Allen Ifechukwu Onyema CON is a popular lawyer and entrepreneur. He is the Chief Executive Officer of Air Peace, which he established in 2013. Over the last few years, he has touched many lives, helping people in various spheres of life.
From time to time, he has been seen helping people in difficult situations, throwing his weight behind the right causes.
But many don’t know much about this highly principled man who is doing well in the airline business.
Let’s tell you a bit about him. He was born in March 1964 in Benin City to Michael and Helen Onyema as the first of nine children. He hails from Anambra State, Nigeria. Allen studied law at the University of Ibadan and graduated in 1987. He attended the Nigerian Law School and was called to Bar in 1989. He attended several schools, including Government College, Ughelli, in Delta State. He left Government College in 1984, having obtained his Higher School Certificate, and was directly offered admission to read law at Nigeria’s Premier University, The University of Ibadan, in the same year. It was at the University of Ibadan that his appetite for peace made him lead a group of nine other students to travel to the ancient city of Zaria to quell a raging religious and ethnic riot that claimed lives. As a result of the publicity he and his colleagues received on return to their campus, their enthusiasm grew and this led to the formation of a group known then as Eminent Friends’ Group – a group formed with the objectives of promoting ethnic harmony amongst Nigeria’s diverse ethnic nationalities and fighting the incidence of violence of all forms. Upon graduation from the university in 1987, he established branches of the organization in all the states of the federation. While in the Nigerian law school in 1987, he combined his studies with social activism bothering on engendering peace in Nigeria.
