Path to Glory - HRH IGWE ALEXANDER ENE CHIOKE

HRH IGWE Alexander Ene Chioke was born on 22nd November 1922. He was the first son of Nze Eluwe Chioke Nwene and Nwaka Nwene, both in loving memory 

IGWE Chioke was enrolled at school by his father in 1928. In January 1935, IGWE Chioke was admitted into Government School, Udi. The school was renamed St. Thomas' School, Udi in January 1936 following its take-over by the Catholic Mission. At St. Thomas, Igwe learnt the tenets of Christianity, memorised both English and Igbo catechisms and was baptised. At baptism, he was named "Alexander" after Alexander the Great.

Igwe Chioke obtained his First School Leaving Certificate in high grades and graduated as the only candidate from his school who passed the entrance examination to Christ the King's College (CKC), Onitsha.

Qualifications of HRH IGWE A.E CHIOKE: 

Catholic Mission Standard Six Certificate, 1941.

First School Leaving Certificate, No.19764, 1941.

Teachers Higher Elementary (Grade 2) Certificate, 1946.

Teacher Grade I Certificate, 1951.

General Certificate of Education, 1954.

University of London, Certificate of Registration as External student, No. 10604,‎ 1955.

Durham University, B.A. Economics Studies, 1964.

University of Strathclyde, Postgraduate ‎Certificate in Finance and Accounting, 1977.

Kano State Government and Strathclyde Business School, Certificate in Management of Government Finances, 1983.

Igwe Chioke esteemed a life of humility, dignity, generosity, courage and faith in Almighty God. A pillar of support to the family, many friends and associates, and the entire Obioma community. He would be fondly missed by many people whose lives he touched in different ways.

He is survived by;

‎Ogugua Chioke - Son

Angela Chioke - Daughter 

Uchenwa Chioke - Daughter 

Ikechukwu Chioke - Son

Osondu Chioke - Son

Obiageli Onwe - Daughter 

Modester Chioke - daughter -in-Law

Yvonne Chioke - Daughter -in-Law‎

Ikechukwu Onwe - Son-In-Law

Ijeoma Chinenye Chioke - Daughter-In-Law

15 grandchildren (plus one in view)‎

‎And many extended family and friends.

Ikechukwu Chioke & daughter

Obioma Burial Carnival, celebrating en mass the life and times of HRH IGWE ALEXANDER ENE CHIOKE ksm NGWU II OF OBIOMA/1922 - 2015‎

The Future of Africa :1000 TEEP youth converge in Lagos – Emmanuel Morah

The former Chief Executive Officer (CEO), United Bank for Africa (UBA) and founder Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF) on July 10, 2015 bring together 1000 youths, selected from more than 20,000 application from all African countries, for a two(2) day boot-camp.

The aim is in the design which interprets that the convergence of 1000 youthful entrepreneurs in Africa at a spot imbued with capital, networks, training and support will go a long way in fast tracking socio-economic development.

Youths he posit are the entrepreneurial future of the African continent.

“…I am confident that these entrepreneurs are Africa’s hope for the future.” – Tony Elumelu

“… in empowering these emerging entrepreneurs, we are providing the capital, the networks, the training, and support for them to drive economic and social transformation throughout Africa, providing solutions to its problems as well as securing their future and that of generations to come.” - Tony Elumelu

The Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme (TEEP), with Tony Blair as its chairman is playing with a $100million PAN Africa Entrepreneurship initiative package to raise the bar for a “Planetary-Emergency” promoting economic and social growth within the ecological limit of the planet.

SOROMagazine want to know the outcome of “the 1000 African hope for the future” – Can the future of Africa youth entrepreneurs be hanged on Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme (TEEP)?

Join the conversation at www.soromagazine.blogspot.com as we follow up on these emerging entrepreneur dynamites, mentored by a man who has seen it all – Tony Elumelu.  

EXPERIENCE LAGOS

Could this be Lagos, Nigeria!

Our kudos to the former Governor Babatunde Fashola led administration in Lagos state, only with one most relevant and important project, the rail system with massive road expansion and a symbol of greatness. the LekkiIkoyi Bridge project. He is a man worthy of praise and role model to the change we seek.

Lagos, it was nice experiencing you again after three year. The place transformed and re-emerging with resounding worth. A true depiction of what transpired before the Change agenda presently led by President M. Buhari, who was quite reasonable to carry along the former Governor of Lagos state, Mr Babatunde Fashola to meet with the G7 Nations, acknowledging the worth and effort, Mr Fashola put in to engineer the 2015 Change agenda,

Lagos is absolutely redefined, indeed Mr Fashola, you are a Game Changer, deserving of a true worthy Nigerian Minister of works. Just my thought, don't know about you! 

However, all work and no play, make SORO an idle persona. A spoil at Maison Fahrenheit on a Friday night makes a difference and a bit at tantalizer with Ikeja, completes a wholesome day well spent in the MegaCity of Lagos.

Experience Lagos today and relive the bountifulness of the MegaCity and Centre of Excellence.

Mr Babatunde Fashola, our true GameChanger for the month of July, 2015. 

Get our REFINERIES working!

Reporting from Lagos, the import hub of petroleum products and marketing, fuel queues are back to the streets and stations with pump price rising from the 87 naira over the board to as much as 120 naira. One wonders what such will do to far cuties and town, who are hundreds of mile from the Lagos import spot.

Economic implications of Scarcity
it is said that when the elephants do battle, only and only the grasses and ground suffers the brunt. same it is when there's fuel scarcity in Nigeria, only the poor and average Nigerian bare the brunt and their hard earned money are taken from them.

Should our new administration run by PMB allow such hurt on the masses to continue? Will these oil market continue to hold Nigerian to ransom over a scam of oil subsidy? Do we not live among these scammers of our daily bread? and how do we as a collective Nation put an end to this menace?

