Osborn Nweze Umahi seeks to impact education sector with his foundation

Time and again, we are witnesses to the fact that education is the most powerful weapon with which we can change the world. However, despite that being the most common truth, education still takes the back seat in Africa and this gives credence to why the continent is still being referred to as “dark.”

But as hope of a change continues to wane, Osborn Nweze Umahi, founder of Osborn Foundation and Director of Finance at Forte GCC Innovative Solutions, is determined to make a difference and create a change in the failing Nigerian education system.

Osborn Nweze, who himself graduated from the University of Surrey in the United Kingdom with a degree in civil engineering at the age of 21, in 2019, stands out today, not as the son of the current governor of Ebonyi State, but the influence of the value of knowledge he has acquired, managing the family’s conglomerate, which includes Osborn Lapalm Royal Resort.

The Osborn Foundation has already stamped its footprint in transforming education in the country, ridding the streets of Ebonyi of out-of-school children, which continues to constitute a social problem in Nigeria.

The foundation recently enrolled about 50 children into schools across the state, while also donating writing materials and books to a school in northern Nigeria.

Baring his pain recently on the state of education in the country, Osborn Nweze said: “I believe a major lesson I learned about Africa, with respect to things holding us back, Nigeria in particular, would be lack of proper education.

“I strongly believe that if Nigeria as a nation has the proper institutions that have been structured around educating the youth, with proper schools, we will have enough people voting based on qualifications and not sentiments.”

Continuing, Osborn Nweze said: “If we elect leaders irrespective of their ethnicity or place of origin, we will have a nation of qualified leadership. And that is what every country needs for proper development.”

On what has been his motivation to help poor Nigerians acquire education, despite having never been in that strata of the society before, Osborn Nweze said: “I believe the most important investment you can make above every other thing is your investment into the lives of people. I want to be an example that the next generation can look up to.”