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The Inside Story: Petrol, Noodles and Tricycles — How Uche Ogah Quit a Zenith Bank Corner Office to Build a Sell-Everything Nigerian Empire

Uche Ogah registered his own oil company while still an assistant general manager at Zenith Bank, then quit to build Masters Energy — fuel, noodles, tricycles, gas, plastics. The story of a banker who bet on selling everything to everyone, and then ran for office.

,   and  Mfonobong Nsehe
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The Inside Story: Petrol, Noodles and Tricycles — How Uche Ogah Quit a Zenith Bank Corner Office to Build a Sell-Everything Nigerian Empire

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