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When you are still young and you do something good for the first time, you feel great. This is because the spirit of God supports your actions but when you are young and you do something bad without anyone telling you, you did a bad thing, it goes to show that the spirit of God doesnt support it.

We are guided by his words in our hearts at all times without knowing it. We are been chastised and corrected by the spirit at all times but we seem not to be listening. We are been encouraged to do better at all times, we need to calm down and follow his steps.

God has marked his ways in our hearts but we need to read his words so that those codes in placed in our will be laid bare for our daily consumption.

We are not forsaken at any time, we are the chosen generation. Please know who you are brothers and sisters. it is necessary.

I am alarmed by the high numbers of atheists in this forum. This is really very serious and dangerous for our young ones. Our next generation must not be abandoned to rot in this satanic generation.

To my lovely young brothers and sisters out there,

I come with so much love and I wish to share it with you. Please you are in the age where you always want to seek knowledge and clarification from people. You all came to nairaland to learn one or two things from people. Please learn to sieve the right knowledge from the bad ones. You might think you are smart, some people here are not who they seem to be in this public forum. They take their time to create an image of intelligence for themselves so that people will look up to their comments and views about life but seriously, these people are been manipulated by the evil ones.

I want you to understand one thing, the world is imperfect because we humans made it so. The wrong of one has a way of affecting the universe directly or indirectly. If you offend a man, he feels bad and takes one another person who feels bad and say bad things to someone else who might do one or two things to himself based on his emotional weakness. That is why we need to mind what we do to others because it does not stop at the next person but it goes on and on to cause a big imbalance to the world.

Warning: Sieve every information you get online. Some statements look logical and beautifully written but they are always coated in sin and damnation. Please listen, not everything that pleases the eyes is good but what God blesses is good. You were created pure and its only the path you take that makes you impure. Learn to live a simple and godly live, it is cheaper and reduces so much headache and heartache.

To those who say God is omniscient and he knows the end from the beginning. Yes, as an engineer, you know high voltage will always burn the transformer or capacitor of an electrical appliance. So are our actions, if we behave in a particular way, it generates series of chain reactions which will either lead us to happiness or sadness. There is no two ways about it. God gave us the freedom to live the way we want but he also gave us warnings about the different paths to life and death.

You hold on tight, the wait will soon end and glory of God will shine upon us.

People will laugh until the last day and they breathe their last breath, then the whole world will be replayed in their eyes, thats when they will know it is too late to turn back.

Atheist, because your small head cannot comprehend a particular thing doesnt mean it does not exist.

I am only sorry for the young ones who click these topics to see atheistic comments and learn from them. Boys, they are deceiving you. Heaven is real and hell is real. Do not pay attention to these people because you do not know who is behind the phone telling you these jargons. They paint their words sweet so that your flesh will be enticed. I am warning you guys, it is very real and dont be inflamed by the worldly things of this earth. It kills.

Igboland is not impressive since the last time I commented on this thread. It is like we are just moving in circles and I just do not know when we will get it right. Are we shying away from reality or we are expecting miracles to happen first before we know the direction we need to take?

MD/CEO WILSON DRILLING NIGERIA LIMITED, DR LIONEL AKOR

Wilson Drilling Nigeria Limited is an oil and gas services and drilling contractor, registered with the Nigerian Corporate Affairs commission as a Limited Liability Company, with Registration No. 445050. It was originally operated as an affiliate of Wilson Drilling in Alberta, Canada. In 2002, the Canadian base and assets were sold to Trinidad Drilling Canada, and the Nigerian affiliate, Wilson Drilling Nigeria Limited became an independent Nigerian indigenous incorporated drilling services contractor, with an objective to seek investment opportunities in the oil and gas sector and to be a source of technical expertise resident in Nigeria. The key shareholders in our organization have years of experience in oil and gas exploration and production.
In keeping with the Nigerian Government initiative to increase local content value in oil and gas sector, Wilson Drilling Nigeria Limited became a 100% Nigerian owned company, with Dr. Lionel Akor as President and Chief Executive Officer.
OUR VISION
Our vision is to be the best oil and gas services providers in Africa. To achieve this, Wilson Drilling Nigeria Limited shall seek to form Joint Partnership and participations with other oil and gas services providers worldwide, to constantly increase our services growth in the industry
OUR RANGE OF SERVICES
Wilson Drilling Nigeria Limited is registered with Nipex, a division of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) with the responsibility to prequalifying and certifying oil and gas service companies in their areas of specialization
DRILLING MANAGEMENT PROFILE
DR. LIONEL AKOR (President/CEO)
Dr. Lionel Akor is a Nigerian with over 15 years experience as an Oil and Gas management Executive. He has worked and developed oil and gas management modules for some notable drilling companies in Canada, USA and Nigeria, these include Wilson drilling in Alberta Canada, Superior well Drilling Arkansas USA, O’brien Energy USA, and Omega Maritime and Energy Limited, in Nigeria
Dr. Akor served as a Director and Vice President for Omega Maritime and Energy limited, Nigeria from 2005-­‐ 2013. He conceptualized and developed Omega Maritime and Energy Limited drilling division, a Nigerian Drilling company that currently operating a 1000HP drilling/workover Rig.

Wilson Drilling Nigeria Limited has uniquely positioned itself with different rig component manufacturing companies to enable Wilson Drilling Nigeria Limited to negotiate better deals, putting together a rig using the best equipment from several of these companies. Wilson Drilling Nigeria Limited also gets the support of the manufacturer after the sale for the warranty that they pass on to the customer. Whether you need a 550HP rig or a 3000HP rig, whether it is box on box or a swing up rig, it is trailer or truck mounted, or heli-rig, Wilson Drilling Nigeria Limited will make it happen for you.
On the operational side, Wilson Drilling Nigeria Limited through its rig operational experience from running its own rigs has developed a personnel data base of qualified drilling personnel; from the average rough neck to the Tool Pusher and Superintendent. There is no place that we cannot operate a drilling rig with people that have been there and done that.

