Profile: Dangote – Nigeria's leading businessman and billionaire

Aliko Dangote isn't your run-of-the-mill successful Nigerian businessman. He is always simply clad — no three-piece suits, no natty ties, no fawning aides, no airs, and no long speeches. Just a simple babariga, the long robe favoured by Nigerians for leisurely activities, topped by a small roundish cap.

But beneath that cap is one of the smartest business minds in Nigeria, a mind that has helped this modest and shy 50-year-old businessman to become Nigeria's undisputed Number One industrialist and business king, sitting atop a multi-billion dollar business empire, from a humble beginning that does not include a college education.

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