Dekunle Okunrinboye shares entrepreneural journey to success

Dekunle Okunrinboye, a renowned entrepreneur and Chairman of DK Industries Group has shared his entrepreneural journey from as young as age five.

According to the businessman, “Entrepreneurship has been in engraved in My DNA since inception, I believe I was born to do business.

“I recall when we were much younger, I was about five years old, my older siblings and I will go pluck mangoes and Cherry from the fruit trees we had in my dads’ school and sell for a fee. I handled the marketing to visitors who came to visit my dad.

“My immediate elder brother handled the plucking and my sisters handle the sales and profit sharing amongst us all. This was a thing of joy for my parents, seeing us cultivate the act of business for profit. Subsequently, the passion for entrepreneurship grew stronger when I went on to the boarding house in my Junior Secondary school. I sold wrist watches to my fellow students, which they bought”.

Okunriboye also added that he learnt the art of business from his father.

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“Growing up also during the holidays, we always visited my father’s cocoa warehouse and sometimes I sit with him during his business dealings. I loved how he handled business and how committed he was to all the businesses he had.

“His ability to combine schedules and manage his time was top notch. Majority of my knowledge about business is as a result of the things I saw him do growing up”.

On how he stays ahead of competition in his sector, he said: “I make a thing to research my competitors, know their updated prices, go through their other updates, see what they are doing differently and also see the new methods they have adopted to see if it’s better than ours”.

The DK Industries group was established as a haulage business in 2015, following an exit from his previous company Team of Dedicated Achievers LTD. (TODA) an entertainment, lifestyle and hospitality company where he rose to the highest position of Chief Executive Officer (CEO), before bowing out to create his own company.

In 2019, DK Industries approached OK Foods Ltd. to help them in distributing their goods across the Northern part of Nigeria, a proposal that was approved.

DK Industries has since then evolved into other business segments, like commodities, Real Estate, Entertainment, Oil & Gas and basic investments.

Ifeoma Okeke-Korieocha

Ifeoma Okeke-Korieocha is the Aviation Correspondent at BusinessDay Media Limited, publishers of BusinessDay Newspapers. She is also the Deputy Editor, BusinessDay Weekender Magazine, the Saturday Weekend edition of BusinessDay. She holds a BSC in Mass Communication from the prestigious University of Nigeria, Nsukka and a Masters degree in Marketing at the University of Lagos. As the lead writer on the aviation desk, Ifeoma is responsible and in charge of the three weekly aviation and travel pages in BusinessDay and BDSunday. She also overseas and edits all pages of BusinessDay Saturday Weekender. She has written various investigative, features and news stories in aviation and business related issues and has been severally nominated for award in the category of Aviation Writer of the Year by the Nigeria Media Nite-Out awards; one of the Nigeria’s most prestigious media awards ceremonies. Ifeoma is a one-time winner of the prestigious Nigeria Media Merit Award under the 'Aviation Writer of the Year' Category. She is the 2025 Eloy Award winner under the Print Media Journalist category. She has undergone several journalism trainings by various prestigious organisations. Ifeoma is also a fellow of the Female Reporters Leadership Fellowship of the Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism.