Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola has been named manager of the year by the League Managers Association.
It's the third time Guardiola has collected the Sir Alex Ferguson Trophy, voted for by managers across all of the divisions.
The Spaniard, 52, also won the Premier League manager of the year award after his side clinched a third consecutive title and fifth in six seasons.
Chelsea boss Emma Hayes won the Women's Super League award.
It was her fourth successive award and sixth in total. Under Hayes, Chelsea clinched a fourth successive WSL title by two points over Manchester United, who they also beat to win the FA Cup for the third time in a row.
Guardiola became only the third manager to win three or more LMA manager of the year awards, matching David Moyes' tally, but still two behind Sir Alex Ferguson.
City face Manchester United in Saturday's FA Cup final. Victory in that match would set up a chance to win the Treble when they face Inter Milan in the Champions League final on 10 June.
Guardiola said: "It's an incredible honour to get his trophy. We are in the best league in the world and I promise you we will be there next season."
Lou Macari won the inaugural John Duncan Award, which recognises outstanding achievement.
The 73-year-old former Scotland, Celtic and Manchester United midfielder has been running a homeless shelter in Stoke, where he had two stints as manager.
Arsenal's Mikel Arteta, Brighton's Roberto de Zerbi, Newcastle's Eddie Howe, Burnley's Vincent Kompany and Plymouth's Steven Schumacher were also on the manager of the year shortlist.
Kompany and Schumacher won the Championship and League One manager of the year awards respectively, after their clubs each amassed 101 points on their way to the title.
Leyton Orient manager Richie Wellens claimed the League Two award after also clinching the title.
The Women's Championship award was won by Lauren Smith, who won the league with Bristol City.
PEACE OF MIND AT LAST: Today is my first day since leaving office of Governor of Kaduna State.
It has been the easiest day I can recall in nearly ten years - no wake up calls or knocks on my bedroom door, no packed schedules from Adejoh Momoh, no running up and down to meet timelines, and no early security reports to read and issue directives!!
So, for many like me, life is much easier as objective bystanders - but for our younger generation, know that you don’t have the luxury of being excluded from politics and public service.
Please be willing to sacrifice your time and resources to help President Asiwaju and all your state governors to succeed whenever called upon.
To the older generation with experience, contentment and integrity, be available in small numbers as well to serve.
Be prepared to add your knowledge, wisdom and judgment to mobilize the energy, innovation and courage of the youth to address the challenges our nation faces.
Together, we will the be able to achieve the Nigerian ideal that President Tinubu outlined yesterday in first inaugural speech. - @elrufai
I was trying to repost the long version of the explanation, but the anti-spam bot banned me. So I'll give you the short version and provide links to the long version.
Al-Hassan Dantata was the patriarch of the family and he originally made the money. He died in 1955.
Ahmadu Dantata and Aminu Dantata were 2 of Al-Hassan's children who took over the business. Ahmadu died, so Aminu became the chairman of the company. Aminu Dantata was probably the richest man in Nigeria in the 1970s.
Aminu Dantata also had a brother who was very wealthy and who was a prominent businessman. That brother was Sanusi Dantata.
Sanusi Dantata had many children and there are 2 prominent children that are well known. They are Abdulkadir Sanusi Dantata and Mariyah Sanusi Dangote.
Mariyah Sanusi Dangote is Aliko Dangote's mother. Aliko Dangote worked for his uncle, the late Abdulkadir Sanusi Dangote for a while and it was this uncle that gave him money to start his business.
Aminu Dantata is Aliko Dangote's granduncle (his grandfather's brother).
Alhaji Aminu Alhassan Dantata (CON) is a wealthy Nigerian businessman and philanthropist from Kano.
Dantata And Sons
Alhaji Aminu Dantata was born in Kano to legendary businessman Alhassan Dantata and Amina Umma Zaria. He began his career in 1949 as a produce buyer in the family business of Alhassan Dantata and Sons Limited. His father died in 1955 and the shares in the business were subsequently distributed to the children. In 1958, Dantata became the deputy managing director of the business while his brother, Ahmadu, was the managing director. When Ahmadu died in 1960, Aminu Dantata became the chairman and managing director of the company, a position he holds till date.
Businesses
However, in the late 1960s, he worked with the newly created Kano State as a commissioner. He left in 1972 to partake in the nation’s industrial drive and was known to have bought shares in major companies including Mentholatum, Raleigh Industries, SCOA, Nigerian Pipes, Northern Nigeria Flour Mills and later, Kano State Oil Mills. During the period, the Dantata business expanded in the North, supplying fertilizer, jute bags, rice and cement to various state governments. It also expanded its importing ventures by bringing in building materials and automobiles, in the case of the latter; it was a distributor of Mercedes Benz cars in the country.
The business also invested in large scale farming, with holdings in Asada Farms. The building and construction division of the firm was responsible for building the Defence Academy in Kaduna, extension of the Ahmadu Bello University and building the Nigerian Civil Aviation College in Zaria. The technical division traded in WARD generators and Barford construction equipment and the firm also maintained a terminal at the Warri Port. Alhaji Dantata was a member of the Steering Committee of the Nigerian Industrial Development Bank Limited, and served as a director of the bank between 1962 and 1966. He has led several trade missions to several countries across the world. Alhaji Dantata is the founder of Express Petroleum & Gas Company Ltd and he is also a director on the board of Jaiz Bank, Nigeria’s first Islamic bank.
