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At a colourful event in Abuja on Saturday, 15 October 2022, Nigerian serial entrepreneur and philanthropist, Peter Adejoh, was conferred with a Honourary Ph.D in Management and Leadership by American Management University (AMU). Also in recognition of his entrepreneurship and philanthropy, Adejoh also received the Peace Achievers International Award.

Through his Camey & Rock Holdings, Adejoh’s businesses are in banking, fintech, and real estate, with hospitality being one of his latest industries of interest. In March this year, he unveiled in Abuja the first of the properties in the portfolio of his luxury hotel brand, Plush.

The awarding entities and co-organisers of the event said Adejoh was recognized for his leadership in the private sector as well as for his commitment to community development causes.

According to information on its website, AMU is headquartered in California, USA, with a learning/seminar site in West Covina, California and an administration site in Montclair, in the state. The university operates with verification from the Bureau for Private Post-Secondary Education through sponsorship by the International Alliance of Business Professionals, a non-profit, professional organization. The 2022 Peace Achievers awards ceremony was the 11th edition and past awardees comprised captains of industries and community leaders.

“Through my charity organisation, The Peter Adejoh Foundation, I have been championing charity work,” Adejoh told Financial Nigeria. “The Foundation has been empowering young entrepreneurs, creating and expanding economic spaces to promote Nigeria’s economic growth.”

The Peter Adejoh Foundation is providing young entrepreneurs with mentoring and training as a platform for engendering economic wellbeing and fostering peace in communities. Adejoh told Financial Nigeria that the foundation sees its work as promoting peace. “I have been doing this for a while now and it caught the attention of the organisers who then reached out to me,” said Adejoh, adding that promoting peace is a clarion call for society and that he will officially launch his eponymous philanthropic organisation on a bigger scale by June 2023.

Apart from mentoring and training, the foundation also provides seed capital to budding entrepreneurs to scale up their small businesses. The founder said the awards will serve as a further motivation for him to do more.

During his acceptance speech, Adejoh spoke of the need for peace in Nigeria, advocating national integration instead of accentuation of division along ethnic and religious lines. Nigeria is a multi-ethnic society, although three of the ethnic groups – Hausa-Fulani, Yoruba, and Igbo – are dominant. The country’s population is also approximately split down the middle among Christians and Muslims, although other religions and atheism are also practiced in accordance with the constitution which guarantees citizens’ religious freedom.

“We have to live together in peace and harmony and remove the emphasis on the things that divide us,” Adejoh said “If you are poor, you are poor; if you are rich, you are rich, your ethnicity does not matter. Neither does it matter if you’re Christian, Muslim or of any other religion,” he declared.


Peter Adejoh displays the honourary doctorate certificate