He graduated from UNN with BSc Computer Science in 2017. His name in college was Blockchain Oracle. He moved to Lagos and built an amazing company that employed tens of people. Then Nigeria put a switch – cryptocurrency is a financial sin – and switched off the opportunity. That week, he relocated to Dubai – and they gave him everything!
Last quarter, he acquired a small UK company and bought the IP of another one in Mauritius. His company enables companies and people to move money across countries at zero fee, using blockchain.
As a shareholder in his business, the hometown boy of Isuikwuto Abia State is amazing. Nigeria cannot make people like Franklin Peters Odoemenam uncomfortable with senseless bans when what we need is smart regulation.
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*startups worth at least $1billion.
** In Igbo Nation, killing a leopard qualifies one to enter the ikoro, the huge wooden drum that could be the size of a room. Chinua Achebe described it in many of his works, illustrating a time of urgency or uncommon events. For example, every wrestling match would begin with the ikoro summoning the village to the square. Franklin does not need to kill a leopard, he needs to bring home the “unicorn” and we will anoint him.
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