Meet Africa's Richest Man's 3 Daughters With Senior Positions in Dangote Companies
- Aliko Dangote retired from the boards of the Dangote Sugar Refinery Plc. and Dangote Cement Plc. in 2025
- Dangote has three daughters who have taken active and senior roles in various companies under the Dangote conglomerate
- Mariya is the oldest of the Dangote daughters, and she is the Executive Director of Operations at Dangote Sugar Refinery Plc, a position she assumed in 2023
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Aliko Dangote, Africa's richest man, has been strategically withdrawing from his business empire.
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Recently, he retired from his position as the chairman of the board of Dangote Cement. This is the largest cement manufacturing company on the African continent, with operations across nine countries.
Shortly after celebrating his 68th birthday in April 2025, Dangote retired from the chairmanship of the Dangote Sugar Refinery in June. He had held the position for 20 years.
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As Dangote takes a backseat, the Dangote daughters are thriving and taking up prominent roles in the business empire.
Who are Dangote's daughters?
Over the years, Dangote's daughters have increasingly taken senior management roles at the Dangote industries, a move that has been seen as succession planning and a continuation of the family legacy.
Mariya Aliko Dangote
Mariya is the oldest of the Dangote daughters. She earned a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) degree from Bayero University in Kano and became a Barrister-at-Law and went on to get a Master of Business Administration (MBA) at Coventry University in the United Kingdom.
She also attended executive programmes, including the Cambridge Senior Management Programme.
Mariya is the Executive Director of Operations at Dangote Sugar Refinery Plc, a position she assumed in 2023.
In this role, she oversees business strategy, sugar backward integration projects, and the digitisation of key operations.
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Prior to this, Mariya worked at Dangote Industries Limited from 2016 as a business strategy and corporate risk specialist.
She also sits on the boards of several Dangote Group companies, including the Dangote Peugeot Automobiles Nigeria.
In 2025, she joined the board of Dangote Cement as part of the company’s succession planning, reinforcing her growing leadership role in the conglomerate.
Additionally, she is a board member of the Al-Ummah Development Foundation, a Dangote-affiliated non-profit.
Halima Aliko Dangote
Halima holds a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing from American Intercontinental University (London) and an MBA from Webster Business School.
She is the Group Executive Director at Dangote Industries Limited. She previously served as Executive Director of Dangote Flour Mills, where she successfully led a turnaround of the business before its sale to Singapore’s Olam Group.
Before that, she was Executive Director at NASCON Allied Industries and remains on its board as a non-executive director.
In 2022, she was appointed to the board of Dangote Cement Plc, becoming one of the youngest members of the company’s leadership team.
Halima is also active on corporate and philanthropic boards; she serves as Board President of The Africa Centre (New York), sits on the board of Endeavour Nigeria, and is a member of Women Corporate Directors.
She is also a trustee of the Aliko Dangote Foundation, a non-profit organisation under the Dangote Industries.
Fatima Aliko Dangote
Fatima holds a Law degree (LL.B) from the University of Surrey, UK, and is a member of the Nigerian Bar. She has also completed executive leadership programmes at Columbia University, the Wharton School, and Cambridge University.
Fatima is the Group Executive Director for Commercial Operations at Dangote Industries Limited, where she is in charge of the group’s commercial strategy, branding, communications, procurement, and administrative operations.
Previously, she was Executive Director, Commercial at NASCON Allied Industries Plc, where she continues to serve as a non-executive director.
Earlier in her career, she worked as a Technical Specialist in the Group Strategy Unit and as Executive Assistant to the Group Executive Director for Business Development.
Fatima is a trustee of the Aliko Dangote Foundation and represents the organisation at public forums, including World Economic Forum events, where she introduced the Dangote Fellows programme.
Reports in 2025 indicate that she, alongside her sisters, is part of the Dangote Group’s ongoing succession plan, focusing on strengthening the group’s commercial growth and the Dangote legacy.
How rich is Aliko Dangote?
Dangote tops the list of Africa’s richest men in 2025, with his net worth soaring to $23.9 billion (KSh 3.09 trillion).
The 68-year-old industrialist’s vast fortune is anchored in the Dangote Group, a sprawling conglomerate with major stakes in cement, sugar, and petroleum refining, among other industries.
A significant boost to his wealth came from the Dangote Refinery, Africa’s largest oil processing facility, which became fully operational in 2024 and now handles up to 500,000 barrels of crude per day.
Beyond oil, Dangote is aggressively expanding his fertiliser operations and has plans to publicly list the refinery within two years, a move expected to further grow his fortune.
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