More established and distinguished Igbos need to be added here...

Igbos are endowed!


We haven't talked about Great Igbo scientists, inventors,Actors, Actresses, Technologists, Technocrats, Footballers, and athletes all over the world..

Yorubas have listed theirs...

If Igbos list theirs, it will reach 10000 pages

FKO81:

Irked by Samsung’s ‘excuses’ following the award of the contract, Odita described the action as disgraceful, stressing, “they used LADOL to obtain what they wanted and as soon as they thought LADOL was no longer necessary for their operations, they tried to kick them out which is entirely improper and indeed disgraceful.”

so much for the largest local firm.

Weinberg:
More established and distinguished Igbos need to added here...

Igbos are endowed!


We haven't talked about Great Igbo scientists, inventors,Actors, Actresses, Technologists, Technocrats, Footballers, and athletes all over the world..

Yorubas have listed theirs...

If Igbos list theirs, it will reach 10000 pages

if we ever list sports the page will crash

NEPAL is all about ……….energy to soar.
NEPAL OIL & GAS SERVICES LIMITED was incorporated on 13th of October 2004 to carry on the business of supply, trading and productivity support in the down, mid and up-stream sub sector of the petroleum industry. The company is renowned for its importation, warehousing and distribution of massive volumes of petroleum products in Nigeria. Armed with a sizeable fleet of motorized tanker trucks and strategic positioning of our retail outlets, we have excelled in effective distribution of petroleum products to meet the ever rising demand of the Nigerian market. We are also responsible for coastal supply of Petroleum Products to several establishments including but not limited to, renowned oil majors within the country on purchase order supply contracts. Being a company of founded on technical expertise, versatility and a sound financial system, our business strategy lies at the heart of all that we do. Driving down business costs, improving funding costs and reducing costs of sales are our key objectives. Exploring opportunities, visionary leadership, proactive and result oriented strategies, best practices and effective customer relationship management, have given us leverage for success.

FKO81:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agbami_Field

In order for you to get more understanding about a subject, please consult a wide variety of sources. There is no oil block or oil field, in which NNPC does not have a minority stake. NNPC always holds the govt interest in that oil field by virtue of the Petroleum Act 1969. So owners of most oil block usually hold between 50% to 70% of the oil block, while the rest is shared between NNPC and the operators.

The Petroleum Act, 1969 with comprehensive provisions on exploration, production and transportation. The Act vested ownership of petroleum resources in the Federal Government of Nigeria and is the primary legislation on petroleum activities to date. https://dpr.gov.ng/index/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/2014-Oil-Gas-Industry-Annual-Report-.pdf

Even blocks owned by the multinationals are done as a joint venture. So in many cases, you would find the shareholding structure as follows: Shell 60% - NNPC 40%, or Mobil 65% - NNPC 35%, Chevron 60% - NNPC 40% etc.

Now, the Agbami oil field stretches across 45,000 acres and is located some 70 miles (113 kilometers) offshore the Niger River Delta. Situated on Nigerian Blocks OML 127 and 128, Agbami's water depth is 4,500 feet (1,372 meters).

OML 127 is owned by Famfa Oil, which is the oil firm owned by the Alakijas. As usual, NNPC owns a minority stake in it. Chevron(through its subsidiary Star Deep Petroleum Limited) is the operator of that oil field, because it has the technical expertise and equipment, to carry out drilling activities on behalf of Famfa.

OML 128 is owned by Statoil as it has a Production Sharing Contract, with NNPC. Statoil does not have any interest or shares in the oil field OML 127 owned by the Alakija's company known as Famfa. Petroleo Brasileiro Nigeria Limited (Petrobras) is also part of OML 128 along with Statoil.

Now, Agbami FPSO was constructed to serve as a floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel for the area covering the two oil fields. The entire area called Agbami oil field is made up of OML 127 (owned by Famfa/NNPC), and OML 128 (owned by Statoil & Petrobras/NNPC). The operators across both oil fields are Chevron & Texaco Upstream.

