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Re: Dangote Cement Appoints Cherie Blair, Tony Blair’s Wife As Director by introvertme: 5:53pm On May 03, 2018
Lilisticlili:
Where is Dangote HQ located? Certainly not in UK. So will mrs Blair be working from Uk?
You wan kidnap am?

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Re: Dangote Cement Appoints Cherie Blair, Tony Blair’s Wife As Director by anyimontana(m): 5:53pm On May 03, 2018
Chiedu4Trump:
Their are no Nigerians good enough?
we r lazy, u forget?

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Re: Dangote Cement Appoints Cherie Blair, Tony Blair’s Wife As Director by oluwasegun007(m): 5:55pm On May 03, 2018
Looking forward to employing white men to work for me too...
Re: Dangote Cement Appoints Cherie Blair, Tony Blair’s Wife As Director by SalamRushdie: 5:57pm On May 03, 2018
Interesting
Re: Dangote Cement Appoints Cherie Blair, Tony Blair’s Wife As Director by wristbangle: 6:02pm On May 03, 2018
Okoyiboz3:


There and not Their.

Start from Primary 1 and maybe you'll be fortunate to become the Director of a motor park.

Haba na! Correct with love

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Re: Dangote Cement Appoints Cherie Blair, Tony Blair’s Wife As Director by mozele(m): 6:02pm On May 03, 2018
For Christ sake! See the numerous achievements Mrs. Blair has made in her lifetime. While most ladies and women here in Nigeria can't see any further than chatting, instagram, chop bae money, marriage, za ozza room things...

Oh Lord please save my generation and those coming after mine...

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Re: Dangote Cement Appoints Cherie Blair, Tony Blair’s Wife As Director by Nobody: 6:03pm On May 03, 2018
Okoyiboz3:


There and not Their.

[s]Start from Primary 1 and maybe you'll be fortunate to become the Director of a motor park[/s].

Fixed.... Correct people, without insulting their destiny. Peace

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Re: Dangote Cement Appoints Cherie Blair, Tony Blair’s Wife As Director by ahiboilandgas: 6:03pm On May 03, 2018
JARUSHUB:
The Board of Dangote Cement Plc, global, announced the appointment of Cherie Blair and Mick Davies as Independent Non-Executive Directors.

President/Chief Executive, Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, speaking on the new appointments said “it is exciting seeing a female occupy such a high position. We are gender sensitive and create equal opportunities for both male and female to get to the top.”

“The new appointments are to strengthen the Group’s executive management team and to consolidate on its strategic business growth trajectory”, he added.

Cherie Blair CBE, QC is a leading barrister with over 35 years’ experience in arbitration, mediation, public international law, human rights, employment law and European Community law. She studied law at the London School of Economics (LSE) and graduated with a First Class Degree in 1975. While studying for her Bar examinations she also taught Law at the University of Westminster. Cherie came top of her year in her Bar examinations and was called to the Bar in 1976. She was appointed Queen’s Counsel (QC) in 1995.

In 2000, shortly before the implementation of the Human Rights Act, Cherie and 21 other prominent Barristers set up a ground breaking legal practice, Matrix Chambers. She has also argued cases in the House of Lords, one of the most well-known being the Begum case. She is an accredited Advanced Mediator under the ADR Chambers/Harvard Law Project and an Elite Mediator with Clerksroom.

Cherie Blair, has appeared in the European Court of Justice and in multiple Commonwealth jurisdictions and also lectures internationally. She is the Chancellor Emeritus and Honorary Fellow of Liverpool John Moores University; Governor Emeritus and Honorary Fellow of the LSE and the Open University (D.Univ.Open 1999); LLD (Hons), University of Liverpool (2003); Hon.D.Lit UMIST (2003); Doctor of Laws (Westminster University).

Cherie Blair is the Founder and Chair of Omnia Strategy where she focuses on strategic international legal and advisory work and practices as a barrister, representing over 30 governments as well as numerous multinational corporations in international disputes.

