almost final money speaks.pdf

Who would have thought that a young
man with a dream could turn N500K into
what has now become one of the largest
conglomerates in the world which
netted the founder a staggering
personal fortune close to $20 Billion
dollars, and to think that the majority of
this wealth was made right here in
Nigeria? Imagine if Aliko Dangote had
taken the N500K that his grandfather
lent him and instead of starting a
business in Nigeria, he decided to travel
to the UK or USA to further his studies,
settle down there and work for a blue
chip company like millions of Nigerians
have done? Had he done that, then the
Dangote group would never have
existed and the nearly 12,000 people
who he employs across the group would
have been added to the already over
stretched Nigerian job market.
Aliko Dangote would have become
another faceless and nameless Nigerian
working for the White man and
spending his leisure time on social
media insulting Nigerian Politicians. I
wonder what Nigeria would have been
like if all her sons and daughters who
went abroad in the name of furthering
their education actually returned home
after their studies and got stuck in and
helped to rebuild Nigeria? By now
Nigeria would have been like South
Africa or even Singapore. In the UK
alone there are well over 2 million
Nigerians residing there both legally and
illegally and only God knows how many
more millions are domiciled in the
United States of America. How many
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Aliko Dangote’s would we need in order
to transform Nigeria? About 2-3 hundred
will do. I am so proud of Aliko Dangote,
he inspires me especially because I was
born in the UK and till date there is no
single Nigerian in the UK who has
achieved what Aliko Dangote has
achieved in Nigeria and that’s a fact.
We complain that Nigeria is underdeveloped
and that is the reason why the
country is not progressing, and yet it is
the same Nigeria that produced the likes
of Aliko Dangote, a man whose business
empire is worth Trillions of naira and
counting. Whether its cement
production or sugar refining, Dangote is
heavily represented, and in recent years
he has ventured out of the shores of
Nigeria, and has already begun to
dominate other African countries such
as Ghana, Togo and Benin.
Aliko Dangote is a proud African who
wears his Nigerian nationality proudly
on his sleeves. He is a true industrialist
and serial entrepreneur with the
uncanny ability to see opportunities in
the same place where others see
obstacles.
An Eagle eyed business man who will
stop at nothing until he accomplishes his
goals. Let the sons and daughters of
Africa join me in celebrating one of our
own, a true son of the soil who has made
and continues to make the continent of
Africa ever so proud.