Aliko Dangote Turns 64 Today!

Aliko Dangote GCON (born 10 April 1957) is a Nigerian billionaire business magnate. He is the wealthiest person in Africa, with an estimated net worth of US$13.5 billion (July 2020).

Family
Aliko Dangote, an ethnic Hausa Muslim from Kano, Kano State, was born on 10 April 1957 into a wealthy Muslim family, the son of Mohammed Dangote and Mariya Sanusi Dantata, the daughter of Sanusi Dantata. He is the great-grandson of Alhaji Alhassan Dantata, the richest West African at the time of his death in 1955.

Education
Dangote was educated at the Sheikh Ali Kumasi Madrasa, followed by Capital High School, Kano. On his early life, he has said:

"I can remember when I was in primary school, I would go and buy cartons of sweets [candy] and I would start selling them just to make money. I was so interested in business, even at that time."

In 1978, he graduated from the Government College, Birnin Kudu. He received a bachelor's degree in business studies and administration from Al-Azhar University, Cairo.

Business career
The Dangote Group was established as a small trading firm in 1977, the same year Dangote relocated to Lagos to expand the company. Today, it is a multi trillion-naira conglomerate with many of its operations in Benin, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia and Togo. Dangote has expanded to cover food processing, cement manufacturing, and freight. The Dangote Group also dominates the sugar market in Nigeria and is a major supplier to the country's soft drink companies, breweries, and confectioners. The Dangote Group has moved from being a trading company to be the largest industrial group in Nigeria including Dangote Sugar Refinery, Dangote Cement, and Dangote Flour.

In July 2012, Dangote approached the Nigerian Ports Authority to lease an abandoned piece of land at the Apapa Port, which was approved. He later built facilities for his flour company there. In the 1990s, he approached the Central Bank of Nigeria with the idea that it would be cheaper for the bank to allow his transport company to manage their fleet of staff buses, a proposal that was also approved.

He also donated money to the Nigeria sport ministry to renovate the national stadium, Abuja.

In Nigeria today, Dangote Group with its dominance in the sugar market and refinery business is the main supplier (70 percent of the market) to the country's soft drinks companies, breweries and confectioners. It is the largest refinery in Africa and the third largest in the world, producing 800,000 tonnes of sugar annually. Dangote Group owns salt factories and flour mills and is a major importer of rice, fish, pasta, cement, and fertiliser. The company exports cotton, cashew nuts, cocoa, sesame seeds, and ginger to several countries. It also has major investments in real estate, banking, transport, textiles, oil, and gas. The company employs more than 11,000 people and is the largest industrial conglomerate in West Africa.

Dangote has diversified into telecommunications and has started building 14,000 kilometres of fibre optic cables to supply the whole of Nigeria. As a result, Dangote was honoured in January 2009 as the leading provider of employment in the Nigerian construction industry.

He has said, "Let me tell you this and I want to really emphasise it ... nothing is going to help Nigeria like Nigerians bringing back their money. If you give me $5 billion today, I will invest everything here in Nigeria. Let us put our heads together and work."

Other activities
Dangote had a prominent role in the funding of Olusegun Obasanjo's re-election bid in 2003, to which he gave over N200 million (US$2 Million). He contributed N50 million (US$500 Thousand) to the National Mosque under the aegis of "Friends of Obasanjo and Atiku". He contributed N200 million to the Presidential Library. These highly controversial gifts to members of the ruling PDP party have generated significant concerns despite highly publicized anti-corruption drives during Obasanjo's second term.

Dangote reportedly added $9.2 billion to his personal wealth in 2013, according to the Bloomberg Index, making him the thirtieth-richest person in the world at the time, in addition to being the richest person in Africa.

In 2014, the Nigerian government said Dangote had donated 150 million naira (US$750,000) to halt the spread of Ebola. In March 2020, he donated 200 million naira (US$500,000) towards the fight against the spread of COVID-19 in Nigeria.

Aliko Dangote, as well as Femi Otedola, promised to give the Super Eagles of Nigeria US$75,000 for every goal scored in the Africans Cup of Nations (AFCON) 2019.

Dangote lives in Lagos, Nigeria. He has been married and divorced twice. He has three daughters - Mariya, Halima, Fatimah - and one adopted son Abdulrahman Fasasi.

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

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Happy birthday
Lord I tap from his grace.

Thief

Happy birthday �

Baba Aliko!!

The Fulani Nation is proud of you!!

You are our pride!!

It Gladdens my heart that a Diallo is the richest black man in the world!!

We are hated by many, stronger than all...

Dear Baba Aliko....your enemies who wants to distroy you....are about to be consumed by their self consuming hate and bigotry!!

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Our number one problem that we all envy. Happy birthday to the richest man that donates to the rich and collect from the poor

Happy birthday Aliko!

Good for him

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Where is his yansh photo nao?

Hbd AD

Criminal in disguise

Sandydayziz:
I tap from his grace.

na so una go dey tap until you touch the one wey go shock you. do you know where his grace is coming from?

Happy birthday to the wicked rich man who wants to make more Nigerians homeless because of his sheer greed and monopoly. God will judge him.

Baddest,

Dheji2:
Where is his yansh photo nao?

Where is thy sense nao?

Happy Birthday

Hmmm, @64.

Carchoice:
Thief

Lol...nawa o

Money man

He’s one of the cabal in naija. Abeg tell him to reduce the price of cement.

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na so una go dey tap until you touch the one wey go shock you. do you know where his grace is coming from?

Is it your own I should now tap from?
Learn to mind your business. It doesn’t cost anything

Happy birthday to the richest black man in the world..

Hope your new age brings more wisdom to lift more of your people out of poverty, make life easy for them..

Reduce your monopolistic tendencies, welcome competition...

Make your products more affordable to the common man.

Oga Habby birthday. Pls cut down the prices of your goods as ramadan is approaching.

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na so una go dey tap until you touch the one wey go shock you. do you know where his grace is coming from?

Oga, covet the good life EARNESTLY.

a useless man making life hard for his own people deserves no celebration

Happy birthday monopolist.

You no dey do well, any put your aza make bless u.....

Fulani

Happy Birthday