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Thanks. While I get the book you recommended, you too should read the write-up first before throwing someone into Hell. That's all .

2iic: He paid the perfect price for his supervision of the 'Asaba Massacre' during the civil war. Pls get yourself a copy of Chinua Achebe's there was a country. A murderer of innocent women and kids. I have no doubt that he's in the hottest and darkest part of hell. That's all.

Friday the 13th. It was a day before Valentine’s Day. And the year was 1976. Lovers across the world were perfecting plans on how to surprise their mates. Some were considering yellow roses while others settled for a day lapping up the tropical sun on Bar Beach. The morning started out like any other. Lagosians were getting ready for the daily hustle and in no time, traffic started building up. The Lagos deity was awake and the nation’s capital responded to the crows of the cock. Ever dutiful, the 37-year-old Nigerian Head of State summoned his driver, orderly and aide-de-camp. It was time for work.

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Without the slightest hint of anything sinister waiting for them despite many labelling a 13th February an evil omen, Nigeria’s 4th Head of State and the unwavering commander of the Federal Military Government (FMG) hopped into his official car, a black Mercedes Benz limousine. The driver shanasenjin-ed (started the engine), proceeded along their normal George Street route. The unassuming group headed for the center of power of the black world’s most populous nation -Dodan Barracks.

Meanwhile, all over Lagos, humanity poured out onto the streets and the traffic slowly gained momentum. In little time, the Head of State was caught in the Friday traffic. A simple leader with populist ideas, he had no speeding convoys, refused heavily-armed security details and preferred to stay in the traffic with his ‘Fellow Nigerians’ until it eased. They were all calm while some other drivers kept glancing at their much-loved and admired leader. Some shouted out at him with joy and excitement while some others waved like their limbs would fly off the torso. Like a Hugo Chavez, Murtala felt a deep connection with the people and he must have been surveying the area full of his loyal and smiling compatriots, many peering at him through their cars when all of a sudden…


Like a dark scene from a horror movie, the Mercedes conveying the leader was suddenly ambushed by a handful of well-armed soldiers as it snailed its way through the traffic. The terror that ensued upon firing the gunshots was instantaneous. Nigerians adulating their great leader just minutes ago fled the scene in a matter of seconds for dear lives, drivers abandoned their vehicles in the traffic and put Usain Bolt to shame while mothers grabbed their toddlers and scampered off to safety like terrified gazelles. Claps of thunder coming from guns sputtering iron-hot bullets filled the air. There was chaos. The putrid smell of disorder was choking. As in, it was a real igborotidaru moment.

In a few minutes of blood-chilling anarchy, the young Nigerian leader was hit and it did not take long before his smart uniform was soaked in warm, fresh blood. Murtala had been assassinated. Muritala was dead. Gone. The nation would not recover -not even 37 years after the carnage. Welcome to the world of one of Nigeria’s most remembered leaders. Nigerians very rarely shed tears for their leaders but if there is one who evokes so much emotion, pity, ululations and tears, Murtala is the man. For many Nigerians, he gave the ultimate sacrifice for a nation he fought for, and is considered a national hero.

Yes. Tenacious. Incorrigibly unyielding. Very very very stubborn. Charismatic. Highly mercurial. Extremely determined. Disobedient. Kind. Very quick to anger. Very religious. Brilliant. Ambitious. Incredibly courageous. Bold. Impulsive. Selfless. Unpredictable. Rebellious. Patriotic. Imperfect. Populist. Popular. Fierce. Fiery. Those are the exact words that come to my mind whenever I remember General MURTALA RAMAT MOHAMMED, Nigeria’s hot-tempered legendary leader of uncommon tenacity brutally cut short in the prime of his life by a tool he once controlled and mastered -the bindiga (Hausa for gun).

BIRTH AND EARLY DAYS

For many Nigerians, getting to know of Murtala Mohammed was from the green, crispy N20 naira note which had its face emblazoned on it and really sober stories told by parents. Many were too young to grasp what happened in 1976, and even up till this moment, many are still dazed as to what happened. It is hoped that by the time you finish reading this, Murtala Mohammed might still remain a ghost but surely not a stranger to you anymore. Born on a Tuesday, the 8th of November, 1938 in the Kurawa Quarters of Kano State to Risqua Muhammed and Uwani Ramatu, he had 7 siblings (one girl and seven boys) and he was the second child. The Alkalin Kano and Chief Kadi of the State, (Chief Judge) was his grandfather (same with his great-grandfather, Salihu Dattuwa) and he would also later get infused in Quranic education. A Hausa by tribe, he was initially referred to as Murtala Kurawa after their quarters but later took up the name we all know him by today. Murtala’s father was schooled and literate. He was trained as a veterinary inspector and served the Kano State Government in the Hides and Skin Department but later on left to start his own cattle-rearing enterprise.


EDUCATION AND SCHOOLING

-Cikin Gida Primary School

-Gidan Makama Primary School -Barewa College, Zaria (formerly Government College) – On the 26th January, 1952, he was admitted as student number 941 as the school itself was founded in 1909. He was one of the ten students from Kano and finished in 1957. One of his classmates was the late General Mohammed Shuwa shot dead at his home by gunmen in Maiduguri in November 2012. Shuwa was one of the prominent figures during the Nigerian Civil War and later a leading figure in Murtala’s government. Gowon also attended the same college.

-Regular Officers Special Training School , ROSTS (Teshie, Ghana), now Ghana Military Academy where he was taught as a 2nd Lieutenant infantry tactics and military laws by the late Odumegwu Ojukwu, a man of uncommon brilliance, in 1958. Another student of Ojukwu in Ghana was Benjamin Adekunle also known as The Black Scorpion. Both Murtala and Adekunle would later face their teacher in a bloody duel in the Nigerian Civil War. Obasanjo and Gowon also attended ROSTS. Cadets from all over West Africa then attended ROSTS for six months military training before proceeding to Sandhurst for course completion and commissioning.

-Royal Military Academy Sandhurst (RMAS): He attended RMAS, a British Army officer initial training center in a village called Sandhurst, Berkshire and about 55 kilometres from London. The academy has the Her Majesty, the Queen of England as its Colonel-in-Chief and Commander.

