Birthday: Aliko Dangote Turns 66 Today!

Aliko Dangote (Listen) GCON (born 10 April 1957) is a Nigerian business magnate who is the founder, chairman, and CEO of the Dangote Group, the largest industrial conglomerate in West Africa. According to Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Dangote's net worth is estimated at US$19.9 billion as of April 2023, making him the richest person in Africa and richest black person and 83rd in the world.

Early life

Dangote was born in Kano, Kano State into a wealthy Hausa Muslim family. Dangote's mother, Mariya Sanusi Dantata, was the daughter of businessman Sanusi Dantata. Aliko Dangote's father, Mohammed Dangote, was a business associate of Sanusi Dantata. Through his mother, Dangote is the great-grandson of Alhassan Dantata, the richest West African at the time of his death in 1955.

Dangote was educated at the Sheikh Ali Kumasi Madrasa, followed by Capital High School, Kano. In 1978, he graduated from the Government College, Birnin Kudu. He received a bachelor's degree in business studies and administration from Al-Azhar University, Cairo.

Business career

The Dangote Group was established as a small trading firm in 1977, the same year Dangote relocated to Lagos to expand the company. Dangote received a ₦500,000 loan from his uncle to begin trading in commodities including bagged cement as well as agricultural goods like rice and sugar. In the 1990s, he approached the Central Bank of Nigeria with the idea that it would be cheaper for the bank to allow his transport company to manage their fleet of staff buses, a proposal that was also approved.

Today, the Dangote Group is one of the largest conglomerates in Africa, with international operations in Benin, Ghana, Zambia and Togo. The Dangote Group has moved from being a trading company to be the largest industrial group in Nigeria, encompassing divisions like Dangote Sugar Refinery, Dangote Cement, and Dangote Flour. Dangote Group dominates the sugar market in Nigeria, with its refinery business is the main supplier (70 percent of the market) to the country's soft drink companies, breweries and confectioners. The company employs more than 11,000 people in West Africa.

In July 2012, Dangote approached the Nigerian Ports Authority to lease an abandoned piece of land at the Apapa Port, which was approved. He later built facilities for his sugar company there. It is the largest refinery in Africa and the third largest in the world, producing 800,000 tonnes of sugar annually. The Dangote Group owns salt factories and flour mills and is a major importer of rice, fish, pasta, cement, and fertiliser. The company exports cotton, cashew nuts, cocoa, sesame seeds, and ginger to several countries. Additionally, it has major investments in real estate, banking, transport, textiles, oil, and gas.

In February 2022, Dangote announced the completion of Peugeot assembling facility in Nigeria following his partnership with Stellantis Group, the parent company of Peugeot, the Kano and Kaduna state government. The new automobile company, Dangote Peugeot Automobiles Nigeria Limited (DPAN) factory which is based in Kaduna commenced operations with the roll-out of Peugeot 301, Peugeot 5008, 3008, 508 and Land Trek."

Wealth

Dangote became Nigeria's first billionaire in 2007. Dangote reportedly added $9.2 billion to his personal wealth in 2013, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, making him the thirtieth-richest person in the world at the time, and the richest person in Africa. In 2015, the HSBC leaks revealed that Dangote was a HSBC client and that he had assets in a tax haven in the British Virgin Islands. As of June 2022, Dangote is the wealthiest person in Africa, with an estimated net worth of US$20 billion.

Personal life

Dangote lives in Lagos, Nigeria. He has been married and divorced twice. He has three daughters – Mariya, Halima, Fatimah and an adopted son, Abdulrahman. Aliko's brother, Sani Dangote, died on 14 November 2021 from colon cancer.

Dangote is known for his simple and austere lifestyle; he reportedly works 12 hours a day beginning at 5am and goes to the gym six times a week.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliko_Dangote

He no go du Birthday Giveaway nd Birthday Photoshoot oh I forget na poor man dey always show off nd stress himself....

Happy birthday sir

Nigerian government made this men excessively rich.Happy Birthday big man,Enjoy

Happy Birthday Legendary Tycoon.

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Birthday: Aliko Dangote Turns 66 Today!




https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aliko_Dangote

Happy birthday 🎈🎂 the only man that single handedly own Nigeria economy.If you know you know.

Dbull on this one!!!



Happy birthday to you sir, we hope to work together soon!

Congratulations sir... Real business men always mind their business... Better days ahead las las

Happy birthday sir

Another mentor!
Happy birthday to you sir.
Enjoy your time while it last....EMILOKAN to take that mantle.

African richest no1...

This man is one of the problems Nigeria is facing today.......

HomorBj:
Nigerian government made this men excessively rich.Happy Birthday big man,Enjoy

stop being petty, you can also make yourself available for FG to make you rich if it's easy

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Happy birthday sir

Happy birthday to a fake Business man being favored by his northern brothers And corrupt politicians , He’s been given the monopoly on cement and In a few years time crude oil refining,

Happy birthday to the biggest man in Africa

Happy Birthday Senior

leksite120:
stop being petty, you can also make yourself available for FG to make you rich if it's easy

its not easy that’s why he hasn’t made himself available but he didn’t lie

Happy birthday, Aliko

Happy birthday. Congratulations and best wishes



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jayAjoku:
Happy birthday to a fake Business man being favored by his northern brothers And corrupt politicians , He’s been given the monopoly on cement and I a few years time crude oil refining,

Is he the reason why you are yet to make it?

Hustle hard and stop whining bro 😤

Divorced twice and was caught with an American babe

Sebastine1994:
Money is good. Newspapers are filled with congratulations. This day news paper is even the worst. Half of the newspaper edition is for dangote

Do you know they have made mad money from the advert alone? Over 157million today alone

No doubt business tycoon and Investment guru.
The Africa Richest Man.
Happy Birthday Sir.

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Is he the reason why you are yet to make it?

Hustle hard and stop whining bro 😤

nope he’s not he’s part of the reason we are backward as a nation I’m sure that doesn’t concern you