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Orange Group Tonye Ezeane
http://www.orangegroups.com/soapnoodles.html
As part of our vision to produce the basic raw materials for manufacturing soaps locally, Orange Drugs Limited produces 'soap noodles' at its subsidiary –Orange Drugs Limited Onitsha Plant. As one of our most recent investments and fully installed in April 2011, our Onitsha Plant is equipped with the most modern, fully automatic machineries. The plant, which doubles as our soap-noodle factory, supplies to other regional manufacturers (in the same industry) within and outside of Nigeria, as well as serves our own finishing plant's internal production processes. This diversification has given us at Orange Drugs Limited a competitive edge in terms of cost advantage and consistency in quality of our basic raw material input.

We are an indigenous company with operations in four core Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) business segments:

Pharmaceuticals
Cannon Paracetamol
Boska Paracetamol
Procold
Mixagrip
Medik 55
Komix
Sakura Extra
Forpain
Exadon
APC PLUS
Mixanal
Corhinza
CPG Clopidogrel
Cypron





Beverage
passion Energy Drink
Extra Joss


Personal care


Lighting

Osram
Osram Incandescent
HID LAMPS
Osram CFLs
Flourescent Tubes
LEDs
Osram Halogen Lamps
Goodman
Lotus Bulbs
Switches, Sockets & Lanterns
Ballast
Goodman (CFLs)

afonjadie:
The only thing lost here is your senses, you will need the services of a psychiatrist.

What is yapping about, it is like that thing that won't shut. Ndi ala.

Dumaknesset:
What is yapping about, it is like that thing that won't shut. Ndi ala.

crybaby afonja

ezeagu:
Why is Igbo land still in the third world?

We are still in the 5th world even but it is because of the zoo called Nigeria. We will break free soon and be the dubia of Africa. Then when white people talk about Africa, the will mean Biafra. Our tribe is the superior all over the world. Research and see for yourself. WE ARE THE HEBREWS

okochaik:
We are still in the 5th world even but it is because of the zoo called Nigeria. We will break free soon and be the dubia of Africa. Then when white people talk about Africa, the will mean Biafra. Our tribe is the superior all over the world. Research and see for yourself. WE ARE THE HEBREWS

If you are superior then why put yourself under hebrews as if they are superior? How many of these businesses listed are in Igboland compared to the other Yoruba thread where more than half the businesses are in Yorubaland?

hornyofife:
Michael Collins Ajereh, better known as Don Jazzy, Founder of Mavin Records Africa's biggest music record label

https://mavinrecords.com/M/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Donjazzy-1.jpg


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpfeWYIAmfc&t=336s

Uhrobo boy

deomello:
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lol @ Yoruba woman running so called ibo company. What happened? No qualified ibo man or woman to run your imaginary ibo company?


Joker.

u suppose hide ur oblang head as them expose ur ignorance.

22 pages and the thread has been treaded to death with zero activities, I know a thread of 143 pages. Hubris and chest beating and next to nothing to show for it

Dumaknesset:
22 pages and the thread has been treaded to death with zero activities, I know a thread of 143 pages. Hubris and chest beating and next to nothing to show for it

Custard and photographers contest do not make anything exceptional.

Scholes007:
Custard and photographers contest do not make anything exceptional.

Na so, custard and photography you saw those ones, we thank God, this one is not totally blind. We see with the mind, look again, it is 143 pages, and almost 5000 posts and almost 30 thousand views.

ezeagu:
If you are superior then why put yourself under hebrews as if they are superior? How many of these businesses listed are in Igboland compared to the other Yoruba thread where more than half the businesses are in Yorubaland?

I am not talking about the current businesses but our capability as the oppressed. Give us Biafra and we will turn it to Dubai within 10 years. Nigeria has nothing to offer us. Give us Biafra and Africa as a whole will be restored

Dumaknesset:
22 pages and the thread has been treaded to death with zero activities, I know a thread of 143 pages. Hubris and chest beating and next to nothing to show for it

Afonja stop the merry in foolery, this thread is only going slow because of a thread that condemned Igbo's showcasing their companies and manufacturers so many Igbo's myself included have decided not to post any pictures here, even the OP is also reluctant to do so after being called out by every Igbo poster on this thread.

