Stats: 3,188,937 members, 7,935,981 topics. Date: Friday, 30 August 2024 at 08:30 PM |
Nairaland Forum / Entertainment / Celebrities / Reclusive And Mysterious Billionaire, Deinde Fernandez, Dies At 79 (1038 Views)
Meet The Mysterious Billionaire Who Is Younger And Richer Than Hushpuppi! / Fans Blast Dele Momodu For Trying To Make Money From Fernandez's Children Battle / Vanities Of Life (chief Deinde Fernandez R.i.p) (2) (3) (4)
Reclusive And Mysterious Billionaire, Deinde Fernandez, Dies At 79 by aligeee(m): 11:42pm On Sep 11, 2015 |
Antonio Oladeinde Fernandez, billionaire business magnate, diplomat, mining tycoon, Permanent Representative of Central African Republic to the United Nations, is dead. Deinde Fernandez, as he was popularly known, died on Tuesday in a private hospital in Belgium. Born in Lagos in 1936 to one of the first European migrants to the city, Mr. Fernadez grew up to become one of Nigeria’s most mysterious and reclusive billionaires with properties in several African countries as well as in Europe and America. Not much is known about his early days, but in 1982, he was appointed an advisor to the Angolan government on Economic Matters. Two years later, he became a Deputy Permanent Representative of Mozambique to the United Nations. In 1992, he was made a Special Adviser to the President of Mozambique on International Economic Matters, a position he held till 1995. In addition to his diplomatic duties, Mr. Fernandez ran a string of companies such as Petro Inett, a mining firm that had extensive oil, gold, and diamond interests in Angola as well as in the Central African Republic. He also owned Sandcat Enterprises, View, Grantdale, Inuola, Sandcat Goldfields, Voguehope, Woods, Goldfields, and Petro-Inett Equatorial Guinea. He also owned a string of properties, including a £3 million seven storey Gerogian town house in Edinburgh; a £4 million New York estate; a 25-acre £1 million 19th-century Chateau de Bois Feuillette in Paris; a £10 million property on the Premium Point peninsula, New York, among others. Mr. Fernandez was once described by Dele Momodu’s Ovation International as “the guardian of panache and prosperity” who surrounded himself “with exquisite things only money can buy.” As he did much of his affairs, Mr. Fernandez shielded his personal life from the public. But in 2003, a messy, record-breaking N90 billion divorce suit parted the veil and gave the public a peep into the privacy of one of the richest persons in the world. It was one of the biggest divorce cases in British legal history. Very little was heard of the suit afterwards, and Aduke, his former wife who had filed the suit, died 10 years later. Mr. Fernandez remarried in 2003 to Halima. On Tuesday evening, he died in Halima’s presence. He is survived by nine children and several grandchildren and great grandchildren. |
Re: Reclusive And Mysterious Billionaire, Deinde Fernandez, Dies At 79 by Sufferingboy(f): 6:51am On Feb 10, 2022 |
Mynd44 why Am I unable to change my email? I no longer have access to that email. Help me out,I tried to change it but it is showing me error.Check it out from your own end. Seun |
Re: Reclusive And Mysterious Billionaire, Deinde Fernandez, Dies At 79 by peacefuldude(m): 8:02am On Feb 10, 2022 |
aligeee:Content without picture how can it fly mitcheew |
Re: Reclusive And Mysterious Billionaire, Deinde Fernandez, Dies At 79 by Jauntybaba: 7:08am On Jun 27, 2022 |
Anthonio Oladeinde Fernandez has been described in various terms by various people around the world as an international wheel dealer; an extraordinary diplomat with the financial status of a billionaire; See more about Deinde Fernadez His Early Life, Biography, Assets, Networth and Wives a general industrialist; a pragmatic international negotiator and peacemaker, among other descriptions. |
(1) (Reply)
Photos From Top Model Bertha Amuga's Birthday Party In A Limo / Conspiracy Theory 2: The Kurse Of The Kardashian Klan / Halle Berry To Divorce Third Husband Olivier Martinez
(Go Up)
Sections: politics (1) business autos (1) jobs (1) career education (1) romance computers phones travel sports fashion health religion celebs tv-movies music-radio literature webmasters programming techmarket Links: (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) Nairaland - Copyright © 2005 - 2024 Oluwaseun Osewa. All rights reserved. See How To Advertise. 16 |