Mike Adenuga is one of Nigeria largest house hold names that ring a bell and has an inspiring tales about his moves to the top as a financial GIANT...

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MIKE ADENUGA

Mike Adenuga Junior (b.April 29, 1953) is the Nigerian cHairman Chief Executice Officer of Globacom.

Adenuga's rise to wealth and accompanying fame is an interesting story. His resolve to succeed against all odds started when, while in America, he worked as a taxi driver and security guard to sustain himself in school.

Born on April 29, 1953, Michael Adeniyi Isola Adenuga had his secondary school education at the Ibadan Grammar School, Ibadan, Oyo State, before proceeding to the North-Western University in Oklahoma and Pace University, New York, both in the United States where he studied business administration.

At age 26, Adenuga had already become a millionaire with connections in high places. With his unique flair for risks and sheer tenacity of purpose, in no time he started reaping profits in billions. He owns Equitorial Trust Bank and Consolidated Oil, which carries out crude oil drilling, refining and marketing.

His first shot into the consciousness of Nigerians was when his company, Consolidated Oil became the first indigenous company to strike crude in December1991. He recently made foray into the telecommunications sector. With his Communications Investment Limited, CIL, he was issued a conditional licence in 1999 and frequencies to operate the Global System of Mobile Communications (GSM). The licence was later revoked. Again, when in 2002, the government through the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), organised new auction for the GSM licence, the CIL participated and was one of the four that won the bid. He paid the $20 million mandatory deposit.

However, in the process of effecting the release of the balance payment of $265 million, the company was adjudged to have failed to pay within stipulated time. CIL lost both the licence and $20 million deposit. He later went on to bid for the Second National Operator (SNO) licence, and deposited another $20 million. This time, he was lucky.

He won the bid in August 2002 through his Globacom Limited. The SNO has a wider range of operations as Globacom has the right to operate as a national carrier, operate digital mobile lines, serve as international gateway for telecommunications in the country and operate fixed wireless access phones.

Adenuga's estate business and company shares traverse several countries in Western Europe, North America and the Middle-East.

There is no question about Globacom chief, Dr. Mike Adenuga, being in the billionaires’ league. Indeed, some say with the telecommunications firm, it could have become so even within one month. It was a bit of an uphill task discovering this Ijebu man’s worth, especially as he rarely discusses his wealth or grants press interviews.

When banking was becoming the vogue in Nigeria, and most investors did not know what to do with one license, Adenuga alone grabbed two, and started Devcom Merchant Bank and Equitorial Trust Bank. Many years down the line, as even the biggest banks struggled to raise the mandatory N25Billion recapitalization, Adenuga effortlessly stunned the industry when he simply merged his two banks and fulfilled all righteousness as demanded by our Central Bank, and his two banks became one Equitorial Trust Bank.

Also, when Nigerians were allowed to bid for oil wells, Adenuga was bold enough to go for both on-shore and off-shore licenses. Characteristic of some of our people, they alleged that he had cashed in on his powerful contacts within the ruling military elite to win the best sites, and that while the voice belonged to Jacob, the hand clearly was that of Esau, as if they would have rejected such opportunities if indeed it came their way. No one was willing to consider his capabilities, or his propensity for hard work. He confounded his traducers when Consolidated Oil became one of the foremost indigenous firms to discover oil in commercial quantities; and he has maintained the lead many years after his so-called sponsors left power. We must learn to give honor to whom it is due, and seek to encourage hard work. Given the same opportunities, many would have found it difficult to excel like Adenuga.

As an entrepreneur who dared where others feared, Adenuga’s wealth increases by GSM calls. His estate business and company shares traverse several countries in Western Europe, North America and the Middle-East. Son of an astute trader, the late Ma Oyinkansola Adenuga, 54-year-old Adenuga is an astute businessman, who dabbled into telecommunications at a time the industry was going through teething problems. Having gone through the thick and thin of the industry to emerge the second national carrier, his Globacom is ruling Nigeria, and perhaps the world, as its name goes, just as its owner smiles to the bank.