Cleary more Igbo's companies and products were posted on the Afonja thread than this one that goes to show you that the Igbo's don't support this thread, I personally have 10's of pictures that I posted on the Afonja thread which I have refuse to post here and I am sure I am not alone that should tell you something Afonja.

There is a saying in Igbo that says; Onye'm kariri a dim a si chukwu nyere'm aka. Another says; Onye'm kari a kari go'm ya. So comparing Igbo with Afonja is a smack on Igbo's face by any Igbo who does so, that is why this thread have been ignored, Igbo's know their competitors when the see them, in Nigeria they are South Africans, Indians, Lebanese, Chinese not Afonjas.

Tomorrow Afonjas will say Igbo's are not united but see how one thread made Igbo's act in Unison. Igbo's daalu nu rinne.

Dr Samuel Achilefu - Inventor, biomedical engineer and radiologist.Recently made the news for his invention of infrared goggles, which enables surgeons to see cancer cells during surgery.Owns over 50 US patents.



http://www.premiumtimesng.com/features-and-interviews/185477-nigerian-born-scientist-wins-award-for-his-cancer-seeing-glasses.html
Nigerian-born scientist wins award for his cancer-seeing glasses



A Nigerian born scientist, Samuel Achilefu, has won the prestigious St. Louis Award for 2014 for creating cancer-visualizing glasses.

Dr. Achilefu, a professor of radiology and biomedical engineering, and his team developed the imaging technology in cancer diagnosis into a wearable night vision-like goggles so surgeons could see the cancer cells while operating.

“They basically have to operate in the dark,” Bloomberg Businessweek quoted Dr. Achilefu, 52, as saying.

“I thought, what if we create something that let’s you see things that aren’t available to the ordinary human eye.”

Dr. Achilefu won a scholarship from the French government to study at the University of Nancy, according to St. Louis Post-Dispatch, a regional newspaper in St. Louis, U.S., and is the 87th person to receive the annual award since it was established in 1931.

Married with two young children, Dr. Achilefu moved to St. Louis after he was hired by Mallinckrodt to start a new research department.

“Our efforts start with two words: ‘What if?'” Dr. Achilefu said during his acceptance speech.

“These words may sound simple, but they embody the belief that each person has the potential to make a difference, if only he or she can take the time to understand the problem.”

According to Bloomberg, the researchers’ technology requires two steps: First, surgeons inject a tiny quantity of an infrared fluorescent marker into the patient’s bloodstream. The peptides contained in the marker enables it to locate cancer cells and buries itself inside.

After the tracer flows through a patient’s body and clears from non-cancerous tissue – which lasts about four hours – the operation would begin. Wearing the goggle, the doctor can inspect tumours under an infra red light that reacts with the dye, causing cancer cells to glow from within.

This month, the goggles have been used on humans for the first time by surgeons at the Washington University School of Medicine.

Four patients suffering from breast cancer and over two dozen patients with melanoma or liver cancer have been operated on using the goggles since they were developed.

“The goggles function fantastically,” says Ryan Fields, a surgical oncologist who is collaborating with Dr. Achilefu to improve on the technology.

“They allow us to see the cells in real time, which is critical. Because the marker has not yet been FDA-approved, doctors are currently using a different, somewhat inferior marker that also reacts with infrared light.”

Julie Margenthaler, a breast cancer surgeon, says tens of thousands of women who had had breast cancer lumpectomies go back for second operations every year because of the inability to see the microscopic extent of the tumours.

“Imagine what it would mean if these glasses eliminated the need for follow-up surgery and the associated pain, inconvenience and anxiety.”

Dr. Achilefu and his team began work in 2012 after they received $2.8 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

Before then, they had been working on a lean budget provided by the Department of Defence’s Breast Cancer Research Program.

