IMT - Key Persons

Aikhomu attended Yaba Technical Institute (now Yaba College of Technology). He attended the Higher College, Yaba, after which he proceeded to the Royal Britannia Naval College, Dartmouth in England. He further attended the Royal Naval Engineering College, Manadon, England; Long Gunnery Specialist Course, India, 1969-70; Defense Services Staff Course, Wellington, Inia, 1973 and National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies in 1982. He joined the Nigerian Navy on December 1, 1958; commissioned Sub-Lieutenant, Nigerian Navy in 1964; Lieutenant, 1967. The late Admiral was thereafter elevated to the post of Commander in 1974 and later Captain in 1977. He was promoted Commanding Officer in-Shore Patrol Crafts. From 1974 to 1975, he was the Commanding Officer, Nigerian Navy Donna. Commanding Officer, NNS Nigeria (now NNS Obuma), then the Flag Ship, 1975-78; Flag Officer Commanding, Flotilla, 1978-80; Navy Commodore, 1980; Chief of Personnel, Naval Headquarters, 1980-83; Chief of Naval Operations, 1983-84; Rear-Admiral, May 1, 1984; Chief of Naval Staff: 1984-86. He doubled as Chief of General Staff and Vice President between 1986 and 1993. On October 1987, Aikhomu became a Vice-Admiral, October 1987 and also a member of the Armed Forces Ruling Council in 1986. In 1987, he was made chairman of the National Boundary Commission. Passed Staff College, 1973; Nigerian Alliance Assurance Corporation Limited; Regency Alliance Insurance Plc; he was a member of the National Institute, 1982 and a fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Management, 1988. He was decorated with national honours such as the Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger, GCON, in 1992; Forces Service Staff (fss); Steering Committee, United Nigerian Democratic Party. Naval officer, former chief of general staff and Vice president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria; politician, businessman. He was chairman, Board of Trustees, All Nigerian Peoples Party (ANPP).

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• Chief

Onoh, in the late 1940s, worked as a contractor, then produce inspector and then livestock trader. Using the money from these ventures, he funded his education in the United Kingdom, earning a law degree from the University of Wales at Aberystwyth in 1957. In 1958, Onoh was elected member, House of Representatives for Enugu Constituency. He later resigned to take up appointment as the first indigenous chairman of the Board of the Nigerian Coal Corporation. From 1961 to 1966 he was on the board of the Nigeria Railway Corporation. During the civil war, Onoh was appointed administrator of Enugu Capital Territory. In 1970 he returned to private life as a lumber merchant. He was then appointed chairman of the Nigeria Mining Corporation, and in 1982, chairman of the Associated Ore Mines.

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• Administrator of East - Central State

Asika was educated at University College, now the University of Ibadan. He also studied at the University of California in the USA from 1961 to 1965 and then became a lecturer in Political Science at the University of Ibadan between 1965 and 1967. Asika was appointed administrator of East-Central State in October 1967 at the start of the Biafran civil war. After the war ended in 1970 he was responsible for administering a large part of the former Biafran territories. He was also a member of the Technical Committee on the Review of the National Census from 1973 to 1975. He later was Team Leader of the Presidential Delegation to Niger, Chad and Cameroon which negotiated reopening Nigeria borders in 1985. He died on 14 September 2004.

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• Journalist
• Publisher and Chief Executive Officer of Business Day Media Limited Which He Founded in 2001
• Vice President of the Alumni Association of the Lagos Business School

Mr. Frank Aigbogun Publisher and Chief Executive Officer of Business Day Media Limited which he founded in 2001. Mr. Aigbogun graduated from the Institute of Management & Technology, IMT in 1982 with a Higher National Diploma, topping his class. He began his journalism career at the Guardian newspaper in Lagos where he also served his national service and rising rapidly to become the head of the reportorial unit for the Sunday Guardian. In 1984, he moved to the Vanguard newspaper as its pioneer news editor and was appointed editor of the title, a position he held for about seven years. Mr. Aigbogun also served as the Lagos correspondent of the Associated Press, AP, the world's largest independent news agency. Mr. Aigbogun, a highly regarded journalist and entrepreneur, has on two occasions been called upon by the Federal government of Nigeria to make direct contribution to national development. He was appointed in 1996 by the Federal government as a member of Nigeria's 147-member Vision 2010 committee where he served as alternate rapporteur for the sub-committee on competition and commercialization. And in 2013, he was appointed by then President Goodluck Jonathan as a member of the governing council for Nigeria's National Competiveness Council. Mr. Aigbogun is the current vice President of the Alumni association of the Lagos Business School and he chairs the board of Constitutional Rights Project, CRP a rights advocacy group. A director of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group, NESG and member of the executive council of the newspaper proprietor's association of Nigeria, NPAN, Mr. Aigbogun features regularly in top level business discussions and conferences in Nigeria. Business Day which he founded today employs over 300 persons, more than a hundred of them journalists. Business Day, Nigeria's first and only daily business and financial newspapers won several local and international awards including business newspaper of the year in Africa given by Diageo, owners of Guinness.

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• CEO., Fidelity Bank )

Nnamdi is a graduate of University of Benin, Nigeria from where he obtained a first degree in Agricultural Economics. He holds an MBA in Banking and Finance from Enugu State University of Technology, Nigeria. He is also a graduate of the Advanced Management Programme of INSEAD Business School, Fontainebleau, France. Nnamdi has attended business, leadership and management training programs locally and overseas, in some of the world's leading institutions including Harvard Business School, Wharton Business School and Stanford Graduate School. Mr. Okonkwo's banking career started in 1990 at Merchant Bank of Africa, Nigeria. His early career was further nurtured in Guaranty Trust Bank, Nigeria where he rose to become a Manager and was appointed the pioneer Branch Manager of Onitsha Branch before moving on. He later worked in other financial institutions, notably United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc where he held various managerial and leadership positions including Regional Bank Head in Lagos, Regional Director, Federal Capital, Nigeria, Project Director, and Head of Corporate Banking and Multinational Corporates Division. The high point of his career in UBA came when he was appointed Managing Director/CEO of UBA Ghana and later elevated to Regional CEO of the bank's West Africa Monetary Zone covering Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone. In 2012, Nnamdi took advantage of an existing opportunity and joined Fidelity Bank Plc., Nigeria as Executive Director in charge of the Bank's businesses in Southern Nigeria, a position he held until January 1, 2014 when he was appointed Managing Director/CEO of Fidelity Bank.

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