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“You can’t dream past what you know.” Meet Juwon Akin-Olotu, farmer, founder of Forthwith Global, and the man behind a 112-hectare farm-and-training-school in Ore, Nigeria.

To read how one question on the street changed the course of his life, and what he thinks is really holding Nigerian agriculture back.

Full Q&A on the blog. See link in bio. by @yourwealthyuncle

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2 months ago

I had the pleasure of speaking to students at Ijapo High School in Akure this past Friday. My dear friend, E.E. Willie Esq., pulled me aside last Saturday after church and asked if I’d be willing to speak at a mentorship program her non-profit organizes. Without hesitation, I said yes, it was an honor to be invited.

All week, I reflected on what I wanted to share with these young, impressionable minds. One scripture kept coming back to me: the Parable of the Talents in Matthew 25:14-30. Most times, when we speak about this parable, the focus is on the first two servants who multiplied what they were given and the third who buried his gift. But this time, something else stood out to me:

“To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one—each according to his ability.”

That line hit me deeply. Each according to his ability. God never gives beyond what we’re capable of handling. He measures our ability, then entrusts us with opportunity. It tells me that heaven honors capacity, and that growth is not just desirable, it’s essential.

I encouraged the students to grow beyond the four walls of their classroom. Knowledge is good, but it’s applied knowledge that transforms lives. God wants to bless us, but He’s looking for vessels big enough to carry the blessing. You’ve got to broaden your container.

So to anyone reading this: grow your mind, stretch your spirit, sharpen your skills. Your next level is waiting, but your ability must rise to meet it.

With love,
Your Wealthy Uncle
Bringing God’s Wealth unto the Nations

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#PurposeDrivenYouth by @yourwealthyuncle

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The Youth in Sustainable Agri-allied Empowerment Initiative (YISAE), through our Youth in Agric Program (YAP), implemented another impactful School Tree Planting Awareness Program—this time at Saint Daniel’s College, Akure on March 20th, 2025.

Though I couldn’t be physically present, the YAP team—Omololu, @tobialademehin , and @ethelreal executed the initiative with excellence. They educated over 400 students on the importance of trees in combating climate change, the dangers of deforestation, and how young people can play a vital role in afforestation. The students also got a glimpse into agricultural coding under our CodeGreen Africa initiative, sparking interest in AgriTech as a pathway to environmental solutions.

From the quizzes to the interactive sessions, the students were brilliant, curious, and highly engaged.
These are the future climate champions and we’re proud to walk this journey with them. by @yourwealthyuncle

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2 years ago

🎓 Cohort II graduates this Saturday.

Over 1,500 applicants. 300 selected. 20+ countries. One capstone that tested whether they could actually defend a policy argument, not just recite one.

This Saturday, we celebrate the people who did it.

📍 Virtual Graduation Ceremony
🗓️ Saturday, 17 October 2026
🕐 12pm WAT
💻 Online via Zoom
🔗 Register/join: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/81997582322?pwd=M734jLFcjDpnoGyzsLymnybfV5C0vN.1

Graduates, faculty, partners, family, and friends, all welcome. Join 10 minutes early.

Africa will feed Africa, and this Saturday, 300 more people join the work of building the policy that holds it up. 🌱

#AgriImpactPolicyLab #SchoolOfAgriculturalPolicy #AfricaWillFeedAfrica #AgriculturalPolicy #FoodSystems PolicyLeadership by @yourwealthyuncle

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5 days ago

I have a confession that will sound strange coming from a man who just spent an entire letter telling you to be delusional, to reach for the impossible, to refuse the comfort of small dreams. Here it is. I am learning to slow down.

Not because my dream shrank. Not because I lost my nerve. But because I have started to understand something Solomon understood long before me.

“To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven.”

Ecclesiastes three opens with that sentence for a reason. Even the wisest man who ever lived, a man given wisdom directly from God, still had to submit to timing he did not control.

I finish something significant and for a moment I am genuinely happy. Then the joy leaves faster than I expect it to. My mind is already reaching for the next mountain before I have finished catching my breath on this one. I used to think that restlessness was ambition. Lately I have come to suspect it is impatience wearing ambition’s clothes.

You cannot rush greatness. There is a process to things, and most of us are trying to solve decade old problems in a matter of days, trying to become known before we have become the kind of person who can survive being known. I have watched it happen to others. Sudden platforms handed to people who had not yet built the capacity to carry the weight of them, and the collapse that followed was not because God’s gift was wrong, it was because the vessel was not ready. I do not want to be that man. I would rather be small and sound than large and hollow.

