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The Leo Stan Ekeh Foundation, which focuses on promotion of 21st century knowledge through quality education, practical entrepreneurship, healthy living and enhanced lifestyle has committed N1.5 billion to support YUBOSS – an entrepreneurship and wealth creation scheme set up by pioneer composite retail chain Yudala supported by Access Bank and Airtel.
With the donation of its high-end laptops, desktop computers and other devices to the EbonyLife Creative Academy, foremost tech giant, Zinox Technologies Limited has been hailed for its contribution to the creative industry in Nigeria.
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Zinox Technologies, Chief Leo Stan Ekeh, has announced plans to institute N1.5 billion foundation in partnership with the Imo State Government He made this known yesterday at the flagging-off of the 380-kilometre roads named Rural Access and Mobility Project (RAMP) by Imo State Governor, Emeka Ihedioha at Mbaitoli, near Owerri..
Chairman of the Leo Stan Ekeh Foundation (LSF), Leo Stan Ekeh, has appointed Engr. Amasike Emelonye as Director-General to head a team set up to manage the N1.5bn revolving loan scheme for entrepreneurs and indigent students in Imo State. Ekeh had announced a three-year revolving interest-free loan of N1b over the next 10 years to petty traders and small and medium businesses in Imo State on August 28, 2019. The intervention, he revealed, is to reduce hardship, stimulate business activities and give hope to the majority of the people in the state. Further, Ekeh launched an educational support project for indigent but intelligent students of the state to enable them to acquire proper university education. For this, Ekeh set up a non-interest revolving loan scheme of N500m which shall stretch over the next 10 years to help others benefit from the scheme. Emelonye, a first-class British trained technology guru was the pioneer Managing Director of Zinox Technologies, one of the companies founded by Ekeh. Educated in the United Kingdom with multiple degrees and professional certifications, Emelonye is a thoroughbred ICT professional.:
He likens himself to an orphan and only child. Not in the classical sense of having no parents and siblings, but on account of his independent-mindedness, the fate of having always to walk alone, act as his own adviser and being the first to take a leap, a trait that has set him apart as Africa's foremost serial pioneer digital entrepreneur..
In Greek mythology, Prometheus, a Titan, was credited with innovation and creative abilities. He's the forerunner of contemporary innovators and disruptors. His Olympian far-sightedness, skill and fecundity put him at the cutting edge of every competition. Little wonder he's often described as the pathfinder of innovators, craftsmen, and persons in the creative industry.
Born on February 22, 1956, Leo Stan Ekeh, a native of Ubomiri, Mbaitoli Local Government, Imo State, a devout Catholic, former mass servant and chorister, has taken the digital world by storm, building one of the biggest ICT conglomerates out of Africa from a modest desktop publishing outpost. Today, he straddles a Group with interests extending from ICT, banking, oil, property to e-Commerce, with offices in Africa, United Arab Emirates (Dubai), Europe and Asia.
Before he set out to launch his first company, Task Systems, in 1988, he reportedly held a 6a.m. meeting with his parents, both entrepreneurs, during which he laid out his plans to confront the ICT world. It was like setting out on a suicide mission. He pleaded that he would wish to see himself as an orphan and an only child until he stabilizes his business. He also pledged to place himself as personal collateral to build his business purely on integrity.