He won the bid in August 2002 through his Globacom Limited. The SNO has a wider range of operations as Globacom has the right to operate as a national carrier, operate digital mobile lines, serve as international gateway for telecommunications in the country and operate fixed wireless access phones.

Adenuga will certainly continue to rule in years to come, especially with his Conoil, Equatorial Trust Bank Plc (ETB), GLOBACOM and other investments at home and abroad.

if half of Nigeria women Were like Cicillia Ibru Nigeria would have been richer and more developed than USA.

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Cecilia IBRU

Cecilia Ibru (born on March 22 ,1946) is one of the most powerful women in Nigeria, if not in all of Africa.

Cecilia Ibru: First Lady of Banking.
Cecilia Ibru, managing director and chief executive officer of Oceanic Bank International, one of the fastest and most profitable banks in Nigeria, is by any measure a remarkable person. She confounds all expectations of what a banker must be, except in her ability to make some of the shrewdest decisions in the country’s financial sector.
Ibru herself attributes her success to “a mindset that is dependent on God’s inspiration and the desire to actualise. One thing is to have a vision,” she says, “the other is the ability to dissect it, strategise and achieve it”. Ibru received a BSC (Honours) in Sociology from London University in 1971, a Master of Philosophy from North East London University and a Certificate of Eligibility from the Council of Legal Education in London.She cut her teeth in the business world by working with the Ibru Organisation, founded and headed by her husband, Olorogun Michael Ibru. Even at 61, Cecilia Ibru, who was born one of twins, is still a beautiful woman. Her husband, Michael Ibru, himself a Mohammed Ali look-a-like, is no less a personable individual. She still cherishes the memories of working with him in his company. “He knew what he wanted. But because I worked under him, I think I was rather privileged. He gave me my responsibilities and I discharged them to the best of my ability. We had that kind of mutual expectation that I would always give my best in whatever I was asked to do”. Putting in her best paid off. She became the managing director of Oceanic Bank international in 1997.

Cecilia Ibru is a deeply religious person. She ascribes all her success to her faith and her relationship with God. All the honours and accolades heaped on her have not turned her head; rather they have made her modest. “It (success) makes me fear God more –I don’t want to offend Him” She interprets her award as “people saying to me, I can see something of God in you. They are giving that award to the display of God’s favour in my life. That’s how I see it”.

Highly respected among her peers as the ‘First Lady’ of Nigeria’s banking industry, Ibru is the first female leader to raise her bank’s equity to N25bn, (approx $203m), the first female to head the 5th largest bank and the 9th largest company quoted on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, the first female CEO of a Western Union Agency in West Africa to meet the performance and turnover targets of Western Union, and in year 2000, the first female CEO to post over N1bn profit ($8.143m at today’s value) in a financial statement. In April 2007, Oceanic Bank International came in at number 110 in African Business’ Top 200 African Companies rankings, 12th in the West African sub-region and 16th in sub-Saharan Africa.

Deep religious faith

Despite her modesty, there is no doubt that Cecilia Ibru is one of the most powerful people, not only in Nigeria but throughout Africa. But she is uncomfortable with this description of her. “Well, that is the world’s view, that I am powerful. But I tell you again, that power comes from God”. “Mine is very simple belief,” she states.” I believe God made the world and made me. Therefore if He is my maker, I need to know Him. If everybody testifies that God is wonderful, I need to get closer to Him and know how wonderful He is”. For her, business is all about human beings. “If I am in business and I don’t care for my fellow human beings, I don’t care for my staff, I don’t care for my customers and I don’t care for those I come across, the likelihood is that my business will not prosper”. Another principle she holds on tightly to, one that her husband Olorogun Ibru taught her, is: “Be fair. Be firm. Even as you gain, others should gain”.

