Our Members

Chief (Olorogun) Daniel Oghoyone is an industrialist and real estate businessman whose enterprises span hospitality, land and building, and the importation of automobiles for the Nigerian market. A native of Ethiope West in Delta State, he is a triple titleholder in various communities across Urhoboland.

He is the Founder and CEO of Neu Trade Nigeria Limited, which dealt in foreign automobiles and accessories, and serves as Chairman and CEO of both Blue Berry Hotels Limited and Carltongate Hotels & Suites Limited, modern hospitality establishments in Lagos. His expertise covers hotel operations and management, hospitality, and the importation and revitalisation of vehicles.

He trained in Accounting and Business Administration at the Institute of Commerce, London, and holds a Higher National Diploma in Accounting from Auchi College of Technology, Edo State.

As Vice President of the Urhobo Social Club Lagos, Chief Oghoyone also chairs the club's Building Committee, supporting its development projects. He is a member of the Urhobo Elite Club, Lagos, where he serves as Leader, and a member of Ikoyi Club, Lagos.

Barr. Onome Akpeneye is an astute legal practitioner and a seasoned Solicitor of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, with several years of active post-call experience. He has represented a wide array of clientele, spanning individuals, companies and other corporate entities, in resolving disputes before the courts at both trial and appellate levels. A seasoned negotiator, he has facilitated the resolution of impasses between parties without the rigours of litigation.

His areas of specialisation span dispute resolution, corporate and commercial transactions, banking and insolvency (including acting as debt recovery agent to several financial institutions and finance houses), criminal law, real estate, consumer goods and retail, maritime, and private equity.

He is a member of the Nigerian Bar Association and of the Business Recovery and Insolvency Practitioners Association of Nigeria (BRIPAN). He serves as the current Secretary General of the Urhobo Social Club Lagos, having previously served as its Assistant Secretary General.

Mr. John Ejenavi Ologe is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of DavoDani Microfinance Bank, Lagos, and the current Financial Secretary of the Urhobo Social Club Lagos. A seasoned banker, he began his career at Commerce Bank Plc in 1989 and has built more than three decades of hands-on experience across the full range of banking operations.

He was previously Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Leshego Microfinance Bank (formerly FBN Microfinance Bank), where he had been a pioneer member of the top management team and Head of Business Development. His earlier roles include Group Executive Director for Business Development at Wize Trade Capital and Assets Management, and Assistant General Manager for Credit and Marketing at Home Trust Mortgage Bank, alongside positions at Eagle Bank and Peak Merchant Bank. His specialisms span credit risk management, oil and gas, and import and export.

He holds a Master of Science in Petroleum Economics (Energy, Oil and Gas) and an MBA, both from Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, and a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of Port Harcourt. He is a Certified Microfinance Practitioner of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (MCIB) and a facilitator at banking trainings and workshops at home and abroad.

High Chief Engr. Clement Awhana, the Obotemuoyowi of Agbon Kingdom, is the founder and Chairman of C.A. Dave Systems Group and PXF Oil & Gas Limited. An electrical and electronic engineer by training, he has built a career spanning more than two decades in the telecommunications and ICT industry across West Africa.

Before leading his own companies, he held senior roles with major technology firms including 21st Century Nigeria, TELNET Nigeria, Dimension Data and MTN Nigeria, where he served as Senior Manager of the Capital Project Group. His expertise spans strategic and operational leadership, business transformation, systems integration, and large-scale network and project management, with deep knowledge of IP and transmission technologies across data centres and wide-area networks.

He holds a degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Benin and an MBA from the Lagos Business School, and is a certified PRINCE2 Project Management Practitioner and ITIL practitioner.

A native of Okpara Inland in the Ethiope East Local Government Area of Delta State, he is married with children and worships with the Redeemed Christian Church of God. He serves as the current Treasurer of the Urhobo Social Club Lagos.

Chief Bright Apinoko is an information technology infrastructure professional with more than twelve years of experience in the implementation and administration of corporate infrastructure environments. His practice centres on cloud engineering and DevOps, spanning Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud.

His recent work focuses on applied artificial intelligence: he designs and builds agentic AI systems, including voice-driven operations assistants, automated monitoring and reporting pipelines, and knowledge-graph platforms that let organisations search and question their own documents and data. His project work spans custom business management applications, cross-site data synchronisation, and AI-powered dashboards that run his own enterprises day to day.

