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VISION
Volker's vision is "to be the Nigerian partner
of choice to world-class companies by providing efficient trade flow
and execution mechanisms, which create and enable the business of
its partners".
Volker's strong network of influential contacts and its passionate
belief in the future of this region, provide investors and other
strategic partners with a portal for new or improved business opportunities.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Volker's commitment to entrepreneurship reflects the
multinational heritage of its principal group companies and the
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Chief (Dr) Ernest
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and technical collaboration between them and the
multinational strategic partners the group represents in Nigeria.
Volker continues to develop relationships
with other companies that have products and/or technologies
that can benefit from additional sales channels, marketing
skills, engineering expertise, manufacturing capacity or
investment.
CHIEF
(DR) ERNEST A. O, SHONEKAN, GCFR CBE
Chief Shonekan, who hails from Abeokuta was educated at the CMS Grammar School, Lagos and the University of London, graduating in Law in 1962,
the year he was also called to the bar.
Chief Shonekan joined the Legal Department of the United Africa Company
(a Unilever Group company) in 1964, rising to become Chairman and Managing Director in 1980.
In 1992 Chief Shonekan was appointment as Chairman of the Transitional Council
and subsequently in 1993 briefly served as Head of State and
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Nigeria in the Interim
National Government.
Chief Shonekan holds the traditional title of Abese of Egbaland. He was Chairman of the Vision 2010
Committee, which in 1996-97 drew up the blueprint for Nigeria's
economic development.
Currently, he is Economic Adviser to the Head of State; Chairman and
Directors of numerous companies in commercial, industrial and
financial sectors; Member, Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry;
Nigeria-Netherlands Chamber of Commerce; author of The Nigerian
Economy (1986); and is the recipient of the Commander of
the British Empire and French Legion d'Honore.
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