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taoheedoriloye:
Are you Igbo ?
Before I begin

How can I be

Weinberg:
For all Igbo contributors to this post, I say ride on!


Indigenous industries is in our hands...

Show more of our great achievements..

Igbos are great!

In the other thread, what I'm seeing is Yorubas personalities, not industries..

We are great indeed...

Ride on!

You guys are the ones posting nonentities nobodies in place of profiles of highly successful entrepreneurs and industrialists.

At least, you can verify that from my quotes above.

Stop beating empty chest like a chimp.

raker300:
Obinna Ufudo: teragro

From the building in the picture, it's just a startup.

No big deal.

raker300:
Mr David Agbakoba - Sola Jooce

Quite petty to be reckoned with.

No match!

Weinberg:
Pls Guys,make a research on these personalities...


HRM, Dr. Chukwudi Jude Ihenetu is the owner of Chi-Bert
Group of Companies. The popularity of Dr. Ihenetu is not only
business based, it is also culturally based. HRM is the Eze Ndi
Igbo of the Igbo people in Ghana. Ihenetu came to Ghana 20
years ago as an ordinary businessman. With his business
acumen, the ordinary trade metamorphosed to Chi-bert, what
is today a renowned group of companies. The group has
interest in oil and gas, transportation, aluminium, agriculture,
entertainment among others, and has created employment for
both Nigerians and Ghanaians..
Salma Idriss Okonkwo works at UBI Energy Ghana Limited
and Televeras Group; she resigned her job at a multinational
oil company and began looking at other aspects of marketing
petroleum refined products. She is the woman in charge of
affairs at the UBI ENergy Ghana ltd. She has four stations and
counting in Kasoa, Kumasi, Lashibi and Dumfoasi in the Volta
Region in Ghana. Her husband and family have been a great
support towards her ability to generate capital and developing
ideas which have made her one of the top female Nigerians in
Ghana.

Mr. Alexander O. Mbakogu, also known as Alex, became the
Managing Director of Leasafric Ghana Limited, which is a
leading name in Finance and leasing services in Ghana since
August 6, 2015. He served as Chief Finance Officer of C & I
Leasing Plc until August 6, 2015 when he took up his current
appointment. Mr. Mbakogu has considerable experience in
leasing. Prior to joining Leasafric Ghana, he had held several
positions in C & I Leasing Plc, including Management
Accountant and Head Treasury, and Manager, Finance and
Accounts. He is a qualified Accountant and a member of both
the Institute of Chartered Accountant of Nigerian (ICAN) and
the Institute of Chartered Management Accountants of Nigeria
(ICMA). He has an MBA (Finance) from the University of
Lagos. He holds a degree in Accounting from the University of
Nigeria, Nsukka with B Sc. in Accounting.


Mr. Oliver Alawuba
Mr Oliver Alawuba is one of the prominent intellectuals behind
big financial institutions in Ghana. He has been Deputy Chief
Executive Officer of UBA Africa for Wholesale Bank since May
1, 2014. Mr. Alawuba served as the Chief Executive Officer of
UBA West Africa since January 1, 2014, Zonal Director of
Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Chief Executive Officer of
United Bank for Africa (Ghana) Limited (UBA Ghana) since
June 3, 2011, Head of South South & South East of FinBank
Plc, and as Principal Associate Director of FinBank Plc
(alternate name: First Inland Bank Plc).
He has over twenty years experience in investment banking,
retail and commercial banking, corporate finance as well as
project management. He has worked with some major African
banks in various managerial capacities including being
Regional Director of South Central Region of United Bank
(formerly, Standard Trust Bank Limited) for Africa Nigeria PLC
and Executive Director of Finbank Nigeria PLC for South South
and South East Regions covering over 11 States in Nigeria.
He served as an Executive Director of Finbank Plc (now First
City Monument Bank, Plc) since 2009. He started his career
with Abia State University, Uturu as a lecturer and later
worked with Diamond Bank Plc, Standard Trust Bank Plc
before joining First Atlantic Bank Plc.


Mr. Chuks Okoko – current manager of A-Z Petrolieum Co.
Ltd Ghana.




Mr. Uche Okogu – International Energy Insurance (I.E.I)
Ghana Limited.




Ibem Anya – Managing Director of Oando GH Ltd, Ghana
and the Owner of Aiban Universal Services Ltd.

Barely thriving/just okay companies and employees!

You even mention an employee of a Yoruba owned company.

These don't cut it at all.

No match!!

raker300:
Proda research - chukwuma nweke.

