Emmanuel Egboh: A Mission of Endless Possibilities in Nigeria’s Security Sector

Founder and CEO of Advonics Services Nigeria Limited, Emmanuel Egboh, is one of the few patriotic Nigerian businessmen focused on helping to enthrone and entrench a safer country, writes Shola Oyeyipo

Turning entrepreneurial excellence and acclaim into an art form is not the stuff of vacuous or unambitious individuals. It requires passion and perseverance, ingenuity and industry, as well as the uncanny ability to see goldmines where mere mortals see landmines.

Though a self-effacing and silent force of nature, Emmanuel Egboh, founder and CEO of Advonics Services Nigeria Limited, a best-in-class security company offering a wide range of high-tech security products and services for the telecoms, maritime, aviation, transportation, and logistics industries, represents the best of Nigeria’s new breed of businessmen identifiable by their peerless grit and guts, crystal-clear vision, patriotism, and relentless pursuit of excellence against all odds, the accretion of which has seen them breaking the glass ceilings.

Egboh’s business aptitude and leadership approach in the security sector are helping to push and challenge the bounds of entrepreneurship while garnering jaw-dropping successful results.

Indeed, he would have been forgiven or overlooked by society if, like his contemporaries, he profited from the widespread insecurity in the nation by joining in fanning its embers.

After all, fuel subsidy profiteers and enablers are still roaming the streets freely and enjoying their loot. However, Egboh’s patriotic instincts would not permit such.

He took the road less travelled by opting to help his beloved nation to sanitise and stamp out insecurity through an ethical and humane approach that led to the recalibration of the corporate identity and objectives of Advonics Services Nigeria Limited, a company he founded in 2003 as a carrier for private sector services in specialised home automation.

Under Egboh’s leadership, ASNL has grown from a peripheral player into a trusted name and partner in the security industry with a proven track record of delivering innovative and reliable solutions on a regional and global scale while offering a wide range of high-tech security products and services tailored to the telecoms, maritime, aviation, transportation, and logistics industries.

He cites 2007 as the year the company’s clientele tripled in size. “Thanks to the purchase of hi-tech security and safety equipment,” he recalls with gratitude.

Between 2009 and 2013, ASNL successfully partnered the Imo State Government in municipal transportation transformation and security support equipment for the Government House and the State House of Assembly. In 2018, the company signed a deal with the Federal Ministry of Transportation and Ministry of Aviation to secure the railway terminals across the federation and deploy its high-tech liquid explosive detection system at the airports and borders.

A year later, it introduced the EI-LS1525 Liquid Security Inspection System to the Federal Airport Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), which adopted and launched it across Nigerian airports.

This device can detect hazardous and explosive liquid gels in sealed containers at airports. The company has introduced other innovative security solutions to solving insecurity at airports, train stations, and borders.

Egboh says the years between 2020 and 2024 were the period the company took a quantum leap towards attaining its growth trajectory with major footprints in the aviation and rail infrastructure.

Egboh is now recognised as an entrepreneurial genius for adroitly positioning ASNL as the leader in the deployment of tomorrow’s technology in both the rail and air transportation systems, critical government infrastructure, and border security to protect the country and its citizens from major internal and external threats.

No wonder some of ASNL’s clients include federal ministries and agencies notably Aviation, Transportation, FAAN, and even the Department of State Security. What more? Awards and applauses have continued to flood in from all over the world.

For helping to tackle insecurity in the most populous black nation in the world, Egboh was the recipient of the 2023 African Leaders of Integrity Merit Award by African Integrity Magazine in Accra, Ghana.

The president of African Integrity Magazine, Ambassador Onwordi Onichabor, disclosed that the international recognition of integrity is bestowed on citizens of all nations, who have proven themselves as an embodiment of integrity, honesty, transparency, and accountability, and distinguished themselves in business and notable contributions to society.

Egboh was also the recipient of Africa’s Most Outstanding Maritime Security and Logistics Services CEO of the Year 2024 by the Board of African Leadership Review.

The board states that it remains committed to showcasing the continent’s brightest talents and highlighting the impactful work being done to drive Africa forward.

The African Leadership Review Awards aims to recognise the outstanding contributions and achievements of African leaders in various sectors on the continent.

“We started this journey in 2003 and today the story is different. Going beyond boundaries has been our watchword and now, we are on a mission of endless possibilities,” he says in one of those moments he looked back in gratitude to the almighty.