After it was developed, the team spent years testing the technology on mice, rats, and rabbits to confirm the efficacy of the goggles.

“Nobody would believe us until we showed that the goggles work,” Dr. Achilefu says.

The Food and Drug Administration are still reviewing the goggles and a related dye Dr. Achilefu and his co-researchers developed, according to Washington University in St. Louis, a St. Louis based journal.

Dr. Achilefu says he intends to keep Washington University as the primary centre for clinical trials to evaluate the technology in patients.

“Making a difference in society should be the goal of everybody,” Dr. Achilefu

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Emeagwali

Philip Emeagwali


Philip Emeagwali is a Nigerian computer scientist. He has been living in the United States for many years. An Igbo, he won the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize for performance in high-performance computing applications, in an oil reservoir modeling calculation using a novel mathematical formulation and implementation

Education

He traveled to the United States to study under a scholarship following completion of a correspondence course at the University of London. He received a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Oregon State University in 1977. He later moved to Washington DC, receiving in 1986 a master's degree from George Washington University in ocean and marine engineering, and a second master's in applied mathematics from the University of Maryland. Next magazine claims that Emeagwali claimed to have further degrees.[6][7] During this time, he worked as a civil engineer at the Bureau of Land Reclamation in Wyoming.


Supercomputing

Emeagwali received the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize for an application of the CM-2 massively-parallel computer. The application used computational fluid dynamics for oil-reservoir modeling. He won in the "price/performance" category, with a performance figure of about 400 Mflops/$1M. The winner in the "performance" category, Mobil Research and Thinking Machines, used the CM-2 for seismic data processing and achieved the higher ratio of 500 Mflops/$1M. The judges decided on one award per entry.[3][2] His method involved each microprocessor communicating with six neighbours. Emeagwali's simulation was the first program to apply a pseudo-time approach to reservoir modeling.

Accolades
Price/performance – 1989 Gordon Bell Prize, IEEE [3]

Emeagwali was voted the "35th-greatest African (and greatest African scientist) of all time" in a survey by New African magazine.[9][citation needed]

His achievements were quoted in a speech by Bill Clinton as an example of what Nigerians could achieve when given the opportunity.[10][citation needed] He is also a frequent feature of Black History Month articles in the popular press.[

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinwe_Chukwuogo-Roy

Chinwe Ifeoma Chukwuogo-Roy MBE (2 May 1952[1] −17 December 2012)[2] was a visual artist who was born in Awka (Oka) Anambra state Nigeria, but spent much of her young life in Ikom on the Cameroon border, before moving back to the family home at Umubele in Awka. She lived in Britain since 1975.[3] Her paintings, prints and sculptures are predominantly figurative, in the genres of portraiture, still-life, landscape and narrative subjects. She won international attention in 2002 for being only one of two Nigerian artists (the other being Ben Enwonwu) to have been allowed to paint official portraits of Queen Elizabeth II.[4][5]

Chukwuogo-Roy was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2009 Birthday Honours

Early years and education

Chinwe Chukwuogo-Roy was born in Ondo State, Nigeria, but moved with her family to Ikom in Cross Rivers State, where her father had extensive cocoa plantations. As a teenager she was a refugee in the Biafran War after which she moved to the family home in Awka Anambra State and in 1975 she moved to Britain.[7] She studied at East Ham College and subsequently obtained a B.A. Hons. Degree in Graphic Design from Hornsey College of Art (now part of Middlesex University) in 1978. She took up painting professionally in 1988.[7]
Artistic career

Chukwuogo-Roy first gained international fame for painting the official Golden Jubilee portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, commissioned by The Commonwealth Secretariat. The full-length portrait was unveiled at a ceremony at Marlborough House by former Commonwealth Secretary-General Don McKinnon on Commonwealth Day, 2002.[8]
Golden Jubilee Portrait of Queen Elizabeth II

Other high-profile commissions include portraits of Kriss Akabusi, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, the Lord Mayor of Norwich.[9] She was commissioned by Martin Keown to paint Arsenal's Highbury Stadium.

