{"id":10170,"date":"2024-05-14T12:15:49","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T11:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/?post_type=biography&#038;p=10170"},"modified":"2024-08-13T05:28:03","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T04:28:03","slug":"dangote-alhaji-dr-aliko","status":"publish","type":"biography","link":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/biography\/dangote-alhaji-dr-aliko\/","title":{"rendered":"DANGOTE, Alhaji (Dr.) Aliko"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aliko Dangote, born April 10, 1957, is a prominent Nigerian business magnate and owner of the Dangote Group, the largest indigenous conglomerate in sub-Saharan Africa. Founded in 1981, the Group operates in cement, sugar, salt refining, and more, employing over 30,000 people across 10 African countries. Dangote, who started his entrepreneurial journey at 20, is Africa&#8217;s richest person, with a net worth of $12.2 billion as of September 2018. He is known for his philanthropy through the Aliko Dangote Foundation and has received numerous honors, including Nigeria&#8217;s GCON and the Forbes Africa Person of the Year 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":27016,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[209,307],"writer":[],"class_list":["post-10170","biography","type-biography","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-person","category-industrialist"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/biography"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23332,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/biography\/10170\/revisions\/23332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10170"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blerf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/writer?post=10170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}