Julius Rone’s Year of Unparalleled Successes

That billionaire businessman and honcho of UTM Offshore Limited (UTMOL) Julius Rone, is a genius and a cognoscenti when it comes to matters of investment and the art of making money is not debatable. 

The serial entrepreneur has established himself as a businessman of note who holds a special place among the class of businessmen in Africa; he is blessed with unparalleled disposition, unequalled business wisdom and ingenuity to see opportunities where others see failure. 

Perhaps this is the reason he is constantly a top player in the business climate, always in the news and constantly ahead of his contemporaries.

And expectedly, these, among other things, have set him far apart from many ordinary business magnates across the continent of Africa.

2023 has been an eventful and blissful one for the Delta State-born. He is ending the year a happy man with strings of success stories to his credit. Rone glided joyfully into the year as 2022 Vanguard’s Young Entrepreneur of the Year in January, in recognition of his enviable position as one of Nigeria’s most venerable dealmakers. 

That his workaholic disposition has taken him around the world is a testament to his growing influence and resultant affluence. The year 2023 has been a good one for the ‘gas King’ as he has been cutting deals all over the world while he also charts the way forward for the industry on the continent.

It is also a fact that he is guaranteeing the sector with his muscular trust to make it the best in the industry.

 Many will recall that the billionaire businessman was among other notable and influential Nigerian business magnates worthy of Presidential invitation. They were invited by President Bola Tinubu to India for the India-Nigeria Business Roundtable. The event was organised by the Nigerian High Commission in India in collaboration with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and the Nigeria-India Business Council (NIBC).

Just as many thought the brilliant businessman had gotten enough for the year 2023 and needed to rest, he struck another deal with the Delta State government and Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, NNPCL.

“The deal worth $2.15 billion is another significant milestone in actualising Nigeria’s first ingenious FLNG,’’ a source said.

Now, the question agitating the minds of his fans and admirers is: what does Rone has up his sleeves in the coming year?