Another employee!

raker300:
Dr. Anikwe Ferdinand Ikechukwu: CBAAC

You are not even proud to spell out the acronymn.

Another hustler!

raker300:
Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare- Michael Ugwueke

Where is their office?

Another startup

raker300:
KSLEY - Kingsley Ubenyi

Is he your family member

He looks cute.

No match still!

raker300:
Soloo Akugha: asterix

Another hustler!

No match!!

raker300:
Ejiofor Agada: media mart

LWKMD

This is pathetic.

raker300:
Onyinye nwogu: sweet tooth

hahahahaha

Looonatic flatiyeasterners will not kill me, abeg.

What of bluetooth

raker300:
Jimmy Uchenna-Jim stones global service

And what do they produce?

Where is their office?

mtcheeew

No match!

Weinberg:
Prof Esogbue, the only Nigerian prestigious Engineer to work with NASA....

Prof. Austin Esogbue: I Maintained First Position in School to
Avoid Being a Farmer
July 9, 2016
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Smile is a permanent fixture on his face as his gait exudes
grace. The applause that followed him as he sauntered up to
the podium was thunderous. His students loved him and his
American university where he teaches adores him. Outstanding,
indefatigable and inventive, he is a recipient of many
international awards. From a sleepy town in Ibusa, he has
become a tech giant in America. Unassuming, devoted and
cerebral, he combines scholarship with selflessness. You can
call him a genius; it won’t be an understatement. He parades
impressive academic degrees that can make the best of
scholars green with envy. Professor Emeritus Austin Esogbue,
native of Ibusa, Delta State, is a distinguished academic who
has made Nigeria and Africa proud in Diaspora. His academic
journey began in 1961 when he won the African Scholarship
Programme of American Universities. Having immersed himself
into what the United States could offer, he went ahead to break
new grounds on many occasions. In 1977, he became the first
black to become a full professor of Engineering at the Georgia
Institute of Technology and the first black professor of the
Institute. Esogbue was the first African to have served on the
board of the United States’ National Aeronautical Space (NASA)
. He was equally among special Nigerians met by President
Muhammadu Buhari during his recent visit to the US. He
currently lives in Fulton County, Georgia. Prof. Esogbue speaks
with Funke Olaode about life after retirement and his
technological projects for Nigeria
• Why I’m Committed to Nigeria’s Technological Development
• I Slept for Only Three Hours Every Day Until I Retired…
Can we have an insight into your background?
I was born to James Nwanze and Helen Nwakuso Esogbue of
Umuafene Village, Isieke, Umuekea, Ibusa in Delta State. I was
born in Kaduna, the then capital of Northern Nigeria on
December 25th, 1940, but of Delta origin. By that time, my
father was working with the engineering department of the
Public Works Department (PWD). My mother was a nurse. In a
way, I am from an educated setting. Coming from such setting
no doubt exposed me to an early education and a disciplined
family. The family was loving but tough. My father always
emphasised excellence because he believed no matter what
you achieved, he wanted you to achieve more.
What are some of your childhood memories?
Looking back, I remember the eclipse of 1947 when I was
about seven years. And as kids, we thought the world was
coming to an end. Everywhere was dark and we were afraid. In
fact, we said to ourselves please let’s have our last supper
because we would not be able to eat anymore. Also, I
remember when we had just come from Enugu to Ibusa, my
home town, the local people looked at us as people who had
come from abroad and thought we were lazy. During the
native festival, there were a lot of drums, wrestling and the
young men would show their manhood and all that. So I came
with my sisters and they (the young men) came to embarrass
me. I didn’t want to wrestle because I didn’t want to dirty my
dress on the sand. But this particular guy walked away, picked
some sands and poured it on my clothe. I got so upset that I
took off my cloth and began to wrestle with him. I picked him
up and threw him to the ground and broke his right hand and
the bone came out. People ran and started screaming because
they never saw such a thing. It was amazing and scary. I was
not rascally as a boy. I was a Catholic and a Mass server. We
had to confess our sins if we did anything wrong. And we
were so scared to embark on rascality. Again, I was always
first in classes and didn’t think because I was smart; (it was)
by God’s grace. Also, my father said if I didn’t keep the first
position he would not pay my school fees anymore and I
would then go and become a farmer. I didn’t want to be a
farmer so that kept me on my toes to act smart. But while in
the high school in Kaduna I fought a lot because I was the
smallest in the class and was always coming first. The bigger
boys would pick on me. Somehow, they thought I was being
favoured by the teachers.
What about schooling?
I attended primary school at Sacred Heart, Ibusa before going
to St. John’s College, Kaduna for secondary education. I was
among the first class selected to take advantage of the
Federal School of Science, Lagos, which was founded to
speed up the system in the science and technological field.
Prior to that, Nigeria had only University College, Ibadan and
Nigerian College of Science and Technology in Zaria. Luckily,
there was a programme called African Scholarship Programme
