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Re: Top 10 Biggest Supermarket Chain In Nigeria And Their Owners by Putinofrussia: 5:53pm On May 04, 2023
misano:


But yet the 10 biggest markets in Nigeria are dominated by Igbos 😂😂😂.

The brightest secondary school students in Nigeria are from SE.

The most literate state in Nigeria is in SE.
You are a joker.Everybody knows that the most educated people in Nigeria are the Yorubas with the highest number of professors which is 3 times more than that of the Igbos.
Yoruba also have the highest number of lawyers,doctors,engineers etc.

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Re: Top 10 Biggest Supermarket Chain In Nigeria And Their Owners by misano(m): 5:56pm On May 04, 2023
Putinofrussia:

You are a joker.Everybody knows that the most educated people in Nigeria are the Yorubas with the highest number of professors which is 3 times more than that of the Igbos.
Yoruba also have the highest number of lawyers,doctors,engineers etc.

Igbos dominate all other tribes in business including you Yorubas.

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Re: Top 10 Biggest Supermarket Chain In Nigeria And Their Owners by chidiokay: 5:57pm On May 04, 2023
misano:


The list is very funny. Most of the stores listed have branches mostly in SW, like Ogun, Osun and Lagos.

Remove Spar, shoprite, Marketsquare and Prince Obeano from the list then call it Supermarkets in SW

For example:






Shoprite is a Franchise (no owner)
Spar is a Franchise (no owner)
Marketsquare (national but owned by a man in Rivers State
Addide Supermarket (only SW)
Supermart is majorly online (only in SW)
Ace Supermarket (only SW)
Justrite (only SW)
Foodsco (only SW)
Mallmart (only SW)




The headies says biggest supermarket in Nigeria, biggest in the context of comparism to every other supermarket chain across Nigeria.
if he had said nation wide only then your objection would have being valid.

FIY, shoprite was bought 100% by Tayo amusan, google am smiley

However you can list supermarkets you know in other region bigger than the enlisted ones that is how to counter OP.
Re: Top 10 Biggest Supermarket Chain In Nigeria And Their Owners by misano(m): 5:59pm On May 04, 2023
chidiokay:




The headies says biggest supermarket in Nigeria, biggest in the context of comparism to every other supermarket chain across Nigeria.
if he had said nation wide only then your objection would have being valid.

FIY, shoprite was bought 100% by Tayo amusan, google am smiley

However you can list supermarkets you know in other region bigger than the enlisted ones that is how to counter OP.


Who is this one? Carry ur yeye sef from my mention.

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Re: Top 10 Biggest Supermarket Chain In Nigeria And Their Owners by Putinofrussia: 6:00pm On May 04, 2023
misano:


GUY, YOU ARE JUST TELLING LIES. ARE U RELATED TO LAI MOHAMMED?

Nigerian-born Adebayo Ogunlesi beat the British at their own game.

Up until February 2010, very few people had heard about Adebayo Ogunlesi. The Nigerian-born investment banker and money manager made international headlines when he led the acquisition of London’s Gatwick Airport from the British Airports Authority in a recorded £1.51 billion deal. The acquisition instantly propelled Ogunlesi, 58, into the global spotlight and earned him a place in history as the man who acquired London’s second largest international airport.

Adebayo Ogunlesi is the chairman and managing partner of Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), a New York-based independent private equity fund focused primarily on infrastructural investments, with over $5.6 billion under management. The purchase of Gatwick Airport may have grabbed all the headlines, but GIP has some other noteworthy assets in its portfolio including a 75% stake in London City Airport, and Biffa Limited, a UK based waste management company.

