A life changing encounter...
The story of his life has the makings of a legend or fairy tale...
From excruciating poverty to being educated in Harvard as a medical doctor and just in his early 50s controlling great wealth and power.
I have heard of Dr. Godwin Maduka, popularly known as the Lion of Africa, a Nigerian Doctor in Las Vegas who employs over 50 other Doctors and owns 4 hospitals and building a 5th one... all from scratch. Finally at the Mbano Daughters U.S.A Inauguration 10/17/15 I met the man. I had produced the event brochure and he told me we did a great job of it and asked me to do one to celebrate the last Ofala of his late uncle the Igwe of Umuchukwu in Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State. I went to my car and brought him some copies of Life and Times Magazine and after flipping briefly through the magazines he looked impressed and told me he would want us to profile him in the magazine
Las Vegas can be truly dramatic. However nothing prepared me for this Vegas encounter. The depth and reach of what Godwin Maduka has achieved, since coming to America in the 80s and qualifying as a Chemist and going on to obtain a Doctorate degree in Pharmacy and a Post Graduate Medical Degree from Harvard, is truly amazing.
Besides his work in Las Vegas, Dr. Maduka has transformed his hometown of Umuchukwu- building over 50 homes for kinsmen, building a town hall, a police station, a church, a monastery and presently constructing a 15 storey building that he wants to convert into a college of medical sciences.
He has also awarded full scholarships to hundreds of needy students all over Eastern Nigeria and just last weekend donated $100,000 to Mbano Daughters USA to rehabilitate dilapidated schools in Mbano.
The amazing thing is that this man despite all his success attributes nothing to his abilities but credits God for all that his life has become and all that he is doing..
Listening to him and talking to him for over 10 hours thoroughly transformed me and made me come to terms with the fact that with hard work and divine blessings...you can rise above your circumstances and be all that you can be...
****FULL COVER STORY ON DR. MADUKA- IN THE LIFE & TIMES MAGAZINE WINTER/2015 EDITION