How This Nigerian Couple Turned 50 Bags of Cement Into a Multi-Million-Dollar Retail, Logistics, and Oil Empire

Billionaires Africa | 09.12.2025 00:48
Taiye and Kemi Fajana are quietly orchestrating one of Nigeria’s most formidable private business machines. The husband-and-wife team behind Twinsfaja Group didn’t step out of an elite business school or inherit a family conglomerate. He has a primary school certificate, she holds a Senior Secondary School Certificate - and together they have built a multi-sector empire that now spans building materials, 13 supermarket branches across Lagos and Ogun, a growing e-commerce operation, and a network of filling stations supplying fuel to both their fleet and thousands of retail customers.