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Pockets: CHIEF MIKE ADENUGA
Watch much TV. Trust me when I say that my mother has tried everything from therapy exorcism that I get off the couch on a daily basis. Just do not understand why she would prefer to concentrate on more mundane things like school, work and marriage. I have to ask, there could be nothing more important than Samurai Jack, Powerpuff Girls on Cartoon Network or series Dirty Sexy Money? Not to mention the news and gossip hot E! Canal? Speaking of which, I have to say, is absolutely absurd how some people make money and what they do with it. Just love the lifestyle of the rich and famous. I mean, some people spend their lives slaving away working for an old man who spend their nights dreaming of murderers. The slaves away from a big paycheck can only buy a pack of gum with it and still have enough change to take Keke Maruwa to work the next morning and holiday plan in your backyard. It sucks! I know and yet, somewhere out there are beautiful, decked out people who spend their days showing her millions of pounds and cots dollars, the latest sports car he won in a game of chance and the ladies strutting around half-naked from their homes. Life is not fair right?
Now I was online chatting with this very, very, very hot Hispanic Facebook (God bless Facebook) when I came across an article very hard and passionate. Then, and how the article, sorry for English not impressed with the way fatter pockets in Nigeria were dispensing their cash. He said schools had yet to be built, roads still need to be fixed, houses still need to be developed and all that. I guess this article is not so recent, but I will not lie to you, and made me think in thought, I did some digging and digging, I did some eating and eating I did some more food before sitting down to the practice of an ancient and noble traditions of our fathers wise and their parents before practice. So … I extended like crazy on TV in front of all that food and snored my way to sleep … but after that, I was involved in an argument with a few friends and associates about the wealth of this country or here … To put it more realistically, the wealth of some of the men and women of this country than here.
Now before starting with my results, I have to ask the writer (s) of the previous article this crucial issue and I wish he or she responds with sincerity and honesty. If you were the one who started from nothing, probably suspended from school and was abandoned or sold by their parents to some encouragement from a single eye, bad, tattoo, the devil worship, mechanical without teeth, broke-ass in a village on the outskirts of Lagos, which tried to negotiate his kidney for a bottle of beer on the people's struggle last time and somehow, providence smiled on you after so many years to bear that horror and today are the main employer in Africa after the years of sweat, hard work, handling and feeding on their ideas and little contact struggling to achieve. There are now thousands of dollars in your account for your children great-grandmother who never have to work a day in their lives. Did you, in all honesty, begin to put right, society and the system did wrong with their own? In seriously … truthfully. It's not that simple mate.
So there I was, chatting with this really hot Hispanic facebook flirt my way into this wonderful complex in my mind when I foolishly ran into the previous article who stabbed my conscience. So I took the liberty to find some websites for me to know the wealth of the land. You know how many billionaires other laying low in Lagos State alone can not, not to mention the country? I saw a comment on CNN a few years ago on debt relief then head of State, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo had proposed and this guru of finance (oyinbo) said: "The tyrant and former Head of State of Nigeria, General Sani Abacha and his subordinates had been diverted so much money in this country that if they wanted, they could cover the debt of the nation and continues to call change. "
More digging led me to this most exclusive and the latest list compiled by a renowned local newspaper. In this list, we have a bit of the old players, the new series and even women who have set up businesses that have provided employment to thousands. We are talking about entrepreneurs who started with just anything, but now sit atop vast fortunes. We are talking about the owners and CEOs who run their own programs that have updated their dreams in the different sectors of the economy.
Now for your enjoyment and envy, I decided to put the spot light deeper into their pockets fatter and Nigeria. I hope that when they see all the problems I had to catapult them will use their mind church or mosque to spread the love.
In the edition of today, will focus on a man who has been classified and declared the front runner of the richest men and women in Nigeria. Valued at $ 6 billion, the employer has their hands in telecommunications, of which your company is the most successful, most famous and popular in his field, banking and oil and gas. Ladies and gentlemen, I speak of the best naija and do not forget the richest … the most dominant name in the list, after all, glo-ing with pride, our own boss, Dr. Michael Adenuga (CEO Globacom, ETB Bank Conoil).
Born April 29, 1953, Michael Adeniyi Isola Adenuga had his secondary education at Grammar School Ibadan, Ibadan, Oyo State, prior to Northwestern University in Oklahoma and Pace University, New York, both in the United States, where he studied management business. While in the United States, he worked as a taxi driver and security guard to stay in school. At 26 years, Adenuga had already become a millionaire with connections in high places. With his unique style to risks and tenacity of purpose, very quickly began to reap the benefits in the billions. He has Equatorial Trust Bank (ETB) and Consolidated Oil (Conoil), which holds crude oil extraction, refining and marketing.
