2. ORDER OF
PROGRAMMES
DAY 1: OPENING CEREMONY
DAY 2:THE CHANGE WE BELIEVE IN
(Youth Development Day)
Featuring: Skills Acquisition,
Youth Contests, Seminars
DAY 3:THE DRUMS OF FORTUNE
(Cultural Day)
Featuring: A play by the EDA
THEATRE COMPANY- MAAFA
DAY 4:THE BEATS OF THE FUTURE
(Children Connect/Charity Fair
Day)
Featuring: Children Games,
Quizzes, Drama, Cultural Dance,
Face painting
DAY 5: CLOSING RITES
3. The Market Ibadan Business Festival
was created to bring together
business owners and firms from
different part of the city to interact,
sell, evaluate and relate with their
customers amidst funfair. MIBF was to
serve several purposes which are to
resuscitate the old market day system
as well as promote culture, discuss
innovation and develop the city’s
commerce. We also included a
children connect day to bridge the
gap between the adults and the
children in terms of culture and then
trade.
Ibadan is gradu ally rising back to the
level of being called a commercial
city and we will continue to provide
solutions to ensure and promote
sustainable development in areas of
commerce and culture.
Habeeb Kolade
Creator/Marketing Communications Director, MIBF ‘14
The ability to dream and vision is a skill given to all but its
implementation is where the story takes a little shift.
Truth be told what MIBF stands for is a significance of the
average Nigerian youths who believes that with the little
they have, they can make a unique change and
transformation syncing the government ideologies,
business and entrepreneur, trade and commerce, youth
development, skill acquisition and child support into a
simple culture.
Today after the hurdles and thorns in different area s we
have been able to set our dreams in motion, learning
from our practical experience, defying the odds and
daring to do rather than watch. This relentless effort has
paid off as we announce the completion of the Maiden
edition of the Market Ibadan Busin ess Festival tagged
the drums of fortune.
For me the simple sentence “charity begins at home” is
a living truth, for with nothing we did something in our
society, believing that the change we seek begins from
us and the little crippling steps we take in our own home
can create a scaffold at the very end.
The impute of every team mate from when we were
short staffed to when we formed a whole cannot be
over emphasized, the will and zeal to continue when
realistically we should have come to a stop is a stren gth
I can only appreciate and attribute to God his
awesomeness for putting such dreams and vision in our
hearts.
For those that supported financially and our corporate
sponsors we appreciate such generosity, it was indeed a
fuel to our rusted wheels.
UGO Nwaokike
Director, Ivory Connect/ MIBF ’14
4. day 1
Ivory Connect is a brand promotion company, based at present, in the University of Ibadan. Taking
simple, effective, calculated and excellent strategies in ensuring the promotion of brands, Ivory
Connect brings up that needed connection for small businesses to grow and thrive and for big and
establish companies to cross over expected turnovers through the creation of the much needed
connection between brands and consumers who happen to be the soul of business.
ABOUT VORY C ONNECTI
ABOUT DAY 1
Day 1 was the opening day of the
Market Ibadan Business Festival and it
mainly comprised of a tour round the
commercial city of Ibadan.
Ibadan was once the commercial
hub of the whole Yoruba land and
signs of its past glory are still being
seen in the city. However, it has begun
regaining its glory as new structures
are now being put in place to ensure
that the city rises back to the top.
The largest city in West Africa has
great hospitality and is home to both
home and foreign investors
University of Ibadan
University College Hospital, Ibadan
BODIJA MARKET: One of the busiest markets
in Ibadan
COCOA MALL: The newest multi outlet
shopping mall housing South African Retail
Giants, Shoprite and several other international
companies
COCOA HOUSE; Located in the heart of
Dugbe. This is the first skyscraper in Nigeria
Ibadan City hosts several food markets
The Agodi Gardens Oja Oba Mosque
5. day 2
Game Changers Magazine is an organization built with the objective of enabling youths generally to
explore new terrains and as well maximize their potentials. The Game Changers Magazine worked
hand in hand with the Market Ibadan Business Festival team to create an all -encompassing youth
development programme which brought youth from far and near as well as experts to MIBF ’14 to
improve their skills and learn new ones.
THE CHANGE WE BELIEVE IN
ABOUT DAY 2
Day 2 was tagged “THE CHANGE WE
BELIEVE IN”. It is the Youth
Development Day where we focus of
areas where the Youth can improve
on their skills and also teach them
new ones.
This day was handled by the Game
Changers crew, a non governmental
group aimed at uplifting Nigerian
youth to an enviable status. Training
sessions were conducted in Fish
Farming, Events Planning, Make Up
Artistry, Social Media Marketing,
Photography and several other
areas.
ABOUT DAY 2
Day 2 was tagged “THE CHANGE WE
BELIEVE IN”. It is the Youth
Development Day where we focus of
areas where the Youth can improve
on their skills and also teach them
new ones.