Catterick School of Signals, England.

-Joint Services’ Staff College, England.

LOVE, ROMANCE, MARRIAGE & FAMILY
Murtala might be a strong-headed soldier but he was an amazing family man. In 2006, his wife recollects the fond memories: At home and at work, my husband was one and the same person. His behaviour at work and home were the same. He was a firm person, upright and had a great sense of humour.

His Yoruba wife (with partly Fulani roots), Mrs. Hafsat Ajoke Muhammed said they met in 1961 while she was studying at the School of Dental Hygiene in Lagos, then he was a 2nd Lieutenant in the Army. Both of them were introduced to each other by his cousin. They fell in love, hit it off, and when they met in Kaduna later, he proposed to her and they got married in Kaduna in 1963 after her studies, the same year he became a Captain. Their marriage was a blissful and peaceful one. In 1965, the marriage was blessed with a cheeky baby girl who later attended the Queen’s College, Yaba, Lagos.

On the 22nd of January, 1966, they had their first son, Zakari. When Murtala had a hectic schedule and had to be away on official duty, she put up with him and took care of the homefront. When he was made the Head of State, Ajoke would stay awake for days, weep out of fear and anxiety, remembering the bloody coups and countercoups, knowing fully how unpredictable life in the military could be. All she could do was to pray. She resigned her job as a dental therapist and became a full-time housewife catering for their kids who were actually very young then. As at the time he was killed, his daughter, Zalihatu was just two years old.

When Murtala was killed and the news was relayed to her, she broke down and wept for her dear husband. Her shock doubled when she heard of Bisalla’s involvement and kept asking ‘Oh, even you?!‘ There was an incident after his death: She asked an ambassador as to how Murtala would be buried, and she was stunned by his response: ‘Oh, he has been buried’. She was stunned and stung at the same time that her own husband was interred in her absence.

Today, Mrs. Ajoke Muhammed is ageing gracefully, is widely respected for her charitable activities and calm demeanour (and yes, her beautiful garden at her Cooper Road residence in Ikoyi!) She does not joke with her botanical garden and she salvages plants going into extinction and plants them. Even as a First Lady, she was not unnecessarily flamboyant. (see picture). Her marriage was blessed with six children shown here with their ages when their dad died:

-AISHAT (12 years, now Mrs. Aishat Oyebode): Now a graduate of law from the Kings College, University of London. She runs an asset management company and also bagged a masters degree in Business Administration from the Imperial College, University of London. She is also the Executive Secretary of the Murtala Muhammed Foundation (MMF).

-FATIMAH (Fatimo, 9): She trained as a horticulturist and is also a qualified accountant.

-ZAKARI (1o): He later died in a shooting incident in 1994 in circumstances that are still very unclear.

-RISQUA ABBA (: The only surviving son. Got a business administration degree from the University of Lagos and later did his postgraduate programme at the University of Cardiff, United Kingdom. He was a Special Adviser to President Olusegun Obasanjo on Privatization.

-ZELIHA (Zalihatu, 2): Based in Lagos where she works for a real estate surveying company. Economics graduate from Nottingham University, United Kingdom.

-JUMAI (she was just a baby, less than a year old when her father was killed). The daughters are now married.


MILITARY CAREER
Trained as a regular combatant at Sandhurst (see picture above), he later took courses in Army Signals. He was commissioned as a 2nd lieutenant in the Nigerian Army in 1961 and became a lieutenant seven months later. In 1962, he was drafted to Congo as part of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force. Upon returning to Nigeria, he served as the aide-de-camp (ADC) to Dr. Koyejo Majekodunmi, the Western Region Administrator put in place following the declaration of a State of Emergency. He was later appointed the Officer-in-Chief, First Brigade Signal Troops, Kaduna after which he proceeded again to Catterick School of Signals for an advanced course in telecommunications. Twenty eight months after he was commissioned, he was promoted and became a captain and appointed to oversee a signals unit at the Brigade Headquarters, Kaduna.

By the end of 1964, Murtala was already a temporary Major (known as a T/Major). Thereafter, he was transferred to Apapa as the Commanding Officer, 1 Signal Squadron .Lagos then was the nation’s capital where his uncle, Alhaji Inuwa Wada later became the Minister of Defence in 1965. When the first coup was carried out in January 1966, Murtala was still in Lagos. He was stung by the coup with the loss of prominent northerners. With IBB, Abacha and the rest, he would carefully plan and launch a devastating countercoup in July of the same year which cost Aguiyi-Ironsi and many others their dear lives. But please note that Abacha was not a participant in the July 1975 coup and might have even preferred resistance.

ROLE IN THE CIVIL WAR

The Nigerian Civil War (1967-1970) lasted for thirty blood-soaked months and one of the principal actors of that sad phase of Nigerian history was Murtala. During the war, he was the General Officer Commanding (GOC) of the Nigerian Army 2nd Division. Although he flouted rules from the top and brushed aside orders from the Army Headquarters, Murtala took no atom of nonsense or disobedience from his juniors. He commanded his division with the ruthlessness and determination of an Alexander the Great and they had some spectacular victories -and some unforgettably stinging defeats in the hands of the Biafran soldiers.

It was his division that routed forces of the Biafran Army and expelled them from the Midwest Region (discussed above), and from there he moved up to cross the River Niger to join the 1st Division which was on its way to Enugu City and Nsukka. At a point during the war, 28-year-old Murtala and his men reportedly stormed Asaba, Delta State and supervised an orgy of killing of innocent civilians.

BECOMING THE HEAD OF STATE: Events & Achievements
The organogram of Murtala’s government in particular reference to his foreign policies
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This SMC was constituted later on after an initial emergency council which included Commodore Michael Adelanwa as the CNS. It was at this stage that coup plotting became really attractive for junior officers as the plotters were all rewarded with plum government appointment, raking off substantial financial gains in the process.

As evening was approaching on the 30th of July 1975, Murtala made his maiden speech to the nation as the Head of State and Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces

When he came to power, he constituted the Federal Executive Council with 25 ministerial posts, 12 of which were held by civilians even though the real power was vested in the Supreme Military Council (SMC) of which he was the Chairman. The 19 state governors were not members of the SMC, thus giving him more power to operate from the federal center. Governors did not formulate their own policies but implemented the ones Murtala sent down from the federal level. This way, Murtala’s impact was directly felt across the nation.

