customized13:
when will you start knowing when I comment, were igboro

truefact:

At least you acknowledged two important things, igbos are hard worker and you can't do without them, hence they are in Union... . Does it truly mean you lots lazy and devoid of any brain?

Topeakintola:


[s]Customized13, when will you start making sense?[/s]

Entchidodo:
With Ibeto,Guo,Innoson and very numerous businness tycoons already domiciled there it would be bad idea for Dangote to start there(he will be chewed raw by the stiff competition).....tis like asking GM to go fight for market dominance in Japan,the hometown of Honda,Toyota,KIA,Mitsubish etc....Tis good thinking to fight for dominance in the neutral grounds of Southwest and the rest of the country....You know how those slaves enjoy paid employment and pean nuts....no businness acumen,industry or competition.South West is every industrialist wet dream.

FreeGlobe:

we have home grown billionaires in the south east, we dont care about a dangote. You cant do business with us because you cant cope, we aint on the same intellectual plane with you guys

Entchidodo:
Human development ranks far ahead of infrastructural development,see your life?
www.nairaland.com/2263635/south-east-south-west-south-south-lead-attainment
..what is the use building a bridge when you have upto 4million almajiris wallowing in poverty?? maybe they will use the bridge to do meruwa,mieshai. or turn the whole expanse into an internomadic cattle highway.... And people wonder why the North and Southwest are backwards and filled with festering heap of human waste..

Entchidodo:
With Ibeto,Guo,Innoson and very numerous businness tycoons already domiciled there it would be bad idea for Dangote to start there(he will be chewed raw by the stiff competition).....tis like asking GM to go fight for market dominance in Japan,the hometown of Honda,Toyota,KIA,Mitsubish etc....Tis good thinking to fight for dominance in the neutral grounds of Southwest and the rest of the country....You know how those slaves enjoy paid employment and pean nuts....no businness acumen,industry or competition.South West is every industrialist wet dream.

abduljabbar4:

That's one thing about Igbos. Once you defeat them, insults will be next. If there are 4 million Almajiris in kano, then how many Alhajis do we have

Entchidodo:
With Ibeto,Guo,Innoson and very numerous businness tycoons already domiciled there it would be bad idea for Dangote to start there(he will be chewed raw by the stiff competition).....tis like asking GM to go fight for market dominance in Japan,the hometown of Honda,Toyota,KIA,Mitsubish etc....Tis good thinking to fight for dominance in the neutral grounds of Southwest and the rest of the country....You know how those slaves enjoy paid employment and pean nuts....no businness acumen,industry or competition.South West is every industrialist wet dream.

WisdomFlakes:


From www.dangcem.com

Dangote Cement Plc (DCP) is Nigeria's largest cement manufacturer with ambitious plans to expand into 14 other African countries. A fully integrated quarry-to-depot producer, the Group has production capacity of about 19 million tonnes a year in Nigeria. At 10mt, its Obajana plant in[b]Kogi[/b] state is the largest in Sub-Saharan Africa. The recently opened 6mt Ibese plant is less than 100km from Lagos, in the fast-growing South West of Nigeria. The Group’s Gboko plant, in Benue state, is expected to be upgraded from 3mt to 4mt in early 2013.

Dangote Cement is investing more than $4bn to expand its production and import capacity to around 50 million tonnes a year by the end of 2015. The investment will increase capacity in Nigeria to at least 32mt, with new capacity being added at Ibese and Obajana, and a new factory being planned for Calabar, in Cross River state.

The Group’s African operations will include factories in Senegal, South Africa, Cameroon, Gabon, Benin, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Zambia and the Republic of Congo. Import and bagging facilities are planned for countries including Ghana, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cote d’Ivoire and Togo.

Dangote Cement is the largest company on the Nigerian Stock Exchange, having listed its shares in October 2010.

otr1:

Are you kidding me? Dangote that produces cement, flour, sugar, salt etc will be competing with Ibeto and Innoson? What will be the basis of their competition?
Which hole did you craw out from?
To start with, Ogun state alone is more industrialized than the whole SE combine, so I don't get your point.

macjive01:
Because he cant compete with the igbos, igbo owned companies based in the SE. He goes to regions he can be Monopoly.

coolitempa:


Exactly......even a 12 yr old boy in iboe land is planning......how to run away to shagamu to sell gala...on d road... ...dangote no be muumuu o...

CyberTerrorist:
the Kogi state he has his biggest cement factory, what value does it add to the state? ..Is the state better than any state in the SE/SS?

Entchidodo:
The irony is Dangote makes much of his profit via his distribution chain which isn't exclusive to his company but is deregulated to independent marketers......are you pondering what we are pondering?? Independent marketers....What tribe is massively invested in trading and businness?? Igbos...thus a wealthy Dangote means a healthy,wealthy marketing chain dominated by igbos especially in viable economic hubs of Southern Nigeria..It keeps getting better and better for the igbos.

Funnicator:
This is a business mogul actually the richest black man on earth who sees business opportunities where average business men don't. He has investments in south west and north and north central even across Africa. But none in igbo land.

Does it literally mean south east is unfavourable for big enterprises to rise?

AnambraDota:
Its only when I came to Lagos that I discovered Dangote monopolize the entire cement market. In East cement manufacturers and importers are giving him a run for his money.

In East there is

Dangote Cement

Ibeto Cement.

Unicem.

Elephant Cement.

Eagle Cement.

But here in Lagos its only Dangote that people normally buy.

AnambraDota:
Its only when I came to Lagos that I discovered Dangote monopolize the entire cement market. In East cement manufacturers and importers are giving him a run for his money.

In East there is

Dangote Cement

Ibeto Cement.

Unicem.

Elephant Cement.

Eagle Cement.

But here in Lagos its only Dangote that people normally buy.

Funnicator:
This is a business mogul actually the richest black man on earth who sees business opportunities where average business men don't. He has investments in south west and north and north central even across Africa. But none in igbo land.

Does it literally mean south east is unfavourable for big enterprises to rise?

xlnc2324:


I wonder why most of people commenting don't think. Why is it so difficult to know that most factories are located nearness to major raw materials. From all Dangote produces, which of the raw materials could be easily found in the South East?

QuotaSystem:


No we are smart workers. The new mantra is to work smart, not hard (only foolish people do that).

Even ants and bees know the wisdom of having workers and rulers.

bigfrancis21:


Well, with the Igbo's continued quest for a country of their own, Dangote might not think it profitable to establish a factory in an area which may break away from Nigeria someday.

In Israel, for example, Jerusalem is Israel's capital. However Jerusalem is divided into East and West Jerusalem, the West belonging officially to Israel and the East to Palestinians. However, the west has been annexed by Israel and Israel's continued ownership of West Jerusalem is not assured for this reason. The US government, when about to site its embassy, chose not to build their embassy in Jerusalem but in Tel-Aviv which is a legal part of Israel, as carved out by the UN in 1948.

MrKnowitall:
Good question.

But before you ask why the richest man in Africa is not investing in the Southeast region, you must first ask why southeastern people are not investing in their own region. When you get the answer to that question, you will automatically know the answer to your Dangote question.