In 2003, Chukwuogo-Roy represented the United Kingdom at the European Council Committee in Paris, advising on Contemporary African Art and Artists. In December that year, she also instigated and organised the "Celebrate" Exhibition for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Abuja.[11]

Chinwe was a founder member of the renowned Sudbourne Printmakers, involving several leading Suffolk artists.

In December 2012, after a lengthy illness with cancer, she died at her home in Hacheston, near Framlingham, Suffolk

Style and concepts

Chukwuogo-Roy created paintings, prints and sculptures that are predominantly figurative, in the genres of portraiture, still-life, landscape and narrative subjects. Her naturalistic portraiture is usually optimistic or celebratory in tone. However, she also created many works that, according to Sandra Gibson, writing for Nerve, elicit "complex feelings of desperation, dread and aspiration".[14] Notable among such works are her "Migrants" series and her "African Slave Trade" series.[15]
Collections and exhibitions

Examples of Chukwuogo-Roy's work are held in many public and private art collections, including that of Queen Elizabeth II, and that of Olusegun Obasanjo, former President of Nigeria.
Water Moon Monotype by Chinwe Chukwuogo-Roy

Chukwuogo-Roy exhibited throughout Britain,[16] as well as internationally.[5] Her work is represented in public and private collections in Antigua, Argentina, Australia, France, Grenada, Ireland, Kenya, Malaysia, Moçambique, the Netherlands, Nigeria, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Swaziland, the United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom and USA.[17] She had many solo exhibitions including those at Christchurch Mansions, Ipswich; The Mall Galleries, London; The Royal Commonwealth Society, London; Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia; Reve's Cork Street Gallery, London; Connecticut University, Connecticut; Didi Museum, Lagos; UNESCO, Paris; Aldeburgh Festival Gallery, Suffolk; Colchester and Ipswich Museum Saatchi Gallery; Suffolk,[17]

Chukwuogo-Roy's portrait of the 1990–2000 Commonwealth Secretary-General Emeka Anyaoku was unveiled by Queen Elizabeth II in 1999 and hangs alongside the Golden Jubilee portrait of the monarch herself in Marlborough House. There has been a permanent exhibition of her work in the Menzies & Hancock Rooms at the University of London's School of Advanced Study since May 2006.
Recognition and awards

Chukwuogo-Roy won many awards and was featured prominently in the international media, both for her art and also for her charitable and educational work with young people. A biography entitled Chinwe Roy – Artist, published by Tamarind Books, is now studied by children in the UK as part of the National Curriculum.[18]

In 2003, Chukwuogo-Roy was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters by the University of East Anglia.[19]

Her work appeared on the national postage stamps of seven countries during 2006.[20] In 2008, she was invited to address the Cambridge Union.[21] In 2010 Chukwuogo-Roy was made a Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) for her contributions to Art.

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mightyhazell:
u suppose hide ur oblang head as them expose ur ignorance.

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Keep quiet.


The question was. They don't have any qualified and capable ibo man or woman to run and manage your so called ibo company?

Must the smart, beautiful and capable Yoruba woman be the CEO of your ibo company?

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

Philip Emeagwali


Philip Emeagwali is a Nigerian computer scientist. He has been living in the United States for many years. An Igbo, he won the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize for performance in high-performance computing applications, in an oil reservoir modeling calculation using a novel mathematical formulation and implementation

Education

He traveled to the United States to study under a scholarship following completion of a correspondence course at the University of London. He received a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Oregon State University in 1977. He later moved to Washington DC, receiving in 1986 a master's degree from George Washington University in ocean and marine engineering, and a second master's in applied mathematics from the University of Maryland. Next magazine claims that Emeagwali claimed to have further degrees.[6][7] During this time, he worked as a civil engineer at the Bureau of Land Reclamation in Wyoming.


