Tochukwu Samuel Ikpegbu

Tochukwu Samuel Ikpegbu has over seven years’ experience in pork production. He is the MD and CEO of Jaeet Nigeria Ltd, a pig farm. He has mentored over 50 young farmers in agribusinesses and several others in various business endeavors. Tochukwu Samuel Ikpegbu is a mechanical/production engineer from Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka. He has a certificate in Entrepreneurship Management from the Enterprise Development Center, Pan-Atlantic University, Lagos. He has won two national awards from Harambe Nigeria and Future Project Africa. He will apply his Mandela Washington Fellowship experience mainly in growing local businesses in his community as a means to reduce the high rate of youth unemployment. He will launch a youth-based entrepreneurship organization focusing on encouraging youths to embrace entrepreneurship in order to be self-reliant. His vision is to create an average of 100 jobs with an expected 20% increase per annum.