Chief Samuel Maduka Onyishi, Founder and Executive Chairman of Peace Group of Companies, has been named as the Top10 Magazine Man of the Year 2022. He emerged the clear choice among over 90 other business tycoons in a rigorous selection process that involved various stages of screening.
Announcing Onyishi’s emergence as Man of the Year 2022, the Board of Editors of the Top10 Magazine said the Peace Mass Transit (PMT) boss was chosen because of the revolutionary touch he adds to every industry he enters into, beginning with transportation.
He is currently extending his Midas’ touch to the education sector with the establishment of Sam Maduka University and the Maduka University College, Ekwegbe, Enugu State.
While the college arm of the university has commenced operation, the university itself is billed to commence operations later this year subject to final approval by the National Universities Commission (NUC). The institutions are expected to tackle the problem of unemployment by training and producing graduates with orientation for self-employment and job creation.
Conveying the decision to bestow the award on Chief Onyishi, the management of Toncam Communications Limited, publishers of the Top10 Magazine, said “it is our considered view that your transformation of the all-important transport sector through the introduction of passenger-friendly mini-bus mass transit system and the extension of similar ground-breaking innovations to another strategic sector – education via your innovative vision, concepts and curricular of your twin educational institutions coming on stream demonstrate your commitment to Nigeria’s economic and social development worthy of commendation. This forms the basis of our management’s decision to accord you this special recognition as The Top10 Magazine Man of the Year.”