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The Inspirational Story Of Sir Louis Ojukwu by attackgat: 8:05pm On Jun 18, 2016
[b] A lot of people may not know who Sir Louis Philip Odumegwu Ojukwu is besides the fact that he was the father of late Biafran Warlord, Dim Chukwuemeka Ojukwu. But the fact is that he was one of the greatest Business men ever produced in Africa and one of the richest. It beggars belief that Sir Ojukwu went to Lagos with nothing in 1929 aged just 20 but 10 years later aged just 30, he was already managing his own chain of businesses which included, Ojukwu
Stores, Ojukwu textiles and Ojukwu transportation company. By 1950, just Ojukwu Transportation company had over 200 trucks in its fleet. How did he do it?

Born Louis Philip Odumegwu Ojukwu in Nnewi in 1909, the only boy and second of four children,Sir Ojukwu went to Government primary School Asaba. In 1922, he proceeded to the only secondary School in the Eastern region at the time, Hope Waddell training institute, Calabar. After completing his secondary School education in 1928, Sir Louis secured a job as a tyre sales clark with John Holt Lagos in 1929. It was working as a tyre clark the Sir Louis Ojukwu noticed that many Igbo traders who came to Lagos to buy tyres also bought textiles as well. With his meagre saving, Sir Louis travelled down to Onitsha where he opened his first business venture called "Ojukwu stores" and employed one of his relatives to oversee it. He then returned to Lagos and started sending down textiles on Lorries to his shop while still working for John Holt. Sir Louise's textile boomed. By 1930, Louis bought a second hand truck and employed a driver in other move his goods himself and 'Ojukwu transport company' was born. Sir Ojukwu worked tirelessly and by end of the 1930's, was the major transporter on the East-West Road. In 1939, on the outbreak of world war 2, the British Government requested the use of Sir Ojukwus fleet of trucks for the War effort to which he agreed. When the war ended in 1945, the British Goverment recognised the sacrifice he made and he was awarded a KBE (Knight of the British Empire). The end of the war also created a high demand for raw materials from West Africa and sir Ojukwus Transport business exploded sky high and he diversified into other businesses. Some of Sir Ojukwu's early drivers such as Chief Ilodibe (Ekene Dili Chukwu) and Chief Izuchukwu (Izuchukwu Transport) would later become Transport moguls themselves. Sir Ojukwu was so rich that in 1956 when the Queen visited Nigeria, the British authorities had to borrow his Rolls Royce and personal driver to chauffeur the Queen around. Sir Louis was also a financial pillar of Ziks NCNC party and when the party came to power in 1960, Sir Louis was offered the position of Finance Minister which he turned down, the position ultimately went to Okotie-Eboh. Sir Louis died in Nkalagu, present day Ebonyi state, in 1966. Sir Louis CV is the most intimidating I have ever seen and probably will ever see. He was:

1)The first President of the Nigerian Stock Exchange
2) President, African Continental Bank
3) Chairman, Nigerian cement company (NIGERCEM)
4) CEO, Ojukwu Transport company
5) Chairman, Nigerian National Shipping Line
6) Chairman, Lion Of Africa Insurance Company
7) Chairman, BISCO Nigeria Limited
cool Chairman, Nigerian Industrial Development Bank
9) Vice President, Lagos Chamber Of Commerce
10) Chairman, Palmline Shipping company
11) Chairman, Nigerian Produce Marketing board
12) Chairman, Eastern Nigerian Development Corporation
13) Chairman, Costain west Africa
14) Director, Shell D'Arcy Petroleum
15) Director, Thomas Wyatt & Son
16) Director, Nigerian Coal corporation
17) Director, Guiness Nigeria Limited
18) Director, Nigerian Tobacco Company
19) Director, Daily Times of Nigeria

The man was simply larger than life. Sir Louis also owned numerous building, landed properties and stocks. It is estimated that as at the time he died in 1966, he was worth about 40 Billion Dollars in today's money.

Source: "In quest perpetuity- Bio sketches of Sir Odumegwu Ojukwu" by Ifeze [/b]

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Re: The Inspirational Story Of Sir Louis Ojukwu by histemple: 8:11pm On Jun 18, 2016
Great man

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Re: The Inspirational Story Of Sir Louis Ojukwu by Dezzx(m): 8:44pm On Jun 18, 2016
great man you say, who fathered a murderer and paedophile as a son who misled more than a million his kinsmen to their early grave. nothing great about being the father of a cowardly general how ran away and left his soldiers to die on the battle field.

