The story of Bola Shagaya is one that triggers more than a passing interest, and maybe even a smile. Rising from a humble background to become a business tycoon and a force to reckon with, Shagaya’s story is proof that indeed, anything can be achieved, even from nothing.
The woman who now has investments across photography, real estate, oil and gas, and the banking industry, and is said to be one of Africa’s richest women started out no different from most of us.
While still running a successful importation business in the late 1980s, she stirred her oil and gas company to secure allocation for oil blocks during the General Ibrahim Babangida led-administration… CONTINUE READING
