Chief Michael Adeniyi Agbolade Ishola Adenuga Jr was born on 29 April 1953 and is a Nigerian billionaire businessman, and the fifth richest person in Africa according to Forbes.
11 Facts About Mike Adenuga
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Mike Adenuga owns stakes in the Equitorial Trust Bank and the oil exploration firm Conoil.
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Mike Adenuga's father, Oloye Michael Agbolade Adenuga Sr, was a schoolteacher while his mother, Omoba Juliana Oyindamola Adenuga, was a businesswoman of royal Ijebu descent.
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Mike Adenuga worked as a taxi driver to help fund his university education.
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Mike Adenuga graduated from Northwestern Oklahoma State University and Pace University, New York, with degrees in Business Administration.
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Mike Adenuga made his first million in 1979, at age 26, selling lace and distributing soft drinks.
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Mike Adenuga was issued a conditional GSM license in 1999.
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Mike Adenuga was named African Entrepreneur of The Year at the first African Telecoms Awards in August 2007.
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In May 2015, Mike Adenuga made a takeover bid to purchase Ivorian mobile telecom's operator Comium Cote d'Ivoire for $600 million.
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Mike Adenuga holds a Yoruba tribal chieftaincy as the "Otunba Apesin" of the Ijebu clan.
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Mike Adenuga was cited as one of the Top 100 most influential Africans by New African magazine in 2019.