BigIyanga:

Bayo also made his $$ from Naija. His friend Dr Hakeem Belo Osagie was a special adviser to Naija and they went to the same school… connected him to a US company handling LNG project… he got drafted to handle the project because of his Naija background, accounting and law degrees.

Hard to find any Naija rich person who made money without Naija connect.

Tope Awotona of Calendly. His wealth has nothing to do with Nigeria. There are equally rich Nigerians, especially second generation, in the US who generated their earnings without a Nigerian connection.

virginchaser:
Dan Etete Portharcourt house now house market square while the mansion in Akwa Ibom village is abandon without maintenance. Lagos house is commercial and fully operational.

I wonder what Ndito "build a house in the village" have to say about this.

Gerrard59:


I wonder what Ndito "build a house in the village" have to say about this.

Now i understood why the man couldn't come home. I always wondered how on earth such edifice will be wasting away.

KnowAll:


Mention them. You can’t hide wealth. If you rich all you need to do is google the person’s name and it would pop up. To say u know people wey nobody know is an illusion. Me sef I be billionaire. 😅

Are you a Naira billionaire or dollar ? . I have to ask because if you are a Naira billionaire your name no go dey for Google.

TWO RAMS CANNOT DRINK WATER FROM THE SAME BUCKET. This man is a deep thinker. A ram represents an Aries entity meaning a spiritually dead entity operating under a universal curse of ham. The curse of powerlessness which is why they are eating from the bucket. The bucket represents death hence the saying KICK THE BUCKET. So basically the man was saying THERE IS NO POINT EXISTING IN A COUNTRY WHERE EVERYONE IS CURSED AND SPIRITUALLY DEAD. LET ME BOUNCE TO A COUNTRY WHERE THERE ARE NO CURSES AND PEOPLE ARE SPIRITUALLY AWARE 🙆🏽‍♂️🙆🏽‍♂️🙆🏽‍♂️🙆🏽‍♂️

Also the sign of spiritual death is the huge coiled up ineffective horn. Two of those horns will prevent each other from drinking at the same time so basically there is no salvation living among fellow dead people. You have to port to the land of the living to get salvation is his message and truly Nigeria is a spiritually dead zone. Anywhere that is religiously dominated by churches and mosques is a spiritually dead place. Those institutions are setup by demons to tether your souls to the literal exegesis of the sacred texts. Make you a zombie

KnowAll:
he US department of justice has announced the final resolution of two civil cases seeking the forfeiture of the luxury assets that were laundered in and through the country in a case involving Diezani Alison-Madueke, former minister of petroleum resources, and her associates.

Diezani’s associates who were named in the forfeiture case are Kola Aluko, a Nigerian businessman, and Jide Omokore, chairman of Atlantic Energy Drilling Concepts Nigeria Limited.

The department said the forfeited assets were the “proceeds of foreign corruption offenses”.

In a statement released on its website on Monday, the US department of justice disclosed that “roughly $53.1 million in cash, plus a promissory note with a principal value of $16 million” have been recovered as part of “proceeds of illicitly awarded contracts” involving the trio — Diezeani, Aluko, and Omokore.

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We no go gree o, we no go gree. Na final forfeiture to US or to Nigeria I beg make dem return the money to Nigeria please .

KnowAll:
Antonio Oladeinde Fernandez, billionaire business magnate, diplomat, mining tycoon, Permanent Representative of Central African Republic to the United Nations, is dead.

Deinde Fernandez, as he was popularly known, died on Tuesday in a private hospital in Belgium.

Born in Lagos in 1936 to one of the first European migrants to the city, Mr. Fernadez grew up to become one of Nigeria’s most mysterious and reclusive billionaires with properties in several African countries as well as in Europe and America.


Not much is known about his early days, but in 1982, he was appointed an advisor to the Angolan government on Economic Matters.



Two years later, he became a Deputy Permanent Representative of Mozambique to the United Nations.

Yahaya Bello vs EFCC

In 1992, he was made a Special Adviser to the President of Mozambique on International Economic Matters, a position he held till 1995.

In addition to his diplomatic duties, Mr. Fernandez ran a string of companies such as Petro Inet‎t, a mining firm that had extensive oil, gold, and diamond interests in Angola as well as in the Central African Republic.

He also owned Sandcat Enterprises, View, Grantdale, Inuola, Sandcat Goldfields, Voguehope, Woods, Goldfields, and Petro-Inett Equatorial Guinea.

He also owned a string of properties, including a £3 million seven storey Gerogian town house in Edinburgh; a £4 million New York estate; a 25-acre £1 million 19th-century Chateau de Bois Feuillette in Paris; a £10 million property on the Premium Point peninsula, New York, among others.

