Meet Cyprus big time African Entrepreneurs

If you have been in Cyprus for long, even for a short time, you will know that there are so many Africans doing marvelously well in their respective businesses.  

One way or the other these entrepreneurs have been able to make a living out of what they do and even impacted positively on others who are looking up to them for inspiration.

As a way of recognizing these hard working individuals, we will in the next few weeks, profile some of these individuals. They deserved the recognition.

Today we meet three of them in; 

-Name: Ebenezer Omoregie

-Nationality: Nigerian

-Business Name: Eizzyfirin

-Type of service: Catering Services

-Brief description: Omoregie is into catering business. She cooks different varieties of dishes and snacks.

-How she started: She started few months immediately she came to the island in 2015.

-Her biggest motivation: Her biggest motivation is the people who keeps encouraging her to be a better me in the business.

-Her biggest Challenges: She doesn't have any challenges though.

-Where she hope to see her in five years’ time: She see herself becoming a better me, learning other people's food and pastries. 

-Her favorite quotes: Her favourite quotes are; focus, don't give up.

-Advice for future Entrepreneurs: Chase your dreams, no matter how many people is doing the same thing with you. 

Meet;

-Name: Fulera Jafaru

-Nationality: Nigerian

-Business Name: African recipes and pastry

-What her business is all about: Anything food

-How you started: It all started back home in Nigeria when I was very little like 5 to 6 years old, I love to cook delicious and healthy meal and baking addiction. This is what I love to do right from when I was little.

-Her biggest motivation: Seeing everyone enjoying the great taste from African recipes.

-Her biggest Challenges: Not be able to meet up with time for a customer order, which has never happened to me.

-Where she hope to see her in five years’ time: In the next five years African recipes will be the world know African eatery in the world that has a unique recipes for every meal and snack serve.

-Her favorite quotes: Don't dwell on I can't because you can. There is no impossibility around my domain.

-Advice for future Entrepreneurs: Never listen to someone who has nothing to offer around your business to talk you down by saying you can't. Go for what you want and find it. Always strife to learn something that is related to what you do every day. Let no day go by without achieving anything. My driven force is the future I see. How far can you see.

Finally today we meet;

-Name: Patience E. Idoga

-Nationality: Nigerian

-Business Name: Fingers pastries

-What her business is all about: Fingers pastries is a mobile kitchen which specializes in all kinds of cakes, pastries and traditional Nigerian cuisines.

-How she started: She always loved cooking; let’s just say cooking is a hobby for her just like travelling or soccer is for others. Getting to this Island in 2013, the first challenge she faced on arrival was that of a good home cooked Nigerian meal; she had to go all the way to a restaurant at city center then to eat: reason been that their food look and taste similar to Nigerian white rice and stew. This she did for close to a month but as according to her‘I see say money don de finish from pocket’, she had to come up with a plan in order to continue having a taste of home: so she opted cooking for friends who were leaving off campus for free.

While doing this, their friends who come for visit and tasted the meals started asking about who made the meals and that is how recommendations started coming in and she started cooking for people from house to house including parties.

While this was in progress, she felt the need to upgrade into pastries too (e.g. cake baking, egg rolls, meat pies, sausage rolls, etc.) so she started watching videos on those and taught myself how to make them. In a short while, she discovered she was becoming a pro and so she incorporated it into her line of services. So basically, that is how fingers pastries was birthed.

-Her biggest motivation: Her motivation has always come from Zachariah 4:10 (Do not despise the days of little beginnings for the Lord rejoice to see the work begin).

-Her biggest Challenges: Sourcing for pastries items/materials

-Where she hope to see herself in five years’ time: She is trusting God that in the shortest time possible, fingers will be a well-known name in every household when it comes to any pastries and traditional proper Nigerian staples just like the likes of Mama Cas, Jevinik, Panache etc.

-Her favorite quotes: Do all you can to make your dreams come true (Joel Osteen)

-Advice for future Entrepreneurs: You have to start doing the little things. For it is this little things that add up and make big things.

-Social media contacts: Facebook: fingers pastries, Instagram: fingerspastries, WhatsApp No: +234 905 346 8905

Support them today, encourage them and you will be glad you did.

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