Mike Adenuga
6 Sep
'Glo with pride!' That was the payoff (and rallying cry) of Nigeria’s first and foremost indigenous mobile telecommunications company as it made its triumphant entry into the country’s fledgling telecoms market two decades ago. It was a payoff that not only appealed to the innate spirit of the Nigerian person and his grudging but no…
2 May
Last Saturday the newspapers were choked by adverts inserted by friends, business associates and beneficiaries of Michael Adeniyi Agbolade Ishola Adenuga Jr, a billionaire businessman who turned 70.
23 Apr
These are the words of billionaire businessman, Dr Mike Adenuga. The Globacom founder had so expressed his mind in the course of business discussion about a decade ago.
22 Apr
Where does one start from with the elephant in the room? The perception therein varies based on divergent prisms of touch, look and feel as one of Nigeria's octopoidal entities christened Otunba Dr. Mike Adenuga celebrates the milestone of clocking seven decades on planet earth in a few days time on 29 April 2023 with…
17 Apr
This is a celebration of an exceptional African business icon and enigma from an insider perspective. I have interacted with the billionaire founder of Globacom and Conoil, Dr. Mike Adenuga Jr., for over three decades, 16 years of which I worked for him, often at close quarters. This is an unrestrained chronicling of his unique…
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But above all, believe it, the sweetest Canticle is, Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Francis Bacon, Of Death
On July 18, 2013, at 82, he publicly asked God to spare his life for five or possibly more years...
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