Ilovemystate:


Your brothers could only list seven manufacturing firms owned by Yorubas others are distributors and many lies check out

Eko Hotel part of the Chagoury Group of companies. Founder and Chairman of the Chagoury Group, Gilbert Ramez Chagoury



Global Infrastructure Partners is not the owner of Adebayo Ogunlesi and they are not the owner gatewick airport,The airport is owned and operated by Gatwick Airport Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ivy Holdco Limited, Ivy Holdco is, in turn, owned by a consortium of companies, which has changed over time.

http://global-infra.com/whatWeDo.php
Global partners What We Do

GIP is an independent infrastructure fund manager that combines deep industry expertise with industrial best practice operational management. Our current equity fund, Global Infrastructure Partners III, makes equity investments in high quality infrastructure assets in the energy, transport and water/waste sectors where we possess deep experience and strong relationships.

GIP manages over $40 billion for its investors. Additionally, the companies in GIP's portfolio have combined annual revenues greater than $5 billion and employ approximately 21,000 people.

Vigeo group is owned by Vigeo Eiris not a Nigeria

• Jimoh ibrahim-nicon group/global fleet group air nigeria/nicon J[b]imoh Ibrahim couldn't manage Virgin Nigeria air, his firm went bankrupt[/b] cheesy cheesy

James Ibori owns 30% shares Oando oil and gas
Wale tinubu- Oando oil James Ibori Owns 30% share in Oando oil and Gas

In July 2006, Ogunlesi started the private equity firm, Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), a joint venture whose initial investors included Credit Suisse and General Electric. He currently serves as Chairman and Managing Partner.

In 2006, GIP bought London City Airport. In 2009, GIP acquired the majority in London Gatwick Airport in a deal worth £1.455 billion. The Nigerian press has given him the nickname, "The Man Who Bought Gatwick Airport."[6] GIP also owns Edinburgh Airport, which they bought in 2012.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adebayo_Ogunlesi
https://www.google.com.ng/url?url=https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Africa_Cup_of_Nations Global_Infrastructure_Partners&rct=j&sa=U&ved=0ahUKEwjGppGXhJDVAhXOJVAKHdS9AzIQmhMIQzAF&q=global+infrastructures+partners&usg=AFQjCNFrTvM7ObhGFi8EwEz7YsLUR-0yaQ

Dumaknesset:


Good job chief for posting. they will still pretend they can't see.


You know what I have noticed, Yoruba always push the boundaries, instead of making ordinary jeeps, Yoruba went ahead and made armoured jeeps, Instead of making bikes, they made tractors and trytractor. We made our first car by the awojobi autonov 1 and 2, if it has been commercialised it would have been in the 70. Prof A. V. Williams Television made in late 60 is still in white house in OAU. We are just not mates with this bush people. Awo free education is still the secret, and they hate that very much.

They never want to admit that they're wrong.
They are always looking for easy money but they seem to have forgotten the line "nothing good in life comes easy"

Life is not a bed of roses!!!
(Igbo people out there take note)

aniomafirstson:


na only cocoa house be the development for Ibadan?

show me pictures of apete mokola then we can argue

show me the average Ibadan man house


I repeat igr way no bring development na igr be that?

Show me building in your south east
Show me in Enugu sef let me see yeye

Markfemi:

Show me building in your south east Show me in Enugu sef let me see yeye

you want to compare Ibadan (brown roof republic) with enugu?

Ilovemystate:


Your brothers could only list seven manufacturing firms owned by Yorubas others are distributors and many lies check out

Eko Hotel part of the Chagoury Group of companies. Founder and Chairman of the Chagoury Group, Gilbert Ramez Chagoury



Global Infrastructure Partners is not the owner of Adebayo Ogunlesi and they are not the owner gatewick airport,The airport is owned and operated by Gatwick Airport Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ivy Holdco Limited, Ivy Holdco is, in turn, owned by a consortium of companies, which has changed over time.

http://global-infra.com/whatWeDo.php
Global partners What We Do

GIP is an independent infrastructure fund manager that combines deep industry expertise with industrial best practice operational management. Our current equity fund, Global Infrastructure Partners III, makes equity investments in high quality infrastructure assets in the energy, transport and water/waste sectors where we possess deep experience and strong relationships.

GIP manages over $40 billion for its investors. Additionally, the companies in GIP's portfolio have combined annual revenues greater than $5 billion and employ approximately 21,000 people.

Vigeo group is owned by Vigeo Eiris not a Nigeria


• Jimoh ibrahim-nicon group/global fleet group air nigeria/nicon J[b]imoh Ibrahim couldn't manage Virgin Nigeria air, his firm went bankrupt[/b] cheesy cheesy

James Ibori owns 30% shares Oando oil and gas
Wale tinubu- Oando oil James Ibori Owns 30% share in Oando oil and Gas

VICTOR OSIBODU: VERY PRIVATE WORLD OF A SILENT BILLIONAIRE
BY YES INTERNATIONAL! MAGAZINESEPTEMBER 22, 20156970
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Yes! You hardly get to hear or even read about him – but that’s for a reason. Mr. Victor Gbolade Osibodu,MFR, owner of the multi billion Vigeo Holdings and one of Nigeria’s richest men, prefers being unobtrusive. In fact, people hear about his super banker wife, Funke, more than him.

