 |
| Alhaji Mohammed Isah Gerawa |
He started out as an almajiri child in the 70s, After being on the streets in the North for a while, he hopped on the back of a truck to Lagos in 1980.
On getting to Lagos, he served as a tea boy & later a street hawker in Lagos, He hawked daily from Mile 2 to Alaba.
After several years of toiling in Lagos he went back to the North to try his hands on other endeavors, He learnt how to mill groundnut oil locally, After which he worked for other millers to raise capital to set up his own small-scale mill,
He ventured into crop farming, trading farm produce from the hinterlands to cities & poultry.
In 2015 he founded Gerawa Group of Companies, One of Africa's biggest food & agro processing, As well as trading conglomerates.
Gerawa Group of Companies' interests span logistics, construction, engineering & fabrications.
He is the proprietor of the Gerawa rice mills, which is the 3rd largest in Africa with production capacity at 960 metric tonnes daily,
Gerawa rice mills significantly contributes to the backward integration efforts in local rice production in Nigeria, Immensely helping to conserve forex by reducing rice imports.
His farm accounts for more than 30% of the paddy rice sold to smaller rice millers in Nigeria.
Gerawa oil mills operates a 1,200 tonnes per day solvent extraction plant in Kano, Processing soybean, groundnut & vegetable oil, They're about the biggest solvent processors in West Africa.
They have an arm processing animal feeds, which is currently the biggest in Nigeria, From which they export to other Countries around West Africa.
In the last 3 decades,
Alhaji Mohammed Isah Gerawa has provided solutions, employment opportunities & created avenues for wealth creation through his Business endeavours.
He's been an inspiration to younger Business people & a testament to the fact that nothing can hold you back if you're determined to rise.
He is one of those obscenely wealthy Nigerians that almost everyone doesn't know.