The federal government also took over the running of state universities and broadcasting, taking charge of the two largest newspapers published in the country. He also set up a 50-man committee to see to a new draft constitution and make plans on handing over to the civilians by October 1979. The Constitution Drafting Committee (CDC) was headed by the late Justice Rotimi Williams.

Although very brief (just a little over six months), Murtala’s time was full of events. Upon assuming power, Murtala (sorry, that flows better than referring him to Mohammed) made it abundantly clear that he would brook no nonsense. He was very decisive with issues, wasted no time and because of this and many more, he became the darling of millions of Nigerians. His country men and women were immensely happy with him and were satisfied that at long last, Nigeria now has a strong, decisive and uncompromising leader, the one with the discipline and tenacity to take them to the Promised Land.

ABUJA, THE NEW FEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY

In his characteristically decisive manner, he felt Lagos was too dirty, rowdy and crime-ridden to be the nation’s capital and set in place plans to built a new Federal Capital Territory, to be sited in the Abuja Emirate. He set up a panel headed by Justice Akinola Aguda to consider the possibility of a new capital. Few days before he was killed, on the 3rd of February 1976, he made an announcement that the Federal Capital would be moved to a ‘federal territory of about 8,000 square kilometers in the central part of the country.’

CREATION OF SEVEN NEW STATES

He set up a panel headed by Justice Ayo Irikefe on the creation of seven more states (Niger, Bauchi, Gongola, Benue, Ogun, Imo and Bendel) to the 12 existing ones on 22nd December, 1975. The panel came up with a report which was utilized in the formation of new states in 1976.

CANCELLING 1973 CENSUS: Upon becoming the Head of State, Murtala proceeded to cancel the 1973 census which was lopsided to favor the northerners, after which he adopted the 1963 figures.

PERSONAL CHARACTER

Murtala was a blunt, outspoken and consummate risk taker. A soldier who ironically had no regard for the chain of command, he was in a class of his own when it came to dangerous exploits. While planning a coup against his own Commander-in-Chief, Gowon, Murtala, then a brigadier, went to Muhammed D Yusufu, who was Gowon’s Chief Security Officer (CSO) and told him pointblank that there was a plan for a coup and he could go and reveal it to ‘anyone he liked’. That was not Murtala’s first time of announcing a coup in such a blunt manner. He did the same in July 1966 before Aguiyi-Ironsi’s government collapsed.

Murtala was an obstinate personality (alagidi sombori). When he took part in the coup that brought Gown to power in 1966, Murtala wanted the title of the Supreme Commander to himself even if that was improper and made little sense as Gowon was the Head of State. He insisted he wanted the post but seeing that the military advisors from the United States and the United Kingdom did not support him, he backed out and the ever-diplomatic Gowon compensated him by making him a Lieutenant Colonel (he was acting prior to that time) and also made the Inspector of the Army Signals Corps.

-A no-nonsense person, Murtala was known for his legendary outbursts of terrifying anger. Although many of his fans may not be aware of this especially with the passage of time, I could have easily dubbed this piece ‘Nigeria’s Angriest Leader’. However, his fire-and-brimstone part was just one side, he had his good fractions too. Apart from the earth-shaking anger, he also exhibited what some have described as arrogance and insubordination, especially to his superiors and there are many instances given to illustrate this:

WHY THE NAME ‘RAMAT’?

Ramat, the name of Murtala’s mother, is a name in Islam or Arab-speaking areas and it is a shortened form of Rahmatallah, meaning ‘the Mercy of God’. A very beautiful name I must say. When the BBC first announced Murtala’s coming to power, they stated his name as Murtala ‘Rufai’ Mohammed but 24 hours later, it was changed to Murtala Ramat Muhammed. When he died, he left behind many relatives, including his mother, Hajia Ramatu, his uncle Alhaji Inuwa Wada (Magajin Gari Kano) , wife and children.


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There are countless websites offering free Yoruba lessons, you may want to check them out.

Emusan: How can I learn yoruba pls?

What is 450 in Yorùbá? You dey squeeze face? Okay, what of 52? One million? If you pose that kain question to many Yorùbás, the answer you get is a head-scratching smile, a dazed look with rolling eyes or a funny 'Saka don port' lip twitch...lol Some will make attempts and try in vain to remember what their Yorùbá class teacher taught them back in the primary school. Well, the numbering is actually very easy and today, we will be taking a look at it together. I hope you have fun with it, you may try out some numbers on your own to see if you are correct.

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Numbering more than 40 million, the Yorùbá people are found mainly in southwestern Nigeria. They are also found in Benin Republic, Togo, Ghana, Ivory Coast (Cote d'Ivoire) and all over the globe. Yorùbás have a highly-developed language, the Yorùbá language which has been classified under the Niger-Congo family of languages, making it closely related to Itsekiri and Igala (other languages in the family are Igbo, Jukun, Swahili, Wolof and Efik). As it is with other civilizations across the globe, theYorùbás developed a system of naming numerals, said to be based on counting cowries, fingers and toes. The system is quite easy and straightforward.

According to Olu Lounge, the Yorubas have an elaborate vigesimal (base-20) numeral system which makes use of addition, subtraction and multiplication. Other languages using the vigesimal (with 20 as the block unit) numeral system include Dzongkha (national language in Bhutan), Ainu (Japan), French, Mayas, Aztecs, Danish, Welsh, Scottish Gaelic, Georgian and has also found historical use in England where the old British currency system involved 20 shillings and 240 pence or usage in literature e.g three scores and seven.

As outlined in the book, The History of the Yorubas (From the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the British Protectorate) by Reverend Samuel Johnson (1897), the numerals are Cardinal and Ordinal or Serial and based on the system, we can have three groupings: Simple Enumeration, Quantitative (or Numeral Adjectives) and Numismatics (for money and currencies). Now, let's take a stroll through the simple enumeration but before then, please note:

'Di' means 'less than' or 'subtracted from'. For example, if ogota is 60, 55, will be 'five (arun) subtracted from 60'. Thus, 55 will be 'arunDIlogota.' On the other hand, 'le' means 'more than' or 'added to'. For instance, 54 will be 50 (adọta) + (le) merin (four) using the quantitative or numeral adjectives or in simple enumeration (Ẹrinleladọta). 'Lona or ona' is used for multiplication. Summary: ‘ó lé’ for addition,‘ó dín’for subtraction and ‘onà’ for multiplication.