YES INTERNATIONAL! Magazine dug into his very private world and here are some of the things we uncovered:

1. He was born on May 14, 1955.

2. He attended Ebenezer Primary School, Ibadan, Oyo State; Government College, also in Ibadan and Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile Ife, Osun State, where he read Pharmacy.

3. He graduated in 1977 and did his NYSC in 1978 with the Nigerian Navy.

4. Thereafter, he worked for Boots Company Nigeria Ltd and Bodmat International Company before setting up Vigeo Limited in 1985.

5. Vigeo today is a multi billion business empire comprising Vigeo Oil & Gas, Vigeo Promotions & Marketing, Vigeo Capital, Citiserve Ltd, Citiserve Microfinance Bank Ltd, etc.

6. A top corporate player, he is on the board of SO&U Advertising, Phillips Consulting, UTC Nigeria, GTBank, Heritage, Fate Foundation, to mention but few.

7. He also plays big in these sectors – marketing, oil & gas, power, telecoms, banking and investments.

8. Osibodu is an unabashed lover of classical music and boasts of a great collection from some of those who lead in that genre.

9. An alumnus of the Lagos Business School and Harvard Business School, he is always thirsting for new and more knowledge.

10. Happily married to Funke Osibodu, one-time Managing Director of Ecobank and Union Bank, they have three children.

https://www.google.com.ng/url?url=http://theyesng.com/victor-osibodu-very-private-world-of-a-silent-billionaire/&rct=j&sa=U&ved=0ahUKEwjg57qNi5DVAhVJVhQKHQ-kDNkQFggpMAY&q=victor+gbolade+osibodu&usg=AFQjCNGBmyTIgsbH_Ov8f9CKpdPKC7WxQg

Background*
Mr. Victor Gbolade Osibodu, MFR serves as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Vigeo Limited. Mr. Osibodu established Vigeo Limited. Prior to Vigeo Limited, his career spanned through the Nigerian Navy, the Boots Company Limited and Bodnat International. He serves as the Chairman of Special Olympics, Nigeria, a global organization serving athletes with intellectual disabilities. He serves as the Chairman of Vigeo Holdings Limited. He serves as the Chairman of the Vigeo Group, the parent company to the 5 arms of the business; Vigeo Capital, Vigeo Oil & Gas, Vigeo Shipping, Power and Marketing & Distribution. He serves as a Director of Dorman Long Engineering Limited. He serves as a Director of UTC Nigeria Plc. He served as Chairman of Mansard Insurance Plc (also known as Guaranty Trust Assurance PLC and AXA Mansard Insurance Plc) until May 13, 2016. He serves on the Board of several companies including Philips Consulting Limited, GT Bank Plc and SO & U Saatchi Ltd. Mr. Osibodu also serves on the Boards of other companies including, SO&U, GT Assurance, Phillips Consulting Limited and Terra Kulture. He served as a Director of Guaranty Trust Bank Plc until May 6, 2010. He is a regular participant at Energy related Seminars and Conferences both locally and internationally. He was a recipient of the Member of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (MFR), one of the highest civilian national honours awarded by the former President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo. He has also received numerous awards in recognition of his contributions to not for profit organisations and also to the development of the Nigerian business economy. He attended IHRDC's Oil and Gas Management programs in Boston Massachusetts, U.S.A. Mr. Osibodu is a graduate of Pharmacy at University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) and also an alumnus of the Lagos Business School and the Harvard Business School
.

https://www.google.com.ng/url?url=http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp%3FpersonId%3D30762754%26ticker%3DMANSARD:NL%26previousCapId%3D25875604%26previousTitle%3DAfrican%2520Capital%2520Alliance&rct=j&sa=U&ved=0ahUKEwjg57qNi5DVAhVJVhQKHQ-kDNkQFggaMAA&q=victor+gbolade+osibodu&usg=AFQjCNGAXepo9H06pZGBAUcwx6HzBnXIrw

mercyville:



lol...if wars are won with the mouth then ojuku would have won the civil war.Igbos have the DNA of using their mouths to create what they want the situation to be but their laziness and lack of war and bizness acumen usually make them a laughing stock.I blame the Yorubas quoting you lazy things because reasonable people do not quote jesters who turns you into a jester too.Let the Ibos go and lick their astronomically deep wounds and learn how Yorubas did and still do it.Yorubas have always been achievers but I did not know frankly speaking that they can beat the Igbos in bizness this much.IT IS JUST TOO MUCH...ASTRONOMICALLY TOO MUCH.No wonder the SW is the 3rd economy in Africa.
KUDOS TO INNOSON FOR STRIVING SO HARD BUT I THINK HE SHOULD LEARN HOW PROFORCE DOES IT TO HAVE GONE INTERNATIONAL.Well basically most of the numerous Yoruba companies posted here have gone international while the few Igbos posted other than the oil companies are local.
I think bridges should be built between this bizness people and the Igbos should be taught how to be versatile lije the Yoruba guys.KUDOS.This thread is an eye opener for all Nigerians/Niaralanders.Everybody is a winner.

