The country’s enormous phosphate resources are mostly exported in raw form. In 2007, his company was also awarded as the Global Excellence Company of Year. The fortune of the richest black man alive expanded from $13 billion in August to N13.5 billion to further moderated his year-to-date losses to $1.31 billion. Dangote has also been honoured with Nigeria’s second-highest honour GCON (Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger) by then, President, Goodluck Jonathan in 2011. He comes from a wealthy family. The cost of the project is estimated to cost around $2 billion but it is not yet clear how much Dangote’s holding company will contribute to the new venture. He helped fund Olusegun Obasanjo's re-election campaign in 2003, giving over N200 million (US $2 million) to the effort. Aliko Dangote was born in 1957 on 10th April to Mariya Sanusi Dantata and Mohammed Dangote Hajia. Net Worth: $16.6 … His height is 1.67 m tall, and weight is 69 Kg. Below is Aliko Dangote Biography & Net Worth (2020) Full Name: Aliko Mohammed Dangote. In a press statement issued on Sunday, Dangote Group said the construction of the Lome plant would start in the first quarter of 2020, with its inauguration expected before the end of the year. He is the 67th richest person on the planet, according to Forbes Magazine. Aliko Dangote has a current net worth of $8.8 billion according to the Forbes' Real-Time Billionaires rankings. Birth Date: 10, April, 1957, Kano, Nigeria. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. When he was in school, he used to sell candy to students in order to make money. Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, has concluded plans to invest roughly $60 million in Togo in the construction of a cement manufacturing facility. He also gets a royalty from his family business. The results are fact checked and confirmed by a team of editors and industry insiders. When he was in school, he used to sell candy to students in order to make money. After receiving education at the Sheikh Ali Kumasi Madrasa, and Capital High School, Kano, he graduated from the Government College, Birnin Kudu. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP). In 2007, Africa Investors Index awarded his Dangote Sugar Refinery with Best African Initial Public Offer. Now I travel across Africa, helping FORBES track the richest people on the continent and telling their stories. Aliko Dangote has a current net worth of $8.8 billion according to the Forbes' Real-Time Billionaires rankings. His maternal grandfather, Sanusi Dantata, was the former director of the Nigerian branch of Shell B.P., and also the founder of the company Sanusi Dantata and Sons Limited. They can produce 800,000 tons of sugar per year. He also stated his plans of firing team’s manager Arsene Wenger, if he was able to buy the team. This will be Dangote’s first push into Togo and will put the company up against HeidelbergCement of Germany which is the dominant cement producer in the small West African country. He is the great-grandson of the richest man in Africa, Alhaji Alhassan Dantata. He was born and brought up in Nigeria. Early Life: Alhaji Aliko Dangote was born on April 10, 1957, in Kano, Nigeria. Several tech billionaires, like Facebook and Google, top universities like Stanford University, and multi-billionaire... Aliko Dangote Net Worth 2020: Age, Height, Weight, Wife, Kids, Bio-Wiki, Net Worth & Salary of Aliko Dangote in 2020, Nigerian businessman, investor, and owner of the Dangote Group. After graduating from college in the early 1970s, the 21 year old Dangote returned to Nigeria. His great-grandfather is Alhaji Alhassan Dantata, who was the richest West African at the time of his death in 1955.

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