She believes that administration is the key to sustainable business. Staff welfare is very important. “Let’s face it. It is the staff who make the business. If the employees are reasonably happy in the sense that they have not just remuneration but job satisfaction, then they will be productive”. Oceanic Bank International has become the most recognisable face of the sprawling Ibru business empire which includes publishing, hotels, manufacturing and the oil and gas sector. Ibru does not feel that she is under any pressure to outdo other enterprises within the empire. She says the founder of the conglomerate, Olorogun Michael Ibru, is a man of wisdom.
“He has given everybody their own responsibilities. Therefore you run with yours. There is no way we criss-cross each other. It is like establishing parallels that need not cut across each other. Everybody is running on his own steam. Who is running fastest, that is the favour of God. That’s the way I look at it.”
Nigeria is a patriarchal society in which women are expected to know their place. But Ibru says that although there have been difficulties with attitudes, her gender has never really got in the way. “My grandfather was a big businessman, so I was used to business. My own father was a lawyer cum businessman who went into politics. And then, of course I am married to one of the business patriarchs of Nigeria. So, relating to men in business was not strange to me. In fact, I reasoned more with my grandfather, my father and my husband than I reason with women”. Like all great leaders, she has an acute eye for detail and never seems to stop working. Can she slow down? “Whatdo you mean can I slow down?” she shot back “People see me and say ‘she is always busy’ and I say to them ‘that is the one you see. When I am resting do you see me?’” She is not one for social outings for the sake of it. “If it is important, I will go out. If it is not, I stay in my house!” Weekends she goes to church, reads and relaxes with her family. “Who says I can’t slow down? What do you mean I slow down?”Go on holidays, for example? “Oh yes, I go on holidays!”

IBRU, Dr. (Mrs.) C. A. O. OFR - Group Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer



In recognition of her numerous contributions to the development of Banking in Nigeria, the Federal Government of Nigeria honoured her with the award of Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR).


She is ranked among Nigeria best products due to HER dynamic banking that habour both the rich and the poor. No wonder there are always long cues and large crowds at each branch of her bank! suitably the BEST!!!

Jim Ovia is one of the Best products produced in Nigeria. Even as his Visafone is also among the best products in Nigeria and beyond.

Nigeria Best product is proud to announce one of Nigeria house hold names, JIM OVIA

Jim Ovia is Co-Founder and pioneer Managing Director/CEO of Zenith Bank Plc. He has over 25 years banking experience.

He is the Chairman of the Nigeria Software Development Initiative (NSDI) and also Chairman, National Information Technology Advisory Committee [NITAC]. He is a member of the Governing Council, Nigerian Investment Promotion Council [NIPC] and also a member of the Honorary International Investor Council.

Jim Ovia is a member of the Governing Council of Lagos State University, Lagos and also a member of the Board of Trustees, Redeemer’s University For Nations, Lagos. He is the proprietor of the proposed University of Information and Communication Technology, Agbor, Delta State; he served on the board of American International School, Lagos [2001 -2003].

Jim Ovia headed various Non-Governmental Organisations [NGO] at various times including being the first President of the Nigeria Internet Group [2001-2003]; member, Tsunami Disaster Relief Committee and co-ordinator Nigerians United To Save Niger Republic [NUSAN].

He is the founder and Chairman of Mankind United to Support Total Education (MUSTE), a philanthropic organization focused on providing scholarship for the less privileged, of which some of the beneficiaries are now qualified Medical Doctors, Lawyers, Engineers etc.

Jim Ovia is also the founder of the ICT Foundation for Youth Empowerment, which focuses on improving the socio-economic welfare of Nigerian Youths by inspiring and motivating them to embrace Information and Communication Technology. The initiative holds annual Youth Empowerment conferences.

In November 2000, Jim Ovia was conferred with the national award of Member of the Order of the Federal Republic (MFR) by the President, Federal Government of Nigeria. He had earlier received the Zik Award for professional leadership in April 1999. He was also conferred with the honorary degree of Doctor of Science [D.Sc) in Finance by the Lagos State University in October, 2005.

Jim Ovia has a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Louisiana, Louisiana, USA in 1979 and a B.Sc degree in Business Administration from Southern University, Louisiana, USA (1977). He is also an Alumnus of Harvard Business School (Executive Management Program).