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Re: The Inspirational Story Of Sir Louis Ojukwu by Nobody: 10:03pm On Jun 18, 2016
Stories like this make me proud everyday that I was born an Igbo man. Our people are so industrious, intelligent and dogged, excelling in every sphere of human endeavor and in any place they go to smiley

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Re: The Inspirational Story Of Sir Louis Ojukwu by 1b8m: 10:16pm On Jun 18, 2016
i salute you sir.

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Re: The Inspirational Story Of Sir Louis Ojukwu by cindybella101(f): 11:10pm On Jun 18, 2016
Dezzx:
great man you say, who fathered a murderer and paedophile as a son who misled more than a million his kinsmen to their early grave. nothing great about being the father of a cowardly general how ran away and left his soldiers to die on the battle field.

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Re: The Inspirational Story Of Sir Louis Ojukwu by Nobody: 11:59pm On Jun 18, 2016
Dezzx:
great man you say, who fathered a murderer and paedophile as a son who misled more than a million his kinsmen to their early grave. nothing great about being the father of a cowardly general how ran away and left his soldiers to die on the battle field.
what have you achieved in this life.

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Re: The Inspirational Story Of Sir Louis Ojukwu by Nkem4040: 12:20am On Jun 19, 2016
Dezzx:


[s]

great man you say, who fathered a murderer and paedophile as a son who misled more than a million his kinsmen to their early grave. nothing great about being the father of a cowardly general how ran away and left his soldiers to die on the battle field [/s].

yoruba as expected...smh

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Re: The Inspirational Story Of Sir Louis Ojukwu by Nkem4040: 12:27am On Jun 19, 2016
Nnaabros:
Stories like these make me proud everyday that I was born an Igbo man. Our people are so industrious, intelligent and dogged, excelling in every sphere of human endeavor and in any place they go to smiley

Igbos are blessed people...powerful western countries are aware of this and have secret documents that Igbos are the real Israelites in the bible known to had been favored by God. You can verify this by one of the sons of Jacob named Gad. Has his temple or obi in Igboland known as ObiGad or House of Gad. He had a son called Nri or Eri who settled in today's town called AguluEri. Again Gad and Eri/Nri can be found in the bible right now.

When whites/Europeans came looking for slaves in Africa to help build the new world...America, they arrived via Lagos shore. As they arrived, the African navigators or escorts, said look at the blacks here, the Europeans blatantly told them...we are only interested in the Igbos or those with Igbo ancestry. The escorts said why only Igbos, they replied..we have their history; we know we they are and what they are capable of.

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Re: The Inspirational Story Of Sir Louis Ojukwu by MayorofLagos(m): 3:13am On Jun 19, 2016
There is an Act in US called the SOX ACT. Here it is...

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (often shortened to SarbOx or SOX) is legislation passed by the U.S. Congress to protect shareholders and the general public from accounting errors and fraudulent practices in the enterprise, as well as improve the accuracy of corporate disclosures. 

In principle this Act says if you audit the accounts of a public company and you have spent days going through paperwork and numbers and checked off a long list of items with no problem but close to end of work you find one item that does not add up however much you try, the auditor is compelled and authorized by law to dismiss all the items already checked and start all over, scrutinizing every item from to bottom. If this is not done the auditor is liable and can be prosecuted as accessory to fraudulent practice.

Mayor is reading Sir Ojukwu's profile and came upon this shenanigan here....

Sir Ojukwu was so rich that in 1956 when the Queen visited Nigeria, the British authorities had to borrow his Rolls Royce and personal driver to chauffeur the Queen around. Sir Louis was also a financial pillar of Ziks NCNC party and when the party came to power in 1960


Who da fvk told you Ojukwu had a Rolls Royce, or that NCNC belonged to Zik?


Anyway, Mayor is reporting for duty, ready to comply with SOX and scrutinize this public figure's profile, one by one untill all the credits attributed to Sir Ojukwu are validated, otherwise if I turn a blind eye I could be accused of being an accessory to fraudulent activity in Nairaland. grin grin

Chuku okike abiamo! cheesy

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Re: The Inspirational Story Of Sir Louis Ojukwu by Dezzx(m): 5:54am On Jun 19, 2016
Appland:
what have you achieved in this life.
my friend u r inconsequential, i dont have time to spare on u.
Nkem4040:
yoruba as expected...smh
IPOD youth, blinded by tribal bigotry.
Re: The Inspirational Story Of Sir Louis Ojukwu by Dezzx(m): 5:54am On Jun 19, 2016
Appland:
what have you achieved in this life.
my friend u r inconsequential, i dont have time to spare on u.
Nkem4040:
yoruba as expected...smh
IPOD youth, blinded by tribal bigotry.
Re: The Inspirational Story Of Sir Louis Ojukwu by dustmalik: 6:48am On Jun 19, 2016
MayorofLagos:
There is an Act in US called the SOX ACT. Here it is...