In 2012, she was designated to serve on the ICSID panel of arbitrators and is a panellist at the Kuala Lumpur Regional Centre for Arbitration. She continues to work independently, primarily as an arbitrator and mediator

Cherie is closely involved with various charities and is a strong advocate for women’s rights. She is the founder of the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women, which runs programmes to support women entrepreneurs across the developing world, including Africa. She is also Vice Chair of the International Council on Women’s Business Leadership founded by Secretary Hillary Clinton.

Cherie sits as an Honorary Chair of the World Justice Project. In 2007, she received the Eleanor Roosevelt Val-Kill medal in recognition of her high ideals and courageous actions.

In 2013, she was awarded the CBE in the New Year Honours for her services to women’s issues and to charity in the UK and overseas.

Cherie is also an active campaigner for prison reform and was ‘President of The Commission on English Prisons Today’ between 2007 and 2009, under the auspices of the Howard League for Penal Reform.

She is an adviser to “B Team,” a not-for-profit initiative formed by a global group of leaders, to be a driving force for social, environmental and economic benefit. She is wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Sir Mick Davies is currently Chairman of Macsteel, a global trading shipping company, and Chief Executive of the Conservative party of the United Kingdom.

Davies has occupied several directorship positions. From 2001 to 2003, he was Chief Executive of Xstrata Plc, one of the world’s largest global diversified mining and metal companies; executive director and chief financial officer of Billiton Plc; Chairman of Billiton Coal and Executive Director of South African State-owned Eskom.

With extensive capital markets and corporate transaction experience, he has raised over US$40 billion from global capital markets and successfully completed over US$120 billion of corporate transactions. He participated in the creation of the lngwe Coal Corporation in South Africa; listing of Billiton on the London Stock Exchange; merger of BHP and Billiton into the largest diversified mining company in the world and the successful merger of Xstrata and Glencore amongst others.

Sir Davies is the immediate past President of the Council of Members and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Jewish Leadership Council in the United Kingdom, member of the Brookings International Advisory Council and a Trustee of the Institute of National Security Studies, Israel.

He is a Chartered Accountant by profession and an alumnus of Theodor Herzl School in Port Elizabeth. He holds an honours degree in Commerce from Rhodes University. South Africa, and an Honorary Doctorate from Bar-llan University, Israel. In the 2015 Queen’s birthday Honour’s list, he was made a Knight’s Bachelor.

http://www.jarushub.com/dangote-cement-appoints-former-uk-prime-minister-tony-blairs-wife-as-director/

this in preparation to listing dangote group on the London stock exchange and sale of share to raise 500 million dollars to finance this refinary projects

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Re: Dangote Cement Appoints Cherie Blair, Tony Blair’s Wife As Director by thunderbabs: 6:03pm On May 03, 2018
Chiedu4Trump:
Their are no Nigerians good enough?

Why are you bearing Chiedu4Trump too?
Is no Nigerian good enuf? shocked

Shey u cant choose Chiedu4Buhari shocked
Answer na.... U con dey ask silly question

Gerraaahiaaaaa sad

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Re: Dangote Cement Appoints Cherie Blair, Tony Blair’s Wife As Director by SmartPolician: 6:05pm On May 03, 2018
Only God knows how much he will be paying to keep the woman in that position

I think this is an ego trip.

You want to brag to friends that Tony Blair's wife is on your payroll, but you will be paying Nigerian staff, who do the real work, peanuts

Life is indeed unfair

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Re: Dangote Cement Appoints Cherie Blair, Tony Blair’s Wife As Director by rexchazy(m): 6:05pm On May 03, 2018
Awon team illumiaty
Re: Dangote Cement Appoints Cherie Blair, Tony Blair’s Wife As Director by Sagay212: 6:05pm On May 03, 2018
why una dey complain? as if ya'll don't know that indians have been managing dangote's businesses all along. same thing for globacom. that's why dangote's products are low quality and glo network is trashy!. it may have been worse if managed by nigerians though. just look at etisalat for example, when it was being managed by foreigners, the network was sound and working fine, now they sold it, changed the name to 9mobile and their network is as trashy as glo.

