{"id":35610,"date":"2019-02-02T11:15:05","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T11:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africagiant.org\/?p=35610"},"modified":"2019-02-02T11:15:05","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T11:15:05","slug":"adebayo-ogunlesi-incredible-business-guru-owner-of-various-london-airports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulyne.wp-warriors.com\/?p=35610","title":{"rendered":"Adebayo Ogunlesi, an African Giant business guru owner of variuos London airports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

An African Giant<\/a> Adebayo Ogunlesi, the owner of Gatwick airport, London City Airport, Edinburgh Airport all in the United Kingdom. This outstanding first-class airport owner is a Nigerian-born lawyer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recall the Nigerian-born medical doctor Olutoye who had operated on a 23 weeks old fetus after which he returned the fetus to its mother\u2019s womb to complete the full gestation period of nine months, a feat which has generated a worldwide recognition of the baby that was born \u2018twice\u2019 reported by New Africa Broadcasting Network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here we have a business guru Adebayo Ogunlesi a highly-successful investment banker and private equity tycoon. He is the founder, chairman, and managing partner of Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), a New York-based private equity firm, with over $35 billion in assets under-investment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adebayo Ogunlesi is known as “the man who bought the airports” and “the man who bought Gatwick airport”. He\u00a0is brilliant, and super-rich and his business genius is world-class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2010, Adebayo Ogunlesi, through his company, made international headlines when he led the bid for the acquisition of London\u2019s Gatwick Airport from the British Airports Authority in a recorded \u00a31.51 billion deal. The acquisition instantly propelled Ogunlesi, into the global spotlight and earned him a place in history as the man who acquired London\u2019s second-largest international airport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also See:\u00a0The Baby That Was Born Twice \u2013 Dr Oluyinka O. Olutoye MD, Ph.D.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gatwick airport is London’s second-largest airport. The BAA struggled to stop the recession and with the decrease in passengers. At a point in 2009, according to report, a pretax loss of over \u00a3780 million had occurred. This prompted investment mogul Adebayo, to acquire the airport, he promised to make Gatwick a truly first-class international airport and substantially improve patronage and the customer experience. And He did it! the most beautiful and elegant and most profitable international airport in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He acquired London city airport for \u00a3750 million in 2006 and according to information available on GIPS website, London city airports passengers growth by 22% in the first year of ownership but sold the airport in 2018 for a groundbreaking two billion pounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also,\u00a0 Trump made his remarks about Nigeria “I would like to visit Nigeria, I would like very much to visit Nigeria, it’s an amazing country. In certain ways, there’s no country more beautiful as Nigeria”.\u00a0 Watch\u00a0video<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An African Giant Adebayo Ogunlesi, the owner of Gatwick airport, London City Airport, Edinburgh Airport all in the United Kingdom. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63973,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulyne.wp-warriors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulyne.wp-warriors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulyne.wp-warriors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulyne.wp-warriors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulyne.wp-warriors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paulyne.wp-warriors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulyne.wp-warriors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulyne.wp-warriors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulyne.wp-warriors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulyne.wp-warriors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}