across the world in his native Nigeria
Business: First Class Poly produces plastic bags and wrapping used in Nigeria for packaging everything from bread to drinking water to sugar. The products are sold throughout the West African country. First Class Poly, along with two sister factories, also have a recycling operation and are looking to expand to the production of polystyrene foam containers.
Headquarters: Suleja, Nigeria, and Miramar.
Women hawk large loaves of bread in bags. Atop their heads, young boys carry huge buckets stuffed with clear bags,ralph lauren, not bottles,air max pas cher, of drinking water. Customers, at roadside stalls, buy sugar and salt stuffed into his products.
Bags. Plastic bags, sold in rolls weighing over 100 pounds, are his business. Here in his native Nigeria, in a town just outside the capital of Abuja, Onyejiaka runs three plastic factories, employing about 50 workers a tiny cog in what fast has become the powerhouse economy of Africa.
But Onyejiaka physical presence here on a recent weekday barking out orders to his general manager, cracking jokes with employees and explaining to a visitor his vision for growth is only fleeting. That because Onyejiaka, 39, actually runs his operation from an office inside his Miramar home.
It a grueling business life, fueled by an energetic and engaging personality. in Nigeria to incessantly work four phone lines, placing orders,montre femme, finagling contracts and directing employees.
stay awake with them. It like I physically present with them,ralph lauren pas cher, Onyejiaka said. always have to be in touch with me, and I have to be in touch with them. business winds down across the world, Onyejiaka rushes his children to school,mcm bags, then heads off to a part time job selling cars at a Miami Lakes dealership.
I only have five hours to sleep, said Onyejiaka, who with a South Florida business partner is also starting up a private security company. once in a while, I catch a nap. factories produce about 87,500 kilograms of plastic per month. Onyejiaka estimates that the factories bring in about $31,000 in profit every month not a paltry sum in Nigeria, although he believes he can triple that as the business expands.
Onyejiaka grew up in Lagos, the economic and cultural hub of Nigeria, and studied petrol engineering at the Federal University of Technology Owerri. In 2001, he and his older brother started the first plastic factory,rayban sunglasses, First Class Poly, in a ramshackle 10 foot by 10 foot building in Suleja.
His brother ran the business,nike air max, which grew slowly. Onyejiaka immigrated to the United States in August 2005,hockey jerseys, one day before Hurricane Katrina. Like many immigrants, he started off in a blue collar job: cleaning toilets and floors at a library in Weston.
Over the years, Onyejiaka scraped out a living, selling new and used cars while earning a master degree through Walden University. He also met his wife,the north face, Ezinne, who was born in the United States of Nigerian parents.
But tragedy hit in November 2009, when his elder brother,vans pas cher, Ike, died unexpectedly of illness. Although relatives in Nigeria took over the business, it quickly faltered.
Onyejiaka agreed to take over operating the factory,chi flat iron, but he could not move to Nigeria: His American born wife wanted to stay in the United States.
Nigerians outside the country, particularly in the United States, have long thrived in the business world. Overall in 2013, the World Bank estimated, they sent back $21 billion in remittances to family in the country.
To be sure,michael kors bags, the economy in Nigeria itself is booming. Thee government recently announced it has revised how it calculates its gross national product; the new figure, $512 billion, means Nigeria replaces South Africa as the continent largest economy.
The country of 169 million people, most of whom live in abject poverty, has one of the world biggest oil reserves, and boasts booming tech, fashion and cinema industries.
But as with many emerging economy countries, Nigeria is a difficult place to succeed for small businesses such as Onyejiaka Rampant corruption,louboutin, high taxes, high exchange rates with foreign currencies, poor roads and sporadic electricity all make start ups exceeding difficult.
And as Onyejiaka has found out, getting access to loans in Nigeria is daunting compared to the United States. credit cards to help invest in growth.
Banks in Nigeria are notoriously said Lukman Raimi, an economics professor at the Centre for Entrepreneurship Education at Lagos Yaba College of Technology.
banks require collateral as security for loans, which most small businesses do not have, Raimi said. businesses require loans for raw materials procurements,ralph lauren outlet online, expansion, payment of salaries during period of cash flow challenges. the environment on the ground makes business for Onyejiaka, operating from across the world, that much more difficult.
He travels to Nigeria every three months or so to make sure business is running smooth. And each time, the difficulties of conducting business here become apparent.
On a recent tour of his factories, on a sweaty, hazy day,nike mercurial, Onyejiaka shows a visitor a recycling machine he purchased to purchase back used plastic, re mold it and sell it again as bags. But the portion of the machine that cuts the plastic sheets broke down, and parts are only available in China, not Nigeria.

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