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.O’s.
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.
Ques: So m. Mr. Kayode-Onaleye Ayokunle Elisha can we know
you more?
Ans: Yea my name as you’ve all known is Master Kayode-Onaleye
Ayokunle Elisha but I have about three other names which I use unofficially.
I’m founder/C.E.O./President Zenith Self-Empowerment Movement. The first born
in a family of five and a son to Dr. Kayode Jacob Onaleye and Mrs. Kayode Faith
Ndenarimam. I’m an undergraduate in Taraba state university of Nigeria studying
medical laboratory sciences and I’m a Christian.
Ques: So can we know what this Zenith Self-Empowerment
Movement is all about?
Ans: 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 and
talents and mindsets I discovered in myself.
Ques: sorry to cut
you short but when you say skills, talents and mindsets what do you mean?
Ans: O.K like for an 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 which 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.
Ques: O.K you mentioned that your organization is
partitioned in to how many parts and how do they operate if we may know?
Ans: basically I have
six operational parts of the organization and this six have different modes of
operations.
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.
Second: is the
Zenith holiday school school which is aimed at imparting knowledge for free
into in and out of school students of all categories to concretize their
educational foundations and teach them practical applications of what they
learn in their schools.
Third is the
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: aimed at creating programs for making 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.
Ques: Well that’s a lot but I want to know, what led you to
all this? What’s your driving force?
Ans: Change that’s my driving force. To change lives,
destinies and a lot of other things. To bring meaning to people’s life and
create a world where we are all self-dependent.
Ques: So what do you think is a major tie-down factor to
your movement per say
Ans: 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.
Ques: if I may ask how ever how old are you?
Ans: well I clocked seventeen on the 27th of
February this year so in Nigeria’s constitution I’m 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.
Ok readers this is where I stop today I’m actually worked
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