omenkaLives:
Donald Duke and co representing.

And some fools want me to hate a people simply because they are Muslims, and call me a slave for failing to do so.

Religious bigotry is borne out of nothing but acute material and mental poverty, not forgetting post election loss trauma.

God bless all Muslims and Christians alike jor.

adecz:


They control how I spend my
dough, by increasing price of cement
& spaghetti..

Billyonaire:


What you are saying comes from poverty of knowledge, your own very poverty of knowledge and I have no idea whether you are also financially poor, but look at that picture again. Any dummy can become the richest man in Africa is the import waivers given to Dangote is given to him/her. Again Any Dummy can become Africa's Richest Man if cheap FX worth several billions of dollars with fluctuational marginal difference worth several billions of Naira. And AGAIN, any Dummy can become the Richest Man in Africa in Africa if he decides to become surrogates of politicians who lodge their loot in his hedge for 20% net profit a 2% fees. One more time but not the last, ANY dummy can become Africa's Richest Man if you have the politicians in your pockets and have the capacity to influence bank lending rate to single digit percentile in a hostile business climate. I wanna add one more thing, ANY Dummy can become Africa's Richest Man if politicians are banning other importers of similar products as a return on investment of sponsoring them into Power. And Common men, the list isn't finishing ? Any Dummy can become Africa's Richest Man if his Trucks are allowed to Kill and go on the roads without liens, no repercussions and just above the laws. Any dummy can become Africa's Richest Man if the roads that his competitor in haulage, interstate transportation of goods are left deplorable, so his competitors can not move their products into the main business hubs. The list go on, I will not even like to mention the sharp practices of manipulating the trading rates when he headed SEC. And how he manipulates prices illegally to destroy his competition after all, he owns the politicians in his pocket.

If Dangote was actually smarter than he is, he is supposed to be the Richest Man in the world. This is not a no brainer.

They are gathered there for one reason and one reason alone. To show that they are united, and what unites them is FRAUD and the next step in the move to acquire more toxic wealth though it is legitimate in Nigeria is illegal in other climes.

I wish I had no conscience.

LastSurvivor11:
Like it or not, people like dangote are the reason Nigeria is not moving forward, he has been in good relationship with every government which thereby favours him monopoly from cement (remember Ibeto and Burham cement) stories to other commodities and now sugar..

Don't be suprise that he's the reason the refinery are not working yet just to make sure he finishes his own..

Enjoy ur salah anyway sir..

omenkaLives:
Donald Duke and co representing.

And some fools want me to hate a people simply because they are Muslims, and call me a slave for failing to do so.

Religious bigotry is borne out of nothing but acute material and mental poverty, not forgetting post election loss trauma.

God bless all Muslims and Christians alike jor.

lofty900:
No single girl in site. That's how you know a gathering of serious minded, intelligent people

gokuu:


On the contrary, regardless of any favors he might have received, it is extremely difficult to hold such a conglomerate together. Very few can manage resources like Dang has. It takes a whole lot more than some ancient import licenses.

Ajimike:


Of Course God Bless everyone.
The problem is,
Would the gun wielding herdsmen say the same to your Kinsmen in Benue?

Using the criminal elites as yardstick for your fake unity is the bigotry you mentioned.

2dugged:
you are one of the grand patrons of bigotry and tribal bashing on this forum, when I joined nairaland, your comments were what endeared me to politics section, stop pointing one finger at others ,cos the four is pointing back at you.I have have always craved for unity, but unity is useless where nepotism, corruption, injustice and terror reigns supreme

Venerable612:


I disagree with you bro. Well-fed Nigerians and elites like Atiku have called for secession.

The fact that they share a table during sallah doesn't mean they are happy with each other. It also doesn't mean that they are not either. I will try to avoid making prima-facie inferences.

ajebuter:


Bros..the girls are hidden in cabins and states rooms, believe me..

You don't expect these old farts to flaunt them, do you? And spoil their businesslike and serious mien..

All in all, its a nice scene..

