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    • Wednesday, 28 June, 2023
      Special ReportInvesting in Nigeria
      Dangote oil scheme raises Nigeria hopes of more refined future

      The project, long in the making, is the brainchild of Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote

      Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari (C) cuts the tape to inaugurate the Dangote Petroleum Refinery and Petrochemicals flanked by (from R to L) Senate President Ahmad Lawan, President/CEO Dangote Industries, Aliko Dangote, Togolese President Faure Gnassingbe, Chairman All Progressives Congress (APC) Abdullahi Adamu, Governor Dapo Abiodun, and Group executive director, Dangote Industries Devakumar Edwin
    • Tuesday, 12 October, 2021
      Education
      Schools must lay the foundations to bridge Africa’s skills gap

      Governments and business have to work together, says Dangote Group’s CEO

    • Wednesday, 21 November, 2018
      Nigeria
      Bold refinery plan aims to transform Nigerian oil

      Billionaire Aliko Dangote’s big gamble seeks to change the economics of the sector

      Workers talk as they move across the under-construction Dangote Industries Ltd. oil refinery and fertilizer plant site in the Ibeju Lekki district, outside of Lagos, Nigeria, on Thursday, July 5, 2018. The $10 billion refinery, set to be one of the world’s largest and process 650,000 barrels of crude a day, should be near full capacity by mid-2020, Devakumar Edwin, group executive director at Dangote Industries said in an interview. Photographer: Tom Saater/Bloomberg
    • Thursday, 23 August, 2018
      News in-depthAfrican companies
      Failed Kenya investment throws doubt on UK aid strategy

      Collapse of cement company raises questions over Britain’s role in Africa

      ARM Cement - Rhino Cement Kenya
    • Wednesday, 11 July, 2018
      Lunch with the FTBest of Lunch with the FT 2018
      Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, on his ‘crazy’ $12bn project

      On his yacht in Lagos, he talks about his ambitious oil refinery — and his dream of buying Arsenal

    • Wednesday, 15 November, 2017
      Special ReportAfrican Philanthropy
      African business leaders find new ways to give back

      From famine relief to skills training and school bursaries, these are some of the entrepreneurs putting their money to work

      Jim Ovia
    • Monday, 9 October, 2017
      Energy sector
      Dangote accuses ‘Bulldozer’ Tanzanian president of scaring away investors
    • Monday, 12 June, 2017
      beyondbricsEmerging markets
      Germany’s initiative on Africa must be seized

      A G20 Partnership with Africa has potential — if the continent’s governments step up

      German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari give a press conference at the Chancellery in Berlin on October 14, 2016. / AFP / John MACDOUGALL (Photo credit should read JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP/Getty Images)
    • Wednesday, 25 November, 2015
      World
      Michael Holman sees signs of success in Nigeria despite the state

      Political nationalism is being replaced by an economic nationalism and a surge of self-confidence

    • Wednesday, 25 November, 2015
      World
      Nigerian business moguls offer help to fledgling entrepreneurs

      Rise of charitable foundations spurs debate on how self-made billionaires can share their success

      FT Africa Summit 2015 at Claridge's. Picture shows Aliko Dangote, President & CEO, Dangote Group
    • Sunday, 18 October, 2015
      Executive MBA
      Whom would you bring to a meeting?

      Meetings can be boring. We asked readers which person, living or dead, they would like to invite along

    • Thursday, 23 April, 2015
      World
      Plight of malaria victims and huge costs are a call to action

      Efforts have reduced prevalence but much more needs to be done

      Bed-nets
    • Tuesday, 3 March, 2015
      African companies
      Nigeria’s oligarchs count cost of oil price and currency falls

      Africa’s richest businessman sees $5.4bn wiped off his estimated $21bn personal fortune

      Journalists inspect a new Porsche Cayman S inside a showroom for the luxury brand on Victoria Island in Lagos, Nigeria, Thursday, May 9, 2013. Porsche is one of the luxury brands now competing for the attention of the ultra-rich in Nigeria, an oil-rich nation of more than 160 million people. While the majority of the country lives in hand-to-mouth poverty, luxury brands are making a push for the dollars of the country's elite. (AP Photos/Sunday Alamba)
    • Sunday, 14 December, 2014
      African companies
      Africa’s richest tycoon adds another $2bn into Nigeria refinery

      Aliko Dangote raises investment to $11bn despite looming slowdown in the country

      Aliko Dangote
    • Wednesday, 8 October, 2014
      Arab banking & finance
      Cash rolls in as Arab region shrugs off bad news

      Indicators show a marked upturn in financial activity in the region, even as sectarian violence spreads

      Dubai’s Burj Khalifa
    • Sunday, 7 September, 2014
      African companies
      Dubai to build west Africa ties with $300m Dangote Cement stake
      Houses near the Dangote Industries cement plant under construction in Pout, some 50 km from Dakar, Senegal on February 6 2014
    • Tuesday, 5 August, 2014
      World
      US seeks to catch up with China in Africa
      US President Barack Obama speaks during a town hall meeting at the Summit of the Washington Fellowship for the Young African Leaders Initiative(YALI) in Washington, DC on July 28, 2014. The YALI Summit serves as the lead-up event to next weeks inaugural U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit, the largest gathering any U.S. President has held with African heads of state and government, which will strengthen ties between the United States and one of the worlds most dynamic and fastest growing regions. AFP PHOTO/Mandel NGANMANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images
    • Wednesday, 4 June, 2014
      LexEuropean companies
      African cement: Dangote’s day?

      Africa’s richest man and Lafarge battle it out

      Industrial magnate: Aliko Dangote
    • Thursday, 15 May, 2014
      beyondbricsJavier Blas
      The surge in Africa direct investment
    • Tuesday, 13 May, 2014
      World
      Blighted economy in Nigeria’s north fuels brutal insurgency
      Residents of Danbare neighbourhood in the northern Nigerian city of Kano
    • Sunday, 4 May, 2014
      Commodities
      Slow start to Nigeria’s farming transformation

      Scheme to reduce reliance on imports is criticised for being protectionist

      A woman works in a rice mill in Aliade community
    • Monday, 3 March, 2014
      beyondbricsUS downturn
      Africa’s elite leap up the global billionaire rankings
    • Tuesday, 28 January, 2014
      beyondbricsJonathan Wheatley
      Davos wrap: EM winners (Mexico) and losers (Brazil)
    • Friday, 11 October, 2013
      FT Magazine
      Aliko Dangote – Africa’s richest man

      The Nigerian industrialist has built up a fortune worth $22bn – and his ambitions may not be contained by one continent

      Aliko Dangote on his way to meet Barack Obama in Johannesburg
    • Friday, 11 October, 2013
      beyondbricsMarkets
      Nigeria: stumbling on
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