Biography
CHIOMA IFEANYI-EZE: FROM AN ACCOUNTANT TO A TEACHER AND AN ENTREPRENEUR
HER BEGINNING
Chioma Ifeanyi-Eze, the woman with a quiet but steady fire was born on September 5, 1980, in Jos, a cool city in Plateau State, in central Nigeria. Her family is from Owerri, Imo State, in the South-East of the country. She grew up as the second of three children in a home that valued hard work, discipline and learning. At 14, Chioma lost her father. Her father’s death was one loss that changed the family and spurred her to grow up faster. Those early years shaped her quietly determined spirit. She learned to make plans, keep faith, and take responsibility for her future. https://techparley.com/chioma-ifeanyi-eze
HER EDUCATION
Although information about Chioma’s primary school is not quite known in the public domain, available information has it that she attended Air Force Girls Military School, Jos for her secondary education. https://web.facebook.com/chioma.ifeanyieze/posts/this-is-my-secondary-school-these-are-pictures-from-my-secondary-schoolit
The school’s structure and strict routines helped in forming the habits she would later use in her career and business – punctuality, discipline, and the value of small daily actions that add up to big results. Her time in Air Force Girls Military School also taught her the value of teamwork and leadership; skills she would eventually rely on as she builds teams and teaches/mentors thousands of students and entrepreneurs.
After secondary school, Chioma Ifeanyi-Eze got admitted into the University of Jos where she studied Accounting and Finance. She recorded outstanding academic awards, graduating tops in her class and faculty in both her first degree and masters programmes. She also bagged professional awards during her professional examinations – a clear indication that numbers were not just rules on paper, but stories about people and businesses. Her formal training gave her technical grounding in audit, tax, management accounting, and of course the confidence to teach those skills in simple method to others.
Chioma also advanced professionally by becoming associated with major Nigerian accounting bodies and completing the rigorous exams that professional accountants take to prove competence e.g. ICAN. These qualifications helped open doors for her in big firms and gave her the credibility that she would use to speak to business owners and trainees about money and taxes as a Chartered Accountant and Chartered Tax Practitioner. https://businessday.ng/interview/women-in-business/article/women-in-business-chioma-ifeanyi-eze
HER EARLY CAREER
Chioma started her career journey in Lagos, the ever busy, commercial and corporate heartbeat of Nigeria. She interned at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), one of the world’s top professional services firms. Working at PwC gave her a front-row view of how big companies keep their books, organize controls, and handle complex financial problems. It also taught her how to manage deadlines and stand accountable to clients.
Later, Chioma held finance roles in banking and tech. She worked at companies such as then BankPHB (now Keystone Bank) and Jumia Nigeria, where she served as a Finance Manager and at times headed finance functions. These roles exposed her to different types of businesses, from traditional banks to fast moving e-commerce platforms, and showed her the common problem many small business owners face, e.g., poor bookkeeping and weak financial decisions.
THE TURNING POINT: LEAVING A STEADY JOB TO SOLVE A SIMPLE PROBLEM
After about eleven years in paid employment, Chioma Ifeanyi-Eze came to a clear realization that many small businesses fail or stay small, not because they lack ideas, but because they do not understand their numbers. She saw shop owners, freelancers and start-ups make costly decisions without real data. She realized she could make a bigger impact by helping many businesses at once through teaching and building services that simplify accounting. That idea pulled her out of paid employment into entrepreneurship.
In 2016, she launched AccountingHub, a company that blends practical bookkeeping services with simple teaching. AccountingHub started as a bookkeeping firm that used digital tools to deliver affordable, accurate accounting for small and growing businesses. Chioma built AccountingHub with the belief that accounting should not be a mystery.
It should be a tool business owners can use to make better choices and business decisions. AccountingHub quickly garnered clients and trust because it offered clear reports, simple explanations, and a service that fit small business budgets. https://chiomasbusinessschool.com
THE BIRTH OF CHIOMA BUSINESS SCHOOL AND DATA ENTRY ACADEMY
Helping business owners one-on-one was good, but teaching many people at scale was considered better and more impactful. Chioma used social media, short courses and live workshops to package her knowledge in ways that ordinary business owners could use. From doing that, Chioma Business School (CBS), an online business school where she teaches topics such as bookkeeping, business setup, tax basics, pricing, payroll, and digital tools for running a business was birthed.