To use the quantitative or numeral adjectives, all you need to do is to add 'm' to the number. For example, arun (five) will become 'marun' while okanla (11) becomes 'mokanla'. Some special numbers like 1, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900, 1,000, 2,000, 3,000 etc in that order are exceptions as they remain unchanged without the 'm'. And 'Lá' e.g in mejila is a contraction of 'lé mẹ̀wá' meaning 'and ten'.

OUTLINE:
1-100
200-900
1,000-20,000
FOR HIGHER NUMBERS: 20,000 and above
200,000- 10 MILLION
100 MILLION TO ONE TRILLION
ORDINALS (Ordinal Numbers)
ADVERBS OF NUMBER
ADVERBS OF TIME
REFERENCES

Now, let's roll!

1-100

NB: The other names are alternative spellings.

1-Ení or ọ̀kan (for numismatics or currencies like cowries or coins).
2-È jì or Eéji (for numismatics or currencies like cowries or coins).
3-Ẹta or ẹẹ́ta (for numismatics or currencies like cowries or coins, same pattern till 19).
4-Ẹrin, ẹ̀rin or ẹẹ́rin
5-Àrún or aárùn
6-Ẹfà or ẹẹ́fà
7-Èje or eéje
8-Ẹjọ, ẹ̀jọ or ẹẹ́jọ
9-Ẹsan, ẹ̀sán or ẹẹ́sàn
10-Ẹwa,ẹ̀wá or ẹẹ́wà
11-Ọkanla, ọ̀kanlá, oókànlá
12-Ejila, èjìlá, eéjìlá
13-Ẹtala, ẹ̀talá, ẹẹ́talá
14-Ẹrinla, ẹ̀rinlá, ẹẹ́rìnlá
15-Ẹdogun (Ẹedogun, ẹ́ẹdógún)
16-Ẹrindinlogun, ẹẹ́rìndílógún
17-Ẹtadinlogun, eétàdílógún
18-Ejindinlogun, eéjìdílógún
19-Ọkandinlogun, oókàndílógún
20-Ogun, ogún, okòó or Okowo (ọkẹ owo for numismatics or currencies like cowries or coins).
21-Ọkanlelogun
22-Ejilelogun
23-Ẹtalelogun
24-Ẹrinlelogun
25-Ẹdọgbọn, ẹ́ẹdọ́gbọ̀n
26-Ẹrindinlọgbọn
27-Ẹtadinlọgbọn
28-Ejidinlọgbọn
29-Ọkandinlọgbọn
30-Ọgbọn, ọgbọ̀n, ọɡbọ̀n ǒ or Ọgbọnwo (Ọgbọn owo for numismatics or currencies like cowries or coins )
31-Ọkanlelọgbọn
32-Ejilelọgbọn
33-Ẹtalelọgbọn
34-Ẹrinlelọgbọn
35-Arundinlogoji, aárùndílogójì
36-Ẹrindinlogoji
37-Ẹtadinlogoji
38-Ejidinlogoji
39-Ọkandinlogoji
40-Ogoji, ogójì, ojì (Ooji, Ogun meji, two twenties)
41-Ọkanlelogoji
42-Ejilelogoji
43-Ẹtalelogoji
44-Ẹrinlelogoji
45-Arundinladọta
46-Ẹrindinladọta
47-Ẹtadinladọta
48-Ejidinladọta
49-Ọkandinladọta
50-Adọta (aadọta), àádọ́ta
51-Ọkanleladọta
52-Ejileladọta
53-Ẹtaleladọta
54-Ẹrinleladọta
55-Arundinlọgọta
56-Ẹrindinlọgọta
57-Ẹtadinlọgọta
58-Ejidinlọgọta
59-Ọkandinlọgọta
60-Ọgọta, ọgọ́ta, ọta (ogun mẹta, three twenties)
61-Ọkanlelọgọta
62-Ejilelọgọta
63-Ẹtalelọgọta
64-Ẹrinlelọgọta
65-Arundiladọrin
70-Adọrin (Aadọrin), àádọ́rin
71-Ọkanleladọrin
72-Ejileladọrin
73-Ẹtaleladọrin
74-Ẹrinleladọrin
75-Arundilọgọrin
76-Ẹrindilọgọrin
77-Ẹtadilọgọrin
78-Ejidilọgọrin
79-Ọkandilọgọrin
80-Ọgọrin (Ogun mẹrin, four twenties), ọgọ́rin, ọrin
81-Ọkanlelọgọrin
82-Ejilelọgọrin
83-Ẹtalelọgọrin
84-Ẹrinlelọgọrin
85-Arundiladọrun
86-Ẹrindiladọrun
87-Ẹtadiladọrun
88-Ejidiladọrun
89-Ọkandiladọrun
90-Adọrun (Aadọrun), àádọ́rùn
91-Ọkanleladọrun
92-Ejileladọrun
93-Ẹtaleladọrun
94-Ẹrinleladọrun
95-Arundilọgọrun
96-Ẹrindilọgọrun
97-Ẹtadilọgọrun
98-Ejidilọgọrun
99-Ọkandilọgọrun
100-Ọgọrun (ogun marun, five twenties), ọgọ́rùn, ọrún

KINDLY FOLLOW THE LINK ABOVE FOR THE REST (200-900, 1,000-20,000, 20,000 and above, 200,000- 10 MILLION, 100 MILLION TO ONE TRILLION, ORDINALS (Ordinal Numbers), ADVERBS OF NUMBER and ADVERBS OF TIME).

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Thanks for pointing that out, Sir.

Femsyn: No hate. Just a point to note.
Exchange rate in 1978 was 0.606 to a dollar. This means Aliko was "loaned" an equivalent of $825,082, which is N123,762,376 (over 123 million naira) in today's economy at say N150 to a dollar.

