₦airaland Forum

sukkot:
na yoke i dey yoke

joinnow:
Just one policy can change matter bruuh this is Nigeria and he will disappear from world's billionaires list

femidejulius:
I have been around for a while. Richest man in Nigeria has largely been based on people's perception and it may not be necessarily accurate until we got to the era of technology when the world became global village and it became more easier to track people's wealth. However from 1960 till date, these people have been respectively believed to be the richest by a large number of Nigerians.

*Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu (Emeka Ojukwu's father)
*Mobolaji Bank-Anthony
*Moshood K. Abiola
*Alhaji Aliko Dangote

There's no point criticizing this list. I am not saying it is 100% accurate but if you ask around, it is popular enough to be considered.

NeeKlaus:
Lols! Okay..


*laughs in Diezani.. smiles in Babangida.*

aremuforlife:
i stand to correct you that MKO Abiola wealth was ruined or made pior till date, even after death his legacy still speak for him. just go and and see his children and how they all improve on their daily activities.

trippleKAY:
I know that particular building in Kaduna . abandoned more than 20 years now

Emmem005:
It has been for some years now hearing Aliko Dangote here and there........has Nigeria never produced a world class rich man before?
My question goes thus::: WHO IS THE RICHEST MAN IN NIGERIA BEFORE DANGOTE?

I believe this will educate us and my fellow Nairalanders

trippleKAY:
I know that particular building in Kaduna . abandoned more than 20 years now

vertueptime:
And also add indimi in the mix

PierreDeFermat:
that doesn't mean anything,Am Waleed has better jet than Bill Gates and Bill Gates is way richer. Hushpuppi has wore a 110million wrist watch but I doubt if Dandote has a watch that expensive and Damgote is richer

sukkot:
every dollar that exists on this planet belongs to that man. they own the federal reserve that prints the USA dollars. the man controls all the banks in the world. nobody is richer than the rotschilds. they downplay their wealth because if the whole world knows that one family owns half of the whole worlds wealth their would be anarchy and anger. but like i said, every dollar in this world including the one in dangotes pocket belongs to the rotschilds


and on a side note. who the fork is musa of malo ?

PierreDeFermat:
Musa of Mali is the richest man of all times. he existed more than 600 years ago

femidejulius:
I have been around for a while. Richest man in Nigeria has largely been based on people's perception and it may not be necessarily accurate until we got to the era of technology when the world became global village and it became more easier to track people's wealth. However from 1960 till date, these people have been respectively believed to be the richest by a large number of Nigerians.

*Louis Odumegwu Ojukwu (Emeka Ojukwu's father)
*Mobolaji Bank-Anthony
*Moshood K. Abiola
*Alhaji Aliko Dangote

There's no point criticizing this list. I am not saying it is 100% accurate but if you ask around, it is popular enough to be considered.

maturemindsonly:
its King Solomon oga

PierreDeFermat:
Indimi is not that rich joor. Even Dr Dre,Jay-z,Beyonce,Diddy,Madonna,Celine Dion,Cher,J Lo etc are all richer than Indimi

PierreDeFermat:
Indimi is not that rich joor. Even Dr Dre,Jay-z,Beyonce,Diddy,Madonna,Celine Dion,Cher,J Lo etc are all richer than Indimi

PierreDeFermat:
Indimi is not that rich joor. Even Dr Dre,Jay-z,Beyonce,Diddy,Madonna,Celine Dion,Cher,J Lo etc are all richer than Indimi

Juliette05:
Dangote is just an errand boy to the Super rich in Nigeria, he might officially be the richest but he isn't even in the first 30

vertueptime:
In nigeria he's rich, imagine the only rich man who princess diana stayed over at his house, see there was a time in abj i say his son ahmed indimi, if u see how all those big abj boys they come dobale for the guy eh, not to talk about his father

hedonistic:
Unfortunately, your memory is not correct.

You people should stop parroting this falsehood about the faker called Harry Akande. Afi 6th richest man in the world. Scoffs. The man was never even the richest in Ibadan where he comes from. That title goes to a certain reclusive mogul known as Bode Akindele... Let alone Nigeria, let alone Africa, let alone the world.

Deinde Fernández, yes, he was quite wealthy and possibly one of the richest (and most globally influential) Nigerians of his generation. I dare say Deinde was even richer than the flamboyant and showoffish MKO at his peak, only less noisy.

In all, it is difficult to say who was the richest before Dangote, for the simple reason that Forbes hadn't started including Nigerians (or even Africans) in its famed reliable billionaire rating index.