of American Universities, which opened their doors to African
students. There were about 25 students that went in 1960s.
These set of students excelled and because they did very well,
those schools got encouraged to broaden it not only for
Nigeria but for most of African countries. My former
engineering training was crystallised, earning degrees from the
University of California at Los Angeles where I got Bsc in
Electrical Engineering, U.C. Berkeley Option, and Minor in
Mathematics in June 1964.
I went on to acquire more degrees with an MSc in Industrial
Engineering and Operational Research from Columbia
University and PhD in Engineering – Operations Research and
Control Theory from the University of Southern California in
June 1968. Additional studies were taken at Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, leading to a Certificate in Advanced
Health Systems Dynamics Modeling in 1974, and the
University of California at Berkeley. With modesty, I was the
first PhD graduate of the celebrated world renowned
mathematician, Professor Richard Bellman at the University of
Southern California (USC).
Can you mention some of your achievements as an academia?
My first formal academic tenure track appointment was as an
Assistant Professor of Operation Research and member of the
Systems Research Centre at Case Western Reserve University,
Cleveland, Ohio. I joined the faculty of the Georgia Institute of
Technology (Georgia Tech) in June 1972 as an Associate
Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering under a joint
appointment with the Health Systems Research Centre. I went
through the process and I got promoted quickly. In 1977, I
became the first black to be promoted a full professor in
Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. And the
first black professor of the Institute which was celebrated
during the 50 years of having blacks matriculated in Georgia
Tech in 2010. Georgia Tech was an all-White male school for
a long time. And 1961, the year I went to the United States,
coincided with the time blacks were allowed to matriculate. I
have had a fulfilling career and I am grateful to God. Being
the first and longest serving black professor in Georgia Tech’s
history and the first African promoted full professor of
engineering in a major United States research university is
overwhelming. Having risen to the pinnacle of my career and
bestowed with numerous professional and academic
organisations including being elected a Fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
in 1972, a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical Electronics
Engineering (IEEE), class of 2000, Fellow of the Institute for
Operations Research and Management Sciences, and a 2000
elected Fellow of the Nigerian Academic of Sciences, Fellow
of the Nigerian Academic of Engineering and others too
numerous to mention.
I retired from the Georgia Institute of Technology in the fall of
2010. Apart from the recognition I received from students and
organisations while I was at Georgia Tech, much more than
my colleagues, it seemed retirement opened a floodgate of
awards. It began with my alma mater, UCLA that bestowed on
me the 2010 Distinguished UCLA Engineering Alumni in
Academia Award. Several Nigerian organisational awards
were received in 2012 including the Nigerian Consulate
General Life Achievement and Good Ambassador of Nigeria
Award. The awards however reached a crescendo when in
2013 alone, I received seven awards beginning with the 2013
Distinguished Partner in Science Education Award from the
Stephen Oluwole Awokoya Foundation for Science Education
for contributions and encouragement for the growth of science
education and youth development in Nigeria. Georgia Tech
Black Alumni Organisation inducted me into their Hall of
Fame as a ‘Legend and Leader’ under the Faculty Category for
many pioneering and exemplary service to the community. I
also had the good fortune and privilege of serving on a high
level panel, the Safety Advisory Board of US National
Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Our service led
to the eradication of space flight accidents. I was awarded the
Public Service Medal for my leadership role and a Certificate
of Merit.
How is life after retirement?
Life has really been great. I feel a sense of freedom that I had
never known before. I sleep longer hours now as opposed to
the average of three hours that I slept for decades. I still stay
up late at night attending to a sundry of requests from
various parts of the world. The difference though is that I feel
I do not have to do anything anymore. I just need to live a
good life, free of stress. I do what I do only because I want to,
love to, and feel it would make some difference in someone’s
life. I do not do things anymore just to please somebody or
because it is expected of me. No more expectations. I feel that
I had done more than enough for so many people and for so
long. This is now time for me and those I love. The only
problem is that I seem to naturally love everybody. Part of the
reason I retired from my excellent position in the world’s best
programme in my field is to enable me spend more time
contributing to Nigerian development by sharing some of the
best practices I have acquired with Nigerian institutions. I
have, for example, intensified my involvement with two of the
premier national academies, namely the Nigerian Academy of
Science whom I served for two consecutive terms as an
elected officer with the portfolio of Academic Secretary,