EXACTLY! You get the real gist!

Oluwa D: The moral of his bio/story is that you can achieve any and every if you are determined and have a goal you set for yourself and you have to be focus. It doesn't matter how much of a help one gets or support,if you don't keep moving forward, trust me you can't get any where in life.

And where did I state that his marital life was exemplary? You make of the post whatever you want o. Freedom of thought and its expression. Dele Momodu and Ayefele? No, it is King Sunny Ade and Ebenezer Obey

Frankie9ice: ...a serial monogamist indeed! The dude has bin married to at least 4 women in 36-37yrs and figures that is exemplary?
Any average Nigerian who has no scruples bin a 'yes-man' to every government of d day wud do well for himself like Aliko has done. Bottom line,if truth be told 'paddy-paddy governments' (God bless Fela Anikulapo Kuti) is what made Aliko Dangote.
Lastly,....isn't a praise-singer in d mold of Dele Momodu and Yinka Ayefele? D whole tin just tire me abeg?

All stories are biased. It is the bias that makes a story.

BabeOnIdeas: The story is a bit biased. I see that major timelines dnt balance especially in the area of his love life...Even though Dangote is impressive, im not so impressed from the storytellers perspective.

jsh_eng:

because you are still single and searching!!!

You mean $6,666? Come on!

frederal: I thought d something we didn't know about him, is that he has given u 1m naira.

Same person. No competition. Name changed, is now Iyaniwura. Thanks.

oladayo042: Is now competing with Iyaniwura?

braxjay: [size=15pt]chei money good o . c as u settle down dey write about somebody

O GOD ! may people settle down to narrate my success IJN [/size]

GBAM!

nabiz: dangote knows the rules. he watches the nigeria political trend. he stays calm, neutral, never insult any governmt or oppostion, analyses nigeerian political ball, knows where the ball is rolling , sport it and secretly finace it, become a friend to the governmet. OFF-CAUSE YOU KNOW WHAT A FRIEND CAN DO FOR A FRIEND

I am quoting Dangote himself. We are talking of N500,000 in today's terms.

A-town:
@ OP

Correct the erroneous info up there juh.
If he got a loan of 500, 000 naira in 1978, how does that equate to 3,000 dollars. In 1978, 500, 000 naira was more like 825, 000 dollars and that was a lot of kishi. Heck in 2013, 825k dollars is still a s.hit load of money.

No, you failed to read it. Simple...lol!

venatus25: you fail to gist us how him and obasanjor de still our money in those days

Take your time to read! The plane crash story is there.

donsteady:
Why dint you write anything about the plane crash, come complete your story jor

Thanks for your time, I can relate with that joor

candygosh: I never read it all. Only the relationship part

Obviously, you didn't bother to read it. You just decided to reel of your pre-conceived conclusions about the man. No lele na, freedom of expression

Fadelex: Na today?? No one can make such without d help of govt. All of them thief our money come dey form hardwork....
@op, u forgot to add these
* dangote has always been a friend of every govt. Since 1983
* he got d sole licence to import rice during OBJ's tenure
* he is a PDP member.... He donated #1billion during d lauching of PDP headquarters
* he didn't explain how he made his first #1million

I respect him bt he didn't impress me.... Any right thinking person would av suceed in his shoe giving the opportunity he has

Everything is there, follow the link for full gist

venatus25: you fail to gist us how him and obasanjor de still our money in those days

Donroxy, it would not have been possible without you!!! Thanks for your wonderful and inspirational support, it means a lot to me! 77 gbosas for you! Let's go there jorrr!

donroxy: Kudos ........ The journey to .com is quite full of fun ........!!!

Kudos to you......am happy ''I don Port ooo'' !!!

A Nigerian or Nigeria?

Nwa_Nimo: A Nigerian free of corruption is impossible!

ALIKO MOHAMMED DANGOTE, World's Richest Black.

DEDICATION: This piece is written for and dedicated to all hardworking men and women across the globe. Those who toil day and night with the hope that tomorrow will be better than yesterday, those who fast today so that they can have their fill tomorrow, those who labour on in the face of the incredible hardships of life, those who struggle relentlessly despite the greatest travails and challenges thrown at them, those who manage to have a cheerful smile on a face full of sweat and tears, it is to those, dedicates this.

''Aliko Dangote deserves more honours than those of us holding political offices'.
-GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN, Nigerian President.

‘I am close to the people in power because I am one of the big businessmen in Nigeria. If we have the wrong people there, then all the money I have is useless. I do not want Nigeria to become another Zimbabwe so I am concerned about the political direction of my country, because if bad and inexperienced politicians control power in Nigeria, my wealth may turn into poverty and I am not ready to become a poor man.’ -ALIKO DANGOTE.

See link for full details and more scintillating pictures: http://.com/aliko-mohammed-dangote-worlds-richest-black/


A prodigiously wealthy and luxuriantly blessed human, Aliko Dangote said that it took him 30 tortuous years to become a billionaire but youths of today want to become a gazillionaire faster than Usain Bolt. Many Nigerian youths are bitter (like bitterness will make one better), pointing accusing fingers at people like Dangote, Adenuga and generally seeing nothing good in what others do, believing the world is against them. For those, I leave you with the immutable words of JK Rowling, writer of the Harry Potter series: “There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel, responsibility lies with you.” That is not all. The legendary French writer and philosopher who rejected the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1964, Jean-Paul Sartre also said: “Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. It is up to you to give life a meaning.” But perhaps, the most poignant advice of all is from the Wise One of China, Confucius, who stated thousands of years ago: “Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.”

In a nation like Nigeria where there is so much negativity emanating right from independence till date, Aliko Mohammad Dangote, the Kano-born billionaire with the Midas touch is a man who must be appreciated and celebrated -for good reasons.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
-NAPOLEON HILL (1883-1970), American speaker and motivational speaker.

