Featuring a foreword by former President Olusegun Obasanjo, who will also attend as the event’s Special Guest of Honour.
LAGOS, NIGERIA — On 13 July 2026, Lagos will host the public presentation of The Challengers: The Disruptive Nigerian Entrepreneurs Creating a Billion-Naira Company. Written by acclaimed novelist and entrepreneur Dr Eghosa Imasuen and published by Narrative Landscape Press, the book tells the origin story of the founders of VFD Group,offering readers a front-row seat into how a small group of young Nigerians turned the wreckage of the 2008 financial crisis into a multi-billion-naira financial institution.
Attendance is by RSVP due to limited venue capacity. Tickets and entry passes are available now at tix.africa/discover/chbook26.
In a business landscape traditionally dominated by the myth of the single, all-powerful tycoon, The Challengers offers a completely different model. The book follows the journey of Nonso Okpala, Adeniyi Adenubi, Mobolaji Adewumi, Gbenga Omolokun, Azubike Emodi, and their co-founders. Instead of building separate corporate silos, this cohort of late Generation X entrepreneurs decided to do something rare in Nigeria: build a company based on shared equity, equal partnerships, and collective ownership.
