Always uncouth, boastful and abusing peoples parents on live shows.
Indeed, you know "Freeze" well. That's the volatile part of Ifedayo "Freeze" that I don't like too. BUT he sometimes comes around to apologize when he realizes his errors. You know "Freeze" grew up partly in Ibadan which is a republican Yoruba city of warrior descendants, and according to him, Ibadan peeps are known to verbally give it back to you when they think you've crossed the line. The 6-footer needs some anger management therapy though, BUT when he's in his good elements, he's always an amiable guy and sound conversationalist.
"Creativity"... Yeah! I'll have to go check him up on YouTube or IG to see some of his twerking video moves. I can just imagine the masculine "Bakassi violence" right now.
Nigerians have indeed been registering themselves relentlessly into the different categories of Guinness World Records within the last 10 years! How come this wasn't in the news and on the NL front page which I visit at least once daily because of news reports. Kafee the Lagos-born dancer and choreographer ALSO won a Guinness World Record in a dance category years ago. You're indeed up-to-date on some of the goings on in the entertainment space. I appreciate your sharing this with us or I would NEVER have known about it.
When we "work smart" every work week, we also have to get creative and "play hard and smart." I can't stand a rigid lifestyle WITHOUT stimulating adventure, cuisines and leisure travels. There's NO virtue in poverty and the duality of life (hot and cold, male and female, good and bad, day and night, etc) and existence emphasizes "balance," so I disagree with those who think creativity is NOT needed here. That's just boring as life shouldn't be taken too seriously tbh.
Guinness World Record holder and food influencer, Hilda Baci has taken delivery of the massive pot for her recording breaking event.
Recall that she's set to cook the world’s biggest pot of jollof rice.
The massive red pot, which has a volume of 22,619 litres, was fabricated in Gbagada and was transported overnight to Eko Hotel in Lagos, the venue of the event.
Videos show the pot branded with Gino being delivered under tight supervision.
Hilda confirmed its arrival, saying: “At 4am this morning our pot was safely transported from Gbagada where it was fabricated to Eko Hotel where the event is taking place. I’m still pinching myself this is actually happening in less than 24 hours.”
The massive red pot, which has a volume of 22,619 litres, was fabricated in Gbagada and was transported overnight to Eko Hotel in Lagos, the venue of the event.
Videos show the pot branded with Gino being delivered under tight supervision.
Those with LIMITING beliefs will think it's not doable... BUT it is. We'll see how things pan out with her massive pot and "smokey party jollof."
Lanruze: That funny dude Daddy Freeze will not stop boasting of this third world EU country with the aggregation of the "Gypsy" because his mother is a romanian.
Cover face Baba freeze hope you can see your country according to Prof.
@Lanruze,
Cut Ifedayo "Freeze" Olarinde some slack here... Some parts of your post got me cracking up. I follow "Freeze" on IG so we'll see what he's gonna say about this robbery in the country where he was born in 1976 while his brilliant father was in Romania for his medical studies.
Since the great nonagenarian and 1986 Nobel Laureate, Prof. 'Wole Soyinka has returned safely to Nigeria from Romania under highly surreal circumstances, I propose that "Freeze" and his brilliant Romanian lawyer mother (who works for another great nonagenarian Aare Afe Babalola) pay homage to the Godfather over this incident to douse tensed nerves.
Tbh, most of those former East European countries are still reeling a bit from the social and economic shocks emanating from the vestiges of Communist rule despite the gains of immersion in the global free market economy.
mightyrock: Late Prof Akuyili was once robbed in London when she was a minister of health, later her bag was recovered by police and handed over to her. Theft and pick pockets are rampant across Europe. BBC, Sky News won't carry the news except terrorist news
You're absolutely right.
There are dark spots in many European and North American countries you should be aware of when travelling internationally.
Recently, a Ukrainian girl was killed on a metro train in NY and it was captured in real time on monitors. It's sad that her fam arrived from Ukraine ONLY for her to get stabbed in the United States which was supposedly safer.
kpankpangolo: Many of these countries are no different from Nigeria. Avoid Bulgaria, Russia, Romania and Poland. Poverty stricken Caucasian nations. Many of their citizens can outsmart the most cunning of Nigerians. Their tricks stem from trying to escape poverty.
Absolutely well said.
Those are the former East European countries went through challenging economic times times during Communist rule. Even with multiparty politics, they have all had to struggle to get into the free market economy space and complete with the rest of the world. Some of their citizens are very brilliant though in terms of academics and more which is good for innovation.
DiamondsAreFore: Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, has given a detailed account of how he was abducted and robbed in Bucharest, Romania, when he visited that country recently to attend the Sibiu International Theatre Festival, FITS, one of the world’s largest theatre festivals.
Soyinka made this known in an exclusive interview with TheNEWS/ on Tuesday, September 9 in Lagos.
At that fiesta, which Soyinka attended on the invitation of the President of General Assembly of UNESCO, Amb. Simona-Mirela Miculescu, he, as the Guest of Honour, was to receive a star on the Walk of Fame award.
But, no sooner had he landed in Bucharest at 12:10 am in high spirits, in anticipation of the festival where he was to be honoured and feted by fellow writers than things turned awry.
Soyinka said he and the party which was supposed to pick him missed each other at the airport.
“I was to stay overnight in Bucharest and then take a five-mile drive to Sibiu. And so we missed each other somehow. As the airport was emptying, I headed for the taxi ride,” Soyinka said.
He then took an official taxi to Novotel, a hotel in Bucharest, where he was supposed to spend the night before leaving for Sibiu, venue of the festival the next morning.
But instead the driver, who apparently belonged to a criminal gang, took Soyinka to a dingy place devoid of humans, where he robbed him through a POS machine, after forcing him to reveal his PIN.
“So I got into the taxi and the man drove and drove and finally we got to a spot. It was now close to 1 o’clock in the dead of the night. And I thought we were in the hotel. Then he brought out his POS. A conversation took place (I narrate all of that in the book).
“Anyway, the bottom line is that I was in effect abducted, robbed and deposited in this strange place. I had to enter it without seeing the POS because this man kept hiding it. He was insisting ‘enter your pin, enter your pin.’
“That drama lasted inside the taxi between 25 and 30 minutes. I was deliberately entering the wrong pin, playing for time, hoping people would come out maybe from the hotel or be strolling around. It was one of those times when everybody refused to come out. Completely bare where I was. No sign.
“I didn’t discover it wasn’t a hotel until I finally got down. I was still playing for time, hoping somebody would come out of the hotel, maybe smoking cigarette, even a street worker or whatever. So, it became a battle of wills inside the car, which approached violence – he wondering who I was, what I was and I playing for time, hoping somebody would come along.
“And then you can imagine all sorts of imagination in my head. Why had he dropped me in this particular place? Was it a gang-infested area? Let’s just say it was a weird and not very comfortable kind of situation.
