Chief Dr. Michael Adeniyi Agbolade Ishola Adenuga (JR), GCON, CSG, CdrLH
Billionaire founder of Globacom, Nigeria’s second largest telecom operator, Chief Dr. Michael Adeniyi Agbolade Ishola Adenuga (JR), GCON, CSG, CdrLH, has emerged the winner of DAYLIGHT Online Newspaper’s Man of the Year 2023.
Otunba Adenuga was unanimously and overwhelmingly voted Man of the Year by the management and board of editors of DAYLIGHT Online Newspaper, for his immense contributions to the growth of our nation’s economy.
Globacom, a national pride, which Adenuga, who is fondly and affectionately called The Guru, founded on August 29, 2003, has unarguably revolutionized and repositioned Nigeria’s once moribund telecoms sector.
Adenuga, a philanthropist extraordinaire, aside being one of the biggest players and investors in Nigeria and indeed, Africa’s telecom sectors, is also hugely and actively involved in Nigeria’s banking, oil and gas sectors respectively, for over four decades and counting.
Amiable and very generous Adenuga, who invests heavily and believes so much in human capital development, as of June 2018, had employed more than 3,500 people worldwide, in Globacom.
Interestingly, as a multinational company with a pan Nigerian vision and a global mission, Adenuga through Globacom has invested hugely and immensely in sports, arts/culture and entertainment within and outside Nigeria.
In fact, at some point in our nation’s history, Adenuga’s Globacom proudly boasts of and equally proudly parades the highest number of entertainers, drawn mostly from Nollywood, under its giant stable as brand ambassadors.
Even till date, several Nollywood stars, music icons and famous sports celebrities still fly the Glo flag as revered and celebrated brand ambassadors with heavy pay cheques.
Sincerely speaking, this visionary African business mogul’s impact is felt daily in all facets of our national lives and even beyond.
Often cited and mentioned as one of the richest men in Africa, but in the estimation and candid opinions of the management and board of editors of DAYLIGHT Online, Otunba Dr. Mike Adenuga, is the undisputable and incontestable richest man in Africa. And we boldly say this with all sense of responsibility and available facts and figures at our disposable as a reputable and reliable online news platform.
Amazingly, Adenuga who is no doubt, a national icon cum treasure, is also the founder and chairman of Consolidated Oil Plc (Conoil) and the first Nigerian to strike oil in commercial quantity in 1991.
Once again, we say a very big congratulation to Otunba Dr. Mike Adenuga, for emerging DAYLIGHT Online Newspaper Man of the Year 2023.
We are extremely happy to honour and celebrate Adenuga, Africa’s foremost business colossus, for his unmatched giant strides, intimidating and unquantifiable contributions to the growth of the Nigerian economy, in the last four decades and more.
Meanwhile, a formal date and venue will be announced for the presentation of this rare and historic award to Otunba Mike Adenuga, for single handedly changing the nation’s business landscape, especially the once moribund and comatose telecoms sector.
