Igho Sanomi

Igho Charles Sanomi II was born on May 17th, 1975 in Agbor, Delta State, Nigeria to Dickens Oghenereumu Patrick Sanomi, a retired Assistant Inspector General of the Nigerian Police. His mother, Mabel Iyabo Sanomi holds a Royal title of Yeye Jemo of Isotun Ijesha Kingdom in Osun State. She was a renowned nurse and medical entrepreneur from Osun State. Charles is a businessman and geologist with interests in oil, telecommunications, the maritime industry, aviation and real estate. He is also a public speaker, writer and philanthropist.

Igho Sanomi Age

Igho Sanomi is 48 years old.

Igho Sanomi Early Life

Born into a Roman Catholic family, Charles is the fifth child and first son. He attended the University of Jos in Plateau State where he earned a Bachelor's Degree in Geology and Mining.

Igho Sanomi Career

Sanomi joined business immediately after his undergraduate studies. He co-founded Sarian Oil, an Oil Trading Company in sub-Saharan African. He served as the company's Executive Director. While at Sarian Oil, he helped to develop the company’s trading operations by negotiating the export and delivery of fuel oils from West Africa to the United States Gulf Coast. He also developed a strategic alliance with a major international oil trading group based in Zug, Switzerland. This partnership oversaw the import and export of millions of tons of refined petroleum products to and from the West African coast.

In 2004, he founded Taleveras and is currently its Chairman. Sanomi has been instrumental in the expansion and diversification of the company’s operations. Annually, Taleveras trades hundreds of millions of crude oil barrels and millions of tons of fuel oil, jet fuel, gasoline, condensates and liquefied petroleum gas. The company’s oil exploration and recovery activities include the acquisition of production sharing contracts (PSCs) for three offshore oil blocks in Ivory Coast and rights to a further two oil blocks in Nigeria. The company has offices in London, Geneva, Cape Town, Dubai, Ivory Coast, Abuja and Lagos.

He is also Chairman of the Dickens Sanomi Foundation board of Trustees. He began the Dickens Sanomi Foundation which is a nonprofit charitable organization founded in memory of his late father. He is also the Chairman and co-chairman of various companies Board of Directors with activities span from Telecom to Shipping, Aviation and Real Estate Investments worldwide.

Igho Sanomi Personal Life

Sanomi has managed to keep his private life out of the public, however he is said to be married with four children. He is one of the youngest Nigerians to be a proud owner of a private jet.

Igho Sanomi Awards

• In 2007, Sanomi was named "One of the new generation of young professionals in Nigeria who are establishing themselves as young leaders of the private sector business community" by Forbes
• He received Mode Men magazine's Humanitarian of the Year Award in 2012
• In 2013, he was appointed to Nigeria-South Africa Business Council by the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment
• He received the 2014 Africa's Emerging Community Development Icon Award, and was granted honorary citizenship in Georgia, USA
• He received a Corporate/Friends of the Police Award at the first Police Sports Awards on February 28th, 2014 in Abuja
• Honorary chair, 2016 International Salute to Martin Luther King

Igho Sanomi Net Worth

Igho Sanomi is estimated to have a net worth of about $1.3 billion

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