Dr Obada is the Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of NeGSt Global Integrated Company Limited. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy Degree (PhD) in Materials Management from Pacific Western University, Los Angeles, USA.

He started his professional engineering career at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in 1977 and retired in 1995 as a Chief Engineer and Visiting Consultant in the Corporate Planning Department of the company.

He later became the pioneer Director-General of the Materials Management Institute of Nigeria between 1996 and 1998 and served as a Consultant to the University of Surrey Space Centre, United Kingdom, between 2000 and 2003.

Among his accomplishments, Dr. Obada successfully engineered the entrance of Nigeria into the space age by facilitating the design and launch of Nigeria’s first Satellite (NigeriaSat-1) working with the University of Surrey and the Federal Ministry of Science & Technology.

In September 2003, Dr. Obada again pioneered the creation of the National eGovernment initiative as a Public-Private Partnership (PPP) between the Federal Government and the Organized Private Sector (OPS) mandated by the Federal Government of Nigeria to implement the eGovernment project to cover all Federal, State and Local Government Areas of Nigeria. He was appointed the Managing Director of NeGSt in March 2004.

A consummate strategist, Dr. Obada aggressively grew the eGovernment initiative and created several Strategic Business Units (SBUs) under NeGSt Global after acquiring the Trademark of ‘NeGSt’ together with its products from the Federal Ministry of Commerce under the Trade Mark Act of 1956.

Dr. Obada is a Fellow of many professional associations namely:

• Fellow, Institute of Directors, UK and Nigeria
• Fellow, International Biographical Association of Cambridge, UK.
• Fellow, Material Management Institute of Nigeria.
• Fellow Institute of Purchasing and Supply Management (F.Inst.Ps).
• Fellow of the American Biographical Institute, Raleigh, NC, USA

He was also listed in the 2002/2003 Contemporary Who is Who. Owing to his significant career achievement and contribution to society, he became an honorary member of the American Biographical Institute of Research Board of Advisors, Raleigh, NC, and USA in 2002/2003.

He was given the 21st Century award for Achievement in the field of eGovernment implementation in Nigeria-2004 by the International Biographical centre Cambridge. He is presently deploying eTourism solutions and infrastructure to cover all parts of Nigeria.