Read the full article on my Substack. Link in bio by @yourwealthyuncle

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Delusional in Christ: Reckless faith, and the God who funds impossible visions

There is a word for men like me. My friends use it half joking, half in awe, when I tell them what I believe God is going to do with my hands. Delusional. And I have stopped fighting the label. I have started wearing it.
Let me tell you what I mean, because it is not what you think.
I am not delusional about my capabilities. I know exactly how small they are. I know the limits of my bank account, the limits of my education, the limits of what one man who grew up in Akure can physically accomplish in a single lifetime. If you audited me by what I have in hand, you would find a modest man with a modest reach. But I am not measuring myself by what is in my hand. I am measuring myself by who lives inside me.
“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.” Philippians 4:13 is not a verse I quote for decoration. It is the whole architecture of my confidence. Paul did not write those words from a mountaintop of comfort. He wrote them from a prison cell, having learned, in his own words, the secret of being content whether he had plenty or nothing at all. That is the delusion I am talking about. A man in chains writing about limitless strength. A man with nothing declaring he lacks nothing that matters.

The man who pursues in lack
I call myself your wealthy uncle, and people assume it is a joke about money I do not have. It is not a joke. It is a confession. I carry wealth I did not deposit myself. Every vision, every impossible-sounding assignment on my life, was placed there by Someone with unlimited resources and a habit of funding what He starts.
“Who has despised the day of small things?” Zechariah asked that question over a remnant of Israel staring at the pitiful beginnings of a temple that would one day hold the glory of God. I ask myself that question every time I look at what is currently in my hands and feel the gap between it and what has been promised. The gap used to terrify me. Now I have learned to stand in it and pursue anyway.

Go read the full article on Substack. Link is in my bio. by @yourwealthyuncle

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Interactive Session 12: Food, Land & Tech: Youth Driving Sustainable Agriculture & Food Security

ORGANIZATION NAME: Bilanga group, Deloitte, World Economic Forum DC Global Shapers, Halcyon, Youth in Agric Program, Everlend AgriTech ltd, Willow Empowerment for Grassroot Development Initiative, Global Youth Leaders Project, Dibia Agricultural Helpline SL, Vital Green Pvt Ltd, Nigeria Bar Association & Internet Society Nigeria, Climate cardinals

MODERATORS: Mavitidi Emmanuel - COE, Bilanga group (DR Congo)
David Komba Kanda - Youth Representative (Sierra Leone)

Keynote Presentation: Rina L. - Climate Consultant and Market Shaper, Member and Climate Leader, Advisor for Climate Hubs, Deloitte, World Economic Forum DC Global Shapers, Halcyon (USA)
Juwon Akin-Olotu - Executive Director, Youth in Agric Program (Nigeria)

Multi-stakeholder Panel moderated discussion:
Emmanuel T. - CEO and Founder, Everlend Agritech ltd (Uganda)
William Femi Dare - Executive Director, Willow Empowerment for Grassroot Development Initiative (Nigeria)
Naa Fofo Djanie - Founder, Global Youth Leaders Project (Ghana)
SALIEU B BANGURA - Chief executive officer, Dibia Agricultural Helpline SL (Sierra Leone)
Tahir Abbas - CO-FOUNDER AND COO, Vital Green (Pvt) Ltd Pvt Ltd (Pakistan)
Afoegba Peter Goodyear - Member, Nigeria Bar Association (Ikeja Branch) & Internet Society (Nigeria)
Munashe Mawire - Founder zim chapter, Climate Cardinals (Zimbabwe)

Q&A Session taken in Global Leadership Summit by @yourwealthyuncle

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3 months ago

I spoke at the AgriConference 2.0 at the University of Lagos.

And I said something that I want to say here, where more people can push back on it or build on it.

Nigeria’s agricultural problem is not primarily a farming problem. It is a planning problem. Specifically: we plan from too far away.

Every major agricultural decision routes through Abuja. The national plan. The national budget. The national input subsidy. The national crop calendar. Designed by people who lack the specifics and nuance of Nigeria’s diverse Agro ecological zones. And then we wonder why programmes designed nationally perform poorly locally.

Here is what the data says.

In 2003 Nigeria signed the Maputo Declaration, committing to allocate at least 10 percent of the national budget to agriculture annually. Over the ten years between 2014 and 2024, Nigeria’s average agricultural budget allocation was 2.35 percent. In 2025, it fell to less than 2 percent of the national budget.
Twenty-two years of commitment. Not a single year of compliance.

