Category: Business
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Sani Dauda; Nigerian businessman who through his own private company, ASD Motors, bided for and acquired PAN which assembles the enduring motor vehicle brand in Kaduna. With Peugeot’s acquisition, Dauda’s first priority was to re-shape the company’s vision and re-orientate the staff to achieve greater efficiency. In this regard, the company invests in technology and…
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Christopher Olusola Kolade; described by his biographer as a subject that embodies the healthier, sterner, firmer fibre of the nation’s soul, Kolade was from 2002 to 2007 the Nigerian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom. Before this appointment, he had a distinguished public career starting out in 1955 as Education Officer in the Ministry of…
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Alexander Chika Okafor; Nigerian salesman and industrialist. From the sales of toothpick from Ghana, Okafor graduated to buying goods by sea and air from Hong Kong and Taiwan. His conglomerate which employs some five thousand workers consists of lubricant, plastic and soap plants have tank farms and petroleum product processing plant. In the upstream, it…
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Rufus Foluso Giwa; Industrialist and business administrator, hailed as the ultimate CEO by contemporaries, Rufus Foluso Giwa, headed multiple organisations in his business adventure. He was a Chartered Accountant and a Chartered Secretary. Giwa who also showed interest in farming maintained a conservative stance that the government is doing enough for private sector and industrial…
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Mobolaji Bank-Anthony; Industrialist and philanthropist. Bank-Anthony played an active role in the industrial development that swept over Nigeria from 1950s to the 1980s. He was a pace-setter in the joint partnership trend between entrepreneurs and with the various governments. He also spearheaded a good number of government joint ventures at multiple levels. He died May…
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Kase Lawal; Nigerian business owner and employer in the United States. With expertise in the field of international energy Kase Lawal owns his oil exploration, refining and trading company. He served as a seaport commissioner on the Port of Houston Authority Board, becoming the commission’s Vice Chairman in 2001. Kase Lawal is the chair of…
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Ogunlesi Adebayo; Investment Banker and Lawyer, member of the short-lived 16-man American Economic, Strategic and Policy Forum under President Donald Trump was trained in Harvard University, serving as an editor in the Harvard Law Review as student. He worked as a law clerk to a Justice, and attorney in a New York law firm. After…
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Dokpesi Raymond Aleogho; Nigerian media entrepreneur who in the early 1990s harnessed the liberalisation of the Nigerian broadcasting industry which allowed private ownership of radio and television stations in the launching of pioneer private radio and television broadcasting in Nigeria. Dokpesi, Chairman of DAAR Communications is a trained marine engineer, chartered transporter, shipping consultant, and…
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Alaba Lawson; Educationist and fourth Iyalode of Egba. Alaba is the school proprietress of Alaba Lawson Group of Schools, a private co-educational school in Abeokuta. She was described in a tribute marking her golden year by Akarigbo Sonariwo of Remo as a front line mobilizer of Human Resources, and by a Keesi Abeokuta chief, Sorunke…
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Aliko Dangote; Nigerian industrialist and business czar. Aliko is a scion of a popular Dantata family of Kano who started out in 1977 in the Northern city as a trader with a seed money of 500,000 naira given him by his maternal uncle. His trade in food and building materials took him to Lagos in…