{"id":181672,"date":"2025-10-09T15:56:43","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T15:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=181672"},"modified":"2025-10-09T15:56:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T15:56:43","slug":"i-built-everything-from-scratch-didnt-inherit-my-fathers-wealth-aliko-dangote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=181672","title":{"rendered":"I built everything from scratch, didn\u2019t inherit my father\u2019s wealth \u2013 Aliko Dangote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian billionaire and Africa\u2019s richest man, Aliko Dangote, has clarified that his fortune was not inherited from his father but built entirely from scratch. Speaking in a Bloomberg interview that resurfaced online on Tuesday, Dangote explained that although his father was \u201cfairly wealthy\u201d through business and politics&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/naijaexpress.com\/2025\/09\/02\/i-built-everything-from-scratch-didnt-inherit-my-fathers-wealth-aliko-dangote\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigerian billionaire and Africa\u2019s richest man, Aliko Dangote, has clarified that his fortune was not<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":181673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/181672-i-built-everything-from-scratch-didnt-inherit-my-fathers-wealth-aliko-dangote.png",720,427,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/181672-i-built-everything-from-scratch-didnt-inherit-my-fathers-wealth-aliko-dangote-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/181672-i-built-everything-from-scratch-didnt-inherit-my-fathers-wealth-aliko-dangote-300x178.png",300,178,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/181672-i-built-everything-from-scratch-didnt-inherit-my-fathers-wealth-aliko-dangote.png",640,380,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/181672-i-built-everything-from-scratch-didnt-inherit-my-fathers-wealth-aliko-dangote.png",640,380,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/181672-i-built-everything-from-scratch-didnt-inherit-my-fathers-wealth-aliko-dangote.png",720,427,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/181672-i-built-everything-from-scratch-didnt-inherit-my-fathers-wealth-aliko-dangote.png",720,427,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/181672-i-built-everything-from-scratch-didnt-inherit-my-fathers-wealth-aliko-dangote.png",720,427,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/181672-i-built-everything-from-scratch-didnt-inherit-my-fathers-wealth-aliko-dangote.png",720,427,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/181672-i-built-everything-from-scratch-didnt-inherit-my-fathers-wealth-aliko-dangote-590x410.png",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/181673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}