BUA Cement Chairman And Billionaire, Abdulsamad Rabiu Turns 59 Today

Abdul Samad Rabiu is a foremost industrialist, billionaire businessman, philanthropist and the Founder/Executive Chairman of BUA Group – a company which he founded in 1988 and has become one of Nigeria’s largest privately owned foods, mining and infrastructure conglomerate with diversified investments spanning across key business sectors of the Nigerian economy.

Under Abdul Samad’s astute leadership, BUA has grown steadily over the years to entrench itself as a leading player with holdings in cement, sugar, rice, flour milling and pasta (though both recently divested in January 2016), edible oils, logistics, agriculture, fertilizer production, steel and real estate. With a firmly established reputation for innovation, BUA Group is one of the largest contributors to Nigeria’s GDP and among its largest employers of labour.

At a young age and armed with a degree in Economics, Abdul Samad returned to Nigeria from the United States and joined the family business, the IRS Group, until 1988 when he set up BUA Group to engage in importing and trading in major commodities like rice, edible oils, flour and also, iron and steel rods. He later ventured into steel, billets and iron ore importation and supplying multiple rolling mills in Nigeria.Few years down the line, BUA acquired Nigerian Oil Mills Limited in 2001 which was at the time, the largest edible oil processing company in Nigeria. He was later to set up 2 flour milling plants in Lagos and Kano in 2005. By 2008, BUA, under Abdul Samad’s astute leadership, commissioned the second largest sugar refinery in sub-saharan Africa.

He then went on the acquire a controlling stake in the publicly listed Cement Company of Northern Nigeria (Sokoto Cement) in 2009 and commenced the construction of the over $1billion cement manufacturing complex in Obu-Okpella, Edo State which was commissioned in 2017. Furthermore, Abdul Samad in July 2018 commissioned the US$350 million Kalambaina Cement Plant in Sokoto State with a capacity of 1.5million metric per annual to improve cement export to neighbouring countries as well as contribute to the economy’s GDP.

In December 2018, CCNN and Kalambaina Cement Company merged their operations in a $1.1bn transaction that was the largest of its kind in Nigeria that year.Recent investments by the company include the $300 million, 20,000hectare BUA Lasuco Sugar Estate project in Lafiagi, Kwara State as part of the Nigerian Government’s Backward Integration Policy for the Sugar Industry and the BUA Rice Mill in Kano State which is the largest rice mill in Nigeria amongst others. He also started the construction of a new 3 million metric tonnes Cement plant in Sokoto state and has completed a new sugar Refinery in Port Harcourt making BUA the only company in Nigeria with a sugar Refinery outside Lagos.A former Chairman of Tropical Continental Bank from 1993 to 2000 and current Chairman of the publicly listed Cement Company of Northern Nigeria, Abdul Samad’s ever-expanding conglomerate boasts of several subsidiaries. Today, the BUA Group has been nurtured from a relatively small company in 1988 to a world-class conglomerate.

These are in addition to heavy portfolio investments in key sectors of the Nigerian economy.In addition to his economic contributions, Abdul Samad Rabiu, through the BUA Foundation, has also contributed immensely to various philanthropic and social development activities in various areas such as education, sports, and healthcare; with the ongoing development of a N7.5 billion 200-bed specialist hospital in Kano State.

As a testimony to hard work and an indefatigable entrepreneurial spirit, Abdul Samad Rabiu is a two-time Chairman of Nigeria’s Bank of Industry Board of Directors. He also sits on the board of several companies and financial institutions.

A recipient of many awards including the 2016 African Industrialist of the Year Award by the All Africa Business Leaders Awards, Abdul Samad Rabiu holds the prestigious Nigerian National Honour of Commander of the Order of Niger (CON). Abdul Samad Rabiu was recently listed as the 3rd richest Nigerian and 16th richest African by Forbes in its 2019 Rankings.

Kindly celebrate the titan as he turns 59 today..

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Inside life....

Age gracefully

Keep Pushing forward sir.

I can still recollect how dangote almost pushed bua cement out of business with his dubious schemes.... But u managed to scale through that phase...

HBD sir

More great years Sir

☺

Don.

I salute u sir

If there was a fair and even playing ground...this dude won't be fit to shine the shoes of Chief Cletus Ibeto or sit in the same room with Chief Dr. Alexander Chika Okafor.

He inherited an already favoured business, diversified it and all successive governments from the 90s till date have ensured that it continues to thrive because they are "born to rule" while the Ibetos, Lulu-Briggs and Madukas aren't.

Well what do I even know?

Olorun ma wo mi ni ran, wa see temi na!

Respect.

See as he resemble Dangote

He is from a very wealthy family, his dad Sheikh Issyaka Rabiu is one of the most wealthy man in the northern part of Nigeria.
I remember the many scary stories been told about his dad source of wealth.
That's not to say that he isn't a hard working man o!
He is and he definitely deserve his wealth.

HBD to Him.

Wishing you long life and prosperity.
But make cement affordable to us.
Don't be like your brother Dangote
Him and Otedola his friend have shift to oil, leaving you to take over cement

We all are titans. It's just condition. Happy birthday to you .

This is one of Nigeria's real Billionaires, not some Ritualist, Armed Robbers, Kidnappers or drug pushers from the Yeast.


Happy Birthday Sir.

Waoh, Great Profile. Happy birthday Sir.

This one na junior Dangote

This man is giving dangote bumper to bumper in cement biz.

Happy Birthday sir. Wish you more money in your account and healthy life

Most of Northern Nigerias billionaires are from Kano
Dangote,Dantata,Isyaka Rabiu

Happy birthday and best wishes sir.

Hbd sir
Ok he's Dangote's competitor that looks like Dangote

Congratulation sir

Happy birthday. We too will get there.

Lolz... Sometimes all these sort of money men go just make person feel like say him hustle na chicken play. I wish u well sir keep soaring higher. I know my time is closer than i think & i pray God keeps me alive to get there. Na turn by turn provided ur hands ain't idle and u can see the light no matter how little

Happy birthday Boss

Ego amaka

NwaAmaikpe:




If there was a fair and even playing ground...this dude won't be fit to shine the shoes of Chief Cletus Ibeto or sit in the same room with Chief Dr. Alexander Chika Okafor.

He inherited an already favoured business, diversified it and all successive governments from the 90s have ensured that it continues to thrive because they are "born to rule" while the Ibetos and Madukas aren't.

Well what do I even know?

Hate is bad

NwaAmaikpe:




If there was a fair and even playing ground...this dude won't be fit to shine the shoes of Chief Cletus Ibeto or sit in the same room with Chief Dr. Alexander Chika Okafor.

He inherited an already favoured business, diversified it and all successive governments from the 90s have ensured that it continues to thrive because they are "born to rule" while the Ibetos and Madukas aren't.

Well what do I even know?

The thing dey pain this man already.

Ibeto is one of those whose wealth were gotten through one crimes or the other. His real source of wealth (crime) was no longer giving him money, that's why he is putting the failure of his Cement Business on the Government.

BUO on the other hand is a hard working Business man, who works hard to thrive in a compitaitive Business environment like Nigeria.

God bless BUO.

NwaAmaikpe:




If there was a fair and even playing ground...this dude won't be fit to shine the shoes of Chief Cletus Ibeto or sit in the same room with Chief Dr. Alexander Chika Okafor.

He inherited an already favoured business, diversified it and all successive governments from the 90s till date have ensured that it continues to thrive because they are "born to rule" while the Ibetos, Lulu-Briggs and Madukas aren't.

Well what do I even know?

You are so terrible and barbaric, always too jealous, envious and feel marginalized