Thank you for riding with us into week three on Under 40 CEOs, Drive Your Ambition, where Mr FAB drives the Chief Executive Officer at Simply Green to work in the Mitsubishi Pajero Sport.
Itching to listen in to their conversation? We know you are, but before you dive in, get to know a little about this amazing agropreneur below:
Shola Ladoja started what is his business today, by trying to solve a problem him and a few friends were faced with. Shola, who had planned to retire as a farmer didn’t know he would start his career in farming this early. The engineer who had worked in three different firms after his studies at the New York Institute of Technology moved to Nigeria to continue his engineering career. However, there was a problem. Shola drank green juice almost every day in New York, but could not find any when he moved back to Nigeria. He decided to start producing green juice for himself and people like him who like it. He left his job at one of Nigeria’s biggest power distribution companies to focus on agriculture. In May 2014, he launched his company and commenced the production of Simply Green Juices. With his farm now sitting on 6,500 acres of land, it is good to note that he started small with a paltry N250,000. Watch episode below:
More About Massilia Motors
Massilia Motors is the joint venture of the CFAO group and the Chanrai group uniting forces to deliver customer satisfaction. With operations run by the CFAO group, Massilia Motors is the sole distributor of Mitsubishi Motors in Nigeria.
The Nigerian Line-up includes: ASX, Eclipse Cross, Outlander, Pajero, Pajero Sport and the L200 pick-up. More About Under 40 CEOs
Under 40 CEOs launched on TVC Entertainment and TVC News on the 9th of October, 2015 and subsequently launched on Silverbird Television Network on the 13th of January, 2016 and has spotlighted inspiring young business leaders aged 40 and under from Nigeria, Ghana, Rwanda and South Africa. Business leaders that have been featured on the show include Adebola Williams of Red Media; Audu Maikori of Chocolate City Group; Noble Igwe of 360 Group; Bola Ray of EIB Networks; Alex Brahm of SMSGH; Oluyomi Ojo of Printivo whilst discovering inspiring CEOs like lawyer Aderemi Oguntoye of Oguntoye and Oguntoye; Senyo Hosi of Ghana Chambers of Bulk Oil Distributors;Farida Bedwei of Logiciel; Ukinebo Dare of Poise; Abiola Adekoya of RMB Stockbrokers; Ran Neu-Ner, Co-CEO at The Creative Counsel; Shukri Toefy, CEO at creative adverting agency, Fort and Ade Adegoke of Oando Foundation amongst others.
With over 100 episodes till date, and serial entrepreneur, Familusi Akin Babajide, Mr FAB as the host, Under 40 CEOs has since gone on to inspire and motivate millions of would-be young business leaders across Africa to take action and join in the rebuilding and re-shaping of the African continent. Under 40 CEOs currently reaches an odd 875,000 viewers every week with a social media following of over 170,000 and growing with a cumulative social media content reach of over 9million.
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The upcoming black classic movie “The Color Purple” holds a lot of expectations as it centres around music, sisterhood, history and woman power.
The movie is a musical reboot of the 1985 classic which is based on a novel by Alice Walker. The movie is directed by Blitz Bazawule and produced by Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg, Scott Sanders and Quincy Jones.
It premieres only in theatres on December 25th, 2023.
The movie is about an extraordinary sisterhood, focusing on three women who share an unbreakable bond. It stars Taraji Henson, Danielle Brooks, Colman Domingo, Halle Bailey, H.E.R, Corey Hawkins, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor and Fantasia Barino. See the trailer below.
Nigerian filmmaker Charles Okpaleke has announced an upcoming movie titled “Ekwumekwu.”
The movie according to the filmmaker will be based on a story of the “British opposition by the Igbos.” The upcoming project will be developed in collaboration with his theatrical production company, Play Network Studios.
Commenting on the announcement of the story written by Max Siollun, Charles said, “I took a personal interest in this story because of the role the Aro people played with the people of Anioma to protect the Igbo land.
I am from Arondizogu, the largest settlement of the Aro people (believed to have migrated from Arochukwu), and ever since we started making feature films our focus has been centered around retelling our African history.”
The cast and crew of Prime Video’s first African original movie, “Gangs of Lagos” recently attended a special screening in the United Kingdom. The crime thriller features a stellar cast, including Tobi Bakre, Adesua Etomi-Wellington, Zlatan and Chioma Akpotha, and is directed and produced by Jade Osiberu.
Lala Akindoju, Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù (Gangs of London), and Deborah Ayorinde (Riches) also graced the screening.