Khalifa Dankadai & Co (KDC) | Khalifa Usman Dankade (CEO)Khalifa Dankadai & Co (KDC) | Khalifa Usman Dankade (CEO)
CEO- Khalifa Usman Dankade
How I established my company at 22 - Khalifa Usman.
Dankade is a 24-year-old young entrepreneur, who established his company, Khalifa Dankade and Co. (KDC) when he was only 22 years old. The Kano indigene graduate of Business Administration from Bayero University, Kano.
What do you do at KDC?
Khalifa Dankade and Co is a human capacity development venture that nurtures and develops skills, talent, abilities and capabilities of people The platform takes the cause of developing Nigeria’s youth and women. Hence, setting our economy on course to sustainable growth through applied entrepreneurship and leadership trainings.
How have you been able to impact on lives with KDC?
KDC provides consultancy services on entrepreneurship and management, we also have leadership projects to train students and we have the KDC Foundation, which operates our Corporate Social Responsibility, that is giving back to our host community.
How did you start this venture?
It was my idea since 2011 when I was an undergraduate at Bayero University, Kano. Our lecturers taught us a lot about entrepreneurship and I told myself, if I have learnt all these since my high school, then I would have performed better. So I brooded on starting entrepreneurship lessons for secondary school students at age 22. That was how I started and then it grew into a formal registration of the company with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) in 2012.
How many staff do you have in your venture?
We have eight people working under the company. They get paid based on the projects we are running, we pay the staff according to the profit level realised from executing a project.
How do you get fund to execute projects?
We get our funding from the programmes and contracts we are hired to run. For instance, if we conduct training for an organisation, we divide the money into three, one for running the training, the second part to pay our staffs and save the last portion to run the company.
Who are your clients and how do you get them?
Our clients are schools, agencies and other non-governmental organisations. We get our prospective customers through two ways, firstly, by referrals from other clients who are satisfied with the services we are rendering to them. And also we take the advantages of the social media to advertise our services to members of the public. The company is still coming up so we don’t have the capacity to advertise on traditional media outfits. What are the challenges you faced when you started? When we started, I was told that education is one of the hardest things to market in Nigeria, that our people are so reluctant to learn. But thank God, things are changing. Now people realize that before they could start a business, they need a consultant to do a feasibility study for them. When we started, people turned us down with our proposals because they thought we are fraudsters wanting to dupe them. Many a graduate seeks for paid jobs,
Why did you opt for a self-employed vocation?
I do not have the plan of taking any job because I am contented with what I am getting from my company. With the decision I made, I was already growing myself to becoming an entrepreneurial boss when my friends went about searching for paid jobs. I chose to be an employer of labour and not the one looking for job, because that is the thrust of entrepreneurship. It is challenging that I am only 24 years old but I have a company, which is duly registered. I believe if I continue this way, only God knows what will unfold in the next 20 years for me.
Would you say you are now making a fortune from the venture?
For now, we can’t say the company is fetching us a lot of money but we do hope that in the near future, we will start to reap from the investment we made in the company.
Believe in yourself and go for your dreams #YoungEntrepreneurs
Contact
Address: Abuja- Khalifa Dankade & Co (KDC) 3rd floor NEPZA HQ No. 2 Zambezi Crescent, Maitama District Abuja FCTKano- Murtala Muhammad Library Complex, Ahmadu Bello Way, Kano.
Number: +2348038935719
Website: www.kdc.org.ng
CEO- Khalifa Usman Dankade
How I established my company at 22 - Khalifa Usman.
Dankade is a 24-year-old young entrepreneur, who established his company, Khalifa Dankade and Co. (KDC) when he was only 22 years old. The Kano indigene graduate of Business Administration from Bayero University, Kano.
What do you do at KDC?
Khalifa Dankade and Co is a human capacity development venture that nurtures and develops skills, talent, abilities and capabilities of people The platform takes the cause of developing Nigeria’s youth and women. Hence, setting our economy on course to sustainable growth through applied entrepreneurship and leadership trainings.
How have you been able to impact on lives with KDC?
KDC provides consultancy services on entrepreneurship and management, we also have leadership projects to train students and we have the KDC Foundation, which operates our Corporate Social Responsibility, that is giving back to our host community.
How did you start this venture?
It was my idea since 2011 when I was an undergraduate at Bayero University, Kano. Our lecturers taught us a lot about entrepreneurship and I told myself, if I have learnt all these since my high school, then I would have performed better. So I brooded on starting entrepreneurship lessons for secondary school students at age 22. That was how I started and then it grew into a formal registration of the company with the Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) in 2012.
How many staff do you have in your venture?
We have eight people working under the company. They get paid based on the projects we are running, we pay the staff according to the profit level realised from executing a project.
How do you get fund to execute projects?
We get our funding from the programmes and contracts we are hired to run. For instance, if we conduct training for an organisation, we divide the money into three, one for running the training, the second part to pay our staffs and save the last portion to run the company.
Who are your clients and how do you get them?
Our clients are schools, agencies and other non-governmental organisations. We get our prospective customers through two ways, firstly, by referrals from other clients who are satisfied with the services we are rendering to them. And also we take the advantages of the social media to advertise our services to members of the public. The company is still coming up so we don’t have the capacity to advertise on traditional media outfits. What are the challenges you faced when you started? When we started, I was told that education is one of the hardest things to market in Nigeria, that our people are so reluctant to learn. But thank God, things are changing. Now people realize that before they could start a business, they need a consultant to do a feasibility study for them. When we started, people turned us down with our proposals because they thought we are fraudsters wanting to dupe them. Many a graduate seeks for paid jobs,
Why did you opt for a self-employed vocation?
I do not have the plan of taking any job because I am contented with what I am getting from my company. With the decision I made, I was already growing myself to becoming an entrepreneurial boss when my friends went about searching for paid jobs. I chose to be an employer of labour and not the one looking for job, because that is the thrust of entrepreneurship. It is challenging that I am only 24 years old but I have a company, which is duly registered. I believe if I continue this way, only God knows what will unfold in the next 20 years for me.
Would you say you are now making a fortune from the venture?
For now, we can’t say the company is fetching us a lot of money but we do hope that in the near future, we will start to reap from the investment we made in the company.
Believe in yourself and go for your dreams #YoungEntrepreneurs
Contact
Address: Abuja- Khalifa Dankade & Co (KDC) 3rd floor NEPZA HQ No. 2 Zambezi Crescent, Maitama District Abuja FCTKano- Murtala Muhammad Library Complex, Ahmadu Bello Way, Kano.
Number: +2348038935719
Website: www.kdc.org.ng
