The "bee keeper", some other day he was also the "Transporter". Not just that, he's also "The Mechanic". He was also "Parker". He loves his Job he's a "Working Man 2025"
Who is Mr Leno Adesanya ?
Like many wealthy Nigerians today, Leno’s wealth is traced to several oil and gas contracts approved by the military government.
Leno’s biggest companies are Lutin Investments in Geneva, and its Nigerian arm, Lenoil Holdings, established in 1988.
His companies supplied ocean vessels with equipment for the storage of petroleum products and engaged in other oil activities. Leno owns 50% of Lutin and is the CEO. His wife, Noimot Ibironke, and his children also own stakes in his companies.
During Babangida’s regime, Lutin Investments and Lenoil were awarded many lucrative contracts from the NNPC, Nigeria’s national oil firm. This sparked rumours in the media that then president Babangida’s influential wife, Mariam, was one of the owners of Lenoil.
After Babangida’s regime came to an abrupt end, the new power brokers sought to revoke existing agreements his companies had with NNPC.
In 1993, Lutin Investments dragged NNPC before international arbitration.
In May 2007, the arbitrator, France’s civil court Tribunal de Grande Instance, awarded Lutin damages against NNPC for $55.2m, plus 10% compound interest; £20,480, plus 10% compound interest; and N4,692,930, plus 21% compound interest. All interest obligations began to accrue on 7 July 1993, court documents state.
The NNPC petitioned the Paris Court of Appeal, which upheld the original verdict. However, the national oil firm delayed obeying the judgment – the sum has risen to about $277m due to accruing interest.
By the mid 2010s, Mr Leno was swimming in debt, owing Sterling Bank some $2.3m. After putting pressure on the NNPC to pay him, then president Goodluck Jonathan eventually approved the payment of $55.2m, leading to another round of disputes.
With his newly registered Sunrise Transmission Company set up in the early 2000s, Leno invested in the electricity power sector, starting as a middleman. He enjoyed unfettered access to the Presidential Villa during the early years of the Obasanjo administration but soon fell out of favour with the former president for reasons unknown.
However, after Obasanjo’s exit, Leno was favoured by GEJ, who held office from 2010 to 2015. After GEJ’s exit, Leno was arrested by Nigerian authorities for paying $1.85m into a bank account allegedly on the instruction of erstwhile oil minister Diezani Alison-Madueke. Investigators claim the money was part of a $115m slush fund used to bribe electoral officials in 2015.
Leno’s name also features in the Pandora Papers published by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists which stated that Leno set up a shell company for powerful National Security Adviser Sambo Dasuki, who was accused of diverting $2.1bn meant for arms.
Leno has since left Nigeria and resides mostly in Dubai and the US, saying he escaped an assassination attempt in Nigeria.
Cc. The Africa report.
Lol.
Men and women truly dont think alike.
Read how women are crashing out and saying it'll be the end of their friendship.
Meanwhile, as a guy I'll be like sharp guy how you take run am low key?
Women overrate their relevance in every situation.
This is what Nigerian married men do everyday in their nonsense marriages. Their wives always insults and disrespect them while they apologize all the time.
There’s not a single married men in this country suffering in his marriage who isn’t the architect of his own misfortune.
There’s no woman in the world that can talk to me like this in the name of marriage.
BREAKING: J.P. Morgan includes Nigeria in new emerging-market bond index with 7.4% weight
J.P. Morgan has included Nigeria in its newly introduced Government Bond Index–Emerging Markets Edge (GBI-EM Edge), assigning the country a 7.4% weighting in the benchmark designed to track local-currency government debt across frontier emerging markets.
This is according to J.P. Morgan’s Global Index Research report dated September 14, 2026 seen by Nairametrics.
The inclusion puts Nigerian naira-denominated government bonds back into a J.P. Morgan emerging-market benchmark more than a decade after the country was removed from the bank’s flagship government bond index in 2015.
I want to Thank President Tinubu for taking bold moves by removing the subsidy, by democratizing the exchange rate, and also for this refinery.
- Aliko Dangote
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