Emeka Okwuosa at 65: The making of an indigenous engineering legacy

By Jubilee Isong
At 65, Engr. Dr. Emeka Okwuosa, CON, stands at a particularly significant intersection of personal achievement, entrepreneurial resilience and national development. For more than three decades, his name has become closely associated with the evolution of indigenous engineering capacity in Nigeria’s oil and gas industry. From returning to Nigeria in the early 1990s with a determination to build meaningful local participation in the energy services sector, Okwuosa has transformed Oilserv from a construction company into a diversified engineering, procurement, construction, installation and commissioning enterprise with a growing footprint across the energy value chain. ...