From Peddling Nails To Owning a $250m Steel Sheet Factory: Here’s How Yusuf Did It1

• Entrepreneurs
• June 14, 2014

ENTERPRISE54 – In 1971, General Yakubu Gowon, then military ruler of a Nigeria recently emerged from a devastating civil war, established the National Steel Development Authority (NSDA) to harness yet another of Nigeria’s numerous natural resource blessings: an estimated five billion tonnes of iron ore reserves. Gowon had hoped that his actions would set Nigeria on