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  • Abbey Abimbola Describes His Move From Nollywood to The Asian Movie Industry
    Titithedynamite sits down with Abbey Abimbola famously known as Crackydon is originally from Nigeria, he has appeared in movies, television shows, and commercials. He was born on the 2, Nov 1980 in Iwo Osun state and raised in Mushin Lagos state.
    He started his career as a rap artist and later developed his passion into acting which has brought him to a few countries around the world and finally decided to pursue his dream in Malaysia in 2013 after featuring in close to 150 Nollywood Movies including a few movies written and produced under his own company AARMProductions.
    He started acting with F. Olu Michaels as one of the casts in his Soap Opera titled “Heart Mending” in the Year 2002.
    He has acted in close to 50 movies in Asia and its neighboring countries. Abbey Abimbola is known as the first Nigerian Seniman Actor in the whole of Asia and also the first Nigerian FDAM Director (Film Directors Association of Malaysia) in the whole of Asia as well as the first MYPW Wrestler and a stuntman in the whole of Asia.
    36 min
  • Abbey Abimbola Describes His Move From Nollywood to The Asian Movie Industry
    Titithedynamite sits down with Abbey Abimbola famously known as Crackydon is originally from Nigeria, he has appeared in movies, television shows, and commercials. He was born on the 2, Nov 1980 in Iwo Osun state and raised in Mushin Lagos state.
    He started his career as a rap artist and later developed his passion into acting which has brought him to a few countries around the world and finally decided to pursue his dream in Malaysia in 2013 after featuring in close to 150 Nollywood Movies including a few movies written and produced under his own company AARMProductions.
    He started acting with F. Olu Michaels as one of the casts in his Soap Opera titled “Heart Mending” in the Year 2002.
    He has acted in close to 50 movies in Asia and its neighboring countries. Abbey Abimbola is known as the first Nigerian Seniman Actor in the whole of Asia and also the first Nigerian FDAM Director (Film Directors Association of Malaysia) in the whole of Asia as well as the first MYPW Wrestler and a stuntman in the whole of Asia.
    36 min
  • Abbey Abimbola Describes His Move From Nollywood to The Asian Movie Industry
    Titithedynamite sits down with Abbey Abimbola famously known as Crackydon is originally from Nigeria, he has appeared in movies, television shows, and commercials. He was born on the 2, Nov 1980 in Iwo Osun state and raised in Mushin Lagos state.
    He started his career as a rap artist and later developed his passion into acting which has brought him to a few countries around the world and finally decided to pursue his dream in Malaysia in 2013 after featuring in close to 150 Nollywood Movies including a few movies written and produced under his own company AARMProductions.
    He started acting with F. Olu Michaels as one of the casts in his Soap Opera titled “Heart Mending” in the Year 2002.
    He has acted in close to 50 movies in Asia and its neighboring countries. Abbey Abimbola is known as the first Nigerian Seniman Actor in the whole of Asia and also the first Nigerian FDAM Director (Film Directors Association of Malaysia) in the whole of Asia as well as the first MYPW Wrestler and a stuntman in the whole of Asia.
    36 min
  • Demand For Better Food Safety In The Hospitality Industry - Dr. Omopeju Afanu
    Dr. Omopeju Afanu is a serial entrepreneur and well versed in project management, finance, and administration with experience in managing different scales of projects earning her the position of Management Consultant, Managing Director, and Vice President/COO of a few organizations. She recently set up a hospitality management company, Cooperhouse Hospitality Ltd, which though still in a start-up phase was engaged by the Lagos State Government as the sole Vocational Training Centre for its Lagos State Employability Support Programme (LSESP) providing hospitality industry-based training to over 200 unemployed youths with 80% placed in jobs; a project funded by the Lagos State Employability Trust Fund (LSETF) and UNDP. The company was recently awarded a fresh grant by LSETF and USADF to train 160 youths as part of the COVID-19 health care intervention.
    She has been involved in conceptualizing and developing economic growth projects for companies and government for national development. She has also been consulting for various companies in the conceptualization, design, and execution of turn-key Hotel and Real Estate Development projects in Lagos, Port Harcourt, Benin, Abeokuta, Calabar, Obudu, Afikpo, Ilorin, and Monrovia as a designer and creative consultant, supervising all Interior Designs, Fittings, and Furnishings and Project Management.
    28 min
  • Demand For Better Food Safety In The Hospitality Industry - Dr. Omopeju Afanu
    Dr. Omopeju Afanu is a serial entrepreneur and well versed in project management, finance, and administration with experience in managing different scales of projects earning her the position of Management Consultant, Managing Director, and Vice President/COO of a few organizations. She recently set up a hospitality management company, Cooperhouse Hospitality Ltd, which though still in a start-up phase was engaged by the Lagos State Government as the sole Vocational Training Centre for its Lagos State Employability Support Programme (LSESP) providing hospitality industry-based training to over 200 unemployed youths with 80% placed in jobs; a project funded by the Lagos State Employability Trust Fund (LSETF) and UNDP. The company was recently awarded a fresh grant by LSETF and USADF to train 160 youths as part of the COVID-19 health care intervention.
