{"id":2840,"date":"2024-04-14T23:46:54","date_gmt":"2024-04-14T23:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villpress.com\/?p=2840"},"modified":"2024-08-14T22:45:06","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T22:45:06","slug":"oji-ukwu-eje-aba-the-story-of-igbo-hustler-joseph-chukwuka-ulasi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/villpress.com\/cs\/oji-ukwu-eje-aba-the-story-of-igbo-hustler-joseph-chukwuka-ulasi\/","title":{"rendered":"Oji Ukwu Eje Aba: The story of Igbo hustler Joseph Chukwuka Ulasi"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oji Ukwu Eje Aba<\/a><\/strong>, The story of Igbo hustler Joseph Chukwuka Ulasi<\/strong> from Nnewi in Anambra State<\/strong>. He was born in 1890<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

He was nicknamed “O ji \u1ee5kw\u1ee5 eje Aba<\/strong>” because of his unflinching hustling spirit as a young Igbo boy determined to make it in life and of which he eventually did by becoming the most successful transporter from South East.<\/p>\n

OJI UKWU EJE ABA<\/h3>\n

He regularly traveled on foot from Nnewi to Aba in mid-1920’s in search of fortune (O ji \u1ee5kw\u1ee5 eje Aba).<\/strong><\/p>\n

At Aba he traded in textiles and produced, slowly and painstakingly building a solid asset base by setting up roadside stalls along the popular Aba Road. He would recruit apprentices from Nnewi at one stage, up to sixty.<\/p>\n

By 1933, he had built up a fleet of six lorries, which he deployed into a road haulage business which earned him a mail delivery contract for the Eastern Provinces. He made fortune from the Mail delivery contract which helped him to up his fleet of lorries from 6 to 14 as at 1935.<\/p>\n

The name of his Transport Company is J.C Ulasi Motors<\/strong><\/a><\/span>, a household name in the 1930s. He became a Warrant Chief at Aba and died in June 1944. His kinsman Louis Odumegwu-Ojukwu was to succeed him as the King of the road haulage business by the formation of his legendary Ojukwu Transport Company in 1937. Chief. J.C Ulasi tremendous success as a transporter also inspired his cousin, late. Chief Ejikeme Ilodibe of “Ekene Dili Chukwu” emerged as a transport magnate. JC C Ulasi died a wealthy Igbo transporter; he was the first Nigerian to venture in to Transport business and it played out well for him. Many others toed his path.<\/p>\n

You have now know the story behind that popular nomenclature “O ji ukwu eje Aba”<\/p>\n

Credit: Igbo History<\/p>\n\n\n

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The name of his Transport Company is J.C Ulasi Motors, a household name in the 1930s. He became a Warrant Chief at Aba and died in June 1944. His kinsman Louis Odumegwu-Ojukwu was to succeed him as the King of the road haulage business by the formation of his legendary Ojukwu Transport Company in 1937. <\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,135],"tags":[136],"ppma_author":[331],"class_list":{"0":"post-2840","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-history","8":"category-people","9":"tag-oji-ukwu-eje-aba"},"authors":[{"term_id":331,"user_id":1,"is_guest":0,"slug":"pastakutmanwen","display_name":"Villpress Insider","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/villpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Logo.png","url2x":"https:\/\/villpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Logo.png"},"0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/villpress.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/villpress.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/villpress.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/villpress.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/villpress.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2840"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/villpress.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3899,"href":"https:\/\/villpress.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840\/revisions\/3899"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/villpress.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/villpress.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/villpress.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/villpress.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2840"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/villpress.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=2840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}