts distribution, including Daihatsu products.
5. Rabiu Bottling Company Ltd – Beverage manufacturing.
6. IRS Rice Mills Ltd – Rice processing.
7. IRS Airlines Ltd – Aviation.
8. Afro Sacks Nigeria Ltd – Industrial sacks and packaging.
9. Kano Sugar Industries Ltd – Sugar production.
10. Combined Services Nigeria Ltd – Diversified business services.
11. Frozen food business – Cold storage and food distribution.
12. Real estate developments – Commercial and residential properties.
He also played a key role in establishing or investing in several financial institutions and companies, including:
1. Nigerian Victory Assurance Company
2. Stanbic Merchant Bank Nigeria (served as its first Chairman)
3. Habib Nigeria Bank
4. Kano Merchants Trading Company
5. Giwarite Nigeria Ltd
At its height in the 1970s and 1980s, the Isyaku Rabiu Group employed over 1,000 people and was regarded as one of Nigeria's most successful indigenous conglomerates.
Read books.
Most of the problems people face with money, career, and life are not new. Someone struggled with it, studied it, and wrote the solution down decades ago.
Books compress experience. You get 30 or 40 years of someone else’s lessons in a few hours. That is why reading saves you time, money, and unnecessary mistakes.
If you want better results, borrow better thinking from people who have already been where you are trying to go.
Today, an ordinary ant taught me an extraordinary lesson: failure is not always the end; sometimes it's preparation for what's ahead.
Keep going, keep learning, and keep growing. 🐜💪
#Ants
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What defines success? And how can you replicate it?
Luck, as I often say, plays an important role. I have been lucky on my own journey. But with all that, we still face uncertainties, surprises, reversals.
What really distinguishes an entrepreneur, an entrepreneur who succeeds, is how we respond to those changing circumstances.
Read the full article on my blog: 👇🏾
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"If there is one lesson I have learned throughout my journey, it is that success is rarely determined by who starts first or even who starts strongest. More often, it is determined by who remains committed long enough to see their vision become reality."
Ray Kroc, the "founder" of McDonald's as we know it today, said this - "Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not; the world is full of educated failures.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."
That quote alone inspired me to pursue entrepreneurship.
Success has no formula except for grace. I’ve seen all sorts of people succeed. I have seen hard-working people succeed, and I have seen lazy people succeed. I have seen the truthful win and liars triumph. Seen the poor get rich, and the rich get even richer without explanation.
"I hope you believe in something — something unconventional, something unexplored, but let it be informed and let it be reasoned. Then dedicate yourself to making it happen."
- Jensen Huang
If your organization, school, or workplace values financial literacy, I’m available to speak and educate.
We need more people earning well, investing consistently, and putting their money to work.
I’m also working on something for people looking to increase their income and improve their careers. The goal is to help more people move up financially and become investors.
Hopefully, this leads to more collaborations and a bigger impact.
"Prior to capitalism, the way people amassed great wealth was by looting, plundering and enslaving their fellow man. Capitalism made it possible to become wealthy by serving your fellow man."
— Walter Williams
"The wealthiest Africans 10 years from now will not be the Dangotes and the Masiyiwas of this world.
It will be the young people sitting right now building AI applications for agriculture, health sector, food security..."
That prediction came from billionaire entrepreneur Strive Masiyiwa himself at Global Africa Business Initiative's 2025 Unstoppable Africa event.
His reasoning?
The AI revolution has fundamentally changed the startup game:
• Lower barriers to entry: AI businesses require 1/10th the capital of traditional ventures
• Unprecedented scalability: Solutions can cross borders at speeds unimaginable 30 years ago
• Rapid developer growth: African developers are growing faster than their European counterparts on platforms like Groq
• Real-world applications: From crop diagnostics on farmer smartphones to AI-powered education in local languages
The ingredients for wealth creation on the continent are changing
But Masiyiwa's prediction only comes true if progress continues to be made on critical foundations — electricity, connectivity, data infrastructure, digital skills, and language inclusivity.
➜ https://t.co/8vi6JpoBJk
My latest op-ed @nairametrics: why Nigeria urgently needs an Innovation Centre for the Financial System. A living national platform where regulators, banks, fintechs, universities, investors etc work together to solve 🇳🇬 most pressing financial challenges https://t.co/k71SDp5lu1