Nicholas okoye biography

He leads the largest network of Entrepreneurs in Nigeria (EMPOWER NIGERIA) and he founded the Startup Nigeria Consortium, workshop series and entrepreneurship.
Nicholas Okoye is the founding Group Executive Director and the first Leader of the pioneer Executive team that set up the Transnational Corporation of Nigeria.
Serial Entrepreneur, Global Capital and Investment Aggregator, Access Africa Srrategist, Key Note Speaker, Founder N1HTD projects.

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Nicholas Omenka

THE AFRO-BRAZILIAN REPATRIATES AND THE RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL TRANSFORMATION OF COLONIAL LAGOS

ABIA JOURNAL OF THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES, vol. 1.1, 2004

The Lagos Colony was, by the second half of the nineteenth century, part of the disintegrating Po... more The Lagos Colony was, by the second half of the nineteenth century, part of the disintegrating Portuguese West African 'colony' where the Portuguese language was still more or less the lingua franca. At the centre of the new and diversified cultural pressure in the region were the Afro-Brazilian repatriates who had found their way back to Africa after their emancipation from slavery. They lived in a district of their own in Lagos and several buildings in Lagos still bear testimony to their architectural influence. They were an influential part of the civilizing agents who helped to place Lagos on a pedestal that was well above other commercial ports in West Africa. The Brazilians, or the Amaros, as the repatriates from Brazil were fondly called, exerted a religious and cultural influen

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Nicholas Okoye (@NickyOkoye) is presently the President and Chief Executive Officer of Anabel Group Inc, the group includes Anabel Mobile Limited, Nigeria’s pioneer tier one Manufacturer of Smart Mobile Devices, online portals and data platforms, Anabel Capital, Advisor and capacity building Consultant to the Central Bank of Nigeria. Anabel Technology specializes in developing applications that allow groups, associations and corporations to share work reports off site and integrate solutions from anywhere in the World.

Nicholas Okoye is the founding Group Executive Director and the first Leader of the pioneer Executive team that set up the Transnational Corporation of Nigeria Plc (Transcorp), Nigeria’s first home grown conglomerate, involved in Oil, Gas, Hospitality and Agriculture. At Transcorp, Nicholas was responsible for rising over $1 billion USD in less than twelve months which was recorded and still is, one of Nigeria’s most successful capital raising exercises till date.

In 2005 Nicholas was nominated as one of the top forty Nigerians “under f

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Godfrey Okoye

Godfrey Mary Paul Okoye, C.S.Sp. (19 December 1913 – 17 March 1977) was a bishop of the Roman Catholic Church in Nigeria. He was the first Bishop of Port Harcourt, serving from 3 September 1961 to 7 March 1970. After leaving the diocese of Port Harcourt, he became the second Bishop of Enugu, succeeding Bishop John Cross Anyogu.^[1]

Biography

Okoye was born on 19 December 1913 to Okoye Nwazulu and Ada Oji in Ifitedunu in the Eastern Region of Nigeria, now Anambra State.^[2] He was ordained to priesthood by Most Rev. Dr. Charles Heerey, the Archbishop of Onitsha, on 27 July 1947.^[3] In 1950 he became only the second Igbo priest to be admitted into the Congregation of the Holy Spirit.^[4] Okoye was heavily involved in events around the Nigerian Civil War, and his explicit support for Biafra raised concerns among fellow priests that they would be targeted in Nigeria.^[5] Historian Adrian Hastings described Okoye as a "devout Biafran hawk".^[6] In 1977, just before having a hernia operation, Okoye dest