Billionaire oil mogul, Dr Mohammed Indimi, is not the typical entrepreneur you watch on television every day or read about in newspapers.
With an estimated net worth of about $1 billion, Indimi is also a philanthropist with visible impacts in wide-ranging areas like health, housing, social welfare and particularly, education. He launched the Muhammadu Indimi Foundation (MIF), through which he executes his humanitarian projects.
The Borno-born businessman has also greatly empowered and supported people affected by the Boko Haram crisis in his homestead and the north-eastern part of the country in general.
In 2016, the billionaire was under severe criticisms over his huge financial support for Lynn University in Florida, United States of America, where he also built the Mohammed Indimi International Business Centre-named after him with a donation of $900,000. But that has not obliterated the sustained support of the Borno State-born billionaire to several Nigerian universities.
It was, therefore, not surprising that Indimi was honoured alongside other prominent Nigerians by the University of Lagos during its last convocation ceremony with a doctorate.
His is a reminder of life and its paradoxes. The oil magnate reportedly did not attend a formal school because his father could not afford to pay for Western education. Though he only attended traditional Qur’anic school, he managed to learn how to speak, read and write in English and other languages.
In view of this, he vowed to spend his fortunes on education to support institutions that will give quality education to people.
He also vowed to mentor as many students as he can in various entrepreneurship and skills development.