FURTHERMORE:
The staff of Wilson Drilling Nigeria Limited are driven by excellence and fully committed to satisfying the needs of our clients through quality service delivery. Our inspiration is in our determination to redefine the standard of service delivery through the stock of the state of the art equipment, tools, and techniques that we deploy for operation.
Wilson Drilling Nigeria Limited aim is to broaden and deepen indigenous service capabilities and portfolios in oilfield/well engineering service provision. And our goal is to become the foremost indigenous oilfield service provider in the years ahead.
Through re-­‐engineering, strategic repositioning, corporate venturing, technical and marketing alliances,
Wilson Drilling Nigeria Limited is focused on establishing, maintaining and growing leading or tier market positions in some key areas of well engineering — drilling, completions, work over, well services and related maintenance and logistical / support services, and with emphasis on asset-­‐based technical and rentable equipment, tools and units.
Wilson Drilling Nigeria Limited plans to become through strategic corporate re-­‐ engineering, Equipment acquisition, innovative technology applications and strategic skill acquisition investments, the company providing unequalled and unparalled Equipment Rental and Services to the major players in the Upstream sector of the Nigerian Oil and Gas theatre and the regional offshore markets.
Wilson Drilling Nigeria Limited has entered into a Technical Assistance agreement with the French International Drilling Contractor, Sociétè de Maintenaince Petrolière, and therefore provides state of the art drilling operations in Nigeria.
Wilson Drilling Nigeria Limited seeks to offer the maximum benefit that is achievable from any field development project by bringing together the powerful combination of leading edge Equipment/Tools, technical expertise and high performance standard / track record.

MD/CEO OF INFOGRAPHICS CHINENYE MBA-UZUOKWU

Our Mission
To overtake the challenge facing market leaders in leveraging technology to define and adroitly manage the integration of interfaces through which they interact with their market.

The Journey so far…
Digital technology is challenging tradition, overthrowing old hierarchies and driving today’s economy. It is creating new business models and more efficient ways to transact business and new channels to do so. InfoGraphics is at the helm of this revolution with a rich and varied suite of products and services that help businesses and organisations make technology work harder for them.

The Intelligent Enterprise
The new dimension of competition has become “how” the enterprise intelligently engages, responds and pivots to the needs of its stakeholders. Our model of an intelligent enterprise derives its competitive edge from its use of technology to gain insight from data, plan, forecast and make timely and informed decisions that unlocks new levels of balanced productivity and efficiency across the enterprise. Its time to harness your organization’s resources and improve business performance with Business Intelligence, Optimised MS Office, Knowledge Management, Enterprise Project Management, Contract Lifecycle Management, Business Process Management, E-Signature & Verification,Cloud Productivity/SaaS.
The Age of Lifelong-Learning-Virtual Learning
Technology has disrupted the work place demanding in its place, unique responses to the needs of the knowledge worker of the 21st century who must rapidly assimilate, process and creatively deploy knowledge as a factor of production. Out of this has come the new paradigm of learning called Virtual Learning, sometimes described as technology-supported learning. We deliver applications and services used by education end-users, to enable the creation of content, on and offline, and the assessment, tracking, reporting of progress and generation of statistics. Our technology is applicable both in the mainstream education system and in corporate organizations where typically learning is continuous.
The Collaborative Workplace
Collaboration is at the heart of every functioning organisation. it is the core requirement for value creation, the interactive exchange of information, storage and transmission of cognate experience and knowledge, the optimization of workflows and most critically, a key ingredient for innovation in today’s hyper-connected world. Trough collaboration, enterprises harness, channel and intelligently unleash the creative human energy that drives the engines of growth and performance. Achieve a unified enterprise experience using Microsoft SharePoint, and open a window to the next levels of productivity and performance.

The Paper-plus Enterprise
In spite of the compelling vision of the “paperless enterprise”, physical documents remain core elements in today’s dealings with consumers, businesses and organizations. However, the increasing commercial activity performed through electronic documents and online interactions has led to new types of content that, in many cases, are now required to be protected and preserved. Regardless of the original form(physical 0r digital), our suite of solutions will help your organization overcome the shortcomings of manual paper filing, retrieval and processing of documents. Our solutions include; Capture, Storage and Lockboxes, Workflow Automation, Digital Assets Management and Records Management.

The Agile and Responsive Enterprise
Use interactive technology to market your products, services, personal brand and organization in a targeted, measurable and pervasive manner. The smart enterprise leverages all pathways to the consumer by integrating traditional and new media channels such as Database & Presence Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Reputation Management, and interactive digital solutions from signage to kiosks.

The Engaged Enterprise
The world is connected and engaged at an unprecedented level in human history. The pivot for success has largely resolved to one phrase, “The Smart Enterprise”. Any organisation that lacks the ability to manage the multiplicity of relationships it depends on, internally and externally, will flounder against relentless competition that is driven by technology and borderless in most dimensions.

SIMEON ONONOBI FOUNDER OF MY ADS GLOBAL

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NOELLA EKEZIE, FOUNDER AND CREATIVE DIRECTOR ELLAE

Noella Ekezie (Mrs.) is the founder and the director of Ellae Creative Brand Agency. She is an innovative thinker whose passion and joy is all things design. Trained at the Parsons School of Design in New York, she is reputable for translating business requirement into creative and high impact solutions. She is a woman rapped with passion and zeal to train and transfer the undiluted experience she has in the field of graphic and web designing to other people around her.

BRAND SERVICES

Naming and Verbal Identity

Brand Identity Design

Brand Strategy and Positioning

Brand Guidelines

Brand Audit

Brand Value

Environmental Branding

CREATIVE DESIGN
COMPELLING, PERSUASIVE AND ENGAGING IDEAS.

CREATIVE DESIGN

UI/UX Design

Product Packaging and POS Design

Graphic Design

Interactive and Media Design

Editorial Design

Print Design

Business/Marketing Collateral

DIGITAL MARKETING SERVICES
CREATING IMPACT IN THE DIGITAL SPACE

DIGITAL MARKETING SERVICES

Social Media Management/Engagement

PPC Campaigns

Online Marketing

SEO

Mobile/App Marketing

PPC campaigns

INTEGRATED COMMUNICATIONS
STRATEGIC COMMUNICATION THAT ACHIEVES RESULTS

COMMUNICATION TOOLS

PR Campaigns

Advertising

PR/ Communications program audit

Publicity/ press materials

Media relations

Strategic media planning

Target audience research

Media analysis

Media buying and negotiation

SME CONSULTANCY
STRATEGIC PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT

SME MARKETING TOOL KIT

Sales Forecast / Cashflow Forecast

Market Research

Pricing Strategy

Advertising Calendar (on a Shoe String)

Website & collateral design

MR UZO NDUKA MD/CEO DOMINO INFORMATION COMPANY LIMITED

BIOGRAPHY
Uzo Nduka has multicultural management experience spanning more than 16 years in the private and public sectors. He also has leadership experience in international development as well as conflict management. Key positions held have included Assistant General Manager for Consultancy at Prodec – Fugro Nigeria Limited, Program Co-ordinator for German Technical Corporation (GTZ), Director of Consultancy at Southsea Datcom Limited, Head of Strategy and Planning for Corporate/Community Affairs Directorate for Shell Petroleum Development Company Nigeria Limited, and over the past four and half years, CEO at Domino Information Company Limited (DICL). His international consulting experience includes projects with BG Group UK, Shell International (UK and The Netherlands), and Control Risks Group (UK and Dubai) among others.

