Eze Igwe, graduated with a Second-Class Upper Division BSc in 2000, enrolled for and obtained an Senior Executive Masters Certificate in Project Management from the Metropolitan School of Business and Management, London. He also holds numerous certifications and awards from different institutions and organizations.
Eze Igwe’s career started in January 2002 with NYSC primary assignment in PBTG Consulting, a Management Consultancy firm in Lagos. He was later retained at the end of his service by the firm as an Investment/Financial Analyst in December 2002.
He left PBTG in May 2003 for Diamond Bank PLC where he started off as a Teller and left as a Customer Service Manager in June 2008.
He joined UBA PLC as a Branch Operations Manager and eventually rose to the position of Profit Centre Manager in less than a year.
He left UBA in 2010 and joined Multichoice Africa where he served in various positions ranging from Dealer Support Manager, Dealer Audit Manager, Channels Development Manager, Digital Migration Project Manager to Corporate Sales Manager (Nigeria) with outstanding performances and results.
He left Multichoice in April 2015 and joined IrokoTV as Head of Offline Sales and Marketing and spent just a few months before the long urge for Entrepreneurship took hold of him.
The jobs at Multichoice Africa and IrokoTV saw him working in different African countries such as South Africa, Namibia, Kenya, Uganda and Ghana. Eze Igwe left IrokoTV in October 2015 and started Oraqleen Services, a household services company and eventually founded 3rdRetail Africa in April 2016, a technology driven trade and distribution services company. He is presently the Managing Partner of 3rdRetail Africa.
In Community Development and Civil Liberty Advocacy, Eze started off with Divine Love Charity Fund (DLCF) in 2002 in his NYSC days. In 2008, he started the Afikpo Elite Forum Lecture series. In 2012, he founded The Ebonyi Youth Enterprise (The EYE) to provide career counseling and job opportunities for young Ebonyians. In January 2016, he founded Ebonyi Transparency & Accountability Network (ETAN), a civil advocacy group of professionals from Ebonyi State with the objective of entrenching transparency and accountability in public office and insisting on good governance.
In 2017, Eze alongside a few professionals who were fed up with the dysfunctional Nigerian State, galvanized for the registration of Alliance for New Nigeria (ANN) as a political party. ANN is a technocrats-driven political party focused on birthing a new Nigeria that works for everybody especially the younger generations whose future has been endangered and mismanaged by poor and corrupt leadership over the years. He was the pioneer National Vice Chairman of ANN for the South East.
Eze Igwe went ahead to run for Senate in Ebonyi South in the just concluded General elections. Eze polled 5,805 votes to place 3rd behind the PDP and APC candidates.
His passion remains to improve the educational standards in Africa, ensuring the enabling environment for ease of doing business to create jobs for the younger generation and insisting on a generational shift in leadership. Education Reform to create an ideas-driven generation of young people;jobs creation through local production capacity building, and most importantly to inspire a new generation of leaders through a well-crafted Youth Leadership Development program.