But here is what bothers me even more than the allocation number. Across sub-Saharan Africa, FAO research shows that on average 21 percent of agricultural budgets that are allocated go unspent. We are not even spending the little we commit.

And what we do spend goes through Abuja. Uniformly. Without regard for the fact that Ondo State is the cocoa capital of Nigeria. That Kebbi produces rice. That Benue is the food basket. That Kano has groundnut heritage. That the Middle Belt has some of the most fertile food crop land on the continent.

Nigeria has twelve distinct agro-ecological zones. We have one national agricultural policy.
I told that room what I will tell this one. Before we draw a national agricultural plan, we must understand local and regional realities. We must invest in the areas of comparative advantage that each zone possesses. We must stop designing from the top and start building from the ground.

The video is an excerpt from my panel session. I want to know what you think.

Africa will feed Africa. taken in University of Lagos (UNILAG) by @yourwealthyuncle

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4 months ago

It was a warm evening in Bruges, my friend had invited me over for a barbecue. It was him, his wife, and a handful of their friends, all Belgian, and me, the only Nigerian in the garden.

The food was good, the wine was better, and for most of the night the conversation drifted the way conversations do at gatherings like this: weather, work, travel, the usual. Then, as it always seems to happen, the conversation turned to politics.

The host’s wife, curious and well-meaning, turned to me and asked, “What political party is currently ruling in Nigeria?”

“The All Progressives Congress,” I said.

Her face lit up. “Progressives! That’s awesome.”

I smiled, took a sip of my drink, and said nothing more.
I knew where the conversation would have gone if I had continued. I would have had to explain that the name on the door has almost nothing to do with what happens inside the house. That “progressive” in Nigerian politics is a label, not a commitment. That the party governing Africa’s largest democracy is progressive in the same way a building can be called a hospital while having no doctors, no medicine, and no beds. The name remains. The substance left a long time ago.

I have thought about that exchange many times since. Not because the woman was wrong to be hopeful, but because her hope was based on an assumption that political parties still mean what they say. And in Nigeria, that assumption died decades ago. What follows is the story of how it died, and what we lost when it did.

Read the full article on Substack:
https://open.substack.com/pub/yourwealthyuncle/p/the-death-of-political-idealism-how? by @yourwealthyuncle

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4 months ago

Many of the challenges facing farmers today can be traced back to poor policy design, weak implementation, and a lack of evidence based decision making.

That is why we created the School of Agricultural Policy (SOAP).

As we prepare for Cohort 2, we are recruiting volunteers who want to help build one of Africa’s emerging platforms for agricultural policy education and leadership.

We are looking for people interested in:

• Communications
• Graphic Design
• Community Management
• Content Creation
• Partnerships
• Program Coordination

📅 Deadline: June 19, 2026

Apply here: https://lnkd.in/dM-Hj9Xj

Join us in helping shape the future of agricultural policy in Africa.

#SchoolOfAgriculturalPolicy #SOAPAfrica #AgriImpactPolicyLab #AgriculturalPolicy #VolunteerOpportunity FoodSystems YouthLeadership AfricaAgriculture by @yourwealthyuncle

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The military did not just seize power in 1966.

They seized the system that was feeding Nigeria.

21 states today cannot fund 30% of their own operations.

Farmers are afraid to go to their farms.

Food inflation is eating household incomes alive.

None of this is accidental. It is by design.

Full article on Substack. Link in bio and below:

https://open.substack.com/pub/yourwealthyuncle/p/policy-without-apology-edition-04? by @yourwealthyuncle

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In 2023, I lost a newly planted 40-hectare farm.

It was set on fire by suspected herdsmen. I had no choice but to cut my losses and leave.

That same area saw an alarming increase in kidnappings. Farmers abducted in their fields. Women raped. School children taken.
I am telling my story because I need Nigerians to understand that insecurity is not a news headline for the people living through it. It is the end of livelihoods, the destruction of investments, the silencing of communities that were simply trying to feed this country.

And our government keeps doing the same thing and expecting different results.

We have fewer than 400,000 police officers serving a population of over 200 million people. That is one officer for every 500 citizens. But the number alone does not tell the full story. The officers we have are underpaid, poorly trained, and in many cases living in conditions we would not accept for our livestock. Very little has been invested in them as human beings, let alone as professionals.

And yet we wonder why the institution cannot hold.

Read the full article on my Substack page:
https://open.substack.com/pub/yourwealthyuncle/p/why-we-must-restructure-nigeria-elections? by @yourwealthyuncle

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