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Re: Dangote Cement Appoints Cherie Blair, Tony Blair’s Wife As Director by Nobody: 6:10pm On May 03, 2018
This confirmed the rumour that he is about to list dangcem on the london stock exchange.

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Re: Dangote Cement Appoints Cherie Blair, Tony Blair’s Wife As Director by Odianose13(m): 6:11pm On May 03, 2018
mekaboy:
Sure.They need her to strengthen the ties and agreement to flood Nigerian market with American farmers products.

Don’t get you. The two new directors are Britons. How does America come into play here?

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Re: Dangote Cement Appoints Cherie Blair, Tony Blair’s Wife As Director by aribisala0(m): 6:13pm On May 03, 2018
Not compulsory to comment on everything even when you have no clue what is going on.

What is an "Independent Non Executive Diector"



Fact is Dangote is seeking to list his business on the London Stock Exchange and likely she will use her connections to facilitate that and access to the UK Capital market.

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Re: Dangote Cement Appoints Cherie Blair, Tony Blair’s Wife As Director by GrammarNazi1(m): 6:17pm On May 03, 2018
Chiedu4Trump:
Their are no Nigerians good enough?
There...

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Re: Dangote Cement Appoints Cherie Blair, Tony Blair’s Wife As Director by mexioni(m): 6:18pm On May 03, 2018
easy supply of dynamites, we no the maths
Re: Dangote Cement Appoints Cherie Blair, Tony Blair’s Wife As Director by izicooo(f): 6:21pm On May 03, 2018
Millz404:
That's business... It's not about ethnicity or nationally... It's about who can do the job.... We should take this country like that and people like buhari will not see class monitor sef.

Will dangote agree to employ buhari?
Ask yourself that question next time you vote
Nice one sir.

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Re: Dangote Cement Appoints Cherie Blair, Tony Blair’s Wife As Director by mekaboy(m): 6:22pm On May 03, 2018
Odianose13:


Don’t get you. The two new directors are Britons. How does America come into play here?

Are Brits not American allies?
Re: Dangote Cement Appoints Cherie Blair, Tony Blair’s Wife As Director by 8744Kin(m): 6:22pm On May 03, 2018
Cherie is a woman, Davies is a Jew.

Dangote is going global.

Thump up.
Re: Dangote Cement Appoints Cherie Blair, Tony Blair’s Wife As Director by Obi4gboy: 6:25pm On May 03, 2018
It's not like we don't have the brain, Dangote requires such people because of his plans to enter other markets. Dangote has had it difficult setting up in Europe, but a woman with such pedigree can negotiate deals that will make it possible to enter the European market. Imagine if he still decides to purchase Arsenal now that Wenger is leaving, Cherrie Blair can negotiate an awesome deal for him.
BUHARIISCURSED:
grin White get brain while black no get

Useless man

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Re: Dangote Cement Appoints Cherie Blair, Tony Blair’s Wife As Director by Nobody: 6:32pm On May 03, 2018
Some ppl (expecting Dangote to have appointed a Nigerian) are just plain naive and shortsighted.
Its like Dangote buying Arsenal FC as promised and you expect him to appoint a Nigerian as the Manager/Coach.
Dangote is not just a regional brand , its a global brand. Soon it'd be listed on NYSE or FTSE
Re: Dangote Cement Appoints Cherie Blair, Tony Blair’s Wife As Director by mamatwiny(f): 6:35pm On May 03, 2018
Obi4gboy:
It's not like we don't have the brain, Dangote requires such people because of his plans to enter other markets. Dangote has had it difficult setting up in Europe, but a woman with such pedigree can negotiate deals that will make it possible to enter the European market. Imagine if he still decides to purchase Arsenal now that Wenger is leaving, Cherrie Blair can negotiate an awesome deal for him.

I know appointment of most non executive director in Nigeria is usually by major shareholders of the company . They appoint a trusted person that can help them keep an eye on the company and be involved in the major decisions in the company. By this appointment, I guess Tony blaire has a huge stake in dangote cement.