The courses are short and practical because they focused on what someone needs to do, and not just theory. Her style is hands-on. She shows how to set up a ledger, create a simple profit and loss statement, or register for tax.
In 2020 and beyond, Chioma’s work expanded into teaching digital workplace skills. She launched the Data Entry Academy to teach practical office skills like spreadsheets, digital recordkeeping, fast and accurate data entry, documentation practices, and other skills that employers value in simple, Montessori style. The Data Entry Academy became especially relevant in the age of remote work and digital hiring.
Thousands of students enrolled across multiple cohorts, and many have gone on to win freelance contracts, secure remote jobs, or improve operations in their jobs and businesses. The academy showcases Chioma’s belief that practical, teachable skills create jobs and income fast.
WINNING GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS AND RECOGNITION: THE PROOF THAT HER IDEA WORKS
Chioma Ifeanyi-Eze’s impactful work has attracted attention and support from several respected organizations. In 2024, she was selected as a Mastercard Foundation EdTech Fellow, a program that supports education technology initiatives that increase learning and employability for young people across Africa. The fellowship offered mentorship, resources and a wider network for scaling the Data Entry Academy.
That same year, her work with Data Entry Academy won a high profile prize. At Cascador 2024, a program that supports and funds entrepreneurs in Nigeria, she was awarded the Impact Award (a $20,000 prize) in recognition of the academy’s measurable social impact in improving digital literacy and employability. Cascador’s acknowledgement highlighted how the Data Entry Academy helps place people in real jobs and reduces the gap between training and work. Other media and industry sites have reported this win.
She has also attracted support from the Tony Elumelu Foundation through her entrepreneurship networks and mentorship programs and other local partners who noticed the practical outcomes of her training programmes. These links and recognitions has helped AccountingHub and the Data Entry Academy to scale and reach more learners.
AWARDS, NOMINATIONS AND PUBLIC PRAISE
Beyond grants, Chioma Ifeanyi-Eze’s name has appeared in lists, interviews and award nominations that show how the market and media value her work. She has been featured in BusinessDay, The Guardian, TechParley, The Sun Nigeria, and other outlets that tell her story and highlight the number of entrepreneurs she has trained and the businesses she has helped.
These profiles explain how her clear teaching style and practical services earned her the affectionate title “The Queen of Simplified Accounting” in some circles.
Her public social media pages – Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram are active hubs where she posts lessons, short guides, “Maad Marketing” strategies and success stories from mentees, students and clients. These pages also document her awards, fellowship milestones, and key public talks or conference appearances.
REAL IMPACT IN NUMBERS, JOBS AND STORIES
Numbers matter, not to make us proud, but to help measure outcomes. Going by the reports from public profiles and programme pages, AccountingHub has supported hundreds of small businesses with bookkeeping and advisory work. The Data Entry Academy has trained thousands of participants across many cohorts. Aggregate figures in public materials show training numbers in the thousands counted across multiple batches and programmes.
Many graduates report getting remote jobs, freelance gigs, or better roles in local companies, thanks to the practical skills they learned. These outcomes are the undeniable proof that Chioma Ifeanyi-Eze’s method: simple training + real practice = real jobs works.
Beyond those trained, AccountingHub’s clients often tell a similar story. After getting basic bookkeeping and financial statements, they could see where their money was going, how to price products, and how to plan for taxes. For many small business owners, that clarity has led to small changes that is growing revenue and reducing losses. Chioma’s expertise is weighed on the grounds that, even though she has raised her one-on-one consultation fee to about 400,000 thousand naira for two hours and over 1,000,000 per speaking engagement, she still cannot attend to all the people that are seeking her expert advice because a lot of people want to pick her brain on how to scale their business numbers.
Chioma Ifeanyi-Eze likes to tell the story of a shop owner or a small restaurant who, after using AccountingHub’s simple monthly reports, discovered a hidden cost and fixed it, a change that made the difference between breaking even and making a profit. Those stories are small victories but they add up.