OVERVIEW
-ANCESTRY
-EARLY DAYS & GROWING UP/FAMILY
-SCHOOLING
-LOVE, HEARTBREAKS, CHILDREN, MARRIAGE & DIVORCES
-HOW HE STARTED
-ROMANCING POLITICIANS AND SUPPORTING GOVERNMENTS
-BECOMING A BILLIONAIRE
-THE PLANE CRASHES AND NEAR PLANE CRASH
-THE SECRETS OF DANGOTE'S SUCCESS
-INTERESTING AND FUN THINGS ABOUT DANGOTE
-CRITICISM
-THE DANGOTE GROUP
-APPOINTMENTS, AWARDS, LAURELS & HONOURS
-DANGOTE'S DONATIONS AND PHILANTHROPY
-REFERENCES

ANCESTRY
Young Aliko was born in the ancient city of Kano of the famed groundnut pyramids. Kano has been a commercial center for centuries with it being a focal point for all kinds of economic activities ranging from the sale of slaves in exchange for salt to the trade in spices, kolanuts, leather, cotton, sugar and gold. Alhassan Abdullahi Dantata (named for Tata, the nurse who raised him, Dantata means 'the son of Tata') was his maternal great grandfather and he also learnt the art of business and making money from his own father.

By 1913, he was the largest exporter of kolanuts in West Africa. The coming of the colonial masters with the railway was too good an opportunity for him as he took advantage of the rails to move his kolanuts along the Lagos-Kano route. With time, he became the sole distributor for the Lever Brothers (later Unilever) and add the profits of the groundnut boom, he was already super-rich, the richest in Nigeria, and by 1955 when he died, he was clearly the richest in West Africa.

The children of the late polygamous merchant swore to an oath by the Holy Qu'ran with their father on the deathbed to work together and not split the family's business empire. Till today, the Dantatas run things in Nigeria -without any noise. Groundnut trader, Sanusi Alhassan Dantata, Nigeria's first millionaire, was the eldest of the siblings and was the overseer of the family's business activities.

Dangote grew up in the loving care of his maternal grandfather, Sanusi who took Aliko, his first grandson, into his care after the untimely death of his father. Sanusi transformed the family business even beyond the wildest dreams of their late dad. This grand old rich man died in 1997, and left many children, one of whom is Mariya, his eldest daughter and Umm Aliko (the mother of Aliko).

Rewind back to the 1950s and we meet a man named Mohammed Dangote, a businessman, fellow Qadirriya sect member and ally of Sanusi Dantata. This man would later ko-enu-ife-si ('toast') Mariya, the daughter of his friend, through her father and his business associate, Sanusi Dantata. Mohammed Dangote dabbled into politics and was even a Member, Northern House of Assembly and belonged to the Northern People's Congress (NPC) of the Sardauna of Sokoto, Sir Ahmadu Bello. By the mid-50s, the two lovebirds were joined together in holy matrimony in Kano. That was the fusing point of the Dantatas and the Dangotes.

EARLY DAYS & GROWING UP
On the 10th of April, 1957, a bouncing baby boy weighing just a little above three kilogrammes was born in Kano. The radiant mother was Mariya and the small baby boy of that day is the reason you are reading this. A week after, he was named after his father while his overjoyed grandfather, Sanusi Dantata gave him the name 'Aliko' which means 'The Victorious One Who Defends Humanity'.

FAMILY

From his own mother’s side, Dangote has three siblings: Sani, Bello and a younger brother who died in an air crash in Kano with Ibrahim Abacha in 1996 (read more about the plane crash here: http://.com/sani-abacha-nigerias-most-enigmatic-ruler/). Dangote’s mother, who became a widow in 1965 is still very much alive, was honoured with a degree by the Bayero University, Kano (BUK), runs one of the largest charities in Nigeria but is protected from the public eye. When Dangote bought his recreational boat, he named it after his (Mother), calling it Mariya.

SCHOOLING

For someone who grew up in Kano, a city of knowledge, it was no surprise that Dangote took to educating himself. Like many of his peers growing up under the great influence of Islamic scholars of the old city, he took off to one of the oldest universities on earth, Al Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt.

-1964: Kano Capital Elementary School (during break time in the high-brow primary school with other schoolkids who wanted sweets, Aliko would bring out a handful and told his jolly good friends that they could have one for a dime. He was that sharp.)

-1964: Sheikh Ali Kumasi Madrasa (Arabic School): He attended the Quranic school when he returned from the primary school, a pattern that is common with many Nigerian Muslims.

-1970s: Capital High School, Kano.

-1970s: School of Economics & Business, Al Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt, where he bagged a degree in business studies and administration. In addition to all these forms of formal education, he also got a great deal of informal education from his grandfather, which he makes use of till this day. Hear him: ‘All my business acumen and instincts I inherited from my maternal grandfather. As his first grandson, he poured his business wizardry into me. I would not have been where I am today without him; a very great man, loving and caring.’

LOVE, HEARTBREAKS, CHILDREN, MARRIAGE & DIVORCES

In any continent of the world, there are some ladies who would dump their wretched husbands in a microsecond and follow a moneybag like billionaire Dangote without hesitation. The poor husband will only console himself with Chief Ebenezer Obey’s Sisi kojale, a lo ba millionaire lo…lol! Handsome, dashing, calm and stupendously wealthy, it is no surprise that not a few women cannot resist the charm of Dangote. Like other men on earth, he also has his own share of the romantic sagas and Cupid-induced high blood pressure..lol. A serial monogamist, Aliko Dangote has 15 children even though three from his current marriage (Halima, Fatima and Sadia) are officially listed. His children include:

HALIMA (F)
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-ZAYNAB (F) -named for her mum.


-SALMA (F) (meaning peace).

-FATIMA (F)
[img]http://.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/2-ALIKO-DANGOTE-DAUGHTER.jpg[/img]

-AISHA (F)

-SADIA (F)

Alhaji Aliko Dangote has been married and divorced three times before his current marriage. He was not engaged in polygamy at any point but took one wife at a time. In May 1977, his family selected his first wife for him and the union was consummated without delay. Aliko had just turned 20. Fast forward to 2009, Dangote fell in love with the young daughter of the late Nigerian President, Nafisat Yar’adua (now the wife of the Bauchi State Governor, Alhaji Isa Yuguda). Nafisat turned down Dangote’s advances for one reason: she was friends with Halima, Dangote’s daughter. Nafisat, at the age of 21, became Governor Yuguda’s fourth wife in 2009.


