Meet Adenuga’s daughters taking over father’s empire
Nigerian billionaire Mike Adenuga, chairman of Globacom and Conoil, has brought his children into his business empire, with three daughters Bella Disu, Afolasade Michael-Adenuga and Abimbola Michael-Adenuga, now holding key positions on the boards of his companies.
Bella Disu has worked with Globacom for more than two decades, rising to executive vice chairman in 2019.
She played a central role in the rollout of the Glo-1 submarine fibre-optic cable and various expansions in mobile and broadband services.
Beyond Globacom, she is chief executive officer of Cobblestone Properties and Estates, chairman of Abumet Nigeria and a non-executive director of Julius Berger Nigeria Plc.
Under Cobblestone, she has developed luxury residential projects, shopping malls and cultural landmarks such as the Alliance Française Mike Adenuga Centre in Lagos, inaugurated by French President Emmanuel Macron in 2018.
Disu attended Corona School in Victoria Island, Queen’s College and Vivian Fowler Memorial College for Girls before proceeding abroad for higher studies.
She earned a bachelor’s degree in international relations from the University of Massachusetts, Boston and a master’s in leadership from Northeastern University.
In 2019, the French government honoured her with the Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
In 2024, she launched the SheGlows Programme to nurture female leaders within Globacom and established the Bella Disu Foundation, which supports education, health and disaster relief initiatives.
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Afolasade Michael-Adenuga is a lawyer and group executive director (Legal) at the Mike Adenuga Group.
In her role, she provides legal counsel, oversees customer care, contributes to business development strategies and helps design marketing initiatives across the group’s companies.
She was promoted to GED (Legal) at Globacom in January 2019 after serving just over a year as legal counsel.
She also serves on the boards of Globacom and Conoil, two of the group’s flagship companies.
Her academic background includes a Bachelor of Laws degree and a master’s in international commercial law from the University of Reading.
She also obtained a Mini MBA for In-House Lawyers from King’s Business School in London.
Abimbola Michael-Adenuga, who shares the same birthday as her father, has been an executive director at Conoil Plc since 2013.
She is part of the company’s three-member executive board committee, which sets corporate priorities and allocates resources.
She is also a member of its operations review committee, which supervises general expenditure, finance and administration.
Born in 1986, Abimbola is one of the younger members of the Adenuga boardroom team.
Sources suggest she pursued her education at an Ivy League university, although the specific institution is not publicly confirmed.
Other children of the billionaire, including Oyindamola, Paddy, Babajide, Eniola and Adeniyi, have also held positions within the group or pursued private ventures.
Mike Adenuga’s gradual involvement of his children in his companies reflects a growing trend among Nigerian billionaire families of building dynastic succession plans to secure the continuity of their businesses.