<sub>http://www.petroleum-economist.com/articles/markets/trends/2008/nigeria-output-lifted-by-agbami-start-up

http://library.procurementmonitor.org/backend/files/Tender%20Opportunity%20Provision%20of%20Mud%20Logging%20Services%20to%20Support%20Deepwater%20Oil%20and%20Gas%20Well%20Drilling%20and%20Completion%20Operations%20at%20Star%20Deep%20Water%20Petroleum%20Limited%20April%202016.pdf</sub>

FKO81:
Ignoramus read more about Ladol and SHI contract on Egina by Fidelis Odita, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) and counsel to LADOL
Total Upstream Nigeria Limited (TUPNI), which operates the Oil Mining Lease (OML) 130 block, had been given the required approval by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), regulators of the country’s oil industry, for the award of the main Engineering Procurement and Construction (EPC) contracts for the development of the multibillion-dollar Egina oil field, and Samsung, riding on the back of its partnership with LADOL, in compliance with the local content act, won the $3.1 billion contract in 2013.

Samsung within the framework of Nigerian Local Content Laws, which require that the minimum content in that contract executed within Nigeria, found a suitable partner in LADOL, the first indigenous privately owned offshore logistics base operated in Taqwa Bay, where the FPSO integration and fabrication is to be done.

“It was a joint venture in which Samsung was a senior joint venture partner and LADOL was the junior partner, Fidelis Odita, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) and counsel to LADOL told Ventures Africa while the suit was ongoing. “They bided for and obtained the general contract, but as soon as they got it, Samsung wanted to appropriate the entity of the benefit following from that contract to itself to the exclusion of LADOL, which to put it mildly, is a show of bad faith.”

Irked by Samsung’s ‘excuses’ following the award of the contract, Odita described the action as disgraceful, stressing, “they used LADOL to obtain what they wanted and as soon as they thought LADOL was no longer necessary for their operations, they tried to kick them out which is entirely improper and indeed disgraceful.”

Scholes007:
so much for the largest local firm.

You guys are really out of touch! LADOL fought back, took the case to court and appealed to federal govt authorities, and won the job back based on the Local Content Act. Samsung's action was regarded to have violated the local content act that was enacted by the govt. Go and check!

laudate:



You guys are really out of touch! LADOL fought back, took the case to court and appealed to federal govt authorities, and won the job back based on the Local Content Act. Samsung's action was regarded to have violated the local content act that was enacted by the govt. Go and check!

I respect Nigerian local content act, but that action (though disgraceful) show that with or without LADOL Samsung will excute the project. In "Odita described the action as disgraceful, stressing, “they used LADOL to obtain what they wanted and as soon as they thought LADOL was no longer necessary for their operations, they tried to kick them out which is entirely improper and indeed disgraceful.”

Scholes007:
I respect Nigerian local content act, but that action (though disgraceful) show that with or without LADOL Samsung will excute the project. In "Odita described the action as disgraceful, stressing, “they used LADOL to obtain what they wanted and as soon as they thought LADOL was no longer necessary for their operations, they tried to kick them out which is entirely improper and indeed disgraceful.”

That was just an opinion, given by Odita. He is not the final authority on anything. Federal govt has stepped into the matter and Samsung cannot execute anything without going through LADOL, or another fully-qualified Nigerian company to carry out this project, as long as the fabrication and component parts of the project are going to be done on our shores.

In fact, in March 2017 just earlier this year, an update on the whole project was published in the media to show that LADOL had started work on the project.

The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), Simbi Kesiye Wabote has applauded the pace of work at the Lagos Deep Offshore Logistics base (LADOL), stressing that he will be on hand to inaugurate the Egina FPSO in the fourth quarter of this year.

Wabote stated this in Lagos when he led a team of his officials and other top industry service providers and international oil companies (IOCs) on a facility tour of the base at the Apapa Ports Complex, Lagos.

LADOL is currently playing host to the fabrication of a $3.8 billion oil and gas logistics service facility commonly known as the Floating Production Storage and Offloading –FPSO rig, otherwise called the Egina project.