Abeg make we hear word. This is suppose to be your thread, isn't it? Most Igbos would just walk past it. It wasn't meant to be a competition until you started mentioning us.
This should be a playing ground for Yorubas but what did we have here, a few Igbos still kicking asses and you showing us how you produced shoes, ororo and tissue papers... Something we had quit celebrating about 25 years ago.

However, beyond all that, I wish we all promote this kind of healthy competition...

forgiveness:




VICTOR OSIBODU: VERY PRIVATE WORLD OF A SILENT BILLIONAIRE
BY YES INTERNATIONAL! MAGAZINESEPTEMBER 22, 20156970
SHARE:





Yes! You hardly get to hear or even read about him – but that’s for a reason. Mr. Victor Gbolade Osibodu,MFR, owner of the multi billion Vigeo Holdings and one of Nigeria’s richest men, prefers being unobtrusive. In fact, people hear about his super banker wife, Funke, more than him.

YES INTERNATIONAL! Magazine dug into his very private world and here are some of the things we uncovered:

1. He was born on May 14, 1955.

2. He attended Ebenezer Primary School, Ibadan, Oyo State; Government College, also in Ibadan and Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile Ife, Osun State, where he read Pharmacy.

3. He graduated in 1977 and did his NYSC in 1978 with the Nigerian Navy.

4. Thereafter, he worked for Boots Company Nigeria Ltd and Bodmat International Company before setting up Vigeo Limited in 1985.

5. Vigeo today is a multi billion business empire comprising Vigeo Oil & Gas, Vigeo Promotions & Marketing, Vigeo Capital, Citiserve Ltd, Citiserve Microfinance Bank Ltd, etc.

6. A top corporate player, he is on the board of SO&U Advertising, Phillips Consulting, UTC Nigeria, GTBank, Heritage, Fate Foundation, to mention but few.

7. He also plays big in these sectors – marketing, oil & gas, power, telecoms, banking and investments.

8. Osibodu is an unabashed lover of classical music and boasts of a great collection from some of those who lead in that genre.

9. An alumnus of the Lagos Business School and Harvard Business School, he is always thirsting for new and more knowledge.

10. Happily married to Funke Osibodu, one-time Managing Director of Ecobank and Union Bank, they have three children.

https://www.google.com.ng/url?url=http://theyesng.com/victor-osibodu-very-private-world-of-a-silent-billionaire/&rct=j&sa=U&ved=0ahUKEwjg57qNi5DVAhVJVhQKHQ-kDNkQFggpMAY&q=victor+gbolade+osibodu&usg=AFQjCNGBmyTIgsbH_Ov8f9CKpdPKC7WxQg

Background*
Mr. Victor Gbolade Osibodu, MFR serves as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Vigeo Limited. Mr. Osibodu established Vigeo Limited. Prior to Vigeo Limited, his career spanned through the Nigerian Navy, the Boots Company Limited and Bodnat International. He serves as the Chairman of Special Olympics, Nigeria, a global organization serving athletes with intellectual disabilities. He serves as the Chairman of Vigeo Holdings Limited. He serves as the Chairman of the Vigeo Group, the parent company to the 5 arms of the business; Vigeo Capital, Vigeo Oil & Gas, Vigeo Shipping, Power and Marketing & Distribution. He serves as a Director of Dorman Long Engineering Limited. He serves as a Director of UTC Nigeria Plc. He served as Chairman of Mansard Insurance Plc (also known as Guaranty Trust Assurance PLC and AXA Mansard Insurance Plc) until May 13, 2016. He serves on the Board of several companies including Philips Consulting Limited, GT Bank Plc and SO & U Saatchi Ltd. Mr. Osibodu also serves on the Boards of other companies including, SO&U, GT Assurance, Phillips Consulting Limited and Terra Kulture. He served as a Director of Guaranty Trust Bank Plc until May 6, 2010. He is a regular participant at Energy related Seminars and Conferences both locally and internationally. He was a recipient of the Member of the Federal Republic of Nigeria (MFR), one of the highest civilian national honours awarded by the former President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo. He has also received numerous awards in recognition of his contributions to not for profit organisations and also to the development of the Nigerian business economy. He attended IHRDC's Oil and Gas Management programs in Boston Massachusetts, U.S.A. Mr. Osibodu is a graduate of Pharmacy at University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) and also an alumnus of the Lagos Business School and the Harvard Business School
.

