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“Are you familiar with AI. How are you interacting with AI to optimize your business?” ~ Kola Adesina MFR #ThePlatformNG #UnlockPotentialNG

“Mr. President should move us away from an oil-dependent economy and invest in other sectors that can increase and enforce local production and you & I must also be aligned to use those products.” ~ Roman Oseghale #ThePlatformNG #UnlockPotentialNG

“Education is an investment. It’s not an expense.” ~ Roman Oseghale #ThePlatformNG #UnlockPotentialNG

“Crude oil determines everything you do in Nigeria. If price and quantities are on your side, you'll seem as if you are performing in office.” ~ Roman Oseghale #ThePlatformNG #UnlockPotentialNG

“We need to look at the problem of leadership.” ~ Laoye Jaiyeola #ThePlatformNG #UnlockPotentialNG

“The primary responsibility of government is to prioritize the above 4 needs above every other direct expenditure: 1. Security 2. Food Security 3. Social Mobility and 4. Education.” ~ Dr. Toyin F. Sanni #ThePlatformNG #UnlockPotentialNG

“Petrodollars is quick and easy money but dangerous in the hands of men with no vision. We need visionary leaders.” ~ Roman Oseghale #ThePlatformNG #UnlockPotentialNG

“Everywhere you go, there are negative things happening. Everything you consider as negative in Nigeria are opportunities.” ~ Kola Adesina MFR #ThePlatformNG #UnlockPotentialNG

“You want us to trust you? Please, make yourself trustworthy. We need to deal with trust issues.” ~ Laoye Jaiyeola #ThePlatformNG #UnlockPotentialNG

“We are too short-termed in our focus and mentality as a people even in our planning. We can’t continue like this.” ~ Dr. Charles Omole #ThePlatformNG #UnlockPotentialNG

“If we don’t fix the social investments that are necessary, infrastructure will not do anything for us. Let the Government focus its scarce resources on social investments.” Dr. Toyin F. Sanni #ThePlatformNG #UnlockPotentialNG

“This idea that "my own person must be in this position regardless of whether he’s competent or not" is a toxic mentality that we need to change.” ~ Dr. Charles Omole #ThePlatformNG #UnlockPotentialNG

“When wealth is not from productivity, it’s not sustainable. It is productivity that provides the solid foundation to retain and multiply wealth.” ~ Roman Oseghale #ThePlatformNG #UnlockPotentialNG

“We need to look at our eroding National Value System if we must lift up potential.” ~ Laoye Jaiyeola #ThePlatformNG #UnlockPotentialNG

“If you’re not a converter of raw materials to finished goods, you cannot in any way become a prosperous nation. The prosperity of Nigeria lies in our ability to convert raw materials that are currently available in-land to finished products.” ~ Kola Adesina #UnlockPotentialNG

“A growing number of youths have turned to entrepreneurship; so, today 84% of employed Nigerians are self-employed.” ~Dr. Toyin F. Sanni #ThePlatformNG #UnlockPotentialNG

“Things happen Curved balls come Your preparedness, adaptiveness, resilience, and knowledge will all now bail you out. Knowledge is inexhaustible. You can never learn enough.” ~ Kola Adesina MFR #ThePlatformNG #UnlockPotentialNG

“Colonial Mentality - Always preferring values and goods from foreign countries. Our import culture in Nigeria is largely due to colonial mentality but this colonial mentality is more ingrained than you think.” ~ Dr. Charles Omole #ThePlatformNG #UnlockPotentialNG

“Until we as Nigerians begin to foster connectedness between those who have and those who do not have, we will not begin our journey to unlocking economic potential.” ~ Dr. Toyin F. Sanni #ThePlatformNG #UnlockPotentialNG

“We need to rebuild our institutions.” ~ Laoye Jaiyeola #ThePlatformNG #UnlockPotentialNG

"The average crude oil price increased by 809% between 1970 - 1974 and western countries turned to countries like Nigeria for supply because of the Yom-Kippur war. Nigeria switched from a productive economy to a rent-seeking economy." ~ Roman Oseghale #UnlockPotentialNG

“Please take our land from the constitution. Let us be able to use our land” ~ Laoye Jaiyeola #ThePlatformNG #UnlockPotentialNG

