{"id":6631,"date":"2022-09-14T12:22:24","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T12:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugandaupdatenews.com\/?p=6631"},"modified":"2022-09-14T12:22:30","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T12:22:30","slug":"aliko-dangote-africas-richest-man-attends-ruto-inauguration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/aliko-dangote-africas-richest-man-attends-ruto-inauguration\/","title":{"rendered":"Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, attends Ruto inauguration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote is among the VIPs attending President-elect  William Ruto’s inauguration ceremony at Kasarani International Stadium today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr Dangote, who is also Africa’s richest man, was spotted on the dais among the dignitaries and top Kenyan politicians who came to spectate the event. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Nigerian tycoon has previously tried to invest in Kenya by\u00a0planning\u00a0to build a cement factory in the local market. His firm\u00a0Dangote Cement, however,\u00a0delayed its entry into the Kenyan market\u00a0<\/a>without giving\u00a0the reasons for the change of plans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But in a reported conversation with Kenyan journalist Jeff Koinange, he allegedly\u00a0revealed that he shelved plans to extend his vast business empire to Kenya after\u00a0being put off by top decision makers<\/a>\u00a0in the country whom he has described as \u201cmore corrupt than Nigerians.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote is among the VIPs attending President-elect  William Ruto’s inauguration ceremony at Kasarani International Stadium today. Mr Dangote, who<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/dangote.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5897,"url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/africas-wealthiest-man-billionaire-aliko-dangote-loses-700-million-in-10-days\/","url_meta":{"origin":6631,"position":0},"title":"Africa\u2019s wealthiest man, billionaire Aliko Dangote loses $700 million in 10 days","author":"UgandaUpdate","date":"June 11, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Africa\u2019s richest billionaire Aliko Dangote has seen his net worth plummet in the past 10 days due to a massive sell-off of shares in his cement company Dangote Cement Plc, which resulted in a significant drop in the company\u2019s share price on the Nigerian Exchange. 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