TBY talks to Uzo Nduka, CEO of Domino Information Company Limited (DICL), on supporting SMEs, the role of innovation in public sector enterprises, and how ICT contributes to the wider economy.
Uzo Nduka
BIOGRAPHY
Uzo Nduka has multicultural management experience spanning more than 16 years in the private and public sectors. He also has leadership experience in international development as well as conflict management. Key positions held have included Assistant General Manager for Consultancy at Prodec – Fugro Nigeria Limited, Program Co-ordinator for German Technical Corporation (GTZ), Director of Consultancy at Southsea Datcom Limited, Head of Strategy and Planning for Corporate/Community Affairs Directorate for Shell Petroleum Development Company Nigeria Limited, and over the past four and half years, CEO at Domino Information Company Limited (DICL). His international consulting experience includes projects with BG Group UK, Shell International (UK and The Netherlands), and Control Risks Group (UK and Dubai) among others.
How do your services help small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) run their businesses?
The way IT has come to Nigeria and spread nationwide, especially for managers, has led us to significant automation of business processes. It is only the larger companies and multinational corporations that have all the basic, simple processes that bring efficiency, transparency, and cost-effectiveness to an organisation. Once you go beneath the largest bandwidth, by my estimation somewhere between 70% and 95% of all business processes, are still done manually. We view this as a huge gap in the market, and therefore decided to create less expensive versions of process automation solutions for the SME market. More importantly, rather than shoehorning existing solutions into these SMEs, our solutions had to be based on the realities of doing business in Nigeria. And that reality is that most Nigerian SMEs are competing domestically, which became our focus. By way of an example, if we consider any of the well-known international accounting or payroll solutions we hardly find one denominated in Nigerian currency, the naira. Very few of them allow the flexibility for Nigerian SMEs to exchange between the naira and other currencies with accuracy and convenience. Therefore, in building an accounting package for the local SME market our number one selling point is that it is denominated in naira. Our strategy is to seek out niche markets based on specific needs. This is where we find our greatest advantage, and where we add the most value.
Is there any other segment of the market or specific area of the economy that you foresee bringing your services to?
I would like to enter the risky and less crowded areas. We are not going to try the traditional areas where everybody has already launched themselves. I believe that Nigeria is going to change dramatically within the next two-five years, and that the change will be driven by technology.
As technology plays an increasingly important role in Nigeria's new economy, how receptive do you think Nigerians are toward innovation?
If we look at history, Nigerians are one of the largest subscribers to Facebook and LinkedIn and Twitter. At some point, Nigeria was the largest market for BlackBerry devices—that was a worldwide statistic. I will say that the Nigerian market is highly receptive.
How receptive is the public sector in the same regard?
I think the case is the opposite. In the public sector, the fact is that the business cycle and culture do not encourage anybody to take bold decisions. The problem is institutionalized, actually, to help prevent corruption and fraud, but I also think the price we are paying for it as a nation is too heavy. The Nigerian public sector is slow to make decisions, except when that decision has the particular logic of emergency. The fact that in some spheres of the public service we keep appointing, re-appointing, removing, and re-installing the key leaders and decision-makers, also does not help because most new leaders want to pursue a different agenda. All these factors work against productivity. The other factor that works against us in making decisions and being receptive to new technologies is our national budget. Sometimes up until April or May of the New Year, the national budget has not even been signed or approved. The ministries and administrators are told they can spend only a certain small percentage of the total budget–but not more, causing overall anxiety. Put all of these things together and you see the problem; while we have good people keen to seize the moment, more importantly, the system, the boundary conditions within which they must act on behalf of the general public, do not allow them to do much.
As of June 2014, the ICT sector in Nigeria contributes 8% to GDP. Can the percentage rise in the future?
I think it will grow rapidly. I expect competition in ICT to be enhanced in some dramatic way. I also believe the private sector will play a key role here. My other thought is that the security sector will play a central role in this. The Nigerian security forces, the state security service, the immigration service, the customs service—all of these agencies are going to adopt different technological solutions shortly. Once our people embrace technology and, it will dramatically enhance the contribution of ICT to our economy and well-being. The rest of the Nigerian public service will also make an important contribution. Not necessarily in hardware terms, but from in terms of software, in areas such as process automation, for example. There is a strong element of ethics and transparency in most of our software solutions. We are not providing these as services; they are nonetheless delivered to our clients by default. The truth is that you cannot deliver good ERP solutions without infusing ethics and transparency into the system.

MD/CEO NIGERIA COMMUNICATIONS WEEKS KEN NWOGBO


Ken Nwogbo (born 18 March 1971) is a Nigerian business journalist, ICT Journalist, editor of The Guardian and founder of Communication Week Media Limited, the publisher of Nigeria CommunicationsWeek, a Nigeria information and communications technology newspaper.[1]

Nwogbo is the organizer of the Beacon of ICT Awards.[2]

Contents [hide]
1 Early life and education
2 Career
3 Awards and honours
4 References
Early life and education[edit]
Ken was born on 18 March 1971 in Awka, the capital of Anambra State, eastern Nigeria. He attended Ezi-Awka Primary School in 1977 and later Igwebuike Grammar School where he obtained the West Africa School Certificate in 1989. He proceeded to the Federal Polytechnic, Oko where he received a Higher National Diploma in Mass Communications. He later obtained a postgraduate diploma in public administration from the University of Calabar and Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Lagos State University. He has participated in over 200 local and international seminars and media conferences.[3]