Gatwick suffered deep losses over the years, and all the turnaround efforts made by its former managers, the British Airport Authority (BAA), failed to halt the downward spiral. In the first nine months of 2009, the airport reportedly recorded a pre-tax loss of over £780 million, prompting the British government to actively shop for buyers. BAA also reportedly lost £225 million on Gatwick after it was compelled to sell the airport by the Competition Commission.

https://venturesafrica.com/the-man-who-bought-gatwick-airport/

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Re: Top 10 Biggest Supermarket Chain In Nigeria And Their Owners by Anambra1stSon(m): 6:01pm On May 04, 2023
Putinofrussia:

SW has the highest purchasing power,the highest number of billionaires,lawyers,doctors,intellectuals etc.Lagos helps in this aspect because of its population and wealth.
Remember,it is the 5th economy in Africa.
You guys should keep deceiving yourselves

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Re: Top 10 Biggest Supermarket Chain In Nigeria And Their Owners by misano(m): 6:02pm On May 04, 2023
Putinofrussia:


Nigerian-born Adebayo Ogunlesi beat the British at their own game.

Up until February 2010, very few people had heard about Adebayo Ogunlesi. The Nigerian-born investment banker and money manager made international headlines when he led the acquisition of London’s Gatwick Airport from the British Airports Authority in a recorded £1.51 billion deal. The acquisition instantly propelled Ogunlesi, 58, into the global spotlight and earned him a place in history as the man who acquired London’s second largest international airport.

Adebayo Ogunlesi is the chairman and managing partner of Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), a New York-based independent private equity fund focused primarily on infrastructural investments, with over $5.6 billion under management. The purchase of Gatwick Airport may have grabbed all the headlines, but GIP has some other noteworthy assets in its portfolio including a 75% stake in London City Airport, and Biffa Limited, a UK based waste management company.

Gatwick suffered deep losses over the years, and all the turnaround efforts made by its former managers, the British Airport Authority (BAA), failed to halt the downward spiral. In the first nine months of 2009, the airport reportedly recorded a pre-tax loss of over £780 million, prompting the British government to actively shop for buyers. BAA also reportedly lost £225 million on Gatwick after it was compelled to sell the airport by the Competition Commission.

https://venturesafrica.com/the-man-who-bought-gatwick-airport/


Igbos still dominate you Yorubas in business. 😂😂😂

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Re: Top 10 Biggest Supermarket Chain In Nigeria And Their Owners by misano(m): 6:04pm On May 04, 2023
post=122930821:

You guys should keep deceiving yourselves


Thanks again for bursting another lie. Yorubas are just deceiving themselves.

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Re: Top 10 Biggest Supermarket Chain In Nigeria And Their Owners by misano(m): 6:06pm On May 04, 2023
Putinofrussia:


Nigerian-born Adebayo Ogunlesi beat the British at their own game.

Up until February 2010, very few people had heard about Adebayo Ogunlesi. The Nigerian-born investment banker and money manager made international headlines when he led the acquisition of London’s Gatwick Airport from the British Airports Authority in a recorded £1.51 billion deal. The acquisition instantly propelled Ogunlesi, 58, into the global spotlight and earned him a place in history as the man who acquired London’s second largest international airport.

Adebayo Ogunlesi is the chairman and managing partner of Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), a New York-based independent private equity fund focused primarily on infrastructural investments, with over $5.6 billion under management. The purchase of Gatwick Airport may have grabbed all the headlines, but GIP has some other noteworthy assets in its portfolio including a 75% stake in London City Airport, and Biffa Limited, a UK based waste management company.

Gatwick suffered deep losses over the years, and all the turnaround efforts made by its former managers, the British Airport Authority (BAA), failed to halt the downward spiral. In the first nine months of 2009, the airport reportedly recorded a pre-tax loss of over £780 million, prompting the British government to actively shop for buyers. BAA also reportedly lost £225 million on Gatwick after it was compelled to sell the airport by the Competition Commission.

https://venturesafrica.com/the-man-who-bought-gatwick-airport/


Someone just burst your lie. 4 states leading in medical education. No SW state comes close.

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Re: Top 10 Biggest Supermarket Chain In Nigeria And Their Owners by Anambra1stSon(m): 6:08pm On May 04, 2023
Putinofrussia:


Nigerian-born Adebayo Ogunlesi beat the British at their own game.

