By: Wale Kuku.

I am deeply grateful to everyone who reached out with birthday wishes, prayers, kind words, and encouragement. Your love, support, and belief mean more to me than I can adequately express. I do not take it for granted—ever.

My resolve is strengthened to keep doing more for our people and our future.

Going forward, we will:

• *Support more businesses,* especially SMEs and founder-led enterprises

• *Expand support* for the creative industry and small businesses, through seminars, exposure, structured mentorship, and improved access to markets

• *Upgrade NG Grow,* expanding into animal farming, greenhouse agriculture, and significantly more cultivated acres

• *Incubate more youth-led businesses,* helping young people move from ideas to viable companies

• *Keep the NG Business Hub* open and active for everyone, as a shared space for learning, building, and collaboration

• *Launch a new Business Plan & Venture Incubation Contest*, focused on entrepreneurs building digital businesses across lifestyle apps, e-marketplaces, digital financial services, food delivery, mobility, and other high-impact sectors

• *Through Wale Kuku Cares,* touch even more lives—especially elders, the vulnerable, and those most in need

Beyond these, we will continue to strengthen education, enterprise, agriculture, youth skills, and community infrastructure—quietly, consistently, and with purpose.

2026 will be a turning point for Ijebu land.

A year where ideas mature into institutions, where systems scale, and where collective effort begins to show generational results.

Thank you once again for standing with me. The journey continues—and the work goes on.

With gratitude,

*Wale Kuku*

Transform Ogun