Billionaire businessman Mike Adenuga’s son Paddy yesterday broke the Nigerian internet space with a thrilling and inspiring tale.
It
chronicled how he masterminded an almost successful acquisition of the
entire business and asset of Chevron in the Netherlands. And he was 29
years old at the time.
Many have
described the account as “inspiring”, BellaNaija termed it
“captivating”, all making the 34 year old business mind the endearment
and attraction of many.
But very little
is known of the billionaire son. He’s real names are not even really
known. He’s only popularly known as Paddy Adenuga. So Pulse Business has
put together a few facts about him.
Facts
Paddy was born Mike Agbolade Adeniyi Ishola Paddy Adenuga in London, England at the St. Thomas Hospital on June 21, 1984.
Paddy’s mother Emelia is of Calabar descent.
He attended Corona Primary School, Victoria-Island, then King’s College Secondary School in Lagos.
At
the age of 10, he was relocated to Harlingen, Texas, USA in the Rio
Grande Valley to attend the prestigious Marine Military Academy (MMA).
After 3 years at MMA, he attended The Tenney School in Houston Texas. By
early 1998, he graduated from high school at the very young age of 13.
Still
at the age of 13, Mike Adenuga Jnr. started tertiary education at the
University of Massachusetts, Boston studying Business Administration but
graduated at Northeastern University in 2002 with a Bachelors in
Business Management at the age of 18.
From
then on, he worked at family owned conglomerate, the Mike Adenuga
Group, till 2006. He was the Group Executive Director of the Group’s
telecom division known as GLO and also the upstream exploration &
production company, ConOil Producing.
In
2006, he left the Mike Adenuga Group and moved to London to setup an oil
brokering firm with a business partner called Cayne & Cayne. Cayne
& Cayne brokered supplies of refined petroleum product to Nigerian
oil firms.
In 2009, Paddy returned to his
father’s business in an even more senior capacity as the co-CEO of GLO
& ConOil Producing. Under his leadership, GLO significantly
increased its national cell site coverage in Nigeria, Ghana, & Benin
Republic, increased its overall revenue, and embraced new technologies
to enhance customer experience and service delivery.
In 2011, I led ConOil Producing’s $1.3 billion bid for Shell Nigeria’s OML 30 oil block in Nigeria.
Paddy
Adenuga has also been a screenwriter since the age of 15 and finished
his fifth screenplay, “Waterloo” a little over a year ago.