The Donation Circuit
He was noted, together with Chief M.K.O Abiola, as being one of the wealthiest Nigerians in the 1970s, 1980s & 1990s. Alhaji Dantata was a part-time member of what I call the “Donation Circuit”. The donation circuit was not a formal organisation, but it’s the way that I refer to a phenomenon that occurred in the late 1980s and early 1990s (the Babangida era).
Some of Nigeria’s wealthiest men in Nigeria were often invited to specific events in which they donated large sums of money. These events included fund raising in churches and mosques, university convocations, book launching and fund raising activities by universities, secondary schools, community development associations and charities.
It was usually the same set of people that were invited to these events. The president was usually the special guest of honour (when he was invited), the governor was usually the chief host, the head of the institution was usually the host, Chief M.K.O. Abiola was usually the chief launcher and other members of the donation circuit were usually special guests.
There was a day that I watched the 9 o’clock news and there was an advert for one of these events and the invited guests were listed. There was another advert immediately after and the list of invited guests was almost exactly the same as the list in the previous advert.
The members of the donation circuit included Chief MKO Abiola, Alhaji Aminu Dantata, Chief Sunny Odogwu, Chief Gabriel Igbinedion, Chief Molade Okoya-Thomas, Chief Razak Okoya, Prince Adedapo Tejuosho, Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, Alhaji Ibrahim Dasuki, Prince Adekunle Ojora, Chief Onwuka Kalu (Onwuka Inter-Biz), Alhaji Ahmed Mai Deribe, Chief Michael Ibru, Dr Alex Ibru, Chief Sunny Okogwu, Chief Wahab Iyanda Folawiyo, Alhaji Grema Mohammed, Chief Francis Arthur Nzeribe, Alhaji Isyaku Rabiu, Dr Olusola Saraki, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur, etc.
Sometimes, when the event was a book launch, one of the members of the donation circuit would buy a large number of the books and donate them to the libraries of all universities in Nigeria (or the libraries of all secondary schools in Nigeria).
There was a funny incident that occurred at one of these events. Alhaji Aminu Dantata was often invited to these events, but he was not a regular member of the donation circuit. He only attended the events occasionally. I remember what happened at an occasion that he attended.
Chief Abiola had already announced his donation before Dantata was invited to make his donation. Alhaji Dantata’s donation was slightly higher than Chief Abiola’s. Sometime later Chief Abiola came back to the microphone and announced that he was going to pledge more money later.
He is currently the Chancellor of Katsina Islamic University and the patron of the Kano State Foundation. The foundation engages in the provision of social services and credit to Kano State indigenes. He donated the Alhassan Dantata Haemodyalysis Center to Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (it is one of the best hospitals for the treatment and management of kidney diseases in Nigeria). In 2019 he also donated ₦50 million, toilets & boreholes to Government Girls Secondary School, Dala in Kano and then he donated another ₦50 million to the Old Girls Association of the school. In 2018 President Muhammadu Buhari commended him for his philanthropic gestures after he donated an inclusive lying-in-ward, Amenity Rooms and the Intensive Care Unit at the National Orthopaedic Hospital, Dala, Kano State. Alhaji Dantata was a former member of the Kano Provincial Loans Board.
Alhaji Dantata has also held several public offices, including Chairman, Board of Trustees, Islamic Forum of Nigeria, Aminu Kano Memorial College, Kano. He is the proprietor, Dantata Memorial School, Kano; Life patron, Nigerian Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture, Kano, National Council of Farmers and the Nigerian Association of Small Scale Industries among several others. He was associated, earlier in his life, with some Tijaniyya scholars, including Mohammed Kafanga.
Aminu Dantata’s visit to Abuja Centenary City in 2019 (he is being shown round the project by Alhaji Baba Alhassan Dantata (in brown traditional attire), the developer of the project).
President Tinubu, Wife Thrill Fans At The Inaugural Ball
On May 30, 2023
The President of Nigeria, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and his wife, Remi on Monday night, 29th May, had their first dance at the presidential inaugural ball which took place at the State House Conference Center in Abuja.
The first couple stunned their guests as they danced on stage while legendary fuji musician, King Wasiu Ayinde Marshall (KWAM1) entertained them with his performance.
The Vice President, Kashim Shettima, and his wife, Nana later joined the fun.
Lego has launched a new campaign with Sam Kerr, Megan Rapinoe, Asisat Oshoala and Yuki Nagasato.
WATCH 📺: The Lego Group have launched ‘Play Unstoppable’, celebrating girls’ birthright to play their own way, without the boundaries and limitations society continues to impose on them. Matildas captain Sam Kerr, Megan Rapinoe, Asisat Oshoala and Yuki Nagasato are involved. pic.twitter.com/xRFldqx87w
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Pep Guardiola, Emma Hayes Win Manager Of The Year Awards In England by naptu2(op): 4:11am On May 31, 2023