https://www.google.com.ng/url?url=http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp%3FpersonId%3D30762754%26ticker%3DMANSARD:NL%26previousCapId%3D25875604%26previousTitle%3DAfrican%2520Capital%2520Alliance&rct=j&sa=U&ved=0ahUKEwjg57qNi5DVAhVJVhQKHQ-kDNkQFggaMAA&q=victor+gbolade+osibodu&usg=AFQjCNGAXepo9H06pZGBAUcwx6HzBnXIrw

Ilovemystate:


Your brothers could only list seven manufacturing firms owned by Yorubas others are distributors and many lies check out

Eko Hotel part of the Chagoury Group of companies. Founder and Chairman of the Chagoury Group, Gilbert Ramez Chagoury



Global Infrastructure Partners is not the owner of Adebayo Ogunlesi and they are not the owner gatewick airport,The airport is owned and operated by Gatwick Airport Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ivy Holdco Limited, Ivy Holdco is, in turn, owned by a consortium of companies, which has changed over time.

http://global-infra.com/whatWeDo.php
Global partners What We Do

GIP is an independent infrastructure fund manager that combines deep industry expertise with industrial best practice operational management. Our current equity fund, Global Infrastructure Partners III, makes equity investments in high quality infrastructure assets in the energy, transport and water/waste sectors where we possess deep experience and strong relationships.

GIP manages over $40 billion for its investors. Additionally, the companies in GIP's portfolio have combined annual revenues greater than $5 billion and employ approximately 21,000 people.

Vigeo group is owned by Vigeo Eiris not a Nigeria

• Jimoh ibrahim-nicon group/global fleet group air nigeria/nicon J[b]imoh Ibrahim couldn't manage Virgin Nigeria air, his firm went bankrupt [/b]cheesy cheesy

James Ibori owns 30% shares Oando oil and gas
Wale tinubu- Oando oil James Ibori Owns 30% share in Oando oil and Gas

Jimoh Ibrahim


The Global Fleet Group includes the following subsidiaries, among others:[2]

Air Nigeria[3] - Lagos, Nigeria - Formerly Virgin Nigeria
Nicon Insurance[4] - Lagos, Nigeria

Nigeria Re-Insurance Corporation - Lagos, Nigeria

Nicon Luxury Hotel - Abuja, Nigeria - Formerly Le' Meridien Hotel.

The Nicon Group - Lagos, Nigeria - Holdings include investment companies, schools, real estate holdings, transport companies and others
Nicon Properties Limited

Global Fleet Oil and Gas - A chain of gasoline stations across Nigeria

Global Fleet Building - Lagos, Nigeria - Formerly Allied Bank Building.

Nicon Hotels - Lagos, Nigeria

Global Fleet Industries - Lagos, Nigeria - Formerly HFP Industries Limited

Energy Bank - Accra, Ghana - A new commercial bank in Ghana, started operations in February 2011

Energy Bank São Tomé - São Tomé, São Tomé and Príncipe - Commercial bank purchased from Oceanic Bank in May 2011 and rebranded to current name.

Global Media Mirror Limited - Lagos, Nigeria

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Fleet_Group

totit:

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Meet the Boss: Tunji Olowolafe, chairman, GZ Industries

by Dinfin Mulupi on '28 March 2014'
Tunji Olowolafe, chairman, GZ Industries (Nigeria)

GZI chairman Dr Tunji Olowolafe
GZI chairman Dr Tunji Olowolafe
Meet the Boss is a How we made it in Africa interview series in which we pose the same 10 questions to business leaders across the continent.

1. What was your first job?

I was a medical doctor. I decided to stop practicing medicine in 1988 and I went into private equity just out of interest. I found it interesting.

2. Who has had the biggest impact on your career and why?

My grandmother. She lived with us and she always told me about hard work and ethics. Actually, the way she said it was three H’s: hard work, humility and honesty. She could not speak English so she said it in our local language (Yoruba) all the time. She sang it in different ways and told it in stories in different ways. She brought me up and was my role model.

3. What parts of your job keep you awake at night?


Trying to achieve what I want to do tomorrow. I am always awake because I want to achieve all the time.

4. What are the top reasons why you have been successful in business?

Honestly, I am not sure. I just do my best every day. Honestly, I have not discovered myself yet. I don’t even know what my talents are. But I just know that… most people that I collaborate with are smarter and deeper than me.

5. What are the best things about your country, Nigeria?

Vibrance. Nigeria is the best place to be in the world. There are very creative and sociable people. They understand life and they live life.

6. And the worst?

We have not taken our potential to where it should be. That is a pain but it will happen.

7. Your future career plans?

I want to continue to invest in Africa. Nothing more.


8. How do you relax?

I do exercise. I jog. I do yoga. I run and I read.