Up until February 2010, very few people had heard about Adebayo Ogunlesi. The Nigerian-born investment banker and money manager made international headlines when he led the acquisition of London’s Gatwick Airport from the British Airports Authority in a recorded £1.51 billion deal. The acquisition instantly propelled Ogunlesi, 58, into the global spotlight and earned him a place in history as the man who acquired London’s second largest international airport.

Adebayo Ogunlesi is the chairman and managing partner of Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), a New York-based independent private equity fund focused primarily on infrastructural investments, with over $5.6 billion under management. The purchase of Gatwick Airport may have grabbed all the headlines, but GIP has some other noteworthy assets in its portfolio including a 75% stake in London City Airport, and Biffa Limited, a UK based waste management company.

Gatwick suffered deep losses over the years, and all the turnaround efforts made by its former managers, the British Airport Authority (BAA), failed to halt the downward spiral. In the first nine months of 2009, the airport reportedly recorded a pre-tax loss of over £780 million, prompting the British government to actively shop for buyers. BAA also reportedly lost £225 million on Gatwick after it was compelled to sell the airport by the Competition Commission.

https://venturesafrica.com/the-man-who-bought-gatwick-airport/
His is not the owner

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Re: Top 10 Biggest Supermarket Chain In Nigeria And Their Owners by chidiokay: 6:09pm On May 04, 2023
misano:



Who is this one? Carry ur yeye sef from my mention.


I be your papa boss, ok ! never knew he had a mannerless son

anyways like father like son
Re: Top 10 Biggest Supermarket Chain In Nigeria And Their Owners by Putinofrussia: 6:11pm On May 04, 2023
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His is not the owner
Are you the owner? cheesy

Another Yoruba in Texas..

Kas Lookman Lawal


His name is Kase Lawal and he was born June 30, 1954 in Ibadan, Oyo state. He obtained his Bachelor of Science in chemistry from Texas Southern University in 1976, and his MBA from Prairie View A&M University, Texas in 1978. Lawal was a member of the National Republican Congressional Committee’s Business Advisory Council and, in 1994, he was a finalist for the United States Business Entrepreneur of the Year. Lawal is a member of Phi Beta Sigma fraternity.He is a naturalized American and is regarded richest oil magnate ever in Houston, Texas.

His company, CAMAC HOLDINGS in Houston, Texas comprises of CAMAC International Corporation, CAMAC Energy Inc and Allied Energy Corporation.

In a country that complains about its Government and the illegal means people seem to make money, Kase stands as a shining beacon of what a business man should be like.

A huge achievement of his was being appointed in the last administration of former President Barack Obama as a distinguished Advisory Committee member for Trade Policy and Negotiation (ACTPN) announced by the White House.

Mr. Lawal also controls six Oil Blocs in Kenya and can best be described as a perfect example of ‘a dream come true’ being successful business owner and employer in United States of America.

Lawal’s journey to stardom started some years back as an undergraduate, just like every other Nigerian foreign student aspiring to move forward in life, not once did he give up on his dreams.Presently, he is the chairman and chief executive officer of CAMAC International Corporation, the chairman and chief executive officer of CAMAC Energy Inc, and chairman of Allied Energy Corporation in Houston, Texas.

Lawal currently holds the position of chairman and chief executive officer of CAMAC International Corporation, the chairman and chief executive officer of CAMAC Energy Inc, and chairman of Allied Energy Corporation in Houston, Texas.

He is also the chairman and chief executive officer, CAMAC Holdings; vice chairman, Port of Houston Authority Commission. He serves as a member of the board of directors and is a significant shareholder in Unity National Bank, the only federally insured and licensed African-American-owned bank in Texas.