Career[edit]
Nwogbo started his career in journalism at Akwa Ibom State when he was undergoing the compulsory one year National Youth Service. He joined the services of Champion newspaper as a capital market reporter in August 1997, shortly after he completed the youth service program. He left Champion newspaper in 2005 as a deputy news editor. He joined Businessworld as associate editor in 2006, the same year he established Nigeria CommunicationsWeek. Since he began his career, he has written over 2,000 stories and articles in national dailies.[4]

Awards and honours[edit]
Nwogbo has received numerous awards including the Science and Development Network award for Science Communication Writing in Uganda. He also received the Securities and Exchange Commission award of excellence in financial journalism. He also bagged the Information Technology Association of Nigeria's award in recognition of his immense contributions to the development of ICT in Nigeria.
Ken Nwogbo, first class business journalist and one of the doyens of ICT journalism in Nigeria has been appointed contributing editor of Techtrendsng, one of Nigeria’s leading Tech blog which provides quality information in ICT related issues.

Nwogbo also founder and editor-in-chief of Nigeria Communications will join Techtrendsng team in providing unique perspectives to ICT news.

Kenneth Omeruo, editor-in-chief of Techtrendsng said “we are delighted to have Mr. Ken Nwogbo on board and together with our team, we will continue to our mission of “e-mpowering Nigerians while bridging the digital divide”

Nwogbo who is also contributing editor to Guardian Newspapers commented “the vision of Techntrendng aligns perfectly with my mission of ICT evangelism”

Born on March 18, 1971 in Awka, Anambra state, Nigeria to Rose and George, Nwogbo is a trained and practicing Journalist since 1995.

He started his Primary education at Ezi-Awka Primary school in 1977 and proceeded to Igwebuike grammar school in 1983 and finished in 1989.

in 1995, he graduated from Federal Polytechnic, Oko where he bagged HND in Mass Communications.

He proceeded to University of Calabar where he bagged PGD in Public Administration.

He also earned MBA in Marketing from Lagos State University.

Nwogbo has attended over 230 seminars and workshops within and outside the country.

Nwogbo began journalism as Youth Corper with Akwa Ibom Broadcasting Cooperation (AKBC), Uyo.

After his Youth Service he joined Champion Newspapers in August of 1997 and started out as Capital Market reporter.

He was later posted to IT and Telecom Desk in 2000.

In Champion Newspapers, he also held various positions and left in 2005 as Deputy News Editor.

He joined Business World as Associate Editor in 2006 and left to found Nigeria CommunicationsWeek

Nigeria CommunicationsWeek is published weekly. It has a popular website www.nigeriacommunicationsweek.com.ng; it also has a daily newspaper reaching nearly 100,000 email recipients daily and it published as a pull-out every Friday in Guardian Newspapers.

He is much sought after resource person in ICT media both within and outside the country.

In all, he has written over 2,000 stories and articles in his career, some of which have won awards.

He is a proud winner of many international awards including Scidev.Net overall prize for Science Communication Writing in Entebbe, Uganda and a recipient of Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) letter of award for financial journalism.
He has also received awards from ITAN for his outstanding contribution to the development of ICT in Nigeria.
The Titan of ICT also awarded him the best journalist of the year

MD SIGNAL ALLIANCE COLLINS ONUEGBU

Achieving competitive advantage using business analytics
Today’s high-tech, increasingly inter-connected world provides organizations access to large amounts of data on clients, customers, competitors, and partners.
What distinguishes stellar businesses from their counterparts is the ability to analyze and leverage this data into strategic, actionable plans critical to a firm’s viability in a highly dynamic and ever-changing marketplace.Click here to watch the Signal Alliance webinar on “Achieving competitive advantage using business analytics”

Overview
Founded in 1996, Signal Alliance is a top class IT service provider and an end-to-end system integrator. It is a leading Microsoft enterprise gold partner in Nigeria and has won the Microsoft Country Partner of the Year Nigeria. Signal Alliance has grown to be a vibrant, forward moving ICT company with offices in Lagos and Abuja. IT prides herself on her ability to gain a thorough understanding of clients’ businesses by using appropriate technology as a bridge between where the client is and where they want to be. As a technology company, we have also diversified within the IT Industry by acquiring several companies that are in line with our vision.. Our sister company, Sasware, is technology investment and incubation company that accelerates tech startups and businesses. It plays a vital role in accomplishing the vision that we have at Signal Alliance at a bigger scale; which is to integrate IT systems and to make lives better. From B2B enterprise companies to health technology startups, we are expanding our portfolio across all sectors and industries.

ABOUT SIGNAL ALLIANCE
Signal Alliance is a diversified technology company with 20 years’ experience in the Nigerian technology and business landscape, starting out first as an IT networking company in 1996, before quickly evolving into IT systems integrator.
Today Signal Alliance has transformed beyond systems integration to a diversified technology company, expanding its internal business and also investing in promising Technology companies using Sasware, its technology investment subsidiary. Our subsidiaries and affiliate companies have seen our footprint expand to health tech, (Medismart), Renewable energy (Nemoante), Enterprise IT (Codeware) and Fintech (CompexAfrica).
Our future trajectory is to grow technology and technology enabled businesses, taking advantage of opportunities in the diversifying Nigerian economy to build an indigenous business that serves the needs of the country and beyond. We want you to be part of this journey, at the same time grateful for your role in our past and present.

ENTERPRISE INFRASTRUCTURE
Business in High Performance. This is what we transform our customers’ businesses to. With a selection of vital technologies that cover the technology driven business, the Enterprise Infrastructure unit is positioned to deliver best-in-class solutions that serve and align with the middle- and long-term business strategies of our customers, keeping them ahead of competition.
Our customers cut across all sectors and are dogged with challenges to their business – both varied and peculiar to them. Combining consultative approach of our highly experienced consultants together with an OEM-agnostic perspective to proffering solutions, we meet (and many times, exceed) our customers’ expectations – all the time.
CHALLENGES OF THE ENTERPRISE BUSINESS:
Increasing infrastructure value to serve new business demands.
Budget constraints with increasing CAPEX and OPEX.
Increasing complexities of Information Technology
Enabling collaboration – with the network, environment and tools all considered.
Increasing energy demands and space limitations
Dearth of systems experts.
Improperly streamlined business processes.

