In the industrial outskirts of Abeokuta, the morning air hangs heavy with the scent of starch and wet earth. Inside a modest processing shed, women in hairnets feed cassava tubers into a humming stainless-steel grater. A year ago, most of this harvest would have been trucked out raw - sold cheapl
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Stephen Onyekwelu is BusinessDay’s Strategy & Enterprise Delivery Executive, specialising in turning editorial vision into enterprise outcomes. A former Online News Editor and lead of the Go Local initiative (print, podcast & BDTV in partnership with Providus Bank), he blends investigative storytelling with platform strategy, conference design, and cross-functional delivery.

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