After attending and graduating from university in the US , Opeke held a number of ICT roles at leading US telecommunications and tech firms , including Verizon ( where she spent several years as the company ’ s Executive Director of Verizon Communications Wholesale Division ) for two decades before returning to Nigeria in 2005 . Once home , she took a role as the Chief Technology Officer of MTN , one of the country ’ s leading telecom service providers .

In 2008 , Opeke left MTN and founded Mainstreet Technologies ( now MainOne ), where she currently serves as the company ’ s Chief Executive Officer . Since her return to Nigeria , she has reflected in several interviews about her longstanding desire to see the country ’ s digital and telecommunications infrastructure developed to a point where it would solve problems for the people of Nigeria , rather than create them . Nigeria ' s Internet presence is now a growing space for new international business opportunities . Opeke is often credited as having largely driven that change . datacentremagazine . com 19