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Ikechukwu (Ike) Agbor was born in Otulu in Oru Local Government Area of Imo State in Nigeria. He went to the University of Benin where he studied Electrical Engineering. He was a student activist and at various times represented the faculty of engineering in the university's student union government and the national engineering association. He was nicknamed the Obi of UNIBEN because of similarity in names with the deceased Obi of Agbor—Ikechukwu.
He migrated to the United States to pursue advanced degrees, majoring in wireless communications and Signal Processing. He later worked for Nortel Networks starting as a Radio Frequency Engineer and a Senior Member of Scientific Staff in the emerging technology of UMTS with the very first release 99. He moved back to Nigeria as an expatriate to oversee the rollout and implementation of the CDMA wireless telephony network of Reltel (a startup) in 2001. At Reltel now Zoommobile, he was the Project Manager for the rollout of its network in Lagos and was later appointed the CEO at a point when the company needed to streamline and focus its operations for the revolution that it introduced with the slash-price ownership of telephone sets in Nigeria; a revolution that saw the crash of the cost of owning a telephone set, the first of its kind.
At the completion of his contract with Reltel, he ventured into politics and vied to represent Ohaji/Egbema, Oguta, Oru West Federal Constituency in 2003. In an election observed by all and sundry as having been won by him, soldiers were drafted to the collating centers and were instructed to stop him from being declared the winner. That election was the first scare that Ogbuagu Arthur Nzeribe experienced in his numerous forays in the National Assembly as the successful challenge of his candidate would have signaled his, Nzeribe's political decline. The results of the election were rewritten right in Ike's presence with guns drawn by soldiers, while the restless crowd that supported him milled around and had decided to storm the Local Government headquarters to burn it down if the will of the people were not upheld.
He calmed his supporters down to the surprise of the soldiers who were even more ready to cause even greater mayhem that could have resulted in loss of lives, and hell did not break loose after all.
He was courted by PDP thereafter in an era when others who were cheated in similar fashions and different circumstances were "settled", but he did not want any of that and also felt that an extensive court battle to reclaim his mandate was a sheer waste of time. He returned to the United States two months after the elections and back to his profession. He has spent time in India, Puerto Rico, Honk Kong, Canada and Thailand in various wireless telephony projects and currently consulting for various companies in meeting the U.S Congress mandated E911 Phase II compliance while also designing and testing the architecture of the emergent 4G wireless technology of WiMAX and LTE. He is also a consultant in CALEA (legal intercept) of cellular telephony.
Ike is married to Maureen Agbor since 15 years and counting and they are parents of four kids: Chisom 12, Chinaza 10, Chidalu 8 and Chioma 5. Ike is the author of "Kisses from America"; a romantic genre of a novel that chronicled the love life of Nina who was born in America but returned to Nigeria with her parents and fell in love and dreamt of her life back in America with her beau but it was never to be…..
