Tribute To Igho Sanomi At 47

Igho Sanomi ’s life reads like an intricate code of manhood but the subtext is no ordinary cipher. He is not your average man. The magnitude and special intensity of his humanness resonates a timeless ethos of quality.

Yes, the dark-hued bloke is 47 today! There are so many reasons to celebrate though. He is hale and hearty; in a year when supposedly healthier, wealthier, more influential, and younger people are dropping dead at the speed of light, he or his household didn’t receive a card from a chiropractor. He is, however, not unmindful of the fact that at 47, life now seems shorter but in words and deeds, he evinces his gratefulness to God for the grace and good health to daily wake up without any aches and anxieties.

Today, there would be pockets of mini-celebrations by family, friends, and associates while basking in the blizzard of good wishes and felicitations that would buffet him.

In his march to acclaim, Igho Sanomi,  the oil entrepreneur and dedicated philanthropist laboured within commerce’s brutish straits, burnishing spunk with pragmatism; eventually, he emerged as one of the keenest juggernauts in Nigeria’s oil sector, and the most perceptive visionary of his generation.

Igho started life in the customary hustling way, towing the slow, steady path to acclaim. As he grew his enterprise, naturally, he attracted the best to himself. He became surrounded by eager people who came to him to solve their problems.

Eventually, the light broke upon him and he began to enjoy the beaming brightness of bliss.
Despite the glamour and inspiration oft ascribed to his narrative, his journey to the top didn’t lay out in flat miles. In the middle of challenges, many may get thoroughly disillusioned, indolent and rid of spunk, but not Igho. He affected an infectious mass of energy and bumptious push. He was too energetic thus immune to slothfulness.

Igho Sanomi understands that his possession of entrepreneurial success is a divine award gifted to him to glorify his work as a magnate; he also understands that he must commit his enterprise and hard earned resources with noble intent, to the alleviation of the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for self-glorification and least of all for profit, but to create out of the materials of the human spirit something which did not exist before: love, peace, compassion and hope in the hearts of the underprivileged and impoverished.

Thus he committed to find a dedication for his money, devoting it to commensurate needs with the purpose and significance of its origin. He sought to do the same with his enterprise too, by imbuing it as a pinnacle of high ethics, from which succour may be dispensed to millions of impoverished communities, families, young men and women already tied to the interminable anguish and travail.

He laboured through commerce’s brutish straits, burnishing his spunk with ethical realism; eventually, he emerged as one of the keenest juggernauts in the downstream oil sector and the most perceptive visionary. Igho  began life in the customary hustling way.

In his march to grow his enterprise, he got too busy to engage in sloth. Naturally, he attracted the best to himself. He became surrounded by eager people who came to him to solve their problems. Eventually, the light broke upon him.

In the middle of challenges, many may get thoroughly disillusioned, indolent and rid of spunk, but not Igho. He affected an infectious mass of energy and bumptious push. He was too energetic thus immune to slothfulness.

While striving for the best, Igho nursed no unrealistic notions about his dream. Because he was human, he knew he would probably encounter failure, disappointment, injustice, betrayal, and irreparable loss. But he was determined to tow the slow, steady, ethical path to acclaim.

He is never one to dither when faced with challenges. He never balks from decisive actions or his own thought. A businessman and philanthropist per excellence, he has mastered the art of speaking his apparent and latent conviction in the language of universal sense and perception.

Familiar as the voice of the mind is to each, the highest merit we ascribe to Plato, Thoreau and Milton is that they gave voice to and perpetuated books and traditions in the tenor of truth. They did not speak the language of despots and tin gods.

Like these honourable men, Sanomi propagates the gospel of truth, in politics, personal ethics, religion and business. He does not echo the language of demagogues and men driven by desperate and vulgar obsession with mammon.

He is driven by the ethical philosophy that requires a man to learn to detect and affect that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of tin gods and hyperbolic bards. Yet, he dismisses without notice his own thought, which makes him even more humble in candour.

Since he made his remarkable foray into the African oil and gas industry, Igho, through his company, Taleveras Group, a globally recognized energy, shipping and power conglomerate, has demonstrated outstanding capabilities as a leader, manager, and visionary.

Interestingly, philanthropy is second nature to Sanomi. Ever since he came into his own, the wealthy businessman has made it a focal objective to give back to humanity through the Dickens Sanomi Foundation named after his father. Founded in 2011, the foundation seeks to relieve the effects of socio-economic hardship amongst young Nigerians from vulnerable backgrounds and to empower them with the knowledge they need to secure a brighter future for themselves and for Nigeria as a whole.

Frankly, it would not be a heresy to say that Sanomi is not a run-of-the-mill successful Entrepreneur fixated on lining their pockets and thriving on cronyism. He thrives rather on giving back to the society more than he has ever made from it without any recourse to tokenism. Those who know this unrepentant altruist are acutely aware that he orbits in his self-imposed mission to alleviate the endemic suffering and poverty in Africa, while bringing innate gravitas to the art and act of philanthropy.

Born into a close-knit family on May 17th, 1975, Mr. Sanomi had an eventful but strict upbringing under his Father and Mother. His father a much disciplined Police Officer, ensured that his precocious son did not derail from the right path. His smartness and intelligence were sing-song amongst his peers especially as he blazed through schools in flying colors.