Do You Know The Nigerians On The 2020 Forbes List?
Recently, Forbes released its annual exclusive billionaires ranking with only 4 Nigerians – Aliko Dangote, Mike Adenuga, Abdul Samad Rabiu and Folorunsho Alakija – making the highly coveted list. Amongst the four, Aliko Dangote, President of Dangote Group retained his spot as the World’s richest black person with a fortune of USD10.1 billion. Mike Adenuga, […]
Everyday Heroes: AbdulSamad Rabiu
Abdul Samad Isyaku Rabiu CON (born 4 August 1960 in Kano, Nigeria) is a Nigerian businessman. His late father, Khalifah Isyaku Rabiu, was one of Nigeria’s foremost industrialists in the 1970s and 1980s. Abdul Samad is the founder and chairman of BUA Group, a Nigerian conglomerate concentrating on manufacturing, infrastructure and agriculture and producing a […]
App Of The Week: Hollaport
Hollaport is a fin-tech mobile application that was founded recently by Bua Group as a means of financial inclusion in Nigeria. The app, which was launched on July 6th at the Tech Park Zone, Gbagada, Lagos, was touted by its founder to be a service that will make the process of making payments and transacting, […]
BUA’s Abdulsamad Rabiu Wins CNBC’s Award for Industrialist of the Year
Abdulsamad Rabiu, founder and Executive Chairman of the BUA Group, has been honoured with the Industrialist of the Year Award for West Africa at the All Africa Business Leaders Award (AABLA). The award, which is organized by ABN productions in partnership with business news channel CNBC Africa, recognized the Nigerian billionaire for epitomizing “the core […]
Forbes: Aliko Dangote is Africa’s Richest with $12 billion
Nigerian industralist, Aliko Dangote has topped Forbes Africa’s 40 richest list for the second year, with a net worth of $12billion, up from $10.1 billion, in November 2011. According to Forbes, most of his net worth lies in Dangote Cement PLC, a company which operates in 14 African countries. Aliko Dangote, GCON, born April 10, […]