“Eventually, that night, anyway, I got to the hotel. I was picked up by a car and taken to Sibiu,” Soyinka said, recounting the melodrama which he rightly described as surreal.
“Even as I am speaking to you now, there is a certain aspect of that misadventure which I find very difficult to believe. Unreal. There is something surreal about it,” Soyinka lamented.
Though according to him, the festival organisers were shocked and the police did all they could to nab the criminal, he didn’t get to hear about what happened afterwards.
Soyinka said he was expecting that they would bring the felon to him for confrontation. But they seemed more concerned with just dousing the whole event as much as possible.
“And then there was this dangerous melodrama hanging over the whole place. So, I watched as they were trying to handle it. There were some certain aspects that bothered me tremendously and which I have set out in the next edition of Intervention Series, which Bookcraft is going to publish very soon.”
Soyinka said though he is pained, it is not about him but the whole notion of crime and punishment not just against the individual but against the community.
“For me, it was not just me as an individual who has been assaulted and really threatened. It was the whole community. I haven’t bothered to look closely at my account to see whether the money has been refunded,” Soyinka noted, adding that the issue was more than the money stolen.
“This is the least aspect of it. Not that I like to lose money. But for me it’s much smaller.”
Soyinka also said there were sufficient clues in the narrative to show that it wasn’t just this individual but there was a network under an official taxi ride, a network which obviously preys on innocent visitors.
“So the affair is not concluded. I have written about it to get it off my chest. But it’s a very fundamental issue,” Soyinka maintained.
Romania... OMG! Ifedayo "Freeze" Olarinde will have something revealing to say on this situation since he's maternally from Romania.
The whole encounter is "totally surreal" BUT I'm glad the Godfather, Professor 'Wole Soyinka made it out safely. I hope the crime syndicate gets arrested as well. It's good Prof. made it out to alert everyone of us who travel internationally that you have to be on guard in any country of the world. Do NOT fall for all the beautiful things you see on travel blogs and travel magazines BECAUSE there will ALWAYS be dark spots everywhere.I remember the days of Nikolai Cheuchescu in Communist Romania back in the 1980s before the evolution to multiparty politics from the 1990s. Life was hard for the folks back then but as an emerging market and member of the EU, Romania has been through hard economic cycles as well in recent times.
[quote author=Morbeta11 post=136763563]Moment f!ght broke out between abroad-based Nigerian couple as wife pulled out a knifè
The video captures a distressing altercation between a Nigerian couple living abroad, where the wife escalates the situation by pulling out a knife, highlighting the severe consequences of domestic disputes and the potential for violence to spiral out of control.
This incident underscores the broader issue of domestic violence, which has been exacerbated by socio-economic stressors, such as those experienced during lockdowns, as documented in studies showing increased reports of domestic violence due to financial distress and social isolation.
The event also reflects cultural and regional dynamics, where traditional perceptions of domestic violence vary, and legal frameworks in Nigeria, particularly in the Northern regions, have been criticized for not adequately protecting women, despite constitutional guarantees against such violence.
Source
Moment f!ght broke out between abroad-based Nigerian couple as wife pulled out a knifè😳🙆👀 pic.twitter.com/zcioVB7OzR
Celepope: The guy is not telling the truth. As an IT Manager, I have never worked with any CTO with less than 20-25 years experience. This guy just graduated in 2021 and won’t even land a Senior or Mid level position in the modern US IT space. Lastly, CTO is next to a CIO in many organizations which puts them in Upper Management level. One of the Reasons I detest social media because there are too many lies and misinformation flying around. Too many psycho and depressed individuals seeking unnecessary public validation.
Indeed, the young man has to be further interviewed (and drilled) by media outlets and provide hard-core EVIDENCE of what he originally posted on LinkedIn. A major Nigerian newspaper, Punch, published this his story and I'm curious to see how things pan out.
LinkedIn is a more credible and major business networking site and that's where you'll find MOST of the top-guns of industries and corporations easily. If his tale is found to be misleading, he would further damage his image within the tech ecosystem. So, these young people really have to be careful about posting just ANY nonsense online.
IronGalaxy: Always looking to be the main characters.
Old video and has nothing to with Nigerians
IronGalaxy,
As South African, you did well for clarifying this highly misleading information posted by the OP as I too had also done a quick advanced reverse imaging which shows that this Capitec event was from 2021.
I've just watched the full video. Aside for entertainment purposes... This is just a skit video or concocted tales to trend online. All the things that girl mentioned in the video NEVER happened.
Any intelligent person with the power of discernment would CLEARLY know that NO father and son would pay N10.5 million to have sex together on the same bed with a "hoe" who supposedly graduated from Delta State University 5 years ago at an alleged young age and now claims she is just 19 years of age as of 2025. Absolute bollocks!
We4all: Linkedin is the new Twitter where people make up stories just to trend. If there was any regulatory constraints regarding his nationality, how the hell did he end up getting the job in the first instance? Either the hiring manager goofed big time or the story was made up. It is also possible that the firm got a more qualified candidate and decided to come up with that silly excuse. Either way, that is a good way to tell the world that you are job hunting. Employers will start sending him job invites.
Well said!
Those are some of my thoughts as well which I earlier posted right ABOVE. He'll definitely get a BETTER offer down the road as he now has some more career visibility.
Great100000: A Nigerian software engineer, Ridwan Akinfenwa, has narrated how he lost a Chief Technology Officer role worth over $260,000 per year because of his nationality.
Akinfenwa, a software engineer, disclosed on his LinkedIn page on Sunday that he had signed a contract for the role last month, describing it as a career milestone after years of hard work in the global tech industry.
He said in the LinkedIn post that started trending on Tuesday, ”Today, I find myself grappling with a deeply disheartening experience in my professional journey.
“As a Senior Software Engineer with a solid educational and technical foundation, I recently secured a CTO position that offered a salary of up to $260,000+ per year including bonuses.”
He said his optimism was cut short when he received a termination email from the organisation citing compliance regulations.
“Today, I received a termination email that shattered my hopes. The message cited further compliance checks, revealing that the organisation could no longer work with Nigerian nationals due to regulatory constraints.
“This decision came without prior indication, leaving me blindsided and emotionally drained,” Akinfenwa said.
He explained that the experience was not an isolated case, as he confessed it occurred frequently costing him job opportunities.
“This year alone, I’ve encountered multiple instances where my nationality has cost me significant career advancements, to the point where I’ve lost count of the setbacks,” he added.
The engineer said he attempted to seek clarification after the termination mail but was told the decision was tied to government regulations.
“The email exchange that followed was a mix of frustration and resignation, my attempt to negotiate or seek clarity was met with an apology acknowledging the decision was driven by external regulations, specifically from a government entity, leaving no room for recourse,” he stated.
Akinfenwa said the development forced him to reflect on the broader struggles of Nigerian and African professionals in the international tech industry.
