 Welcome back to the YouTube channel, it's your favourite village boy Mr Ghana, baby enemy Nigeria for the second time. Arise o kompa troi Nigeria's Kolobi Yes, it feels so good to be back here again but hey, Nigeria is not just Abuja and Lagos. This time around I decided to explore the northern part of Nigeria actually I am here because my friend is getting married and when I go here he decided to host me in this four bedroom charlie oh my goodness I know that my time in Nigeria is gonna be good but hey you know how would do it I cannot come and stay here and see how beautiful this places and decide to keep quiet I really have to show you the person behind it. The first time seeing this face on your screen my name is Wadomaya an African hitting vlogger who is on a journey to change the narratives of Africa please do me a favor subscribe and let's hit 700,000 subscribers by the end of this month and do me a favor by liking the video come with me let me go talk to the Nigerian family behind this amazing resort that you seen on your screen the managing director of Porto Gulf resort yeah you guys have done an amazing job man thank you do you know that I never knew something like this that's just here in Kano I'm really happy to have you here and I'm sure you're not the first person that thinks that many people that live in Kano that come here still tell us how surprised they are to find something like this in Kano this is really huge you know I've been to a golf resort it's like a golf resort estate but it's kind of different I mean you have even I think what do you call it the polo yeah the polo field the golf course the arcade recreational center it's like everything involved which means you build on something for the whole Kano community or something yeah and it's we're looking to be honest with you we're doing it phase by phase so we finish something we start another we finish something we start another but the whole concept is to sort of provide a community where everyone can come with their family friends can come so it's it's supposed to be an integrated place where everyone has something to do at the same time so you can come with your family you can play golf while the kids are just the kids are playing your wife can be resting in the chile so it's it's a plus or minus it's an all-round environment for families to go if definitely they have someone like me who can swim they can also use the swimming pool that would be a lovely idea I'd love to try you and see if you can see the location of this resort it's everything exactly because it's just a mere 20 to 30 minutes from inside Kano so it's it's doable and it's very accessible and it's a very safe area safe road never had any issues that you could speak about nothing extra so I'm I'm very confident to say anyone can have access to this place you know I don't know your name my name is Wadamaya from Ghana and you have to tell me your name Wadamaya my name is Mohammed Mohammed Nakudu to Mohammed yes okay Mohammed Mohammed Nakudu Nakudu yes it's a pleasure meeting you lovely to meet you you know what I really wanted to see you because I want to know the african guy behind this project I think I think I wouldn't put it as a guy I'll put it as the african family behind this project I'm so sorry yeah that's that's that would be a better way to put it so an african family behind this yeah it's a family project who started this project basically my dad started this project between 2005 to 2007 started acquiring different pieces of farmland over a period of time at first it was just a garden area just with huts and grass on top for people to just come on visit and sit and we made sandwiches we sold drinks and ice cream and stuff like that so over a period of time we realized the traffic that we were getting uh people were asking us out do you have accommodation I was like oh no we don't currently but we're working on it so we started building the the chalice we built the clubhouse we started the arcade we started the golf course so it's it was a phase by phase project it's not something that happened overnight there's something that happened over a long time because I'm seeing the whole project it's really huge yeah I'm like how many acres are these man approximately let's say between 60 to 80 hectares approximately yeah so that's incredible but I hope you really like the place no no it's not like like it's under statement I really love it and I just want to know there's something that I don't understand why the name portal golf resort I think portal golf resort uh is it derived from a place in Egypt called Porta Sukna uh my dad used to go there uh on holidays and he sort of loved the environment and how integrated everything was and to an extent felt we never had anything like that here so got the image there got the idea started executing slowly with obviously the the dream of realizing a bigger and better environment over a period of time but uh that's a gradual thing and that's something we're working on and we've been working on from the beginning as you can see this place every day when you come there's something new every day it's there they are improvements we try and maintain it as much as we can we try and manage the staff as much as we can we try and help the community as much as we can so it's an all-round project that everyone benefits from it's not just us I think the community will be very glad to have us because 70 to 80 percent of the people that work here are from uh the menjibu local government which is where the result is located so plus or minus even employment wise I think we've done well to to put our people's interests at heart uh Mohammed you said your father started a project yeah Mohammed where were you that time when daddy started the project when he started the project I was in London at the time I was doing my A levels uh started in 2008 and then I finished in 2010 um yeah and um I had your lawyer yeah practically I went I studied law at university in Southampton from 2010 to 2013 uh did my masters in halt business school from 2013 to 2014 and then I got back to Nigeria did my nyc first then I went to law school why would you leave the UK and then come and manage a resort in Africa I think for me personally uh the most important thing for me is to make sure whatever you do you make a difference you have an impact on people's lives you create employment uh you have the sort of control you want in in a certain environment in London it's yes it's possible to get a job it's possible to work for someone but it's very difficult to have the sort of impact and there was no better place to do that than coming back home because obviously whoever your it's it's it's boosting the economy in Africa the tourism sector so everything I do now apart from the practice I do uh everything I do is tourism related from the hotel to the resort to the football you have a hotel too yeah so the resort has a there's a subsidiary of the resort which is called Portugal hotels which is an inside town we have about 64 rooms now but we're expanding it about 100 rooms approximately by the end of the year so like this one was the first project this one was the first project the hotel just opened two years ago so this resort gave back to the hotel yeah and personally I just want to know yeah when we go back daddy was doing this one he came to continue yeah what about the hotel I mean two years ago which means that the hotel I started from scratch like by yourself it was my idea 110 percent 110 percent was that your first ever project that they started alone in here that was my second project my first project was my fire six aside football astrotal football pitch called La Sultana I started that right after coming back from university built it designed it on