The eagerness of the United States-based private equity firm Blackstone to talk up the value of Nina Bracewell Smith’s 16% stake in Arsenal Football Club may have prompted Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote to pull out of the sale talks...
The list includes more than 200 individuals including two of Nigeria's much-fêted dollar billionaires - Aliko Dangote and Femi Otedola - as well as high profile companies such as former President Olusegun Obasanjo's pet business project Transcorp Ltd...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 2 |
- NIGERIA
- CHINA
3 billion cement manufacturing deal between China’s Sinoma International Engineering Company and Nigerian tycoon Aliko Dangote’s Dangote Group...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 1 |
- NIGERIA
- CHINA
In the private sector Aliko Dangote – Nigeria’s biggest industrialist and Obasanjo’s favourite businessman – is working to save a $3...
Vol 49 No 22 |
- NIGERIA
- ECONOMY
Obasanjo described one of them Aliko Dangote Chairman of the Dangote Group as the ‘engine’ of the economy...
Vol 1 (AAC) No 5 |
- NIGERIA
- CHINA
Aliko Dangote Chief Executive of Dangote Industries confirmed to Africa-Asia Confidential in Abuja that the agreements with Sinoma would amount to China's single biggest private sector deal in Africa...
He is also rumoured to have good connections with the Nigerian political elite including the oil-to-commodities magnate Aliko Dangote and Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan...
Two refineries were sold to business tycoon Aliko Dangote a big PDP supporter...
The board of directors is an A-list of Nigerian business leaders: Chief Executive of Nigerian Breweries Festus Odimegwu; President Dangote Group of Companies Aliko Dangote; Zenith Bank Managing Director Jim Ovia; First Bank MD Jacob Moyo Ajekigbe; Chief Executive Charterhouse Group Otunba Funso Lawal; Chief Executive Zenon Petroleum Femi Otedola; United Bank for Africa MD Tony Elumelu; Chief Executive Orange Drugs Tony Ezenna; and former head of capital and money markets at Farida Investments Adegboyega Olulade...
It will not reopen negotiations nor will Newtel the third bidder backed by northern industrialist Aliko Dangote and Datacom the consulting arm of Deutsche Telekom...