Farmer and Agrobusiness entrepreneur. Biotechnologist and Micro-Biologist. I cultivate- I process- I package - I distribute fresh organic farm produce.
HOW I MADE 10 MILLION NAIRA without owning a company or Product.
Fresh out of Caritas uni Enugu, I started TRADING CATTLE 🐄.
I found myself in Gumel( the Nigeria/Niger border), Kastina, Maigatari,
Katagun, Azare and Pastikum.
We will load 16 tire trucks with 34 cows 🐄
Jack Ma, the founder of the Alibaba group came to Nigeria about 6 years ago.
The event started and Mr Ma concluded his section and He would take some questions
One guy stood up and said “why did you come to Abuja and not Lagos, Lagos is where the money is and we have swag”( He
I'm going to say something, and I hope it will be understood as coming from a place of love and concern.
A few weeks ago, I hosted a space with a prominent African entrepreneur. The space was curated in such a way as to give equal representation to different African
There’s this EVIL spirit called “ABROAD RELOCATION AMBITION” U can’t achieve anything in Nigeria ones it possesses U.
Some people want to travel abroad soo bad that they refuse to develop themselves in Nigeria 🇳🇬
Even in the face of opportunity they postponed their own success
Dear Elon Musk
@elonmusk
,
I know you are busy and probably on another planet 🌎
I am a farmer 👨🌾 and I recently started a mobile grocery market using a Truck 🛻. I have saved up some money (although not a lot ) and I will like you to find time out of your busy schedule....
Today in Abuja, our nation’s capital city. One of the biggest Mall in Jabi shut its doors to customers and businesses suspended sales and operations because they couldn’t power their establishment.
Ears have not heard nor eyes seen what is heading towards us.
Buckle up
Dear Young Nigerian,
The following are characteristics of Entrepreneurs you must avoid working for;
1. If they are overly Religious (I don’t care what Religion)
2. If they have Pictures with different Politicians all over their office.
3. If during the interview they keep
This is Nicholas. A 26 year old graduate, photographer & Keyboardist.
Sometime in October 2023, Nicholas sent a text message to his boss resigning his role as a photographer in the photo studio.
His boss was angry at the content of the text message & got him arrested.
From
My name is Ella,
I am the founder of Ella’sFoodBank.
I am a smallholder farmer 👩🌾 in Abuja and this is my $5,000 pitch for the
@TonyElumeluFDN
challenge
#IfIHad5000Dollars
.
Please make a video of yourself and use the hashtag #️⃣.
Goodluck.
Thank you 🙏🏻
Today, I arrived Egypt 🇪🇬 on an agricultural tour.
I need to find out how a country with NO WATER achieved self-sufficiency in RICE and fishery
Egypt earned LE 56 billion exporting produce in 2017-representing more than 22% of exports.
@FAO
@UNDPEgypt
#agritech
#foodsecurity
And by March 2020, coronavirus happened and Ella’sfoodbank is gradually becoming a household name and we are building a processing plant to package farm produce in Abuja.
I have edited and left out some part of my story. I pray u find some encouragement
I just remembered one
The former Prime Minister of Ethiopia was a guest speaker at 2021 Nigerian Economic Summit
@officialNESG
The Former PM simply highlighted the fact that years ago Ethiopians borrowed industrial Hub system from Nigeria (The system seeks to bring industries
Jack Ma, the founder of the Alibaba group came to Nigeria about 6 years ago.
The event started and Mr Ma concluded his section and He would take some questions
One guy stood up and said “why did you come to Abuja and not Lagos, Lagos is where the money is and we have swag”( He
The year was 2021 and Godwin Emefiele of the CBN had mandated banks to open a Forex transaction window that granted SMEs $20,000 every quarter at government official rate(420 Naira/$1 against the parallel market about 720 Naira)
You see SMEs needed to import equipments and raw
One of the people I revere in the Nigeria agricultural space visited my farm today.
The CEO of ONIDA and Hazera seeds (He manages the biggest green house in 🇳🇬). His improved seed varieties are one of the best in the world 🌎.
I am going into cropping and learning from the best.
In 2013, My Dad said “if u want to do Agriculture, u must go and learn the ropes” I traveled from Dubai- China - Ghana.
From keffi- Adamawa- Ibadan - Benin Edo. I self taught myself. I saw the mistakes of others.
Then I ran into Mr. Dangote and he said something that changed...
After we developed farm products, we face the challenge of poor market segmentation, price inconsistency and spoilage. The future of agriculture I realized belonged to farmers who participated in the entire Value-Chain. Ella’sFoodBank was started in November 2019 ...
Breaking News !!!
Our Cows are lactating.
2 years ago, we started a food processing business that required lots of Butter for quality production.
We couldn’t afford the butter available in the market as a kilogram was about 50,000 (and higher recently). Margarine was what was
My entire life!
He said “To be a rich person, you must find a product/service to sell everyday!
He said if I made 100,000 naira a day in profit that at the end of the year I would have made 35,000,000 naira.
I started looking for what products to sell DAILY...
I planned Daily Sales of
EGGS 🥚- 6,500 layer birds =200 crates ; I built 2 poultries in 4 years.