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (often shortened to SarbOx or SOX) is legislation passed by the U.S. Congress to protect shareholders and the general public from accounting errors and fraudulent practices in the enterprise, as well as improve the accuracy of corporate disclosures. 

In principle this Act says if you audit the accounts of a public company and you have spent days going through paperwork and numbers and checked off a long list of items with no problem but close to end of work you find one item that does not add up however much you try, the auditor is compelled and authorized by law to dismiss all the items already checked and start all over, scrutinizing every item from to bottom. If this is not done the auditor is liable and can be prosecuted as accessory to fraudulent practice.

Mayor is reading Sir Ojukwu's profile and came upon this shenanigan here....

Sir Ojukwu was so rich that in 1956 when the Queen visited Nigeria, the British authorities had to borrow his Rolls Royce and personal driver to chauffeur the Queen around. Sir Louis was also a financial pillar of Ziks NCNC party and when the party came to power in 1960


Who da fvk told you Ojukwu had a Rolls Royce, or that NCNC belonged to Zik?


Anyway, Mayor is reporting for duty, ready to comply with SOX and scrutinize this public figure's profile, one by one untill all the credits attributed to Sir Ojukwu are validated, otherwise if I turn a blind eye I could be accused of being an accessory to fraudulent activity in Nairaland. grin grin

Chuku okike abiamo! cheesy



grin cheesy These Ugandans can lie eh.
Re: The Inspirational Story Of Sir Louis Ojukwu by mrvitalis(m): 7:05am On Jun 19, 2016
The problem with igbos is not letting others into their business.. .. Which of his company is still working till this day??
That's it. .. How many igbo companies are treated in the Nigerian stock exchange?? I hope innoson learns ans sells shares and let people with ideas come in
Bill Gates is the world richest man... He owns only 8.5% of Microsoft... If he kept all to himself and sure of two things... Microsoft won't be this big ans he won't be this rich.... Same with Facebook ... .
While he was a great man tho
Re: The Inspirational Story Of Sir Louis Ojukwu by Nobody: 7:47am On Jun 19, 2016
I won't be surprised to hear that our brothers from the other side called Sir Ojukwu a drug pusher or ogwuego(money ritualist) back then.

Lazy "owambeish" morafokasgrin

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Re: The Inspirational Story Of Sir Louis Ojukwu by attackgat: 10:00pm On Jun 19, 2016
Dezzx:
great man you say, who fathered a murderer and paedophile as a son who misled more than a million his kinsmen to their early grave. nothing great about being the father of a cowardly general how ran away and left his soldiers to die on the battle field.

The thread is not about his Son. The thread is about the great entrepreneurial spirit of the man. There are many Chukwuemeka Ojukwu threads for you to go and make silly comments like that.

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Re: The Inspirational Story Of Sir Louis Ojukwu by Nobody: 2:37pm On Oct 18, 2017
dustmalik:

grin cheesy These Ugandans can lie eh.

Nigga, this was confirmed..
Re: The Inspirational Story Of Sir Louis Ojukwu by Michael004: 2:57pm On Oct 18, 2017
Was he richer than da Rocha?

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Re: The Inspirational Story Of Sir Louis Ojukwu by Michael004: 3:04pm On Oct 18, 2017
attackgat:
[b] A lot of people may not know who Sir Louis Philip Odumegwu Ojukwu is besides the fact that he was the father of late Biafran Warlord, Dim Chukwuemeka Ojukwu. But the fact is that he was one of the greatest Business men ever produced in Africa and one of the richest. It beggars belief that Sir Ojukwu went to Lagos with nothing in 1929 aged just 20 but 10 years later aged just 30, he was already managing his own chain of businesses which included, Ojukwu
Stores, Ojukwu textiles and Ojukwu transportation company. By 1950, just Ojukwu Transportation company had over 200 trucks in its fleet. How did he do it?

