Business Integrity, Innovation Award – Maduka Onyisi, Kunle Soname, Others Slug It Out

ICON OF BUSINESS INTEGRITY – PLATINUM

These awards are given to individuals who demonstrate successful entrepreneurship built on transparency, integrity and trust.

They have remained worthy ambassadors of trust in their dealings and transactions in the business world, but which of them is the numero uno?

Chief Michael Olasubomi Balogun

Chief Michael Olasubomi Balogun is a Nigerian banker and philanthropist who founded First City Monument Bank initially known as First City Merchant Bank.

A long-standing council member of the Nigerian Stock Exchange, one of his many attributes is business integrity believed to have remained the cornerstone of the success of the FCMB brand.

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Dr. Maduka Onyishi

Dr Onyisi is the Managing Director of Peace Mass Transit, who returned the sum of N2.2bn wrongly paid into his First Bank of Nigeria account.

An industrious man who rose to success the hard way, his Onyishi Peace Foundation set up in 1998 has empowered over 640 young men and women in form of start-up capitals for small businesses.

INNOVATIVE ENTREPRENUER OF THE YEAR – GOLD

This award is given to an individual who has devised genuine ways to maneuver and succeed, thereby remaining a role model to others

Mr Kunle Soname

Mr Kunle Soname, is the founder of Bet9ja, a leading online sports betting company in Nigeria which was officially launched in 2003 alongside a shirt sponsorship deal with Reno Stars F.C.

He is an investor, politician, business mogul and sports enthusiast, and had before now been  Executive Chairman of Ikosi-isheri Local Council, Lagos State

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Otunba Akin Alabi

Otunba Akin Alabi, is a politician, entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is also author of the business and marketing book, Small Business Big Money and founder of NairaBET.com, Nigeria’s first sports bookmaking company.The rapid growth of his online betting company is seen as a proof of his enterprise and amazing business intelligence.

Dr Maduka Onyisi

Samuel Maduka Onyishi. (MON ) is the owner of Peace Mass Transit (PMT) Limited, which began operations as a two- bus fleet company in 1994 but has grown to massive 3,000-bus fleet, with many subsidiary firms.

He is an innovator as his full biography shows, and pioneer of the 3-passenger initiative in mini bus transport service.

His story underscores the lesson that success from small starts is possible, and that entrepreneurs who aspire to make it must give innovation its pride a place.

Temitope Ogunsemo

Thirty three year old Temitope Ogunsemo, in 2010 founded Krystal Digital, a fast-growing educational technology company.

Ogunsemo  is the creator of MySkool Portal, a web-based application for School Information Management System, that has been adopted by more than 50 Government-owned High schools in Nigeria, and has more than 65,000 active student users. Krystal Digital now has more than 150 employees and annual revenues of more than $3 million.