Like any other man, his ego was hurt. You will get a better picture of the scenario when you realize the fact that one of the former wives of Dangote (Hajia Mariya A.D Rufai, see below) was married to Governor Yuguda (although he later divorced her in June 2010 after 10 years of marriage over irreconcilable differences but some of the reasons alluded to was that she was absent at President Yar’adua’s (Yuguda’s in-law) burial, allegedly leaking sensitive state secrets to Alhaji Yayale Ahmed, then Secretary to the Federal Government and the final straw that enraged the Governor was the fact that she congratulated Alhaji Bala Mohammed, the new minister of the Federal Capital Territory, who was a bitter enemy of the Governor who was desperate to get a second term and felt he could spoil his chances). But calmly and gracefully, Dangote took all life threw at him and when you see his charming and disarming smiles, you’d never guess he was once heartbroken.

After he divorced his first wife that his family got for him, he married Mariya A. D Muhammad Rufai, a Senator’s daughter and former Bauchi State Commissioner for Women Affairs and Human Services (see pictures). After he divorced her, he married two other women but the marriages collapsed.

Some other women have also been romantically linked to the billionaire. These include the Director and Secretary of his United Kingdom subsidiary, Dangote Global Services, Miss Oluwatosin Coker while another is the late Ondo-born business executive, sugar merchant and reverend with the Redeemed Christian Church of God, Rev. Chief (Mrs.) Josephine Oluwadamilola Kuteyi, with whom he dragged the purchase of the Bacita Sugar Factory. A divorcee mother of four sons (Saheed, Ganiyu, Ahmed and Rasaq), she died in a helicopter crash in Osun State in 2011 while on her way to her Bacita sugar company in Kwara State. The helicopter plunged from a height of 2,500 feet, killing all the occupants.

HOW HE STARTED
When he left for Lagos as a 20-year-old in 1977, Nigeria was enjoying stupendous oil profits and the military government of the day decided to ruin some of it on FESTAC’77. There was massive construction going on in various parts of the country and it was at that moment Dangote went to his beloved grandfather to ask for a loan so he could import cement which will be used for some of the FESTAC buildings. He narrates: ‘For me, I started small as a trader in cement. Then I left cement around 1978. Because there was this armada and cement was difficult to get at that time. I had my own money which my grandfather gave me free, but then he gave me also an additional loan of N500,000 (about $3,000) which was big money in those days. At that time (1978), you could purchase ten Mercedes Benz cars with that amount as each was sold for N5,000 while a Volkswagen Beetle went for N900 to N1,000. The money was quite a substantial amount then. The loan was supposed to be paid back whenever I was okay-maybe after three or four years. But I paid the loan back within six months.’

The real genius of Dangote is his ability to transform that seed money of yesterday into the billions of dollars today. The crux of the matter here is not that he got a helping hand from his rich grandfather but what he did with the assistance.

Throughout the Obasanjo regime down to Shagari, Buhari and IBB, there were vast construction projects: estates, federal universities (like UNILORIN) and so on. And cement was obviously needed. Obasanjo and Dangote, who was still working with his uncle, first met in the 1970s when he was the federal commissioner (minister) of transport. Also, while he was in Lagos, he learnt a lot from his uncle, Usman who had already formed solid ties with the military governments and got rice importation deals in 1970 at the end of the 30-month Nigerian Civil War. When their fellow Kano man, the late Murtala Mohammed came to power, his 27-year-old uncle was one of those contracted to decongest the Nigerian seaports in Lagos and made huge fortunes. With time, Aliko was brought on board, following them to business meetings in the dead of the night. It was during this time in Lagos he began to learn how to speak the Yoruba language.

While working with his uncle in Lagos, ‘squatting in his office’, he learnt a lot. He said of those times: ‘I started with the business of cement, which was giving us a lot of money because at that time, Nigeria was making so much money and we were doing a lot of constructions. On a vehicle which I normally get from my uncle, I was making about N1,350 to N1,400 per day, and I had an allocation of about 3-4 trucks including Saturdays and Sundays. Later , I realized I was making a lot of money though then I didn’t have a lot of ideas of what to do. It was only cement business that I knew and I was stuck to it up till 1980, when I started knowing Lagos, becoming a Lagosian, understanding where to go and finding people to buy import licenses from. Within three months, I paid my grandfather back because I had no further need of his money.’

BECOMING A BILLIONAIRE
It took Dangote three decades to amass one billion US dollars. His journey is a very interesting one, showing all the features of luck, opportunity, hardwork and divine providence. Under the Shagari regime, there was an unprecedented importation of essential commodities and products. Dangote’s company, then named Alco Company was one of the major importers. He also supplied huge tonnage of cement to the governments at different levels embarking on construction of vast housing projects.
When the Shagari government decided to also pay more attention to the construction of Abuja, the proposed new Federal Capital Territory, Dangote’s cement was also on point. When General Muhammadu Buhari came to power in 1983, he clamped down on all the importation and dirty deals of the Shagari regime.

Businessmen and tycoons like Dangote were not too happy with the new draconian regime but he played it calm and quickly adapted. If you cannot adapt to changes in this world and keep blaming all kinds of external forces, your chances of survival are seriously limited. Being the smart dude that he is, while other businessmen were complaining and groaning under the iron fists of Buhari and Idiagbon, his Ilorin-born no-nonsense deputy, Dangote veered and formed Dangote General Textiles Products Enterprises and focused on what the government of the day wanted: exportation of local products such as gum arabic, cotton, millet, cocoa, leather products, cotton and cashew nuts.

Amazing Quotes from Dangote:

‘I don’t like to boast, but let me tell you something. I was born into money. Both my father’s -from my mother’s side and also from father’s side -they have always had money. So, it’s not that I just came and picked up something from this thing. But it does not mean also in the family that everybody would be rich. I don’t know any of my family members -both from my mother’s side and my father’s side -that has ever had a deal with anybody in the government.’ (Not many people agree with this assertion).

How can agro-industrial businesses modernise?