Due to his creative endowments in energy sector, Lawal has guided his oil exploration, refining and trading company to international prominence. Lawal’s expertise in the field of international energy led to his appointments by the Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations to the United States Trade Advisory Committee on Africa, where he was responsible for crafting African trade policy

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Re: Top 10 Biggest Supermarket Chain In Nigeria And Their Owners by misano(m): 6:12pm On May 04, 2023
chidiokay:



I be your papa boss, ok ! never knew he had a mannerless son

anyways like father like son

This one nor get sense. Waka pass. Born fool.

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Re: Top 10 Biggest Supermarket Chain In Nigeria And Their Owners by MXrep: 6:31pm On May 04, 2023
Putinofrussia:

You are a joker.Everybody knows that the most educated people in Nigeria are the Yorubas with the highest number of professors which is 3 times more than that of the Igbos.
Yoruba also have the highest number of lawyers,doctors,engineers etc.
Lol, you are living in the past.

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Re: Top 10 Biggest Supermarket Chain In Nigeria And Their Owners by Anambra1stSon(m): 6:34pm On May 04, 2023
Putinofrussia:

Are you the owner? cheesy

Another Yoruba in Texas..

Kas Lookman Lawal


His name is Kase Lawal and he was born June 30, 1954 in Ibadan, Oyo state. He obtained his Bachelor of Science in chemistry from Texas Southern University in 1976, and his MBA from Prairie View A&M University, Texas in 1978. Lawal was a member of the National Republican Congressional Committee’s Business Advisory Council and, in 1994, he was a finalist for the United States Business Entrepreneur of the Year. Lawal is a member of Phi Beta Sigma fraternity.He is a naturalized American and is regarded richest oil magnate ever in Houston, Texas.

His company, CAMAC HOLDINGS in Houston, Texas comprises of CAMAC International Corporation, CAMAC Energy Inc and Allied Energy Corporation.

In a country that complains about its Government and the illegal means people seem to make money, Kase stands as a shining beacon of what a business man should be like.

A huge achievement of his was being appointed in the last administration of former President Barack Obama as a distinguished Advisory Committee member for Trade Policy and Negotiation (ACTPN) announced by the White House.

Mr. Lawal also controls six Oil Blocs in Kenya and can best be described as a perfect example of ‘a dream come true’ being successful business owner and employer in United States of America.

Lawal’s journey to stardom started some years back as an undergraduate, just like every other Nigerian foreign student aspiring to move forward in life, not once did he give up on his dreams.Presently, he is the chairman and chief executive officer of CAMAC International Corporation, the chairman and chief executive officer of CAMAC Energy Inc, and chairman of Allied Energy Corporation in Houston, Texas.

Lawal currently holds the position of chairman and chief executive officer of CAMAC International Corporation, the chairman and chief executive officer of CAMAC Energy Inc, and chairman of Allied Energy Corporation in Houston, Texas.

He is also the chairman and chief executive officer, CAMAC Holdings; vice chairman, Port of Houston Authority Commission. He serves as a member of the board of directors and is a significant shareholder in Unity National Bank, the only federally insured and licensed African-American-owned bank in Texas.

Due to his creative endowments in energy sector, Lawal has guided his oil exploration, refining and trading company to international prominence. Lawal’s expertise in the field of international energy led to his appointments by the Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations to the United States Trade Advisory Committee on Africa, where he was responsible for crafting African trade policy

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Re: Top 10 Biggest Supermarket Chain In Nigeria And Their Owners by MXrep: 6:35pm On May 04, 2023
post=122930821:

You guys should keep deceiving yourselves
Yorubas like living in the past

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Re: Top 10 Biggest Supermarket Chain In Nigeria And Their Owners by MXrep: 6:38pm On May 04, 2023
Putinofrussia:

You are a joker.Everybody knows that the most educated people in Nigeria are the Yorubas with the highest number of professors which is 3 times more than that of the Igbos.
Yoruba also have the highest number of lawyers,doctors,engineers etc.
"I get am before" syndrome has finished yoruba youths. You better wake up because you have been overtaken long ago

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Re: Top 10 Biggest Supermarket Chain In Nigeria And Their Owners by ariesbull: 6:40pm On May 04, 2023
misano:
First of all Shoprite is a franchise it can't be owned by one person. Shoprite in Edo state will have a different owner from the one in Delta, it's just like MrBiggs.

