The apex socio cultural igbo group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide has joined the rest of the country as they felicitate with Chief Sir (Dr) Emeka Offor as he turned 63 on February 10, 2022.

The group who made this known through the group’s National Publicity Secretary, Alex Ogbonnia, said “An immortal author, Professor Chinua Achebe in his globally celebrated book, Things Fall Apart, had stated that a ‘chick that will grow into a cock can be spotted the very day it hatches’. Thus Emeka had long been spotted as a cosmic agent whose life mission is to leave the world far better than he met it.

“Emeka’s precociousness manifested while in the secondary school and that accounts for why he was retained after graduation, to teach in his school, Abbot Boys High School, Ihiala, Anambra State. He later worked as a transport clerk with Rivways Lines Nigeria Ltd, Warri, Delta State– a company that imports bitumen products. With a boundless resourcefulness, he ventured into the bitumen business and at 28, he opened the Chrome Oil and Gas Services Limited which has metamorphosed into the Chrome Group.

“From the Oil and Gas, Emeka has diversified into a behemoth spanning insurance, power, logistics, hospitality, telecommunication, travels, real estate, banking and aviation among others.

“Beside the Emeka sterling growth trajectory and pedigree, the most endearing of his life mission is his unassailable commitment to charity and philanthropy. The Sir Emeka Offor Foundation (SEOF), a non-governmental organization has provided support in human capacity development, skills acquisition, and the establishment of small and medium enterprises (SME’s) and cooperative societies for the less privileged.

“The Emeka Offor large-heart reverberates all parts of Nigeria and the entire globe. He is indeed an Igbo quintessence.

“The life of Emeka is a veritable tribute to hard work, audacity, tenacity, inventiveness, guileless heart, transcendental values of kindness and an abiding faith in the Igbo philosophy that God endows in man the innate capacity to transform his life condition.

“The President General of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide, Ambassador Professor George Obiozor expresses a profound admiration in the Offor prodigy and philanthropy. Emeka Offor in all respects, exemplifies the Obiozor rhapsody that happiness is a perfume-you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

“On behalf of all the organs and tributaries of Ohanaeze Ndigbo Worldwide and indeed, the entire Igbo nation,  I wish our noble son, Emeka, many more years full of exploits and prosperity”, he concluded.