Mike Adenuga donates N500m to Bayelsa flood victims

Mike Adenuga Jr, Chairman, Globacom

The chairman of Globacom, Nigeria’s leading telecommunication outfit, Mike Adenuga Jr is not a man who likes to blow his own trumpet or launder his good works in public particularly those directed at humanitarian service.

In 2012, when Bayelsa state was devastated by flood and funds from the federal and state government were not forthcoming, Adenuga, who rarely makes public appearances donated N500 million to help Bayelsa citizens especially those who had become homeless and without food.

Adenuga’s generosity was disclosed by Chairman of Bayelsa State Post Management Committee, Chief Francis Doukpola, who in an attempt to dismiss claims by the All Progressives Congress (APC) that the committee received N15 billion revealed that it only received N535 million.

“The committee only received the sum of N500 million from the state government, being donation from a philanthropist organisation, Mr Mike Adenuga Foundation and additional N35 million for logistics and administrative cost,” Doukpola said.