Secondly Spar is a franchise. No single owner.

Why educate them ...I wonder the kind of education that these Yoruba get

Oh I forget 70% of the teachers in SW are unqualified that's what you get they graduate idiots

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Re: Top 10 Biggest Supermarket Chain In Nigeria And Their Owners by MXrep: 6:40pm On May 04, 2023
Putinofrussia:

Real Estate is basically 70% in the hands of the Yorubas in Nigeria even abroad as Nigerians.

As for travelling,Yorubas travel out of Nigeria more than any but within Nigeria,Igbos are the most travelled.Yorubaland have more opportunities than Igboland.Thanks to the Omnipotent.
Most of the time,Yorubas just travel within Nigeria and come back to their regions where opportunities abound compared to others.
Have you been to Abuja, Efab has no competitor in real estate, he is from Anambra. Continue thinking that Nigeria ends in Lagos and Ogun

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Re: Top 10 Biggest Supermarket Chain In Nigeria And Their Owners by MXrep: 6:43pm On May 04, 2023
Putinofrussia:

SW has the highest purchasing power,the highest number of billionaires,lawyers,doctors,intellectuals etc.Lagos helps in this aspect because of its population and wealth.
Remember,it is the 5th economy in Africa.
And without Lagos the rest of SW is complete shit hole

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Re: Top 10 Biggest Supermarket Chain In Nigeria And Their Owners by Putinofrussia: 6:56pm On May 04, 2023
MXrep:

And without Lagos the rest of SW is complete shit hole
Only Ibadan city has more infrastructures and more developed than the entire Igboland.

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Re: Top 10 Biggest Supermarket Chain In Nigeria And Their Owners by Putinofrussia: 6:57pm On May 04, 2023
MXrep:

Yorubas like living in the past

Yoruba roll with authentic evidences cheesy

https://www.nuc.edu.ng/

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Re: Top 10 Biggest Supermarket Chain In Nigeria And Their Owners by Upworkwriter007(f): 7:07pm On May 04, 2023
misano:
First of all Shoprite is a franchise it can't be owned by one person. Shoprite in Edo state will have a different owner from the one in Delta, it's just like MrBiggs.

Secondly Spar is a franchise. No single owner.
Shoprite Nigeria is a franchise that's controlled by a single company, and headed by a single entity. Shoprite nigeria is the Franchise.
Re: Top 10 Biggest Supermarket Chain In Nigeria And Their Owners by Anambra1stSon(m): 7:09pm On May 04, 2023
Putinofrussia:


Yoruba roll with authentic evidences cheesy

https://www.nuc.edu.ng/
Which authentic evidence please grin grin

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Re: Top 10 Biggest Supermarket Chain In Nigeria And Their Owners by Anambra1stSon(m): 7:11pm On May 04, 2023
Putinofrussia:

Only Ibadan city has more infrastructures and more developed than the entire Igboland.
Ibadan is world largest slum enclave in the world

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Re: Top 10 Biggest Supermarket Chain In Nigeria And Their Owners by PoloG: 7:23pm On May 04, 2023
post=122930821:

You guys should keep deceiving yourselves
this guy and his old statistics everytime grin

2015 to now na how many years again?

cheesy cheesy cheesy

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Re: Top 10 Biggest Supermarket Chain In Nigeria And Their Owners by Anambra1stSon(m): 7:35pm On May 04, 2023
Putinofrussia:

Are you the owner? cheesy

Another Yoruba in Texas..

