Pretty much 50 decades of business exploits is adequate to gain just one the title – Patriarch of business people. In addition to this, obtaining five sons who are also toeing the entrepreneurial paths in diverse sectors themselves, will make Pascal Dozie a little something of an enigma. He is a boardroom guru, an attained businessman who walked each individual painful step on the ladder to the prime, with a satisfying vocation in finance and business enterprise to present for it. Dozie is acknowledged more in relation to Diamond Bank and MTN Nigeria, organizations that he pioneered in Nigeria. But, there is much more to Mr Pascal Dozie.

Pascal was born on the 9th of April 1939 to the loved ones of Charles Dozie, a Catholic Catechist. There was really some drama all around his delivery owing to his remarkable truthful skin and visual appearance, but all the excitement before long pale absent as he grew up. He bought his early education from Our Lady’s School Emekuku, Holy Ghost Juniorate Seminary and Holy Ghost Higher education, Owerri where by he acquired his West African Senior University Certificate Assessment (WASSCE).

He then travelled out to the United Kingdom exactly where he bought his B.Sc Economics from the London Faculty of Economics. He also studied Operational Exploration and Industrial Engineering, in advance of getting a Master’s degree in Administrative Science from City College in London.

Pascal started off out his profession in the United Kingdom performing with the National Financial Development Workplace. Later on on, he labored as a portion-time lecturer at the North Western Polytechnic, London in advance of he was invited to Uganda to get the job done as Consulting Economist at the African States Consulting Organisation.

He was even now performing in Uganda when the 1971 Military Coup D’etat occurred. Staying that he worked straight with the Civilian President, Milton Obote, who experienced been overthrown by Common Idi Amin, Pascal did not sense safe sufficient to remain in the nation. He wished to relocate to the United States in lookup of other chances, but the Biafran war was over by then, and his mom required to see him yet again. So, Pascal relocated with his family members back to Nigeria.

Thrown into the turbulent waters of…