Physical Sciences. I served another term on the Council as the
Representative for Physical Sciences. The US academies
(Science, Engineering and Medicine) had earlier given a grant
to four African academies including Nigeria to assist them to
upgrade their standards to world class level.
What is new right now?
As a founder of Nigerians in Diaspora Organisation of the
Americas (NIDOA), I continue to support and mentor the
organisation’s leaders. At the 2014 fundraiser banquet, I made
a donation but the Consul General, Ambassador Teneilabe
challenged NIDO to embark on a healthcare project to save
lives and improve the quality of lives in Nigeria. The
suggested project was to build a trauma centre in Abuja. We
soon formed a group and expanded it to include diagnostics.
The group mushroomed to an all-Diaspora group called the
Nigerian Diaspora Diagnostics and Trauma Foundation,
(NDDTF), a non-profit 501 registered in the State of Georgia. I
am helping to provide leadership to the foundation which
intends to start operating with a diagnostic centre and
develop into diagnostic and trauma centre, first in Abuja and
later in each of the six geo-political zones. The idea is to
institute a state-of-the-art, level one facility for treating
victims of trauma in Nigeria by Diaspora health teams
considering that many Nigerians who engage in medical
tourism, wind up being treated by Nigerian professionals in
those foreign lands that they go to. It is a major drain on
Nigeria’s resources, particularly scarce foreign exchange, and
the impaired quality of response notwithstanding.
What happened to your Nigerian project – the Diaspora
promoting technology you started in 2005?
You may recall that the original idea was to provide some
soft-landing for Nigerians in Diaspora embarking on projects
in Nigeria. We started with partnering with fellow Nigerian
professionals resident in the country and using science and
technology as a framework for Diaspora contributions. The
first event was a conference and I organised; a committee of
Diaspora experts in various fields of science and technology
to participate in the conference with Ambassador Joe Keshi of
the Nigerian National Volunteer Service as General Chair. I
chaired the session on nuclear and space technologies and
made a presentation to the then President (Olusegun)
Obasanjo with a recommendation that Nigeria should not only
embrace both areas but vigorously pursue programmes to
explore and utilise associated opportunities for national
development. They seemed heretical to some of our people
then and even now. I however knew that we could not afford
to stay away from these technologies including biotechnology
and information technology. We should shake off this
somehow persistent national lethargy towards development
and always embracing microwave appetites for the now-
syndrome. We should not always be playing catch-up;
jumping in only after the rest of the world has been fully
immersed in these technologies.
I also know that many of these technologies when
appropriately cultivated and utilised drive national socio-
economic development with exponential returns on investment.
Most important, there is usually an incubation period during
which time, you train and educate the requisite manpower and
imbibe the necessary culture for their sustainability.
Additionally, we have intelligent Nigerians who can be and
should be so trained to master these technologies. Some
progress, though retarded and anemic, has been made in both
areas. The National Agency for Space Research and
Development (NASRDA) for example, has recorded successes
mostly in the satellite launching area. Some constraints
include the pervasive funding problems and the characteristic
closed box, myopic management practices. The National
Atomic Energy Commission (NAEC) seeks to generate clean
energy through nuclear power plants. Though the idea was
conceived almost 20 years ago, we are still mostly in the
manpower development phase. This non-fossil fuel option
conceived much earlier to diversify our energy options as
opposed to an oil-riveted economy is now enjoying some
attractiveness considering the glut in the oil market and the
concomitant slump in economic generating capacity of our oil
fields and refineries.
How often do you visit Nigeria?
I am based in America but frequent Nigeria on a regular
basis. As a way of giving back, at the 50th anniversary of the
launching of the first scholarship programme of the Africa
America Institute (AAI), the African Scholarship Programme of
American Universities (ASPAU), we (the alumni) organised a
reunion to devise a vehicle for paying a lasting tribute to the
programme that sent us to America. We recognised that the
programme was highly successful in producing first-rate
manpower for national development. The reunion activities
culminated in the formation of a non-profit organisation called
the Africa Future Foundation (AFF). We decried falling
standards in many aspect of life in Nigeria today but agreed
that education was hardest hit and resolved to do something
about it. I was elected Vice President. Many of us pledged
cooperation with AAI but wanted an essentially independent
African group addressing African problems as we see them. I
do radio and TV shows when I visit Nigeria. Examples are the
‘Nigeria Pride’ show of Radio Nigeria and the one-hour show
on Silverbird, by Judita DaSilva entitled ‘Ordinary People
Doing Extraordinary Things’ featuring such giants as Dr. Alex
Ekwueme.


