ABC Orjiako is a trained medical doctor turned business tycoon and a billionaire businessman with investment in different sectors of the economy. ABC Orjiako Biography Ambrose Bryant Chukwuemeka Orjiako, born October 2, 1960, better known as ABC Orjiako, is a Nigerian businessman, medical doctor and successful entrepreneur. He was born in Calabar, Cross Rivers State and attended...
Funke Feyisetan-Ladimeji has over 30 years’ experience in banking and finance. She has managed a variety of Banking businesses across Markets and Corporate Finance Businesses, across multiple jurisdictions in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa), North America and Asia, and across multiple functional areas, including Financial Control, Complex Product Accounting, Technology, Business Operations and Human...
Hakeem Belo-Osagie is a Nigerian businessman. He is chair of Metis Capital Partners an organisation focused on brokering and delivering attractive, large-ticket transactions in Africa to select blue chip international investment partners. He was listed by Forbes Magazine as the forty-first richest man in Africa in 2014. Belo-Osagie is the son of Professor Tiamiyu Belo-Osagie, a renowned gynecologist who catered to the medical...
Olaitan Martins is a Group Executive, Transaction Banking, First Bank Of Nigeria Limited. Olaitan Martins was appointed Group Executive, Transaction Banking on 21st October 2021. Until this appointment, she served as the Group Head, Transaction Banking and prior to that, Group Head, Manufacturing Sector, Corporate Banking Group. She has over 20 years’ work experience in...
Chief Bode Akindele (2 June 1933 – 29 June 2020) was a Nigerian industrialist and the Parakoyi of Ibadanland, with an estimated net worth of $1.19 billion, according to a survey conducted by Ventures Africa and published in 2013 by The Daily Telegraph. He was ranked the 16th richest person in Nigeria according to BuzzNigeria. Akindele was the founder and Chairman of the Madandola...
Olamide Brown, née Orekunrin (born 1986), is a British-Nigerian medical doctor, healthcare entrepreneur and founder of the Flying Doctors Healthcare Investment Group and a director of Greentree Investment Company. Early life and education Brown was born in London, England. She attended Hull York Medical School. After graduation, she worked in acute medicine in the UK and...
Benedict Peters is a Nigerian billionaire who founded the Aiteo Group, Nigeria’s largest indigenous oil producing firm. As of November 2014, he had an estimated net worth of US$2.7 billion. He is ranked by Ventures Africa as the 17th richest person in Africa and the 7th richest in Nigeria. Early life and development Peters hails from Onicha Oloma in Delta...
Kofo Akinkugbe is a Nigerian technology entrepreneur. She is founder and CEO of SecureID, “Africa’s leading manufacturer of smart cards and other identity documents” Education and early career Kofo Akinkugbe studied mathematics at the University of Lagos. After serving in the Nigerian Youth Service Corps, she worked in the banking industry for twelve years, starting with International...
Wale Babalakin (born Bolanle Olawale Babalakin, 1 July 1960) is a Nigerian businessman, lawyer and philanthropist, and the Chairman of The Bi-Courtney Group of companies. He is also a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), and received the Nigerian national honour of Officer of the Federal Republic (OFR) in 2007. Early life and education Babalakin was born in Ibadan, Oyo State, in...
Olajumoke Olufunmilola Adenowo (born 16 October 1968) is a Nigerian architect. She started her own architecture and interior design firm AD Consulting in 1994. Early life and education Adenowo was born in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. Her parents were both professors, one of them taught history, and one of them taught criminology. She lived on campus at the Obafemi Awolowo University. It...
