When everything aligns well with you in the society, you definitely become a phenomenon with all and sundry reckoning with your endearing personality. That best suits the persona of Anambra-born billionaire businessman, Dr. Obiora Anthony Chukwuka. The Executive Chairman of GreenLife Pharmaceuticals Ltd has never lived short of his popular moniker of Eziafakaego —Good name is better than money. He has worked his way to the acme of prosperity and prominence; yet he remains one of those patently reclusive entrepreneurs that would rather let their impactful works speak for them.
Despite that cape of mystery around him, there are many that have not let his good deeds as entrepreneur and philanthropist pass unrecognized as he has been bestowed with many professional and traditional titles. The wealthy industrialist added another feather to his honour’s cap recently as he became the Aare Baasegun of Ikire kingdom in Osun State. There is a popular saying that he, who the cap fits, let him wear it.
Unarguably, the cap sits perfectly well on Chukwuka’s head as His Royal Majesty, Oba Olatunde Falabi, Lambeloye III, the Akire of Ikire kingdom on May 5 coronated and blessed the businessman at a glittering ceremony at the Akire Palace in the presence of his family members, friends, crème of Lagos social establishment and top management staff of GreenLife Group.
The monarch said he was glad to confer the honour on Chukwuka due to the highly impactful humanitarian, economic and development projects both home and abroad, which the businessman and his pharmaceutical company have been able to record in Nigeria health sector. Akire stated that over 10 million lives are being saved annually from the company’s affordable anti-malaria drugs across the country.
The monarch said his new Aare Basegun always left an indelible mark everywhere he visited and Ikireland will be a beneficiary too. More than two hundred Nigerians—including Ikire citizens gainfully employed in his organisation— directly depend on GreenLife and over 5,000 indirectly by the measure of those in his employment and dependents on the stakeholders’ family.
With over 11 subsidiaries companies in various businesses, Chukwuka’s investiture has been described as an honour well deserved.