The project which has been applauded as first -of- its- kind in the sub-Saharan Africa is being handled by the Korea-based Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) on behalf of Total Oil Exploration, with LADOL serving as its local content partner. He said the indigenous oil and gas logistics service provider is a testimony of the success story of local content laws in Nigeria. https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2017/03/10/ncdmb-to-flag-off-egina-project-in-q4-applauds-ladol-compliance-to-local-content/

laudate:

That was just an opinion, given by Odita. He is not the final authority on anything. Federal govt has stepped into the matter and Samsung cannot execute anything without going through LADOL, or another fully-qualified Nigerian company to carry out this project, as long as the fabrication and component parts of the project are going to be done on our shores.

In fact, in March 2017 just earlier this year, an update on the whole project was published in the media to show that LADOL had started work on the project.

like I said earlier LADOL is just a host which another indigenous firm can be. There is nothing exceptional about them as you had portrait earlier.
The project which has been applauded as first -of- its- kind in the sub-Saharan Africa is being handled by the Korea-based Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) on behalf of Total Oil Exploration, with LADOL serving as its local content partner. He said the indigenous oil and gas logistics service provider is a testimony of the success story of local content laws in Nigeria. https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2017/03/10/ncdmb-to-flag-off-egina-project-in-q4-applauds-ladol-compliance-to-local-content/

I dont have anything with any indigenous player but castigating another in for of the other is highly unacceptable

prodigy24:


NEPAL is all about ……….energy to soar.
NEPAL OIL & GAS SERVICES LIMITED was incorporated on 13th of October 2004 to carry on the business of supply, trading and productivity support in the down, mid and up-stream sub sector of the petroleum industry. The company is renowned for its importation, warehousing and distribution of massive volumes of petroleum products in Nigeria. Armed with a sizeable fleet of motorized tanker trucks and strategic positioning of our retail outlets, we have excelled in effective distribution of petroleum products to meet the ever rising demand of the Nigerian market. We are also responsible for coastal supply of Petroleum Products to several establishments including but not limited to, renowned oil majors within the country on purchase order supply contracts. Being a company of founded on technical expertise, versatility and a sound financial system, our business strategy lies at the heart of all that we do. Driving down business costs, improving funding costs and reducing costs of sales are our key objectives. Exploring opportunities, visionary leadership, proactive and result oriented strategies, best practices and effective customer relationship management, have given us leverage for success.

did not know this was a Nigerian firm.

Kudos guys

I went to afonja page, found out their page is filled with artist and actresses
If we put down the name of Igbos in American football alone lol... Nairaland will crash
But we don't want that yet.. I will be getting some companies name,but later guys...

prodigy24:
I went to afonja page, found out their page is filled with artist and actresses
If we put down the name of Igbos in American football alone lol... Nairaland will crash
But we don't want that yet.. I will be getting some companies name,but later guys...

prodigy24:
I went to afonja page, found out their page is filled with artist and actresses
If we put down the name of Igbos in American football alone lol... Nairaland will crash
But we don't want that yet.. I will be getting some companies name,but later guys...

prodigy24:
I went to afonja page, found out their page is filled with artist and actresses
If we put down the name of Igbos in American football alone lol... Nairaland will crash
But we don't want that yet.. I will be getting some companies name,but later guys...

Pls bring it on...
Igbos are great

Century home appliances is Nigeria’s most trusted consumer electronics brand, serving Nigerians over the years with top quality electronic home solutions at the fairest prices achievable. It has always been our believe that quality home solutions shouldnt need to put a strain on the family. Established in 2004 the company started by taking the market with Nigeria’s most reliable and efficient stabilizer, solving one of the major problems faced by every Nigerian home, the adverse effects of erratic power supply on home appliances present in the homes. This standard in our stabilizers is one we are passionate about and maintain stringent policies to in order to ensure the level of satisfaction our consumers get from the use of our stabilizers. Moving further Century home appliances continued to extend its product line in order to allow Nigerians enjoy the competences that each Century product offers a home, reliablity, efficiency and affordability is our mantra in the development of each Century Product. We aim to become Nigerias leading consumer electronics brand while staying true to our core competencies and providing our beloved consumers with products that continually ease their daily lives. Join us on our journey, get a Century Product into your home today.