These posed question have only but one solution - GET OUR REFINERIES WORKING, build more refineries and promote local refining with a standard. This is the way a CHANGE focus administration should proceed.

Good morning.

Upcoming GameChanger Workshop - Emmanuel Morah

Welcome July

Welcome to the month of July, we look forward to explore your sales skills and at the end, be able to impact these basic skills of getting what you are, how you are and whom you wish to become...

How to Sell a Product

Selling a product isn't as complicated as it's made out to be. At its most basic, a sales program is defined principally by what you sell, who you sell to, and how you sell. Beyond that, it all boils down to staying focused on the details outlined next, suitable for both sales representative and for owners of small businesses... you are welcome to join us on the 21st of August, 2015 @ Barcelona Suite, wuse Abuja for the workshop "Change; An Attitude". Time: 10 - 12noon. 

To attend. Join the conversation and send your details to soromagazine@gmail.com to receive a ticket.

A BEGINNING ENTREPRENEURS NIGHTMARE - Sunny Obazu-Ojegbase

Continued...

How we got out of the financial mess that the government's decision brought upon us, is a story I'll probably tell you another day. But learn in the meantime the very important lesson that even when you know where to reach your customers before you launch a product, it is not a reason to believe that something cannot still go wrong.

If a method that pushes up your success rate by as much as 95% can leave you gasping for breath, then deliberately going into a market where you have no idea of who your customers are is nothing short of knowingly drinking acid and expecting it to refresh you like cold water.

That is by the way. Let's get back to the "Beginning Entrepreneur's Nightmare Zone" or BENZ as I will refer to it from henceforth. BENZ was decreed into existence in Genesis Chapter 8 verse 22. That is where God said, "while the earth remains, seedtime and harvest shall not cease. "

The All-knowing God, who created heaven and earth and everything in it, gave us an important key for succeeding in business here. Being our Creator (manufacturer), He knew we needed the key. But out of ignorance, we didn't find it early enough. That's why God said "my people are perish for lack of knowledge" (information).

Now, this important key in Genesis 8:22 brings to our attention the reason why we must have a seed and sow it at a right time and in a good soil. We satisfy this condition when we establish a business. What we are doing when we launch a new business, is sowing a seed at seedtime.

And as we are assured by this immutable law, seedtime will always be followed by harvest just as night follows day and winter is followed by summer. That means when you plant at seedtime (start a business), then harvest (profit-making) shall follow.

Problem arises, however, when we plant a new business and expect our harvest almost immediately, irrespective of the type of plant that we sowed. The answer to this puzzle is found, not in a business management school (they don't teach it there!) but at the farm. Yes, it is in the farm that you will discover the mystery of seedtime and harvest.

The farmer knows the secret. Years of planting and harvesting have taught him to know how this great mystery, which still confounds a Beginning Entrepreneur and makes him to suffer needlessly, works. Now, let's observe a farmer at work.

The knowledgeable farmer knows there is a particular time to clear the bush and plant the seed. The seedtime must be prepared for. Planting must be done in season. And each seed has the right condition or planting it. I learnt a bit of this myself when I was growing up and I followed my father to his farm at Osogbo. I watched him as he planted cassava, beans, corn, pepper and yam. Trouble was, I never connected what I observed my father doing at his farm to what I've to do when I went into business for myself. Oh, how I wish I made the connection!

So the farmer plants his seed. Although he knows that there's harvest to come, he doesn't go home and look for a cosy bed to lie on while waiting for that harvest. No. Rather he invests the time in-between to care for the seed he has planted, weeding the grass and, in case locust or other crop destroying insects invade his farm, using the right chemical to get rid of them.

This is what he continues to do until harvest time arrives. And he'll be rewarded for his care for the crop and his patience with a bountiful harvest.

A Start-up Entrepreneur is supposed to do the same thing. He should start his new business and continue to nurture it until it grows to the point of harvest. He must be as industrious and as patient as the farmer. If he's not, then he won't have a harvest.

Starting a business, for most Beginning Entrepreneurs, takes a lot out of them. Because capital is not easily available to take off, by the time a BE arrives at the marketplace, he's all stressed up as a result of all the efforts he had to make to raise the seed money.

This condition makes it extremely difficult for him to exercise the necessary patience before harvest arrives.

How then can any BE, who finds himself in. this condition, cope? We shall go right back to the farm to seek a solution. Let's go over to the next chapter as I show you what I learnt while I was almost grounded in the BENZ.

Sunny Obazu-Ojeagbase is the Chairman of SADC, Publishers of SuccessDigest. He is also the founder of Complete Communication Limited, publishers of Complete Sports.

Visit: www.sadcnigeria.org

Press brief: SORO OFF TO LAGOS

Soro magazine Managing Editor Morah Emmanuel is off to Lagos, While in Lagos, the Managing Editor will seek to get the views of PMAN other factions resident in Lagos. He will ask Pretty why he still went ahead to call himself PMAN president on Ait and why Orits Wiliki is keeping mute,  why did Sunny Nneji , Zakky adze and others walked out of the PMAN peace  meeting held at the Minister for Employment Labour and Productivity office in Abuja Federal Secretariat .

Mr Morah is also scheduled to discuss with Sam ikona, Chris Dadzie and other Team members on The ‘Investors FarmHut project (TIFP)

We hear our friend Desmond Elliot is bring new hope, great change to Surulere. A chat with him will be posted.

Helen Sosu Henry and DD west of The Street University Project and Principal Consultant of NUB consulting respectively will also tell SORO a bit about their long time love to “Do4Posterity”.

Every way we go

Lagos, its your time to SORO……