paper with a pen and paper I know you must think I'm crazy but no I actually designed it on paper built it commissioned it and opened it officially everything started working then I went to law school after I went to law school I decided okay maybe it was the right time to to do the hotel but then I didn't have as much time as I wanted so I started the hotel project then I went to law school so every weekend I used to drive or take the plane from Abuja to Kano to go and see what was going on to sort of get an idea of what we needed to do going forward so slowly it was a gradual thing but we slowly put it together and the hotel was done in a similar way obviously with architects and engineers and people that knew their stuff mine was to bring the idea to the table I agree on what needs to be done and just make sure it's done that's the sort of way in which I work and if I should ask you what makes poto golf results unique what are you going to tell me to be honest with you there's no there's you don't need to go beyond certain words to understand what poto golf is there are not many places in the whole northern Nigeria you can count how many results they are as a complete facility there are not many results that have half of the facilities we do the environment number one is very serene number two we try and maintain what we have as much as we can number three we're always working on ways in which we can improve our customer service number four every single year there's a certain phase of the project that moves forward so it's it's if you come this year and you don't come back to next year you will definitely see something new so I think people look forward to things like that because no one wants to see a stagnant business with no improvement and stuff like that so we we try as much as possible to push the project forward so that it can come to an end and for your own information there's something I need to tell you since we started this project we've never taken taking one dime out of it everything that is made in the business is put back into the business just to make sure that we get to where we want to get you mean like you make profit but you're not using the profit we've never taken anything out of this business from for the since I've been back I can assure you none nothing has been taken out of this business yeah what are the kind of activities that goes on in here the main thing that goes on here practically the the face of the place is the golf the golf defines the place because golf is a very well respected sport it's played by very mature individuals in a very sensible manner the golf is the face of the results we have the polo which is a lot more aggressive and a lot more exciting so you can see the the difference there and apart from that we have a football pitch we have the outdoor arcade which has the swings and all these activities that people be excited to to be part of we have the indoor arcade we have the we have the chalice we have the rooms we have the conference hall we have the garden so I think we've we've given enough activities for people to do when they come here wherever you want I think there will be something for you to do I saw an ostrich in here yeah we have a few animals funny enough I forgot about horse riding and you can ride donkeys and camels if you want I don't think I will be able to try why why why in Ghana do you have donkeys do you have donkeys why no that's so if you can play with if you can play with a dog I don't see why you'll be scared of a donkey to be honest I would love you I would love you to go horse riding I'm scared of horses myself but I think if you are scared then I'm more scared no you shouldn't you shouldn't be scared you're here to explore different things yeah I'm here to explore different things yeah but maybe in my next life oh my god so so you want to leave Ghana come to Nigeria I'm not riding a horse no but at least I can come to Kano and eat amara oh interesting I see that I see what you're trying to do there as far as there's food I've tried something oh fair fair but I just want to know yeah we have several so many Nigerians in the diaspora especially like Africans in general living abroad you live there you came back brought a change to the continent if you should advise your fellow brothers and sisters living abroad to come back home what would that message be I think to be honest personally from personal experience what I feel is when you live in the UK for instance what that offers you is it offers you comfort and security so you can survive be it 50 or 100 years you can survive but progression is very difficult when you live outside of your comfort zone for instance what you get here is when people that have lived abroad come back home what they offer to the community here has so much value because they are more exposed they will probably have more experience and they have a lot of network that can bring a lot of to make a lot of difference to our people here and I feel when you come here is when you put whatever you've learnt there into use and to be honest there's no better place to make a difference than where you come from and if we grow our tourism sector here do we need to go somewhere else no people in this December the whole world was in Dubai the only African country that was as busy in terms of tourism and people from outside the country coming in is probably Ghana nowhere else everywhere else was very quiet but why do you think it's like that I think it's our mentality it's it's our mindset we don't appreciate what we have we always look beyond what we have so let's say for instance now I can go to Kenya and have an amazing time but say oh no I want to go to Maldives but I could I'm not saying don't go to the Maldives but I think it's important for us to appreciate and support businesses within Africa before going out of Africa because if we don't support ourselves no one would even know we have what we have we have to put what we have out there for people to know we have it for them to come here and that is why I always tell Africans that if you are doing something please send me an email let me come and visit you because and if I didn't come here definitely you wouldn't know from Ghana we never know that something like this exists yeah yeah you see um brother I just want to ask if you had opportunity to change something in Nigeria or Africa what would that be our mindset our mindset I mean the way we think yeah the way we think is the biggest problem we have there is a certain way to do things for a certain reason that's logic the logical way is usually the right way even if it's not the right way is the closest thing to the right way but generally I'm not I'm not going to pick on Nigerians because I'm Nigerian obviously but generally Africans always find a way to call corners they is always they always find a way to cut corners they can't just be straight and there is a right way of doing things but we always have a have to find a way to go around the system to get a result if we all follow the right way then I think we'll all be fine so it's the mindset if we change our mindset it goes a long way if we change our mindset it goes a long way but I wanted to know um if somebody is coming to canoe why must that person visit poto gulf resort and poto gulf hotel there's nowhere better that's why our motto is it's a different world it's really a different world I hope you guys enjoy this amazing interview and please do me a favor like the video and most importantly subscribe and be part of this youtube channel like I said this month we need to reach 700 000 subscribers by the end of the year we need to hit a million please be part of this family by subscribing it's 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