Category: Oil & Gas
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BUKAR Abdullah; Nigerian engineer instrumental in the multinational oil company Shell’s master plan to put out gas flares and the laying of the foundation of making Nigerian gas commercially useful both in the local and international market. In support of the Nigerian government’s objectives to develop local capacity and capability, Bukar fostered the domestication of…
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Jessie Edem Bassey; First Nigerian lady to work in the refinery for Shell-BP in Nigeria. Jessie transferred from the Shell-BP in UK to the Nigerian office just before the Civil War. During the war, she lost her job with Shell-BP, as the company terminated all operations in the Eastern region. She was re-appointed after the…
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Port Harcourt is a Nigerian port city, on the northern bank of the Bonny River, 30 nautica miles from the Bight of Biafra in the Atlantic Ocean. The city, discovered while a small fishing port in 1901 by Viscount Harcourt, a colonial administrative officer became capital of the Rivers State, with the creation of Rivers…
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Femi Otedola is an entrepreneur, and major player of the Nigerian Oil industry, born to Michael Otedola, a former governor of Lagos State (1967) in Epe area of the state. He is the CEO of Zenon Petroleum, a supplier of fuels to many big Nigeria’s manufacturing companies, and also the biggest ship owner in the…
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Jimoh Ibrahim is a serial entrepreneur with huge business interests, born 1967 in Igbotako to a bricklayer father who had at least seven wives and 40 children, and a fish seller mother. Ibrahim went to St. John’s School, and then to Community Grammar School, both in Igbotako. Thereafter, he attended Federal School of Arts and…
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Alakija Folorunsho is a business magnate and philanthropist. Folorunsho was born into a wealthy, polygamous family at Ikorodu in 1951. At the age of seven, she was sent, together with her younger sister, to a private school in Wales, returning to Nigeria just four years later to attend Muslim High School in Sagamu. On her…
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Obateru Akinruntan is the CEO of Obat Oil, and flamboyant monarch of Ugbo area of Ondo State. Obateru was born into a local royal family of Ilaje in Jirinwo, a town close to the Nigerian Atlantic coastline. Through the influence of his mother, Obateru had developed interest in the oil business, hawking gallons of petrol in…
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Michael Adenuga is the Oil magnate owner of Nigeria’s second largest telecommunication company, Globacom. Adenuga was born 1953 in Ibadan to schoolteacher father from Ijebu Igbo, after whom he was named, and businesswoman mother who gave him the seed capital for his venture which made him at the age of 26, a millionaire. He was…
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Wale Tinubu; oil magnate executive of Pan-African Energy Corporation with operations actively spanning all aspects of the energy value chain. Tinubu’s group is the largest non-government owned Energy Company in Nigeria and has a market capitalization worth $1 billion. It is also the first Nigerian company to achieve a dual listing on both the Nigerian…