IFESINACHI TRANSPORT - Lagos, Nigeria

Ifesinachi Group of Companies has become one of Nigeria’s major indigenous companies, contributing to the economic development of the nation. Better known by the name of the company he founded from scratch- Ifesinachi, Ogbonnaya Mamah was born on April 14, 1942 (after the death of his father, unfortunately). In the late 1950s, the young Mamah compeleted his primary education. With no one to fund his secondary education, he took to serving someone in Onitsha as a houseboy, a typical story of grass-to-grace, much like that of Abrahim Lincoln and James Garfield, both former presidents of the United States. He later left this service for Sapele, where he was involved in manual labour, from which he raised money to return to Onitsha to buy a truck with which he manually transported goods for  

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people, beginning in 1965. This formed the foundation of his transportation business which was to become a major player in the transportation business in Nigeria.