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[TH="colspan: 2, align: center"]Aliko Dangote[/TH]
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Aliko Dangote in 2011[/TD]
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[TH="align: left"]Born[/TH]
[TD](1957-04-10) 10 April 1957 (age 56)
Kano, Nigeria[/TD]
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[TH="align: left"]Residence[/TH]
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Lagos, Nigeria[/TD]
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[TH="align: left"]Nationality[/TH]
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Nigerian[/TD]
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[TH="align: left"]Ethnicity[/TH]
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Hausa[/TD]
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[TH="align: left"]Citizenship[/TH]
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Nigeria[/TD]
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[TH="align: left"]Education[/TH]
[TD]Business Studies,
Al-Azhar University,
Cairo[/TD]
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[TH="align: left"]Occupation[/TH]
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Chairman &
CEO,
Dangote Group[/TD]
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[TH="align: left"]Years active[/TH]
[TD]1977present[/TD]
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[TH="align: left"]Net worth[/TH]
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US$ 20 billion (2013)[SUP]
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[TH="align: left"]Title[/TH]
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Alhaji[/TD]
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[TH="align: left"]Religion[/TH]
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Islam[/TD]
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[TH="align: left"]Parents[/TH]
[TD]Mariya Sanusi Dantata (mother), Mohammed Dangote (father
"Aliko Dangote has a knack for seeing opportunity that others can't see. He approached the Nigerian Ports Authority with the idea of leasing an abandoned piece of land at the Apapa Port, where he subsequently built facilities for his flour company. When other flour companies protested, the chairman of the NPA, Chief Olabode George stated that Dangote was the one who came up with the idea. Similarly, in the 1990s when he approached the Central Bank of Nigeria with the idea that it would be cheaper for the bank to allow his transport company to manage their fleet of staff buses.
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