PEACE MASS TRANSIT BOSS, CHIEF DR. SAM MADUKA ONYISHI, IS A DIRECTOR IN MAY & BAKER NIGERIA PLC

Chief Dr. Sam Maduka Onyishi

In case you do not know, the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Peace Mass Transit Limited, Chief Dr. Sam Maduka Onyishi, is a Non-Executive Director of May & Baker Nigeria Plc. He was appointed during the company’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) in 2019.

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Now, let us take a look at Chief Onyishi’s career. He secured admission into University of Nigeria, Nsukka to do a Diploma Programme in 1993, and later a degree programme in 1996. He graduated in 1999 with a second class upper degree in Social Works and Community Development.

He later earned an MBA in Entrepreneurship from the Institute for Transformative Thought and Learning in the Doctoral Research Centre of the University of Arizona, Phoenix, in the United States.

He founded the transportation company, Peace Mass Transit Limited, formally registering it in 1996 as a limited liability company with a paid up capital of N100,000.

Today, the transport company has fully paid-up capital in excess of four billion naira, with an asset base of over N20 billion and has grown into a business empire known as Peace Group of Companies, with Peace Mass Transit Limited as the flagship having over 3,000 mini-busses in its fleet.

Furthermore, Chief Onyishi is a philanthropist and has won many awards and honors including an Honorary Doctor of Business Administration in May 2013, from the Enugu State University of Science and Technology. On September 17, 2012, the government of President Goodluck Jonathan honoured him with the award of Member of the Order of the Niger (MON).

May & Baker Nigeria Plc manufactures, sells, and distributes human pharmaceuticals, human vaccines, and consumer products in Nigeria. The company operates through Foods, Pharmaceuticals, and Beverage segments. The company offers pharmaceuticals, including anti-diabetics; anti-hypersensitive pharmaceuticals; anti-infectives; anti-malaria; analgesic; cough and cold; multivitamin; and anxiolytics. It also provides beverage drinks, including bottled water; and package foods, such as noodles.

In addition, May & Baker engages in healthcare and industrial packaging business. May & Baker Nigeria Plc was founded in 1944 and is headquartered in Lagos, Nigeria. The company’s stock traded N2.45 in the last trading session of NSE.