Adebayo Ogundipe
Director, Lagos Youth Enterprise Trust
“To move one thousand Lagos youth a year from informal hustle into dignified, formally-contracted trades while restoring the waterfront that raised them.”
An apprentice-trained electrician turned social entrepreneur who built West Africa's most cited youth-to-trade pipeline. Sits on the federal youth employment council.
- Hub
- Yaba Digital & Livelihoods Hub
- Since
- Opened 2018
- Households
- 3,140 households across Makoko, Ajegunle, Bariga
- Pillars
- Prosperity · People · Planet
- Model
- A waterfront cooperative model: micro-enterprise grants paired with mangrove restoration contracts so livelihoods and coastline are repaired in the same season.
- Youth moved into formal trades812 / 1,00081%
- Households reached3,140 / 3,50090%
- Mangrove hectares restored47 / 6078%
- Cooperatives chartered19 / 2576%
Solid bar — actual. Dashed marker — annual target.
Adebayo Ogundipe
Director, Lagos Youth Enterprise Trust
An apprentice-trained electrician turned social entrepreneur who built West Africa's most cited youth-to-trade pipeline. Sits on the federal youth employment council.
To move one thousand Lagos youth a year from informal hustle into dignified, formally-contracted trades while restoring the waterfront that raised them.
Yaba Digital & Livelihoods Hub, Herbert Macaulay Way, Yaba, Lagos
- Registry
- Corporate Affairs Commission of Nigeria
- ID
- CAC/IT/118402
- Last check
- February 2026
- Verified by
- Kingdom Foundation Compliance Office