Supercomputing

Emeagwali received the 1989 Gordon Bell Prize for an application of the CM-2 massively-parallel computer. The application used computational fluid dynamics for oil-reservoir modeling. He won in the "price/performance" category, with a performance figure of about 400 Mflops/$1M. The winner in the "performance" category, Mobil Research and Thinking Machines, used the CM-2 for seismic data processing and achieved the higher ratio of 500 Mflops/$1M. The judges decided on one award per entry.[3][2] His method involved each microprocessor communicating with six neighbours. Emeagwali's simulation was the first program to apply a pseudo-time approach to reservoir modeling.

Accolades
Price/performance – 1989 Gordon Bell Prize, IEEE [3]

Emeagwali was voted the "35th-greatest African (and greatest African scientist) of all time" in a survey by New African magazine.[9][citation needed]

His achievements were quoted in a speech by Bill Clinton as an example of what Nigerians could achieve when given the opportunity.[10][citation needed] He is also a frequent feature of Black History Month articles in the popular press.[

lmao.

The fake and scam father of internet made the cut too?


Talk about scratching the bottom of the barrel.

EvilMetahuman:
Yet south east is the somalia of naija

How?? Is like you are jealous.

Cyprian Emeka Uzoh

Cyprian Emeka Uzoh is a genius from Nigeria who holds more than 126 United States issued patents and over 160 patents worldwide in semiconductor technology. He also co-authored more than 35 publications.

In 2006, he was celebrated as Inventor of the Year for the patent "Method of making electroplated interconnection structures on integrated circuit chip" (USPTO 6,709,562), one of the most valuable patents in the field of semiconductor science and technology. He is the main pioneer of modern high performance copper interconnect technologies and has discovered, co-developed and co-implemented the various critical elements and technologies that led to the successful implementation of copper interconnect technology at IBM Corporation, as well as in the entire semiconductor industry.

In other words, this technology enabled the introduction of copper in the making of chips, and it was revolutionary. Cyprian Emeka Uzoh, more than anybody else, was responsible for the discovery of the electroplating technology in this industry.

IBM put this technology into production in the late 1990s and is now the main device wiring method that uses electric field and metal slurries to polish metals at low forces.

https://kumatoo.com/cyprian_emeka_uzoh.html

afonjadie:
Afonja stop the merry in foolery, this thread is only going slow because of a thread that condemned Igbo's showcasing their companies and manufacturers so many Igbo's myself included have decided not to post any pictures here, even the OP is also reluctant to do so after being called out by every Igbo poster on this thread.

Cleary more Igbo's companies and products were posted on the Afonja thread than this one that goes to show you that the Igbo's don't support this thread, I personally have 10's of pictures that I posted on the Afonja thread which I have refuse to post here and I am sure I am not alone that should tell you something Afonja.

There is a saying in Igbo that says; Onye'm kariri a dim a si chukwu nyere'm aka. Another says; Onye'm kari a kari go'm ya. So comparing Igbo with Afonja is a smack on Igbo's face by any Igbo who does so, that is why this thread have been ignored, Igbo's know their competitors when the see them, in Nigeria they are South Africans, Indians, Lebanese, Chinese not Afonjas.

Tomorrow Afonjas will say Igbo's are not united but see how one thread made Igbo's act in Unison. Igbo's daalu nu rinne.

Ngwa Nu Nnwanne!

Still 22 miserable pages for a tribe of over 60 millions. Less than 0.00000000000001 of exportable inventions and products. It is a shame really.

Dumaknesset:
Still 22 miserable pages for a tribe of over 60 millions. Less than 0.00000000000001 of exportable inventions and products. It is a shame really.