Jim Ovia is a motivational speaker and has delivered speeches at several conferences. He has authored several published and unpublished works and he is in the vanguard of promotion and propagation of Information and Communication Technology in Nigeria.

Nigeria Best Products IS proud to say that Femi Otedola is a branded name in Nigeria that is among the best product ever produce in nigeria

Nigeria as a country need world class industrialists that can easily aid both human development and economy advancement. This is why THE NIGERIA BEST PRODUCTS Present
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Femi Otedola is the Nigerian President Chief Executive officer of Zenon Petroleum and Gas limited.
In 2009, he joined Aliko Dangote on World's Richest List (Forbes magazine) with an estimated worth of 1.2 Billion Dollars.

Femi Otedola is the billionaire owner of multi-billion naira indigenous oil giant Zenon.
Zenon, which is directly ran by Otedola is the dominant force in diesel business among oil marketing concerns. It supplies this all important fuel used to power the generating sets of most Nigerian industries to nearly all the major manufacturing firms in the country. These include Dangote Group, Cadbury, Coca Cola, Nigerian Breweries, MTN, Unilever, Nestle, Guinness among others. Otedola is the son of former Lagos State governor, Sir. Michael Otedola. Otedola owns one of the largest oil storage facility which he purchased for N2.8 billion. He bought hundred brand new trucks purchased for N1.3 billion to strengthen the distributive arm of his business and acquired a massive flat bottom bunker vessel with a storage capacity of 16, 000 metric tonnes of diesel for 6.8 million dollars. Zenon owns four cargo ships. He owns Atlas Shipping Agency, Swift Insurance, FO Properties Limited, FO Transport.

He is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Zenon Petroleum and Gas, the company that is currently sitting at the commanding heights of the nation's diesel and kerosene business.

Otedola started Zenon few years ago and within a short time seized control of the market. Today he has become the pacesetter in the downstream sector while expanding the frontiers of competition. NNPC Group Managing Director, Engr. Funso Kupoloku acknowledged this much when he said Zenon was now the company to beat in the downstream sector.

From nowhere, Zenon is today rated among the top five companies in the country, with a huge turnover .
But how did he do it many have asked? In an interview some years ago he attributed his phenomenal leap to “hard-work and staying focused on what you want and going all out to get it."

He exhibited patriotic sentiments in the same interview when he said: "We are investing our money here, to create job opportunities for people. Nobody is going to take the money outside the country."

His company appeared to have fully prepared itself for the deregulation of the petroleum sector as evidenced in its purchases. Buying three cargo ships in quick succession to bring its total number of ships to four. All named after his parents and wife. MT Sir Michael (his father), MT Lady Doja (his mother), MT Nana (his wife). His latest, he named Zenon Conquest. Energy experts say Zenon's expansion is to consolidate its competitive edge in the market.

Apart from being the biggest diesel and kerosene marketer in Nigeria today, he is said to be the biggest ship owner in the country. Which partly explains his nomination as President of Nigeria Chambers of Shipping, a powerful and highly influential body in the maritime sector. The oil baron and shipping magnate also bought 100 brand new DAF trucks from Netherlands to strengthen his distribution arm. Zenon now boasts of a total storage capacity of more than 147,000 metric tonnes total holding of diesel making it the biggest depot owner with the largest single storage capacity in the country.

He is also the owner of Atlas Shipping Agency, Swift Insurance, FO Properties Limited, FO Transport and Seaforce Shipping Company Ltd. His appointment last year into the board of Nigeria Investment and Promotion Council, NIPC, observers believe, is the President’s vote of confidence on the young man's business abilities. It is for this that he was also nominated by the President on the team of top Nigerian businessmen to go on an investment drive to South Africa They are essentially to meet and interact with the south African business community and the South African President, President Thabo Mbeki.

On his part, Otedola contributed well over N100 million to the President’s re-election expenses. And under the aegis of friends of Obasanjo and Atiku, he contributed N25 towards the rehabilitation of the National Mosque in Abuja. He was one of the co-launcher of Obasanjo Presidential Library, where donated N200 million. He is said to have direct access to the President.