However, I'll hazard an enlightened guess that people like Mai Deribe and Isiaku Rabiu Isiaku would be right up there as the richest Nigerian businessmen in the 1990s before Dangote took over.

maturemindsonly:
musa of Mali.. not malo.. otherwise known as Mansa Musa.. the 2nd richest person ever .. King Solomon is the richest person ever

arent88:
some of u would just be typing beer parlour gossips.no be only errand boy

naptu2:
Part 4

Abdulkadir Sanusi Dantata,

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September 1 1945- February 7 2012 (Aliko Dangote's uncle). He gave Aliko Dangote a business loan with which Dangote started the Dangote Group

The late Alhaji Dantata was born in Sarari Dantata Quarters in the ancient city of Kano to the famous Dantata family on September 1, 1945. He was the eldest son of Sanusi Dantata, son of business mogul and patriarch, Alhassan Dantata, but by dint of hard work, he built a stupendous fortune for himself.

Not even the family's renowned business and trade patrimony, which had already guaranteed him a financially secure future, could stop the late Dantata from knowledge acquisition. This took him first to Sudan and then Kumasi, Ghana, where he obtained a certificate in advanced Islamic studies in 1956. Four years later, he returned to Nigeria to complete primary education at Kuka Primary School, Fagge in Kano. Unlike some of his peers, a thirst for knowledge nudged him on to acquire the Grade Two Teachers’ Certificate in 1968 before he joined the family business of cotton, groundnut and other agricultural products. In fact, the family business line was the largest licensed produce-buying agent of groundnut in Nigeria in the 1960s.

BUSINESS

Alhaji Dantata would not be content with that; he needed to express himself as he established his Dantata Land and Sea, a company that was into transportation, civil engineering and farming. The business initiatives further crystallised into one of the biggest construction firms - Dantata and Sawoe (founded in 1975) - which he partnered with German interests. As chairman of various business interests including the Asada Group, Brunelli Construction Co. Ltd, WJ Syndicate, Goguwasia Trading Company, Beijing-China, the sky was his limit. His business empire traversed construction, shipping, farming, trading and manufacturing.

Long before he died on February 7 this year, he had deservedly earned for himself the national award of the Commander of the Order of the Federal Republic (CFR) for his industry and contributions to the development of the country.


A stream of eminent personalities and well wishers at his burial could have indicated his disposition to people and life generally. Dantata’s health challenges may have cut short his other taller ambitions, but he would remain a beacon of hope and inspiration to budding businessmen.

naptu2:
Part 3

Sanusi Dantata (Aliko Dangote’s grandfather)

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Sanusi Dantata (born c. 1919, date of death unknown) was a Nigerian entrepreneur and son of Alhassan Dantata.


In the 1960s, he was the largest licensed produce buying agent of groundnut in Nigeria. However by 1980, he had relinquished some of his business interest to his sons, including the eldest, Abdulkadir Sanusi Dantata, who co-founded Dantata and Sawoe and Asada Farms.


Business network

The Dantata family operated their businesses partly through a patrimonial system of credit allocation, trade and business transfers to kin, household and other members of their clientage. At one point in time, both Sanusi and his brother, Aminu controlled about 200 agents involved in buying Kola nut, Livestock, Ground nut and Merchandise. The system involved about five autonomous level of associates, agents, and farmers. Some members of these system engage in buying goods from restricted rural areas and transporting it to the city where another group of agents in the Urban area buys the goods and store them in stead for Dantata. Also the Dantata family through marriage and credit extension is linked with a few independent trading families in Kano and Northern Nigeria.


Sanusi Dantata was a personal friend of the Qadiriyya scholar, Ali Kumasi and supported some of the latter's religious works in Kano. His support for Ali Kumasi led him into conflict with Nasiru Kabara, the leader of the Qadiriyya movement in Kano and West Africa and a former tutor of Sanusi. Both Kumasi and Dantata tried to promote an independent Qadiriyya scholarship and religious authority, challenging the leadership of Kabaya. However, by the early 1970s, both men joined the Kabara faction of Kano Qadiriyya.

naptu2:
Part 5

Dr Mariya Sanusi Dangote (nee Dantata)

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Billionaire businesswoman, Dr Mariya Dangote, is the daughter of Sanusi Dantata and granddaughter of legendary businessman Alhassan Dantata. She is married to Mohammed Dangote (a business associate of Alhassan Dantata) for whom she had Aliko Dangote, a multi-billionaire businessman. Her brother is Abdulkadir Sanusi Dantata, one of the founders of Dantata & Sawoe Construction Company and Asada Farms.

She sits on the boards of numerous companies, including MRS Oil and Gas, Mentholatum Nigeria Limited and the Dangote group. She is also known for her philanthropy, donating a hospital, which she built at Rijiya Lemu, to the Kano State Government in 2003.