Oil Magnate, Fatgbems Dies

Abeokuta-based oil magnate and owner of Fatgbems Oil, Alhaji Fatai Olamilekan Akanmu Gbemisola, popularly known as Fatgbems, has died early this morning.

Details of the circumstances of his death were sketchy as at press time.

The Chairman, Chief Executive of Fatgbems Group of Companies Nigeria Limited, the late Chief Gbemisola, owned a chain of filling stations around Ogun and Lagos states and was also involved in other business lines.

He was a devout Muslim and was widely loved for his philanthropy.

He regularly sponsored many Muslims to the yearly Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

—Tokunbo Olajide