Nigeria: My Passion for Business Rubbed Me of Education - CEO

17 November 2012
interview

Chief Offor Matta Onyekaba is a born entrepreneur with passion for business. He demonstrated that when he started at 15 to settle with palm kernel business when he couldn't complete secondary school. His quest for bigger businesses forced him out of the palm kernel trade.But soon after, he ventured into supplying of granite chippings. Today, he is the CEO, Greenlight Motors Nigeria Limited, a haulage firm and an engineering construction company. In this interview with Saturday Vanguard Business, he reveals that diligence, hard work, determination are the secret of his success story. Excerpts:

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