We don't have to let's focus on the companies...

prodigy24:
We don't have to let's focus on the companies...

super master and century are both Igbo electronics

We have the franchise of most companies...

We have to focus on the companies...

There many of them ,either they don't have websites or they are seo weak.
Super master is a branch of Anamike Nigeria Ltd.

prodigy24:
We have to focus on the companies...

polystar tv is going head to head with lg Tv's now

prodigy24:
There many of them ,either they don't have websites or they are seo weak.
Super master is a branch of Anamike Nigeria Ltd.

this is the problem with many Igbo owned companies.

They tend to shy away from media publicity

The Forbes that the Afonjas love so much as released a damning report to the detriment of the Afonjas claim of wealth.



The Small Town Of The Super Rich
By Forbes Africa 5 min of reading August 7, 2017
he small Nigerian town of Nnewi has more naira billionaires per capita than anywhere else in the country.
Shortly before Nigeria’s independence in 1960, Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu, reportedly Nigeria’s first black billionaire, and founding president of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. The royal honor came after he helped the British during World War II with his fleet of trucks. He was so wealthy that during the Queen’s visit in 1956, she was chauffeured around in his Rolls-Royce – apparently the only one in the country at the time – on the request of the colonial administration.

Profiled in September 1965 by TIME magazine, Ojukwu made his money by importing dried fish for resale, and diversifying into textiles, cement and transport. When he died a year later, his wealth was an estimated $4 billion in today’s economic value.

His son, Chukwuemeka, who also ended up a billionaire, returned from Oxford University at 22 with a master’s degree in history and led his fellow Igbos into the Nigerian civil war as head of the secessionist state of Biafra in 1967.

Their hometown Nnewi, in the southeastern state of Anambra, either by good fortune or hard work, has bred more naira billionaires than any other town in Nigeria, and possibly Africa. The Igbos, who sometimes refer to themselves as the ‘Jews of Africa’, have entrepreneurship in their blood. They have built themselves from the ground up, with little help from the government, after a controversial policy left them all with 20 pounds each, regardless of their bank balance, at the end of the Nigerian civil war in 1970.

Nicknamed the Japan of Africa, Nnewi is famous as a hub for automobile spare part dealers, and most recently, Innoson, Nigeria’s first indigenous car assembly plant. The town is also known for its factories that manufacture household goods and is home to the biggest road transport companies in the country. Nnewi, with a little over two million residents, is a 30-minute drive from the Onitsha – the biggest outdoor market in West Africa – on the banks of the Niger River.

These are 10 of the most prominent naira billionaires from Nnewi, in no particular order:

Cletus Ibeto: The Ibeto Group has been described as the largest industrial enterprise in southeast Nigeria. Starting out as an apprentice to an already established auto spare parts dealer, Ibeto eventually branched out on his own and effectively ended importation of lead acid car batteries in Nigeria in the late 80s. The result is a conglomerate dealing in hospitality, motor products, real estate, petrochemicals, agriculture and cement.


Cosmas Maduka: One of the country’s foremost car dealerships, Coscharis Group, is the brainchild of a man who lost his father at four and had to drop out of school to sell bean cakes, a popular food staple. His company, one of the largest car dealerships in Nigeria that deals with BMW, Jaguar, Range Rover and Rolls-Royce, has diversified into agriculture.


Innocent Chukwuma: Another school dropout, he is the founder of Innoson Nigeria Limited which produces sport utility vehicles, commercial buses and passenger cars at the first indigenous assembly plant in Nigeria. The company has factories in Nnewi and Enugu and has the governments of Anambra and Enugu states, as well as a few federal agencies, among its customers.


Gabriel Chukwuma: The elder brother of Innoson, Gabriel is invested in sports, real estate and hospitality. As chairman of Gabros International Football Club, he oversaw its rise into the Nigerian Premier League and partnership with English side, West Ham FC before selling to fellow Nnewi entrepreneur, Ifeanyi Ubah. He began business as a patent medicine dealer.