“It’s a stark reminder of the invisible barriers that persist, even in an industry that prides itself on innovation and inclusivity.
“I’m left wondering how to navigate this landscape, whether relocating is the only viable path forward or if there are strategies to overcome such nationality-based exclusions,” he wrote.
A Nigerian software engineer, Ridwan Akinfenwa, has narrated how he lost a Chief Technology Officer role worth over $260,000 per year because of his nationality.
Akinfenwa, a software engineer, disclosed on his LinkedIn page on Sunday that he had signed a contract for the role last month, describing it as a career milestone after years of hard work in the global tech industry.
If there are compliance regulations/regulatory constraints from one jurisdiction to another, so be it.
My thoughts: This is why it's important to know more about a company you intend to work for ahead of time and what your main job descriptions entail in order to know if "regulatory constraints" exist from one country or jurisdiction to another. For the tech ecosystem that prides itself on innovation and disruptive strategies, these direct biases or workplace exclusions should NOT exist.
In any event, it's a blessing in disguise for him and it's good that Ridwan Akinfenwa has voiced out his concerns on LinkedIn. He may NOT see it here and now, but this is preparing him for far BETTER offers in life... Which may NOT even be in the tech ecosystem.
casualobserver: A few things. 1: Ojukwu snr was a rich man but his wealth was vastly overstated. When I was growing up we all knew about Dantata. Dantata was based on Kano yet we all knew about him. We all knew Ojukwu’s house in Ikoyi with the beware of snakes sign. If Ojukwu was that wealthy as someone who lived in Lagos and passed his house every day we would know. . We knew the wealthy men in Ikoyi, bayo kuku, fajemirokun, S.B. Bakare etc, ojukwu had a lot of businesses in Lagos. He was chairman of stock exchange, he was a director in many companies in Lagos, don’t you think those of us in Lagos would know if he was the richest man in Nigeria? Yet Dantata who lived in far away Kano was who we knew as the richest man in Nigeria.
2: if he truly had wealth at the time the equivalent of $40b today, what happened to it? That kind of wealth doesn’t just disappear in one generation. Talk less legitimate ibo wealth. Dantata’s wealth still exists today.
3: most likely in the SE the legend of his wealth took on a bigger proportion that the reality. But in Lagos, nobody talked about Ojukwu in that manner. In fact he was famous for his house with the snakes sign than for his wealth. Not saying he wasn’t wealthy.
4: the car matter has long been settled. There were different cars used for the queens visit. One of them was indeed Ojukwu’s car. In fact it is possible that it was the use of Ojukwu’s car in the east that gave rise to stories in the east that he was the richest man in Nigeria…he wasn’t. Those stories must have been contained in the eat because they never travelled to the west where he operated.
5: finally directorship of public companies means nothing. You can be appointed a director without having any shares or having minimal shares. It’s just for corporate governance. Go to MTN, Dangote, Zenith, access or any PLC and look for a section called director’s shareholdings. You will find many chairmen, CEOs or directors that have no shares or minimal shares. In the company. Meanwhile you will find reoccurring names on the board of numerous companies and they don’t own any shares, own just a little. So being a director of a public company means nothing. Don’t forget he was the president of the stock exchange, many companies would invite him to be on their board without him having shares in those companies. Companies appoint non executive directors who may or may not have shares in the company to boost investor confidence in the company. As at the time ojukwu was president of the stock exchange, all the companies you listed were entirely foreign owned. The indiginization decree that forced them to sell 60% to Nigerians did not occur until 1974 by which time sir Louis was already 8 years buried.
6: the value of all the companies on the NSe in the 1980s was not up to $50m. I mean all of them combined. And I am talking about 1980 talk less 1950s. Go and verify! So forget the stock exchange angle.
7: the way you become the richest man in Nigeria is to have a monopoly or near monopoly of a product that almost all Nigerians use. Or a Nigerian export commodity for which you are the no1. Sugar, salt, cement, oil, etc etc. if you examine Ojukwu’s businesses that was not the case. So he could never have been at any time the richest man in Nigeria.
Brilliantly stated.
Even the first ever £1 million net worth which thrust Louis Ojukwu into the millionaire club was made right in Lagos (Yorubaland) from the resale of the land he leased from the Yoruba indigenes of Iruland (Victoria Island) to the British Colonialists who needed land for developmental purposes. Frederick Forsyth wrote these FACTS in his non-fiction book published in 1969 on the Nigerian Civil War. I've had a copy of that book for years now in one of my personal libraries and it's true because Frederick Forsyth was Emeka Ojukwu's friend.
nedekid: Hangon, the queen rode on the emirs rolls Royce when she visited northern nigeria. That was a 2 door rolls. It is on record she visited eastern Nigerian during the same period and while she was in enugu she also rode in a rolls Royce, this time a 4 door sedan. Did the emir remove two doors from his rolls Royce and then drove it down to kano for the queens use?
Jaymats: What made him the richest man? Look, Remo pls ignore my people when lousiness, chest beaten and arrogancy too much these are the disgusting blatant lies you will be hearing.
Even a child that was born in 2021 will come to Nairaland to tell you what happened in Nigeria during Azikwe presidency, what happened during Biafra war even his father was not born then.
And Reno just remember everybody is a billionaire from that side in as far you can managed to buy Toyota Siena 2005, build a bungalow with pillar in the front then paint the house and if you want to kills it all by December or Easter period just managed buy two bags of rice and tell those villagers to line up and be collecting 3 cups each I swear you are a Billionaire, yet the list of World billionaire coming out time to time yet none from SE, yet the list of Africa billionaire coming out everytime yet none from SE funny enough they will litres the social media and be calling even a bloody carpenter that is making coffin a billionaire.
Guide777: Here’s a clean, source-checked breakdown of what’s solid, what’s shaky, and what’s simply wrong in Reno’s post.
Bottom line (first)
He’s right that the “Queen rode in the Emir of Kano’s Rolls-Royce” story fits the evidence for Kano ”
He overreaches when he says the Queen “never” rode in any car provided by Sir Louis—what the evidence shows is that multiple cars were used on the 1956 tour (a UK state Phantom IV in parts of the trip, and an open-topped Rolls in Kano). That debunks the viral “Ojukwu’s car everywhere” claim, but it does not prove the categorical “never” he asserts.
He also misquotes Time magazine about Sanusi Dantata and uses faulty economics to argue there were “no billionaires” for 40 years.
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1) The Queen’s car in 1956: what the record actually shows
Kano segment: The Royal Collection Trust explicitly captions a photo of the Queen and Duke in an open-topped limousine in Kano. This aligns with extensive reporting that the Emir’s vintage Rolls-Royce was used locally. That part of Reno’s post is consistent with primary material.
Other segments (e.g., Lagos): British Pathé’s film notes and the UK record on state and royal cars confirm that a Rolls-Royce Phantom IV landaulette (a UK state car carried aboard HMY Britannia) was used on overseas tours including Nigeria in 1956. In other words, the Queen did not rely on a single privately owned Nigerian car throughout the tour.
