10 Most Philanthropic Business Men in Nigeria - Prince Arthur Eze
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2. Arthur Eze
Prince (Dr.) Arthur Eze, the famous oil magnate, has continued to be a mystery and a phenomenon in Nigeria’s charitable community over the years. Arthur Eze is the Chairman of Atlas Oranto Group which also owns Atlas Petroleum, the biggest African indigenous oil exploration company in Nigerian. He is from the royal line of Ukpo Kingdom of the Dunukofia dynasty in Anambra State.
Prince Eze is renowned for being both close to the oppressed and the world’s highest elites in Africa and globally. To ensure his service to humanity outlives him, few years ago, Prince Eze, who studied mechanical and chemical engineering in California State University at Long Beach, USA from 1974 to 1978, started the non-governmental organisation (NGO) called Prince Arthur Eze Philanthropy and Empowerment International to drive his charitable activities. The mission of the NGO is to establish an organised structure and consolidated channels of empowerment and philanthropy. The organisation’s motto is to celebrate prosperity with philanthropy and to empower humanity with generosity
Though an indigene of Anambra State, Prince Eze constructed an overhead bridge in Ebonyi State with his funds without asking for government intervention some years ago.
He gave a $12 million donation in 2013 to help build the St. Stephen’s Anglican Deanery and Youth Development Centre in Otuoke, Bayelsa State.
Two elementary schools in the Yirol and Rumbek communities in central South Sudan were built thanks to a $800,000 donation from Prince Arthur Eze. That is PanAfricanism. A standard sickle cell clinic at Ukpo, Dunukofia Council Area, Anambra State has been built with the help of N5 million provided by Prince Eze to the Association of People Living with Sickle Cell Disorder.
He was part of those that contributed to the relief needs of the victims of Boko Haram insurgencies, the ‘Russia 2018’ FIFA World Cup, the flood relief efforts in 2013 and the covid crisis.
Arthur Eze is a man that gives in both millions and billions without any expectations whatsoever. Even as he gives freely, he still has more than enough to give from his reservoir of wealth.