No matter how we see it, these enterprenuers are worth reading and searching for.
They have a unique way of pushing their names into the homes of Nigerians and making their products necessity. These are some of the reasons we need to learn from them.
Definitely the next brand of enterprenuers will be ten times greater than these once. so lets know what makes them great...

Oba Otudeko is one of the BEST PRODUCT OF NIGERIA that worth emulating in business and academic wise.

Nigeria best product is proud to present

AYOOLA OBA OTUDEKO, OFR
FCA, FCIB, FCIS (Hons), D.Sc (Hons)

Born on 18th August 1943, Oba Otudeko started his career as a banker at Cooperative Bank Plc., Ibadan in 1960. Professionally, he is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers, UK; Fellow of the Institute of Chartered and Corporate Accountants, UK; Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Nigeria and Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators of Nigeria. He formally disengaged from Cooperative Bank in 1983 to focus his attention on the family’s fledgling trading business. For over twenty years, he has been Chairman of the Honeywell Group, which he has nurtured into a conglomeration of highly successful businesses, comprising investments in energy, foods, infrastructure, real estate and services. An astute and highly visionary investor cum entrepreneur, his domestic and foreign interests cut across diverse economic sectors. In September 2006, he was elected the 16th President of the Nigerian Stock Exchange thereby assuming the responsibility of inspiring step change transformation of the Nigerian capital market.

Oba Otudeko is presently Chairman of the Boards of FBN Bank (UK) Limited, First Trustees Nigeria Limited, Fan Milk of Nigeria Plc., and the Nigeria-South Africa Chamber of Commerce. He was the founding Chairman of Econet Wireless Nigeria Limited and remains a director of Celtel Nigeria Limited. Furthermore, Oba is a director of First Bank of Nigeria Plc., Lagos Sheraton Hotel, Nigerian-Netherlands Chamber of Commerce, and Khalil & Dibbo (Haulage) Limited.

As a public-spirited leader, he was formerly Chairman of the National Maritime Authority; Director, Central Bank of Nigeria; Member, Constituent Assembly responsible for drafting a new Constitution, 1988 to 1989, and Council Member, Manufacturers’ Association of Nigeria. Outside Nigeria, he holds directorship positions in private companies operating in real estate, international trade and finance, including the West Africa Banking Group, Ecobank Transnational Inc., Togo.

Over the years, he has attended management courses at several prestigious institutions, amongst which are the Harvard Business School, the International Institute for Management Development in Lausanne Switzerland, and the Arthur D. Little School of Management.

Presently, he is the Chancellor, Olabisi Onabanjo University (formerly Ogun State University), Ago-Iwoye in Nigeria and a member of the Africa Regional Advisory Board of London Business School.

In recognition of his many contributions to the economic and social development of Nigeria, Oba Otudeko has, at various times, been conferred with many awards and honours. Among such honours and awards are: Member of the Order of the Federal Republic (MFR) in 2000 from the Federal Republic of Nigeria, which was upgraded to the Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR) in 2003; Honorary Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) from Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye; Paul Harris Fellow Award of Rotary International; Honorary Citizen of Dallas Texas, USA, and Honoured Citizen of Meziara, Lebanon, amongst other awards

Sector involve in are;

Honeywell Group is a diversified conglomerate of businesses and manages its portfolio along clearly defined Sectors. These enables the group to integrate the activities of the Unit companies within and across these sectors and to ensure more effective corporate governance in order to achieve and manage value creation in a sustainable manner for the entire Group.

The Sectors in which Honeywell Group operates are: Energy Engineering Foods Services Real Estate In addition, through other Portfolio investments, Honeywell Group is a significant provider of capital to other sectors of Nigeria’s economy including Banking and Telecommunications. ON THAT NOTE; The Chairman of the Honeywell Group, Dr. Oba Otudeko, OFR, has been named the Entrepreneur of the Year at the recently held THISDAY Awards 2009. The award, which is in its 14th year, was instituted by Leaders and Company Ltd, (publishers of THISDAY newspaper) to identify notable Nigerians who have excelled in their various spheres of endeavour.

