He built his Dangote Group into a conglomerate with interests in sugar, flour milling, cement and salt processing.
International health organizations, governments, donors and philanthropic organizations like the Dangote Foundation have made contributions towards managing the outbreak.
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Dangote has always held the upper hand in all these sectors, but BUA Group has been a worthy challenger.
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In December he consolidated his previously public cement holdings with his private investments across 14 African countries into newly listed Dangote Cement.
Aliko Dangote announced the donation this past weekend when he was visited by a UNICEF delegation led by Jean Gough, the UNICEF representative in Nigeria.
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Dangote later added that few people at the conference know much about Africa and instead rely on historical information or hearsay for its facts.
Dangote made the announcement last week in Lagos during a breakfast meeting with some senior editors of various Nigerian media organizations to commemorate his 57th birthday.
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Dangote started building his fortune over three decades ago by trading in commodities like cement, flour and sugar but became a billionaire by manufacturing these items.
According to the report published by the Punch Newspaper, a couple of the acquisitions were made by billionaires Aliko Dangote and Mike Adenuga.
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Dangote has made a fortune by providing cement to Nigeria and other African countries that otherwise would likely have to pay to import much of the materials.
Dangote began building his fortune more than three decades ago when he started trading in commodities like cement, flour and sugar with a loan he received from his maternal uncle.
Dangote started building his fortune more than three decades ago when he began trading in commodities like cement, flour and sugar with a loan he received from his maternal uncle.
He started trading commodities more than 30 years ago after receiving a business loan from his uncle, and eventually built the Dangote Group, which in addition to cement owns sugar refineries, flour milling and salt processing facilities.
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On his private jet, the Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote - whose business empire includes production of cement, flour and sugar - explained why he is involved in an initiative to double immunisation efforts in his home state, Kano.
While Dangote did not disclose the planned location of the facility or its capacity, he said his Dangote Group, will start work on the refinery as soon as the company secures final approval from the federal government and other related agencies.
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He delved into full production of these items in the early 2000s and went on to build the Dangote Group, West Africa's largest publicly-listed conglomerate, which now owns sugar refineries, salt processing facilities and Dangote Cement, the continent's largest cement producer.
While thanking Dangote for the donation, Gough promised that the money will be used to procure 1.7 million doses of measles vaccine and will go a long way in supporting the measles campaign which the Nigerian government is championing through its Ministry of Health and the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA).
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