Why Reno’s “never” goes too far: showing that the Kano photos feature the Emir’s car doesn’t logically prove the Queen never used a vehicle sourced by anyone else (including Sir Louis) at any point on a multi-city tour. The correct, source-backed statement is: the viral claim that “the Queen rode in Ojukwu’s Rolls-Royce” as a blanket description of the 1956 tour is unsubstantiated; the best-documented cars are the UK state Phantom IV and, in Kano, the Emir’s Rolls.
(Side note: invoking Daily Mail and social posts adds color but they’re secondary; the Royal Collection Trust and British Pathé are the weight-bearing sources.)
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2) “Sir Louis was never the wealthiest man in Nigeria”
What we actually know: Contemporary reporting places Sir Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu and Sanusi Dantata among Nigeria’s richest businessmen in the mid-1960s. Time’s 1965 piece profiles them together; it does not crown Dantata as the richest. Reno’s wording (“acknowledged by Time as the wealthiest”) overstates the source.
What we don’t know: There were no Forbes-style, audited net-worth league tables for 1950s/60s Nigeria. Saying Sir Louis was never No. 1 is an absolute claim that can’t be substantiated with available records—at best we can say he was “among the very richest.” (For context about his stature: he was knighted and was one of the seven subscribers/founders of the Lagos Stock Exchange—hard data points about influence and standing.)
Fallacy call-outs:
Argument from ignorance / over-certainty: Claiming “not even the wealthiest… at any point” exceeds what the sources allow. Absence of a definitive league table ≠ proof of “never.”
Source misrepresentation: Time didn’t name Dantata as the wealthiest; it grouped several tycoons (including Ojukwu).
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3) “There were no billionaires in Nigeria for the first 40 years”
GDP figures: Reno’s 1960s GDP numbers are broadly in line with World Bank series (current US$ around $4–7bn in that decade).
But the reasoning is wrong: He argues that because 1960s GDP≈$4–7bn, a $1bn net worth would be “a quarter of Nigeria’s wealth.” That’s a category error: GDP is a flow (one year’s output), while net worth/wealth is a stock (assets–liabilities). You don’t compare a person’s stock of wealth to a country’s flow of GDP to prove impossibility. Plenty of countries have had individuals with net worths equal to meaningful slices of annual GDP. So his math doesn’t prove his conclusion, even if the practical conclusion (no USD billionaires back then) is likely true.
Cleaner claim: “By USD standards, a 1950s/60s Nigerian billionaire would have been extraordinarily rare worldwide; there’s no credible evidence of one.” That’s defensible without the GDP fallacy.
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4) “Wealth in Nigeria usually comes from the desert or the water”
This is an overgeneralization. Nigerian fortunes historically came from long-distance trade, produce/groundnuts/cocoa, timber, transport, real estate, banking, and later oil & gas, telecoms, cement, etc.—not just Sahelian caravans or ports. It’s a neat aphorism, not an analytical framework.
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5) Two verifiable facts about Sir Louis that matter (and often get muddled)
Knighthood: Listed in the London Gazette—no controversy there.
Stock Exchange role: The NGX (official site) lists “Sir. Odumegwu Ojukwu” among the seven subscribers who created the Lagos Stock Exchange in 1960. (Many blogs call him “first president”—the Exchange’s own page confirms subscriber/founder status; it does not label him the first president.)
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6) Speculation about Emir Sanusi’s 1957 acting-governor role as a “reward”
Saying the British made Sanusi Acting Governor of Northern Nigeria in 1957 as a reward for lending the car is post hoc speculation with no documentary support in the sources cited. That causal leap isn’t justified by the record.
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A fairer, source-grounded synthesis
The viral “Ojukwu’s Rolls” story as a blanket claim for the 1956 tour is unsupported by primary sources; the best evidence shows a UK state Phantom IV was used on the tour and an Emir of Kano Rolls was used in Kano.
Sir Louis was among Nigeria’s richest businessmen of his era (Time groups him with Dantata), a founder of the Lagos Stock Exchange, and knighted—clear markers of top-tier status. Declaring he was “never the wealthiest” is an over-confident claim that the available evidence can’t settle.
The “no billionaires” point likely holds in nominal USD terms, but Reno’s GDP argument is technically wrong and doesn’t prove the claim.
nlfpmod: Elon Musk has lost his title as the world's richest person to Larry Ellison, the co-founder of Oracle and an ally of US President Donald Trump.
Ellison's wealth surged to $393bn (£290bn) on Wednesday morning, surpassing Musk's $385bn (£284bn), according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
Shares in Oracle soared more than 40% after the database software company gave investors a surprisingly rosy outlook for its cloud infrastructure business and artificial intelligence (AI) deals.
Ellison, [b]whose net worth is tied to the company, has steadily built his fortune over the past five decades.
Musk had held the title of world's richest person for nearly one year. He could receive a pay package worth over $1tn (£740bn) if he hits a list of ambitious targets over the next decade, the board of the electric car firm has proposed.
But shares in Musk's most valuable business, Tesla, have fallen this year.
The electric vehicle maker has grappled with investor jitters over the Trump administration's rollback of electric vehicle initiatives, on top of consumer backlash to Musk's political involvement.
Oracle has recently been propelled by growing demand for data centre infrastructure.
The company projected as part of its quarterly earnings report on Tuesday that revenue from its cloud business will jump 77% this year, to $18bn, with further growth expected in the coming years.
Oracle has reported a surge in demand among AI companies for its data centres, which helped push its stock dramatically higher.
It signed four multibillion-dollar contracts with customers in the last quarter and anticipates several more deals in the months ahead, chief executive Safra Catz said on Tuesday.
Trump ties and media ambitions Ellison, 81, helped start Oracle in 1977 and rose to prominence in the 1990s, when he became a public figure known as much for his lavish lifestyle as for the database company behind his fortune.[/b]
He was Oracle's chief executive until 2014 and is now the company's chairman and chief technology officer.
And he has positioned himself as an ally to President Trump.
When Trump returned to the White House in January, Ellison appeared alongside OpenAI's Sam Altman and SoftBank's Masayoshi Son to announce a project called Stargate, to build out AI infrastructure in the US.
Oracle has also emerged as a possible buyer of TikTok, the app owned by the Chinese internet company ByteDance. TikTok is facing a ban in the US unless it divests itself of its ByteDance ownership.
In January, when asked whether he was open to Musk buying TikTok, Trump responded: "I'd like Larry to buy it, too."
Ellison's media ambitions extend beyond TikTok.
He funded the bulk of a $8bn bid by his son to acquire Paramount, which owns CBS and MTV.
