Ayò-Bánkólé Akíntújoyè
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This is the most profound message I've listened to on the mercy of God in my entire life.
Ayò-Bánkólé Akíntújoyè2,076,369 views • 1 year ago
Tonight on the Lekki Epe expressway, over 30+ Dangote trucks took over one side of the road in traffic. We feared The Lekki Epe axis will become another Apapa. That fear is now becoming reality. We must stop this life where commercial investments that should ordinarily bring development become nightmares because we make high traffic investment hubs without the required infrastructure.
Ayò-Bánkólé Akíntújoyè1,152,056 views • 10 months ago
Very very few people have impacted my career and life the way lola esan has. She has been a huge influence on many of my life decisions for almost 20yrs since I first heard her speak at an AIESEC event at UI. This is same to many others who have been impacted by her. When I started The Failure Diaries podcast, Lola was naturally top on the list of people I wanted to speak with. But she was unavailable at the time, then her name showed up again as a huge influence on Babájídé's career during my interview with him. Listening to Lola speak about her own journey, her vulnerable points and what failure means to her, is as incredibly impactful as Lola has always been. You don't want to miss this 26mins of insights and nuggets. Click to watch subscribe on YouTube: Click here for Spotify:
Ayò-Bánkólé Akíntújoyè172,588 views • 2 months ago
How true is it that Dangote Refinery fuel lasts longer than other imported fuel?
Ayò-Bánkólé Akíntújoyè831,774 views • 1 year ago
I've absolutely enjoyed every moment we've had on The Failures Diaries podcast, but this session with J9 was even more explosive! Jarus Oyewale gave it all on The Failure Diaries. He spoke about a season that tested everything. When a domestic issue that somehow, it found its way to Twitter through an anonymous account almost crashed his home and business. He responded. That was the mistake. What followed was chaos. And for a moment, it looked like the whole thing would swallow him. But what stood out wasn’t the scandal. It was what he learned. Sometimes, growth is knowing when to stay silent, lean on the right people, and clean up quietly. Listen if you’ve ever had to protect your name under fire. Please subscribe and Watch on YouTube: Listen on Spotify
Ayò-Bánkólé Akíntújoyè348,674 views • 1 year ago
This episode with Babájídé is one of the best episodes I've had on the Failures Diaries Podcast. He revealed incredible setbacks that even I was stunned to hear despite having worked in the same firm. And teaches us that resilience may be the only thing that stops you from being the next success story. Shout out to Lola Esan for giving him a second chance at success. Click to watch full episode and please subscribe to our YouTube channel.
Ayò-Bánkólé Akíntújoyè47,200 views • 4 months ago
As I promised you 2weeks ago, my podcast, The Failure Diaries Podcast is designed to bring you incredible stories about the other side of success. On this second episode, we sit with Bayo "Lion" Adedeji The Bayo Lion, Group CEO of Wakanow and founder of Wave Beach and Athena Beach. Bayo's story isn't all about successes. He built his first business from scratch. Put in all his savings. It failed. Completely. But failure didn’t finish him. It shaped him. Today, he runs one of Africa’s leading travel companies and owns two premium beach destinations. In this episode of The Failure Diaries, Bayo opens up about bouncing back, building powerfully, and why failure is not the end. It is the beginning if you choose to learn. Listen to the full episode on: Spotify: YouTube:
Ayò-Bánkólé Akíntújoyè75,065 views • 1 year ago
On the left is a $4billion investment to improve how pigs live in China. In the right is an oil producing community where humans live in Nigeria. When we talk about good governance, it’s not just online noise. It’s about real life consequences on human life.
