Aftermath of ASUU, UNN medical student bags award

Aftermath of ASUU, UNN medical student bags award

(The CEO of the NGO IAASAN, Princess Raphael, The Etsu Nupe, Alhaji (Dr.) Abubakar and Kaosi Innocent Eze receiving his Young Enterprenureship Award)

A final medical student of the university of Nigeria Nsukka Kosischochwu Innocent has won a national award of Young Entrepreneurship, aftermath  of a past time project while in school and developed  during the ASUU national strike.

The young Eze from Obollo in Udenu local Government of Enugu state received the award in Abuja on Thursday, August 18; 2022  at a colorful event at the Army Resources Center, Asokoro witnessed by a representative of the Vice President Prof Yemi Osibanjo, representative of the Chief of Arny staff Lt Gen Farouk Yahaya, Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA Gen Buba Marwa, top traditional rulers led by the Etsu Nupe, Alhaji Dr Yahaya Abubakar.

Eze, Kosisochukwu Innocent is a blossoming final year medical student in the University of Nigeria, was chosen for resourcefulness and showing visionary enterprise even as a student of such engaging profession as medicine. Members of Obollo Development Association, ODA, Abuja we’re on hand to show solidarity to to the young man who is nephew to one of their members Dr Athan Eze. Who should not be proud to identify with what is good particularly from a youth who is facing much distractions from the society and technology. Congratulations.

Who is Eze Kossichokwu?

Master Eze had his secondary education at Christ the King College, Gwagwalada, Abuja and  primary education at Hillcrest Primary School, Nsukka.  This young medical student also doubles as an even more visionary  entrepreneur. He is the brain behind Ruso Footwear collections, a footwear brand specialised in making durable, aesthetically pleasing, made in Nigeria footwear. Born on 30th September, 1997  at Nsukka, Enugu State, to the family of Chief Innocent and Mrs Ifeoma Eze of Akanugu Village in Ada Obollo Etiti in Udenu Local  Government Area of  Enugu State, Kosisochukwu's keen interest in creative uniqueness was honed from his early years after he had discovered an appalling trend of Nigerians denigrating made in Nigeria products for  their foreign based counterparts. Fuelled by the desire to correct this trend by influencing first, his immediate environment, Kosisochukwu along side his junior brothers, Chukwuebuka and Nnaemeka in June 2022, made the life changing decision to channel his entrepreneurial drive into footwear making. This decision was influenced by two reasons — his desire to change the negative stereotype of made in Nigeria products and the apparent dissatisfaction with the quality of footwears worn in his locality. Before then, he was reputed among his peers for wearing durable, classic but inexpensive footwear as well as his uncanny ability to differentiate the fake from the original ones. This love for footwears prompted the birth of the Ruso Footwear brand. In just two months of operations, Kosi has assembled an array of ingenious footwear makers with prime expertise in making beautiful footwears with locally sourced raw materials. In this short window of operations, Ruso footwears has sold over 70 pairs of footwear and counting.

In this time, he has set a precedent of excellence in quality and punctuality in delivery. These qualities have endeared him to his teeming customers as well as opening more avenues to avail his brand wider scopes.

Kosisochukwu has dreams of incorporating  making of female footwears in no distant time, as well as conquering more territories and establishing connections that will aid seamless placement of orders and deliveries. His ultimate goal, God willing, is to establish a footwear production factory, with expanded interests in production of other leather products. 

 

To him, the prospects of the future are limitless. He is enthusiastic of the enormous potentials embedded in Nigeria, through his brilliance in craftsmanship. Through the Ruso Footwear collections, he hopes to build an all encompassing venture catering for a variety of leather - based needs, become a leading voice in the exhibition of made in Nigeria products, equally become an employer of labour and ultimately contribute his quota to national development.

Outside this entrepreneurial drive, Kosisochukwu Eze  also serves the society in other capacities.

 He is currently the Director of Publicity, Medic Frontiers World Aids Outreach; Deputy Director, Outreach and Welfare, Medic Frontiers UNTH,Enugu.

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