Africa’s richest man (according to Forbes), Dangote, who is worth $15.7 billion, recently got everyone taking when he disclosed his interest in purchasing football club, Arsenal,valued at $1.49bn.
In an interview he did with Bloomberg while
traveling in a private jet from Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa to Lagos
on May 1, Dangote said he’ll love to buy the club when the price is
right, “I still hope, one day at the right price, that I’ll buy the
team” he said.
But we have got a better idea.
We know he has a staff strength of about 50, 000 and hopes to have about 150,000 in a few years, so it would be more awesome if he peradventure took some of his staff on an adventurous trip.
How? Let him take a cue from Chinese billionaire, Li Jinyuan.
on the Forbes rich list, on Friday took more than half of his staff to
the region to celebrate the 20-year anniversary of the founding of the
company.
The chairman Tiens Group Company, took 6,400 of his staff on a 4-day
holiday to France which finished with a world-record breaking human
chain in Cote D’Azur.
Jinyuan, booked up 140 hotels in Paris where the group visited the
Louvre and various cultural sites in one of the world’s most famous and
revered cities.
their way to the glamorous Cote D’Azur, where they booked 4,760 rooms in
79 four-and five-star hotels in Cannes and Monaco.
to take the tourists from their hotels to the Promenade des Anglais in
Nice, where Guinness World Record officials where on hand to validate
the world’s biggest ever human chain.