Nothing Fails in the Hands of a Woman – Funmi Ayinke – Adekojo

One of Nigeria’s most successful entrepreneurs, the MD/CEO Funmi Ayinke Nigeria Ltd, Engr. Funmi Ayinke Waheed Adekojo has declared that nothing fails in the hands of a woman.

Speaking in an interview with TVC’s award winning talkshow, ‘Your View’, the multi-dimentional corporate leader, emphasized the need for women to hardworking and be career focussed stressing that: “Being a full house wife is rubbish. What your hands find to do, defines what you are. If you stay at home all day, you will be nobody because all you will be seeing are the walls”.
She also pointed out the values of a hardworking woman in her husband’s life: “Every man out there wants somebody they can come back home to and share ideas with, if you stay at home all day, you’ll have no value to add.”
Referencing her marriage to Professor Waheed Adekojo, Funmi whose achievements include, ‘Africa’s Best Rated Engineer Award’ and married with four children, emphasized the need for a woman to make her husband her best friend and part of everything that she does: “I get my husband involved in all of my activities. I discuss everything I do with him and actually seek his approval before I make them public. As a responsible career woman, you must carry your husband along.

Funmi Ayinke as she is popularly called disclosed that she may have had many disappointments from people who pay good with bad while doing her various humanitarian work but she has continued, after accepting that humanity really doesn’t want anything back from anyone.

Known widely for her investment in the less privileged, Funmi Ayinke disclosed that her desire to serve humanity started with the circumstances surrounding her upbringing: “I was brought up by a single mother who was a teacher and then a school principal. I am a product of my mum who despite not having enough made sure I was educated. She believed in educating the girl child. She was always going to co-operatives to make sure we had the bare necessities. Through her, I know and believe in co-operative savings. I made a vow to God that if I became somebody, I would take on the plight of the Girl Child. I actually started during my youth service, I came into an agreement with my superiors to be supplying kerosene to widows on credit. When they sold, they would pay. I picked widows because I discovered they would first train the male child believing he in turn would help his sister but with the intervention I was giving, they were able to put their children of both gender in school. So when I formed the Funmi Ayinke Foundation, my first constituency was the widows.

On her Talent Hunt Show where she empowers youths to start new businesses after their pitch, the brilliant Funmi Ayinke disclosed that the show is her own way of sowing her tithe: “I know some pastors will not like this but the talent hunt is my way of payingy tithes. I see that there are a lot of rich churches but so many poor members so I would gather my tithes for about five months and ask my team to call for a talent hunt. I am so fulfilled because most of the businesses are thriving so well. You would see a farmer from a place as far as Kano sending me Tomatoes grown from farms funded by the talent hunt project.
When asked how she seems to have such magical hands as everything she touches turns to gold, Funmi Ayinke boldly declared: “Nothing Fails in the Hands of a Woman”.

Funmi Ayinke Waheed Adekojo is a successful entrepreneur, business woman, award winning Engineer, inspirational singer and a wife.