Zedcrest CEO Adedayo Amzat commissions a memoir at his 40th birthday celebration.

Adedayo Amzat, Group Managing Director of the prominent financial services firm Zedcrest Group, officially commissioned his memoir, Building in Chaos: From Sawdust to Green Rugs, during his 40th‑birthday celebration in Lagos.

The event drew family, friends, industry leaders, business executives, media personalities, and other distinguished guests to mark a significant personal milestone and to launch a book that chronicles the journey, lessons, and legacy of one of Nigeria’s respected finance executives.

The evening combined celebration, gratitude, and vision. Attendees witnessed the formal commissioning of the book, heard goodwill tributes, reflected on Amzat’s life and career, engaged in networking, enjoyed curated entertainment, and were treated to a surprise artist performance that enhanced the atmosphere.

Beyond a birthday party, the gathering honored four decades of resilience, leadership, enterprise, and impact, while publicly releasing a deeply personal work.

Synopsis

Building in Chaos: From Sawdust to Green Rugs tells the story of Adedayo Amzat’s path from a childhood marked by scarcity, duty, and stark inequalities in Nigeria to the establishment of one of the country’s notable financial services groups. It begins in the first Nigeria he knew: sawdust stoves, face‑me‑I‑face‑you compounds, rationed meals, crowded classrooms, and an early awareness that opportunity is unevenly distributed.

At ten, Dayo glimpsed another Nigeria: green rugs, video games, full plates, and children who could take comfort for granted. That encounter sparked his ambition and raised a lifelong question: how does a child move from one world into another, and what should he do once he arrives?

The book traces that transition through schools, NYSC, Access Bank, the founding of Zedcrest, the challenging early years of Zedvance, regulatory battles, investment missteps, personal reckoning, and the long effort of turning hustle into an institution. It is a narrative of grit, luck, judgment, failure, recovery, and the emotional cost of becoming the person everyone expects to succeed.

More than a memoir, Building in Chaos reflects on Nigeria itself: its disorder, its talent, its invisible class lines, and the bridges that must be built between them. It is a personal story and a quiet argument that no country can afford to waste children simply because they were born too far from the bright lights.

With the successful launch of the book at this milestone celebration, Adedayo Amzat adds author and storyteller to a career already defined by entrepreneurship and leadership, offering readers an honest and timely contribution to conversations around ambition, nation‑building, and legacy. Building in Chaos: From Sawdust to Green Rugs is now available for preorder via