Kas Lookman Lawal


His name is Kase Lawal and he was born June 30, 1954 in Ibadan, Oyo state. He obtained his Bachelor of Science in chemistry from Texas Southern University in 1976, and his MBA from Prairie View A&M University, Texas in 1978. Lawal was a member of the National Republican Congressional Committee’s Business Advisory Council and, in 1994, he was a finalist for the United States Business Entrepreneur of the Year. Lawal is a member of Phi Beta Sigma fraternity.He is a naturalized American and is regarded richest oil magnate ever in Houston, Texas.

His company, CAMAC HOLDINGS in Houston, Texas comprises of CAMAC International Corporation, CAMAC Energy Inc and Allied Energy Corporation.

In a country that complains about its Government and the illegal means people seem to make money, Kase stands as a shining beacon of what a business man should be like.

A huge achievement of his was being appointed in the last administration of former President Barack Obama as a distinguished Advisory Committee member for Trade Policy and Negotiation (ACTPN) announced by the White House.

Mr. Lawal also controls six Oil Blocs in Kenya and can best be described as a perfect example of ‘a dream come true’ being successful business owner and employer in United States of America.

Lawal’s journey to stardom started some years back as an undergraduate, just like every other Nigerian foreign student aspiring to move forward in life, not once did he give up on his dreams.Presently, he is the chairman and chief executive officer of CAMAC International Corporation, the chairman and chief executive officer of CAMAC Energy Inc, and chairman of Allied Energy Corporation in Houston, Texas.

Lawal currently holds the position of chairman and chief executive officer of CAMAC International Corporation, the chairman and chief executive officer of CAMAC Energy Inc, and chairman of Allied Energy Corporation in Houston, Texas.

He is also the chairman and chief executive officer, CAMAC Holdings; vice chairman, Port of Houston Authority Commission. He serves as a member of the board of directors and is a significant shareholder in Unity National Bank, the only federally insured and licensed African-American-owned bank in Texas.

Due to his creative endowments in energy sector, Lawal has guided his oil exploration, refining and trading company to international prominence. Lawal’s expertise in the field of international energy led to his appointments by the Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations to the United States Trade Advisory Committee on Africa, where he was responsible for crafting African trade policy
Chronic debtor that his company is bankrupt

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Re: Top 10 Biggest Supermarket Chain In Nigeria And Their Owners by Dafresh: 7:46pm On May 04, 2023
horsepower102:


You always come prepared with propaganda bursting facts... That's why they dont like you on this forum.
is trying had it been I'm rich I would have built big mansion for him. He's making me proud

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Re: Top 10 Biggest Supermarket Chain In Nigeria And Their Owners by Putinofrussia: 7:54pm On May 04, 2023
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Chronic debtor that his company is bankrupt
Stale

No be today.
Respect the business savvy race called Yoruba.
When Igbos were in a deep slumber with laziness grin

It is not difficult to imagine that the richest man in Africa, Aliko Dangote, wakes up in Africa, has his breakfast in Asia, lunch in Europe, dinner in America and sleeps in Australia.

You may also conjure the image of the richest woman on the continent, Folorunso Alakija, attending a conference in North America, meeting with female entrepreneurs in Africa, signing a multimillion-dollar deal in South America, going shopping in Asia, and attending a wedding party in Antartica.

The duo may be the richest man and woman on the continent today, but Nigeria’s ability to create billionaires did not start today. Before Dangote and Alakija, the likes of Da Rocha, Ojukwu, etc. were known for their fame and fortune.

Just for this thread, I am picking out only the Yoruba business people because they have the largest number.


Candido Da Rocha (1860 – 1959)

Candido Da Rocha was a Nigerian born in Brazil. Upon his return to Nigeria with his father, Esan Da Rocha, he made a fortune that has today become the subject of fact and fiction.

Da Rocha was unlike Evander Wall – both were born in 1860 – who became a millionaire at 18 and a multimillionaire at 22, when he inherited a million dollars from his father and grandfather respectively.

An extravagant showman, Wall bought 5,000 neckties and 300 pairs of gloves. He was the first man in America to wear a tuxedo. He was reported to have changed his outfit 40 times in a single morning.