His achievement is an inspiration

Are we talking individual achievements here or industry?

The person you profiled is a nobody jor.

No match!

raker300:
Chief Onyemuche Nnamani- Autostar

Autostar is relatively unknown.

We are discussing thriving and highly successful businesses here and not hustlers with 10 buses in their fleet.

deomelo:
1. Agura Hotel is owned by the Nigerian Ports Authority/NPA

2. Agura Hotel is an investment bought and funded by the NPA's Superannuation fund (Investment Arm Of The NPA) on behalf of the NPA workers and retirees. .

3. Kanu was only an appointed manager to manage the hotel.

4. Th same Kanu (Abacha's Lap Dog) was the organizer of the million man march in support of Abacha.


Research your lies before posting your lies and fraudulent posts.

You liars just won't learn.

O boy! See busting!!

Those guys are semi-literate punks, honestly.

laudate:
Thank you sir. I'm not a web developer, just a geek who likes playing around with tech stuff.

Awwww okay.

decomaniaboss:
yeah right keep on deceiving yourself !!!! The fact that you refused to accept the truth doesn't make it any less true

Are you a dullard?

What is the truth?

Both threads are before you. Compare and contrast na.

taoheedoriloye:
Please stop quoting Igbos.
They don't worth it

Maybe this thread shouldn't even exist.

What's the point?

Why the debate?

They threw us the challenge, remember.

We must finish them completely.

raker300:
Wigwe: access bank

He's just a top employee of Access Bank.

How does that constitute Igbo industry?

Silentmind:
BEEPPAY® is a product of BEEPMAGNET

WHO WE ARE
BeepMAGNET International Ltd. is a .

Where is their physical location/address?

All these paper-based companies sef.

No match!

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decomaniaboss:
Only jealous and calous minded people will argue that fact...igbos all the way !!!

Come on!

Just visit the front page of this thread and see for yourself. Flatiyeasterners are no match for Yorubas.

The facts are overwhelming. Stop being mischievous!

Deedeedee5:
Ok, ko si ewu. We should not take it to far so that the mods wont delete this beautiful thread

Alright. I will exercise discretion.

hilroy:
Those people are born liars. Let us start trashing their lies on this thread. Can you imagine the Zaka group the idiot listed as Igbo enterprise is owned by an Indian with 31 offices in India, one office in UK, one office in US and Zero office in Nigeria. The devil must be ashamed of these pigs lies.......I don't know why the mod hasn't closed that thread for lies and misinformation



http://zakagroup.com/about-us/

Na wa o

These clowns will do anything just to hit 200 pages.

Shame on them!

laudate:
Abeg, please let us just ignore them. Otherwise their silly comments will ruin the hardwork on this thread. We want to make this thread a compendium of successful business people and industries - a reference point. Please don't let them turn it into a butt of jokes, or into the comic relief that their own thread has now become.

Weldone my brother.

You are doing a really good job.

Are you a web developer?

I have some ideas for you.

You really can make something very worthwhile out of this.

ODVanguard:
Guy, the difference between us and them is as clear as light and darkness. Na we help their thread reach 100-pages sef coz we were busting their lies on their thread for the world to see, else that thread for never even reach up to 50-pages. We can keep terminating their lies, but on here, and the world will still get to witness it.

Exactly!

I hope they wont go and report to the mods.

Bunch of crybabies they are!!

Gotta go!!!

raker300:
Engr Benneth Nwosu: navex

Another nairalander...

No match!

raker300:
Mr. Arinze Onyedikachi Okoye: logicmate

Unknown startup

No match!

raker300:
Mr. C.C. Chigbundu: coscharis mobility

Another Coscharis employee.

No match!

raker300:
INNOCENT A. NWEZE: Cleobrothers

Another startup

No match!

ODVanguard:
That guy is a joker. He obviously can't vouch for those businesses that's why he can't give even a brief info or profile about them. This smacks of desperation on their part coz he probably just went to Olx or Vconnect and started copying and pasting any business that has an Igbo name attached to it (it doesn't matter if it's the secretary's name or the p.a to the oga). They want to catchup with this thread by force by fire, and in the typical yiboo fashion they are resorting to fraudulent tactics.

Exactly!

To them, it's all about overtaking this thread in terms of number of pages. The content doesnt matter anymore.

Bundle of looonatics!!