I worked for Three Billionaires: Here’s What I Learnt

Spoiler alert: It’s much worse than you have read elsewhere.

David Suarez via Unsplash

Back when I had a chance conversation with a Nigerian bloke at my local ASDA superstore in March 2013, I had no idea that I was conversing with a member of one of the most exclusive clubs in the world — The billionaire club. The random meeting of that cold Sunday morning in Colindale, help set in motion, a number of events culminating in my move to Lagos, Nigeria to work for one of Africa’s biggest oligarchs.

The extraordinary wealth that so few have in relation to the grotesque poverty of the hundreds of millions in Nigeria suffer is perhaps one of the great hallmarks of Africa’s largest economy. The political class are largely made up of self-serving semi-literates, who do not have the nous, guile nor the will to ameliorate the lives of their compatriots.

And it is the against the backdrop of my time in employment society that this post is being authored to give readers a flavour of what it was like to work for dollar billionaires in a place, whose version of laissez-faire capitalism is far worse than anything that the United States of America has conjured up.

Here are my insights:

They will happily throw their mothers and best friends under the bus.