10 Things You Can Learn From A Nigerian

5. How to Own a Major Airport In The Country That Colonized Yours

Buying an airport: not something you would think of, would you?  Well, Adebayo Ogunlesi certainly did. Nigerians make up a large portion of the immigrant population in the United Kingdom so it’s only fitting that a Nigerian would own the airport through which most of his fellow country men and women arrive in the UK . Ogunlesi acquired the London Gatwick Airport, which is one of the largest and busiest airports in the world, in a deal worth over $2 billion U.S. dollars earlier in the year. The Harvard and Oxford educated Ogunlesi leveraged his years of experience in global finance as one of the leading executives at Credit Suisse First Boston Corporation to launch his own independent investment fund called Global Infrastructure Partners, through which he acquired the airport.