How Adeniji Adeyemi built Starlink Global & Ideal Ltd, Nigeria’s $550 million non-oil export giant
Billionaires Africa | 03.12.2025 21:01
On a late-March morning in 2021, a chartered vessel eased away from Calabar Port loaded with 7,000 metric tonnes of Nigerian cocoa beans — the first bulk cocoa shipment from that port in 14 years. The cargo belonged to Starlink Global & Ideal Ltd, and on the quay, its managing director, Adeniji Adeyemi, watched a long-held argument sail into view: Nigeria could, in fact, earn serious money from something other than oil.