9. What is your message to Africa’s young aspiring businesspeople and entrepreneurs?

Hard work and diligence are standards they need every day. They should collaborate with others to accomplish their goals. They should pursue what they find interesting, not what parents think they should do. They should also be diverse and open-minded to embark on different things when opportunities emerge and the call of nature beckons.

10. How can Africa realise its full potential?

By ensuring we have democracy, rule of law and quality education. We need to educate all our people. That way we will achieve true freedom and prosperity.

Dr Tunji Olowolafe is the chairman of GZ Industries (GZI), West Africa’s only aluminium can manufacturer. The Nigerian company manufacturers 1.2bn cans annually for sale to Guinness, Coca-Cola, Heineken and SABMiller. Olowolafe quit medical practice to venture into private equity.

http://www.howwemadeitinafrica.com/meet-the-boss-tunji-olowolafe-chairman-gz-industries/.

Ekealterego:

Abeg make we hear word. This is suppose to be your thread, isn't it? Most Igbos would just walk past it. It wasn't meant to be a competition until you started mentioning us.
This should be a playing ground for Yorubas but what did we have here, a few Igbos still kicking asses and you showing us how you produced shoes, ororo and tissue papers... Something we had quit celebrating about 25 years ago.

However, beyond all that, I wish we all promote this kind of healthy competition...

Mouth does not win a competition or war but plan,strategy,action and facing the realties do.Anybody who wants to know who produces or owns companies more than the other between Yorubas and Igbos should just read from page one slowly and would be amazed and know why Yoruba or SW is the 3rd economy in Africa...such big biznesses some I know and beleive were owned by Oyinbos before but now I know better .This thread is really an eye opener especially for me but I hope the Igbos are not keeping back some companies which might overturn this landslide victory for the Yorubas.All said I think the govt should help Innoson because he has a very big dream and I think the sky is the limit if he can get it right.I really enjoyed this thread.Yorubas have really locked down the Nigerian economy..WOW!.

Egbon mi forgiveness, i see you. Abeg "forgive" this people oo

mercyville:


Mouth does not win a competition or war but plan,strategy,action and facing the realties do.Anybody who wants to know who produces or owns companies more than the other between Yorubas and Igbos should just read from page one slowly and would be amazed and know why Yoruba or SW is the 3rd economy in Africa...such big biznesses some I know and beleive were owned by Oyinbos.This thread is really an eye opener especially for me but I hope the Igbos are not keeping back some companies which might overturn this landslide victory for the Yorubas.All said I think the govt should help Innoson because he has a very big dream and I think the sky is the limit if he can get it right.I really enjoyed this thread.

Lolz! Looser!

Deedeedee3:
Egbon mi forgiveness, i see you. Abeg "forgive" this people oo

Hahahahahah!

forgiveness:
Meet the Boss: Tunji Olowolafe, chairman, GZ Industries

by Dinfin Mulupi on '28 March 2014'
Tunji Olowolafe, chairman, GZ Industries (Nigeria)

GZI chairman Dr Tunji Olowolafe
GZI chairman Dr Tunji Olowolafe
Meet the Boss is a How we made it in Africa interview series in which we pose the same 10 questions to business leaders across the continent.

1. What was your first job?

I was a medical doctor. I decided to stop practicing medicine in 1988 and I went into private equity just out of interest. I found it interesting.

2. Who has had the biggest impact on your career and why?

My grandmother. She lived with us and she always told me about hard work and ethics. Actually, the way she said it was three H’s: hard work, humility and honesty. She could not speak English so she said it in our local language (Yoruba) all the time. She sang it in different ways and told it in stories in different ways. She brought me up and was my role model.

3. What parts of your job keep you awake at night?


Trying to achieve what I want to do tomorrow. I am always awake because I want to achieve all the time.

4. What are the top reasons why you have been successful in business?

Honestly, I am not sure. I just do my best every day. Honestly, I have not discovered myself yet. I don’t even know what my talents are. But I just know that… most people that I collaborate with are smarter and deeper than me.

5. What are the best things about your country, Nigeria?

Vibrance. Nigeria is the best place to be in the world. There are very creative and sociable people. They understand life and they live life.

6. And the worst?

We have not taken our potential to where it should be. That is a pain but it will happen.

7. Your future career plans?

I want to continue to invest in Africa. Nothing more.


8. How do you relax?

I do exercise. I jog. I do yoga. I run and I read.

9. What is your message to Africa’s young aspiring businesspeople and entrepreneurs?

Hard work and diligence are standards they need every day. They should collaborate with others to accomplish their goals. They should pursue what they find interesting, not what parents think they should do. They should also be diverse and open-minded to embark on different things when opportunities emerge and the call of nature beckons.

10. How can Africa realise its full potential?

By ensuring we have democracy, rule of law and quality education. We need to educate all our people. That way we will achieve true freedom and prosperity.

