Chief Obodoechi hails from the famous Oluaoha Chieftaincy Dynasty of Umubazu community in Uli, Ihiala Local Government Area of Anambra State. His business skills and leadership experience stands him out from his peers who always depend on him and entrust leadership and power upon his shoulders to provide leadership and direction. He has served as a former Chairman of the Market Electronics Association, Unity Plaza, where he left indelible records on the sands of time. As a younger brother, Ogbuefi Nnabundo lived with and learnt business under him many decades back in Kumba Town in Cameroun where he also served as the president of all Nigerians living in that former French colony of West Africa.
This young and dashing chief began his early education in his Uli home town where he attended the Uli Central Primary school before proceeding to Uli Boys’ High School between 1977-1982. He left for Kumba Town in the Republic of Cameroun where he cut his teeth in business under his Big Brother. Not long after, he came back and settled down in Lagos to start his own business life under the name of JENON INTERNATIONAL LIMITED, a company with its major focus on electronics and Real Estate.
He also furthered with a university education, knowing his vast potentials in Lagos State University Ojo-Lagos where he studied Business Administration.
Upon successful completion of his university degree, he focused more on business, including his extensive foreign business trips around major commercial centers of America, United Kingdom and China in search of business opportunities. The combined effect of his exposure and education propelled and provided him with the right business pedestal and resourceful atmosphere to tap into all his prodigious entrepreneurial instincts do achieve more. Ichie Nnabundo is highly gifted and talented person right from childhood.
Chief Ogbuefi Nnabundo is an extra-ordinary entrepreneur and Real Estate Investor, He is gifted at locating and discern lucrative business opportunities. He is a rare genius, whom while others are asleep, would be awake all night researching and analyzing vast arrays of business risks and opportunities. His hobby is Table Tennis (Singles) He is always quick at bringing the business skills of table tennis to the real world of business.
Today CHIEF JAMES EZEANYIWARA OBODOEHI is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of JENON INTERNATIONAL GROUP LTD with focus on electronics, Real Estate, hotels, leisure and general hospitality interests. He is also the founder and proprietor of the prestigious world-class hotel and events centre call VACATION VILLA HOTEL at Mariam Babangida Road.
Ogbuefi Nnabundo remains one of the oldest and respected red cap chiefs known as the Ichies of his Umubazu Uli. Ogbuefi Nnabundo has built and donated a Church, St. John’s Catholic Church, Umubazu, Uli under the Catholic Diocese of Orlu, to his immediate community in 1998 he also embarked on the provision of comprehensive rural electrification projects to his immediate Uli community during which time he donated a giant transformer, electricity poles and cable wires to distribute and energize the community with accompanying street lightings. He has also undertaken extensive road rehabilitation projects in his Uli Town for which he received honors from many organizations and groups.
Chief James Ezeanyiwara Obodoechi has also been conferred with a prestigious award of a Ph.D (Honoris Causa) in Business Administration from the European-American University, Republic of Panama.