Ayò-Bánkólé Akíntújoyè90,562 views • 1 year ago
I’m finally sharing something I’ve been building quietly, and it’s deeply personal. The Failure Diaries Podcast is here. This is about real conversations with real people, top professionals, founders, and operators, sharing the unfiltered truth about their failures. The real story. So you can learn from them. In this first Episode, we sit with Godwin Tom, MD of Sony Publishing Nigeria and former Wizkid Manager. Shares stories of how people moved on and the calls stopped when he stopped managing wizdkid. “That’s when I realised I had been riding on another man’s prefix.” If you’ve ever had to rebuild yourself from the ground up, this one is for you. Watch on YouTube: Listen on Spotify:
Ayò-Bánkólé Akíntújoyè66,231 views • 1 year ago
I’ve been seeing these painful videos of the owner of Giwa Gardens in series of rants about his employees and how his businesses are badly managed by the people he put in charge, and then calling Nigerian youths lazy. I beg to disagree very strongly. Western youths are generally more lazy than Africans and that's why you see immigrants doing lots of the hard work abroad. The difference is that the west invests in systems and processes to ensure that things work. Watched one of the CEO's videos saying he "trusts" his GM to do the work but he doesn't. Trust is good, but control is better. This is a multimillion naira business and something is fundamentally wrong with the systems and processes if a business of this size requires the owner to physically shout and be there before things get done. Many Other companies use activation agents and they deliver. I understand how tiring running a business is, especially the people management part, but this one has to be a systems and structure issue. Even the best high flyers may not give as best as they should if they find themselves in an environment that accommodates nonchalance. Business leaders need to know that investing in a business is not just by spending millions or billions on the infrastructure and salaries. You have to also invest significantly in the systems that will make it run. But many times, entrepreneurs believe they understand it better than the consultant who can help them design it. And don't just stop at design, get them to support with implementation. I've had several clients in this same situation in the past that we helped solve it by building and implementing systems that work. It starts with you telling yourself the truth, not by blaming it on Nigerian youths. We all don't know it all. You'll even often hear some say consultants only speak English. Clearly this frustration and all that's been said in his videos reiterates a lack of working systems and reflects more on the business owner than the employees.
Ayò-Bánkólé Akíntújoyè48,393 views • 1 year ago
This story and my message is for MEN ONLY. It applies to women too but I am not a woman and do not live in their reality. Neither am I a content creator that set ring light to discuss women issues. I am a man and have lived realities as a man so I will only address men. Yesterday, I stumbled upon this incredibly profound video by David Depiero and reshared it on Instagram, and got a few responses from people who could relate with it. But one call from a friend particularly stood out. And I told him I had to share this for others to learn. A bit of a long story. Anyways, my friend (let’s call him Jabi) got separated a few years ago and divorced thereafter. After Jabi separated, a friend (let’s call his friend Ogidi) reached out to him that he noticed Jabi shared same surname with someone he knows on IG but had recently stopped and also no longer followed each other. Jabi then mentioned that they were married and now divorced. Then Jabi got a shocking story - Ogidi confessed to him that Jabi’s ex wife was actually his own ex girlfriend/fiance. He was madly in love with her while she was in final year while he had graduated, and was already planning to marry her when his family friend, who was hostel mates with this lady, called him and vehemently opposed the idea and narrated to him how terribly toxic the lady is. How she is very active in fellowships, very religious, but very stingy and toxic to her room mates and hostel mates to the point of violence and tantrums and smashing things. Amongst the many other things she told him, she insisted it was going to be a mistake and convinced him to reconsider. She then went the extra mile to tell his mum and dad and fought hard to ensure he reconsidered. Ofcourse, the toxic lady then met my friend Jabi very shortly afterwards and got married to him. My friend in turn fell in love with the active fellowship shy girl and never bothered to check her background. He invested everything in her and supported her in every way from when they met till they separated. Turned out a total mistake of his life. Toxic, ungrateful, narcissistic and violent. Worse, she came from a terrible family with opposite family love and values from his. He eventually ran away from the house to avoid domestic scandals that will ruin his career and life - because as a man, you can never win in the court of public opinion. This video is so profound especially for young men. Please and please, keep building your life till you find your purpose. Keep grinding. Don’t succumb to society to pressure you to marry just because it’s another thing to do. As you build, painstakingly also develop a mental or written checklist of the type of woman you want that aligns with your purpose and journey. PRAY. FLEE from toxic women. Flee from entitled and ungrateful women. The choice of a life partner may be the single most important decision of your life, do not gamble recklessly with it. Men who had their lives so good have lost their life’s work, gotten poorer, committed suicide, become a shadow of themselves, and thousands of other things just by marrying toxic and selfish women. Ofcourse this is not talking to irresponsible men. A man can't be perfect but I am addressing ambitious, responsible, family oriented and naturally generous men. You’ll only keep pouring into a basket and never get anything back. Don't choose a loser. Don’t waste your life with women who dont align with your purpose and only want to take from you. Save this video, share it, ponder on it and make it your mantra to ensure you dont do more due diligence in choosing a business partner or buying a television than you spend choosing a life partner. It may be leading you into a voluntary life of toxicity that will change the course of your life for worse, forever.
Ayò-Bánkólé Akíntújoyè31,497 views • 11 months ago
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