High Chief Duru Mike Ejiogu @51: Celebrating A Real Estate Icon’s Life Of Industry, Entrepreneurship & Service To Humanity 

NJOKU MACDONALD OBINNA 

He is a man of many parts; a loving husband, caring father, compassionate leader, dangerous giver, uncommon philantropist, political titan and a boardroom business strategist. High Chief Duru Mike Ejiogu (Onowu Anara), Chairman of Citygate Group, a fully digital and innovative real estate signature brand, stands as a beacon of resilience, innovation, and unwavering commitment to Nigeria’s real estate sector. With the highly impressive performance track record of this business conglomerate, he needs little or no introduction within the business circle.

Chief Mike Ejiogu’s business strategy and survival instinct, especially in a country where real estate investors, key players, and critical stakeholders face challenges of access to finance, regulatory changes, high interest rates, complicated land administrative procedures, strict loan conditions, and lack of specialized real estate financing options; should serve as a case study to those aspiring to venture into this highly capital intensive and competitive sector.

A serial entrepreneur and doyen of real estate business, High Chief Mike Ejiogu has not only survived the test of time in Nigeria’s ever competitive real estate sector but has also thrived, evolving into one of Nigeria’s most trusted, dynamic, and forward -thinking industry players with ‘Reliablity’ as his watchword.

Highly focused, organized, peaceful and polished. In the last 15 years or so, High Chief Mike Ejiogu has not only been patient but also consistent in building his business, making new friends, new contacts, developing capacity, networking with other industrialists. And through these concerted efforts, determination, and tenacity; his business conglomerate – Citygate Group, has recorded significant milestones and growth in the real estate sector of Nigeria’s economy pioneering innovations that set new standards across the industry with sheer resilience amid challenging economic conditions in the country.

Chief Mike Ejiogu, over the years, has played a pivotal role, through Citygate Group, in shaping the Nigerian real estate sector, introducing groundbreaking range of offers and setting benchmark for excellence in Housing and Urban Development Master plan.

From his humble beginning as an average trader to his current status as a real estate giant and one of the leading business brands in Nigeria’s seat of power- Abuja, Chief Mike Ejiogu’s business journey is a testament to his ability to adapt, push, innovate and lead.

As we celebrate this icon of Nigeria ‘s real estate industry and his remarkable milestones in business, in leadership, in selfless community services, and in philantrophy; it is also very important to note that High Chief Duru Mike Ejiogu is an employer of labour, who has not only built men across different sectors but has also given seeds capital running into millions to small business owners, productively engaged alot of youths from his Local Government area, and improved the living conditions of many indigent families. And these form part of his enduring legacies as a compassionate leader and Traditional Prime Minister of a strategic ancient kingdom like Anara.

Njoku Macdonald Obinna

Media Consultant|Newspaper Columnist|Public Analyst|PR- Expert

ublisher, 4th Estate Reporters.