Oil mogul and billionaire businessman, Alhaji Aliko Dangote has opened up on his determination to see his $23 billion refinery succeed despite all odds. The 650,000 barrels per day capacity is Africa’s largest. According to the Kano-born richest black man on earth, ‘I’ve been fighting battles all my life and I have not lost one yet. ‘The oil mafia is …

The Founder of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote has revealed that both local and international criminal organisations, which he described as “mafia”, made repeated attempts to sabotage his $19bn refinery project located in Lagos. Speaking at the Afreximbank Annual Meetings, Dangote likened the oil cartels to a mafia stronger than the drug mafia hell-bent on maintaining their grip on the …