Society Gist L4
Daily Times Nigeria
Friday, September 22, 2017
Ajibade Alabi
Kayode Amusan delve into lotto business To some politician they eat and breathe politics with no second address. But for Hon Kayode Jelili Amusan, businessman and former member of the house of representative, he is an entrepreneur with interest in auto dealership, construction, prosperities and hotel. Some might say, he reached the peak of his political career when he was elected into the house of representative to represent his people of Obafemi Owode/Odeda/Abeokuta North consistency. But that could be further from the truth. He believes there is time for everything and since 2011 when he lost the ticket to return to the house, he has not abandoned serving his people but with the focus more on his business which nearly suffered neglect while he was in national assembly in Abuja However, in expanding his scope of investment and to help bridge the unemployment gap, Amusan has ventures into the Nigeria bourgeoning multi-billion naira gaming industry. Amusan, through his Kamson Hold-
Energy tycoon, Kola Karim’s new huge deal
Kayode
Temidayo Orisadare celebrates wife in style
Kola
Striking momentous deal is gradually becoming the second nature of the unassuming billionaire mogul, Kola Karim. In 2012, with the swagger of a Energy International swept up former Shell assets to join the upstream revolution. It was that deal that got many to pay attention to this stylish and dandy quiet wealthy dude who has been
Adedayo
The CEO OF ST & T Hotel Baruwa Ipaja, Temidayo Orisadare recently threw a lavish party for his beautiful wife to celebrate her birthday. Coming weeks after he himself celebrated his birthday, the hugely build Ondo State born business man could not but thank God for adding another year to his wife barely weeks after he celebrated his own . “It is always a privilege to have such an honour celebrating your wife birthday
weeks after yours. I give God the glory” though the party was witnessed and attended by socialites within Lagos and its environs but Dayo whose Hotel is one of the best in the area did not read meaning to that “I know I am socialites so if I have a party and socialites comes around it tells you the kind of person I am “at the party guests were entertained by portable who is doubled as “Small Commander Obey”
Shoreline Power, a subsidiary of Shoreline Energy took a 75 per cent stake in Gasland Company Limited, who had been granted the Lekki gas distribution franchise by the former Nigerian Gas Company (NGC). The Lekki franchise gives exclusive rights to distribute and sell gas in the Victoria Island, Ikoyi, Lekki, and Epe areas of Lagos. So, early this week, Kola activated the commencement of the real deal as his Shoreline Energy and The Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (SPDC) signed an agreement to explore opportunities to buy, market, distribute and sell natural gas to consumers and companies in the Victoria Island, Ikoyi, Lekki, and Epe areas of Lagos. The partnership, it is said, the Nigerian domestic gas market
to companies and households in Lagos. Kola, the 48-year-old member players, who owns a townhouse in Kensington, London as well as properties in Windsor, Nigeria and South Africa, alongside his younger trading company into a big player in the oil and construction sectors, shuttles between Nigeria and the western world frequently. He is the current Chairman of the Board of Directors of Costain (West Africa) plc, Nigerian Ropes plc, and serves as director in seven other companies including Ecobank Nigeria Plc, Schlumberger Testing & Production Services Nigeria Ltd, Trans Amadi Facilities Ltd, Grange Education Ltd and African Eagles Plc. A couple of years ago, Kola, a patron for African Art and a fearsome member of Lagos Polo team, was named Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. In 2014 he was listed as one of the 10 Most Powerful Men his wife, Funke Karim, caters for underprivileged kids in Nigeria and the United Kingdom. The aim is to support education and vocational development with a focus on entrepreneurship.