Our Team
We have a team of carefully selected multidisciplinary
professionals who know how the various elements of the proposed assignment fit
together. Additionally, our people also derive tremendous personal satisfaction
from meeting client’s need. Which in turn develops their professional skills and
enhance team building and communication, as well as learning how to cope better
with adversity and turn difficult situations into a rewarding experience.
Sunny Onekpe
Sunny is a business manager, consultant, and trainer with over two
decades work experience. His working experience cuts across professional
accountancy practice, banking, development finance, project management and
business development. He has been responsible for the planning, coordinating, and reporting on
several capacity building, assets valuation and property advisory, project
management, research, and business process outsourcing assignments in the
public and private sectors of Nigeria, United Kingdom, and United States of
America. In addition, he has been involved in the conceptualization,
initiation, and implementation of several projects in the oil and gas,
electricity supply, and information technology industries among others.
Sunny is a Fellow of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria,
The Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria, and The Institute of Chartered
Project Managers of Nigeria. He also holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance, a
Master of Science in Project Management, and a Master of Business
Administration.
Franca Uka
Franca is an
associate member of the National Institute of Marketing of Nigeria. She holds a
Master in Business Administration with specialisation in Marketing from Enugu
State University of Science and Technology, Enugu, and a Bachelors’ degree in
Marketing from the University of Nigeria Nsukka.
Franca has
over twelve years practical experience in marketing of financial services. She
has also been involved in the planning, implementation, reporting and
presentation of several consulting assignment in various sectors of the Nigeria
economy including agriculture, oil and gas, power, international development.
Bassey Okon
Bassey is a
graduate of accounting from the Cross-River University of Technology (now
University of Cross River). He is also an Associate of the Institute of
Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ICAN) with over 8 years hands-on experience
in professional accountancy practice. Over the
last couple of years, he has been actively involved in several audit and
consultancy assignments both in the public and private sector. He was a key
member of the team that set-up and operationalised the Nigeria Incentive-based
Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL) Plc. a subsidiary of the
Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). He was particularly responsible for driving the
finance, accounting and regulatory compliance system in the company.
In addition,
Bassey was a key member of the team that carried out the 2014, 2015, 2017 and
2020 solid minerals industry audit as well as the 2017 to 2019 Fiscal
Allocation and Statutory Disbursement (FASD) Audit conducted by the Nigeria
Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI). Bassey is
also an experienced ICAN tutor with Pointon Academy. Specifically, he lectures
ICAN Case Study, Strategic Financial Management, Performance Management and
Management Information.
Vivian Collins
Vivian is a
Chartered Accountant with practical experience spanning over 10 years. Her core
areas of expertise include financial reporting and analysis, auditing and
investigation. Others include budgeting and strategic financial management. She
is also vast in tax planning and management among others.
Vivian is an
Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria. She holds a
Bachelor of Science in Accountancy from Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki,
Nigeria. As the
manager in-charge of Finance and Administration, she is responsible for the
overall financial planning and management of the Company.
Ese Usigbe
Ese is an
Associate member of the Nigerian Institute of Management (NIM). She holds a
bachelor’s degree in Mass Communication from the university of Jos with over
Fifteen (15) years of corporate work experience. Her work experience transverses diverse
professional plains, ranging from Journalism, public relations, banking, real
estate, and consulting. She has
worked in both public and private sectors which includes the Nigerian
Television Authority as a reporter under the National Assembly, Mathan Nigeria
Limited where she worked as a Public Relations Officer, the International Human
and Community Rescue Assurance Project (INTERCRAP) an international
non-governmental organisation as Project Development Officer, among others.
Ese is a strong team player who believes in great success because of teamwork. Her drive for excellence combined with her strong verbal, analytical and communication skills have made her relevant on several projects. She participated in several projects which include the audit of Solid mineral sector and the Fiscal and Statutory Disbursement Audit for Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiatives (NEITI) audit report, Agricultural Value Chain Upgrade for NIRSAL among others.
Nko Edu
Nko is a
finance and tax consultant with over 9 years of experience. Prior to joining
the company, she worked as a Tax Consultant with YBSM Partners in the United
Kingdom until her return to Nigeria where she worked as an audit senior with
JPC where she participated in several audit and consulting assignments both in
the public and private sector. Her other work experience includes audit of
insurance companies and insurance brokerage firms.
Nko is a
member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) and an
associate of Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria (ACA). She holds an
MBA in Financial Management from the University of Wales and bachelor’s in
science in Accounting from Benson Idahosa University.
Benjamin Onekpe
Ben was called to the Nigerian Bar in 2004 as an advocate and solicitor
of the Supreme Court of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. His over eighteen years post call experience cuts across litigations,
legal drafting and interpretation, debt recovery, commercial disputes
resolution, policy interpretations, corporate secretarial services, pension
management, legal due diligence and regulatory governance. Benjamin holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Law from the Ambrose Alli
University, Ekpoma, Edo State and Bachelor of Law (BL) from the Nigerian Law
School.
Chidera Arueze
Chidera is a legal practitioner and a member of the Nigerian Bar
Association. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Law (LL. B -Honors) from Enugu
State University of Science and Technology (ESUT), Enugu and a Bachelor of Laws
(B.L) from the Nigerian Law School, Bagauda Campus, Kano State. She has seven years post call experience which cuts across litigation,
property law, human rights, employment and labour law as well as debt recovery.
She is a volunteer staff at African Girl Empowerment Network and also an active
participant of the International Chamber of Commerce (International Arbitration
and ADR Forum).
She is a member of the Nigerian Bar Association Women’s Forum (NBAWF),
Institute for African Women in Law (IAWL) Early Career Network, International
Chamber of Commerce (Young Lawyers’ Forum), London Court of International
Arbitration (Young International Arbitration Group) and Amnesty International.