March 29, 2024
Edward Onoja Biography

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Edward Onoja Is The Former Chief Of Staff to Kogi State Governments Now The Deputy Governor To Governor Yahaya Adoza Bello.
Edward Onoja Biography

Born: 9th August 1974
Nationality: Nigerian.
State: Kogi State.
Local Government: Olamaboro LGA.
Occupation: Banker, Politician.
Religion: Christian.
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Edward Onoja Biography

Edward Onoja Biography

Early Life And Education

Chief Edward David Unekwuojo Onoja was born into the family of Mr. and Mrs. Amodu Onoja on the 9th of August, 1974. His is from Odidoko-Emonyoku in Ogugu District of Olamaboro Local Government Area of Kogi State.
Edward Onoja Biography
He started his early Education (Primary School) in Lagos state and maintained as one of the top graduating pupil until completion.

Upon his intellectual proficiency, Edward Onoja was interviewed and passed his examinations into Federal Government College, Kwali, Abuja, FCT in 1985.
Edward Onoja sustained his academic prowess through secondary school finishing from FGC Kwali with an excellent result in 1991.

Edward Onoja Biography

He proceeded to the University of Jos to study Geology and Mining, graduated in 1999 with a Second Class (Upper Division) Degree in 1999 and invariably was one of the top graduating students in his class.

His excellence in academics must not be mistaken to mean that he was a bookworm who did nothing else but read in school.
He was an active member of the National Mining and Geosciences Society (NMGS), the American Association of Petroleum Geologists and the student representative for the Society of Exploration Geophysics (SEG).

Onoja was one of the founders and the pioneer President of Natural Science Students Association (NASSA), University of Jos Chapter.

He broke a jinx in the University of Jos which has persisted from the very beginning of student Unionism in the institution when he singlehandedly installed the first Student Union (SUG) President from the Faculty of Natural Sciences.

Edward Onoja Biography
Edward did not contest himself, but finding a suitable candidate he believed in, coincidentally a fellow Igala, he presented him to the student community, then leveraged his own resources, personality and popularity to campaign for him. His candidate defeated all comers to emerge the SUG President of Unijos that year. That record stands till date.

Edward Onoja Biography

Work Place Experience

With a 20 year work experience out of his 45 years on earth, he has worked at Guarantee Trust Bank Nigeria (GTBANk), Access Bank Nigeria, Televeras Group of Companies (Oil and Gas) and his own personal merchandise. Summarily, criss-crossing Banking, Oil and Gas, Entrepreneurship and Politics.

Upon graduation, He proceeded for the one year compulsory National Youth Service Corps programme at Port Harcourt.
Edward Onoja Biography
Edward Onoja scaled through the highly competitive rigors of interviewing for a place with Total Fina-ELF Petroleum Nigeria Limited and succeeded as usual. Our man served with his customary excellence in the Exploration Department of the multinational organisation as a Trainee Geologist and Subsurface Engineering Personnel.
Edward Onoja Biography

Edward’s interest in the oil and gas sector, particularly the role of Nigerians in the Nigerian energy market. As we shall see later, he would return to that original interest to carve out a distinguished career for himself.
However, after completing the one year mandatory youth service, he cross-carpeted to the banking industry, starting with Guaranty Trust Bank in 2001.

He was sent to the premier bank’s Training School in Lagos where he again graduated top of the class and won a prize for his efforts. He was then posted to Guaranty Trust Bank, Jos Branch as a Customer Service Officer where he played ample roles at both administrative and management levels.

Career

A year and 11 months after joining GTB, Edward Onoja was promoted to Operations Manager and posted to a new Branch opening in Makurdi, Benue State.

Onoja’s background in the sciences helped him to bring innovation and new skills to bear on every posting job, helping him and his team-mates to break new grounds. With the new Makurdi Branch up and flourishing in no time at all,

His employers identified him as a useful man for setting up new branches. In rapid succession, they moved him around to set up GT Bank branches in Lokoja, Obajana, Okene and Lafia.

Soon, Edward Onoja was not just an Operations Manager but was saddled with the responsibilities of Training Officer for the whole of Northern Nigeria (on-the-job weekly training).

Edward Onoja Biography
Edward Onoja Biography
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In 2009, He was head-hunted for his competencies by GTB’s arch-rival, Access Bank Plc, and upon coming to agreeable terms, he resumed as the Branch cum Relationship Manager at Lokoja Branch of Access Bank where he handled both the commercial and corporate banking groups of the bank.