This day was handled by the Game
Changers crew, a non governmental
group aimed at uplifting Nigerian
youth to an enviable status. Training
sessions were conducted in Fish
Farming, Events Planning, Make Up
Artistry, Social Media Marketing,
Photography and several other
areas.
Training Session going on with Miss Chibuzor
A participant The Gamechangers Crew with Zizi Izegbuwa
Zizi Izegbuwa (in red jacket) with participants of her Social Media Session
6. day 3
The Cultural Day was facilitated by SHYLD YOUTH MOVEMENT , a non -governmental Organization
geared towards awakening the political consciousness of the Nigerian Youth. The Cultural Day took
place majorly at the Arts Theatre, University of Ibadan. Amidst other cultural performances, the play
the EDA THEATRE COMPANY, MAAFA, which has a prehistoric slavery setting thrilled the audience. The
experience was awesome and people from across the city came to enjoy the events.
THE DRUMS OF FORTUNE
7. Cross Section of audience of the Cultural Day
The SHYLD INITIATIVE crew and Members of MIBF’ 14 Squad
8.
9.
10. day 4
THE BEATS OF THE FUTURE
The Children Connect/Charity Fair Day was handled by ONE AFRICAN CHILD Initiative, a
nongovernmental organization geared towards promoting African children and A frican Culture.
Children from different public sc hools and children homes were brought to interact and have fun.
They were also taught values of the African Culture and the need for peaceful coexistence amongst
one another. The day was fun-filled and the children were left exhilarated at the end of event.
13. MIBF ‘2015
The Market Ibadan Business Festival 2014 was great
and the MIBF Squad would not stop at that.
The Market Ibadan Business Festival 2015 would be
greater, much more fun and better planned for and
would go beyond the gates of the University of
Ibadan walls and we move to explore the city.
With similarities with other festivals in other states like
the Calabar Festival, Lagos Heritage Festival and
several others, Market Ibadan Business Festival has a
lot of difference and is targeted towards improving
the economic status of the city of Ibadan as well as
reawaken the cultural awareness of its indigenes and
preserve it in everybody’s memories. We hope to be
able to invite international markets and cultures as
well as include several adaptations from some
festivals and business fair across the world.
MIBF 2015 promises to be one of the biggest events
of the year 2015 and may even topple the elections
as one of the most memorable events of the year.
With this team at the helm of affairs, doubting that
claim would be at anyone’s peril.
Watch out for the best,
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14. MARKET
IBAD AN
BUSINESS
FESTIV AL
2014
THE SQUAD
Alasiri Paul Tolulope
Publicity
Elect/Elect Engr.
Ayodeji Kehinde
Director of Publicity
Physiotherapy
Ugo Nwaokike
Director
Law
Adeolu Aliu
Finance Director
Law
Stephen Adelegan
Director of Logistics
Archeology
Eloka Nwagwu
Director of Planning
Agricultural Engr.
Habeeb Kolade
Creative Director
Mechanical Engr.
Elizabeth Adekunle
Planning
Agric Economics
Glory Aiyegbeni
Director, Human Resource
Political Science
Victoria Uzuaje
Planning,
Agric Economics
Oyesile Oluwafemi
Logistics
Mechanical Engr.
THE FRINGE
Victor
Adeoye
Siji, Gamechangers Magazine
One African Child
Students’ Union, UI
Photography by
Scematic Media
Beeb Photography
Printer
Bert Prints
15. FROM THE STUDENTS’
UNION GENERAL
SECRETARY
The Students’ Union was excited to partake in the
Market Ibadan Business Festival, an incredible and
commendable innovation which came from the
students of the University of Ibadan, the first and
the best. It was a laudable attempt of promoting
African culture and commerce in the most
dynamic way and in a good fashion that brings
the market days of old into memory.
Gradually, we can begin to see that students are
now willing to fill the lacuna in our society with their
efforts of the university which serves as the
mitochondria of the community at large. Our
fathers would be proud to have invested their
cocoa money into building an institution that
builds youth to provide solutions to societal
problems and also produce innovation that can
only move this nation forward.
Without much ado, we hope to continue to see
laudable acts by students of this university and the
Students’ Union can move from solving immediate
needs of students to proposing progressive
change through entrepreneurship and societal
involvement to the society at large.
I am proud to have been part of this.
Akinbuluma Ayokanmi
General Secretary
Students’ Union, University of Ibadan.
16. APPRECIATION
Special Appreciations go the University of Ibadan for its
concerted effort in ensuring the success of this event.We offer
sincere gratitude to the University of Ibadan Students’ Union
that actively supported the project especially in terms of
logistics and advocacy.We offer special thanks to friends and
families of the team who stood by us throughout the rigours of
our planning and execution.
The MIBF team also offers gratitude to those who believed in us
and offered their support either in terms of donations,
sponsorship or in others ways that are unquantifiable.We
thank you for making the great dream a reality.
With you, our wheel of progress will keep rolling on and you
can only expect the very best in the next edition of the Market
Ibadan Business Festival.
May the drums of fortune continue to beat in our homes and
hearts.
MIBF’ 14
