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*BUA RESPONDS TO DANGOTE*

*BUA RESPONDS TO DANGOTE*

News Feature
It's with a profound sense of responsibility and a heavy heart that we address the claims and very cheap attempts at blackmail levelled against BUA by Aliko Dangote in a recent 7-page editorial following months of sponsored campaigns of calumny against us using third-party platforms. To put things in perspective, it's imperative to revisit history—a history not of rivalry but of resilience; not of enmity, but of endurance. In August 1991, ayoung BUA was doing its commodities trading business just as Nigeria faced a scarcity of sugar. As sugar was scarce, BUA was lucky to be one of the few with any stock for sale, and we stood prepared to supply the nation's needs as best as our stock could. It was during this period Aliko Dangote approached us to purchase sugar. If only we knew he was s...
EXCLUSIVE: Bank documents expose how Dangote wired funds to NPA’s Bala Usman during general elections

EXCLUSIVE: Bank documents expose how Dangote wired funds to NPA’s Bala Usman during general elections

Breaking News, Press Release
Hadiza Bala Usman did not play an open role in the 2015 campaign, but her share of the election spoils has been rapid and significant. In the heat of the 2015 general elections, Aliko Dangote transferred N200 million to a bank account run by Hadiza Bala Usman, a BringBackOurGirls activist who has been the managing director of Nigerian Ports Authority since 2016. The transactions were sent in two tranches from two different bank accounts of the Africa’s richest man to Ms. Bala Usman’s account with Access Bank, financial records seen by Peoples Gazette said. Ms. Bala Usman received the first N100 million transfer on February 6, 2015; while the second N100 million came through three days later on February 9. The transfers carried ambiguous descriptions that made it difficult to c...