Billionaire Aliko Dangote Quietly Positioning 2nd Daughter, Halima As Likely Successor

One of Africa’s richest, Alhaji Aliko Dangote is quietly paving way for his successor insiders divulged.

Information pieced here and there revealed the power behind Dangote group is positioning second daughter, Halima as likely successor.

‘He is quietly but intensely showing her the ropes’ an informant divulged.

Added revelations have it that the move has been on for a while underground.

‘it is being kept as quiet as possible so as not to put too much pressure on as regards expectations and public focus on Halima’ another insider disclosed.

Findings by societynwng.com revealed already Halima is already overseeing some of her father’s vast business as part of takeover reign processes.
Aliko Dangote & Daughter, Halima

Additional information revealed the wealthy individual widely applauded as the Nation’s biggest employer of labour has also been taking pains to integrate Halima into high net worth settings home and abroad as part of a sub conscious transfer of influence plot in preparing the daughter for higher responsibility.

According to yet another insider ‘already the signs are there for the discerning’

Part of the indications pointed is the fact that Halima is increasingly assuming presence at high profile engagements featuring her billionaire father.

Some of the significant events are father holds dear that attest to this development are when Danote was honoured by President Goodluck Jonathan as Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger and presentation of a $2.6m relief materials to victims of the Kogi state flood.

The mother of two who got married to Suleiman Sani-Bello in 2008 was part of these events and other strategic happenings that helps to position and integrate her into her father’s world.

Pointed out an insider, it is also instructive to note that her other sisters, Fatima, Zainab, Salma, Aisha and Sadia remain deeper in the background – away from public glare as possible.

The nearest to ‘chosen’s’ increasing public presence in a distance of kilometres is Fatima, who oversees Cupcake Factory, Lagos.

A Masters in Business Administration holder from the Website Univerity, United Kingdon, Halima met her husband Suleiman Sani-Bello while schooling at the American Intercontinental University, London.

And outside of ongoing tutelage to be her father’s successor, she sits aboard her husband’s company, Sublime Group as Group Executive Director

The company at stake, Dangote Group with its dominance in the sugar market and refinery business is the main supplier (70% of the market) to the country’s soft drinks companies, breweries and confectioners. It is the largest refinery in Africa and the third largest in the world, producing 800,000 tonnes of sugar annually.

Dangote Group owns salt factories and flour mills and is a major importer of rice, fish, pasta, cement and fertiliser. The company exports cotton, cashew nuts, cocoa, sesame seed and ginger to several countries.

It also has major investments in real estate, banking, transport, textiles and oil and gas. The company employs over 11,000 people and is the largest industrial conglomerate in West Africa.

Dangote has diversified into telecommunications, and has started building 14,000 kilometres of fibre optic cables to supply the whole of Nigeria. As a result, Dangote was honoured in January 2009 as the leading provider of employment in the Nigerian construction industry

The mega business enterprise is also a leading producer of Cement and recently dabbled into gold mining.

The most recent talking point about it is renewed interest in acquiring rated premiership club, Arsenal FC.