Talking Trade with Femi Boyede has been set up to discuss, in a professional manner, all the angles related to all the issues that a firm, an individual, or a country can expect to confront as they design, implement or modify their strategic process to manage trade. It is a virtual platform for engaging discussions on international trade from its components, through the values it offers to individuals, corporations, and countries, reducing poverty, creating employment, growing national economies, increasing corporate profitability, etc).
Date and Time: Saturday September 4th 2021
12pm (US & Canada)
5pm (West Africa Time)
Guest Speaker: Mrs Elizabeth O. Nwankwo
Guest Trade Expert (Panelist): Mr. Abdullahi Sidi Aliyu
Moderator/Anchor: Lady Kay
Host/Convener : Olufemi Boyede, CITP
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Video Playlist – Webinar 4 –
Scaling the Hurdles in the Export Business: An Exporter’s Case Study
Opening remarks and Main presentation.
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Scaling the Hurdles in the Export Business: An Exporter's Case Study"
Mrs Elizabeth O. Nwankwo - CEO /Director Oklan Best Foods
Mrs Elizabeth O. Nwankwo is a Nigerian businesswoman and active exporter.
She is an embodiment of rugged determination having faced and conquered several challenges exporting from Nigeria.
She has over twenty years of experience in international trade.
She is a major player in Nigeria’s importation and exportation industry. Her company, Oklan Best Foods exports processed food products like Ginger and other Spices, Orange fleshed Sweet Potatoes, Yam, Shea butter, African Black Soap and Cashew.
She also specializes in the importation of machinery and equipment for food processing and packaging.
A good relationship with her stakeholders has helped to put to use, her degree and background in Science Laboratory Technology & ICT.
To create sustainability, she has worked and is still working with Farmers and Processors in order to provide them with the necessary knowledge on global integration with the mindset for a geographic indication with emphasis on Fairtrade, GLOBAL G.A.P, HACCP & Ecocert, to ensure that their activities conform to the global standards.
Mrs Elizabeth O. Nwankwo
CEO /Director Oklan Best Foods
Mrs. Nwankwo is a member of several national and bilateral Chambers of Commerce.
She served on the Steering committee that birthed the Network of Practising Exporters of Nigeria, NPNEN and as president of the first Exporters Cooperative (both projects funded by UKAID’s support for trade in Nigeria). She is also an active member of the Nigerian chapter of the Organisation of Women In Trade (OWIT).
Guest Trade Expert (Panelist)
"Scaling the Hurdles in the Export Business: An Exporter's Case Study"
Mr Abdullahi Sidi Aliyu- CEO A.S. Dynamic Ventures Ltd
Mr Abdullahi Sidi Aliyu – Guest Trade Expert
CEO, A.S. Dynamic Ventures Limited
Mr Abdullahi Sidi Aliyu boasts over 30 years of Public Service Career in Export Promotion and Development.
Apart from five years spent as an Economic Planning Officer and Senior Research Officer with Federal Capital Development Authority (FCDA) and National Directorate of Employment respectively, he spent 30 years of his career with the Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC) where he retired in 2020 having served for 10 years as a Director.
He holds a BSc. Degree in Economics in 1983 from Ahmadu Bello University Zaria and later in 2014 a Masters degree in Development Studies from Bayero University, Kano, both in Nigeria. He was exposed to a wide range of local and international trainings in the course of his career. Over these years of service, Mr Sidi-Aliyu has acquired an in-depth understanding of export business including export trends, challenges, opportunities, multilateral & bilateral trade challenges, African Growth & Opportunity Act (AGOA), export competency development, capacity building, Africa Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA), etc.
Mr Sidi-Aliyu is currently a director responsible for export trade development with the International Trade Facilitation Association (ITFA), a team of professionals engaging in providing support to SMEs aspiring to become visible in the export business and to be globally competitive as well. He is also the CEO of A.S. Dynamic Ventures Limited.
Mr Sidi Aliyu is joining the team of experts for the September edition of our Talking Trade Series in an advisory role to share his wealth of knowledge and experience in the hope of complementing the understanding and knowledge of participants in the sometimes-challenging business of export trade.
Expected Outputs and Outcomes
The outputs of the Trade Webinar series will include:
a. Webinar Report: A summary of key findings and policy recommendations distilled from each session, combinations of sessions, papers, and keynote speeches.
b. The proceedings of the webinars, incorporating relevant comments and feedback from peer review and webinar participants will be published after the episode or quarter.
c. Presentation of these findings and recommended solutions will be made to relevant governments agencies, ministries and parastatals as well as other identified stakeholders.
d. Our inhouse team will track results of the webinar series, and make updates available to subscribers and stakeholders.
The Moderator /Anchor
Kemi Amusan popularly known as Lady Kay is a linguist (French and English), an Editor, a Crisis Prevention Intervention Trainer and a community leader (leading several thousands of blacks) as the immediate past president of the Nigerian-Canadian Association in Greater Toronto Area, Canada. She currently works as an Assistant Registrar in a great university in the Caribbean. Lady Kay gives back to the community as the Senior Advocate of Global Women Ambassadors, Canada. In this role, she organizes programs to educate, elevate and facilitate many socio-cultural, entrepreneurship, immigration, educative, empowerment programs for families. Lady Kay is also the host of Agbajo Owo and Ask Lady Kay – the broadcasting arms of Global Women Ambassadors that seek to ‘build the community, one family at a time’.
The Host /Convener
Olufemi Boyede, CITP has over thirty years of professional experience in international trade and strategy, policy advocacy and human capital development. He has broad expertise in trade and business environment improvement, regional integration frameworks, trade linkages, services exports, public-private dialogue and advocacy on non-oil exports and enterprise development issues.
He has a strong background in private sector management positions and consulting roles in the business, trade and logistics communities, and more recently has held numerous senior trade and export development positions in Nigeria’s public and private sectors. In addition to several Consultancy assignments with International Agencies including the World Bank, DFID, GIZ, USAID, the Commonwealth Secretariat and the International Trade Centre (ITC).
‘Femi’s 30 years of international trade expertise places him in a leveraged position to provide professional advice to worldwide with clients (both importers and exporters) helping them to successfully navigate the day to day complexities of the international trade industry.
His passion to increase awareness and equip international trade stakeholders forms the basis for these series of webinars.