encounters and experiences by Dayo Alabi

Encounters and Experiences: A Memoir

Name: Encounters and Experiences: A Memoir
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Encounters and Experiences details the biography of Dayo Alabi’s, filled with resilience and personal challenges and triumphs. In this narrative, readers are invited to witness his professional accomplishments and the profound personal challenges that shaped his worldview. From his humble beginnings in Uneme-Nekhua to his many successes in the business and academic world, Alabi’s life is a testament to perseverance.

The book is a rich narrative woven with threads of family, education, and the pursuit of excellence. His candid reflections offer readers insight into the struggles and triumphs of a man who never allowed obstacles to define his journey.

This autobiography is a personal memoir and a historical and cultural documentation of a unique heritage that influences all aspects of life. Encounters and Experiences will inspire anyone who reads it, reminding them how determination, hard work, and an unwavering sense of purpose can shape one’s destiny.

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He started his career as a Management Trainee with Lever Brothers Nigeria PLC (Now Unilever Nigeria PLC) in 1981 and rose to the position of Industrial Products Manager, in the Marketing Division before he resigned in 1987.

He joined Nalin Industries Ltd, Port Harcourt in 1987 as Marketing Manager and left for Standard Packaging Nigeria Limited in 1988 as Marketing Manager, rising to the position of General Manager before taking up an appointment in 1992 as Managing Director/CEO of CSS Bookshops Limited, the oldest surviving publishing, printing and book distribution/retailing organisation in Nigeria.

He resigned from CSS Limited in August 2001 and established, along with people of the same vision, The Book Company Limited, where he is currently the Managing Director/CEO.

Mr Alabi is a graduate of Business Administration; Fellow, Institute of Publishing (Nigerian Publishers Association); Fellow, National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria, and Member, Institute of Directors.

Mr Alabi was: President, Nigerian Booksellers Association; Vice President, Nigerian Publishers Association; Member, Council of Management of the African Books Collective Limited, Oxford, United Kingdom; Chairman, the Afro-Asia Book Council; Pioneer Chairman, of the Nigerian Book Fair Trust, the umbrella body for the seven major book associations in Nigeria and the organisers of the annual Nigeria International Book Fair (NIBF).