10 Youngest Billonaires In Nigeria 2019

Funke AzeezMay 1, 2019

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The latest ten youngest billonaires in Nigera are:

1) IGHO SANOMI,
Igho sanomi was born Agbor delta state. He is the richest billonair in Nigeria with an estimated worth of $1 billion, his business interests include telecommunications, shiping, aviation ,engineering, construction and real estate investments.

2) LADI DELANO
Ladi Delano founded a Chinese alcoholic beverage company, solidarnosc Asia in 2004 at the young age of 24 .The company was known for its premium brand as vodka, solid XS,
Currently Delano runs Bakrie Delano Africa (BDA) which is a $1 billion joint venture with Bakrie group of Indonesia.

3) LINDA IKEJI
A few years ago Linda ikeji broke the news when it was reported that she had purchased a property in the exotic banana island for over $million,
Linda was born on the 19th September 1980 .she began a career as a model before quitting to becoming a full time blogger, Currently she is the highest paid blogger in the country.

4) JASON NJOKU
Born on the 11th of December 1980 ,Jason chukwuma Njoku is the founder of IROKOtv,
In July 2012 ,he was named by Forbes Africa as one of the ten young African millionaires to watch out for,
Jason is also the founder of spark, a $2 million investments company for Lagos based internet start -ups.

5) SIJIBOMI OGUNDELE
Born in agree, Lagos, he is the founder of the sujimoto construction company Ltd, a multi million dollar construction Company with assets in cities like Accra ,Dubai, Lagos, Paris, and Madrid,
He is also a trained lawyer.

6) ABIOLA OLANIRAN
Is the founder of the Nigerian gaming company, Handle,
He is Nigeria’s highest paid windows game developer. He founded Gamsole in 2012 and the company’s game currently has over 10million downloads both local and international from Windows phone store, his a graduate of computer science and mathematics from OAU Ile Ife.

7) TAYO OVIOSU
If you’ve heard of paga then you may have an idea of who tayo oviosu is,
Paga is the brainchild of pagatech limited, a company founded by tayo oviosu in 2009.

8) MARK ESSIEN
Mark essien is the founder of hotels.ng a prominent hotel booking company in Nigeria,
He was born on the 18th of December 1980 Ikot Ekpene in Akwa Ibom, mark essien is a Nigerian entrepreneur, software developer and startup investor. His company hotels.ng was worth over $4 million as at 2017

9) TONYE REX IDAMINABO
Born in the early 80s ,Tonye Rex is a Nigerian entrepreneur, he is the first west African to be appointed to the board of world leaders forum,
Rex is a trained lawyer with LLB degree from Glasgow caledonina university in Scotland.
He founded the African achievers awards in 2011 and founded reputation pool in 2016 which creates reputation polls and rankings.

10) IYINOLUWA ABOYEJI
From Andela to flutterwave, iyinoluwa Aboyeji has been blazing the trail with his innovative start-ups,
He founded Booknete, an online learning platform in Canada which was acquired by the Canadian innovative centre,
His current business flutterwave is a provider of technology and infrastructure solutions for digital payments across Africa,
The company is a multi-million dollar company that has processed over $760 million through 7.5 million transactions