 What's up, beautiful people? It's your favorite village boy, Mr. Guido Baby, and I'm here in the northern part of Nigeria, Kanu, to be precise. Have you ever been here? Are you scared just like me? Brother, forget that and take that trip today. I'm a living testimony. I was super scared of coming to this place. I just wanted to stay here for two days just because of what I've been hearing in the media. I decided to forget the media, come in here, and it's been a week and I'm still here because I'm living my best life. Be like what am I. Forget the media and take that trip today. That could be your best journey ever. But hey, you know why I'm here? I am here to inspire you. This channel is all about education and inspiration. So let me tell you something. If you are new to the channel, do me a favor, subscribe and be part of this awesome family. I mean, please, we need to hit 700,000 by the end of this month. Do me a favor, like the video and subscribe. You know the kind of story I'm going to share today? It's about a young Sudanese guy who was born and raised in Kanu, left Kanu to the UK, and he decided to come back and start a poultry farm. I've been telling you that it's time to make Africa home again. It's time for each and every African out there. Both Africans that were born on the continent and Africans in the diaspora to be part of the change. Let's build Africa together. Do your part. It's time for all of us to be part of the solution. Not the problem. Enough of the complaints. Come with me and let's go meet this young and amazing gentleman here in Kanu. Hey, my brother. Hey, how are you doing? I'm good. Good to see you. Good to see you too. No, I heard that your Sudanese is living in Nigeria. Yes, that's right. How come? You know, our family has been here for a long time. Oh, okay. We started from our great-grandfather. And then your great-grandfather moved in there. And then my great-grandfather moved here. And then my grandfather grew up here. And then my dad grew up here. And then it's our generation now. So you will also give birth to another... Yes, hopefully. It's going to be generation after generation. My brother, my name is Wadamaya from Ghana. And then somebody told me about you. That you have a poultry farm with over 30,000 beds. I'm like, I really have to meet you. It's a pleasure to have you guys around. My name is Abdelay. And yeah, we've been into poultry for close to five years now. We've been dealing with layers specifically. We do egg production. And we also do point of lay production. I mean, you said five years. You started this five years. Five years ago, where were you? Five years ago, I was involved in a completely separate part of our business. We manufacture leather and we export agro-produce. So that was when I've done my research on poultry. And I've insisted on myself to establish a poultry farm. And thankfully, so far, we've grown year by year. And we feel blessed to be where we are at the moment. How many beds did you start with? I started with 1,000 beds. 1,000 beds? But now we have just 5,000 beds. We have 30,000 layers. And we have point of lay quarterly. We produce about 25,000. So in a year, we're talking about between 75,000 to 100,000 point of lays. Some people watching us don't know what you're saying, point of lay. What does that mean? Point of lay is when you bring a day old chick from the hatcheries and then you rear it up until the point of 16 weeks, 18 weeks, 20 weeks. Just before they start producing eggs. So that the farmers that don't want to go through the hassle of rearing the chickens, they can just buy this point of lays ready, put it in their farm, and over the course of 2-3 weeks they'll start producing eggs and they'll love the way to the bank. The person who introduced me to you told me that you were in the UK. Yes. You stayed in the UK? Yeah, I spent a few years in the UK. How long? About 5 years. I went for uni in the UK, also spent a bit of time over there, did some internships, worked with a few companies. And then you decided to leave the few companies and come back home? Yeah, exactly. Is something wrong with your brain? No, there's nowhere like home. No, if you go to Twitter right now, I know a few Nigerians that just travel to Canada and they're like, I'm out of Nigeria. Thank God in Canada. And you had a chance to go there and within 4-5 years you decided to come back. You were even working there. Yeah. Why would you do that? There's nowhere like home, honestly. Africa is blessed, so many African countries, there's so many opportunities for you to come and explore on, add value to your country, provide... I'm fortunate to have studied abroad and I think it's about time that people should start coming back to their home countries and adding value where they see fit. So, I mean, you've added something by starting a pottery farm. We just want to know, do you think that I can become rich being a pottery farmer? Definitely. Value chain is big. We started off by just dealing with the birds. That is from the old chick to the consumer. Okay. But the value chain is big. You can start, like now we're involved in feed production and we're looking at establishing a hatchery as well in order to provide B2F, that's business to farm, with inputs. So yeah, the value chain is big and there's so many opportunities in the whole industry. Okay. And it's welcome to so many people to get involved in it and I'd be happy to help anyone that's looking to come into the business and provide them with any sort of help or consultation that they need. You have to take me around? Yeah. Is that okay? Definitely, it's a pleasure. It's a pleasure having you guys