With enterprise architecture differing according to the nature of customers’ individual businesses, we are able to deliver the appropriate technology solutions for any aspect of their enterprise infrastructure (there is no ideal architecture for all situations). With the combination of solutions delivered for different customers, we repeatedly deliver the full benefits of technology, a few of which are listed below.
BENEFITS OF ENTERPRISE INFRASTRUCTURE SOLUTIONS:
Increased sales and revenue, while reducing operating costs.
Simplified enterprise infrastructures that are easy to manage.
Lower infrastructure costs.
Faster infrastructures, applications and services provisioning.
Better, secure, scalable and extensible infrastructures.
Greater control, visibility and impact of IT to the business.
Business Continuity, through highly reduced downtimes.
Enhanced (internal and external) customer and user experience.
Greater innovation and higher productivity for staff and business.
Intangible benefits – Objectivity in measuring the business, aided with IT.

Having strategic alliances with leading technology vendors who specialize in various aspects of the enterprise infrastructure, Signal Alliance remains a leader and pioneer for new technologies that keep our customers well ahead of their contemporaries. Hence our very high customer loyalty. Naturally.

CHARLES EMEMBOLU CEO CRESTAGE

Background
Founded in 2010, the company has used well-developed service delivery processes to design, build, maintain and improve technology infrastructure for our clients.
We stand behind our Core Values, which are:
Professionalism
Innovation
Excellence
Reliability

We commenced business in Nigeria as part of our long-term strategy to bring our experience and expertise to the African continent. In that time we have consulted for notable clients like Aker Solutions, Diamond Bank, Candix Engineering, SDEM Erectors, Royal Niger Emerging Technology to mention a few.

Our strategic partnerships with global organisations such as Pentagon Protection, IBM, HP, Huawei, Sinnergy, Technology Distribution, Avaya, Microsoft to mention a few, leverage us to provide an array of cutting edge solutions to our clients in a cost effective way.

Design
With the right infrastructure in place, Crestsage consultants can support you to assess your business needs, specify requirements, select the right solution leveraging our partnerships and experience, plan and deliver to your expectations.
We provide enterprise and bespoke solutions using industry expertise and experience.

Build
Our project management expertise has enabled us to consistently deliver and implement several projects, both medium and large scale, on time and within budget. We insist on quality of innovative systems we deliver and have a flexible work approach that is built around our client’s needs. Simply put, we are relentless in our efforts to make sure that our clients always get what they need and more, so as to give them a niche over their competitors.

Maintain
Our designs are backed by a first class maintenance process and culture. Though optional, the empirical evidence from our clients is that they take advantage of our innovative managed services, experience a better user experience and their systems are more likely to last the scheduled solution lifecycle. A best of breed-integrated set of technologies enable us to provide excellent: 24/7 proactively monitored and maintained managed service uality innovative backup and disaster recovery systems and processes Effective network assessment services.

Enterprise Solutions (Design, Supply and Maintenance)
Enterprise Resource Planning Management Systems
Web and Mobile Payment Management Systems
Enterprise Content (ECM) and Business Process Management (BPM) solutions
Desktop and Server Operating.
IT & Security Systems (Design, Supply, Installation and Maintenance)
Servers, Workstations and End-User devices and hardware
Data Center Solutions (Video Surveillance, Environmental Monitoring Systems, Uninterruptible Power Systems, Inverters and Managed Power Services)
Intelligent Identity Management Systems (Using Biometrics)
Ballistic Protection Solutions.

Consultancy and Training Services
Project, Portfolio, Program and Change Management (P3CM)
Governance, Project Management, Technology and Quality Management trainings
E-learning and Simulation systems.

I am sorry for not posting for some time now, I have been banned severally for posting in this thread which has made me lose steam to post industries owned by igbos. There are quite alot but if I post just 10, the mod or whoever controls this panel bans me and retrieve my posts. I dont know what they gain from banning members.

laudate:
You keep citing an outdated Wikipedia entry.

2015 information, what about now?

Chinwe Chukwuogo-Roy was born in Awka, Anambara State, Nigeria, and took up painting as a profession in 1988.

Much of her work is in pastels and oils, and her subjects range from portraiture and landscape, to pictures which capture the traditions and cultures of the African continent.

She has exhibited widely and her work is represented in public and private collections in France, Grenada, Kenya, Malaysia, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, Spain, Swaziland, United Kingdom, and U.S.A.

She received worldwide recognition for painting the official portrait of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II for her Golden Jubilee Other recent commissions include the President of Norwich City Football Club, Mr Geoffrey Watling; His Excellency Chief Olusegun Obasanjo GCFR, President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria; His Excellency Chief Emeka Anyaoku, Secretary-General of The Commonwealth; President of the Senate, Grenada, Margaret Neckles; Lord Mayor of Norwich, Derek Wood, Diagio Africa MD & wife, Mr. & Mrs. David Hampshire, David 'Rocky' Rocastle, Kriss Akabusi, athlete and TV personality, for whom she also undertook a series of large paintings on the theme of the African Diaspora and was commissioned by Martin Keown to paint Arsenal’s Highbury Stadium. Her work is in the Queens collection. In 2006 her work was reproduced on the national postage stamps of 5 countries.