Your are just jealous bro, seriously bitter minds are reliable to die Young Igbos are most industrious and innovative tribe in Nigeria even your elders knows

THE IGBO ENTREPRENEUR IN THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF NIGERIA
Olanrewaju Akinpelu OLUTAYO
[b]Department of Sociology, Faculty of the Social SciencesUniversity of Ibadan
ABS[/b]TRACTCentral to the capitalist orientation introduced to the Third World nationsthrough colonialism is the role of entrepreneurs in development. This group is still perceivedas inevitable if these nations are to develop. In spite of all the attempts to develop date, verylittle is being achieved.While this monograph recognises the importance of entrepreneurs in development, itasserts that these entrepreneurs have always existed in pre-colonial Nigeria but the re-orien-tation brought about through capitalism has fundamentally affected the pre-colonial situation.As such, there is a disjuncture between the latter and the present capitalist expectation.More importantly, the author tries to debunk the position of certain European writers thatcertain ethnic groups are better entrepreneurs than others. Thus, the responsiveness of theIgbo ethnic group of Nigeria to European economic incentives was a result of a certain his-torico-sciological position that this group occupies in Nigeria. It is posited that as the nationapproaches the twenty-
fi
rst-century, one cannot say with certainty that ethnicity should be themain consideration for entrepreneurial ability. It is the political economy of each nationwithin the World Capitalist System that will determine the emergent scenario.
http://www.academia.edu/25356964/The_Igbo_Entrepreneur_in_the_Political_Economy_of_Nigeria



Apple buys a Nigerian-owned ICT firm for $1 billion

UNITED States of America’s most celebrated brand, Apple, has bought Nigeria’s Chinedu Echeruo’s HopStop.com. According to The Wall Street Journal’s publication, AllThingsDigital, it informed that though the term of the deal has not been disclosed officially, but HopStop has been compared to Israel’s Waze, which was recently acquired by Google for $1 billion.

meet Dr. Chukuka S. Enwemeka V ice chansellor San Diego State University


Dr. Chukuka S. Enwemeka (Bio, PDF Document, 35 KB | Download Adobe Reader) is the Provost and Senior Vice President of San Diego State University. Before joining SDSU on July 1, 2014, he served as Distinguished Professor and Dean of the College of Health Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and as Professor and Dean, of the School of Health Professions, New York Institute of Technology. He was Professor and Chairman of the Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Kansas Medical Center. He served as Associate Professor of Orthopedics and Rehabilitation, and Associate Director of Physical Therapy at the University of Miami School of Medicine. Dr. Enwemeka also held a joint appointment as Assistant Professor of Physical Therapy, Cellular and Structural Biology, and Physiology at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. He earned his Ph.D. from New York University, and did his post-doctoral research training at NYU’s Rusk Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine. Dr. Enwemeka received his M.S. and B.Sc. degrees in physical therapy from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, He is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine and a Fellow of the American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery.

Chika Nwobi: the god of Nigeria’s mobile and Internet space



Nigeria’s mobile tech pioneer who founded MTECH, West Africa’s largest mobile content company, is producing the country’s next generation of elite entrepreneurs and internet companies – and he’s already got $5m for the job

In 1999, as the United States of America tried to find its way through the infamous dot come bubble, Chika Nwobi was an employee with phoneonline.com, a Knoxville-based mobile internet startup. The East Tennessee State University Computer Science and Economics Hons grad had always wanted to be an entrepreneur.

Sensing an opportunity around the corner, he spent a year gathering experience on mobile web technology, at the time a disruptive phenomenon at the time enjoying gradual uptake in the USA.

Chika recalls, reclining on his black leather office seat: “It was a great time.”

The homecoming

With no veteran experts to consult on this amazingly novel technology, Fortune 500 company execs turned to 21-year-old Chika and the likes who had the head start. “The Vice President of AT&T would call me!” Nwobi exclaims with a smile.

Meanwhile, his home country Nigeria was witnessing a shift to democratic governance after 13 years of military rule, and with the shift renewed hopes of political stability and economic wealth for the famed giant of Africa.

On one of the endless foreign tours of then-president Olusegun Obasanjo’s several foreign tour, Nwobi got wind of the news that telecoms companies would be rolling out soon. He decided to return home, encouraged by dreams of making a million bucks within six months of providing mobile internet service to a hungry market.