Alexander Chika Okafor: Chicason Industries, and one of its products – A-Z Petroleum, are household names in Nigeria. The conglomerate has made significant inroads in the mining, manufacturing, and real estate in Nigeria and Sierra Leone. Okafor, its founder and chairman, was named in 2011 by the Senate as one of the beneficiaries of the subsidy fraud under the Goodluck Jonathan administration, pocketing as much as N18 billion ($54 million).


Augustine Ilodibe: An orphan and mass server in the Catholic church, young Ilodibe was gifted £35 by one of the priests and he initially invested in motor spare parts trading. By the sixties, he pioneered the interstate luxury bus transport service; for years, he was the sole importer of these buses. After helping organize vehicles for the Biafran side during the civil war, he established the hugely popular Ekene Dili Chukwu Transport, his main cash cow and later diversified into brewery and agriculture.


Ifeanyi Ubah: The flamboyant businessman funded parts of the Goodluck Jonathan campaign ahead of the 2015 presidential polls and unsuccessfully ran for the governorship of his home state, Anambra, in 2014. His wealth comes from investments in oil and gas, as well as exportation of motor spare parts and, recently, from sales of football players. In June 2015, Ubah – described by one Nigerian newspaper as ‘the new sugar daddy of Nigerian football’ – completed the purchase of Gabros FC for N500 million and renamed it Ifeanyi Ubah FC.


Louis Onwugbenu: The head honcho of Louis Carter Industries dropped out of school in 1967 when the Nigerian civil war broke out. He got his nickname from weekly trips to Lagos to sell motor spare parts under the popular Carter Bridge in the city. His reinvested profits allowed him to diversify into manufacturing car batteries and pipe fittings, agriculture, food processing, real estate and, by the age of 30, he was already a naira multimillionaire. The headquarters of his conglomerate sits in the Carter Industrial Estate, spanning many acres in Nnewi.


Obiajulu Uzodike: Nigeria is one of the foremost cable producers in the world due to many indigenous manufacturers across the southeast. One of the top cable companies is Cutix Nigeria, whose founder, Obiajulu Uzodike, cut his teeth in the business as a staff at a US-based aircraft and military wires and accessories company. By 1982, the Harvard Business School alumna and civil war veteran set up Cutix with N400,000 ($1,200), nurturing it to eventually become the first indigenous firm in the southeast to be listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange.
-Written by Eromo Egbejule

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raker300:
Mehn..thanks for this publicity this thread is bringing to many Igbo made products.

Our people lack the sense of advertisements..I dunno why.

Many companies don't even mention their owners and CEO's

This massive aluminum company here in enugu that develops building padding a don't even have a website but many of their products are being used in Nigerian buildings

Agreed...its a huge business opportunity..why dont you start a web building outfit for them.

igbo people I dey greet. love you people so much.

Scholes007:
like I said earlier LADOL is just a host which another indigenous firm can be. There is nothing exceptional about them as you had portrait earlier.
The project which has been applauded as first -of- its- kind in the sub-Saharan Africa is being handled by the Korea-based Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) on behalf of Total Oil Exploration, with LADOL serving as its local content partner. He said the indigenous oil and gas logistics service provider is a testimony of the success story of local content laws in Nigeria. https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2017/03/10/ncdmb-to-flag-off-egina-project-in-q4-applauds-ladol-compliance-to-local-content/

Guy, you had earlier said that Samsung did not carry out the project with Ladol. I reminded you that Ladol took Samsung to court, appealed to the Federal Govt and got the project back, because Samsung violated the Local Content Act.

Then you turned round to say that Samsung could execute the project without Ladol, or any local firm. I pointed out to you that it was not possible, in view of the Local Content Act which made it imperative for them to partner with a local company.

Now you are turning round again to twist the matter in another direction, by saying that Ladol is just a host which any other local company can be. Well, with the complexity of the requirements, structure, equipment, machinery & expertise needed to drive the project, there are very few companies who could have acted as the host, for this project. Now, Ladol has been given the contract, and is currently executing it. Kindly deal with it!

prodigy24:
There many of them ,either they don't have websites or they are seo weak.
Super master is a branch of Anamike Nigeria Ltd.

