Just yesterday, Channels TV unveiled the updated FORBES LIST which presented Alh. Dangote as the richest African Man as usual, and this conglomerate Aliko Dangote Africa's richest man and Nigerian billionaire business mogul escaped the morning attack on a hotel in Bamako, Mali by a whisker.
Media reports say gunmen launched an attack on the American owned world class Radisson Blu hotel on Friday morning taking 140 guests and 30 staff hostage in Bamako.
Dangote left the hotel 24 hours before the attack, it was learnt that there were fears earlier that the President of the Dangote Group of Companies may have been trapped in the attack.
Aljazeera English correspondent in Nigeria Yvonne Ndege in her Twitter handle said she had a direct conversation with Dangote who confirmed he was in Nigeria, safe.
Gunmen shouting Islamic slogans attacked a luxury hotel full of foreigners in Mali’s capital Bamako early on Friday morning, taking 170 people hostage, a senior security source and the hotel’s operator said.
Dangote said: “Rumour about me being held hostage is false. I was in Mali yesterday. Thank you for your concern. My prayers with those involved.”
Meanwhile, the raid on the Radisson Blu hotel, which lies just west of the city centre near government ministries and diplomatic offices in the former French colony, comes a week after Islamic State (IS) militants killed 129 people in Paris.
The identity of the Bamako gunmen, or the group to which they belong, is not known. Northern Mali was occupied by Islamist fighters, some with links to al Qaeda, for most of 2012.
Although they were driven out by a French-led military operation, sporadic violence has continued. The security source said as many as 10 gunmen had stormed the building, firing shots and shouting “Allahu Akbar”, or “God is great” in Arabic.
The Chinese state news agency Xinhua said several Chinese tourists were among those trapped inside the building. The company that runs the hotel, Rezidor Group, said it understood that there were two gunmen. “According to our information, two people are holding 140 clients and 30 employees,” it said in a statement quoted by the BBC.
A senior member of the hotel’s security detail said two private security guards had been injured.
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