Chief Onuigbo - Board Chairman - International Glass Limited

For his positive, proactive contributions to the national parliament, large vision of life expressed in philanthropic game-changing interventions; for his exemplary discipline, focus and sincerity which have meshed to leverage society, Rep. Sam Onuigbo is The AUTHORITY Icon.
He is a national parliamentarian, strong believer in the power of edu¬cation for socio-economic transfor¬mation, philanthropist of note and a lover of knowl­edge. A Harvard-trained leadership guru, he was officially commended by two former US Ambassadors to Nigeria and is a recipient of Meritorious Honour Awards from the US Department of State. Meet Chief (Hon.) Sam Onuigbo, Odozi¬ Obodo 1 of Ugwu-Ibere Ancient Kingdom.
He was born on October 1, 1960, in Umua¬hia, Abia State. He had his early education at Community Primary School, Obuohia Obi-Ibere, Ikwuano and later at­tended Oboro Secondary Commercial School, Umudike, Ikwuano, Abia State. Subsequently, he pro¬ceeded to Alvan Ikoku College of Education, Owerri, Imo State for National Certificate in Education; Diploma in Law, University of Lagos; Master’s in Business Ad­ministration, Enugu State University of Sci­ence and Tech¬nology, Enugu.
Chief Onuigbo attended Executive Educa¬tion Programme on Leadership at the John F Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, USA and also attended a course at US Department of State Foreign Service Institute, National Foreign Affairs Training Center, Washington, DC. He also benefited from Training on Security by ASIS Interna¬tional at New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He trained in Finance, Accounting and Corpo¬rate Governance.
He has held several management, execu¬tive and political positions at the national and state levels. He is a teacher, Fraud Pre¬vention Spe­cialist, Management and Finan¬cial Consul­tant, and a Public Affairs Analyst. After over 17 years of unbroken and merito¬rious service with the US Embassy Nigeria, during which he held the highly sensitive position of the Super­visory Fraud Preven¬tion Specialist, he volun­tarily resigned.
He is a recipient of several awards some of which include Professional and Voca¬tional Service Awards from Rotary Club Interna­tional and Award of Honour from the Forum of Commissioners of Finance of Nigeria. At the national level, he was Special Adviser, Pub­lic Affairs, Office of the Speak¬er, House of Representatives. At the state lev¬el, he was the Hon. Commissioner, Ministry of Lands and Survey; former Commissioner for Finance; a former Board Member, Inter¬national Glass Industries Limited, Aba.
Chief Onuigbo embarked on this laudable project to end the hardship of the students who had to trek upwards of 12km to and from school every school day. He also attracted the on-going construction by NDDC of the Okwe-Obuohia-Umue¬menike-Ahiaorie Ring Road, as contained in the 2013 approved national budget on NDDC.
In recognition of his verifiable contribu¬tions to infrastructural and human capital develop­ment efforts in Ikwuano Local Gov¬ernment Area, he was in 2001, bestowed with the award of Okeosisi of Ikwuano by Ikwuano Develop­ment Union. Chief Onu¬igbo, holds two tra­ditional titles: Odozi¬ Obodo I of Ugwu-Ibere Ancient Kingdom; and Ebubedike I of OtuUzo Autonomous Community.

Emeka is a well established member of the African blogosphere, a leading thinker, and as Erik Hersman stated a doer. He also manages and coordinates one of the world’s top technology conferences held in Africa: TED Global. He is responsible for assembling a list of speakers that speak to the heart of the new Africa -- the "cheetah generation" of inventors and investors, policymakers and bloggers, who are bringing new energy to the African continent.

His two blogs should be considered regular reading for anyone interested in technological development in Africa. His first blog, Timbuktu Chronicles seeks to spur dialogue in areas of entrepreneurship, technology and the scientific method as it impacts Africa. It aggregates some of the most interesting and exciting models of entrepreneurship happening in Sub-Saharan Africa. The second blog, Africa Unchained allows Emeka to "think out loud" about paradigms of development, innovation and politics.

Emeka is an entrepreneur who lives in New York City, and one of his endeavours is Caranda Teas and Coffee in which he is a partner. The company is repositioning itself as a Fine Foods company.

Currently, he is working on projects that focus on infrastructure and SME development in Africa.

Chinedu Echeruo is the founder and creator of Hopstop. Hopstop is a city transit guide launched in 2001. It provides door-to-door subway and bus directions and maps for New York City. One can also search for places to restaurants, bars and hotels. Other popular features include sending directions by e-mail or text messaging to a cell phone directly from the website and planning a trip with multiple destinations using the itinerary. Users can get directions or the locations of nearby subway and bus stops remotely on their cell phone or PDA with the HopStop Mobile service.

Today, the site serves about a million customers each month and generates annual revenues in excess of $3 million.

Chinedu holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS from Syracuse University.

Chairman AiQ Capital Management Limited, Chief Obiozor

For defining new pathways and templates of engagement for Nigeria which will en­hance her fruitful relationships in a com­petitive global village; for deploying real­ism and pragmatism as the new language of international diplomacy, Professor George Obiozor is The AUTHORITY Icon
He is an informed diplomat’s diplomat who mastered his turf through deep erudition and a searching mind. He shaped the way Nigeria should engage the world, par­ticularly, the United States. A top-flight academic, with his life’s works he dem­onstrated that the power of rigorous thinking can indeed be used to bridge deficits in governance and elevate soci­ety. Meet Professor George A. Obiozor.
He was born on August 15, 1942, in Imo State. He serves as the Chairman at AiQ Capital Management Limited. Obiozor is Nigeria’s former ambassador to United States. Prior to this, he was the nation’s ambassador to the State of Israel, and High Commissioner to the Republic of Cyprus between 1999 and 2003. He studied at the Institute of Af­rican Studies, and Albert Schweitzer College. He received a Bachelor of Arts Degree (BA) Summa Cum Laude at University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, Washington, US, in 1969; Masters of Arts (MA) and Doctorate (PhD) De­grees at Columbia University, in 1974 and 1976 respectively.
From 1964 to 2003, Obiozor held many important positions in Nigerian government and academia including Senior Research Fellow at Nigerian Institute of International Affairs and Director-General of Nigerian Institute of International Affairs, NIIA, Lagos (1991-1999). He was actually one of the most distinguished Director-General of NIIA.
He has written many books and arti­cles on Nigeria’s foreign policy, interna­tional affairs, and diplomatic politick­ing. His vast experience and profound knowledge in diplomacy has become a great asset in rebuilding Nigerian im­age and the relationship with the United States.
He is the author of “Uneasy Friend­ships: Nigeria-United States Relations”, a hand book for Diplomats and has provide politicians with deep insights to Nation Building with his work on “The politics of precarious balancing: an analysis of contending issues in Ni­gerian domestic and foreign policy”
For defining pathways and templates of engagement for Nigeria which will enhance her fruitful relationships in a competitive global village; for deploy­ing realism and pragmatism as the new language of international diplomacy, Professor George Obiozor is The AU­THORITY Icon.

Ken's technology career spans over 30 years, commencing with IBM where he held various posts in systems, engineering, sales and marketing, before joining Wang Laboratories in 1981.

Ken moved on to test his entrepreneurial mettle by founding Interregnum in 1992 which was floated on London’s AIM exchange in 2000.

At Interregnum, Ken worked at the forefront of the entrepreneur/technology growth cycle.