It hadn’t yet become fashionable to return home to Nigeria. But family friend Ndidi Nwuneli inspired him. The Harvard Alum, who later blazed a trail in non-profits in made the strange decision to return to Nigeria, motivating Nwobi to also go against the grain and make, early a move many of Nigeria’s now leading tech entrepreneurs eventually had to imitate.

With $300,000 in seed capital from Lateef Belo-Osagie, media entrepreneur Chris Ubosi and others, Chika sourced 10 fresh Obafemi Awolowo University grads and founded MTech Communications.

However – and this is contrary to popular belief – MTech wasn’t an instant success. It would take nearly 3 years before the company made any substantial earnings.

Sure the group of self-taught 20-year old mobile engineers set up the first access and content servers, wap gateway, and the whole gamut of mobile internet infrastructure supporting first mover MTN without any external input. Unfortunately, inadequate network capacity and expensive data costs discouraged subscription. By the end of the first year, the young founder had run out of cash.

By the second year, the startup had become to miss salaries Fortunately, however, the investors were amazed by what the committed lot had achieved and decided to cushion with a little more funds.

“The product, commercially, was a huge failure,” Nwobi recalls. “But from a credibility standpoint was successful. Our financial backers and the MTN guys believed we could do anything.”

The credibility worked wonders. Soon, Nwobi and his team began to get several opportunities from MTN to develop other products – polyphonic ringtones, caller tunes, and a plethora of value added mobile services. MTECH became a massive success!

In 2007, the company generated N600m in revenues with a net profit of N116m. MTECH soon expanded services to all Nigerian networks, began providing audience interactivity solutions for hit TV and radio shows and infiltrated new African markets.

The premier mobile content company now leads markets in Ghana, Kenya, Uganda and Cote D’Ivoire and waxes a $28 million market capitalisation on the Nigerian bourse alone. Owning, by the age of 30, a majority individual shareholding in a multimillion-dollar company, Chika Nwobi was living the ‘Silicon valley dream’ many local tech entrepreneurs still only fantasise about.

“Chika is the god of this whole thing (Nigerian mobile and internet business),” iROKO founder Jason Njoku once said

34 Year Old Terragon CEO Elochukwu Umeh named on “The Best & Brightest EMBA

With all the doom and gloom out there, good news on Nigerians is always very welcome on BN.
CEO and Founder of Terragon Group, one of Africa’s leading digital agencies with a presence in Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa, Elochukwu Umeh has been honoured as one of the Best & Brightest EMBAs in the world for 2016 by Poets & Quants for Executives.

50 accomplished business leaders who graduated from Executive MBA programmes at the world’s leading business schools including Wharton, London Business School, MIT Sloan, Kellogg and IESE were selected.

Poets & Quants shares insight into the list including their rigorous criteria.

To construct the Best & Brightest list, Poets&Quants reached out to 40 of the highest-ranking EMBA programs in the world. Each was asked to submit two nominations for EMBAs who “epitomize excellence in your program.” As part of the nomination process, selected students answered questions related to their biggest academic and professional accomplishments, along with sharing their favorite courses and professors and the high and low points of their experience. Schools could also include an optional faculty or student recommendation to provide a deeper look into the candidates’ contributions.

Click here to see the complete list

Elo graduated from the Global Executive MBA Program at IESE Business School.

What made Elochukwu Umeh such an invaluable addition to the class of 2016? See reasons shared by the faculty below.

“Elochukwu Umeh is the embodiment of the new African executive with a global vision. Whilst still relatively young, he has fast-tracked his career in digital media by becoming an entrepreneur and has built one of the most significant companies in this sector in Africa.

“Elo’s vision is about creating something truly significant by helping others to become significant in their contribution to the project. Beyond this, he is highly committed to helping his people develop themselves to becoming the best that they truly can become. His life is about giving and receiving and then giving back again.

