Wealth Intelligence: Jim Ovia — The $643 Million Pivot
The founder of Nigeria’s most profitable bank has left its chairmanship — and is pouring his conviction into the Lagos skyline. A full read of where the fortune sits, and where it’s moving.
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Wealth Intelligence: Aliko Dangote — The $40 Billion Climb
Anatomy of a $6.8 billion year — and the refinery, cement and listings that could carry Africa’s richest man past $40 billion.
Wealth Intelligence: Othman Benjelloun — The Succession Question
At 93, Othman Benjelloun still holds both the chairman and chief-executive titles at Bank of Africa, still chairs the strategy committee, and by all accounts intends to keep going.
Wealth Intelligence: The $50 Billion Question at the Dangote Refinery
Inside the Dangote Refinery listing and what a public valuation does to Africa’s largest private fortune.
Wealth Intelligence: The Motsepe Architecture — How a Mining Fortune Became a Diversified Pan-African Capital Platform
A wealth-architecture profile of Patrice Motsepe, whose $4.3 billion fortune now spans diversified mining, gold, digital banking, renewable energy, and a presence on the share register of the world's largest sovereign wealth fund.
Wealth Intelligence: The Kenyatta Family — Asset Architecture, the Nedbank Transformation, and the First Material Restructuring of the Family’s Institutional Wealth Since Independence
The May 4 NCBA disclosure has surfaced the Kenyatta family's institutional cap table for the first time. A full Wealth Intelligence map across banking, dairy, hospitality, media, land, and Northlands City.
Wealth Intelligence: Mike Adenuga — The Most Opaque Continuity Plan in African Wealth
Mike Adenuga turned 73. He has positioned Bella Disu as his successor — but the rest of his empire remains the most opaque continuity plan among Africa's top fortunes. We map the holdings and what the market still does not know.
Wealth Intelligence: Abdul Samad Rabiu — The Best Quarter in Nigerian Industrial History, and It Still Wasn’t Enough to Hold Third Place
Rabiu posted the best quarter in Nigerian industrial history — BUA Cement profit up 381 percent, BUA Foods proposing a record N504 billion dividend, and over $400 million flowing to him personally in a single season — and still fell to fourth on the continent.
Tony Elumelu: The Dealmaker Who Won’t Stop Building — Macron’s Pick, Transcorp’s Record Year, and the Empire Behind Africa’s Most Visible Businessman
Macron tapped him for France's Africa coalition, his foundation just deployed $16 million, and Transcorp posted record revenue of $399 million — inside the empire and influence of Tony Elumelu.
Wealth Intelligence: Motsepe and the Gold War Windfall
Gold past $5,400, platinum surging, ARM's profit swinging from a R409 million loss to R1.9 billion — inside the war windfall quietly compounding Patrice Motsepe's fortune.
Aliko Dangote and the War Premium — How the Hormuz Crisis Is Stress-Testing Africa’s Richest Man
Brent past $109, margins collapsing, a third price hike looming, and an IPO that could redefine African capital markets — inside the forces reshaping Dangote’s $32.5 billion empire in real time.