Building Africa's aviation future — one hangar, one scholarship at a time.
Isaac David Balami is a Nigerian aircraft maintenance engineer and founder of the 7Star Global Group, whose private maintenance hangar carries the largest operational specification in West and Central Africa. He spent eight years reforming aviation-worker welfare as National President of NAAPE, and now channels more than half his income into the Isaac Balami Foundation.
Three pillars, one throughline
Engineering discipline, entrepreneurial ambition, and a personal debt to the community he came from.
Aviator
Certified aircraft maintenance engineer and former National President of the National Association of Aircraft Pilots and Engineers (NAAPE), leading an eight-year reform of the profession's standing and welfare.
Entrepreneur
Founder and CEO of the 7Star Global Group — spanning aircraft MRO, a premium airline in development, an aeronautics university, apparel, and e-commerce.
Reformer
Founder of the Isaac Balami Foundation and the Nigeria Rebirth Foundation, committing over half his income to supporting orphans, widows, and underserved youth.
A portfolio built on aviation
From aircraft maintenance to a university in the sky — five ventures under one founder.
7Star Global Hangar
West & Central Africa's largest independent AMO
A privately owned Approved Maintenance Organization (AMO) facility carrying the largest operational specification of any independent aircraft MRO in West and Central Africa.
7Star Global Airlines
The First African Premium Airline
A premium air travel venture positioned to bring elevated service standards to African commercial aviation.
Isaac Balami University of Aeronautics and Management
Africa's first privately owned aeronautics university
Trains globally competent aviators and aviation managers with over 1,000 hours of annual flight-simulation experience on Boeing, Lockheed, and Rolls-Royce technology, graduating students with a university degree and an Aircraft Piloting License.
Registered in April 2012 with Nigeria's Corporate Affairs Commission and headquartered in Wuse 2, Abuja, the Foundation exists to change lives and transform communities through carefully structured programming.
Explore the FoundationOrphans & widows directly supported
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Foundation registered
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