LEAD STORY 2

Dangote Petitions ICPC Over Allegations Against NMDPRA Chief

Daily Dispatch December 16, 2025

Billionaire industrialist and President of the Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has submitted a formal petition to the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) against the Managing Director of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority

EDUCATION

Dangote releases alleged details of NMDPRA Chief’s Children’s foreign education

Daily Dispatch December 16, 2025

Aliko Dangote, Chairman of Dangote Industries Limited, has released what he described as specific details regarding the alleged foreign education expenses of the four children of the Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA), Engr. Farouk Ahmed. According to Dangote, the information relates to the children’s

NEWS

Dangote appoints former CBN Director as Group Chief Economist

Daily Dispatch December 15, 2025

Aliko Dangote has approved the appointment of former Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Director, Hassan Mahmud, as the Group Chief Economist of Dangote Group. The appointment, which takes immediate effect, places Mahmud in charge of providing strategic economic analysis and policy advisory services across the conglomerate’s diverse business interests, including cement, energy,

FEATURES

Inside the Swiss Elite Schools Only the World’s Wealthiest Can Afford

Daily Dispatch December 15, 2025

When Aliko Dangote spoke of school fees running into millions of dollars, many Nigerians asked a simple question: Which secondary school costs that much? The answer lies not in exaggeration, but in a rarefied world far removed from ordinary classrooms—elite Swiss boarding schools built for royalty, billionaires, and future global power brokers. Two institutions stand […]

COLUMNS

Many Mallam Farouk Among Us

Daily Dispatch December 15, 2025

By Adejare Ibrahim Who is Mallam Farouk? Aliko Dangote, in a press conference, alleged that a senior government official sent his four children to a secondary school in Switzerland at a whopping cost of 5 million dollars (an equivalence of 7.5 billion naira). A person of Dangote’s status will not just speak for speaking sake. […]

LEAD STORY 2

Dangote levels corruption allegations against NMDPRA Boss

Daily Dispatch December 15, 2025

…alleges $5m spent on children’s Swiss education Aliko Dangote, chairman of Dangote Industries Limited (DIL), has accused the chief executive officer of the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA), Farouk Ahmed, of corruption, alleging that the regulator spent millions of dollars on his children’s education abroad. Dangote claimed