CatFish-20,000 capacity.
Broiler Birds -4,000 capacity.
Cockerel-3,500 capacity.
Goat 🐐-150 capacity.
Fields (I hate planting)-10 hectares.
I had to discipline myself 😢
My name is Emmanuella and I am a Farmer 👩🌾 in Abuja Nigeria 🇳🇬.To meet customer’s demand for organic farm produce- I founded Ella’sFoodBank( A Mobile Grocery Market) This is a difficult time and We are committed to food availability at affordable price.
Please stay Safe
Excellency; Farmer, Give someone your phone to snap us
Me; No sir, I want selfie 🤳
Excellency; which one is that one again?
Me; I will take it by myself .
Excellency: okay 👌- let’s see.
I don’t know how Gov. Peter Obi can be such a warm and generous person.
This is a
@DONJAZZY
appreciation Post.
I was privileged to have met Don 2 months ago, He was a perfect gentleman.
Firstly, I had asked his friend (Vintage) if he could ask Don how much money we could pay for him to post our products on his page.
Vintage chuckled and said “You
From northern Nigeria 🇳🇬 to port Harcourt, Bayelsa n Delta. It was 2011 and politician had just won elections and were giving their constituents and chiefs Christmas gifts 🎁.
I sold a total of 275 cows that year with 19 mortality.
After paying everyone, I counted my money 💰 😎
Trading is an important part in this entrepreneurship stuff. I was first a trader- I learnt where to invest, when to invest and when to move from seasonal sales.
In 2012, I lost 70% of my capital and that experience hardened me 🥺
I bought 80 cows 🐄 too early and didn’t have.
Chronicle of a Lady farmer 👩🌾
Nigeria is d fourth-largest producer of cashew in Africa n sixth globally
U need to have a freehold ownership of land for u to grow cashew.
About 100 cashew seedlings can be planted on a hectare if the plantin pattern of 8 /5 metres is used
Hello Everyone,
Where are you shopping for Easter chicken?
Are you in Abuja?
We have wonderful packages to make your celebration an eventful one.
Come shop with us
Call for your delivery 📦
You can also visit the farm to buy live chickens 🐓.
See you soon
Hey Guys 👋👋
My Company Ella’sFoodBank is selling DISCOUNTED chicken 🐓.
Please go to or call 📞 08100411132.
We are committed to sustainable agricultural practice
#SDG
@SDGoals
.
Kindly RT.
@aproko_doctor
@DrJoeAbah
Our free rangers have become soo comfortable around me that I simply can’t have peace.
My office is under construction 🚧 so- I must endure this harassment every morning.
Be kind to a Farmer 😫😫😫😫
Egg 🥚 Production is one sure way to keep the engine of your farm running. Egg production will give you daily sales and income.
As a startup farmer 👩🌾 consider egg production.
#tired
#foodindustry
#SDGs
To help me build a proper “Shop on wheels “ I have attached for you some Photographs and videos to help you understand my business model and why I think you will understand my struggle.
My store is a new concept and I am struggling to come up with the Right technology ...
How to build a small business in Nigeria ;
1. Buy generator
2. Buy backup generator
3. Buy mid size generator
4. Buy 100kvA to carry all machines and equipment at the same time
5. Try Solar inverter
6. Get angry 😡
7. Start crying 😭
8. Rest small
9. Buy another generator
The market to sell:
Young Politicians were given those jobs as compensation for their election efforts 🥺.
Someone took 35 cows and gave me a bounced check.
I spent soo much on feeding 80 cows 🐄 - I sold at a loss after borrowing from my mother and sister 😢.
I know you are wondering why you should even respond to this ?
Well, Mr Elon ; there’s a Huge Market for everything MOBILE this days as rents are high and brick and mortar stores 🏬 are expensive to maintain.
From Africa to American small businesses are innovativing
A year ago, some young lady who sells beans n bread reach out to me for some business advice.
We talked 3-5 times, she posted abt a sealing machine she needed to sell for 10k. Sent her the money n after pretending to send it,she stopped contacting me.
I don’t want to spend time..
Good evening
My name is Emmanuella, I am the convener of the Abuja Christmas Market taking place at Hustle and Bustle-Wuse 2 Abuja.
Please come and buy everything you need for Christmas.
I put all my money in,come and shop before ALL my money finishes
@DrJoeAbah
@aproko_doctor
This afternoon, I had a real life-
God when situation.
This building by Zartech chicken is what I aspire to own someday.
Just tweeting it into the universe 🙏🏻🙏🏻
@Darl042
@Ejuraa_
You are right.
I should have at least put a number on it!
I can pay their collective 1 year salaries.
I hope this is down enough for you?
Thank you for attending my ted talk
@adapekem
Please google
BOI, FAO, world bank, USAID
Nigerian Economic summit
All bank
The W community by Access Bank
The moment you start filling the forms and attending events they will naturally start sending you emails for upcoming events
I recently started building a processing plant- so as to integrated more products to my online and offline store.
Ella’sFoodBank will produce- process and sale fresh farm produce.
