Professional Career

Gideon’s professional career has been as interesting as his exploits in education. He is someone who has excelled in his chosen career both as a high ranking personnel in multi- national organization, as well as a private business owner. His over 22 years post graduate experience spans different sectors including Telecommunications, Oil and Gas as well as Merchandising. He is an experienced strategist, a motivator with supreme self-confidence and proven ability to develop and inspire management teams in order to maximize company profitability and efficiency. He also has vast experience in leading and growing key sectors of a business to create value, deliver on strategic business objectives, and to make it a dynamic and organization.

As a young Engineering graduate, he immediately got engaged in the telecommunications industry starting with Mobitel limited, a Private Telecommunications Operator (PTO), which was one of the pioneer companies within the industry providing both fixed wireless and wireline services in Nigeria before the advent of Global System for Mobile Communication (GSM). He later joined EMIS Telecoms, another PTO to gain more knowledge and experience in another technology, in preparation for the new technology that was to change the old order to what we now refer to as the GSM revolution

As soon as GSM operators got licenses to operate in Nigeria. it did not take long for MTN Nigeria Telecommunications Ltd to employ Gideon as a Systems Planning Engineer having distinguished himself in a highly competitive and rigorous interview. As a key resource at the budding stages Of GSM technology In Nigeria, he contributed Immensely at various manageable levels towards positioning and sustaining MTN Nigeria as a market leader in the Telecommunications industry not only in Nigeria but across Africa and the Middle East. He rose through the ranks over a period of 13 years in MTN, and by the time he was resigning in 2014 to contest for elective office, he was General Manager, Network Planning, which was the highest position held by any Edo State indigene at the time.

  • While at MTN, Gideon distinguished himself as a committed Staff, winning several awards and laurels, including the following:
  • CEO Yéllo Manager Award in 2013 for excellent performance
  • Long Service Award for dedicated and valuable service to MTN Nigeria Communications Ltd
  • Network Achievers Award for strategic network deployment within challenging environments

His Major achievements at MTN include, but not limited to:

  • the transformation of MTN”s Core and Intelligent Network from a legacy network to a fully modernized next generation network. This contributed significantly to improved network performance and the sustenance of MTN’s market leadership position
  • creation of a completely new team of skilled engineers and inspiring them to develop an Innovative in house service creation platform that significantly reduced MTN ‘s spend on Value Added Services and greatly improved products’ time to market and subscriber life cycle management
  • the development of an integrated network planning for network expansion which ensured that MTN was always ahead of the game in terms of its market leadership position that it has retained till date.

When Gideon resigned from his exalted office and well paying job at MTN to Contest for the Federal House Of Representative in Esan West/Esan Central/lgueben Federal Constituency in 2015, he did not lose site of the fact that he needs to continue to grow his private business. He continued to grow his businesses within the Telecommunications sector, as well as Oil and Gas. This is because he believes that going into partisan is part of the sacrifices he has to make to contribute meaningfully to governance and societal development, and not an opportunity for self-aggrandizement or fleecing Of public funds.