His duties included analysis of the investment profiles of the bank’s numerous portfolio.

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Edward Onoja Mansion

In Access Bank, he raised the balance sheet from less than 30 million when he came on board to over half a billion naira in 9 months, a feat which prompted his promotion from the Lokoja Branch to the much bigger Asokoro Branch in Abuja, again, as a Relationship Manager.

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Political And Entrepreneurship Career

In June of 2011 Edward, drawn by the allure of Politics, Entrepreneurship and Private Enterprise departed the banking industry and founded On and On Global Resources Limited. The fresh start-up, buoyed by Edward’s industry and restless acumen, plunged into the shark-infested waters of Financial Consulting. He soon carved a niche for himself consulting on risked financial investments in general and the power and energy sectors in particular.

In July 2013, Onoja, whose profile and exploits as a private Consultant had been steadily climbing, attracted the attention of the Taleveras Group, an Oil and Gas industry stalwart in Nigeria. He was subsequently engaged as the General Manager, (GM), Exploration and Production in the Taleveras Exploration and Production Company Limited.

At Taleveras, Edward excelled again. He helped to build a strong Exploration and Production arm for the Taleveras Group and managed the Group’s International and Domestic Partnerships. He also helped to develop and set up the optimum cash-call threshold which is still in use by the company.

His schedules at Taleveras thrust him into international waters and deepened his experience as a multidisciplinary deal maker and international transactions broker. As the Taleveras Group’s representative charged with reviewing Production Sharing Contracts (PSCs) in all her assets around the world, Edward travelled the globe and participated in high level negotiations in nearly all the continents of the globe.

At home, Edward Onoja also had intensive exposure to the inner workings of the Oil and Gas Sector in the Federal Republic of Nigeria – often at Senior Executive levels.

He was therefore deployed to manage Taleveras’ relationships with the National Petroleum Development Company (NPDC) on shared assets. Again, Edward brought his potent mix of cutting-edge technical expertise and enhanced people skills to the table and achieved great success.
Edward Onoja Biography
This led to his appointment as the Commercial Representative on an NPDC/Taleveras/Others Management Committee for a Joint Asset. Edward was part of the team of experts tasked with overseeing the exploration of 3 Oil Blocks in Ivory Coast as well as a Gas Terminal contract in Equatorial Guinea.

Edward’s employers at Taleveras were no doubt impressed with his sterling accomplishments because they elevated him to the position of Director, Exploration & Production in January 2015. His duties on the domestic scene often ran concurrently with his international responsibilities.

Through it all, Edward was able to acquire in-depth knowledge of the sector, and has developed customized solutions on how Nigeria can move her Oil and Gas industry to the next level.

Political Foray

Edward Onoja developed an almost insatiable passion to see and live in a better and greater Nigeria.

He desperately looked for a Leader who had the qualities to build and bequeath such a Nigeria to the next generation.
In June and July, 2010, Edward driven by said passion galvanized some of his friends in the financial sector and they sought audience in Kaduna with President Muhammadu Buhari, then of the Congress for Progressive Change, at which Edward proposed a Project 50-50-50 to actualize his ambition.

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Although President Muhammadu Buhari was unsuccessful in the 2011 Presidential Elections, he gained lifelong disciples in Edward and his friends who saw in him the leader who will achieve Nigeria’s rebirth.

In the build-up to the 2015 Presidential Elections, Edward became Project Director of the Kogi Youths Arise Group (KYAG) under the Chairmanship and Sponsorship of Alhaji
Yahaya Bello, now the 4th Executive Governor of Kogi State.

The group mobilized thousands of Youths to campaign for the Change Agenda of the APC in Kogi State and beyond. They were instrumental in delivering the State for the APC, which contributed in no small measure to the ultimate victory of their mentor and role model, President Muhammadu Buhari Check Out Ocholi Yusuf Okpanachi Biography.

Later that same year, Edward became Head of Campaigns and Chief Strategist for the Alhaji Yahaya Bello Campaign Organization. He led a team of hitherto unknown, but equally passionate, youngsters into all the nooks and crannies of Kogi State canvassing for his candidate.

Edward Onoja Biography
The rest is history. The APC defeated an incumbent PDP Governor to make Yahaya Bello the 4th Executive Governor of Kogi State. Edward Onoja currently serves as Chief of Staff to His Excellency.