Considered a millionaire, Da Rocha too had dozens of clothes and he could afford to send his dirty clothes to the laundryman in the United Kingdom – which he did for many years.

Shrewd and forthright, the first Nigerian millionaire was not given to unnecessary platitudes and politicking.

“His friend Herbert Macaulay persuaded him to join politics. On a particular day when he was addressing would-be voters, he simply told them that he was seeking their votes to represent them. He made it clear that he would not use his wealth to get their votes.


At the end of the day, he didn’t win,” his 90-year-old granddaughter, Mrs. Angelica Oyediran, told SUNDAY PUNCH.

How wealthy was Da Rocha?

“I can’t put a figure to it. However, I can tell you that Papa was so rich that he assisted many people in the society. He supported the government during the Second World War. He also supported the Catholic Church. When the Holy Cross Cathedral was built, he paid for the building of three chapels. The British respected him a lot. He was highly respected; a disciplined man who hated dishonesty and lying. I lived with him in this house for three years. I was very close to him. He loved me and I was fond of him,” the granddaughter explained.



Describing Da Rocha’s generosity, she said, “People would come to him, crying, requesting financial assistance; from the balcony, asking how much they needed, he would throw down the money to them.”

Da Rocha became a water merchant, selling water from the house (he inherited from his father, Esan Da Rocha) – famously called Casa d’Agua or water house. Da Rocha would later venture into real estate and the hospitality business. He opened The Restaurant Da Rocha, Bonanza Hotel, and Sierra Leone Deep Sea Fishing Industries Ltd. He also went into a partnership with two other businessmen, J. H. Doherty and Sedu Williams, to establish the Lagos Native Bank.



Timothy Odutola (1902-1995)

On March 25, 1943, the man who later became arguably the most respected politician and strategist in Nigeria, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, requested a loan of £1,400 from Timothy Odutola.

The loan, according to Awolowo, would be fully paid in 12 years. He did not get the loan. But, the duo would later form a strong political alliance in the old Western Region.

Stupendously rich, Odutola was the first president of the Manufacturers Association of Nigeria. He was reported to have established a multimillion-dollar business, including three factories, a retail franchise, a cattle ranch and a sawmill before 1960.

Before his breakthrough, he worked as a clerk in various departments of the Lagos Colony and in the Ijebu Native Administration between 1921 and 1932.

By 1932, he opened stores where he sold damasks and fish in various cities in the Western Region; and later, he began trading in cocoa and palm oil.

An enterprising man, he also dealt in sawmilling and gold mining. By 1967, he had begun production of tyres and tubes which did so well that he added a $1,700,000 plant, with the plan to harvest his own rubber from his 5,000-acre plantation.

“The time is coming when we will produce more than we can consume and we will have to look outside Nigeria for markets,” Odutola had once said.

Prior to his death, however, he might have been less optimistic, as he watched Nigeria’s political and economic growth take a turn for the worse under the jackboot of maximum ruler, Gen. Sani Abacha.



Sir Mobolaji Bank-Anthony (1907-1991)

Businessman and philanthropist, he was a former council president of the Lagos Stock Exchange. He was also a minority investor in Aero Contractors and at a time held the distributional rights to cars manufactured by Rootes Group.

Between 1923 and 1930, he worked as a junior clerk in the correspondence section of the Post and Telegraphs Department. By 1931, he went into business, travelling to Germany and England to study how to make palm oil. Following that, he established M. de Bank Brothers, to trade in palm oil and patent medicine.

After sometime, he began importing watches, clocks and pens – at a point, becoming the third largest seller of fountain pens in Nigeria after UAC and the United Trading Company. He also owned a tanker fleet and a charter airline.

He was one of the earliest Nigerians to become chairman of a European company in 1950 – he was the chairman of the Italian Construction firm, Borini Prono and Company. He was also a director of Mobil Oil and Friesland Foods back then.



