We want to bridge infrastructural gap in Nigeria – Ifekwe
Afrigate-Boom Properties Limited is a registered company in Nigeria but spreads its hands in real estate, construction, infrastructural development, consultancy services, adding content and value to businesses in all parts of the West African countries “as our vision is to bridge the infrastructure deficit in Nigeria”.
Chima Ifekwe, chief executive officer/managing director (CEO/MD) of the company says Afrigate-Boom Properties Limited is recognised as one of the firms associated with best global practices and standards in Nigeria and the West African countries. He spoke to our correspondent in Owerri where the firm’s Nigeria office is located.
Afrigate-Boom as a multifaceted firm, which provides quality services by using the required and right tools, resources and talents to execute projects and ensures the completion and delivery of projects given by clients within the time frame and at the same time helping its customers realise their goals.
“We have a good reputation; we have also a name to protect and we have never disappointed any of our clients. Afrigate-Boom Properties Limited is associated with best global practices and standards in Nigeria and the West African region. We make sure that we complete and deliver jobs given to us within the time and we exceed the expectations of our clients,” the CEO/MD said.
He also said that Afrigate-Boom as an all-purpose organisation has handled various projects and services for communities, housing estates, building markets, shops for states and communities, churches,
borehole drilling, constructions in the country and outside the shores of Nigeria with its reliable partners.
Ifekwe also disclosed that the company would want to partner with corporate bodies like JLN Construction Services, LLC and Avalon Consulting Services, an African American, Minority Construction Firm, in Maryland and its City Baltimore, USA; owned by Nnamdi Iwuoha, a Nigerian Born-American citizen living in Maryland.
According to him, “the dexterity of Nnamdi Iwuoha in the field of engineering construction in Baltimore Maryland has brought fame and pride to the Nigerian community in the City of Baltimore.”
He disclosed that the “BWI Thurgood Marshal Airport as it is commonly known in Maryland is an architecture of tourist appeal; it is a reconstruction executed by JLN construction services and LLC with Nnamdi Iwuoha, an engineer who supervised it.
“Afrigate-Boom Properties and Nigerians would want JLN construction services with Nnamdi to come home to replicate his celebrated infrastructural construction and remodeling accomplishments in Nigeria his birth place”, he said.
According to him, Afrigate-Boom has been exchanging correspondences with JLN Construction Services, saying, “JLN has, while still in USA handled jobs as a general contractor, joint
venture partner, teaming partner, mentor protégé as well as a minority sub-contractor on a multitude of projects for various agencies, placing key emphasis on quality and diligence of services and works to satisfy its clients.
“This is the kind of things Nigerians are looking forward to seeing and every Nigerian and the incoming government would want the services of Nnamdi and his company in Nigeria come 2019.
“In 2016, the prestigious Baltimore Smart CEOs’ organisation admitted him into its Hall of Fame for leading edge CEO.”
With eight business certifications such as the “MBE by the Prince George’s County, Maryland; the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission
(WSSC) Chants County, Maryland, the Cory of Baltimore, Maryland and the LDBE by the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority (MWAA) and the recognition by the Mayor of Baltimore, Iwuoha has achieved a lot and we Nigerians need his wealth of experience and service,” he said.
Ifekwe disclosed that other areas of interests of Afrigate-Boom include developing diplomatic relationship that will enable vertical integration into the international sister states and cities; international programme which will include Imo State and the state of Maryland or Owerri and the City of Baltimore which is already existing between Maryland, Ogun and Cross River States in Nigeria.
He also disclosed that Afrigate-Boom has been exchanging correspondences with an Italian group that is willing to construct floating modular refinery in Nigeria and in Liberia and the project is estimated at 300 million Euros.
“We have contact with the World Bank Guaranteeing Department (MIGA) that can assist in the funding arrangement. We have also contacted a US-based Nigerian engineer, a specialist in refinery construction”.
SABY ELEMBA, OWERRI