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| Otudeko, Airtel Chairman |
Telecom investors in Nigeria have
been announced as among those who made Forbes top 40 richest list on the
continent.
Latest information filtering into
our newsroom indicates that chairmen of, at least, four Mobile Network
Operators (MNO) in Nigeria, made the list in varying categories, while Nigerian
business mogul, Messrs Aliko Dangote, is not despaired from assuming the
topmost position with $12 billion, about N1,892,407,404,333 trillion.
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| Adenuga, Glo Chairman |
DigitalSENSEBusiness News gathered that of the four chairmen on scale for the 2012
Forbes’ list, telecom investors from Nigeria is led by the executive chairman
of Globacom, Dr. Mike Adenuga, jnr, while he is on the 5th scale for the
African richest position with the net worth of $6.4 billion, about N1.9
trillion as at the time of filing this report.
Other chairmen and core investors
in the nation’s telecommunications sector include the chairman of Visafone
Communication, Mr. Jim Ovia, his counterpart at Etisalat, Mr. Hakeem Belo-Osagie
and chairman, Airtel Nigeria and Honey Well group founder, Oba Otudeko.
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| Osagie, Etisalat Nigeria Chairman |
Whereas Hakeem Belo-Osagie, 57, may
have closed the list of 40 Africans with an estimated $400m net worth from the
oil sector; Jim Ovia ranked 19 with net worth of $825m, about N130.1 billion,
even as the Honey Well group founder and current chairman, Airtel Nigeria, Oba
Otudeko is worth of $575m, about N90.6 billion.
Uniquely, what the aforementioned
showed is that these men are simply accomplished investors in other sectors of
the economy, even before venturing into telecommunications and as posited by
some industry watchers, it goes to also stress that these investors are making
progress and telecommunications has not been all just investment but provides
return on investment.
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| Ovia, Visafone Chairman |
However, some other Nigerians that
made the 40 top richest list in Africa consist of Abdulsamad Rabiu, who heads
BUA Group and is ranked 21st with a net worth of $675m, and Folorunsho Alakija,
who is one of two women on the list and ranked 24th with a net worth of $600m
from the oil sector.
Following Alakija in the rating is
former Nigerian defense minister Theophilus Danjuma who is a net worth of $600m
from the oil sector at the 24th position.
At the 27th position is Mohammed
Indimi whose worth is $550m from the oil and gas sector, just as 82-year old
O.B. Lulu-Briggs ranked 31st with a net worth of $500m from the oil sector.
Further, Nigerian Sani Bello, the former Nigerian military governor from Kano
State and a one-time ambassador to Zimbabwe ranked 37 with a net worth of
$425m.
Remmy Nweke
... Making SENSE of digital revolution!
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