Aliko Dangote: There is no way you can develop agriculture at 20% interest rates anywhere, even if you grow gold. So the government needs to bring interest rates down to single-digit figures for farmers….you also have to develop storage and give people guaranteed pricing. If there is no guaranteed pricing, you are not encouraging the farmer to grow. …..Dangote is trying to produce 700,000 tonnes of sugar annually over the next four years. We may employ at least 45,000 people to reach this target. That is the only way to create jobs.

-In 1978, before I started making money, the first car I bought was a Mercedes 200 for N5,100, and that time, there was no power steering (general laughter). -While giving a motivational lecture at the Pan African University, Lagos Business School (LBS).

SPECIAL THANKS TO THE MODS FOR HELPING OUT WITH UPLOADING MORE OF THE DETAILS! THANK YOU!

Thanks for providing the name of her hometown. I've been searching for that

wise_many2k: Congrats to her....I was at the church service in Dec after she came to meet her ppl in Akwete-Ndoki, Ukwa east and thank GOD in church before donating a Toyota Coaster bus for evangelism. I'm proud of my [size=25pt]NDOKI AUNTY[/size]

You may want to read about the late Captain Hadiza Lantana Oboh here: http://nationalmirroronline.net/new/how-domestic-workers-killed-oboh-female-pilot/

Fidtad: She is not d first female pilot. D 1st was murdered by her house help 6 to 7yrs ago though she is an igbo too.

Sure! Working on more! Thank you!

angel TI: , tanks for d piece. expectn more!

CHINYERE KALU, Nigeria's First Female Pilot

You might have probably noticed this if you are a Nigerian: Stuck in heavy traffic somewhere along Adeniji Adele Interchange towards Oworonshoki/Toll Gate, late for work, horns are honking like mad and drivers are already having hypertension behind the wheels. Then suddenly, the whole logjam eases and at the center of the delay was an elegant Nigerian woman decked in colourful ankara and gele tapanpa (damask-like headgear) and irresistible make-up in her posh 2013 Nissan Armada. The traffic flows and you hear the male drivers sneering derisively: 'Abalajo, obinrin ni (no wonder, the driver is a lady.') LOL! Yeah, some Nigerian men talk like they've been driving from the womb and females can never be good on the road. Hey, chill out dude, this is not Saudi Arabia! Today, I am writing on the female Amazons and the real birds of Nigeria: women who have not just conquered the four-wheeled vehicles, but have taken to ruling the skies where many male drivers turn jelly. And yes, I start with the very first of them all: CAPTAIN (MRS.) CHINYERE KALU, Member of the Order of the Federal Republic and the Ada Ugo I (Daughter of an Eagle) of Abia State.

Read all here and enjoy more pictures of other female pilots: http://.com/chinyere-kalu-nigerias-first-female-pilot/

OVERVIEW:
-ORIGIN/FAMILY
-TRAINING
-MOTIVATION
-FLYING EXPERIENCE & AIR CRASH
-CHALLENGES
-TIME AND ACHIEVEMENTS AT NCAT
-MEMBERSHIP/HONOURS & AWARDS
-WHAT SHE HAS TO TELL YOU[/b]


ORIGIN/FAMILY
Captain Chinyere Kalu, MFR hails from Ukwa East (Abia State) is married to Mr. Kalu Okoli which makes her a citizen of Ohafia Local Government (also Abia) by marriage. Their marriage is blessed with three wonderful children: two daughters (now in the United States where one is pursuing her doctorate degree and the other, her masters) and a son. She did not grow up with her dad (parents had separated) so that explains the great degree of female influence over her. None of her kids have decided to be a pilot and many of the m remain unconvinced about her career until October 2011 when President Goodluck Jonathan appointed her the Rector and Chief Executive of Nigerian College of Aviation Technology (NCAT) (formerly Nigerian Civil Aviation Training Center), the largest aviation training institute in Africa surpassing even those of South Africa. Prior to that, she was the Head of the College's Flying School as an instructor on contract agreement.

TRAINING
Upon deciding she wanted to be a pilot, she got tremendous support from her family and no one was opposed to her move. She narrated that a major source of motivation for her was her aunt, her mum's elder sister (who had a lot of influence in the family) who was a celebrity in the village for being the first person to travel to the United Kingdom (obodo Oyinbo thins..lol). Her aunt was well-travelled and saw nothing wrong in her dream, and once she gave her stamp of approval as the matriarch of the house, everyone else followed suit and she began her journey into the adventurous world of pilots, the real birds. She said of her aunt: When I mentioned the idea of flying, she welcomed the idea having been the first person in my village to go to UK. She did nursing; she was a trail blazer so to speak. And having been that exposed she just felt, this is your opportunity don’t even look back, just make the most of it, grab it. Later, while in Lagos, she saw an NCAT advert in the newspaper, she applied, had rigorous interviews and was offered an admission slot. On the 20th of May, 1981, as Miss Chinyere Onyenucheya, she received her commercial pilot's license. A passionate lover of knowledge and education, the following is an overview of her education and training:

-Anglican Girls Grammar School, Yaba, Lagos (primary education also in Lagos).
-Trained as Private and Commercial Pilot, SP.12 Batch, NCAT, Zaria (1978)
-Air Transport Pilot License (ATPL) Course, Bolivia Aviation, Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
-Aircraft Accident Investigation and Prevention Course, Federal Aviation Administration, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA.
-Flight Instructor's Rating, Civil Aviation Authority, Oxford, United Kingdom.
-Commercial Pilot License (CPL/IR), NCAT, Zaria
-Postgraduate Diploma, Transport Management and Logistics, Nigerian Institute of Transport Technology (NITT), Zaria.
-Airborne Collision Avoidance/T-CAS Training for Air Traffic Controllers Course.
-Pilots Human Performance and Limitations/Crew Resources Management/Human Factors Course.

MOTIVATION
When asked what motivated her into the risky career path of flying full of testosterone-driven men, she said: Well, I will say that the motivating factor is just an adventurous spirit, to venture out to see what is out there. I felt flying will be challenging and I didn’t want to do what everyone else was doing at the time. I wanted something unique, something special, something challenging, something that I feel will be fulfilling. So, that is what led me into flying. I also thought it will be a good opportunity to travel all over the world and being paid for it. Can you imagine that? So those are the motivating factors. (Follow link above to read the rest, thank you!)