How To Make It: Ibrahim: Making Waves With Dates Syrup, Powder Production

Dr. Sulayman Ibrahim is the chief executive officer(CEO) of Dates Nature Support Nutrients Limited, makers of date syrup and powder.

Dates Nature Support Nutrient Limited is the producer of dates, a natural alternative sweetener that provides a great and refreshing taste while being the first choice of the health-conscious consumer.
It has also created an agricultural value chain, which includes the processing, distribution, and reprocessing of all the byproducts, including waste to wealth.

Business Incorporation
Dates Nature started in 2017 via research for natural, healthy alternative sweeteners to replace the norm (artificial sugar and honey), which are mostly deficient due to many unhealthy practices and a lack of nutritional value. Hence, Dates Nature Syrup and Powder have been the best natural alternatives and also natural food supplements as a substitute.

Motivation
Dr. Ibrahim said, the need for a healthy lifestyle via natural alternatives motivated him to go into business.
According to him, many have been suffering from obesity, diabetes, ulcers, frequent headaches, constipation, among others, due to lack of knowledge about providing good natural health alternatives. ‘But at Dates with Nature, we believe a healthy nutritional lifestyle is a gateway to a better society,’ he says.

Business Lucrativity
To him, “the date fruit value chain business is worth multi-billion dollars (yet untapped) if well harnessed. Aside from the financial gain, the contribution to a healthy nutritional society is an even greater success and achievement.”

Challenges
On challenges of the business, he said: “there is no business without challenges, but those in the Date value chain are minimal and local. Being an innovative value chain industry, the greatest challenge is publicity and advertisement for the general public awareness of its healthy lifestyle importance.”

Advice For Upcoming Entrepreneurs
He advised young and upcoming entrepreneurs to be innovative and skillful, urging them to build their capacity with focus, resilience, and dedication as this will help achieve a better society.

Biography
Dr. Sulayman Ibrahim is the CEO of Dates Nature Support Nutrients Limited, makers of date syrup and powder.
As a trained mariner and ICT professional (Ph.D. in Security and Artificial Intelligence), he developed a passion for natural, healthy food supplements via research for alternative sweeteners in date palm fruits and got his company registered in 2017 under the CAMA Act.
The promoter of Dates Nature is also the CEO of a group of ICT companies. Dr. Ibrahim was awarded a Nigerian International Global and Indigenous Merit Award in Food Processing (Paris, France). A tech Agropreneur and an active member of the Nigeria Export Promotion Council [NEPC], he is based in Lagos, Nigeria, and happily married with children.