Chudi Ubosi and Emeka Eleh are business partners and co-founders of Ubosi Eleh & Co, a firm of estate surveyors and valuers. They have, in the last 35 years, run a successful practice that has become a reference point in the estate surveying and valuation profession in Nigeria. In this interview with Chuka Uroko, they reflect on their journey so far, highlighting their highs and lows as a business, and what they have done differently that has kept the business standing strong, 35 years after. Excerpts:
In Nigeria, it is said that companies hardly survive beyond five years, but you are 35 and still counting. Tell us your story
It’s been a long journey. 35 years is not a joke by every stretch, and we are delighted and very grateful to God that we’ve come this far and are still standing. But it didn’t come by accident. We’ve known each other long before we started. We had a shared vision of what to do beyond real estate.
In fact, we actually toyed with a couple of other businesses that didn’t work along the line while we were doing our normal internship. We finished and started working. We shared ideas that always focused on estate surveying and valuation practice. We always had it clear in our mind that even though we tried some other things by the side, we were focused on real estate and that was going to be our core business