As well as serving on the Boards of many of Interregnum’s investment and advisory clients, Ken notched up some interesting firsts, including chairing the IPO of Vossnet, the UK’s first Internet Service Provider (ISP) DMATEK the first Israeli technology company to be listed on AIM. He was also a principal advisor to, and Director of, uDate.com - one the UK’s few dotcom successes which was sold to USA Interactive in 2003.

Ken retired from Interregnum in 2006 and founded boutique technology merchant bank – Restoration Partners. He is a Director of Thomson Reuters and Canadian software developer – Open Text, and serves on the Board of, or is an adviser to, several privately held and innovative companies including Prevx, BioWisdom, Independent Audit and Metapraxis.

A believer in the Victorian ethos that successful commerce is the fuel of public service, Ken is a Freeman of the City of London; a Warden of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists; Director of the Reuters Foundation; Chairman of homeless charity Thames Reach; and was an inaugural Postal Services Commissioner from 2001 to 2004.

In 2003 Ken won the BVCA/Real Deals Private Equity Personality of the Year Award and in 2006 he was elected a Fellow of the British Computer Society, becoming a Vice President in 2007.

In 2008, a panel led by Baroness Amos of Brondesbury drew up the Powerlist 2008 published this week by Powerful Media.

Ken was recognised for his business and charitable achievements, including directorships of two FTSE 100 companies (ENRC and Thomson Reuters) and long-term chairmanship of Thames Reach - a charity determined to end street homelessness in London by 2012.

The Powerlist highlighted that there are only two FTSE100 companies whose boards include black directors, and Ken is two of them.

Anyone you watched Barack Obama’s inauguration ceremony on CNN, wouldn’t have failed to spot commercials describing a skin care product called Adure.

Dr Iheatu Obioha is the man behind Clear Essence Cosmetics USA Inc, the manufacturers of Clear Essence, Adure and Chimere skin care products.

Clear Essence® Skin Care System was developed to address the skin care concerns of men and women of color. Today, the company’s products are distributed worldwide in the United States, Europe, Africa, South America, the Caribbean Islands and Canada. The products are manufactured at the company’s FDA-approved, 40,000 square-feet facility in Ontario, California.

Iheatu is a graduate of the University of Maryland, and an illustrious philanthropist.

Philip Emeagwali is a computer scientist/geologist who was one of two winners of the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize, a prize from the IEEE, for his use of the Connection Machine supercomputer – a machine featuring over 65,000 parallel processors – to help analyze petroleum fields.

Philip received a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Oregon State University in 1977. He received a master's degree in environmental engineering from George Washington University in 1981, and another master's degree in Mathematics from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1986. He also received a post-master's degree in ocean, coastal and marine engineering from George Washington University in that year.

In 1989 Emeagwali received the Gordon Bell Prize, based on an application of the CM-2 massively-parallel computer for oil-reservoir modeling. Over the past years, he has received numerous further awards and recognitions based on his Bell Prize win, ranging from one from the World Bank-IMF Africa Club to being voted the "35th-greatest African (and greatest African scientist) of all time" in a survey by New African magazine.

His achievements were quoted in a speech by Bill Clinton as an example of what Nigerians could achieve when given the opportunity.

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.

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.

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.

ndidi nwuneli
Ndidi is the Founder/C.E.O of LEAP Africa, which is committed to inspiring, empowering and equipping a new cadre of African leaders. LEAP provides leadership training programmes and coaching services for business owners, social entrepreneurs, the youth and the public sector.

Ndidi is also the founder of NIA (Ndu - Life, Ike- Strength, Akunuba - Wealth), a nonprofit organization committed to empowering female university students in Southeastern Nigeria to achieve their highest potential in life. Prior to establishing LEAP and NIA, she was the pioneer Executive Director of FATE Foundation Nigeria, a nonprofit organization which promotes entrepreneurship and business development.

She also worked as a Management Consultant with the Bridgespan Group and with McKinsey & Company. During her time with McKinsey, she served the nonprofit sector and fortune 500 companies in the packaged goods, retail, pharmaceutical and insurance industries in Chicago, New York and South Africa . Ndidi has also worked as a Consultant with the World Bank, IFC, DFID, Ford Foundation's West Africa Office and the Center for Middle East Competitive Strategy in Palestine and Israel. In addition, she has served on Presidential Commissions in Nigeria, and as an adviser to the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Youth Development.

Ndidi holds a Master of Business Administration from the Harvard Business School. During her time at HBS, she initiated the Annual Africa Business Conference. Ndidi received her undergraduate degree with honors in Multinational and Strategic Management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Ndidi serves as a Director for a range of nonprofit organizations in the United States and in Africa, including the Chike Okoli Foundation, the Aart of Life Foundation and TaxAssistance. In addition, she is the facilitator for the Nigerian Economic Summit Group's Policy Commission on Governance & Institutions. Ndidi has received numerous honors and awards. She was recognized as a Global Leader of Tomorrow and Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland . She received a National Honor, Member of the Federal Republic, from the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in 2004 and was recognized as the Young Manager of the Year 2005 by THISDAY Newspapers.

Ndidi speaks widely on the issues of leadership, entrepreneurship, youth employment and ethics. In addition, her articles on these topics have been published in local and international journals and magazines.