To make this a reality I will like for you to build a solar powered “Shop On wheels “..
I was planning to write an epistle to explain your tweet, now that you have apologized I don’t know what to do.
But let me still explain for the purpose of posterity.
The major reason why SILOS were invented was for food storage, I have seen grains that are 2-5 years old
Setting the record straight
This was June 2023, after I had sold off my 1000 tons of Maize at a way cheaper price 500k/ton (the market oeice
I apologized for the tweet as it wasn't well thought, regrettable & deleted it within an hour
Presently a ton is almost 1m/ton
Na only
@kingtobbie
He is young, inexperienced and brash. Let’s be kind to Him - Lets allow life teach him Humility. Let’s allow nature whisper in his ears “Do your worse” For even in the midst of plenty some still suffer a great lack. He will learn that success doesn’t have a scale. Soon I hope 🤞
@businessinsider
I am a farmer in Abuja Nigeria and I understand this struggle.
If you are a small scale farmer, consider working on the entire value chain. I started a Mobile Grocery Market and online store 🏬. Today Ella’sfoodbank farms- process- package and sell farm produce.
“From Our Farm to your Table”
@EllasFoodbank
we are bringing our community Fresh Farm produce everyday.
With the introduction of more farm products-
The future for Ella’sFoodBank will be to have a properly shelved store with cooling unit and a payment Point.
Entrepreneurship requires Discipline!
The entrepreneur has to put in the work; if you refuse to work and over employ in new venture, you risk running yourself out of business.
Run Lean operations until you have enough products/service to pay salaries.
In Nigeria 🇳🇬 ecosystem..
My layer birds are kind to me, it’s like they wait for special occasions and mostly Sundays to surprise me.
Simple things make me happy 👩🌾
What makes you happy??
@PulseNigeria247
We have allowed people who have no business in governance and leadership run our country for too long. They are not in leadership for service! They see themselves as a secluded class doing us a favor by receiving our hard earned common wealth as salaries. It’s okay PVC
Entrepreneurs are jugglers🤹♀️ .
I put my foot forward to work on the entire Value Chain of Agriculture 🧑🏾🌾.
My typical day is going to the Farm- Processin n packaging -returning to man d mobile grocery market on days my colleagues need breaks or are unwell.
Show ur business here
@AriyoAristotle
@KadariaAhmed
Are we expecting them to pretend?
They don’t need any information there.
It is unfair for us to keep asking people to give what they don’t have!
Chronicle of a lady Farmer 👩🌾
Can Agriculture be a lucrative side hustle?
How much do you have to invest for the business to be profitable/successful?
Do young people need to acquire agricultural skillset and are those skillset valuable in the long run? (My answer is NO!) 👇🏽
To celebrate this Twitter men’s Day
@MrOdanz
pick 10 men in Abuja tomorrow let
@EllasFoodbank
give them fresh farm produce package 📦.
We can give them a voucher and allow them to come to the store and pick what they want or online to shop.
Voucher can be from 5,000
Chronicle of a lady farmer 👩🌾
With huge machinery comes huge responsibilities.
Must critical machinery in Nigerian agriculture are imported.
SMEs have to be on a constant rollercoaster as Government try out policies.
With unpredictable outcomes, how can we continue to invest?
So today, I meet this wonderful Human being.
He has the most infectious smile I have ever seen.
@timidakolo
please when are you doing a master class on kindness?
@Ejuraa_
The truth is, our society is highly immoral. I sell farm produce and when I will stand at Jabi lake in Abuja to introduce my business to people on Saturdays- some men asked if I could follow them home to cook? The funny part was that I could pay all their collective salaries 😂
2 years ago I discovered I had developed allergy to chicken 🐓 dunk.
I will struggle to breathe at night after spending time in the poultry.
After this discovery, I have built 6 more pens for myself and my friends in agricbusiness .
Ella 💯 - Allergy 0
🤪🤪🤪
If you have a substantial amount of money and you are struggling with what/where to invest, don’t consider Agriculture in Nigeria.
With policy inconsistency, high cost of living, zero disposable income n high poverty rates, the time to invest is NOT NOW!
Maybe acquire the land.
@sam_adeyemi
@Omojuwa
Our people are not yet civilized,so this tweet will offend their poverty engraved fragile egos.
When someone offers you a service or product and you say “thank you” after payment - you simply acknowledge a human presence rendering you service. That’s humanism- Be Human
@segalink
I grow up in Bauchi,
I just de laugh!
This is how it starts ooh..
The south should not start what they don’t understand!
Violence is not a joke- Real people will die, Your heart will be broken, your childhood friend will kill your brother. Stop 🛑 the violence now- immediately
@davido
@davido
- Sunday is not a good day.
Civil servants and people in government will be home and then police will descend on us properly.
Monday is better.
Strong and formidable group.
We can do 3 formations.
I have worked it out with some friends.
I will DM
I never liked cropping as a farmer 👩🌾
But there’s that old saying about putting in the work and doing what U don’t really like.
My trial tomatoes 🍅 are doing very well and I LOVE spending time in chilled greenhouse environment.
Consider animal and plant integration as a farmer.