Founded by Tajuddeen Adedeji Adeleke on December 13, 1983, Pacific Holdings Ltd. began as Pacific Drilling Company, a specialist in geophysical surveys, borehole drilling, and water treatment services. Over the next decade, the business expanded rapidly, adding three more companies and transitioning from a single enterprise into an emerging Nigerian conglomerate.
To consolidate its growing portfolio, Pacific Holdings Limited was incorporated on December 28, 1990, uniting its businesses under one umbrella. Today, the group has streamlined its operations around two major sectors: Freight Services and Energy/Power Generation, while continuing to explore critical business opportunities that support life and living in Nigeria.
The group’s operational footprint spans banking (the early Pacific Merchant Bank), education, civil engineering, energy and power generation, manufacturing, agriculture, trading, freight services, gas, and real estate. With over 2,000 employees
8. Zenon
Family: The Otedolas
The Femi Otedola’s business journey is deeply tied to Zenon Petroleum and Gas Limited, established in 2003. Zenon disrupted Nigeria’s downstream oil sector by investing heavily in oil storage facilities and tank farms, alongside a fleet of over 1,000 trucks.
At its peak, the company controlled a significant share of the diesel market, supplying major manufacturing giants such as Dangote Group, Cadbury, Coca-Cola, and Nigerian Breweries. Zenon became synonymous with efficiency, large-scale distribution, and financial daring.
• Over time, Femi Otedola expanded beyond Zenon into strategic equity stakes in major institutions like Forte Oil Plc, which he eventually sold to new investors, led by Abdulwasiu Sowami through Ignite Investments.
• The company was renamed Ardova Plc.
• The name change was approved by shareholders in December 2019 and formally registered in February 2020, marking the return of the historic “AP” name. He further ventured into power generation, aligning with the government’s push for electricity sector reforms, before divesting in 2019 to focus on Geregu Power Plc.
Geregu has since become a publicly listed company on the Nigerian Exchange, with ambitious plans to shape Nigeria’s energy future. He also bought shares in Dangote Cement , according to a report by Nairametrics.
The Otedola business vision has always reflected a mix of calculated risk, diversification, and legacy-building.
7. Ibru Organisation
Family: The Ibrus
Founded in 1956 by Michael Ibru, the Ibru Organization has grown into one of Africa’s largest and most enduring conglomerates, with interests spanning shipping, port management, hospitality, aviation, real estate, agriculture, oil and gas, banking, and media. From pioneering Nigeria’s frozen fish trade in the 1950s to owning extensive industrial and agricultural real estate, the group has left an indelible mark on Nigeria’s economic landscape.
The Ibru story is deeply rooted in family. Descended from Chief Peter Epete and Janet Omotogor Ibru of Delta State, the siblings built a dynasty that blended entrepreneurship with public service. Alex Ibru co-founded The Guardian newspaper and served as Minister of Internal Affairs; Felix Ibru became the first executive governor of Delta State; Goodie Ibru led the Nigerian Stock Exchange and Ikeja Hotels; while Cecilia Ibru headed Oceanic Bank.
Today, under the leadership of Olorogun Oskar Ibru, the family continues to drive the multi-billion-dollar organization, recognized by Forbes in 2014 as one of Africa’s top family businesses.
6. Yinka Folawiyo and Sons
Family: The Folawiyos
Founded in 1957 by the late Chief Wahab Iyanda Folawiyo, the Yinka Folawiyo Group has grown from a commodity trading business into one of Nigeria’s most diversified family-owned conglomerates. Beginning with sugar, cement, dairy, and frozen fish, the group quickly expanded into shipping, creating Maritime Associates International and Nigerian Green Lines, building one of Africa’s largest privately owned fleets.
In the 1970s, the family entered real estate with United Property Developers, delivering landmark projects across Lagos, before moving into oil and gas in 1982 with Yinka Folawiyo Petroleum, now operating the Aje field. The group later expanded its energy portfolio through Folawiyo Energy and Enyo Retail & Supply, while Folawiyo Farms diversified into agriculture.
Since 2008, Tijani Babatunde Folawiyo, the founder’s son, has led the group, upholding family governance principles while driving growth. Today, the Yinka Folawiyo Group remains a key family-owned enterprise shaping Nigeria’s industrial and economic development.
5. Henry Stephens Group
Family: The Fajemirokuns
One of Nigeria’s most storied family ventures began with Chief Henry Oloyede Fajemirokun, CON, a visionary industrialist whose influence spanned trade, industry, and regional integration. Upon his death in 1978, the eldest son, Chief Dele Fajemirokun, inherited the sprawling Henry Stephens Group, comprising 19 companies including industrial manufacturing, trading, shipping, and service enterprises.
Facing heavy debt, Dele revitalized the group, securing loans and restoring operational stability. His bold acquisition of a majority stake in T-CAS, an American firm owed millions by the Nigerian Ministry of Communications, transformed a modest N50,000 loan into a lucrative venture, exemplifying the family’s entrepreneurial audacity.
• He went on to build an empire across insurance, food, telecoms provisioning, and investment.
• His personal gambit during AIICO’s privatization using 11 shell companies to secure an 11% stake, later acquiring the Bahamian 40% holding made him the majority shareholder.
He chaired AIICO’s board, Kings Guards Securities, Johnson Wax (Baygon & Raid), Food Concepts & Entertainment (Chicken Republic), Xerox Nigeria, FSS Gases, Bluechip Communications, and DF Holdings
Today, the Fajemirokun family continues its multi-generational legacy, with Kikelomo Fajemirokun serving as director at AIICO Insurance.
4. Adenuga Group
The Adenugas
The Adenuga Group, led by billionaire tycoon Dr. Mike Adenuga Jr., is one of Nigeria’s most powerful family-owned business empires, with stakes in telecommunications, oil & gas, banking, and real estate.
• His marquee venture, Globacom (Glo), launched in 2003, disrupted Nigeria’s telecom sector with innovations like per-second billing and drastically cheaper SIM cards.
• Today, Glo serves millions of subscribers across West Africa and pioneered the Glo-1 submarine fiber-optic cable, boosting continental broadband capacity.
• In energy, Adenuga’s early license acquisition led to Conoil Producing, the first Nigerian firm to strike oil in commercial quantities in 1991.
• At the moment, Conoil operates six oil blocks and holds over 400 million barrels of recoverable reserves, producing around 20,000 barrels per day. Its sister entity, Conoil Plc, controls Nigeria’s oil marketing (with lubricants under the Quatro brand).
The Adenuga portfolio also includes a significant 30.6% stake in Sterling Financial Holdings, a key player in banking and non-interest finance, and a 25.1% ownership in Julius Berger, one of Nigeria’s leading construction companies
Furthermore, Cobblestone Properties headed by his CEO daughter Bella Disu(vice chairman Globacom), leads his real estate ventures, with luxury residential and commercial projects across Nigeria.
3. FCMB Group
Family: The Baloguns
The First City Monument Bank (FCMB) Group is one of Nigeria’s most prominent family-owned financial services groups, founded by Otunba Michael Olasubomi Balogun (1934–2023).
