Youngstars Foundation

My name is Oluwaseyi Samuel Ajimoko, a social entrepreneur who believes so much in the future of Nigeria. I am a native of Ekiti State. I was born and raised in the city of Ibadan. I had my Secondary school education in Federal Government College Ido-Ani Ondo State and Studied Food Science and Technology in Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife Osun State.

While in OAU, I started a social networking site that was to connect students from Nigerian Universities and report news from campuses all around the country which was called ‘StudentSummit‘, and at that time accessible on www.studentsummit.net. The site also featured student achievers on a monthly basis. The column was created to celebrate students with extra-ordinary achievements and abilities. Apart from the news and the achievers column, the site also had entertainment columns like the autos and cribs columns where students’ rooms, houses and cars were featured weekly.

Unfortunately, ‘StudentSummit‘ could not stand the competition against the foreign and well funded social networking sites like the Hi5, photobucket, flickr and most recently facebook. The inability to draw funds and attract investors let to the death of the site and the birth of a new company which is today known as SparkleCity Nigeria Limited which is well positioned and more focused.

SparkleCity Nigeria is a Brand Consulting firm committed to helping both small and medium scale entrepreneurs grow their businesses, imbibe internationally acceptable best practices and standards, develop their brands and increase their brand equity. We are presently working on a program called the SparkleCity Projects and Research Exhibition 2010 which is coming up on 20th to 22nd of October 2010 at the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Center FCT, Abuja in conjunction with the National Universities Commission (NUC). The aim of the program is to exhibit both past and present final year projects in our Universities to investors, Business owners, and policy makers in the government, the media and members of the public in a bid to get investors to invest in at least one of the projects and transform it into a product in our markets. More information on SPRE 2010 is available on our website www.sparklecity-ng.com.

Aside the program, SparkleCity from time to time turn out web packages and IT Solutions that enhance and promotes the participation and involvement of youths in the democratic processes in the Country and Nation building generally. Our most recent release is allova.com which is targeted towards promoting citizen journalism; an act which allows youths to report happenings in their respective communities to the world. We have created this because we believe before we can proffer solutions to the problems of our nation, we have to be well informed about what the problems are and there is no better way to do that other than to get involved.

I strongly believe that Nigeria can be better if we all play our part, and change begins with each and every one of us.