“When money comes from hard work of sweat and productivity, you will know how to invest it. You will know you don’t have to spend frivolously.” ~ Roman Oseghale #ThePlatformNG #UnlockPotentialNG

5 Consequences of a Rent-Seeking Economy. - Reduced Economic Efficiency through Misallocation of Resources - Reduced Wealth Creation - Lost Government revenue - Heightened Income Inequality - Potential National Decline ~ Roman Oseghale #ThePlatformNG #UnlockPotentialNG

"To succeed at something you need to know where to look at; where the problems are. To solve a problem, you must understand the root cause of the problem and you must understand how the system and mechanism works." ~ Roman Oseghale #PlatformNG #UnlockPotentialNG

“Let us take our assets, let’s liquefy it and begin to raise money so that we are not beggars because when you own assets what you want to do with your assets is to see how you can securitize it and raise money from it.” ~ Laoye Jaiyeola #ThePlatformNG #UnlockPotentialNG

"Our GDP increased from 4.2 Billion in 1960 to 6.63 Billion in 1969 The only time it reduced was in 1967 and 1968 Why? The Civil War. All these happened even while crude oil prices dropped from $1.63 in 1960 to $1.27 in 1969." ~ Roman Oseghale #PlatformNG #UnlockPotentialNG

"We never depended on any one commodity to give us external earnings. We had the groundnut pyramids of Kano, we had cocoa in the southwest and we had the oil palms of the southeast. We were prosperous. ~ Roman Oseghale #PlatformNG #UnlockPotentialNG

“For how long are we going to realize that the way God created us, he created us in parts. We know in parts, we do in parts but when we work in an environment where all of us own up to the fact that “I need you, you need me”, we’ll do better.” ~ Laoye Jaiyeola #UnlockPotentialNG

“If you want to unlock the potential of Nigeria, we look at the team. Are we working a functional or dysfunctional team? The 1st thing that makes a sign of a dysfunctional team is that there is a Lack of Trust.” ~ Laoye Jaiyeola #ThePlatformNG #UnlockPotentialNG

"When there’s no trust in an environment, people don’t talk, they don’t want to be vulnerable. They don’t want to be seen as weak, therefore everybody hides." ~ Laoye Jaiyeola #ThePlatformNG #UnlockPotentialNG

“Nigeria has tremendous assets but we are an illiquid nation and unless and until we begin to see how we bring liquidity off what we have, we’ll still be struggling.” ~ Laoye Jaiyeola #ThePlatformNG #UnlockPotentialNG

NOW LIVE: 📣 Our 7th speaker today at The Platform Nigeria is Mr. Joseph Olaoye Jaiyeola, a visionary leader with over 35 years of experience in the banking industry, extensive expertise in board leadership as well as the former CEO of the NESG. #PlatformNG #UnlockPotentialNG

“If you work in a place where there is a lack of trust, they will tell that to prove that you know, you hide information from the next person and because there is a lack of trust, what builds upon it is that there is a lack of conflict.” ~ Laoye Jaiyeola #UnlockPotentialNG

“We are not short of technical solutions to our problems as a country. The biggest problem and hindrances to unlocking the potential of Nigeria are less technical but more adaptive.” ~ Dr. Charles Omole #ThePlatformNG #UnlockPotentialNG

"When wealth is not from productivity, it is not sustainable. It is productivity that provides the solid foundation to retain and multiply wealth." ~ Roman Oseghale #ThePlatformNG #UnlockPotentialNG

“When we have an environment where there is Fear of Conflict, people are not committed and where there is no commitment, nobody is held accountable.” ~ Laoye Jaiyeola #ThePlatformNG #UnlockPotentialNG

"Sometimes I have to go back 5, 15, 20, and in some cases, 30 to 40 years mining big data to identify problems but in the case of Nigeria I went back 64 years." ~ Roman Oseghale #PlatformNG #UnlockPotentialNG

#theplatform Nigeria, 2024 October edition. Themed: Unlocking the potential in our country I've being part of this great conference/event since 2019, May Edition and it has always been a great event with amazing speakers. #ThePlatformNG #UnlockPotentialNG Thread>>>

“How did the problem start? The problem didn’t start today. When we discovered crude oil in the 1960s we never concentrated on crude oil. Agriculture accounted for 54.7% of our exports and 75% of our external earnings.” ~ Roman Oseghale #PlatformNG #UnlockPotentialNG