Femi Otedola’s business memoir, Making It Big: Lessons from a Life in Business, is now available for pre-order in Waterstones, United Kingdom’s largest bookseller!
The billionaire investor and entrepreneur announced on his X page today (Saturday, August 9, at 9.38 a.m.):
‘You can now preorder your copy of the book online via Waterstones – the largest bookseller in the UK.’
Making It Big, which has garnered praises from far and wide, will be available from Monday, August 18.
From Alhaji Aliko Dangote, world’s richest black man, to Prince Samuel Adedoyin, man of means who started from being a house boy to bricklayer and now billionaire tycoon, and intellectuals like Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Ms Arunma Oteh, the memoir has received superlative endorsements.
Otedola, the Chairman of First HoldCo PLC and Geregu Power PLC, first announced the readiness of Making It Big on July 16.
And scintillating excerpts from the memoir have received positive reviews.
From his encounter with Basorun M.K.O. Abiola at Government House (when Sir Michael Michael Otedola just became the governor of Lagos in 1992), the curses from then President Olusegun Obasanjo when rumours of diesel scarcity spread afield in 2004, to the callous and cold treatment from bank executives when he was down on his luck with a $1.218 billion debt in 2009, the book his highly anticipated.
Making It Big: Lessons from a Life in Business is also available for preorder on www.makingitbigbook.com.


