Lead Agro Economist at SAO Group (2025-09 – Present)
- Conduct in-depth agricultural economic analyses to support strategic decision-making, investment planning, and project development.
- Ensure agricultural policies, programs, and investments align with economic, social, and environmental performance standards.
- Oversee value chain evaluations, market assessments, and financial models to confirm project viability and sustainability.
- Identify economic risks, market fluctuations, and sustainability constraints affecting agribusiness and rural development outcomes.
- Lead the delegation of analytical tasks to team members, ensuring high-quality deliverables and timely completion.
- Prepare technical reports, briefs, and presentations translating complex economic concepts into clear, decision-ready outputs.
- Engage with government institutions, development partners, and private sector stakeholders to provide expert advisory on agricultural economics.
- Monitor and evaluate the economic impact of projects and programs, ensuring measurable results and accountability.
- Maintain accurate records of economic analyses, project evaluations, and stakeholder engagements.
- I supported the Kwara State Programme Implementation Team (SPIU) in reviewing and designing livelihood programmes, while closely collaborating with the legal and policy team to identify and recommend reforms to state laws aimed at catalyzing private sector participation in the Special Agro-Industrial Processing Zones Programme.
Innovation Technical Lead FCDO Funded Propcom Plus at Palladium (2024-02 – 2024-11)
- Was responsible for the Innovation work stream
- Managed the budgeting and work planning process
- Ensured that all projects and interventions conformed with project scope, timelines and cost specifications
- Was responsible for sourcing and assessing Climate Smart Agricultural innovative business models
- Coordinated the process of piloting and iterations of innovations
- Supported business plan development and identified capacity gaps at business level, including financing needs.
- Delivered targeted technical assistance to operationalize business plans and facilitated the operationalization of go to market strategies for entrepreneurs
- Facilitated training, mentorship, and business support, based on business needs
- Prepare promising businesses for investor engagement
- Managed technical assistance and performance-based grants
- Managed an agile team (staff, consultants, and subcontractors) ensuring excellent work and high-quality outputs.
- Ensured good staff management practices including staff planning, recruitment, on-boarding, appraisal, and development.
- Managed relationship within agricultural entrepreneurship and MSME ecosystem, as well as with representatives of the Government of Nigeria.
- Led the creation of Public Private Partnerships to incentivize the adoption of inclusive and sustainable models and practices
- Led client reporting on Innovation results, activities, recommendations, and lessons learned.
Project Lead- Consultant at Cudie Pay (2023-05 – 2023-08)
- Developed a comprehensive project plan for the implementation and rollout of the payment system, including timelines, budgets, and resource requirements.
- Worked closely with stakeholders, including financial institutions, merchants, and customers, to understand their needs and ensure their buy-in and participation in the project.
- Managed the implementation of the payment system, including overseeing.
- the integration of payment technologies, training of staff, and rollout to customers.
- Adapted the product positioning and marketing strategies to cater to the unique needs and preferences of the focal audience.
- Developed and implemented strategies to promote the adoption of the new payment
- system, including marketing and educational campaigns.
- Successfully achieved the on-boarding of over 20,000 rural users across Kaduna, Kano, Katsina and Jigawa and generated over NGN 3,000,000,000 in transactions
Component 2 Consultant at Adamawa State Agribusiness Support Programme (ADAS) (2022-12 – 2023-04)
- Designed the programme frame works for the following subcomponents:
- Crops, Livestock, Forestry and Aquaculture Production and Productivity enhancements interventions
- Climate Change Adaptations and Resilience Interventions
- Skills for Youth Employability and Job creation Interventions
- Access to Finance Interventions
- Facilitated Productive Partnerships and Alliances through the creation of collaborations between State Ministries, Commodity Associations, and the Private Sector.
- Developed the Component 2023 budget
Chief Operating Officer at Traxi Continental Limited (2020-05 – 2021-09)
- Delivered business goals (revenue, profit, operating cashflow, customer satisfaction, shareholder value and technology development.
- Managed and coordinated recruitment processes
- Managed the process of farm mechanization service delivery and operations across the country
- Managed and coordinated the activities of the Head of Operations, Financial Controller and Strategy Lead
- Managed and coordinated collaborations with stakeholders (Central Bank of Nigeria, Commodity Associations, State Government and Coordinated and managed the Investment and the Budgetary Process
- Quarterly reporting to the board of directors for effective decisions and stability of operations
- Introduced systems and controls to drive revenue assurance, debtor management and cost management
- Successfully developed and implemented a direct farmer engagement strategy which provided access to tractor services to smallholder farmers as well as providing the business with an additional revenue stream.
Senior Programme Manager Propcom Mai-karfi at Palladium (2014-05 – 2020-05)
- Prepared annual work plans and supported in the development of project log-frame and over-all project strategy.
- Designed a Clean Energy and Environment Grant, which supported Private Sector players to establish Solar Mini electricity Grids and Solar Power postharvest drying solutions in rural communities across the Northwest and North-eastern parts of Nigeria.
- Facilitated Solar powered Irrigation Projects, that provided over 5000 rural households across, Adamawa, Taraba and Gombe with access to irrigation solutions that enabled them to cultivate their farmlands
- I designed and implemented an agricultural input financing and Storage Intervention which provided over 150,000 smallholder farmers spread across Kaduna, Kano, Benue, Plateau and
- Coordinated all administrative aspects of partnerships including but not limited to grants, MoUs, Collaboration Agreements and Contracts. Ensured smooth functioning of program activities including support for field office/program set-up and close-out, ongoing operations, and staff and consultant travel
- Provided technical assistance and business advisory support to all stakeholders and private sector partners
- Facilitated partnerships and collaborations between the private sector, government and INGOs.
- Was responsible for the Access to finance and Environment Intervention Portfolios
- Designed and managed a single digit Roll out of Poverty (ROPO) bond for Private Enterprises which they used in leveraging over NGN 3 billion in investments
- Represented Propcom Mai-karfi in PCNI (Presidential Committee on Northeast Initiative) meetings and in the UNOCHA Cash Working Group meetings.
- Supported the DFID now FCDO funded project WAFM (West African Food Markets) in facilitating cross border trade along the Kano-Niger and Adamawa Cameroon corridors.
Marketing /Market Analyst at Lafarge Ready Mix Nigeria Limited (2013-07 – 2014-05)
- Responsible for Marketing plans and Strategies
- Developed and Executed Marketing Communication Budget and Plans (Manage a marketing budget of over 100 million naira)
- Co-ordinated the activities of the sales team
- Responsible for Market Feasibility Study- this involves Capital expenditure Analysis: Discounted cash flow Analysis, Payback and Internal Rate of Return and Capital expenditure analysis
- I successfully conducted market entry studies for market entry in Port-Harcourt (Rivers State), Agbara (Ogun State) and Lekki (Lagos State)
Socio Political Research Executive at TNS Kantar Nigeria (2011-12 – 2013-07)
- Was responsible for business development and closing of sales (Successfully realized over 1.2-billion-naira Revenue)
- Was responsible for research project design, management, execution and presentation to clients
- Was responsible for writing proposals, designing questionnaires, field briefing manual, editing and coding guide, sample design and report writing
- Approved itinerary from field department and data processing departments
- Costed and budgeted research projects
- Developed bespoke analysis to deliver personalized service aligned with complex client criteria.
Business Development Executive/Consultant at Leading Edge Consultancy Services (Kestria Nigeria) (2011-02 – 2011-10)
- Development of New accounts and service portfolio
- Business Advisory Services to customers
- Recruitment and Organizational Development Services
- Acquired 3 new Key accounts
- Completed several executive recruitments
