Forty
three year-old Lagos born Kola Aluko is a Nigerian energy business
magnate with interests in African infrastructure development and
aviation.
Aluko’s name is well-known as a higher
level hustler, ‘private-partner oil-baron’. He has even been alleged by
some as the money launderer for Nigeria’s former minister of petroleum,
Diezani Alison-Madueke. He was said to have fled the public scene since
the arrest of Madueke on October 2.
Kola Aluko is the founder of Fossil
Resources, an oil trading company. He was CEO of Exoro Energy until it’s
merger with Seven Energy, a leading independent oil exploration
company. Aluko is now Deputy CEO and a large shareholder of Seven Energy
and co-CEO of Atlantic Energy. He is also a member of the advisory
board of Vistajet, a private jet charter company founded by Thomas
Flohr.
However, aside from all the Diezani
drama, Aluko is known as a man of affluence. With a whooping $100
millions dollars, Aluko was once ranked by Forbes Africa as one of the
40th richest Africans, as well as included in the top ten list of
Successful African Entrepreneurs to Follow on Twitter. The New African
Magazine (November 2013 issue) included Aluko in their 100 Most
Influential Africans listing and issue.
He is friends with Hollywood “A-
listers” and international supermodel, Naomi Campbell. Out of his
numerous expensive assets is his yacht named “Galactica Star”.
In 2013, Kola Aluko Spent a whooping
$1.5 Million (240 Million Naira) on champagne alone at Leonardo
DiCaprio’s 39th birthday bash. The exclusive, no cameras allowed bash
had billionaires like Vladimir Doronin, Ron Burkle, Jho Low and Vivi
Nevo in attendance. Kola Aluko also has a foundation named after him.
According to him, the foundation was created to inspire, mentor and
support future generations of African leaders.
In 2013, the billionaire businessman who
loves race cars reportedly bought the Ferrari Pininfarina Sergio
speedster said to be worth a whooping 2million pounds – that’s over
N500million. Only six of the cars are being built and all six were
already bought in advance by ‘special’ customers in which Kola Aluko was
one of them.
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