ForeTrust Digital Consulting Ltd is an Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Company focused on delivering quality Information and Communication Technology services to discerning clients. We specialise in provision of ICT consulting, training, computer-based testing and allied services, to corporate organisations and individuals. We are registered in June 2015 by the Nigerian Corporate Affairs Commission and commenced business in November 2015. The company was founded by some Nigerian professionals and academics who have excelled in various fields and professional callings including Banking/Finance, Marketing, ICT, Accounting and Public Sector management.

Since 2016, we have received accreditation from the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) as registration and Computer-Based Test Centre for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) for entry into Nigerian institutions of higher learning. Our ultra-modern ICT centre has received commendation from Enugu State Ministry of Education as a Centre of Excellence for training workers in both public and private sectors of the Nigerian economy affirming quality of our facilities and services.

Our vision is to be a centre of academic and technical excellence, providing quality educational and professional services to our clients that meet and exceed their expectations.

Establishment of ForeTrust Consulting Ltd is the realisation of its founders’ goal of creating a world-class ICT consulting, training, learning and testing facility that will imbue Nigerians with practical ICT knowledge and skills that they need to succeed in today’s ICT-driven and competitive world. To achieve these, the centre will continually develop and maintain facilities, skills and competences in its chosen areas of specialisation. The centre is not meant to be another University, Polytechnic or certificate mill, mass producing half-baked graduates and issuing worthless certificates. Our aim is to collaborate with existing institutions (Universities, Colleges, Polytechnics, government agencies, corporations at home and abroad) to develop curricula and to deliver practical ICT-based training/learning to Nigerian students, lecturers and larger business community. For the testing and measurement part of our operations, we will collaborate with institutions such as JAMB, WAEC, NECO and foreign testing organisations to provide secure and professional environment required for Computer Based Testing. The centre’s programmes will focus on training IT professionals, business leaders and scientists who will spearhead the delivery of high quality IT services to the Nigerian academic and business community.

The centre aims to distinguish itself in the areas of ICT-based education, innovation and collaboration. Our aim is to build and train future leaders in ICT who can hold their own in any part of the world. The high quality of our facilities, course content and delivery will allow us to:

• Attract top candidates to our programmes, thus allowing us to maintain our competitive advantage in collaboration and recruitment.
• Attract and retain best skills in terms of staff required to run the centre.
• Train middle and high-level man-power required to run the Nigerian economy.
• Train professionals and academics who are able to excel in any endeavour they engage in using knowledge and skills (hard and soft) acquired from the centre.
• Provide practical training to graduates / undergraduates which will enable them to become immediately employable after graduation.
• Provide University lecturers and academics with relevant IT skills they need to deliver quality IT-assisted training to their students.
• Provide opportunity for collaborative work and research among industry and collaborating academic / research institutions.
• Provide consultancy to companies, organisations and governments in our selected areas of core competence.
• Provide outsourcing services – facility, human resources and equipment to needing institutions.
• Carry out research and development work in our selected areas of competence and to disseminate and commercialise the product of such researches to the benefit of its stakeholders and entire humanity.

Our people, made up of the board, management and staff, are our greatest assets. They make us unique and set us apart from the competition. Our board and management consist of well-trained and highly committed professionals who have excelled in their various fields of endeavor including – Banking/Finance, Marketing, ICT, Law, Accounting and Public Sector management. Management Team

• Gibson Mba (Managing Director/CEO): Our management team is led by Gibson Mba. Gibson obtained his B. Sc. in Computer Science from University of Nigeria, Nsukka (1987), his MBA from Enugu State University of Science and Technology (1998) and completed his M. Sc. in Information Technology (Information Security concentration) from the University of Liverpool, England in 2011. He also attended the Senior Management Programme (SMP) of the Lagos Business School. Gibson worked at FSDH Merchant Bank (formerly First Securities Discount House) as its pioneer Head of IT for 21 years. He left FSDH in 2013 to lead the establishment effort of ForeTrust. Prior to joining FSDH, Gibson worked briefly in the Information Technology Unit of Diamond Bank. He joined Diamond Bank from International Computers Ltd (ICL), where he worked for more than three years as senior technical support personnel. In the more than 20 years that Gibson worked as a banker, he supervised successful implementation of many cutting-edge technology projects including two core banking applications and an ERP. He is a researcher in Information Security with focus on Cybercrime, Malware, Botnet and Online Underground Economy. He is a professional member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
• Ejike Okoli (General Manager)