Aliko Dangote

Businesses damaged and disrupted include Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote's Dangote Cement Derba Midroc Cement belonging to Saudi-Ethiopian tycoon Mohamed Hussein Ali al Amoudi the Tigray Development Association's Selam Bus the China-Africa Overseas Leather Factory the Indian flower-grower Supra Floritech Netherlands' farming company Solagrow and two tourist lodges on Langano Lake...

It would certainly help if Nigeria's top industrialist Aliko Dangote has as much success with his oil refining and petrochemical businesses as he has with cement production...

in Aliko Dangote's refinery project in Nigeria (AC Vol 52 No 24 Selling the state and Vol 56 No 9 Rising hopes falling revenues)...

Regardless of whether Buhari presides over the privatisation of the four rickety state refineries three of which he had built when he was Oil Minister in the 1970s he is said to back investors such as Aliko Dangote and his refinery project near Lekki just outside Lagos (AC Vol 54 No 18 Cracks widen in the PDP)...

Abdulsalami Abubakar businessman Aliko Dangote Cardinal John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan and the Anglican Primate Archbishop Nicholas Dikeriehi Orogodo Okoh...

Corporate barons are more taciturn than their political counterparts but the absence of businessmen such as Aliko Dangote and Femi Otedola at PDP fundraisers sends its own message...

' One test case this year will be Nigerian magnate Aliko Dangote's bold plan to build a $9 bn...

This time the question is the effect these economic problems will have on a new breed of national capitalists such as Aliko Dangote and companies such as Oando and Seplat as well as on private equity investors from Europe Asia and the Americas – and on public political feeling...

In her case the gamble is on increased power generation: the completion of a gas pipeline from Mtwara to Dar es Salaam; the funding of a 240 megawatt gas-fired power station that will drive rural electrification and end Tanzania's debilitating power-cuts; and the completion of a cement plant in Mtwara by Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote (AC Vol 55 No 13 Sanusi's political throne)...

He also used his influence with Aliko Dangote another Kano notable and Africa's richest businessman to persuade him to fund a tomato processing and canning plant in Kaduna State...