Kano State
DANGOTE,
Aliko
He received a bachelor’s degree in business studies and administration from Al-Azhar University in Cairo.
- Divorced
1. Halima Bello
2. Mariya Dangote
3. Fatima Abubakar
4. Abdulrahman Fasasi (adopted)
Founder, Chairman, and CEO of the Dangote Group
Nigerian-British Chamber of Commerce;
– Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA);
– Kano Chapter of Commerce and Industry;
– Manufacturers Association of Nigeria.
AWARDS AND HONOURS:
– One of the 20 most outstanding CEOs in Corporate Nigeria, Vanguard Annual Award for Managerial excellence, 2002;
– Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON);
– npm: Federal Government of Nigeria, 1998;
– Zik Prize for Professional Leadership, 1998;
– International Honorary Award of the Ahmadu Bello, by Arewa Research and Publication, 1999;
– Best Indigenous Shipper in Nigeria, 2000;
– Cross River Roll of Honours Award, best Entrepreneur and Philanthropist of the year, by Governor Donald Duke, Cross River State, 2002;
– First Ever Fellowship Award, by Lagos State Polytechnic, 2002;
– Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON), 2005;
– Most Respected C.E.O. of the Year, by Price Water House Coopers/ BusinessDay, 2005;
– Entrepreneur of the Year, Thisday Awards, 2006;
– Best CEO of the Year, 11th Annual Thisday Awards;
– Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger, (GCON), 2011.
– Dangote was awarded Nigeria’s second-highest honor, the Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger (GCON) by the former president, Goodluck Jonathan.
– Dangote was named as the Forbes Africa Person of the Year 2014.
– For six consecutive years, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018, Forbes listed him as the “Most Powerful Man in Africa”.
– In 2014, he was listed CNBC’s “Top 25 Businessmen in the World” who changed and shaped the century.
– In April 2014, Time magazine listed him among its 100 most influential people in the world.
– In October 2015, Dangote was listed among “50 Most Influential Individuals in the World” by Bloomberg Markets.
– He won “The Guardian Man of the Year 2015”.
– He won the “2016 African Business Leader Award”, organized by the Africa-America Institute (AAI).
– Dangote was cited as one of the top 100 most influential Africans by New African magazine in 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2019.
INTERNATIONAL/FOREIGN DECORATIONS:
1. Honorary Citizenship of Arkansas
2. Forbes Africa Person of the Year 2014
HONOURARY DEGREES AND AWARDING INSTITUTIONS:
1. Honorary degree of Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) by the University of Ibadan (UI);
2. Honorary doctorate degree of business (Hon. D.B) by the Lagos State University;
3. Honorary Doctorate Degree, Federal University of Technology, Akure, October 2002;
4. Doctors of Science in Business Management (D.Sc. Honoris Causa), by University of Calabar, Cross River State, 2003.
Aliko Dangote is the richest man in Africa.
NOTABLE QUOTES:
1. “I enjoy myself a lot but I derive more joy in working. I believe in hard work and one of my business success secrets is hard work. It’s hard to see a youth that will go to bed by 2am and wake up by 5am. I don’t rest until I achieve something.”
2. “If you don’t have ambition, you shouldn’t be alive”.
3. “Every morning when I wake up, I make up my mind to solve as many problems, before retiring home.”
4. “I built a conglomerate and emerged the richest black man in the world in 2008 but it didn’t happen overnight. It took me thirty years to get to where I am today. Youths of today aspire to be like me but they want to achieve it overnight. It’s not going to work. To build a successful business, you must start small and dream big. In the journey of entrepreneurship, tenacity of purpose is supreme.”
Dangote had a prominent role in the financing of President Olusegun Obasanjo’s re-election bid in 2003, to which he gave over N200 million (US$2 million). He contributed N50 million (US$500 thousand) to the National Mosque under the aegis of “Friends of Obasanjo and Atiku”. Dangote also contributed N200 million to the Presidential Library. These highly controversial gifts to members of the ruling PDP party have generated significant concerns despite highly publicized anti-corruption drives during Obasanjo’s second term.
In 2011, Dangote was appointed by President Goodluck Jonathan to serve as a member of his economic management team. In 2017, rumors circulated that Dangote was considering a run for President of Nigeria in the 2019 election. Dangote declined to run and asserted that he does not intend to run for elected office. Instead, Dangote went on to serve on a special advisory committee for Muhammadu Buhari’s reelection campaign
Dangote has worked alongside the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation on public health issues. In August 2014, he donated ₦150 million ($750,000) to assist the Nigerian government’s efforts to stop the spread of Ebola. In May 2016, he pledged $10 million to support Nigerians affected by the Boko Haram insurgency. In March 2020, he donated ₦200 million ($500,000) towards the fight against the spread of COVID-19 in Nigeria
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