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For an oil tycoon who started as a corporate lawyer but left the bar to go hustle in a garage from where he cut his business teeth, Jubril Adewale Tinubu has really come a long way. Tinubu, the University of Liverpool law graduate who began his legal career in his father’s law firm, K.O. Tinubu and Co. in 1990 as a lawyer, wanted something more engaging. By 1994 at age 25, the very determined Wale started his early entrepreneurial moves as he resigned and started a company working out of his father’s garage. With some corporate assignments for some companies, Wale’s informal beginning in the oil and gas business would metamorphose into today’s behemoth Oando Plc. Without prejudice to his rising status as a go-to-guy in Nigeria, due to the relevance of his uncle, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as Nigeria’s 16th President, Wale, aptly dubbed African King of Oil by renowned Forbes magazine, is an accomplished business genius in his own right. With his status growing progressively, Wale has every reason to count his blessings especially with an opportunity to see a brand new birthday on Monday, June 26. From the midnight of this day that he clocked 56, the oil guru —like an annual ritual of sorts— was roused from his sleep with calls and messages from family members, friends, and business associates.
Spotlight gathered that later on that day, Wale hosted a prayer session to thank God for the rare grace to have lived an eventful life thus far and to pray for greater blessings in the coming years. Wale, who was part of his Uncle’s presidential team to Paris, capped the day with a very private birthday celebration in his London mansion with his immediate family and select close friends.
