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Hakeem Belo-Osagie was born on 1955 in Lagos, Nigeria, is a Nigerian businessman. Discover Hakeem Belo-Osagie's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 69 years old?

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Occupation Businessman
Age 69 years old
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Born 1955, 1955
Birthday 1955
Birthplace Lagos, Nigeria
Nationality Niger

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Hakeem Belo-Osagie is a Nigerian businessman.

He is chair of Metis Capital Partners an organisation focused on brokering and delivering attractive, large-ticket transactions in Africa to select blue chip international investment partners.

1955

Belo-Osagie was born in Lagos, Nigeria in 1955.

His father was a professional gynaecologist and his mother was a nurse.

He is the father of Yasmin Belo-Osagie.

He attended King's College in Lagos and completed his secondary education at the United World College of the Atlantic in Wales.

Belo-Osagie holds a law degree from the University of Cambridge, a MA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from the University of Oxford and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

He is a member of the Nigerian Bar Association.

He currently lives in Nigeria with his wife Dr.Myma Belo-Osagie and their four children

1980

Belo-Osagie returned to Nigeria shortly after graduating from Harvard in 1980.

He began his career in the service of the Federal Government of Nigeria working in various capacities in the energy sector ranging from Special Assistant to the Presidential Adviser on petroleum and energy, to Secretary of the Oil Policy Review and LNG Committees.

He subsequently worked in the Petrochemicals Division of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation.

1986

He resigned his appointment in 1986 to set up CTIC, which became a leading energy consulting firm.

He also chairs the board of Vitol Nigeria, which is a subsidiary of the Swiss-based Vitol Group, a multinational energy and commodity trading firm.

1998

In 1998 Belo-Osagie became the chairman of the board of directors of The United Bank for Africa Plc (the "UBA"), one of the largest commercial banks in Nigeria.

2004

He resigned from this post in March 2004, in the wake of unsubstantiated allegations made by The Central Bank of Nigeria (the "CBN") that the UBA had been involved in unlicensed foreign exchange trading.

As a result of these allegations, Belo-Osagie was immediately blacklisted by the CBN.

2005

In 2005, local reports suggested that the Nigerian Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had launched an investigation into Belo-Osagie's chairmanship of the UBA.

No criminal charges were ever filed against him.

2008

Founded in 2008, the highly selective ALA immerses promising young people in a rigorous two-year curriculum of leadership, service and African studies.

The ALA network of alumni includes almost four hundred young leaders drawn from forty three countries across the continent.

2010

On 24 May 2010 the CBN acknowledged its actions to have been unduly punitive, and removed Belo-Osagie from its blacklist with immediate effect.

Belo-Osagie is also the founder and Chairman of the board of FSDH holding company, which includes among its holdings FSDH merchant Bank, FSDH Asset management, PAL pensions and FSDH securities trading company

2012

In 2012, the academy unveiled the "Hakeem and Myma Belo-Osagie Wing", named in recognition of the couple's support of the ALA and their advocacy on its behalf.

Belo-Osagie is also the founder and Chairman of the board of FSDH holding company, which includes among its holdings FSDH merchant Bank, FSDH Asset management, PAL pensions and FSDH securities trading company

2014

He was listed by Forbes Magazine as the forty-first richest man in Africa in 2014.

Belo-Osagie is the son of Professor Tiamiyu Belo-Osagie, a renowned gynecologist who catered to the medical needs of the family of former Nigerian military president Ibrahim Babangida.

Through that connection, Hakeem secured a job as Special Assistant to the Presidential Adviser on Petroleum and Energy and later as Special Assistant to the Minister of Petroleum and Energy, late Alhaji Rilwan Lukmon.

The appointments, he admits put him in the position to close in on a few oil deals from which he made his first fortune.

Belo-Osagie started his career as a petroleum economist and lawyer, following his graduation from Harvard Business School.

For more than three decades, he has been a key player in the Nigerian economy through his participation in several private sector businesses; particularly in the fields of energy, finance and telecommunications.

2017

Up Until 2017, Belo-Osagie was the chairman of Etisalat's Nigerian arm, in which he controlled a significant stake.

He also has a range of other business interests in Nigeria.

Belo-Osagie and his wife, Dr Myma Belo-Osagie (a founding partner of Udo Udoma & Belo-Osagie), are noted philanthropists who believe strongly in the power of education.

They are among the largest donors to the African Leadership Academy in Johannesburg, and have endowed a fund for the promotion of Africa at Yale University.

The couple are also supporters of Harvard University's Center for African Studies, and Belo-Osagie has established a scholarship to support African students studying at Balliol College, Oxford.

Belo-Osagie and his wife are both members of Harvard University's Global Advisory Council.

Belo-Osagie also serves on the Yale University President's Council on International Activities and the New York University President's Global Council.

In addition, Belo-Osagie sits on the International Advisory Council of the Brookings Institution and the Global Board of Advisors of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Belo-Osagie and his wife are among the largest donors to the African Leadership Academy (the "ALA"), a residential secondary school in Johannesburg that works to educate Africa's brightest students.