THEN CAME “FRESH EGGS MARKET”
Chioma Ifeanyi-Eze’s untiring brain conceived came up with yet another landmark business – the Fresh Eggs Market, an egg depot which was launched on 6th June, 2025 located in island part of Lagos. Fresh Eggs Market sells fresh farm eggs to retailers, confectioneries and end-consumers at farm price. The value of launching this business is measured in the massive patronage that even puts pressure on them as to being able to meet the daily orders from their customers.
HER LIFE PHILOSOPHY
Chioma Ifeanyi-Eze’s life and work flow from a few clear beliefs:
- Teach simply. She believes complex ideas become useful only when explained in simple language. That is why her courses break accounting into steps any busy person can follow.
- Train for jobs, not just certificates. The Data Entry Academy focuses on skills that employers actually hire for: fast typing, spreadsheet, documentation, and recordkeeping.
- Dignity through work. She believes everyone should have access to work that pays and respects them. This shows in her focus on women and youth who often juggle many responsibilities and need quick, practical ways to earn.
- Start small, scale steady. She encourages entrepreneurs to begin with what they have, learn the numbers, and grow step by step. This practical, low-risk approach resonates with many of Nigeria’s small business owners.
These principles guide how she builds courses, runs AccountingHub, and chooses partnerships. Her teaching is never about impressing, but more about enabling.
HER PERSONAL LIFE: FAMILY, EVERYDAY CHOICES, AND BALANCE
Behind the public profile, Chioma Ifeanyi-Eze is a wife and mother. She often mentions family in interviews and social posts and from there, you can deduce her love and respect for her husband, Mr. Eze as well as her devotion to her four kids. She balances business, teaching, and home life just like many working parents – with routines and help from family and domestic hands.
In many of her talks, she shares honest moments: the challenge of meeting a deadline with a crying baby, or the small rituals that keep her energy up. Those human details make her teaching relatable as it shows that she is both a professional and a person with life demands and struggles like other people.
CHALLENGES AND LESSONS: THE HONEST PARTS OF HER STORY
Chioma’s journey has not been all wins. Leaving her paid job to start a business meant risking steady income and to face months of possible tight bills Scaling the training programmes must have taken its toll in terms of systems, staff, and repeated tweaking of the curriculum. Winning grants and fellowships must have taken some persistence. For one, she had to apply more than once before success came. But then, she treated every rejection as feedback to improve her product and the pitch.
One story she has shared publicly is about persistent effort in applying to the Tony Elumelu Foundation multiple times before succeeding, and how those “no’s” taught her to sharpen her offerings. This persistence is a running theme in her work: “keep improving, keep teaching, keep reaching learners”.
TESTIMONIALS
Students often describe Chioma as patient and practical. Partners say she focuses on measurable outcomes. Media outlets note her ability to translate professional practice into mass training programmes. Followers on social media (especially Facebook) says her page is a classroom where they learn “Maad Marketing” strategies and the importance of numbers in business. These four perspectives mirror each other and attest to the that Chioma Ifeanyi-Eze’s work sits at the meeting point of professional accounting, business support, and practical training. That’s a rare place! The press coverage, from BusinessDay to The Guardian and TechParley, etc. shows that her idea is both newsworthy and impactful.
PLANS AND POSSIBILITIES
Chioma Ifeanyi-Eze’s goals are practical and bold. She wants to scale the Data Entry Academy and AccountingHub so they reach more towns and more countries across Africa. Her aim is not only to teach skills but to create a pipeline that will train people, help them get work, and connect them to employers or platforms that pay.
The Cascador award, the Mastercard fellowship and other supports serve that aim. They have given her the resources and networks to test new approaches, measure outcomes, and expand impact. If current trends continue, her work could place thousands more people into decent, paying jobs in the next few years.
With Fresh Eggs Market, Chioma Ifeanyi-Eze is looking to the future where they can sell up to 10,000 crates of eggs daily. That future is driving her to setting up large poultry and partnering with more farmers who can deliver large numbers of crates of eggs to Fresh Eggs Market.
ON A FINAL NOTE
The story of Chioma Ifeanyi-Eze is not only about awards or businesses. It is about the steady work of breaking big ideas into simple steps and teaching others to apply them. It is about a woman who has chosen to make complex accounting useful to ordinary people.
Her life is a testament that a practical idea made of clear language, patient teaching and the courage to leave a comfort zone can become a source of jobs and dignity for many.
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