Dr Tunji Olowolafe is the chairman of GZ Industries (GZI), West Africa’s only aluminium can manufacturer. The Nigerian company manufacturers 1.2bn cans annually for sale to Guinness, Coca-Cola, Heineken and SABMiller. Olowolafe quit medical practice to venture into private equity.

http://www.howwemadeitinafrica.com/meet-the-boss-tunji-olowolafe-chairman-gz-industries/.

1.2 billion cans? That means his company makes billions per year.
This is lovely.
Yoruba are industrious!
We need to have more like this and teach our children that making money alone is not the koko, but making money through legal means is.
Oodua a gbe wa oo!

aniomafirstson:

you want to compare Ibadan (brown roof republic) with enugu?

Yes Ibadan is x20 enugu

Deedeedee3:

1.2 billion cans? That means his company makes billions per year.
This is lovely.
Yoruba are industrious!
We need to have more like this and teach our children that making money alone is not the koko, but making money through legal means is.
Oodua a gbe wa oo!

Those ibo boys did not that many of the cans they drink from are even made by a yorubaman.

forgiveness:
Meet the Boss: Tunji Olowolafe, chairman, GZ Industries

by Dinfin Mulupi on '28 March 2014'
Tunji Olowolafe, chairman, GZ Industries (Nigeria)

GZI chairman Dr Tunji Olowolafe
GZI chairman Dr Tunji Olowolafe
Meet the Boss is a How we made it in Africa interview series in which we pose the same 10 questions to business leaders across the continent.

1. What was your first job?

I was a medical doctor. I decided to stop practicing medicine in 1988 and I went into private equity just out of interest. I found it interesting.

2. Who has had the biggest impact on your career and why?

My grandmother. She lived with us and she always told me about hard work and ethics. Actually, the way she said it was three H’s: hard work, humility and honesty. She could not speak English so she said it in our local language (Yoruba) all the time. She sang it in different ways and told it in stories in different ways. She brought me up and was my role model.

3. What parts of your job keep you awake at night?


Trying to achieve what I want to do tomorrow. I am always awake because I want to achieve all the time.

4. What are the top reasons why you have been successful in business?

Honestly, I am not sure. I just do my best every day. Honestly, I have not discovered myself yet. I don’t even know what my talents are. But I just know that… most people that I collaborate with are smarter and deeper than me.

5. What are the best things about your country, Nigeria?

Vibrance. Nigeria is the best place to be in the world. There are very creative and sociable people. They understand life and they live life.

6. And the worst?

We have not taken our potential to where it should be. That is a pain but it will happen.

7. Your future career plans?

I want to continue to invest in Africa. Nothing more.


8. How do you relax?

I do exercise. I jog. I do yoga. I run and I read.

9. What is your message to Africa’s young aspiring businesspeople and entrepreneurs?

Hard work and diligence are standards they need every day. They should collaborate with others to accomplish their goals. They should pursue what they find interesting, not what parents think they should do. They should also be diverse and open-minded to embark on different things when opportunities emerge and the call of nature beckons.

10. How can Africa realise its full potential?

By ensuring we have democracy, rule of law and quality education. We need to educate all our people. That way we will achieve true freedom and prosperity.

Dr Tunji Olowolafe is the chairman of GZ Industries (GZI), West Africa’s only aluminium can manufacturer. The Nigerian company manufacturers 1.2bn cans annually for sale to Guinness, Coca-Cola, Heineken and SABMiller. Olowolafe quit medical practice to venture into private equity.

http://www.howwemadeitinafrica.com/meet-the-boss-tunji-olowolafe-chairman-gz-industries/.

For real we own GZ ?
I never even knew at all
Wow Yorubas are truly the backbone of Nigeria
I really want us to pull out
We have so much potential to dominate the world

Deedeedee3:
Lolz! Looser!

The guy na yoruba.You took him 4 someone else.

Markfemi:


For real we own GZ ?
I never even knew at all
Wow Yorubas are truly the backbone of Nigeria
I really want us to pull out
We have so much potential to dominate the world

Even Google confessed..

obaaderemi:
The guy na yoruba.You took him 4 someone else.

I knew it was a mistake.Yoruba rocks!

Ilovemystate:
James Ibori owns 30% shares Oando oil and gas
Wale tinubu- Oando oil James Ibori Owns 30% share in Oando oil and Gas

Point of correction. Oando was started by 3 guys: Jubril Wale Tinubu, Omamofe Boyo and Jite Okokloko. Their start up was called Ocean and Oil holdings and it was very successful from inception. They were engaged in bulk trading of petroleum products cargo for several years and also owned a number of vessels.

When govt decided to sell the old Unipetrol, Wale and his team made an audacious bid for it, and bought it with a loan from a consortium of banks. Unipetrol was then renamed Oando. The boys also bought the downstream arm of Agip and merged it with their business.There was no Ibori input at that time.

