Meet one of Nigeria’s youngest known C.E.O’s and he's just 17

Meet one of Nigeria’s youngest known C.E.Os:

Mr. Kayode-Onaleye Ayokunle Elisha

Hi it’s my first interview series and I’m bringing to the stage a young mind with like interests as my blog. I met him during a free summer lesson he organized in the Wukari local government area of Taraba state of Nigeria. No need for the long talk. Welcome to Zenith’s blog interview platform. My name is J.A. Alexis and with me in the studio here is Mr. Kayode-Onaleye Ayokunle Elisha.

Question: So Mr. Kayode-Onaleye Ayokunle Elisha can we know you more?

Answer: Yes, my name as you’ve all known is Master, Kayode-Onaleye Ayokunle Elisha but I have about three other names that I use unofficially. I’m the founder/C.E.O./President Zenith Self-Empowerment Movement. The firstborn in a family of five and a son to Dr. Kayode Jacob Onaleye and Mrs. Kayode Faith Ndenarimam. I’m an undergraduate at Taraba State University of Nigeria studying Medical Laboratory Science and I am a Christian.

Question: So can we know what this Zenith Self-Empowerment Movement is all about?

Answer: Well, I started the organization as a micro-profit-based empowerment organization that has to do with the empowerment of people so that they can be self-employed and I sectioned it according to the skills, talents and mindsets I discovered in myself.

Question:  I apologize for cutting you short but when you say skills, talents and mindsets what do you mean?

Answer: O.K, for instance, a part of my organization is teaching people how to bake and cook and the reason I started this section is because I actually started cooking at the age of nine which I consider to be tender for a boy in my locality. Well, the thing is when I say talent I mean what I find in me that I believe is peculiar to me and when I say skill I mean a valuable activity I’ve learned over time like the ability to impart knowledge into learners in a very unique way and when I finally say mindset I mean what my heart longs to do when I look at the needs of my society like the need for education and my desire to give free education to all I can to the very best I can.

Question: O.K. You mentioned that your organization is partitioned in to how many parts and how do they operate if we may know?

Answer:  basically I have six operational parts of the organization and these six have different modes of operation.

First: The Zenith Self-Empowerment Movement as a part of its own is designed to empower youths, women and children in life-coping and entrepreneurship skills for free. And we’ve had about four of this training already. The only monetary cost of this is the cost of the manuals that are shared at five hundred naira only and it’s not compulsory and from this trainings,
I can count that in less than the six months we started we have about five people that have been completely empowered and are feeding from this empowerment.
 

Secondly: is the Zenith holiday school which is aimed at imparting knowledge for free to students of all categories to concretize their educational foundations and teach them practical applications of what they learn in their schools.

Third is Zenith Catering and Decoration Services which is responsible for a part of the income generated to the organization by taking catering and decoration contracts from anybody and anywhere around the world at minimal interest rates.

Fourth which is also a micro-profit venture is designed to reply to special orders for homemade liquid and solid soaps medicated and non-medicated and it’s referenced as Zenith Liquid, Solid soap and shampoo industries

Fifth which is dear to me because it was only a dream to me until a U.N ambassador to Nigeria probed my senses before I let it come to being is the Zenith Foundation for waste Studies on management and control. This was birthed as a result of my desire to make the environment waste free and habitable for the next ten centuries and more.

Finally the Zenith software firms: is aimed at creating programs to make life easier and simpler in my locality it is also designed to train young minds on simple programming tricks that could earn then a day’s ration.

Question: Well that’s a lot but I want to know, what led you to all this? What’s your driving force?

Answer: Change is my driving force. To change lives, destinies, and a lot of other things. To bring meaning to people’s lives and create a world where we are all self-dependent.

Question: So what do you think is a major tie-down factor to your movement per say?

Answer: well it’s finance because I’m just a student and for me to achieve my dreams I have to settle down to study hard and get a job when I’m done.

Question: if I may ask how ever how old are you?

Answer: Well, I clocked seventeen on the 27^th of February this year so in Nigeria’s constitution I am still a minor.

Well, Mr. Ayo thank you for the honor of chatting with you and we hope we have time again to complete your story.

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