Due to his brilliance and diligence, he was sponsored by the company to Liverpool for a two year managerial course in shipping. On completion of his course, he returned to Nigeria and was promoted to managerial level, a cadre occupied by only Europeans at that time. He later rose to become the overall export manager until 1967 when the Nigerian Civil War truncated his career. After the war in 1970 he was immediately engaged by Nigma-Ship Agencies Ltd, an indigenous shipping company where he eventually retired as the sea and export manager in 1982. An epitome of honesty and transparency right from birth, he once told us a story of how he wrote a letter when he was in primary school to his father requesting for money to buy a geography book titled “The world and its people”. The letter was read and translated to his father by a semi-literate uncle who told the father that Michael his son said he should send him money to buy the whole world and all the people inside. The father was confused and dumbfounded but because of the absolute trust he had in his son, he still sent him the money but requested him to bring the world and the people inside to him after purchasing it. Late Chief Michael Iheanacho Eziakonwa and the late wife, Lolo Dorathy Ahunna Eziakonwa were blessed with eight (8) children whom they strived to give very sound education even with their not very buoyant resources. As a community lender, he piloted the affairs of Umuohie/Umukabi development union in Lagos for many years. His immense contributions to the development of Okpala Autonomous Community culminated in his being crowned with a Chieftaincy title of “Okaa Omee 1” by the late Eze Dickson Okereke. He was a devoted Christian until he breathed his last in the year 1995.