NAIRAMETRICS
One of the hottest topics among netizens in recent weeks is the shutdown of Lazerpay, a web3 and crypto payment company, that was transforming crypto payment experiences for individuals and businesses across the world. The CEO and co-founder of Lazerpay is Emmanuel Njoku, an audacious young man, who dropped out of school at age 19 to fund the startup.
Emmanuel Njoku was born and raised in Port Harcourt, Rivers State Nigeria. He would recount that his family was pretty competitive and so, he always put extra effort into his studies. Born to an engineer father and a school teacher mother, Njoku had no choice but to become a whizkid, especially in mathematics. He represented his school in the mathematics olympiad and won several medals. He also had childhood dreams of becoming a medical doctor, but all of that changed when he encountered coding at the age of 13 in 2015.
“I learnt coding as a fun activity. I have an aunt who came to our house in Port Harcourt for her Industrial Training, so she stayed with us for a while. She introduced us to programming with easy, fun and relatable activities” he recounted.
From this point, the dream to study medicine no longer seemed as clear as it used to be. By the time he wrote and passed his General Certificate Examination (GCE), he started devoting more time to his coding practice and leaving his academics behind. At this time, he had learnt the C++ coding language and could use it to build games. In 2017, he wrote his final secondary school exams and cleared all his papers, with an A+ in mathematics and further mathematics.