chairman/ceo first homarck limited, chief modestus okechukwu umenzekwe

For his bold entrepreneurial vision, enabling him to create thousands of jobs which removed many Nigeri­ans from the job market and also his commitment to rural banking; for his passion for excellence, notable philanthropy and exemplary commitment to his reli­gious faith, Chief Modestus Okechukwu Umenzekwe, Ochinanwata, is The AUTHORITY ICON
He is a great entrepreneur, notable community and trade union leader, devout Catholic and exemplary phi­lanthropist. Meet Chief Modestus Okechuk­wu Umenzekwe, Ochinanwata.
He was born on December 15, 1965 and hails from Achina in Aguata Local Govern­ment Area of Anambra State. Young Modes­tus earned his First School Leaving Certificate in 1978, from Achina Central School and both his General Certificate of Education and West African School Certificate in 1985 from Aguata High School, Aguata. He then proceeded to the Anambra State University of Technology (Now nnamdi azikiwe Univer­sity) Awka where he bagged his BSc. Hons. in technical Education, in 1990.
During his Youth Service, he did a stint at the University of Jos, as Youth Corper Lec­turer. This was between 1990 and 1991. Sub­sequently, he worked with Elmack Group of Companies as Chief Distributor. He eventual­ly became the founding CEO of First Homack Ltd. He is also Director, Achina Microfinance Bank Ltd.
Modestus is a notable community leader and trade union leader who strives for excel­lence at all times in all positions and circum­stances with outstanding ability to contribute and achieve organizational goals and objec­tives. He is also a shrewd businessman who saw himself in business after his search for white-collar job failed. He grew in business eventually to become President of Odum-Ade Building Materials Dealers, Association in Lagos. He achieved this feat through dili­gence, hard-work and honesty. He is the CEO of First Homack Ltd, a company he estab­lished in 1996. He has trained and settled over 15 young men in business and equally trained university graduates who are today captains of industries in many parts of the country and abroad.
As a devout Catholic he championed the building of St. Joseph Catholic Church at Obinikpa, Achina, as the chairman of Parish Development Committee. He single-hand­edly donated the first Parish vehicle and the Golden Bill. As a silent philanthropist, he has persistently helped the poor which made the Nigeria Red Cross Society install him as their patron. He is an expert in crisis management having successfully managed his trade union for so many years before handing over in Au­gust 2015.
Above all, he championed and spearheaded the construction of an ultra-modern Building Materials Shopping Complex known as Adem Commercial Complex, Lagos which today has created jobs and businesses for over 5000 Ni­gerians. He is a staunch member and chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, right from inception.
His prudence in financial management and accountability attracted to him the di­rectorship of Achina Micro Finance Bank and earned him the position of treasurer in many social groups including his kindred. As Ambassador of Peace of Universal Peace Fed­eration of Nigeria, he ensures that peace and normalcy abound in any situation he finds himself.
Modestus is deep rooted in tradition and culture, a scenario which deservedly earned him several traditional titles. Some of these include – Onwa, Ochinanwata, Omenyiri, Mbamaonyeukwu, Eze-chimere-Eze and many others.

Mr. Chima Apugo Onyekwere founded Linkserve, Nigeria’s first Internet Service Provider (ISP), an act that earned him the label “Father of Nigerian Internet”.

He hails from Abia State, but was born in London, United Kingdom, on 19th May 1961. He obtained his GCE A level at the Federal Government College Kano in 1979, and thereafter became a graduate of Geology at the University of Ife in 1985. He later went to Lagos and Harvard Business Schools for a Chief Executive Programme Diploma and the Owner/President Programme Diploma Certificates respectively.

Mr Chima Onyekwere is a recipient of several awards including the “Internet Pathfinder Award” of Nigeria’s ISP, Atcon’s “National Telecom Merit Award, IT and Telecoms “ICT Personality of the Year Award”, and the prestigious National honour of Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON).

For his entrepreneurial astuteness, strategic thinking and broad humanitarian vision; for providing em­ployment opportunities for thousands of Nigerians through the diversity and sweep of his business empire and for his involvement in the Economic Growth and Development Centre, (EGDC), a platform committed to speeding up economic development and eradicat­ing extreme poverty and hunger, Dr. Emmanuel Isichei Ugochukwu Ojei is The AUTHORITY Icon.

He was born in Lagos, in 1951 and had his early education in Lagos before pro­ceeding to Issele-Uku Technical College, Issele-Uku, Delta State, for his higher education. Here, he obtained his Ordinary National Diploma (OND), Business Administration and Manage­ment between 1970 and 1972.
Barely a year after completing his OND pro­gramme, he joined the services of Rutam Motors Limited (a part of the Ibru Organization), in 1973, where he served as Sales Manager until 1976. He subsequently left to establish his own automobile workshop business, an idea he was said to have dreamt about while he was with Rutam Motors. After considerable challenges and several years, his dream business materialised under a regis­tered name of Nuel Ojei Company.
In March 1977, he ventured into the insurance industry, working with UnityKapital Assurance Plc which he later became a director in. As busi­ness blossomed, he felt the compelling need to restructure and harmonize his various business interests into one dynamic group, thus leading to the incorporation of Nuel Ojei Holdings Lim­ited (NOH) in 1989. Now, barely three decades after, NOH has rapidly evolved as a behemoth in the Nigerian business landscape under his astute leadership.
Today, the Group has over 10 business units and associate companies and maintains a highly diversified investment platform with tentacles in automobile, banking, insurance, oil and gas, solid minerals, energy and telecommunications among others. In association with a vast network of reputable overseas technical partners, NOH has been involved in the execution of a number of technology-driven, high-end projects in the areas of power and energy, aviation safety and security, shipping and ship building, oil and gas among others, carving a niche for itself as a foremost wholly owned indigenous private conglomerate, combining a crack team of about 200 highly ex­perienced expatriate and Nigerian professionals in its workforce.
The NOH has been in partnership with a wide range of companies for effective service delivery and most of these partnerships have been project-specific. For instance, its partnership with Thales France has seen the firm execute the Total Radar Coverage of the Nigerian Airspace (TRACON) project. It’s in partnership with Korean National Oil Corporation (KNOC), Seoul to achieve local content vehicle for oil prospecting, exploration and production while it’s in partnership with VA Tech Elin Transformers GmbH & Co, Austria (now Siemens AG, Germany) for sales and distri­bution of power transformers.
NOH’s partnership with Mazda Motor Corpo­ration of Japan has fetched the firm the sole dis­tributorship for Mazda cars in Nigeria, offering sales, marketing and after sales services of Mazda vehicles. NOH is also in partnership with West­star Associates Limited for repairs, service and sales of Mercedes Benz products. The same also goes for Swaraj Mazda, India which enables it dis­tribute and sell refuse disposal trucks, agricultural tractors and equipment in the country.
A man of many parts, Ojei is also on the board of many companies and organisations. He is as an advisory board member of the Economic Growth and Development Centre, (EGDC). The EGDC is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation, committed to achieving the goals of speeding economic development and eradicating extreme poverty and hunger.
In 2011, he was recognized as one of the 50 ‘founding fathers “of Delta State, by the then Delta State Governor; Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan dur­ing the state’s 20th anniversary for their industry, integrity, professional expertise and contributions towards the development of the state and nation.
In recognition of his business acumen, he was awarded a Doctorate Degree in Business adminis­tration by Delta State University Abraka.