    She has been involved in conceptualizing and developing economic growth projects for companies and government for national development. She has also been consulting for various companies in the conceptualization, design, and execution of turn-key Hotel and Real Estate Development projects in Lagos, Port Harcourt, Benin, Abeokuta, Calabar, Obudu, Afikpo, Ilorin, and Monrovia as a designer and creative consultant, supervising all Interior Designs, Fittings, and Furnishings and Project Management.
    28 min
  • Demand For Better Food Safety In The Hospitality Industry - Dr. Omopeju Afanu
    Dr. Omopeju Afanu is a serial entrepreneur and well versed in project management, finance, and administration with experience in managing different scales of projects earning her the position of Management Consultant, Managing Director, and Vice President/COO of a few organizations. She recently set up a hospitality management company, Cooperhouse Hospitality Ltd, which though still in a start-up phase was engaged by the Lagos State Government as the sole Vocational Training Centre for its Lagos State Employability Support Programme (LSESP) providing hospitality industry-based training to over 200 unemployed youths with 80% placed in jobs; a project funded by the Lagos State Employability Trust Fund (LSETF) and UNDP. The company was recently awarded a fresh grant by LSETF and USADF to train 160 youths as part of the COVID-19 health care intervention.
    She has been involved in conceptualizing and developing economic growth projects for companies and government for national development. She has also been consulting for various companies in the conceptualization, design, and execution of turn-key Hotel and Real Estate Development projects in Lagos, Port Harcourt, Benin, Abeokuta, Calabar, Obudu, Afikpo, Ilorin, and Monrovia as a designer and creative consultant, supervising all Interior Designs, Fittings, and Furnishings and Project Management.
    28 min
  • Advertising And Media; The West African Dynamic - Dele Odugbemi
    Dele Odugbemi has over 21 Years of advertising experience evolving from a strategist to a multi-market business development specialist with proven abilities in standardization of output where standards vary across markets.
    Having lived and worked in four markets in Africa over the past ten years, namely Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya and Ghana. In the course of his career, he has visited 35 of Africa’s 53 countries.
    As a project champion, he approached his work with an enthusiasm that carried through every team he manages. He had been involved in several business transformation projects in the course of his career:
    Successfully championed the transfer of the headquarters of Ogilvy Africa from Johannesburg to Nairobi in 2010, as part of the team that set up the Airtel Africa account.
    HeSet up the Africa regional team in Johannesburg for Aegis SSA, winning the Diageo Africa account in 2013
    He Successfully set up the Grey Africa network from scratch in 2017, making it a 35 market network in less than two years, coordinating accounts like Uber and Nokia across the continent
    Presently he serves as Country Manager, JCDecaux Nigeria. JCDecaux NIGERIA | JCDecaux (jcdecauxafrica.com)
    36 min
  • Advertising And Media; The West African Dynamic - Dele Odugbemi
    Dele Odugbemi has over 21 Years of advertising experience evolving from a strategist to a multi-market business development specialist with proven abilities in standardization of output where standards vary across markets.
    Having lived and worked in four markets in Africa over the past ten years, namely Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya and Ghana. In the course of his career, he has visited 35 of Africa’s 53 countries.
    As a project champion, he approached his work with an enthusiasm that carried through every team he manages. He had been involved in several business transformation projects in the course of his career:
    Successfully championed the transfer of the headquarters of Ogilvy Africa from Johannesburg to Nairobi in 2010, as part of the team that set up the Airtel Africa account.
    HeSet up the Africa regional team in Johannesburg for Aegis SSA, winning the Diageo Africa account in 2013
    He Successfully set up the Grey Africa network from scratch in 2017, making it a 35 market network in less than two years, coordinating accounts like Uber and Nokia across the continent
    Presently he serves as Country Manager, JCDecaux Nigeria. JCDecaux NIGERIA | JCDecaux (jcdecauxafrica.com)
    36 min
  • Advertising And Media; The West African Dynamic - Dele Odugbemi
    Dele Odugbemi has over 21 Years of advertising experience evolving from a strategist to a multi-market business development specialist with proven abilities in standardization of output where standards vary across markets.
    Having lived and worked in four markets in Africa over the past ten years, namely Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya and Ghana. In the course of his career, he has visited 35 of Africa’s 53 countries.
    As a project champion, he approached his work with an enthusiasm that carried through every team he manages. He had been involved in several business transformation projects in the course of his career:
    Successfully championed the transfer of the headquarters of Ogilvy Africa from Johannesburg to Nairobi in 2010, as part of the team that set up the Airtel Africa account.
    HeSet up the Africa regional team in Johannesburg for Aegis SSA, winning the Diageo Africa account in 2013
    He Successfully set up the Grey Africa network from scratch in 2017, making it a 35 market network in less than two years, coordinating accounts like Uber and Nokia across the continent
    Presently he serves as Country Manager, JCDecaux Nigeria. JCDecaux NIGERIA | JCDecaux (jcdecauxafrica.com)
    36 min

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