Born Louis Philip Odumegwu Ojukwu in Nnewi in 1909, the only boy and second of four children,Sir Ojukwu went to Government primary School Asaba. In 1922, he proceeded to the only secondary School in the Eastern region at the time, Hope Waddell training institute, Calabar. After completing his secondary School education in 1928, Sir Louis secured a job as a tyre sales clark with John Holt Lagos in 1929. It was working as a tyre clark the Sir Louis Ojukwu noticed that many Igbo traders who came to Lagos to buy tyres also bought textiles as well. With his meagre saving, Sir Louis travelled down to Onitsha where he opened his first business venture called "Ojukwu stores" and employed one of his relatives to oversee it. He then returned to Lagos and started sending down textiles on Lorries to his shop while still working for John Holt. Sir Louise's textile boomed. By 1930, Louis bought a second hand truck and employed a driver in other move his goods himself and 'Ojukwu transport company' was born. Sir Ojukwu worked tirelessly and by end of the 1930's, was the major transporter on the East-West Road. In 1939, on the outbreak of world war 2, the British Government requested the use of Sir Ojukwus fleet of trucks for the War effort to which he agreed. When the war ended in 1945, the British Goverment recognised the sacrifice he made and he was awarded a KBE (Knight of the British Empire). The end of the war also created a high demand for raw materials from West Africa and sir Ojukwus Transport business exploded sky high and he diversified into other businesses. Some of Sir Ojukwu's early drivers such as Chief Ilodibe (Ekene Dili Chukwu) and Chief Izuchukwu (Izuchukwu Transport) would later become Transport moguls themselves. Sir Ojukwu was so rich that in 1956 when the Queen visited Nigeria, the British authorities had to borrow his Rolls Royce and personal driver to chauffeur the Queen around. Sir Louis was also a financial pillar of Ziks NCNC party and when the party came to power in 1960, Sir Louis was offered the position of Finance Minister which he turned down, the position ultimately went to Okotie-Eboh. Sir Louis died in Nkalagu, present day Ebonyi state, in 1966. Sir Louis CV is the most intimidating I have ever seen and probably will ever see. He was:

1)The first President of the Nigerian Stock Exchange
2) President, African Continental Bank
3) Chairman, Nigerian cement company (NIGERCEM)
4) CEO, Ojukwu Transport company
5) Chairman, Nigerian National Shipping Line
6) Chairman, Lion Of Africa Insurance Company
7) Chairman, BISCO Nigeria Limited
cool Chairman, Nigerian Industrial Development Bank
9) Vice President, Lagos Chamber Of Commerce
10) Chairman, Palmline Shipping company
11) Chairman, Nigerian Produce Marketing board
12) Chairman, Eastern Nigerian Development Corporation
13) Chairman, Costain west Africa
14) Director, Shell D'Arcy Petroleum
15) Director, Thomas Wyatt & Son
16) Director, Nigerian Coal corporation
17) Director, Guiness Nigeria Limited
18) Director, Nigerian Tobacco Company
19) Director, Daily Times of Nigeria

The man was simply larger than life. Sir Louis also owned numerous building, landed properties and stocks. It is estimated that as at the time he died in 1966, he was worth about 40 Billion Dollars in today's money.

Source: "In quest perpetuity- Bio sketches of Sir Odumegwu Ojukwu" by Ifeze [/b]
Op, you mean 40billion or 4billion dollars?

Re: The Inspirational Story Of Sir Louis Ojukwu by aribisala0(m): 3:08pm On Oct 18, 2017
The guy was so rich in those days he banked with the World bank because the CBN could not cope
Re: The Inspirational Story Of Sir Louis Ojukwu by eagleeye2: 3:28pm On Oct 18, 2017
Dezzx:
great man you say, who fathered a murderer and paedophile as a son who misled more than a million his kinsmen to their early grave. nothing great about being the father of a cowardly general how ran away and left his soldiers to die on the battle field.
Sir Ojukwu we know. But who is your Father?

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Re: The Inspirational Story Of Sir Louis Ojukwu by Dezzx(m): 7:47pm On Oct 26, 2017
eagleeye2:
Sir Ojukwu we know. But who is your Father?
who is your own father?
Re: The Inspirational Story Of Sir Louis Ojukwu by omojesu316(m): 11:41am On Oct 16, 2018
As an entrepreneur, and I am always inspired by legends like Sir Louis Ojukwu.

I don't know why people are spewing hate and tribalism here, infact, I don't see the need for that.

Please, my people, let's stick our heads out of the rot of hate, and see ourselves as one people who need to support each other.

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