Dr. Michael raid Adeniyi Isola Adenuga Agbolade risk in the corporate world is a matter of fable and fiction. He is a very daring and adventurous, and has fingers in many pies. He keeps his business strategy in the chest, and as the true disciple of Machiavelli that is, the man thinks the world is a battlefield and has be prepared for some of the time but not all the time with the victory. It is a mountain climber, like the Tibetan monk, who believes that must survive all odds to reach to the top. He started his business with the main products imported and moved largely in real estate investment, which now crosses many world capitals.
His first shot in the consciousness of Nigerians was when his company, Consolidated Oil (Conoil) became the first Indian company to strike of crude oil in December 1991. He has recently made inroads in the telecommunications sector. With its Communications Investment Limited, CIL, was issued a conditional license in 1999 and the frequencies to operate the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM). The license was subsequently revoked. Again, when in 2002 the government through The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), organized the auction for new GSM license, the CIL participated and was one of four that won the bid. He paid the mandatory deposit of $ 20,000,000.
However, in the process of effecting the release of final payment of $ 265 million, the company was considered not paid within stipulated time. CIL lost both the license and deposit of $ 20 million, but never weakened his iron will. After a controversial attempt had its fingers burned, and lost about $ 20M on the process of achieving a telecommunications license, enough to make most bankrupt people and possibly make them nuts. Instead of going home to lick his wounds in silence, Adenuga soon returned to another bid, never care that its main competitors were already way ahead of him. He later went to tender for the second national operator (SNO) license, and deposited another $ 20 million. This time I was lucky. He ignored the distractions and detractors, and marched on as the old Roman soldier. According to a report I read in a local magazine around 1992, without its critics, including his mother had warned against investing in oil exploration, which he felt was a gamble no sense. But Adenuga was ready to play Russian roulette. Like the bull (his zodiac sign is Taurus) Adenuga was relentless.
Incredible stories have been told about his amazing work capacity. He has been known to personally interview his multitude of staff, paying primary attention to the daily operations of their businesses. Many wonder if he has time to sleep, and how he manages to enjoy a small fragment of his great wealth. It is said to be generous to a fault, and ruthless towards incompetent officers of his vast business empire. Many have complained about their lack of access and insist that it over-relies on his personal staff some of whom may not be able to tell the truth always, nor give the true picture of events when crucial.
No doubt about chief Globacom, Dr. Mike Adenuga, being in league of billionaires. In fact, some say that with the telecommunications firm, which could have become so even within a month. It was a bit of an uphill task Ijebu discovered this man's value, especially as they rarely talk about their wealth or grant press interviews.
When banking was becoming fashion Nigeria, and most investors do not know what to do with a license, Adenuga only took two, and began to DEVCOM Merchant Bank and Equatorial Trust Bank. Many years below the line, because even the largest banks in trouble gaining the required level N25Billion recapitalization, Adenuga surprised the industry effort when he simply merged its two banks and fulfilled all righteousness as required by our Central Bank, and became its two banks to Equatorial Trust Bank.
Also, when Nigerians were allowed to bid for oil wells, Adenuga was afraid to go for both on-shore and off-shore licenses. Features some of our people, who alleged that he cashed in on his powerful contacts within the military elite in power to win the best sites, and that while the voice belonged to Jacob, his hand clearly was that of Esau, as if he had refused those opportunities if they came in their way. Nobody was willing to consider their abilities, and their propensity to work hard. He confounded his detractors when oil became consolidated into a national business all to discover oil in commercial quantities, and held the lead after many years as sponsors called left office. We must learn to give honor to whom we owe, and try to encourage hard work. Given the same opportunities, many have struggled to excel as Adenuga.
As an entrepreneur who dared where others feared, Adenuga wealth increases for GSM calls. His business of property and shares in the company through several countries of Western Europe, America Middle East and North. The son of a shrewd businessman, the late Ma Oyinkansola Adenuga, 54-year-old Adenuga is a shrewd businessman, who ventured into telecommunications at a time when the industry was going through teething problems. After having gone through thick and thin in the industry to leave the second national carrier Instead, his Globacom is ruling Nigeria, and perhaps the world, as its name implies, like its owner smiles the bank.
He won the bid in August 2002 through his Globacom Limited. The ONS has a wider range of operations, Globacom has right to operate as a national carrier, operating digital mobile lines, serve as international gateway for telecommunications in the country and operate fixed wireless phones.
Adenuga, who will rule in the coming years, especially with his Conoil, Equatorial Trust Bank Plc (ETB), Globacom and other investments in the country and overseas.
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