When doing copy and paste, always remember to read through and re-edit before posting. Which one is "Yahaya Bello vs EFCC" there?

ppogba:


Your list is incomplete without the mention of PAUL OGWUMA, a former CBN Governor who died like a chicken abroad in exile.

u just reminded me of this man. His son Ogwuma Ogwuma was my school mate in Govt College Umuahia back then.

KnowAll:
Deinde Fernandez did not loot. Some of you Nigerians are on autopilot anytime you heard someone is rich he or she are looters. Of course 98% of d time u are correct but know some made their money genuinely.

If he did not loot, then why is Mozambique, Angola and CAR not in the league of Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and other Arabian Peninsular countries with their resources

ppogba:
Your list is incomplete without the mention of PAUL OGWUMA, a former CBN Governor who died like a chicken abroad in exile.

Paul Ogwuma is still very much alive.
You should find out.

ijustdey:
Paul Ogwuma, former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and his wife have acquired property worth £33 million (N15.6 billion), a UK investigative journalism magazine has revealed.

According to the magazine, Private Eye, Ogwuma, who served as CBN governor for six years has “amassed a £33m British property empire”.

In its report titled “Abuja on Thames” the paper said it “has identified a network of 15 British companies owned or controlled by Anna Ogwuma,” wife of the governor, adding that her husband “looted his country under 1990s military dictatorship”.

“Paul Ogwuma, 86, was governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria during the brutal and kleptocratic rule of General Sani Abacha, when the bank was the latter’s personal piggy-bank. Some estimates suggest looting under Abacha ran to billions of dollars,” the report read.

“Under his successor for one year, retired general Abdulsalami Abubakar, Ogwuma oversaw a depletion in Nigeria’s foreign currency reserves of around $3bn, or 40%”.

“Between 2002 and 2017, her companies were used for 20 separate property purchases. They ranged from commercial sites in the north of England to luxury apartments in west London.

“Among them are townhouses in Kensington and Paddington, a couple of apartments in Mayfair, and premises in Bishop’s Stortford town centre that currently house a branch of Greggs.”

The report added that “although the Abacha era and its excesses are receding into history, banks that were often complicit at the time might be expected to know some of this history.

“Yet Mrs Ogwuma’s most valuable properties were either bought or remortgaged with loans from Barclays Bank (which handled $170m of Abacha’s ill-gotten wealth) and Lloyds Bank in the years after 2015.

“While times have moved on, so has the law on money laundering, and Mrs Ogwuma’s lavish property buying should have prompted questions about the origin of her money. The looting of Africa has a long legacy on the streets of Britain”.

Ogwuma served as the managing director/CEO of Union Bank of Nigeria prior to his appointment as the Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria in September, 1993.

https://www.thecable.ng/report-former-cbn-govenor-wife-buy-n15-6bn-property-in-uk

Elzazzi:


That Man was stupendously wealthy. He hanged out with the rich and mighty. Had several private jets.

He's my mentor. Reason I put him on my profile here on NL

Nice to know, Smart man, i spoke to him a few times.

diamond68:
TWO RAMS CANNOT DRINK WATER FROM THE SAME BUCKET. This man is a deep thinker. A ram represents an Aries entity meaning a spiritually dead entity operating under a universal curse of ham. The curse of powerlessness which is why they are eating from the bucket. The bucket represents death hence the saying KICK THE BUCKET. So basically the man was saying THERE IS NO POINT EXISTING IN A COUNTRY WHERE EVERYONE IS CURSED AND SPIRITUALLY DEAD. LET ME BOUNCE TO A COUNTRY WHERE THERE ARE NO CURSES AND PEOPLE ARE SPIRITUALLY AWARE 🙆🏽‍♂️🙆🏽‍♂️🙆🏽‍♂️🙆🏽‍♂️

Also the sign of spiritual death is the huge coiled up ineffective horn. Two of those horns will prevent each other from drinking at the same time so basically there is no salvation living among fellow dead people. You have to port to the land of the living to get salvation is his message and truly Nigeria is a spiritually dead zone. Anywhere that is religiously dominated by churches and mosques is a spiritually dead place. Those institutions are setup by demons to tether your souls to the literal exegesis of the sacred texts. Make you a zombie

Oh boy this your interpretation deep but it makes sense.

anonimi:


Paul Ogwuma is still very much alive.
You should find out.

So this man never came back to Nigeria.

pafun:


Make you no hustle your own bread. Siddon there dey compile list up and down. Nonsense.

lol....you too vex !!

KnowAll:


It is just surprising some people hold pepper and they still siddon for obodo oyinbo.

Have you been served food by a white man or white woman ?
Have you been driven around in a chauffeured car by a white man ?
Has a white man ever called you "Sir" ?

Go and make money my friend,home is anywhere in the world !!

What make lie Mohammed not on the list,..He destroy entire Nation calling black red and some satanic APC members.