MyPWisINCORRECT:
Are they canivores?

Why jollof rice no dey the table?

Meanwhile who has seen my brother and friend, NwaAmaIkpe?

Billyonaire:


What you are saying comes from poverty of knowledge, your own very poverty of knowledge and I have no idea whether you are also financially poor, but look at that picture again.

*Any dummy can become the richest man in Africa if the import waivers given to Dangote is given to him/her.

*Again any dummy can become Africa's Richest Man if cheap FX worth several billions of dollars with marginal fluctuation differences worth several billions of Naira is approved for him by his angel investors in power.

*And AGAIN, any Dummy can become the Richest Man in Africa in Africa if he decides to become surrogates of politicians and hedge their loot in his SPV for 20% net profit @ 2% fees.

*One more time but not the last, ANY dummy can become Africa's Richest Man if you have the politicians in your pockets and have the capacity to influence bank lending rate to single digit percentile in a hostile business climate.

*I wanna add one more thing, ANY Dummy can become Africa's Richest Man if politicians are banning other importers of similar products as a return on investment of sponsoring them into Power.

And Common men, the list isn't finishing ?

*Any Dummy can become Africa's Richest Man if his Trucks are allowed to Kill and go on the roads without liens, no repercussions and just above the laws.

*Any dummy can become Africa's Richest Man if the roads that his competitor in haulage, interstate transportation of goods are left deplorable, so his competitors can not move their products into the main business hubs.

The list go on:

* I will not even like to mention the sharp practices of manipulating the trading rates when he headed SEC. And how he manipulates prices illegally to destroy his competition after all, he owns the politicians in his pocket.

If Dangote was actually smarter than he is, he is supposed to be the Richest Man in the world. This is not a no brainer.

They are gathered there for one reason and one reason alone. To show that they are united, and what unites them is FRAUD and the next step in the move to acquire more toxic wealth though it is legitimate in Nigeria is illegal in other climes. And in fact, if I tell you that if skirmishes or civil war breaks out today, there will be more soldiers deployed to man Dangote Assets than will be deployed to protect women and children at the epicenters of war. I am not wrong.

I wish I had no conscience.

Billyonaire:


What you are saying comes from poverty of knowledge, your own very poverty of knowledge and I have no idea whether you are also financially poor, but look at that picture again.

*Any dummy can become the richest man in Africa if the import waivers given to Dangote is given to him/her.

*Again any dummy can become Africa's Richest Man if cheap FX worth several billions of dollars with marginal fluctuation differences worth several billions of Naira is approved for him by his angel investors in power.

*And AGAIN, any Dummy can become the Richest Man in Africa in Africa if he decides to become surrogates of politicians and hedge their loot in his SPV for 20% net profit @ 2% fees.

*One more time but not the last, ANY dummy can become Africa's Richest Man if you have the politicians in your pockets and have the capacity to influence bank lending rate to single digit percentile in a hostile business climate.

*I wanna add one more thing, ANY Dummy can become Africa's Richest Man if politicians are banning other importers of similar products as a return on investment of sponsoring them into Power.

And Common men, the list isn't finishing ?

*Any Dummy can become Africa's Richest Man if his Trucks are allowed to Kill and go on the roads without liens, no repercussions and just above the laws.

*Any dummy can become Africa's Richest Man if the roads that his competitor in haulage, interstate transportation of goods are left deplorable, so his competitors can not move their products into the main business hubs.

The list go on:

* I will not even like to mention the sharp practices of manipulating the trading rates when he headed SEC. And how he manipulates prices illegally to destroy his competition after all, he owns the politicians in his pocket.

If Dangote was actually smarter than he is, he is supposed to be the Richest Man in the world. This is not a no brainer.

They are gathered there for one reason and one reason alone. To show that they are united, and what unites them is FRAUD and the next step in the move to acquire more toxic wealth though it is legitimate in Nigeria is illegal in other climes. And in fact, if I tell you that if skirmishes or civil war breaks out today, there will be more soldiers deployed to man Dangote Assets than will be deployed to protect women and children at the epicenters of war. I am not wrong.

