Amb. Maryam Yakubu Yanah
Amb. Maryam Yakubu Yanah is the Founder of Mainstream
LimeLight Ltd, the producers of Ma’Zaine Foods in Kebbi State, Nigeria.
She is a serial entrepreneur, certified Business Development Service
Provider (NBDSP), mentor, startup coach, consultant, and food processor, she is dedicated to producing and packaging a variety of healthy, nutritious ready-to-cook foods.
She also currently serves as SBN Kebbi State Coordinator, Cross Border Trade/Business Development Service Officer of Kebbi Investment.
She was honored with the SensXAfrica Impact Xchamp award due to her contribution to the agricultural sector in Nigeria. She also got a Meritorious Award by ‘Portfolio 9 (Community)’, a digital entrepreneurship and empowerment platform.
A unique feature of Maryam’s company is the ability to diversify and provide exclusive services for a variety of customer needs and demands. She believes that taking on the task of the exacting procedures of processing and pre-preparing local foods on behalf of consumers has encouraged patronage of the easier and healthy alternatives her company offers.
Maryam is committed to empowering women and youths. For instance, in February 2021 alone, on social media, she coached over 7000 women and youths on how to make tomato paste that can last a year without refrigeration, for free. Presently, some of the beneficiaries of the coaching are earning from the knowledge they garnered. She also sponsored the fish farming business of some women aside her other impacting undertakings.
She currently serves as the Kebbi, Nigeria’s representative of ‘ACT4Food Act4Change’, a global youth-led movement promising to ignite a campaign action to combat hunger, improve health and heal the planet. She is a passionate advocate of the cause.
Maryam’s dedication has blossomed into a thriving business locally, she is therefore poised to offer her products globally and has registered with relevant organisations for exportation. She is also a member of strategic associations such as National Association of Small Medium Enterprise, Nigerian Association of Small Scale Industrialists, National Coconut Producers Processors and Marketers Association of Nigeria, Association of Cottage Industrialists of Nigeria, National Shea Products Association of Nigeria, Kebbi Chamber of Commerce Industry Mines and Agriculture, and the Association of Northern Women Entrepreneurs.
