One of Africa’s most ardent champions, the billionaire industrialist and head of the Ibru conglomerate, Oskar Ibru, has died. He was 67. His family said on Wednesday that he had passed away after a brief illness.

Olorogun Oskar Eyovbirere C. J. Ibru, was born in 1958, a son of the late Olorogun Michael Ibru, who founded the Ibru Organization, which has interests in shipping, media, oil and gas, hospitality and commerce.

Ibru attended Nigeria’s prestigious Igbobi College Lagos, where he played football, table tennis, cricket and hockey as well participating in the high jump. He remained an athlete for decades. For his tertiary education he went to the United States for undergraduate studies at Skidmore College where he met the woman he would later call his wife, Wanda Swann. He then went

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