Often referred to as the “grandfather of investment banking in Nigeria”, he established City Securities Limited in 1977, which later gave birth to First City Merchant Bank in 1982, the first wholly Nigerian-owned merchant bank, without foreign or government backing. This was a groundbreaking feat at a time when foreign interests dominated the financial sector.
Over the decades, FCMB transformed into a full-fledged commercial bank, later evolving into a holding company structure FCMB Group Plc with subsidiaries in commercial banking, investment banking, asset management, pensions, microfinance, and fintech services.
The Balogun family remains central to the bank’s identity. Although the founder, Subomi Balogun, retired from active management, his vision and values continue to guide the group.
His children have taken up leadership roles, ensuring continuity. Ladi Balogun, one of his sons, served as Group CEO of FCMB Group Plc for nearly 17 years and now serves as the Group Chief Executive of FCMB Group Holdings Plc, driving strategy, digital transformation, and expansion into inclusive banking.
2. Dantata Organization
Family: The Dantatas
The Dantata Organization Ltd stands as one of Nigeria’s most enduring family-owned conglomerates, with operations spanning diverse industries and expansion plans reaching Saudi Arabia and beyond. The company’s foundation and growth are credited to Aminu Alhassan Dantata, born in 1931 in Kano State, Nigeria. A visionary entrepreneur and philanthropist, Aminu Dantata has been recognized nationally with the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR) and served as the first Chancellor of Katsina State University.
The second generation of the family continues the legacy with Tajuddeen Aminu Dantata, Group Managing Director; Abubakar Sadik Aminu Dantata, Managing Director of Express Petroleum and Gas Company Limited; and Hassan Aminu Dantata, Director and Managing Director of Fertilizer Processing Company Limited.
Hailing from a lineage of accomplished business figures, including Ahmadu, Sanusi, and Abdulkadir Dantata, the family remains deeply involved in all aspects of the business.
1. Doyin Group
Family: The Doyins
The Doyin Group of Companies stands as one of Nigeria’s most prominent indigenous family-owned conglomerates, with a legacy spanning over 40 years. Founded in 1968 by Prince Samuel Adedoyin, who began his entrepreneurial journey as a trader before expanding into multiple industries, the group has grown into a powerhouse in manufacturing, agriculture, and pharmaceuticals.
The conglomerate comprises subsidiaries such as Doyin Investment Nigeria Ltd., Doyin Motors Ltd., Starco Motors Ltd., Doyin Property and Trading Company Ltd., Mat Manufacturing Company Ltd., and Doyin Cash and Carry Stores. These companies are behind the production of household and essential goods, including toothpaste, seasonings, detergents, fruit juices, noodles, pharmaceuticals, and agrochemical products, many of which are distributed not only across Nigeria but also in regional markets such as Niger, Gabon, and Togo.
Other family-owned businesses in Nigeria
• Emzor Pharmaceuticals- The Okolis
• Famfa oil – The Alakijas
• Okada Group – The Igbinedions
• Moni Pulo limited – The Briggs
• Leadway Assurance- The Odukales
• AABC Transport Plc – the Nnejis
• Lapo Microfinance Bank- Ehigiamusoe Family
• Chagoury Group – The Chagourys
• Atlas Petroleum International Limited- The Ezes
• FoodCo Nigeria Limited- The Bashoruns
NB: This list is by no means exhaustive. Nigeria is home to numerous thriving family-owned businesses that have played, and continue to play, an extensive role in driving the nation’s economy. Many of these enterprises have evolved across generations, adapting to market realities while sustaining their legacy. Feedback is welcome, and this list will be updated periodically to reflect changes in family leadership, and business structures.
That's a near-absolute list of the cream of the crop of family business conglomerates.
There's a lot more successful family businesses with verifiable sequence of progressions over the years that I'm aware of, BUT Nairametrics did a great job in focusing on some of the iconic family-owned businesses.
AmazingGenius: In Nigeria’s ever-shifting economy, one constant has quietly underpinned growth: family-owned businesses.
For decades, they have been ingrained in society, shaping the country’s economic trajectory while weathering downturns, policy shifts, and volatile market cycles.
According to a study by McKinsey, family-owned businesses account for more than 70% of global GDP, generate annual turnovers of between $60 trillion and $70 trillion, and provide around 60% of global employment.
From trading outposts that evolved into sprawling conglomerates to food processors that turned local produce into export-ready products, these enterprises reflect the resilience and ingenuity that define Nigeria’s private sector and some parts of its public sector.
Their growth stories are not just about survival in sticky economic climes, but about steering directional change in key sectors of Africa’s largest economy.
Methodology
This spotlight draws companies with founding roots in Nigeria that have grown to serve wider markets across Africa and beyond. Each has been in operation for at least 25 years, with demonstrable succession in managerial or directorial roles within the family.
We also examined their journey maps, market expansion, brand strength, and institutional resilience using only publicly available data. This list is not exhaustive; many more family-owned firms continue to shape Nigeria’s economy outside the public eye.
18. God is Good
Family: The Ajaere family
GIG Group, through its flagship subsidiary GIG Logistics, stands today as one of Nigeria’s oldest family-owned enterprises with roots in the transport sector. Founded in 1998 by Edwin and Stella Ajaere as God is Good Motors, the company set out to provide premium bus services across Nigerian cities.
In 2009, tragedy struck when Edwin Ajaere was killed. His son, Chidi, then a 21-year-old Economics student in the U.S., returned home to take charge. What could have ended the family business instead sparked a transformation.
By 2010, Chidi had rebranded the company as GIG Mobility (GIGM), leveraging technology to modernize bus travel with app-based booking, digital payments, and improved customer experience. In 2012, he expanded the group’s vision with GIG Logistics (GIGL), built on the conviction that e-commerce needed a seamless delivery backbone. Since its first shipment, GIGL has grown into a global logistics player, connecting African businesses to markets across several continents.
He also founded Jet Systems Automobile in 2018 as a Nigerian EV manufacturer focused on sustainable, locally made vehicles. Headquartered at Lekki-Epe Expressway, Lagos, the company produces electric and CNG vehicles, including 14-seater buses, ambulances, and vans for public and commercial use. Jet Systems partnered with the Delta State Government to deploy EVs and set up solar-powered charging stations. Its Lagos assembly plant can produce about 5,000 vehicles annually, with expansion plans underway to meet rising demand.
With expansions into Ghana and new ventures like Danfo, a tech-enabled intra-city transport service, GIG Group has evolved from a family bus company into a diversified mobility and logistics powerhouse.
17. GUO Transport Company
Family: The Okekes
Founded in 1980 as a division of G.U. Okeke & Sons Ltd., GUO Transport has grown from a single post–Civil War vehicle venture into one of Nigeria’s largest and most recognizable transport brands. Established by Godwin Ubaka Okeke, the company built its reputation on reliability, safety, and affordability, expanding into a household name with over 200 destinations across Nigeria and West Africa.
