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The US Energy Information Administration says Nigeria's seaborne petroleum product exports have grown seven-fold since 2023, driven entirely by output from Aliko Dangote's Lagos refinery.
Theresa Oppong-Beeko graduated from the University of Ghana, went into fishing, failed with $2.5 million in debt, returned to study, and built Manet Group into a $420 million Ghanaian real estate empire.
Fidson Healthcare founder Fidelis Ayebae says ongoing expansion will make the company Sub-Saharan Africa's largest pharmaceutical manufacturer after a record N119 billion revenue year.
Coleman Technical Industries managing director George Onafowokan says Nigeria's $1 trillion economy target by 2030 is achievable but hinges entirely on manufacturing, affordable power and patient capital.
Ibrahim Mahama's Damang Gold Mine has employed nearly 400 locals in its first four months of operation, with an airstrip, road corridor and sports facilities already taking shape in surrounding communities.
The Johannesburg Stock Exchange says it has engaged Dangote Group and hopes to bring the refinery listing to South Africa after its Nigerian IPO.
Aliko Dangote has raised $2.5 billion in a private placement ahead of his Nigerian refinery's IPO, set to become the largest in African history.
Beninese tycoon Samuel Dossou-Aworet's Petrolin Group has begun operations at its Parakou dry port, shipping first cotton after years of delay.
Moussa Koanda moved from consumer goods trading and petroleum distribution to build Burkina Faso's first solar panel factory, a $111 million cement plant and one of West Africa's most quietly formidable industrial empires.
Paul Fokam Kammogne left Cameroon Bank in 1979, earned a PhD in Bordeaux, and built Afriland First Bank into a $3.6 billion institution to prove Africa could finance its own development without foreign banks.
Farouk Ismail inherited a failing general dealer in Lobatse from his father, made the pivotal decision to hand operational control to a Kerala accountant named Ram, and built a $38 million retail fortune.
Inoussa Kanazoe left his village with 13,500 FCFA, sold ice cream in Abidjan and returned to build a cement empire across five countries and a gold mining group acquiring the mines foreign companies are fleeing.
Mahamadou Bonkoungou left Dédougou with a baccalaureate and no capital, traded gold and cassettes across West Africa, then built EBOMAF into a $3 billion infrastructure empire.
Fidelis Ayebae's Fidson Healthcare has closed its N21 billion ($12.9 million) rights issue 117% oversubscribed, receiving N24.65 billion in applications against N21 billion available, validating three decades of building Nigeria's leading indigenous pharmaceutical manufacturer.