Dangote is famous to be African richest Man, he was born in Kano, Kano Nigeria, in 1957. Dangote’s mother is Mariya Sanusi Dantata, the daughter of business mogul Sanusi Dantata.
Dangote’s father Mohammed Dangote was a businessman associated with Sanusi Dantata who is the father of Mariya Dantata. He obtained his primary education at the Sheikh Ali Kumasi Madrasa, and then proceeded to Capital High School Kano.
He graduated in 1978 from the Government College, Birnin Kudu. He graduated from Al-Azhar University in Egypt where he studied Business.
Aliko Dangote Career In Business
Upon his graduation, he came back to Nigeria, and then Dangote Group was founded as a small trading firm in 1977 before which he had collected a loan from his uncle and he used the loan to establish his own cement trading business. Years later he transformed the company that became the Dangote Group in 1981. Between 1980 and 1990, Dangote enlarged his operation to include sugar, fish, milk, flour, rice, etc.
He got grounded in manufacturing and was able to create an opportunity for himself to meet the needs of the consumers within the then fast booming Nigeria economy and her increasing population. Dangote later added salt and sugar refineries with flour mills and a pasta factory to his conglomerate in 1999. A year later he commissioned the Obajana cement plant, the largest in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Aliko Dangote Net worth
Aliko Dangote is the first Nigerian to become African richest person in 2007. He reportedly increased by $9.2 billion, elevating his wealth in 2013, turning him into the thirtieth-richest person in the universe and the number one in Africa. As of April 2022, Dangote is the wealthiest person in Africa, with a net worth of around US$14 billion.
Aliko Dangote’s Wife and Children?
Dangote lives in Lagos, Nigeria, he has been married and divorced twice. He has three daughters – Halima, Mariya, and Fatimah and one adopted son Abdulrahman Fasasi.