GUO holds a majority shareholder in Anambra Motor Manufacturing Company Limited (ANAMMCO), a Nigerian commercial vehicle company authorized to assemble and distribute Dongfeng Trucks in Nigeria.
From its early days serving a nation in recovery, GUO has consistently adapted to the evolving demands of the transportation sector.
The Okeke family has been central to this growth story. In a seamless generational transition, Godwin Ubaka Okeke entrusted leadership to his son, Maduabuchukwu Okeke, who now serves as Managing Director. Under his watch, GUO is investing in technology-driven operations, service efficiency, and regional expansion while preserving the core values instilled by his father.
16. Orange Drug Company
Family: The Ezennas
The Orange Drugs story began in 1985, when Sir Tony Ezenna transformed his father’s small chemist shop into Orange Drugs Limited with just N15,000 in seed capital.
Subsequently, Orange Drugs Limited joined the beauty care industry through the importation of soaps, creams, and other beauty products. By 2006, the Company commenced the local production of different brands of soaps in Lagos and this was aimed at boosting the Nigerian manufacturing sector and also creating jobs for the populace. In order to meet up with the challenges in the global economy, Orange Drugs Limited later diversified its line of business by the establishment of Orange Kalbe Ltd and Orange West Africa Limited, leading to the formation of the Orange Group.
In the pharmaceutical space, Orange has forged enduring partnerships with some of Indonesia’s largest firms, including Kalbe Farma, Tempo Scan Pacific, Dexa Medica, and Mensa Group on products like Procold, Mixagrip, Sudrex, Boska, Delta Soap, Passion Energy Drink, and Extra Joss Energy Drink. They also offer products like Ginmil, Mintacid, and Tempovate Cream. Its relationship with Kalbe Farma dates back to the company’s founding in the 1980s, reflecting a decades-long commitment to international collaboration.
Recognition of Orange’s impact came early. In 1995, the company received the “Star Donor Award” from the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria for its contributions to healthcare.
15. Dangote Group
Family: The Dangotes
The Dangote Group, Africa’s largest conglomerate, stands as a testament to the power of family-led enterprise. Headed by Aliko Dangote, the group’s leadership also includes his daughters Halima, Fatima, and Mariya Dangote, who serve as senior executives, ensuring the family’s entrepreneurial vision continues across generations.
The group’s legacy traces back to Aliko’s father, Al-Hassan Dantata, and other relatives who laid the foundations for enduring business success in Nigeria.
Starting as a bulk commodity trading business in the 1970s, Dangote Group strategically transitioned to manufacturing in the late 1990s, leveraging Nigeria’s import substitution policies. By the early 2000s, it expanded into strategic asset acquisition and backward integration, creating Africa’s largest cement, sugar, salt, flour, and logistics operations.
In 2024, Dangote Industries Limited (DIL) and its subsidiaries, including Dangote Cement, Dangote Sugar, NASCON, and Dangote Packaging, collectively paid over N402 billion in taxes.
Recent landmark projects
In recent years, Dangote Group has taken on transformative projects that cement Nigeria’s position on the global economic map:
• A $19 billion integrated project located in Lekki Free Trade Zone, Lagos.
• One of the world’s largest single-train refineries with a capacity of 650,000 barrels per day.
• Includes a petrochemical complex producing polypropylene, a urea and ammonia fertilizer plant, and a deep-sea port.
• Aims to make Nigeria self-sufficient in refined petroleum products and a net exporter to Africa and beyond.
• Dangote Fertilizer Plant (commissioned 2022), located in Lekki, it is Africa’s largest granulated urea fertilizer complex.
It has a production capacity of 3 million metric tonnes annually, supporting Nigeria’s agriculture sector and export ambitions.
14. Zinox Group
Family: The Ekes
With more than 10 million products, innovations, and deployments over the years, Zinox Group has emerged as one of Africa’s foremost technology conglomerates. Founded in 2001 by Nigerian entrepreneur Leo Stan Ekeh, the company was born with a bold ambition: to domesticate computer manufacturing in sub-Saharan Africa.
Ekeh, who grew up in Ubomiri, Mbaitoli, Imo State, to a nurse father and a dietitian mother, envisioned a future where Nigerians could access world-class technology locally. Zinox Computers launched with WHQL certification, a first in sub-Saharan Africa, and later secured NIS ISO 2000: 9001 QMS Certification. By 2013, Zinox expanded into consumer electronics with the Zipad tablet line.
• The group’s most transformative move came in 2018, when Ekeh acquired e-commerce platform Konga.com, positioning Zinox at the intersection of hardware and online retail. Today, the company boasts 23+ years in operation, powered by a team of over 800 professionals, with operations across Nigeria and beyond.
Beyond business, Ekeh has consistently invested in education and digital empowerment. Through the Leo Stan Ekeh Foundation, he has donated multimillion-naira tech centers, including a Starlink-powered hub at the Federal University Birnin Kebbi, equipping students with skills for global competitiveness.
13. Eleganza Group
Family: The Okoyas
Few Nigerian names are as closely tied to local industry as the Okoyas. Their flagship, Eleganza Group, has been shaping consumer goods manufacturing for nearly five decades. With trading roots traced to the late 1960s, Eleganza formally began manufacturing in 1978, opening its first factory in Oregun, Ikeja.
From plastics and packaging to fans, chairs, diapers, and cosmetics, Eleganza products are fixtures in households across Nigeria and neighboring African countries.
• At the helm is Chief Razaq Akanni Okoya, CON, billionaire industrialist, Aare of Lagos, and founder of Eleganza. His empire extends beyond manufacturing into real estate through RAO Property Investment Company.
• Today, Eleganza employs about 5,000 people nationwide, making it one of Nigeria’s largest private-sector employers.
Leadership has since evolved into a family affair. Folashade Nimota Okoya, MON, wife of Razaq and current MD/CEO, has expanded Eleganza’s portfolio and strengthened its market presence. Together, the Okoya family represents a rare story of Nigerian industrial resilience, building a brand that powers everyday life.
12. Heirs Holding
Family: The Elumelus
Founded in 2010 by Nigerian entrepreneur and philanthropist Tony Elumelu, Heirs Holdings is one of Africa’s most influential family-owned investment companies.
With a portfolio spanning financial services, energy, real estate, insurance, healthcare, and technology, the group’s mission is rooted in Africapitalism, the belief that the private sector must drive both economic transformation and social development on the continent.
• The company’s holdings include controlling stakes in United Bank for Africa (UBA), a pan-African financial services powerhouse; Transnational Corporation of Nigeria (Transcorp Plc), and Heirs Energies, its upstream oil and gas business, which owns the OML 17 oil block.
• Beyond energy and finance, Heirs Holdings also operates Afriland Properties, Heirs Insurance, and Heirs Life.
