#Bring Back Our Girls

As the nation celebrate the 2014 children's day, the Emmanuel Imuagbagbon Usoh Foundation join the call for the return of the abducted Chibok school girls.

We appeal to the necessary authorities to ensure the girls who are our children, daughters and sisters are reunited with their parents and loved ones.

Happy Children's Day, 2014

From all of us at the Emmanuel Imuagbagbon Usoh Foundation, here is wishing all the children in Nigeria a very happy children's day celebration.

Emmanuel Imuagbagbon Usoh Foundation Under 13 Youth Football competition for boys in Edo and Delta States

The Emmanuel Imuagbagbon Usoh Foundation is seeking to discover fledgling talents in sports, with particular emphasis on football and aims to train and expose these talents to the world of sports and its inherent gains.

In the light of the above, the maiden edition of the Emmanuel Imuagbagbon Usoh Foundation Under 13 Youth Football competition for boys in Edo and Delta States is being organized; this competition is geared towards fishing out talented footballers within the above age bracket for advancement in their chosen careers.

About the Vision bearer

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Barr. Emmanuel Imuagbagbon Usoh is a Board Member of the Edo State Board of Internal Revenue and an Executive Director of its operational arm, the Edo State Internal Revenue Service. He directly supervises the Directorate of Income Taxes as well as other functions as may be assigned to him by the Executive Chairman in the daily operations of the Revenue Service.

Barr. Emmanuel I. Usoh who hails from Uromi in Esan North East Local Government Area of Edo State, was born on the 5th day of February, 1970, and he is happily married with three children.

Education

He had his early education in Victory Nursery and Primary School, Benin City, from 1979 to 1983. After excelling in his First School Leaving Certificate Examination, he was offered admission into the prestigious Edo College for his secondary education in 1983 where he distinguished himself in the West African School Certificate Examination (WAEC) in 1988.

His academic sojourn saw him studying Law in the Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma from 1994 to 1999. While studying to becoming a Legal luminary, the young Usoh channelled his youthful exuberance towards championing the cause of student’s welfarism and these forays saw him making positive impact in student unionism both at the level of the Students Union Government (SUG) and the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS).

Despite his student union activities, he was undeterred in making it to the pinnacle of his professional calling. He graduated with LL.B honours from the Ambrose Alli University in the year 1999 and immediately proceeded to the Nigerian Law School, Bwari, Abuja, from where he was called to the Bar in the year 2001 after obtaining his BL.    

Achievements

Barr. Emmanuel Imuagbagbon Usoh has made a name for himself in the private practice of Law and his Law Chambers, Faithful Stewards, has established itself as a grooming ground for seasoned Law practitioners.

A Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation of Nigeria (CITN), Barr. Emmanuel I. Usoh is a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and was appointed a ‘Notary Public’ of the Supreme Court of Nigeria in the year 2010.

Barrister Emmanuel I. Usoh, a member of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), where he held the position of a Publicity Secretary, is also a member of the International Bar Association (IBA); as well as being a former member representing the Nigerian Bar Association in the National Extractive Initiative and Transparency International (NEITI) Ad-hoc Committee.

He was appointed as a Senior Special Assistant on Legal Matters to the Executive Governor of Edo State in January, 2009 from where he was appointed to the his first stint as a Board Member of the then Edo State Board of Internal Revenue in May of the same year, a position he held until the Board was dissolved in January of 2011.

His re-appointment to the same position in August of 2011 underscored the confidence reposed in him by the Executive Governor of Edo State as his diligence, forthrightness and analytical approach to issues stood him out as one that can be trusted with managing the reins of the revenue generating arm of the State.

Personal Projects

An ordained Minister of the Living Faith Church (also known as Winners Chapel), Barr. Emmanuel I. Usoh is the sole founder of the Emmanuel Imuagbagbon Usoh Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated sol

ely to improving the welfare of the youths, under-priviledged and disadvantaged of the society. Through this foundation, he has touched the lives of thousands of individuals directly and indirectly.

The long term vision of this Foundation is to nurture groom young budding talents wherever they are found and to give life support to those termed forgotten and abandoned. With the help and support of the Almighty God, the reach of the Foundation is projected to extend beyond the borders of our national boundaries in terms of sports, finance and educational pursuits.

One of the foremost interest of the Foundation and the vision bearer is to seek out for fledgling interest in football, train and expose them to the world of the gains in football in particular and sports in general.