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Ahead of Tomorrow on WebTV: COVID-19 Impact on Supply Chain and Disruptions on Operating Model

Nigeria Economy	1364 VIEWS
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Wednesday, April 15, 2020 / 05:50PM / By WebTV / Header Image Credit: Ecographics

WebTV's Market Review segment dedicated to #Coronanomics will be featuring a robust conversation on COVID-19: Impact on Supply Chain & Disruptions on Operating Model'.

Guest: Femi Awofala

Date: Thursday, April 16, 2020

Time: 9.00am

Platform: Livestream on YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram

Topic: COVID-19: Impact on Supply Chain and Disruptions on Operating Model

Highlights: Available later in the day with link to full video.

Host: Otto AbasiEkong, Editor, WebTV

Co-Host: Boason Omofaye, Guest Analyst and CEO Frontier Africa Reports

Key Questions for Discussion

Discuss how illness-related labour shortages, transport interruptions and quarantine measures are limiting access to markets and supply chain in Nigeria
The acute shortage of raw materials and intermediate inputs needed in the manufacturing sector due to the travel restrictions (air, water and land) will be discussed and the need to develop and resort to local raw materials source.
Brainstorm on alternative production inputs (technology, labour and raw materials) for Nigeria's manufacturing industry which can be home grown
Solutions and recommendations to the highlighted problems.

Guest Profile:

Femi AWOFALA is the Founder/CEO of Brickstone Africa, a Project Accelerator firm with strong focus in early stage project development for large industrial and infrastructure projects. Femi has over 15 years' experience advising Companies and Governments on private investments and has lead teams in the structuring and executing project/structured financings and M&A transactions in Energy, Mining & Infrastructure.

Femi was a Vice President at Travant Capital (now Alpha African Advisory), a private equity and investment advisory firm which raised and partially deployed a US$107m private equity fund. Femi was also an investment banking lead with Vetiva Capital Management Limited and ARM Investment Mangers where he lead teams on the advisory, structuring and management of more than $1 billion in public and private offerings of debt/quasi-equity/equity and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions for corporations and governments in Nigeria for over 7 years.

Mr. Awofala has an MBA from the Lagos Business School, Pan - African University, Lagos. He is volunteers as the Facilitator and Head, Mining & Manufacturing Policy Commission of the Nigeria Economic Summit Group (NESG).

You can follow him on LinkedIn , Facebook and Instagram. He can be contacted via email at E: foa@brickstone.africa

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