As of June 2025, the group’s portfolio companies are valued at N15.6 trillion ($10.2 billion), spanning nine sectors, 24 countries, and employing more than 40,000 people across four continents.
11. Honeywell Group
Family: The Otudekos
Founded in 1972 by Nigerian entrepreneur Oba Otudeko, Honeywell Group began as a food trading business before expanding into imports of dairy, steel, and stockfish for Nigeria’s growing domestic market.
The Group’s milestones trace Nigeria’s own economic journey: the relocation of its headquarters to Lagos in 1993; the 1997 construction of a 23,000-metric-tonne tank farm in Apapa; the 2009 listing of Honeywell Flour Mills on the Nigerian Stock Exchange; and the 2011 opening of the Radisson Blu Anchorage Hotel, the first of the global brand in West Africa.
Oba Otudeko, through Honeywell Group, was a major shareholder and former chairman of FBN Holdings (now First HoldCo), but he recently divested his significant stake in July 2025, selling 10.43 billion shares in a block deal worth over N323 billion.
Today, Obafemi Otudeko, son of the founder and current Managing Director, is driving the Group’s next chapter. With more than 25 years of investment leadership, he has overseen landmark transactions, including Airtel Nigeria’s multi-million-dollar divestment and the 2022 sale of Honeywell Flour Mills.
10. BUA Group
Family: The Rabius
BUA Foods Plc, headquartered in Lagos, is a leading Nigerian food company and a key arm of the BUA Group conglomerate, founded by Abdul Samad Rabiu. The company operates across multiple food segments, producing, processing, and distributing sugar, flour, pasta, rice, and edible oils, serving millions across Nigeria and beyond.
Its sugar division handles the production, refining, and distribution of raw sugar and by-products. The rice division operates a mill capable of processing over 200,000 tons annually, while the edible oils division specializes in converting crude palm oil into palm oil, stearin, and distilled fatty acids.
• Founded as BUA International Ltd. in 1988 to import rice and steel, the company gradually expanded into food production with key milestones: the takeover of Nigeria Oil Mills Ltd.
• In 2000, the establishment of BUA Sugar Refinery Ltd. in 2005, BUA Flour Mills in 2007, a rice division in 2014, and a pasta division in 2019.
• In 2021, the company went public, becoming BUA Foods Plc, and is listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange. With a market capitalization of $2.6 billion in 2022, it ranks among Nigeria’s most valuable companies.
A previous report by Nairametrics reported that the group is investing over $65 million entirely self-funded to reconstruct Terminal B of the Rivers Port Complex, with completion expected in the first quarter of 2026.
According to a study by McKinsey, family-owned businesses account for more than 70% of global GDP, generate annual turnovers of between $60 trillion and $70 trillion, and provide around 60% of global employment.
From trading outposts that evolved into sprawling conglomerates to food processors that turned local produce into export-ready products, these enterprises reflect the resilience and ingenuity that define Nigeria’s private sector and some parts of its public sector.
That's a shameful thing to do. Stealing another persons's source of livelihood is highly IRRESPONSIBLE!
Seeing this graphic photograph of the tied up palm-oil male thief would serve as a deterant to others before he's finally taken to court for trial. Period.
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Not exactly. What you have seen his a transliteration of the term "omo Isale Eko" which means an indigene of Lagos island into Lagosian. Only those from Lagos Island are "Omo Eko" where Eko in this instance refers to the islands etc.
The issue is that people started refering Eko to English hence it isn't difficult to here people saying "I am going to Eko" to mean "I am going to Lagos". But when in Lagos state, "I am going to Eko" means Lagos island and ends there.
Lagosians refers to the peoole of the entire state same way Anambarians refers to everyone in Anambra including the Igala minority.
The Aworis cannot say they are "omo eko" and the Eguns cannot say they are "omo eko" but they are ALL Lagosians
@Mynd44
It seems to me that you didn't get a proper hang of parts of what I ORIGINALLY posted. I'm largely on the same page with MOST of your original post and this last one I'm replying to as shown in the bolded sections of your post ABOVE. I've got strong maternal roots on Lagos Island as well.
However, the major thrust of my post was simply to affirm that the ORIGINAL or classic meaning of the term "Lagosian" refers to the indigenes of Lagos Island (Isale Eko] from past usage before even 1960 when the British exited Nigeria or before Lagos State was created. However, with the creation of Lagos State on May 27 1967 by General Yakubu Gowon, with the capital of the new Lagos State being located on Lagos Island as well [BEFORE the new State capital was finally moved to a new location in Alausa, Ikeja in 1978], some people started using the term Lagosian to encompass the whole of Lagos State when that wasn't the original usage.
Indeed, I'm aware of most of what you said or posted above (including the FACT that Yoruba folks refer to Lagos Island as "Isale Eko," while Lagos State is called "Ipinle Eko" in Yoruba convos. In everyday conversations, you'll NEVER hear Yorubas call the entire State, Lagos State or call the Island of Eko when speaking Yoruba as "Lagos Island" which is a foreign Portuguese/Spanish name by the way when speaking Yoruba to one another. INFACT if you are located in Ikeja GRA for instance, and you tell another Yoruba person that you are going to Eko, he or she instantly knows you're going to Lagos Island. An uninitiated would get confused and say that "BUT you are already in Lagos State so why are you going to Eko again?" So, yes, "Eko is strictly Lagos Island" while "Ipinle Eko is Lagos State." There are specific linguistic protocols at play here.
By the way, it's good to know that you are an indigene of Ikeja. It's important to keep the indigenous history of all parts of Lagos State alive through proper documentation. Some people don't even realize that the name "Alausa" in Ikeja is derived from "Ausa" which is "Walnut" because of the presence of Walnut Plantations where Oluwalogbon Motors is located. It's the same with "Alakuko" where "cockrels" were sold back in the day OR "Igbo Obi" [contracted to Igbobi] where many Kolanut Plantations existed especially from the 1920s. I once read an NL post of yours several years ago where you stated CLEARLY that Alhaji Rafiu Jafojo, the then Deputy Governor of Lagos State is your relation. It's indeed a small world. I recall the memorable events of the 1979 Presidential and Governorship election cycles which brought Alhaji Lateef Jakande and Alhaji Jafojo in as Governor and Deputy Governor respectively (under the iconic UPN Party led by Chief Jeremiah Obafemi Awolowo, GCFR, SAN), despite being both Muslims. Incidentally, the father of Obafemi Hamzat, (the current Deputy Governor of Lagos State) who was an Oba in his Ogun State community, served in the "Jakande/Jafojo" Government of Lagos State as a Commissioner for Works and was overseeing the Lagos Metroline Project back in the early 1980s before the Military Government of Group Captain Gbolahan Mudasiru of Lagos terminated the project. Group Captain Gbolahan Mudasiru took responsibility for that Metroline termination which he said he wanted to review.
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