No bro!
supermaster, polystar are not igbo owned but igbo owns the franchise in Nigeria. They are chinese and korean product meant for developing/third world countries

When it reaches 200 pages,we shall speed off to 10,000 pages with Igbo personalities, Technocrats,Actresses, actors, Footballers, Scientists, inventors and athletes..

I am gathering them one by one..

Keep it coming guys, I will flood this thread soon.

Chido Nwangwu is the founder and publisher of Houston-based USAfrica, USAfricaonline.com - assessed by The New York Times as the most influential African-owned, U.S-based multimedia networks.

He is also the publisher of the Chinua Achebe project (www.Achebebooks.com), the ultra-glossy CLASS magazine, the exciting photos and events mega-site with the largest collection of contemporary images/events of continental Africans in America PhotoWorks.TV, The Black Business Journal , BBJonline.com, several blogs, and USAfrica The Newspaper which voted the Number One community newspaper in Houston.

Chido appears as an analyst on the CNN, the Voice of America/WorldNet and the Black Entertainment Televsion (BET), as well a number of local U.S. TV and radio stations. He has served on Houston Mayor Lee Brown's international business advisory board (Africa) and has been honoured by the Washington-D.C.based National Immigration Forum for utilizing the media to fight authoritarianism and fostering freedom of expression in parts of African continent. He has served on the board of the Houston chapter of the NAACP, and was the first continental African to be admitted to the 100 Black Men of America, here in the U.S.

Adaora Elizabeth Udoji is the co-host of The Takeaway with John Hockenberry. Previously, she was a host on Court TV. She is a former correspondent for CNN and ABC News and is based in New York City.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Michigan and a Juris Doctor degree from UCLA. In 2002, she married fellow television journalist Ron Allen of NBC News.

She joined ABC News in 1995, as an off-air reporter covering the O.J. Simpson criminal trial and other legal stories. In 1996 she became an associate producer for ABC News covering the presidential election, the TWA 800 crash, as well as working on documentary about death row. The network named her a foreign correspondent in 2000 where she was based in London reporting international stories covering Africa, the Middle East and Europe. She also contributed to Good Morning America, World News Weekend and ABC Radio. In 2003, Udoji joined CNN, where she served as a New York based correspondent covering stories from the 2004 presidential election, Katrina, the West Virginia Sago mine disaster, among many others for the network's television and radio outlets. And on April 25, 2006, it was announced that she had signed with Court TV News as an anchor.

Major international assignments that Udoji has covered include the 2003 Iraq War (from the Persian Gulf and Iraq), the 2001 war in Afghanistan (from Pakistan), the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (from Israel and Jordan) and events surrounding Pope John Paul II from Vatican City. She has also covered many sporting events, such as Wimbledon, The British Open and the Tour de France. In the United States, Udoji covered the 1996 Presidential campaign, the 1996 TWA Flight 800 incident and the O. J. Simpson criminal and civil trials. She was part of the team that won a CINE Eagle Award for an ABC prime time documentary about Death Row in 1997, and also participated as part of a CNN news team covering the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in and around New Orleans, Louisiana for which the network won a Peabody Award. In February 2005, Udoji was named as a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow.

Bartholomew Nnaji is a scientist, innovator and one of the inventors of the E-Design concept. He was born in Enugu State, and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in physics at St John's University, and then preceded to the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University for post-graduate studies.

He joined the faculty at University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1983. After a few years, he became the director and a founder of the Automation and Robotics Laboratory at the University. He was made a professor of mechanical and industrial engineering in 1992. As a researcher, he focused on three major topics: Computer Aided Design, Robotics and Computer Aided Engineering. Using the knowledge he gained from his research pursuits, he created the term geometric reasoning, the idea that most things we operate has a geometric configuration. He is also credited as one of the innovators of the E-design concept.

He is also the founder of the first indigenous owned power generating company in Nigeria and was also a former minister for Science and Technology in the country.