Godwin Obaseki

Godwin Obaseki Biography / Profile

Mr. Godwin Nogheghase Obaseki was born on Wednesday1st of July, 1959, in Benin City, Edo State to the famillies of Obaseki and Gbinigie of Owina Street, Ogbelaka Quarters. He is the third child of Late Pa Roland Obaseki and Madam Stella Gbinigie (MON).

Godwin Obaseki Age

Godwin Obaseki is 65 years old.

Godwin Obaseki Early Life

He had his primary education at St. Matthews Anglican Primary School Benin City and attended Eghosa Anglican Grammar School, Benin City before he proceeded to the University of Ibadan, where he bagged a Bachelor of Arts degree in Classics.

Mr. Godwin Obaseki thereafter did his National Youth Service Corps primary assignment in Jos, Plateau state.

The young Obaseki then proceeded to the prestigious Ivy League Columbia University and Pace University both in New York and bagged an MBA in Finance and International Business respectively.

Mr. Obaseki is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Stock Brokers, Nigeria and an Alumnus of the Lagos Business School Chief Executive Program.

It was refreshing news when he was nominated as a Global Leader for Tomorrow(GLT) by the World Economic Forum in 2001.

Godwin Obaseki Career

Over the last 30 years, Mr. Obaseki has excelled in his chosen career, becoming an internationally renowned expert in Investment Banking, Asset Management and Securities Trading.

Among the companies he worked for include Capital Trust Brokers Limited Lagos, International Merchant Bank (an affiliate of First Chicago Bank), AVC Funds Limited, Lagos and in New York as a principal of Equitorial Finance Company, a Financial Advisory firm with focus on Africa.

Interestingly, it was Mr. Obaseki, who led the core team that set up two of the new generation banks that glowingly reshaped the face of the banking industry in Nigeria.

Mr. Obaseki thereafter, himself became an entrepreneur, when he established Afrinvest West Africa Limited (then SecTrust) in 1995.

No doubt, Mr. Obaseki’s financial acumen, which led to the numerous achievements of Afrinvest, saw the company been appointed correspondent stockbroker for Nigeria by the International Finance Corporation (IFC) in 1995.

Mr. Obaseki, whose contemporaries, then referred to as a solutions provider, imbued with ideas, established the first derivative product, the Nigerian International Debt Fund (NIDF) on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, which allowed Nigerians to invest local savings in US Dollar instrument (1996).

He advised on the first global offering by a Nigerian bank through the issuance of Global Depositary Shares (GDS) to raise UD$50 million from the international Capital market.

Afrinvest under his leadership, has been providing some of the most penetrating advisories on some of the largest and most significant transactions in the Nigerian capital market since 2005 ranking it as a major Investment Research firm.

As a mark of the heights of respect he commands in the corporate space, Mr. Obaseki sits on the board of several blue chip companies in Nigeria.

Passionate about development, Mr Obaseki served as the Chairman of the Edo State Government’s Economic and Strategy Team (EST), on a pro bono basis, a position he held since March 17, 2009 until he declared his intention to run for the highest office in the state.

He contested for the Governorship position of Edo State in the November 2016 elections and emerged winner on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Godwin Obaseki Personal Life

Governor Obaseki is happily married to Her Excellency Mrs Betsy Obaseki and the marriage is blessed with children.

Obaseki is quite philantropic and serves as trustee, in the Dr Jackson Owen Obaseki Foundation, a family owned NGO, which is involved in providing free educational and healthcare services to the less priviledged people.