Emergent Ventures is a fellowship and grant program from Mercatus Center that seeks to support highly scalable, "zero to one" ideas for meaningfully improving society. It is directed by the renowned Professor Tyler Cowen and launched with a $1 million grant from the Thiel Foundation. My fellowship will focus on general career development and advancing charter cities with Abelar Africa.https://www.mercatus.org/announcements/mercatus-center-announces-launch-emergent-ventures-africa-caribbeanhttps://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2023/10/emergent-ventures-africa-fourth-cohort.html

The fellowship program is run by Mercatus Center at George Mason University, giving participants an opportunity to study key Ideas in political economy and learn how to utilize these ideas in academic and policy research. I selected Market and Political Orders as my area of focus in the program.

Facilitated the coalition for development with the African "NXT50 Cities" project.- Conducted research on the legal gap analysis between special economic zones Act and charter cities model across West African countries-Co-created an African profile dashboard that highlights national economic statistics, national development plan, decentralization plan, SEZ policy and multilateral development programs for the implementation to enhance the implementation of Charter cities -Involved in building relationships between Nigerian governments, HNI's and the Charter Cities Institute-Identifying economic development opportunities, priority areas and facilitated collaboration with governments and development organizations

MINISTRY OF ECONOMIC PLANNING AND BUDGET Undertook my National Service where I Intersect Inventory management, Lagos bureau of statistics (data bank), Public affairs and Economic Intelligence unit of the Lagos State Government.Launched a data collection and data insight online platform for Lagos State- Eko360.ngPrepared the 2021 ministerial press briefing on economic planning and budget to the Lagos State House of Assembly. Co-edited the Lagos State Ministry of Economic planning and budget 2021 annual magazine. Prepared the blue print of lagos economic podcast for the commissioner of economic planning and budget.

Institute for Competitive Governance Reviewing books on governance, cities, special economic zone for the Governance guage blog

I work in a cross-sectional role driving the performance of the company from Engineering, Marketing and Supply chain division. I've worked on projects that involves companies like UBA, Sterling Bank, Investment One, FBN Quest, FBN Capital, Jubilee Mortgage, FCMB, Edo State government SEEFOR project, Deloitte Nigeria etc.My roles;•Preparing technical bids and financial bids for deal processing. •Mapping out strategies to accelerate the scale of digital platforms.•IT infrastructure services. •Facilitating the supply chain process of the company's products.

I oversee the students fellowship body of Foursquare Gospel Church in Nigeria in institutions across Midwest Nigeria.My task include; Conducting interviews, supervising leadership transitions, preparing periodic reports, attend national meetings.My achievements include; Implementation of developmental projects, resolving conflicts, establishing self sustaining business initiative programs in all chapter fellowships, setting up an online library. This role improved my leadership ability and it have given me the ability to multitask, handle complex situations and come up with concepts that brings solutions to problems.

I managed a product "Specta" which is a virtual loan platform for SMEs. • Received customers loan enquires, requests and complaints from various social media platforms like Instagram, Twitter, Facebook.•Interacted and engaged customers.•Decryption of customers credit report and resolving outstanding. • Set up of electronic standing orders on behalf of customers • Involved in data entry, structuring data, cleaning data and visualizing data to gain insights into business performance. • Invoved in data mining from the pool of structured and unstructured data to pull out information. • Used Microsoft azure dashboard for updating customers data, and solving other backend issues faced by customers.• Used Microsoft Dynamic 365 to check customers information, route cases and resolve cases.

I work with the suppprt team and we provide IT solution services to companies. I've worked on projects that involves companies like UBA, Sterling Bank, Investment One, FBN Quest, FBN Capital, Jubilee Mortgage, FCMB, Edo State government SEEFOR project, Deloitte Nigeria etc.My roles;•Facilitating the supply chain process of the company's products•Facilitating deal processes between the company and our clients •Providing installation services for servers, application software and network.•Carrying out payment transactions for the company.•Constantly engaging and interacting with customers on their inquiries and requests.•Involved in rendering consulting services.

My team and I discuss trending news concerning the local and global economy.We partnered with organizations like EduBridge, Utiva, Cowrywise to develop our professional skills. I was the Campus Brand Ambassador of Utiva, UNIBEN.My team and I invite professionals to teach us about the corporate world. We also attend corporate events.

• Promoting Students interest in building employability skills • Implemented a Campus outreach plan for training on Data Analytics, Ajile Project Management and Lean Entrepreneurship

• Examined the authenticity of invoices presented by vendors.•Filing and sending out documents to government parastatals. •Involved in scanning, bar-coding and stamping of invoices. •Gained knowledge in the use of Microsoft word, Excel and PowerPoint•Skimming through the dailies and present them to my department heads.•Actively participated with the health and safety team to ensure a safe work environment.