Shafi Edu (1911–2002)

In 1965, TIME magazine named Shafi Edu one of Nigeria’s richest men. Along with Talabi Braithwaite, he co-founded the first indigenous insurance company in the country. He had shares in big companies like Bata, Alumaco, Wiggins Teape, BP (formerly British Petroleum), Lever Brothers and Nigerian Breweries.

Edu was the first president of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and the Lagos Rotary Club.

At 54, he had built a fleet of eight oil tankers. He was also on the boards of Blackwood Hodge Nigeria, Haden Nigeria, Glaxo Nigeria and the Federal Industrial Loans from 1954 to 1959.

He was elected into the old Western Region’s House of Assembly in 1951, and was later nominated to represent Epe at the Federal House of Representatives.




Ade Tuyo

Born in 1902, he was described as Nigeria’s most prominent baker in the mid-1960s. Featured in Time magazine’s list of millionaires in Nigeria in 1965, Tuyo at the time had four outlets and was making 115 products. According to the magazine, he was running a business that would have “first priority in people’s spending.”

“The firm’s unusual name – De Facto Works Ltd. – was shrewdly chosen by Tuyo to impress Nigerian bankers with the fact that he was seriously in business,” it said.

Trained as a teacher, Tuyo left the profession to work for 24 years in the Nigerian Railway Corporation, the British Bank of West Africa and the Ministry of Commerce. He retired in 1953.

The bakery was started by his wife. After his retirement, he took over the catering business. By 1969, his bakery service was the largest in the country.

Talabi Braithwaite (1928–2011)

Regarded as one of Nigeria’s youngest businessmen of his time, Talabi Braithwaite left a British insurance company to found a firm that would write life insurance on Nigerians which the British underwriters avoided like the plague. So successful was he that his African Alliance Insurance Co. Ltd occupied a six-storey office and had 300 bush-beating agents. Braithwaite lived in an elegant house in Ikoyi.

He was the first African to pass the examination to become an associate of the Chartered Insurance Institute, London in 1951. Braithwaite, in 1960, advised the government of the Western Region as a risk consultant when it formed the Great Nigeria Insurance Company. Between 1963 and 1966, he served as the first indigenous president of the Insurance Institute of Nigeria. He was also first president of the Nigerian Corporation of Insurance Brokers for 16 years, starting in 1963.

In 1969, he became an underwriting member of Lloyd’s of London, and from 1970 he started underwriting on the Merrett Syndicate.




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Re: Top 10 Biggest Supermarket Chain In Nigeria And Their Owners by Putinofrussia: 9:26pm On May 04, 2023
misano:


Igbos dominate all other tribes in business including you Yorubas.
Igbos surely dominate petty trading and hawking of gala in SW traffic every Mon-Sun.

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Re: Top 10 Biggest Supermarket Chain In Nigeria And Their Owners by Armaggedon: 9:42pm On May 04, 2023
MXrep:

Yorubas are not good at starting anything from the scratch, they like to join already made
that was why I said dude will soon put it up for sale. If you can't create and nurture, you can hardly manage.

Well, his equity I should say since BOI has a huge stake therein.

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Re: Top 10 Biggest Supermarket Chain In Nigeria And Their Owners by Anambra1stSon(m): 9:49pm On May 04, 2023
Putinofrussia:

Igbos surely dominate petty trading and hawking of gala in SW traffic every Mon-Sun.
Igbo dominate in business in Nigeria even in your region, how many Yoruba own business outside West, you guys are the least, Hausa/Fulani dey try pass you guys, atleast they are not just in their region, Igbos control the biggest market and other markets in their region, still built and nurtured many markets outside their region, that's why you guys hate Igbos because of their indomitable spirits, your ancestors thoughts if they seize their wealth then they will tame Igbos it didn't happen, it surprised them they recovered so quick, if not that you guys are so lazy you guys should have gone far, you guys didn't experience war, with all the handouts gotten, still Igbos are dominating

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