KnowAll:


Oh boy this your interpretation deep but it makes sense.

wisdom is the new currency 💴👋

terry waya

Blackman101:
terry waya

Terry waya is home based.

Benedicts Peters.. the CEO/Chairman of the Aiteo Group.....

virginchaser:


Now i understood why the man couldn't come home. I always wondered how on earth such edifice will be wasting away.

But he had the money to modify the structure, why did he not do it?

lapintoz:
Benedicts Peters.. the CEO/Chairman of the Aiteo Group.....

His Nigerian business interest are still active. And if he is based outside, where exactly?

Gerrard59:


But he had the money to modify the structure, why did he not do it?

I think when you get embroiled in investing in western economies where the returns are in hard currency, you will think to yourself, why invest in a sinking economy like Nigeria where the Naira losing value every day is actually pauperising the population. There is no point.

KnowAll:


I think when you get embroiled in investing in western economies where the returns are in hard currency, you will think to yourself, why invest in a sinking economy like Nigeria where the Naira losing value every day is actually pauperising the population. There is no point.

While that is true, some people want to have a home in their village, which I don't see it as a sensible investment, as it is largely emotional. The issue is when they build a large structure on a wide expanse of land YET cannot properly maintain it. It is pointless building a mansion in the middle of nowhere when a smaller edifice could have sufficed.

Anyway, their money, but economics and numbers don't lie in the long run.

malali:


Have you been served food by a white man or white woman ?
Have you been driven around in a chauffeured car by a white man ?
Has a white man ever called you "Sir" ?

Go and make money my friend,home is anywhere in the world !!

You are very very correct . Home to me is where you find peace, progress and rest of mind .

diamond68:
TWO RAMS CANNOT DRINK WATER FROM THE SAME BUCKET. This man is a deep thinker. A ram represents an Aries entity meaning a spiritually dead entity operating under a universal curse of ham. The curse of powerlessness which is why they are eating from the bucket. The bucket represents death hence the saying KICK THE BUCKET. So basically the man was saying THERE IS NO POINT EXISTING IN A COUNTRY WHERE EVERYONE IS CURSED AND SPIRITUALLY DEAD. LET ME BOUNCE TO A COUNTRY WHERE THERE ARE NO CURSES AND PEOPLE ARE SPIRITUALLY AWARE 🙆🏽‍♂️🙆🏽‍♂️🙆🏽‍♂️🙆🏽‍♂️

Also the sign of spiritual death is the huge coiled up ineffective horn. Two of those horns will prevent each other from drinking at the same time so basically there is no salvation living among fellow dead people. You have to port to the land of the living to get salvation is his message and truly Nigeria is a spiritually dead zone. Anywhere that is religiously dominated by churches and mosques is a spiritually dead place. Those institutions are setup by demons to tether your souls to the literal exegesis of the sacred texts. Make you a zombie

You need to pay an urgent attention to your mental health.

KnowAll:


Deinde Fernandez made his money independently. Had oil wells in Angola not even Nigeria. Don’t paint everyone with the same brush.

Antonio Oladeinde Fernandez... Omo Eko.

KnowAll:
Antonio Oladeinde Fernandez, billionaire business magnate, diplomat, mining tycoon, Permanent Representative of Central African Republic to the United Nations, is dead.

Deinde Fernandez, as he was popularly known, died on Tuesday in a private hospital in Belgium.

Born in Lagos in 1936 to one of the first European migrants to the city, Mr. Fernadez grew up to become one of Nigeria’s most mysterious and reclusive billionaires with properties in several African countries as well as in Europe and America.


Not much is known about his early days, but in 1982, he was appointed an advisor to the Angolan government on Economic Matters.



Two years later, he became a Deputy Permanent Representative of Mozambique to the United Nations.


In 1992, he was made a Special Adviser to the President of Mozambique on International Economic Matters, a position he held till 1995.

In addition to his diplomatic duties, Mr. Fernandez ran a string of companies such as Petro Inet‎t, a mining firm that had extensive oil, gold, and diamond interests in Angola as well as in the Central African Republic.

He also owned Sandcat Enterprises, View, Grantdale, Inuola, Sandcat Goldfields, Voguehope, Woods, Goldfields, and Petro-Inett Equatorial Guinea.

He also owned a string of properties, including a £3 million seven storey Gerogian town house in Edinburgh; a £4 million New York estate; a 25-acre £1 million 19th-century Chateau de Bois Feuillette in Paris; a £10 million property on the Premium Point peninsula, New York, among others.

Succinctly stated.

The iconic Ambassador Extra plenipotentiary and former Forbes-listed billionaire recluse, Antonio Oladeinde Fernandez.

Gerrard59:


Tope Awotona of Calendly. His wealth has nothing to do with Nigeria. There are equally rich Nigerians, especially second generation, in the US who generated their earnings without a Nigerian connection.

