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Subscribe nowThe Inside Story: The Company That Built Its Own Power Station — How the Onafowokans Turned a 1975 Trading Firm Into West Africa's Largest Cable Maker
Coleman was incorporated in 1975 and did not manufacture a cable until 1996. It is now West Africa's largest cable maker, and it spent $20 million building its own power supply to get there. Fifty years, two generations, and the real cost of manufacturing in Nigeria.
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The Inside Story: After Wigwe — How Herbert Wigwe Bought Access to the Top of Nigerian Banking, and What the Bank Has Become Without Him
In 2002 Herbert Wigwe and Aig Aig-Imoukhuede took over Access, then 65th of 89 Nigerian banks, and bought their way to the top. Since his death in February 2024 the shares have lagged every big rival. The story of the deal-maker, and of the bank he left behind.
The Inside Story: The Long Way Back — How Sudhir Ruparelia Was Expelled From Uganda at 16, Came Home With $25,000 and Built Its Largest Indigenous Bank
Expelled from Uganda at 16, Sudhir Ruparelia came home in 1985 with $25,000, opened the country's first licensed forex bureau and built its largest indigenous bank. Then the central bank took it over. As his London trial opens today, the story of the man and the bank.
The Inside Story: The Long Game — How Femi Otedola Rotated From Oil to Power to Banking and Took the Chair of Nigeria's Oldest Bank
Femi Otedola sold his oil business near its peak, built a power company worth more than ten times its listing value, then sold that too and put the money into Nigeria's oldest bank. Five years later he is its chairman and largest owner. The strategy behind his $815 million quarter.
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