"A man is nothing without his virtues, he endeavours to do good."
So writes Nigerian billionaire Dr. Mike Adenuga Jr.
on his 71st birthday, a milestone he marked with a multi-million dollar donation to UNICEF.
The founder and chairman of Globacom, a telecommunications company, made the generous donation to the organization's Save the Children fund, AFP reports.
Adenuga, who is worth an estimated $1 billion, says he was moved by the plight of children in some of the world's most troubled countries and wanted to do his part to help.
"Adenuga came to the end of the locust's dark years," he says.
"While many rich men propagate virtues as penances for the inaction of the world's privileged divide, Adenuga imbibes and perpetuates the culture of goodness, not out of a frantic zeal to apologize or expiate perceived inhumanities of his rich, privileged divide; he engages in good deeds as an intrinsic part of his manhood and business ethics."
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