Billionaire Businessman, Mohammed Indimi, Soldiers on @75
POLITICS DIGEST- If anyone is compiling a list of the most influential Nigerians at the moment, Mohammed Indimi has to be on such a list.
The billionaire businessman is the founder and chairman of Oriental Energy Resources, an oil exploration and production company. He is also an in-law to President Muhammadu Buhari, by virtue of the fact that his son, Ahmed, is married to Zahra, the president’s daughter.
Though he was not born with a silver spoon, Indimi, through sheer grit and determination, was able to extricate himself from the claws of poverty into the embrace of fortune. He is believed to be worth over $1bn with investments in different areas of the economy, including oil and gas. He is also on the board of many companies, including Jaiz Bank.
Indimi was born on August 12, 1947, in Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State. He only attended Quaránic schools but he learnt how to speak, read and write in English.
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A committed philanthropist, Indimi set up the Muhammad Indimi Foundation in a bid to touch as many lives as possible, with focus on helping vulnerable families through poverty alleviation programmes, as well as fighting against hunger, illiteracy and ill health.
He is said to have built a 100-unit N600m housing estate, as well as provided food and clothing for vulnerable people displaced by Boko Haram terrorists. Indimi, through the foundation, has also built schools and clinics. It built a 100-unit N700m residential estate in Mbo, Akwa Ibom State.
This is even as he has awarded over 470 scholarships to students in Akwa Ibom. He also created a sponsorship programme for the University of Uyo’s Department of Petroleum and Chemical Engineering. He donated a multi-million-dollar international business centre to Lynn University in Florida, United States of America. The centre is named after him.
Despite all he has achieved, Indimi is showing no signs of slowing down. Though not one given to ostentatious events, many people channeled an avalanche of goodwill messages to him on his birthday. For someone who loves touching lives, perhaps, he couldn’t have wished for a better way to mark the day.
Agency Reporter.