Ibori only bought a few shares many years later, when Oando listed some of their shares for sale on the floor of the exchange, as they were trying to raise additional funds for expansion. Even at that, he still remains a minority shareholder, and these boys can pay him off at anytime in order to reclaim their shares. He did not help them set up Oando, in any shape, manner or form. Heck, he was not even there when the boys put it together from scratch! Understand?

In 1994, Wale Tinubu decided to venture into the oil and gas business leading to his co-founding of Ocean and Oil Limited with Omamofe Boyo and Onajite Okoloko.

The trio bought their first vessel, MT Carolina, in the mid-90s to supply diesel to off-shore companies from the Port-Harcourt Refinery and within the space of seven years, the fleet had grown to seven ships. In 2000, when the government wanted to sell its controlling stake in the defunct Unipetrol Plc, a downstream oil marketing company, they bid for it.

With the help of its foreign technical partners, Compagnia Espanola De Petroleos (CEPSA), the second-largest oil group in Spain, Ocean and Oil Services successfully paid for the shares and took over the company.

On December 2001, they made a purchase of Italian Agip Petrol’s 60 percent stake in Agip Nigeria Plc, for $74 million, a purchase that was objected by shareholders. Wale and his team later branded the company Oando Plc.

His significant contribution made Oando the first African company to be enlisted on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange with a market capitalization of more than three billion South African rand in 2005. The same year, Oando Energy Services was incorporated.

Through his leadership, Gaslink, a subsidiary of Oando Plc, successfully phased and executed the construction of about 100km of natural gas pipeline distribution network from the Nigerian Gas Company city gate in Ikeja, to cover the Greater Lagos Area including Ikeja, Apapa, and their environs.http://www.marketingedge.com.ng/2016/11/20/wale-tinubu-when-vision-inspires/

In fact, some sources say that Ibori only owns 443 shares of Oando, and not the 30% he was claimed to have held.

The Group Chief Executive, Oando Plc, Mr Wale Tinubu, on Friday said the company would publish names of shareholders on its web site to ensure sustainable corporate governance.

Tinubu said this in Lagos at a meeting with the stockbrokers at the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) to explain its stance on former Gov. James Ibori’s alleged ownership of 30 per cent in the company. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the company’s innovation was against the backdrop of the British prosecutor’s recent accusation that the convicted former governor used Oando to launder money.

He said that Ibori owned only 443 shares in Oando Plc and not 30 per cent as alleged by UK Southwark Crown Court on Sept.16.

“Investors with stolen funds should not think of investing in Oando Plc because they will be exposed,” Tinubu said.

He said that the company had introduced stringent Know Your Client (KYC) process and would remain at the forefront of good corporate governance. http://www.informationng.com/2013/09/oando-to-publish-shareholders-names-over-iboris-claim-of-30-ownership-says-tinubu.html

crownprince102:

2 of the top 5 rather .... Kareem Abdul Jabbar is also Yoruba

salford1:
i dont get this thread though...One of the top 5 greatest african to play in the NBA..only 1 Nigerian made the list, no one but hakeem the dream...nobel award (no contest)..grammy awards (could easily count 3 from the top of my head. Sade, seal, chamillonaire) ..

Potopoto people can't match us I swear

Don't forget Victor Oladipo who plays for the Thunders. He plays alongside a top baller like Russell Westbrook

Two Yorùbá college boys also got drafted in the NBA this year: Bam Adebayo and Semi Ojeleye.

deomelo:
4. MAI ATAFO

Mai Atafo was born in Ile-Ife, Osun State. He spent his early life in Lagos, attended the University Staff School Benin, then the Federal Government College, Ido-Ani, Ondo State. Mai Atafo later earned a master's degree from the City University UK in Information System and Technology.

I thought he was Edo?

Let me add to their misery

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CltrAltDel:
Let me add to their misery

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Definitely not the women wrapa tying village comedians on the right..

Ilovemystate:
Global Infrastructure Partners is not the owner of Adebayo Ogunlesi and they are not the owner gatewick airport,The airport is owned and operated by Gatwick Airport Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ivy Holdco Limited, Ivy Holdco is, in turn, owned by a consortium of companies, which has changed over time.

http://global-infra.com/whatWeDo.php
Global partners What We Do

GIP is an independent infrastructure fund manager that combines deep industry expertise with industrial best practice operational management. Our current equity fund, Global Infrastructure Partners III, makes equity investments in high quality infrastructure assets in the energy, transport and water/waste sectors where we possess deep experience and strong relationships.

GIP manages over $40 billion for its investors. Additionally, the companies in GIP's portfolio have combined annual revenues greater than $5 billion and employ approximately 21,000 people.

You are very funny. Your research is incomplete. Who owns Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP)? Who is the founder of the firm? And who has been managing and running it? And where were you in 2006 when that same firm bought over Gatwick Airport, in what was dubbed "a landmark deal?" Do you even know the relationship between Ivy holdco and GIP?