An entrepreneur, he is the founder of Western Driving School, an FRSC-certified driving school serving the Lekki corridor of Lagos. The school trains motorists on manual and automatic vehicles and guides students through the learner's permit and the Nigerian driver's licence process, on a digital platform he designed and built himself. He is also engaged in property development in the United Kingdom.

Dr. MacDuff Okorode Efetabore hails from Ikwewu, Agbarho, in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State. He began his banking career from a humble background as a Clerk in the Central Bank of Nigeria in 1980 and, through hard work and personal development, rose through the ranks to the directorate cadre in 2009, later serving as Controller of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Osogbo Branch, in Osun State.

Over a 35-year career he attended management programmes in Nigeria and the United Kingdom, in fields ranging from payment system development and strategic management in banking to total quality management and inspirational leadership. He retired meritoriously in 2015.

Retired but not tired, he returned to the classroom: a Master of Science in Business Administration, passed with distinction, earned him direct admission to a doctoral programme, and he completed his Ph.D. in Business Administration in 2024. He has published scholarly articles in international journals on financial literacy, investment decisions and workforce performance, and lectures part-time in the Department of Business Administration at Lagos State University, Ojo.

Dr. Efetabore is the immediate past General Secretary of the Urhobo Social Club Lagos.

A Fellow of the Nigerian Institute of Public Relations (FNIPR), Olorogun (Chief) Edoreh Ejenavi Agbah (JP) is a public relations practitioner specialising in community relations and development intervention using sustainable development parameters. His practice also spans persuasive communication writing for newspapers, as well as radio and television content production and broadcasting.

A native of Eruemukohwarien-Ughelli in the Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State, he studied at the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) and the University of Lagos, with further short courses at the University of Ibadan, the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, and the London Business School. He holds a B.A. in English and Philosophy, and a Postgraduate Diploma and M.Sc. in Mass Communications.

He began his working life as a teacher in 1971 and worked as a Programmes Producer at the Nigeria Broadcasting Corporation (Radio Nigeria) from 1972 to 1974. He joined the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in 1979 and rose to the pinnacle of public relations practice, retiring in 2014 as Executive Director and General Manager, Public Affairs of Brass LNG Limited, an NNPC affiliate.

Named Best Young Manager in Nigeria by the Nigerian Institute of Management (NIM) in 1991, he is a Fellow of both the NIPR and the NIM. He holds traditional titles from the Ughelli and Olomu Kingdoms (the Ugbugba of Ughelli and the Edirinverere of Olomu), is a Knight of Saint Christopher of the Church of Nigeria (Anglican Communion), and a Jerusalem Pilgrim. A life member of Ikoyi Club 1938, he is a past President of the Urhobo Social Club, Lagos.

Olorogun (Chief) Augustine Omah Odoh-Tadafe is a past President of the Urhobo Social Club Lagos. He served as the club's 8th President, succeeding Chief Johnson Barovbe and preceding Chief Milton Ohwovoriole (SAN) in the line of leaders that has guided the club since its founding in 1973.

An elder of the Urhobo community in Lagos, he has continued to lend his presence to club and community gatherings, and is remembered for his service in advancing the club's enduring vision of unity, culture and progress.

Triple Chief Godfrey Edaferierhi is a distinguished Urhobo leader, United States Army veteran, and retired American school administrator. He currently serves as the President of the Urhobo Council of Chiefs, North America, and remains actively involved in promoting Urhobo culture, unity and development across the diaspora.

Chief Edaferierhi divides his time between the United States, Lagos and Warri, and proudly traces his roots to Udu and the Agbon Kingdom in Delta State, Nigeria.

Dr. David Isiavwe is the Executive Director of Operations and Technology at NOVA Bank, where he drives the bank's strategic initiatives in operations and technology. Before NOVA Bank, he was General Manager and Head of Operations & Technology at Ecobank Nigeria.

He currently serves as President and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Information Security Society of Africa, Nigeria (ISSAN), a not-for-profit dedicated to securing Africa's cyberspace. His earlier roles include General Manager at Union Bank of Nigeria Plc, Chief Operating Officer at UBA Africa, and Deputy Managing Director and COO of Banque Internationale du Burkina (BIB) in Burkina Faso.

