OLAMIDE Orekunrin cuts an arresting figure on Nigeria’s oil and media circuit, an electrifying combination of glamour and hard business sense — on a mission to extend life support to remote sites and along the way expand the reach of emergency medicine to ordinary citizens.

Orekunrin set up Flying Doctors in 2011, West Africa’s first air-operated ambulance service.

Already E&P companies in Nigeria account for more than 50% of turnover, while the first agricultural client has just signed up — this time in the palm oil business.

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