Dr. Ernest Azudialu-Obiejesi obtained his BSc. degree in Accountancy from the University of Benin. He was honoured by the University of Nigeria Nsukka with a Doctorate Degree in Business Administration. He first founded Obijackson West Africa Limited in the early 1980’s before diversifying into the oil and gas industry with Nestoil in 1991. He has attended numerous local and international seminars in business management and project implementation, and other structural training programmes in Oil & Gas service in Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States of America.
For his services to the oil and gas industry, he received the 2011 THISDAY Young Global Champion Award for excellence and good governance. In August 2012, Ernest was awarded an All Africa Business Leaders Award (AABLA) by Forbes, CNBC and ABN for West African Entrepreneur of the Year, in acknowledgment his exceptional vision and leadership in building a successful company from the ground up. Recently the Nigerians in Diaspora Organisation Americas also honoured Dr. Azudialu-Obiejesi in Washington DC with the Nigerian Business Person of the Year 2012 award for his