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Re: Dangote Cement Appoints Cherie Blair, Tony Blair’s Wife As Director by Obi4gboy: 6:36pm On May 03, 2018
My Friend, did you read her credentials? If anyone has such credentials, it doesn't matter which country you are from, you will be sort after.
SmartPolician:
Only God knows how much he will be paying to keep the woman in that position

I think this is an ego trip.

You want to brag to friends that Tony Blair's wife is on your payroll, but you will be paying Nigerian staff, who do the real work, peanuts

Life is indeed unfair

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Re: Dangote Cement Appoints Cherie Blair, Tony Blair’s Wife As Director by Nobody: 6:39pm On May 03, 2018
Can you prove that you are not a white racist hiding on this forum?
Sagay212:
why una dey complain? as if ya'll don't know that indians have been managing dangote's businesses all along. same thing for globacom. that's why dangote's products are low quality and glo network is trashy!. it may have been worse if managed by nigerians though. just look at etisalat for example, when it was being managed by foreigners, the network was sound and working fine, now they sold it, changed the name to 9mobile and their network is as trashy as glo.

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Re: Dangote Cement Appoints Cherie Blair, Tony Blair’s Wife As Director by Sagay212: 6:43pm On May 03, 2018
GenBuhari:
Can you prove that you are not a white racist hiding on this forum?

man GTFO my mention and go back to your village and join your fellow almajiris.

Re: Dangote Cement Appoints Cherie Blair, Tony Blair’s Wife As Director by lexy2014: 6:47pm On May 03, 2018
mekaboy:
Sure.They need her to strengthen the ties and agreement to flood Nigerian market with American farmers products.
American?She is English

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Re: Dangote Cement Appoints Cherie Blair, Tony Blair’s Wife As Director by Chiedu4Trump: 6:49pm On May 03, 2018
GrammarNazi1:

There...
Good one
Re: Dangote Cement Appoints Cherie Blair, Tony Blair’s Wife As Director by lexy2014: 6:50pm On May 03, 2018
SmartPolician:
Only God knows how much he will be paying to keep the woman in that position

I think this is an ego trip.

You want to brag to friends that Tony Blair's wife is on your payroll, but you will be paying Nigerian staff, who do the real work, peanuts

Life is indeed unfair
not so dude. Apart from d fact that Mrs Blair is an achiever in her own right, dangote could leverage on d connections of tony Blair. Tony Blair is a highly connected man
Re: Dangote Cement Appoints Cherie Blair, Tony Blair’s Wife As Director by OlujobaSamuel: 6:51pm On May 03, 2018
Lilisticlili:
Where is Dangote HQ located?
Certainly not in UK.
So will mrs Blair be working from Uk?
non-excutive director, they are not involve in the daily operations of the business.
She might not need to attend meetings more than 4times in a year

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Re: Dangote Cement Appoints Cherie Blair, Tony Blair’s Wife As Director by Chiedu4Trump: 6:53pm On May 03, 2018
thunderbabs:


Why are you bearing Chiedu4Trump too?
Is no Nigerian good enuf? shocked

Shey u cant choose Chiedu4Buhari shocked
Answer na.... U con dey ask silly question

Gerraaahiaaaaa sad

Trump protects Children of God.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0ntPm8rB8s

Boohar1 on the other hand kills children of God.

anyimontana:
we r lazy, u forget?
grin

Okoyiboz3:


There and not Their.

Start from Primary 1 and maybe you'll be fortunate to become the Director of a motor park.
Ode
Re: Dangote Cement Appoints Cherie Blair, Tony Blair’s Wife As Director by TundeHashim(m): 6:54pm On May 03, 2018
Therealev:
Cos there's no Nigerian more qualified abi? You make your products for the consumption and patronage of most (if not all Nigerians). But they're not fit to head your organization abi? Issorai.
Stop taking this too personal.. when American companies appoint Nigerians as Directors, y'all shout it's a good thing but u kick against their own being appointed by our companies, is that not unfairness? And besides, she's only a non-executive director and almost 90% of dangote staff are Nigerians, so what the fuss?

Lest i forget, about half the capital of Dangote group comes from abroad. That company listed on the US stock exchange bro and LSE... so it's a good thing... rejoice for him

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