AZIBAOLA ROBERT'S TUG-OF-WAR TOURNAMENT FOR CLIMATE CHANGE
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Lawyer . Entrepreneur . Innovator . Social Thinker
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Born February 13, 1969, Azibaola Emmanuel Robert is a Lawyer, an Entrepreneur, Innovator, Creative Thinker, Social Advocate. He is the founder and CEO of several companies, among which are Kakatar Group (kakatargroup.com), a construction and civil engineering company, Zeetin Engineering (zeetinengineering.com) – A precision and innovative solution engineering company. He's an employer of labour and has special interest in the woman gender. Married to Mrs. Stella Robert and blessed with four daughters, Azibaola Robert is a Creative Thinker vast in many callings, including Engineering. It was for this reason that he was awarded and honoured as a Fellow of the prestigious Nigerian Society of Engineers, FNSE; the Nigeria prominent newspaper, the Vanguard, awarded him as the Innovator of the Year 2021.He's a passionate enthusiast of nature. Recently undertook the first of its kind Expedition into Deep Forest aimed at rolling back Climate Change in Nigeria.
Education
AZIBAOLA ROBERT is a 1993 Law graduate of the Rivers State University of Science & Technology, Port Harcourt, and was called to the Nigerian Bar as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria on March 22, 1994.Raised by his single (divorced) mother, he moved through several primary schools to obtain his First School Leaving Certificate, beginning from Otabi Primary School, Ogbia, then to Otakeme Primary School, also in Ogbia, before arriving at Baptist Day Primary School, Aggrey Road, Port Harcourt, where he finished in 1982.In 1983, Azibaola Robert was enrolled into the Owema Community Comprehensive Secondary School, Otakeme, in then Rivers State, now Bayelsa State, where he completed his secondary school education in 1987, as the brightest of his class, majoring in the Sciences with Mathematics as his best subject.He gained admission in 1989 to study Law in the Rivers State University of Science & Technology, Port Harcourt. Upon graduation, he proceeded to the Nigerian prestigious Law School in Lagos, for his mandatory One-year lawyer’s training and was called to bar in 1994 as Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court.Watch Azibaola Robert's visit to one of his primary schools, Baptist Day School, Port Harcourt, Nigeria
Entrepreneur
AZIBAOLA ROBERT is a Nigerian entrepreneur. He is the founder of several businesses and concerns and employer of labour. He presently runs two great organisations, among several others, which he founded and nurtured.
He founded Kakatar group (formerly Mangrovetech) in 2002, and from a small organisation, has today become one of the biggest indigenous construction companies in Nigeria with sizable holdings in the infrastructural development projects of Nigeria, including Maitama Extension District and the Kyami Infrastructure, both in Abuja. Read more about Kakatar Group here
Azibaola Robert also founded Zeetin Engineering, a precision and innovative engineering firm for the design, and production of all kinds of spares and fabrication of high-end engineering metal works. Azibaola Robert aims to achieve for Nigeria, the design and production of Nigeria's first automotive engine, heavy-duty equipment and machines and electric cars. It was for his passion and resilience that, even though he is not a trained engineer, he was awarded the prestigious Fellow of the Nigerian Society of Engineers, FNSE, in recognition of his practice and development of Engineering in Nigeria. Read more about Zeetin Engineering here.
Watch Azibaola Robert's citation at Fellow of the Nigerian Society of Engineers Award here
Hands-on Personality
AZIBAOLA ROBERT is a hands-on personality, He is happy physically doing the work. When and wherever there is a job to be done, you will find him there. With his employees, it is a daily routine. From physical and energy-sapping labour, to intellectual or tabletop active duties, it's always his pleasure to work round-the-clock from one duty to the other.
Loving Husband
AZIBAOLA & STELLA ROBERT have been married since 1999 and have been a loving family, Azibaola and Stella are coequal partners, supporting each other in their family and individual ventures. They are partners in the running of all their businesses.
They have four daughters: Yepaye Robert (Born 2000), Zoni-Zoni Robert (Born 2003), Emmanuel Tiapho Robert (Born 2006) and Azibasuam Robert (Born 2013)
A graduate of Economics at the University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, Stella is a Master's degree holder of the University of West England (UWE)
Passion for Environment
AZIBAOLA ROBERT is a lover and believer of the environment. He unreservedly believes that humans have been responsible for the adverse effects of the environment on species and have the responsibility to consciously work to reverse it. That each of us has the responsibility to make the world a better place than we met it. His fight for the environment dates back to his early life when he founded the Niger Delta Human & Environmental Rescue Organisation (ND-HERO), a civil and environmental organisation aimed at protecting the environment of the Niger Delta region of Nigeria
Take a look at photos of Azibaola Robert's 14-Day Expedition into Deep Forests
Also Watch Azibaola Robert's 14-Day Expedition into Deep Forests' Documentary:
Azibaola Robert's 14-Day Expedition into Deep Forests - Episode 1
Azibaola Robert's 14-Day Expedition into Deep Forests - Episode 2
Social Thinker
AZIBAOLA ROBERT is a Social Thinker. He spends most of his time thinking about social challenges and how to resolve them. This has been his past-time since his University days, where he was the unofficial spokesperson of the University students on issues of welfare and general living conditions. He went on to become the Vice President of all the Nigerian students' union, the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) when he played a huge role in the agitations for Nigeria's return to constitutional democracy from military government dictatorship. He later founded the Niger Delta Human and Environmental Rescue Organisation (ND-HERO) and served as point man for the advocacy for environmental justice in the Nigeria Delta region of Nigeria.
Life Journey
