Women in Business: Ngozi Nzegwu

Ngozi Nzegwu is a banker turned entrepreneur, with close to 30 years combined working experience as a banker and entrepreneur. She holds a BSC degree in Sociology and MBA from University of Lagos.

She was part of the management team that set up Oceanic Bank as the pioneer Treasurer and pioneered the setting up of the Branch Network.

Ngozi is the founder and CEO of Dugo Ltd, a leading brand in the management and service of promotional merchandise in Nigeria.

She is also a Director at Financial Derivatives Company (FDC), a leader in sourcing business information, economic data, research and analysis in West Africa.

Ngozi Nzegwu is the Founding President of Association of Promotional Products Specialists of Nigeria (APPSON) which is first of its kind in Nigeria.

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Very passionate about women and youth empowerment, Ngozi Nzegwu is also the founder and coordinator of Kingdom Investors, an NGO that provides free capacity building programs, business mentoring and coaching for women entrepreneurs with over 1000 women as direct beneficiaries. She also partners with various organisations to empower women and young people.

At the early stage of Ngozi’s business, a promotional product company in the UK used to send very glossy catalogue with high resolution pictures to her. She was so impressed by their quality that on her next trip to UK, she decided to visit them.

She was shocked to see that the owner of the business was an old woman in her Seventies. What Ngozi thought was a huge showroom was just her living room with all the products stored away in shelves.

“This is the power of visuals and the most effective marketing on a shoestring budget I have ever seen. She was the second generation owner, and now retired and handed over the business to her son. That company is one of the biggest success stories in this industry in Europe today.” She stated.

“I learnt so much from that experience. Especially the fact that you don’t really need to break a bank to effectively push your brand.” Nzegwu revealed.

Ngozi is passionate about capacity building and has attended various management and leadership programmes. She is a versatile administrator and part of a network of local and international organisations.

She is an international member of Award and Personalisation Association (APA) USA, member of Promotional Products Association International (PPAI) in USA. In Nigeria, She belongs to Enterprise Development Centre as an Ambassador, Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Networking USA (NUSA), an associate of Women in Business (WIMBIZ), a member of Board of Trustees of Youth &Gender Network and is a Member/Chairperson, Weconnect International and so on.w