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Michael Ibru

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Michael Ibru - prominent Nigerian businessman from Agbarha-Otor, Delta State - (b. 1932) He is the head of the Ibru Organization, one of the largest conglomerates in Nigeria. He was born to the family of Peter Ibru, a missionary worker, who also worked at the Igbobi Orthopaedic Hospital, Lagos. Michael Ibru attended Igbobi College, and acquired a school certificate in 1951. After, secondary school, he joined the United African Company, as a management trainee. In 1956, a few years after joining U.A.C, he dropped out of the company and started a partnership, which he  called Laibru. The corporate entity was in partnership with an expatriate, Jimmy Large. After engaging in general trading with some success, in 1957, Michael Ibru discovered that the frozen fish market was a fertile market with the potential to deliver returns above the market rate. To trade in seafood, he established an importing company, he also rented and built cold storage facilities across the country. By the mid 1960's, trading fish had become the traditional money maker for the Ibru organization. Though, he had other profitable interests such as transportation and construction, fish trading helped him secure financing and other forms of capital to engage in large scale trading. He established a partnership with a Taiwanese Company, Osadjere Fishing Company, which provided Trawlers and other accessories for trading. By the end of the 1960's, he branched out fully into other areas of the economy. Like a lot of his contemporaries, he established a transportation company, called Rutam. He also invested in palm oil production. Over the years, the Ibru Organization has expanded into other areas such as Tourism, Brewery, Timber and Poultry.

He is known today as an entrepreneurial figure who created one of the largest modern Nigerian owned groups with other figures such as the low key Bode Akindele. He also tried his hands in politics, in 1983, he was a gubernatorial candidate but lost to Samuel Ogbemudia, he was also a member of the Liberal Convention and the New Movement, which metamorphosed to become NRC.

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