Aliko Dangote, the No1 best product produced in Nigeria that is found in every home in Nigeria and beyond.

Nigeria Best Product is Proud to Present ALHAJI ALIKO DANGOTE [CON] the worthy icon that Nigerians need to emulate so as to totally eliminate unemployment and poverty from Nigeria. it is goods of necessity that necessitate money into our pocket and economy.
We can't deny it that Nigeria Need industrialists just as Dangote so as to be properly Developed.

Alhaji Aliko Dangote (CON)

is the Group President/CEO. He is a graduate of Business Studies from the Al-Azahar University, Cairo, Egypt and the founder/Chief Executive Officer of the Dangote Group, which he transformed from a small trading business he started in 1977 to a multi-billion naira conglomerate spanning the West African sub region.

In recognition of his contributions to the growth of the Nigerian economy and his philanthropy, he has been conferred with several awards including the prestigious ZIK Award for professional leadership (1992), the International Award of Sir Ahmadu Bello, the Cross River State Roll of Honour Award (2002) and the Thisday Newspapers Award for Chief Executive Officer of the Year (2005). He was conferred with the national honour of Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON) in 2000 and Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON) in 2005.

Alhaji Aliko Dangote serves on the Boards of the National Council of Nigerian Vision, Mohammed Bello Endowment for Justice and Jurisprudence, Kano Foundation, the Nigerian Economic Summit Group, African Petroleum Plc, National Investment Promotion Council and the Heart of Africa (a management group on Nigeria Image Project), etc.

This is the No 1 Nigeria best products with a very simple but mountain moving mision;

Mission

Touch the lives of people by providing their basic needs.

• The DANGOTE GROUP is a leading and corporate responsible organisation in West Africa with its operational headquarters in the bustling metropolis of Lagos, Nigeria. The GROUP is one of Nigeria’s foremost-diversified business conglomerates, with a hard- earned reputation for excellent business practices and product quality.
  
  
• The GROUP’s activities are in manufacturing, imports, exports, commodity trading and property development. To support the GROUP’s business activities, it has set up one of the most extensive distribution networks in Nigeria consisting of Regional offices and a fleet of about 1000 tractor-trailers units.
  
  
• Since inception, the GROUP has experienced phenomenal growth resulting from the quality of its goods and services, its focus on cost leadership and efficiency of its human capital. Thus, from a modest beginning, DANGOTE GROUP has grown into a multi-billion Naira company focusing on the essential needs of food, shelter and clothing.

About Dangote Group

A Brief History

The foundation stone of what is known as Dangote Group was laid in the late 1970s. The formative years started with ALCO International Limited. Subsequently, Dangote Nigeria Limited was incorporated. During 1980s-1990s, the Group ventured into the importation of sugar, milk, flour, fish, rice, cement and iron rods. In order to improve our service delivery and bracing up with stiff market competition, the Group embarked on haulage business, which started with 600 trucks under Dangote Transport.

Dangote Industries Limited was incorporated in order to have a strategic option of sustaining the Group’s market leadership in trading commodities to that of a leading manufacturer of man’s essential needs of food, clothing and shelter. The paradigm shift was focused on the following: sugar refining, flour milling, pasta production, salt processing, bulk cement bagging, oil and gas, real estate, propylene bags, haulage, textiles, maritime operations and telecommunications.

A Success Story in a Developing Economy

Dangote Group is currently the largest industrial conglomerate in West Africa and one of the largest in Africa. It generated revenue in excess of $1.255B in 2005. The group is one of the foremost diversified business conglomerates in sub-Saharan Africa. With a hard-earned reputation for excellent business practices and product quality, it has about 11,000 people in its employment.

Alhaji Aliko Dangote [CON]

Net Worth:$2.5 billion
Source:sugar, flour, cement manufacturing
Age:51
Country Of Citizenship:Nigeria
Residence:Lagos
Industry:Manufacturing