I wish I had no conscience.

2dugged:
you are one of the grand patrons of bigotry and tribal bashing on this forum, when I joined nairaland, your comments were what endeared me to politics section, stop pointing one finger at others ,cos the four is pointing back at you.I have have always craved for unity, but unity is useless where nepotism, corruption, injustice and terror reigns supreme

Ajimike:


Of Course God Bless everyone.
The problem is,
Would the gun wielding herdsmen say the same to your Kinsmen in Benue?

Using the criminal elites as yardstick for your fake unity is the bigotry you mentioned.

Tolexander:
The three tribes represented.

These successful people will never call for the balkanization of Nigeria, only the unsuccessful Nigerian citizens will agitate for secession.

izzou:
There's something spectacular about super rich people,or better still, responsible super rich people

Despite their massive wealth, they seldom show off.

If it was our celebrities that hung out on a hired yacht ( even though their entire wealth is just offering money to these guys), we all know how that table would have looked like

Venerable612:


[s]I disagree with you bro. Well-fed Nigerians and elites like Atiku have called for secession.[/s]

The fact that they share a table during sallah doesn't mean they are happy with each other. It also doesn't mean that they are not either. I will try to avoid making prima-facie inferences.

farihafaheemah:

Reference to Atiku statement is out of point, remember Atiku is a politician and he says what people want to hear in order to buy vote from them. Believe any politician statement at your own peril

COMPAQ:



I don't quite agree with you. Dangotes may not be without some fault, but I think we Nigerians are quick to lay blame for simple government incompetence at the hands of one individual of the other. For example we often say that dangotes made a deal with government to spoil the railway to make way for his trucks. The truth of the matter is that the railway was dead long before dangote expanded to the extent of needing trucks all over the country. Railway disappeared in the early/mid 80's. Dangote was not a household name then. He merely responded to Nigeria not having an efficient rail system and had to buy trucks to move his stuff around.

The same way is when we say generator importers are the reason Nigeria doesn't have light. I was born in the 70's and was very aware from the early 80' and light used to go then too. Perhaps not as frequently and for as long spells as it does now, but light went and got worse year on year, but Mikano and Marapco were not household names till the late 90's. They came when Nigerian economy started to expand when banks were being liberalized and new banks like zenith, Gtb etc were opening branches everywhere and required power. So they were simply filling an existing void in the sector.

Same for airlines. Private jets exist simply because Nigerian government incompetence and policy flip flops (and not forgetting poor management from the airlines themselves - in my view arik had no business self destructing) have made domestic air travel unreliable for the time conscious business man.

If you read any book on entrepreneurs, it will tell you that the first thing to do is to identify a need of people that is not being met and fill that need. That's what dangote, marapco etc have done.

Having said that one can argue that dangote is too cozy with all governments and gets waiver etc. That may be true, but why haven't the others done so. The truth is that most Nigerian rich people are lazy minded. We like easy business of just trading. Any idiot can buy bulk cement produced by someone's else and re bag and sell. Or import iron rods and come and sell. The real smarts and the real money comes from manufacturing, but Nigerians tend to runs from the risks inherent in that. They want the easy life of trading.

Again Nigeria's refineries are not bad because dangote is building his own! Dangotes is building his own because Nigeria's refineries are bad. And the refineries being bad has nothing to do with dangote. Again he's willing to take a risk and it's going to pay off big time. Whereas people have been importing petrol before dangote but will never build refinery. Again as Nigerians we like trading, not making!

Tolexander:
The three tribes represented.

These successful people will never call for the balkanization of Nigeria, only the unsuccessful Nigerian citizens will agitate for secession.

Ajimike:


Of Course God Bless everyone.
The problem is,
Would the gun wielding herdsmen say the same to your Kinsmen in Benue?

Using the criminal elites as yardstick for your fake unity is the bigotry you mentioned.