Nigerian entrepreneurs have known as for elevated funding in technology-driven agriculture, inexperienced development and recycling to sort out meals insecurity, cut back carbon emissions and promote sustainable financial development.
The name was made at the tenth anniversary of the Sustainability Table Discourse Series (STS @10), held on October 15 and 16, 2026, at the Balmoral Convention Centre, Victoria Island, Lagos.
The two-day occasion, themed “People, Planet and Development,” introduced collectively enterprise leaders, policymakers, traders, monetary establishments, improvement companions and sustainability advocates to discover sensible options to environmental and financial challenges.
The investment-focused second day featured an innovation pitch competitors involving 20 enterprises in search of to attach with potential traders and scale options aligned with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Speaking at the occasion, Favour Okikijesu Adeleke, founding father of QiQi Farms, mentioned Nigeria’s meals safety challenges required sustainable agricultural techniques able to guaranteeing constant manufacturing all year long.
He recognized seasonal farming, insufficient infrastructure, insecurity and inconsistent authorities insurance policies as main obstacles to agricultural productiveness.
Adeleke additionally highlighted the potential of synthetic intelligence to assist farmers forecast harvests, perceive market demand and establish manufacturing challenges early.
Similarly, John Oamen, Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of CutStruct Technology, mentioned digital procurement platforms may cut back emissions related to transporting constructing supplies.
He disclosed that his firm had achieved an estimated 38 per cent discount within the variety of vans used to move constructing supplies for demand managed by its platform over the previous two years.
Oamen added that CutStruct was working to introduce carbon-emissions monitoring to assist builders assess the environmental impression of development supplies and generate knowledge that would help entry to inexperienced financing.
Meanwhile, Wunmi Ogunde, co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Pakam Technology, known as for higher adoption of round economic system ideas, stressing that waste supplies must be handled as helpful sources quite than discarded.
She famous that plastics, aluminium cans and different recyclable supplies may create financial alternatives when efficient restoration and reuse techniques had been established.
The convener of the Sustainability Table Discourse Series and Chief Executive Officer of Avant Garde Limited, Kayode Olaniyan, mentioned the initiative was more and more targeted on connecting entrepreneurs with the capital wanted to broaden sustainable companies.
“Nigeria doesn’t have a shortage of ideas, Africa doesn’t have a shortage of ideas, and the world certainly doesn’t have a shortage of capital,” Olaniyan mentioned, highlighting the necessity to bridge the hole between revolutionary companies and traders.
The anniversary discussion board additionally examined environmental governance, social inclusion, financial funding and institutional capability, with individuals emphasising collaboration, accountability and efficient insurance policies as important to sustainable improvement.
The occasion ended with requires stronger public-private partnerships, elevated funding in inexperienced innovation and sensible measures to combine environmental safety, social progress and financial development into Nigeria’s improvement agenda.
