The best way to appreciate the scale of Aliko Dangote’s empire is to hitch a ride on one of his private jets. A half-hour after his Bombardier Challenger 605 takes off from Lagos Airport, it descends into a seemingly desolate area of Kogi State in central Nigeria, dusty fields and clusters of trees stretching to […]
Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, has admonished Africans to shun hate and any form of violence against their fellow Africans if they want the continent to prosper. The Nigerian business magnate made the comment in reaction to the ongoing xenophobic attacks on non-South African Africans, especially Nigerians resident in South Africa. Foreign businesses have been […]
Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, has advised young entrepreneurs in Africa to focus on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Agriculture. According to him, these are the two main sectors that are worth investing in and that the youth must focus their energies and resources on them. The business magnate who was speaking at the […]
Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote says he has no time for luxury stuff because they tend to be a distraction. According to him, he is fixated at his goals of growing his business empire and has little time on his hand and therefore does not need any distractions that such luxury stuff comes with. Mr. […]
Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, has declared that he has no personal house outside Nigeria. The business mogul said this at the 2019 Mo Ibrahim Forum. Dangote hinted that he avoids luxury things “because they distract and take time”. He said: “I don’t have any holiday home anywhere. I don’t have a house anywhere but […]
In the recently released 2017 KPMG CEO Outlook, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, President of the Dangote Group, provides insight into his business success. Dangote Group, one of the leading diversified business conglomerates in Africa, generates revenues in excess of US$3 billion and employs more than 26,000 people, with business interests as diverse as cement, sugar, pasta, […]
Phase one of the Dangote Fertiliser plant in Nigeria, which will produce three million metric tonnes per annum of urea and ammonia, will be ready before the end of this year. The second phase of the project, which would produce an additional 1.6 million metric tonnes of the same, would, however, be ready by the […]
Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote has described president Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as a visionary leader, whose type Africa needs to progress. Speaking at a forum organized by the Africa Center for Economic Transformation (ACET), the Executive Chairman of the Dangote Group said the continent needs the likes of president Akufo-Addo to get out of […]
Once, I asked myself: why are the staff of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) so much interested in the wellbeing of countries far away from their homes and the head offices of their employers? Before I could blink, the answer flashed: it is because the world is interconnected. Should those countries […]
“Our factory in Nigeria is only 28km into the Republic of Benin but the Republic of Benin, does not allow us to take cement into the Benin Republic, but they import from China”, the owner of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote has said. According to him, it is not a matter of the Dangote cement being […]
