“When I Found Jesus” – Mrs Alakija Who Enjoys Gifted Oil Bloc Allegedly Tells Entreprenuers How She Got Her Break

Folorunsho Alakija is the vice chair of Famfa Oil, a Nigerian oil exploration company that has a 60% participating interest in block OML 127, part of the larger Agbami field, one of Nigeria’s largest deepwater discoveries, about 70 miles offshore.

Its partners include Chevron and Petrobras. Her first company was a fashion label that catered to Nigeria’s elite women, including the wife of former military president, Ibrahim Babangida, who awarded Alakija’s company an oil prospecting license.

If the accounts we are getting are correct, it seems Jesus did it ALL.

Speaking at the Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Forum 2016 today, Mrs. Folorunsho Alakija, oil mogul and billionaire, was purported to have made the statement below.

Q. At what moment did you get your break in business?.

Alakija: When I found Jesus.

Ok.#TEFforum2016

— Sam Hart (@hartng) October 29, 2016