Telecoms and energy businessman Mike Adenuga says he has leant on French technology partners to build his fortune. “Our relationship with French business has been a long and extremely beneficial one,” he says.
It started in the early 1990s, after Adenuga’s Consolidated Oil struck commercial quantities of crude in Ondo State.
“The genesis and bedrock of that relationship was the energy team at the
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