Nobody denies the fact that GIP does not have additional shareholders. Heck, managing other people's funds is what they do for a living, in the same way a bank manages the funds of its customers, in order to make a profit. In early 2016, GIP sold London City Airport, their first acquisition which they had bought for an estimated £750million in 2006 from Dermot Desmond, the Irish financier, to Canadian pension fund investors for an estimated £2 billion, more than doubling the initial investment by the firm and its partners. _{https://www.ft.com/content/2d675756-dbe6-11e5-a72f-1e7744c66818?mhq5j=e1}

Adebayo "Bayo" O. Ogunlesi, JD (born December 20, 1953) is a Nigerian-born lawyer and investment banker. Ogunlesi is currently Chairman and Managing Partner at the private equity firm, Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP). Ogunlesi was the former head of Global Investment Banking at Credit Suisse First Boston, before being promoted to Chief Client Officer and Executive Vice Chairman.

In July 2006, Ogunlesi started the private equity firm, Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), a joint venture whose initial investors included Credit Suisse and General Electric. He currently serves as Chairman and Managing Partner. Ogunlesi is from Makun, Sagamu, Ogun State in Nigeria. He is the son of Theophilus O. Ogunlesi, the first Nigerian professor of medicine at University of Ibadan. His family is of Yoruba origin.

In 2006, GIP bought London City Airport. In 2009, GIP acquired the majority in London Gatwick Airport in a deal worth £1.455 billion. The Nigerian press has given him the nickname, "The Man Who Bought Gatwick Airport." GIP also owns Edinburgh Airport, which they bought in 2012. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adebayo_Ogunlesi

Despite his long sojourn in Europe and America, Ogunlesi still manages to stay abreast of developments in Africa. He has helped champion the African economic renaissance and in 2009 was appointed non-executive chairman of the Africa Finance Corporation (AFC), a financial institution set up to revamp Africa’s critical infrastructure and invest in key sectors of the continent’s economy.

AFC, which was patterned after the International Finance Corporation (IFC) – the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, was a lead investor in the $240 million Main One submarine fibre optic cable that will expand telecommunications capacity in West Africa. AFC also led Africa’s participation in the $750 million syndicated lending facility to develop the landmark Ghanaian Jubilee Oil Field, one of West Africa’s largest deepwater offshore developments in over a decade.

In Nigeria, Ogunlesi is spearheading the corporation’s attempt to address the country’s epileptic power supply. In January 2011 it hosted a power sector roundtable to examine the key issues, identify the constraints and proffer practical solutions to the challenges facing Independent Power Plants (IPPs) in the country. http://venturesafrica.com/the-man-who-bought-gatwick-airport/

Global Infrastructure Partners, founded in 2006, now manages about $40 billion in assets ranging from ports and pipelines to London’s Gatwick Airport, a liquefied petroleum gas storage facility in ­Visakhapatnam, India, and a vast wind farm in the North Sea. Over 10 years, GIP has expanded its roster of backers to include some of the world’s biggest sovereign funds and a slate of U.S. pensions. The firm operates three funds. GIP I raised $5.7 billion in 2008. GIP II closed in 2012 with $8.3 billion. In January it announced its latest and largest pool, a $15.8 billion fund, the largest-ever dedicated to infrastructure.

The clamor to participate in GIP’s deals comes from its returns, which are among the best in private equity, promising profits well beyond what’s available in the public markets. GIP II has delivered an average annual return of 24.2 percent, ­according to data compiled by Bloomberg, putting it in the top quartile of private equity funds. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-02-16/global-infrastructure-partners-gets-big-returns-in-sleepy-sector

LMAO

Just found out Zack Orji went to an Itele store to upgrade his shoe rack

Nigga knows what's good for him. Not surprised he's not buying his brothers' fake wears

forgiveness:
Meet the Boss: Tunji Olowolafe, chairman, GZ Industries

by Dinfin Mulupi on '28 March 2014'
Tunji Olowolafe, chairman, GZ Industries (Nigeria)

GZI chairman Dr Tunji Olowolafe
GZI chairman Dr Tunji Olowolafe
Meet the Boss is a How we made it in Africa interview series in which we pose the same 10 questions to business leaders across the continent.

Dr Tunji Olowolafe is the chairman of GZ Industries (GZI), West Africa’s only aluminium can manufacturer. The Nigerian company manufacturers 1.2bn cans annually for sale to Guinness, Coca-Cola, Heineken and SABMiller. Olowolafe quit medical practice to venture into private equity.

http://www.howwemadeitinafrica.com/meet-the-boss-tunji-olowolafe-chairman-gz-industries/.

Oh, you are simply da bomb!! Gimme five, jare! I was searching for this company on the internet last night, and I kept thinking it was GYZ Cans not realising it was some other name. No wonder I drew a blank on it! May God increase the wisdom He has deposited in your life!

forgiveness:
Jimoh Ibrahim

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Pls Jimoh Ibrahim is a bad example. Let's forget him! I prefer those with successful stories of running thriving businesses....