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Barney Akwenuke is a Nigerian social entrepreneur based in Britain with ever-increasing socioeconomic ties in India. A strong motivator, Akwenuke believes in empowering people and encouraging businesses to build bridges and create ties that inspire, foster, and support social entrepreneurship and innovation.
His desire to encourage Nigerians and Indians everywhere to connect stems from his drive to alleviate the high degree of poverty in Nigeria and India. As Nigeria is one of India’s 12 largest trading partners, Akwenuke leads the force in finding mutually beneficial ways to promote Nigeria’s historic affinity with India by embracing broad based enterprise driven development initiatives with special focus on projects designed to cater to Nigerians and Indians at the bottom of the socio-economic pyramid. For years, he has been looking for ways o help his nation and has even written several proposals to the Nigerian government.
The bottom-of-the-pyramid (BOP) project plan would need individuals and organizations who are involved in the following:
Telecommunications;
Telecentres;
Agriculture;
Food Processing;
Social Housing in Nigeria, Tanzania, and India;
Mass Transit;
Solar and Wind Energy;
Power Generation;
Micro Credit;
Education;
Mining;
ICT;
Project Finance;
Oil and Gas;
Iron and Steel;
Low-Cost machine fabrication for SME projects;
and eGovernment.
He is also seeking local and international development partners who are interested in investing in Nigeria, India, Tanzania, Uganda, and Africa in general.
This social entrepreneur aims to encourage further cooperation between the two nations, Nigeria and India, and foster joint ventures, youth exchange programs, consultations, trade and enterprise, tourism, friendship, education, and convergence of technology, among others, at local and international levels. His efforts would add to a sustainable, growing, and entrepreneurial social sector.
Akwenuke is currently working with Tanzanian and Indian businesses to set up a $10M cashew processing plant in Tanzania. A graduate of accountancy and information technology, he is also
the proprietor for ISL Technologies and the RSA Group.
Please visit above website and Contact me for any further information on Consultancy / Advisory
CRISIL Infrastructure Advisory, a division of CRISIL Risk and Infrastructure Solutions Limited, has been working very closely with the Government, Multilaterals and Private Developers, in structuring bankable projects and in managing the commercialisation programme in a transparent, objective and time-bound manner. CRISIL’s assistance spans across various infrastructure sectors including Tourism (Tourism Master Plan, Sector Policy, Policy and Transaction Advisory), Transport (Roads, Airports, Ports), Urban Infrastructure (Water, Waste, Housing, Industrial Parks, Urban Transport), Energy (Power, Coal, Oil & Gas), Telecom, Municipal Reform, Public Finance and Corporate.
We have closely worked with several multilateral and bilateral development institutions, such as the World Bank, African Development Bank, Asian Development Bank, Department of International Development, UK, USAID, Southern African Development Community and Canadian International Development Agency. Our international experience includes advising entities in Angola, Bhutan, Botswana, Tanzania, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Zambia, Cape Verde, Tunisia, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Malaysia and Kenya.
Thanks Barney for sending this to me.
Joci