around. So, this is how we started. Literally, it was just four small pens. This is where we had our first 1000 birds and the first endeavour was successful and that's how we gradually increased our numbers quarter by quarter, year by year. I mean starting with the 1000 birds, what was the major challenge that you faced when you were starting? It was just not knowing the ins and outs of the business. They didn't have anyone to show me around or show me like a stepping stone into the business. So, it took a lot of research and mistakes. You obviously grow with mistakes and... So, which means that you had no idea of Portree family? No idea. So, what really inspired you to start a Portree family? It was just reading about the business, reading about the numbers, knowing a lot of people have been successful in it before. Okay. And you know, no one is... anyone that can do something, you can do it as well. So, there's nothing that's impossible, basically. Is it profitable? It's profitable, yes. It's profitable. That's how we've been able to increase our numbers over the past five years. Growth has been organic. No extra capital injection. It was just what the farm has made in profit that we reinvested back into it. Are you planning to make it bigger? Yes, definitely. Definitely. We're looking at increasing our layer numbers from 30,000 to 60,000. And our point of lay production in a year from 75,000 to 100,000 to maybe 150,000. So, the market is big. The demand is there. The supply is restrained. So, we hope to fill in that gap by ensuring we can provide more supply into the market. And who are the consumers? We've had over 50 customers that bought our point of lay, including World Bank. They have this program called Appeals Project, in which they buy point of lay from big farms like ours and then the supply small folder farms from 100,000 to 1,000 birds. So, over the past three years since we started our point of lay, we've never had any complaints. And we're just increasing our numbers. The extension that you're doing, yeah? Yeah. So, I just want to ask you a simple question, yeah? How do you see yourself in the next 10 years? In the next 10 years, we hope to be in all of the value chain. Okay. We want to establish a hatchery. We want to produce spoilers for table consumption. So, not just being involved in the egg production and the layer business and the feed production. I'm so glad that you want to try the broilers because if you had broilers, I would have taken one home. I love chicken, you know? Like, you know, when I went to China, I was a classmate. Yeah. And the only phrase that I know is, I'm so glad that you want to have broilers. Definitely. That's the one I come. I'm going to have one. How many people have you employed so far? We are employing throughout the business about 50 people. 50 people? Yes. You left the UK? You came to start a poultry farm? I mean, some of the people out there might even think poultry is for people who don't have money or poultry is for poor people. Why I think always is that every business, you have to start with a single step until you make a giant leap. So start with a small step, learn from your mistakes, and then it will bound to be successful as long as you work harder. So this is the laying section of the farm. Oh, okay. This is the final stage, yeah? The final stage, yeah. Wow. We have 30,000 birds, laying birds. Okay. And a day they produce about 700 to 800 crates. 700 to 800 crates? 800 crates, yeah. So... How many crates? A crate is 1,100 to 1,200. And 700 to 800? 800 crates a day. That's like one million Naira. Yeah, she's giving you one million plus. I mean, like sitting in a bank, you definitely not going to get one million Naira in a day. It's really lucrative, man. Yeah, it's a good venture. Will you tell somebody to venture into poultry farm? Definitely. I'll advise anyone they should try this business out. Just like any other thing that you might want to do, it might be a bit difficult at first. But once you work hard, persevere, it's a very lucrative business to be involved in. Very lucrative business. I mean, I know you lived abroad. You came back here. We have so many brothers and sisters living in the diaspora right now. Yeah. If you have a message for them, what would that message be? They should come back to Africa. So many opportunities. So many opportunities. It might be difficult at first. You might hear bad things. But opportunities are here. You heard bad things about Africa when you were coming? I heard a lot of things about Africa. But obviously having grown up here, I knew all of it was false. So I wasn't going to be scared into not coming. So this is my piece of advice to everyone that's not in Africa. Come back. Things are not as bad as they might think it is. If you have a chance to change something in Africa, what will it be? I'll say the ease of doing business. If more governments can make it easier for individuals and companies to do business. I think that would be a huge stepping stone into enabling a lot of people to venture into their own respective business. What you are saying, which means it's so difficult to do business in Africa. That's what you want to change because you're a businessman. I want to say thank you so much for talking to me. Thank you very much. It's a pleasure having you around. Thank you. You're always welcome to join us here in Nigeria. But please, I think I would need to get one crate of eggs before I leave here. Definitely. Don't forget to like this video. I hope you enjoyed this amazing episode. Subscribe and be part of this city channel. We need to reach 700,000. Be part of the 700,000 family. I am Maya. Peace out.