Edward Onoja was appointed the Director-General, APC Campaigns for the 2019 General Elections in Kogi State. He discharged that assignment with unprecedented results. The APC won 25 out of the 25 state constituency Assembly seats in Kogi State.

The party also won seven (7) out of the nine (9) federal constituency seats in the state and 2 out of the 3 senate seats. Based on the recent ruling of the elections tribunals nullifying the only Senate seat lost by the APC, it does appear that Edward Onoja made a clean sweep of all 3 Senatorial seats in Kogi State.

Edward again returns as the running mate to Alhaji Yahaya Bello of APC for the 2019 Kogi State Gubernatorial Elections on November 16th. No doubt, this incredible young man will shock his opponents again.

For those of you who might not know, be informed that prior to playing such pivotal roles in the Victories of General Muhammadu Buhari and Alhaji Yahaya Bello in their respective polls, Edward, soon after he left Access Bank in 2011, ran for the Olamaboro LGA seat in the Kogi State House of Assembly as candidate of the All Nigeria People’s Party (ANPP) for State House of Assembly.

He was also the State Coordinator, Project 3R (Rescue, Restore and Rebuild) for Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) for the Kogi State Governorship Election also in that year.

These diverse political overtures and experiences imparted him with the hands-on experience which currently serves him well in handling difficult political situations.

Spirituality Of Edward Onoja

Edward Onoja Biography
Edward Onoja is an unrepentant believer in The Trinity, ie, God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.
He believes in Jesus Christ as the Saviour who died to save mankind and though an imperfect man still, he strives to become more Christ-like daily.

Edward Onoja professes membership of the spiritual-priestly and kingly ORDER OF THE MELCHIZEDEK BROTHERHOOD as detailed in the Bible at Hebrews Chapter 7, Psalms 110:4 and Genesis 14:18-20.
It is a brotherhood whose creed is LOVE; whose weapon is the WORD; whose defense is the NAME THAT IS HIGHER THAN ANY OTHER NAME – JESUS; whose emblem is the CROSS of Calvary.

1. It is a brotherhood which believes that there is a better and greater world than the one in which we live today.
Edward Onoja considers himself a joint heir with Jesus the King of kings to the manifold riches of God.

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Edward’s membership of the mysterious brotherhood accounts for why he fears no human being, no matter how highly placed. He believes that humans, no matter how highly placed, can only hurt the body but not the soul, and must not be feared.

To Edward, in the final analysis, we shall all return to the dust from where we came so he walks in grace and mercy. He is not perfect, but believes so much in the power of that Blood which speaks better and greater things than even the loquacious blood of Abel – the Blood of Jesus.

EDWARD ONOJA’S PHILOSOPHY

He believes in the equality of all men under God.
He believes that Nigeria can, and will get better including Kogi State.
He has a firm belief in the youths as the catalysts for a new Nigeria and has always affirmed that the time has come for the youths of Nigeria to take their place in the governance of our nation.

He does not easily align himself to causes but once he does, he is ready to DIE for his beliefs. This is an attribute which is on practical demonstration in Kogi State daily as Edward stands by his boss and friend, Governor Yahaya Bello through thick and thin.

Edward Onoja Family

Edward Onoja belongs to a family of 7 siblings with both parents alive, hale and hearty. He is happily married to Mrs Mercy Ejura Onoja (Née Okee), and blessed with 3 children.

ENTREPRENEURSHIP

While operating in the financial sphere, Edward Onoja set up a Barber’s shop (Hally’s Place) which redefines luxury in the men’s grooming business in Kogi State. He quickly grew it from the one outlet with just 2 staffers to 5 outlets with 14 staffers.
Edward Onoja Biography

Edward Onoja House

Edward Onoja House is located in Ogugu Olamaboro Local Government Area of Kogi State, one of the biggest house in That local Government.

Edward Onoja Mansion

Edward Onoja Mansion a multi million naira Mansion in Ogugu Olamaboro Local Government Area of Kogi State worth over 900 Million Naira or even more than.
The Mansion was built by His Excellence Alh. Yahaya Bello to his Deputy Chief Edward Onoja.

Edward Onoja Net Worth

Edward Onoja estimated net worth is over 800 million naira and still counting .

Awards

Edward Onoja, Was Awarded As The Commander of the Igala Kingdom (CIK) and Deputy Governor of Kogi State, Nigeria.

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