Nigeria’s foremost Shipping Mogul, Engr. Greg Utomwen Ogbeifun
… As Ogbeifun begins era of modern day graduate mechanics, says Motivation is driving Happiness***
Nigeria’s foremost Shipping mogul, Engr. Greg Utomwen Ogbeifun is set to begin a new era of modern day graduate mechanics, stressing that his major motivation is ensuring others’ happiness.
Consequently, a modern day auto maintenance complex, the “Diverse Autocare Centre” will be formally commissioned on 11 Feb. 2022 in Benin City, Edo State, to change the current road-side mechanical narrative, to technological advancement and best practices.
The Chairman, STARZS Group, Engr. Ogbeifun, who is also a former President of the Ship Owners Association of Nigeria (SOAN), confirmed this, adding that the Director-General of the National Automotive Design and Development Council (NADDC), Dr. Jelani Aliyu would perform the official commissioning.
Speaking during a media parley on Wednesday in Lagos, he also disclosed that the Managing Director of Toyota Nigeria Limited, Mr. Kunle Ade-Ojo, would equally play highly significant roles at the commissioning event.
“Arrangements are on hand for Feb. 11; Diverse will be formally commissioned with the honour of Mr. Jelani Aliyu, the DG of the National Automotive Design and Development Council, who would be the person to commission the work.“We will also be honoured with the presence of Mr. Kunle Ade-Ojo, the Managing Director of Toyota Nigeria Ltd. He is going to be co-commissioning the event,” Ogbeifun said.
Providing a peep into the project, the revered Shipping Guru said the state of the art facility has already handled at least 450 vehicles in the last one year; and that the high level of customer satisfaction actually induced continuous referrals, with requests for special services, coming from Port Harcourt, Abuja and Lagos.
He was particularly enamored by the firm’s excellent services, which endeared it to Toyota Nigeria Ltd., making the company appoint Diverse AutoCare its representative and dealer in its original spare parts.
“One of our biggest accomplishments is that Toyota Nigeria Limited heard about the workshop and actually sent a team to come and see what we are doing there, and after their visit, a couple of months later they appointed us their representatives for their warranty jobs in that region.
“Also, they have given us accreditation to carry out services on their behalf; and importantly, be a dealer of their original spare parts in that axis. So, that is the level of Confidence!”
The Centre is staffed by over 60 highly-skilled graduates, cutting across different engineering disciplines and ICT; and making the Diverse Autocare an enviable client of the Edo State Government.
“Our biggest client is the State government. Till today, 80% of our clients are government and they have lived up to expectations in terms of payments,” Ogbeifun said.
The firm, in partnership with Edo State Traffic Management Agency, sponsored by the government, has also trained 130 drivers in the state civil service.
He explained that while he initially felt he should go into retirement, his inability to fold his hands and watch graduate engineers roam the streets, pushed him out of a deserved retirement.
“The essence is to instill new thinking and the right attitude to work in the diverse.
You see that when they get that right, they are able to carry that consciousness into a maintenance culture for their vehicles and it serves all parties favourably!” he further explained.