“Elo is highly intelligent, respectful, and engaging. During the program, he has shared, both with class and faculty, his viewpoints of global business from an African perspective, and thus continually enriched the debate and more importantly the learning for himself and his peers. Beyond this, he is both proud of who he is and where he is from, but what is most disarming is his humility and his contribution, at both the academic and social levels.

“I have had the immense pleasure to watch Elo transform on each module of the program. We have often spoke about the learning, the experience, and the need to help African business and society. As a school, we feel privileged to count upon Elo as one of our alumni, as he represents what we aspire for them to be. That is, to achieve a transformational impact through our program and then to go forward and deliver this for his family, his company, and society. Elo has more than started his journey and will deliver much more in the years to come.”

Read excerpts from his interview conducted by John Healy – Executive Director, Global Executive MBA Program at the IESE Business School in Spain

Meet Chidi Aneto-Okeke, MCOMM Founder & CEO

Chidi is a leading industry expert in mobile technology and music content distribution. He is an engineer with over 11 years experience in African GSM operations, with a specialization in wireless application services. Chidi has further experience in media, marketing, content aggregation, music business advisory, and artiste management from his stints with several super brands and some of Africa’s largest musicians. Chidi has successfully negotiated direct interconnectivity with leading Mobile Network Operators across Africa, including MTN, Vodafone, Orange, Safaricom, Airtel,Glo et al, to run a gamut of Value Added Services on SMS, IVR and other interactive channels on the GSM space. He is the Founder of Mcomm. Mcomm is a leading value added service provider offering bespoke and generic media and marketing solutions to super brands, corporates, and the public sector. The company services Nigerian/West African businesses through its hub in Lagos,and is focused on providing marketing and media advisory utilizing available local channels, world class technology, and service provision.

[quote author=IgboticGirl post=58615919][/quote]Great Igbo nation we are too much, thanks Op

BeautifulMind2:
Your are just jealous bro, seriously bitter minds are reliable to die Young Igbos are most industrious and innovative tribe in Nigeria even your elders knows

THE IGBO ENTREPRENEUR IN THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF NIGERIA
Olanrewaju Akinpelu OLUTAYO
[b]Department of Sociology, Faculty of the Social SciencesUniversity of Ibadan
ABS[/b]TRACTCentral to the capitalist orientation introduced to the Third World nationsthrough colonialism is the role of entrepreneurs in development. This group is still perceivedas inevitable if these nations are to develop. In spite of all the attempts to develop date, verylittle is being achieved.While this monograph recognises the importance of entrepreneurs in development, itasserts that these entrepreneurs have always existed in pre-colonial Nigeria but the re-orien-tation brought about through capitalism has fundamentally affected the pre-colonial situation.As such, there is a disjuncture between the latter and the present capitalist expectation.More importantly, the author tries to debunk the position of certain European writers thatcertain ethnic groups are better entrepreneurs than others. Thus, the responsiveness of theIgbo ethnic group of Nigeria to European economic incentives was a result of a certain his-torico-sciological position that this group occupies in Nigeria. It is posited that as the nationapproaches the twenty-
fi
rst-century, one cannot say with certainty that ethnicity should be themain consideration for entrepreneurial ability. It is the political economy of each nationwithin the World Capitalist System that will determine the emergent scenario.
http://www.academia.edu/25356964/The_Igbo_Entrepreneur_in_the_Political_Economy_of_Nigeria



Apple buys a Nigerian-owned ICT firm for $1 billion

UNITED States of America’s most celebrated brand, Apple, has bought Nigeria’s Chinedu Echeruo’s HopStop.com. According to The Wall Street Journal’s publication, AllThingsDigital, it informed that though the term of the deal has not been disclosed officially, but HopStop has been compared to Israel’s Waze, which was recently acquired by Google for $1 billion.

Take away one 0.

Dumaknesset:
Take away one 0.

Big lie! Apple did not buy Hotstop for 1 billion dollars. It was bought for an undisclosed amount! See lies!

deedeedee1:
Big lie! Apple did not buy Hotstop for 1 billion dollars.
It was bought for an undisclosed amount!
See lies!

Can you use your google