Keep innovating!…
“Encourage staff to be innovative, do things innovatively.”
Kofo Akinkugbe, founder, Secure ID, (Nigeria)
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Kofo Akinkugbe, founder of Secure ID (Nigeria)
Kofo Akinkugbe, a Nigerian innovator and technology market leader
Kofo Akinkugbe
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Secure ID, Africa’s market leader in smart card technology and digital security.
Kofo Akinkugbe is a Nigerian innovator and technology market leader. This remarkable woman entrepreneur founded a company that today is recognised globally as a market leader in Africa's smart card technology and digital security industry.
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Kofo Akinkugbe, founder & CEO of SecureID Nigeria Ltd (Nigeria)
"Whatever you do, do well. You never know who is watching."
Kofo Akinkugbe, founder & CEO of SecureID Nigeria Ltd (Nigeria)
Read moreKofo Akinkugbe '100 Lionesses' Profile - Meet Nigeria's trailblazing innovator in smart card manufacturing
Kofo Akinkugbe, founder & CEO of SecureID Nigeria Ltd (Nigeria)
Kofo Akinkugbe is recognised globally for her entrepreneurial success story and strong business track record. She is founder & CEO of SecureID Nigeria Ltd a market leader in smart card technology and digital security. SecureID is a world-class manufacturing facility with the only smart card production plant in West Africa and one of only six on the continent. This company serves 16 countries across Africa and is fully certified by VISA, Verve and MasterCard. In 2012, Kofo won the Africa Awards for Entrepreneurship Mature Business Award.
Read more100 LIONESSES: Featuring Kofo Akinkugbe, innovator and smart card technology market leader
Kofo Akinkugbe is recognised globally for her entrepreneurial success story and strong business track record. She is founder & CEO of SecureID Nigeria Ltd a market leader in smart card technology and digital security. SecureID is a world-class manufacturing facility with the only smart card production plant in West Africa and one of only six on the continent. This company serves 16 countries across Africa and is fully certified by VISA, Verve and MasterCard. In 2012, Kofo won the Africa Awards for Entrepreneurship Mature Business Award.
Read moreQuote of the Day by Kofo Akinkugbe
Kofo Akinkugbe, founder & CEO of SecureID Nigeria Ltd (Nigeria)
"Once you have a good plan and a good concept and you work through it, the funds will always come."
- Kofo Akinkugbe is recognised globally for her entrepreneurial success story and strong business track record. She is founder & CEO of SecureID Nigeria Ltd a market leader in smart card technology and digital security in Africa. SecureID is a world-class manufacturing facility with the only smart card production plant in West Africa and one of only six on the continent. In January 2015 the company commissioned a new state-of-the-art EMV-certified smartcard manufacturing plant – the first of its kind in Sub-Saharan Africa. The company serves 16 countries across Africa and is fully certified by VISA, Verve and MasterCard. In 2012, Kofo won the Africa Awards for Entrepreneurship Mature Business Award.
Read moreEntrepreneur Advice from Kofo Akinkugbe: We must be creative
We must be creative....
"We need to create an environment that would drive creativity. Do not be afraid to test new things. We must be creative, ensuring we are a step ahead of competition."
- Kofo Akinkugbe is founder & CEO of SecureID Nigeria Ltd. She is a highly respected African business leader who has become a market leader in smart card technology and digital security. SecureID is world-class manufacturing company with the only smart card production plant in West Africa and one of only six on the continent. Her company serves 16 countries across Africa and is fully certified by VISA, Verve and MasterCard. In 2012, Kofo won the Africa Awards for Entrepreneurship Mature Business Award.
Read moreKofo Akinkugbe’s SecureID launches new SIM Card manufacturing line in Nigeria
SecureID Limited, founded by one of Africa’s leading women entrepreneurs, Kofo Akinkugbe, has commissioned a SIM Card manufacturing line to support the needs of Nigeria’s rapidly growing mobile telecoms sector. Launched in 2005, SecureID is an independent, privately owned company located in Lagos, Nigeria that manufactures banking and telecom cards with mag stripe and chip encoding. This new manufacturing line ensures SecureID will continue to lead the way in delivering ‘innovative and first to market’ card technology and solutions.
Read moreQuote of the Day by Kofo Akinkugbe
Kofo Akinkugbe, founder & CEO of SecureID Nigeria Ltd
"You will have opposition. If you're going to stand out, you are not going to be loved by the crowd. It can be lonely."
- Kofo Akinkugbe is recognised globally for her entrepreneurial success story and strong business track record. She is founder & CEO of SecureID Nigeria Ltd a market leader in smart card technology and digital security in Africa. SecureID is a world-class manufacturing facility with the only smart card production plant in West Africa and one of only six on the continent. In January 2015 the company commissioned a new state-of-the-art EMV-certified smartcard manufacturing plant – the first of its kind in Sub-Saharan Africa. The company serves 16 countries across Africa and is fully certified by VISA, Verve and MasterCard. In 2012, Kofo won the Africa Awards for Entrepreneurship Mature Business Award.