Second generation Nigerians are not Nigerian. You have to be born here schooled here to some level which makes you full grounded Nigerian and for unseen reasons turn your back on Nigeria.

Raf4:


You need to pay an urgent attention to your mental health.

Abstract thinking, you are parochial in your thinking.

Elzazzi:


Maybe he meant 2 captains can't sail a ship.

He's a descendant of returned slaves from Brazil. His family lineage are wealthy also.

A descendant of formerly enslaved returnee Yorubas from Cuba and Brazil is the way I like to put it. Antonio Oladeinde Fernandez was popular in Cuba and well known to Fidel Castro. I read a publication back in the early 1990s indicating that his forebears came back from Cuba. Of course the wealthy and influential Yoruba returnee families from Cuba and the Yoruba returnee families from Brazil also intermarried hence Antonio Oladeinde Fernandez would have Yoruba-Brazilian returnee ancestry as well.

These Yoruba-Brazilian and Yoruba-Cuban folks otherwise called African merchant princes were quite wealthy and they ran thriving International businesses shipping food commodities and other items from Lagos Island to Bahia and vice versa before 1900 because some Yoruba families and other Africans continued to live in Bahia, Brazil even after the abolition of plantation slavery. Some like the Ijesa-born Candido DaRocha family maintained two families on both sides of the Atlantic in Lagos Island, Nigeria and Bahia, Brazil. The wealthy Alakija patriarch who was the first Nigerian Queen's Counsel (QC) and founder of Daily Times newspaper was a returnee with his Egba family from Bahia, Brazil and was formerly known as Placido Assumpcao before he dropped his Brazilian name (after returning to Nigeria from his law studies in England in the 1910s), and adopted his full Yoruba name, Sir Adeyemo Alakija.

Just to add, the Yoruba-Cuban returnees (from Havana and Matanzas) in the late 1800s and part of the early 1900s settled around the Campos Square area of Lagos Island, while those from Brazil settled in the Brazilian quarters. Slave ship records show that about 250,000 folks of various Yoruba subgroups were brought to Cuba in the 1800s. About the same number of 250,000 were also taken to Brazil.

The Oyos were the largest of them all and they were known to lead several revolts against injustice by the White Spanish in Cuba because of the warrior backgrounds of many Oyos brought as prisoners of war to Cuba. The Ijesas from today's Osun State, and the Egbas originally from Ibadan and later Abeokuta also had significant populations among the Yoruba folks who were deported on slave schooners from majorly Nigeria and Benin Republic slave port areas (of Lagos Island, Badagry, Whydah) to Brazil, Cuba, Guyana, Trinidad, the United States, etc.

Konquest:

A descendant of formerly enslaved returnee Yorubas from Cuba and Brazil is the way I like to put it. Antonio Oladeinde Fernandez was popular in Cuba and well known to Fidel Castro. I read a publication back in the early 1990s indicating that his forebears came back from Cuba. Of course the wealthy and influential Yoruba returnee families from Cuba and the Yoruba returnee families from Brazil also intermarried hence Antonio Oladeinde Fernandez would have Yoruba-Brazilian returnee ancestry as well.

These Yoruba-Brazilian and Yoruba-Cuban folks otherwise called African merchant princes were quite wealthy and they ran thriving International businessese shipping food commodities and other items from Lagos Island to Bahia and vice versa before 1900 because some Yoruba families and other Africans continued to live in Bahia, Brazil even after the abolition of plantation slavery. Some like the Ijesa-born Candido DaRocha family maintained two families on both sides of the Atlantic in Lagos Island, Nigeria and Bahia, Brazil. The wealthy Alakija patriarch who was the first Nigerian Queen's Counsel (QC) and founder of Daily Times newspaper was a returnee with his Egba family from Bahia, Brazil and was formerly known as Placido Assumpcao before he dropped his Brazilian name (after returning to Nigeria from his law studies in England in the 1910s), and adopted his full Yoruba name, Sir Adeyemo Alakija.

Just to add, the Yoruba-Cuban returnees (from Havana and Matanzas) in the late 1800s and part of the early 1900s settled around the Campos Square area of Lagos Island, while those from Brazil settled in the Brazilian quarters. Slave ship records show that about 250,000 folks of various Yoruba subgroups were brought to Cuba in the 1800s. About the same number of 250,000 were also taken to Brazil.

The Oyos were the largest of them all and they were known to lead several revolts against injustice by the White Spanish in Cuba because of the warrior backgrounds of many Oyos brought as prisoners of war to Cuba. The Ijesas from today's Osun State, and the Egbas originally from Ibadan and later Abeokuta also had significant populations among the Yoruba folks who were deported on slave schooners from majorly Nigeria and Benin Republic slave port areas (of Lagos Island, Badagry, Whydah) to Brazil, Cuba, Guyana, Trinidad, the United States, etc.

And most importantly, they were slave merchants and brokers