With nearly 33 years in banking and academia, he began his career as a lecturer in Accounting at the University of Benin in 1989 before joining Citibank in 1992, where he rose to Vice President, based in Cape Town, South Africa.

He holds a Ph.D. in Accounting and specialises in digital transformation, corporate governance, business transformation, and information systems security. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (FCA), an Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (HCIB), a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), and certified in the Governance of Enterprise IT (CGEIT) by ISACA, USA. He has also attended executive courses at Harvard, Boston University, the University of Oxford's Saïd Business School, and MIT.

Olorogun Friday Okoh is a Nigerian maritime professional and businessman, and the Chairman and CEO of Africa International Services Nigeria Limited. A cargo surveyor and claims adjuster, he specialises in marine surveying, cargo inspection, claims adjustment, and shipping-related risk management.

He serves as a Nigeria representative within an international marine surveying network operating from Apapa, Lagos, the heart of Nigeria's maritime trade.

His chieftaincy title, Olorogun, is a traditional distinction associated with the Urhobo people of Delta State.

Professor Edward Ejiro Emuveyan is a retired Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Lagos and the Lagos University Teaching Hospital. Across a distinguished career he practised and taught at leading institutions in Nigeria, England and Sierra Leone, including the Lagos Island Maternity Hospital, the Jessop Hospital for Women in Sheffield, and the Princess Christian Maternity Hospital in Freetown, where he served as a Reproductive Health Consultant to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) and a Visiting Professor to the University of Sierra Leone.

He was the pioneer Chairman of Nigeria's National Programme for the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV at the Federal Ministry of Health for its first decade. One of only three Nigerians elected to the Rockefeller Foundation's South-to-South Cooperation for Reproductive Health, he travelled the world on contraceptive development, training and research, and was part of the team that developed the Uniplant contraceptive implant.

A Fellow of the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria and the West African College of Surgeons, where he served as Faculty Secretary and later Faculty Chairman, he is also a pioneer Fellow of the emerging West African College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. He has trained and examined generations of doctors across Nigeria, Ghana and Sierra Leone.

He edited the Nigerian Medical Journal for many years and was the pioneer Editor of the Nigerian Journal of Clinical Practice. As one of the earliest past Presidents of the Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria, he holds one of the Association's highest honours for meritorious service.

Dn. (Dr.) Feludu Irhewa Isaac is a Consultant Family Physician and the Medical Director of Delta Crown Hospital, Ketu, in the Kosofe area of Lagos, where he has led the delivery of accessible, quality healthcare to the community for many years.

Within the Urhobo Social Club Lagos, he is one of the club's most experienced hands, having served as General Secretary and later as Vice President, helping to steer the club's administration and its enduring vision of unity, culture and progress among Urhobo people in Lagos.

A Deacon of the Baptist church, he combines his medical vocation with service to his faith community, including work with the Baptist Health Fellowship of the Nigerian Baptist Convention.

Rt. Hon. Oghene Emma Egoh is a Nigerian politician and public servant who represented the Amuwo-Odofin Federal Constituency of Lagos State in the Federal House of Representatives for two consecutive terms, across the 8th and 9th Assemblies (2015 to 2023). During the 9th Assembly he also served as a Member of the ECOWAS Parliament. He is presently Senior Legislative Aide to His Excellency, Rt. Hon. Tajudeen Abbas (PhD), Speaker of the 10th National Assembly.

His path to national politics was built at the grassroots: he was an elected Councillor in Badagry Local Government and Supervisory Councillor for Finance and Planning in Ojo Local Government, Lagos State, and served as Publicity Secretary of the National Republican Convention in Lagos State. He has also served as a Director of LASACO Assurance Plc.

Before public office, he built a career in insurance and management, including service as Agency Manager at African Prudential Insurance Limited, Secretary of the Nigerian Institute of Management (Lagos State Branch), and Publicity Secretary of the Senior Staff Association of Banks and Insurance Companies (ASSBIFI). He trained with the Chartered Insurance Institute, London, and holds an MBA from Lagos State University. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Transport of Nigeria, a Fellow of the Institute of Debt Recovery Management, and a member of the Nigerian Institute of Management, and has written and published several articles on topical Nigerian issues in national newspapers.