Read moreVIDEO: Kofo Akinkugbe shares her entrepreneurial journey to founding SecureID in Nigeria
Kofo Akinkugbe, founder of Secure ID Limited share her entrepreneurial journey at the 7th Annual Career Conference themed ''Continuous Improvement'' held in Lagos on 17 March 2015. She talks about the birth of her company SecureID Nigeria Ltd.
Read moreKofo Akinkugbe’s SecureID a market leader in smart card technology unveils a new online enrolment solution for Nigerian lawyers
Kofo Akinkugbe, founder and ceo of SecureID, Nigeria
Nigerian specialist smart card company, SecureID, the brainchild of the highly-respected entrepreneur, Kofo Akinkugbe, is once again demonstrating why it is a leader in its field of expertise. This month, the company has unveiled a new pre-paid solution to aid the seamless enrolment of members to the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) in Abuja.
Read moreKofo Akinkugbe founder of SecureID Nigeria unveils state-of-the-art new smartcard manufacturing plant
SecureID founded by one of Africa's leading women entrepreneurs, Kofo Akinkugbe, commissioned a brand new state-of-the-art manufacturing facility on January 19th. This new facility in Lagos is a world class, EMV-certified smartcard manufacturing plant – the first of its kind in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Read moreKofo Akinkugbe's SecureID Nigeria launches first of a kind bank and identity card manufacturing plant in Sub-Saharan Africa
Kofo Akinkugbe, founder and CEO of SecureID, Nigeria
Kofo Akinkugbe the founder of SecureID in Nigeria has launched the first EMV Plant in Sub-Saharan Africa that enables the local production of SIM cards, and SIM packages for the telecoms industry, bank payment cards and other high security polycarbonate identity cards.
Read moreKofo Akinkugbe's SecureID teams up to advance financial inclusion in Nigeria
Kofo Akinkugbe, founder & CEO of SecureID Nigeria Ltd
SecureID Nigeria Limited, founded by Kofo Akinkugbe, a leading Nigerian digital solution provider certified by Visa, MasterCard, and Verve for Chip Embedding, Chip Encoding, Chip Personalization, Card Personalization, and Card Fulfillment, in partnership with Sterling Bank has provided a Biometric ID Card to enable ‘Financial Inclusion’.
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Read moreKofo Akinkugbe - The startup story of a Nigerian innovator and technology market leader
Kofo Akinkugbe, founder of Secure ID
This remarkable Nigerian woman founded a company that is recognised globally as a market leader in Africa's smart card technology and digital security industry.
Read moreEntrepreneur Advice from Kofo Akinkugbe: Trust that the funds will always come
Trust that the funds will always come....
"Once you have a good plan and a good concept and you work through it, the funds will always come."
- Kofo Akinkugbe is founder & CEO of SecureID Nigeria Ltd. She is a highly respected African business leader who has become a market leader in smart card technology and digital security. SecureID is world-class manufacturing company with the only smart card production plant in West Africa and one of only six on the continent. Her company serves 16 countries across Africa and is fully certified by VISA, Verve and MasterCard. In 2012, Kofo won the Africa Awards for Entrepreneurship Mature Business Award.
Read moreKofo Akinkugbe: Innovation is key to SME success
Source: Business Day, January 27, 2014
Kofo Akinkugbe, chief executive, Secure ID, a relatively young firm creating MasterCard and Visa, operating in 16 African countries, is an example of a chief executive that is succeeding based on innovation. Speaking at a forum recently on innovation on the CEO’s agenda, Akinkugbe urged business owners to build capacity that will sustain the creativity, that is, developing the capacity of employees....
Read moreKofo Akinkugbe: Creativity and capacity for Nigerian businesses
Published on Nov 27, 2013
The growth and development of businesses in the 21st Century hinges on the strategic engagement of creativity and capacity into the models that guarantee sustainability of operations and service delivery. This is pivotal to Small Medium Enterprises, that are drivers of the economy. In this discourse on 'Creativity and Capacity' for Businesses from the FBN SME CONNECT conference Mr Seyi Oyefeso Group Head Retail, First Bank engages leading enterpreneurs Mrs Kofo Akinkugbe, Mrs Ndidi Nwuneli, Mr Audu Maikori on this important topic.
Read moreIntroducing SecureID - Nigeria's foremost Smart Card manufacturing company
Published on Nov 29, 2012
African Leadership Network introduces you to the winner of the 2012 Africa Awards for Entrepreneurship "Outstanding Mature Business" category, SecureID. SecureID is Nigeria's foremost Smart Card manufacturing company. It is the leading Europay, MasterCard and Visa- certified card plant in West Africa, one out of only 6 on the continent and a member of the elite club of only 80 such companies in the world. SecureID provides comprehensive end-to-end payment, identity management and digital security solutions for the financial services, telecommunications, education, healthcare, petroleum and transport sectors.
Read moreSecure ID Emerges Most Outstanding Business in Africa
Source: All Africa, published on October 29, 2012
In recognition of its excellent business practice, SecureID Limited has been named the Most Outstanding Mature Business in the 3rd African Leadership Network Awards for Entrepreneurship.
SecureID, it stated, was recognised for its pre-eminence as a thoroughbred start-up of African origin, competing successfully in a global market.
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