NIGERIAN DIPLOMAT, AMB. ELIJAH ONYEAGBA PhD EMERGES HOUSING FRIENDLY DIPLOMAT OF THE YEAR 2022
His Excellency, Amb. Elijah Onyeagba PhD, the most outstanding Nigerian High Commissioner and Nigeria’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Burundi has been named the “Housing Friendly Diplomat of the Year 2022”. He will be honoured with the award and inducted into the Affordable Housing Hall of Fame at the Africa Housing Awards 2022 organised by “Housing Development Programme“, an international television program which focuses on housing development and airs on African Independent Television (AIT) and Television Continental (TVC).
The Award and Induction nomination was contained in a letter captioned “AFRICA HOUSING AWARDS & INDUCTION INTO THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING HALL OF FAME 2022” was signed by Mr Festus Adebayo, the Co-ordinator of the Housing Development program and addressed to His Excellency Amb. Elijah Onyeagba PhD.
The Award according to the organisers, is aimed at celebrating and promoting excellence in the Housing and Construction Industry as well as recognizing the successes of individuals, teams and companies who are setting trends in innovative construction, consistency in high standards, market expansion and are continously engaged in the development of the national economy.
The Award ceremony is scheduled to hold on 15th December, 2022 by 6pm at the International Conference Center Abuja and will be chaired by His Excellency Senator Dr. Sam Ominyi Egwu, former Governor of Ebonyi State and the Chairman Senate Committee on Housing.
His Excellency Amb. Elijah Onyeagba PhD, an Economist by training with an MBA in Finance, is an Alumnus of the International Housing Finance Program and Securitization of the Wharton Business School in Pennsylvania USA. He has also bagged certificates from Harvard Business School USA, Saïd Business School Oxford UK and INSEAD Business School, France.
Prior to his appointment as Nigeria’s Ambassador to Burundi, he was the Chairman and Founder of Countrywide Housing Company (CHC) – a company
which developed 676 affordable housing units in Muhammad Sanusi Estate, Darmanawa, Kano with an unwavering commitment to developing affordable housing units in Nigeria while creating value within the housing ecosystem.
He has over seventeen years of experience in commercial, corporate, retail and mortgage banking; real estate, research, marketing, leadership and is an expert in the structuring and advisory on construction finance deals with specialty in residential/affordable housing projects.
He was the Group Head (AGM) in charge of Real Estate Transactions in ASO Savings & Loans Plc; Nigeria’s largest originator of over seventeen thousand mortgage assets under the sale of a Federal Government Housing scheme. It had the additional responsibility of developing affordable housing in Nigeria as well as
overseeing the company business concerns within the Federal Capital Territory, North and the Southern Regions of Nigeria.
Before joining ASO, he worked with Equitorial Trust Bank (now Sterling Bank) as Head of Business, Bond Bank (now Skye Bank) as Relationship Manager and Platinum Bank (now Keystone Bank) as relationship officer and Customer Service Officer. He also worked as a research assistant with the Policy Analysis and Research Group (PARG). He has worked as Head of Commercial (Marketing & Sales), Northern Operations of the Nigeria Securities, Printing and Minting (NSPM Plc).
Amb. Elijah Onyeagba PhD has continued to shine brilliantly, reaffirming the age long held belief that technocrats demonstrate the spirit of excellence and hold the ace for the realisation of the Nigerian Dream.
