Vanguard awards

April 6, 2025

NGOZI EKEOMA: Wealth creator

NGOZI EKEOMA: Wealth creator

Ngozi Ekeoma is an astute entrepreneur, wealth creator and employer of labour. Her business interests span across different fields like oil and gas, agriculture, manufacturing, power, money market, shipping and logistics. A lawyer, she has received several trainings in management, alternative dispute resolution, leadership and strategy both at the local and international levels.

She is an alumna of the prestigious Harvard Business School. She sits on the boards of many companies and businesses. Currently, she is the Group Managing Director of Nepal Group of Companies. She is also the MD/CEO of Nepal Oil and Gas Services Ltd, which is now Nepal Energies, Quest Shipping Ltd, Sorties Logistics, Emline Nig. Ltd, Genesis Electricity Ltd, and South Globe limited, Nepal Upstream and lots more.

To her credit, Nepal Group over the years, has offered over 2000 employments to Nigerian citizens even as the unemployment rates in the country geometrically grows. Apart from offering huge employment opportunities to the Nigerian youths, especially in Delta state, Ngozi has through her company, Nepal Oil built an ultramodern block of classrooms at the proposed Police College/Training Centre in Oghara, Delta State.

She also founded Ngozi Ekeoma Foundation (NEF) for the empowerment of women and youths and her so far, through Ngozi Ekeoma Foundation and Pa Anyaso Skill Aquisition Centre over the years, has empowered nearly 2000 women and youths. She is now a member of Abia State Security Trust Fund and also a member of Governing Council of Aviation College.

She is a Ruling Elder of the Presbyterian Church of Nigeria. She is married with four children and three grandchildren. Ngozi hails from Igbere, in Abia State, Nigeria. She attended Immaculate Heart Secondary School, Umungasi Aba (high school), the University of Lagos where she obtained a diploma in Criminal Justice Administration and later Bachelor of law degree (LLB).

With a degree in law, she proceeded to the Nigeria Law School where she trained as lawyer and was called to the Nigerian Bar as solicitor and advocate of the Supreme Court of Nigeria. She also holds a master’s degree in law from Unilag. She attended the Harvard Business School, Boston, USA. She is a member of the Nigerian Institute of Chartered Arbitrators, Nigerian Bar Association, Patron of the Boy’s Brigade of Nigeria, “Mother” of the Christian Girls in Training (CGIT), strong member of the Women’s Guild of the Presbyterian Church of Nigeria and lots more.

As a philanthropist, she founded the Pa. Anyaso Skill Acquisition Centre, a foundation that trains youths and women in vocation, skill and crafts. Mrs. Ekeoma has awarded several scholarships to the indigents under the Nepal Scholarship Schemes, which is driven by the Corporate Services Department of the Nepal Group.

In 2020, she pioneered and championed the construction of a world class isolation Centre\and molecular laboratory in Abia State as part her contribution towards combating Covid-19 and for infectious disease control within the country during the pandemic. Mrs. Ekeoma apart from championing the construction of the ultramodern molecular isolation center, was quite visible in the war against Covid and pandemic lockdown in 2020 and 2021 by providing food and other palliative to the most vulnerable households and churches.