Billionaire businessman, Femi Otedola, has donated N5 billion to Save the Children, the 100-year United Kingdom-based charity, to support its intervention in the north-east.

The philanthropist made the donation on Sunday evening at the Cuppy Gold Gala organised by the Cuppy Foundation to raise funds for Save the Children, which is the biggest children-focused organisation in the world after UNICEF.

The amount of his donation makes him the largest individual donation to charity in Nigeria’s history.

Cuppy Foundation is a non-profit organisation founded by his daughter, Florence Ifeoluwa Otedola popularly known as DJ Cuppy.