THE INSPIRING STORY OF MIKE ADENUGA.

Mike Adenuga

Mike AdenugaBornMichael Adeniyi Agbolade Ishola Adenuga
29 April 1953 (age 63)
Ibadan, Oyo, NigeriaResidenceBanana Island, Ikoyi, Lagos, Lagos State, NigeriaNationalityNigerianEducationIbadan Grammar SchoolAlma materNorthwestern Oklahoma State University
Pace UniversityOccupationFounder of Globacom, Chairman of ConoilNet worth$5.8 billion (2017)[1]Children7

Michael Adeniyi Agbolade Ishola Adenuga Jr (born 29 April 1953) is a Nigerian business tycoon, and the second richest person in Nigeria. His companyGlobacom is Nigeria's second-largest telecom operator, and also has a presence in Ghana and Benin. He also owns stakes in the Equitorial Trust Bankand the oil exploration firm Conoil (formerly Consolidated Oil Company). Forbeshas estimated his net worth at $5.8 billion as of 2017,[1] which makes him second wealthiest Nigerian behind Aliko Dangote,as well as the third richest person in Africa.[2]

Early life and educationEdit

His father, the Oloye Michael Agbolade Adenuga Sr, was a school teacher, his mother Juliana Oyindamola Adenuga (née Onashile of Okesopin, Ijebu Igbo) a businesswoman of royal Ijebu descent.

Adenuga received his secondary school education at the Ibadan Grammar School, Ibadan and Comprehensive High School, Aiyetoro for his Higher School Certificate(HSC). He worked as a taxi driver to help fund his university education.[3] He graduated from Northwestern Oklahoma State University andPace University, New York with degrees in Business Administration.

CareerEdit

In 1990, he received a drilling license and in 1991, his Consolidated Oil struck oil in the shallow waters of Southwestern Ondo State, the first indigenous oil company to do so in commercial quantity.

He was issued a conditional GSM licence in 1999; after it was revoked he received a second one when the government held another auction in 2003.[4][5]His telecom company Globacom spread quickly and started challenging the giant MTN Group. It launched services in Benin in 2008, and has continued its spread across Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire, with more licences currently being prospected in other West African countries.

He was named African Entrepreneur of The Year at the maiden African Telecoms Awards (ATA) on 15 August 2007.[6]

In 2009, Adenuga was detained for money laundering by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. Adenuga left the country and lived in London until the Umaru Musa Yar'Adua regime granted him a pardon.[7]

In May 2015, Adenuga made a takeover bid to purchase Ivorian mobile telecom's operator Comium Côte d'Ivoire for $600 million.[8]

In June 2016 it was revealed that Adenuga was being pursued for a combined debt of USD $140.5 million, after his company ConOil failed to pay debts owed to, among others, the French oil giant Total. Bellbop, another company owned by Adenuga, has an interim injunction placed on it by the High Court in Lagos, after failed to pay USD $9.4 million it owed to the US oil and gas firm Baker Hughes.[9]

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