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Aluko, Boateng Launch $500m African Development Fund by kcpragmatik(m): 1:41pm On Oct 03, 2013
Nigerian oil magnate, Kola Aluko, and Ghanaian-born British fashion designer, Ozwald Boateng, have launched the Africa50, a $500m African infrastructure project development fund. Oscar-winning actor and musician, Jamie Foxx, joined the two African businessmen to officially launch the fund on Wednesday at the NASDAQ in New York, where they rang the opening bell, according to a report by Forbes. Africa50, a $500m pan-African infrastructure fund, is a joint venture between the African Development Bank and the Made In Africa Foundation, a United Kingdom non-profit organisation founded by Aluko and Boateng to facilitate development on the continent by funding large-ticket infrastructure projects across sub-Saharan Africa. So far, Africa50 has raised about $250m, with Aluko and the AfDB committing $50m each to the fund. Together with the AfDB, the MIAF plans to attract investments from development finance institutions, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and governments to the fund. Capri Global Capital, a US-based investment advisory founded by African-American fund manager, Quintin E. Primo III, will work with the AfDB and MIAF in raising the additional capital. The alliance between MIAF and AfDB aims to raise $500m for Africa50’s project development arm by the first half of 2014. The money will be used to fund feasibility studies of large-scale infrastructure projects. The Foundation is also planning to raise a $10bn project finance fund. Aluko, a successful oilman, had said in the past that the solution to Africa’s problems was not charity in terms of building schools or hospitals, which sometimes are not sustainable. “These projects happen and then they are left in incapable hands and they are not commercially driven. As a consequence, most of them will go on for
as long as the money has been given lasts and beyond that they slowly dilapidate and slowly die,” he said in an online broadcast.


www.punchng.com/business/business-economy/aluko-boateng-launch-500m-african-development-fund/

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Re: Aluko, Boateng Launch $500m African Development Fund by Chazzyboy: 1:48pm On Oct 03, 2013
Good move i wish other stars will follow ur footstep

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Re: Aluko, Boateng Launch $500m African Development Fund by kcpragmatik(m): 2:06pm On Oct 03, 2013
Chazzyboy: Good move i wish other stars will follow ur footstep


Hope yu aint thinking its the footballers??

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Re: Aluko, Boateng Launch $500m African Development Fund by oluks05: 3:28pm On Oct 03, 2013
kcpragmatik:


Hope yu aint thinking its the footballers??

Lol, I actually thought so myself b4 I read d full story

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Re: Aluko, Boateng Launch $500m African Development Fund by fckyourman: 5:18pm On Oct 03, 2013
Chazzyboy: Good move i wish other stars will follow ur footstep

LOl
Re: Aluko, Boateng Launch $500m African Development Fund by sCun: 12:46pm On Oct 04, 2013
I though it was Aluko the Nigerian and Boateng the Gaynaian footballers. Wow!

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Re: Aluko, Boateng Launch $500m African Development Fund by tellwisdom: 12:46pm On Oct 04, 2013
I don't see how this is going to benefit me.# bye angry

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Re: Aluko, Boateng Launch $500m African Development Fund by psalmdave(m): 12:47pm On Oct 04, 2013
K

Re: Aluko, Boateng Launch $500m African Development Fund by sCun: 12:47pm On Oct 04, 2013
Chazzyboy: Good move i wish other stars will follow ur footstep
That's how we know those who read headlines and jump to comment.
Re: Aluko, Boateng Launch $500m African Development Fund by nerodenero: 12:49pm On Oct 04, 2013
kcpragmatik:


Hope yu aint thinking its the footballers??
I thought so too.Funny enough,both Nigeria and Ghana have footballers bearing Aluko and Boateng.Good to have these super-rich combine together to help alleviate the suffering in Africa.
Re: Aluko, Boateng Launch $500m African Development Fund by Kslib(m): 12:49pm On Oct 04, 2013
Chazzyboy: Good move i wish other stars will follow ur footstep
Lmao!!
I also thought the same thing not until i saw the first line of the article..
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All izz well!
Re: Aluko, Boateng Launch $500m African Development Fund by Ichel: 12:50pm On Oct 04, 2013
This space is not for sale
By police order

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Re: Aluko, Boateng Launch $500m African Development Fund by nerodenero: 12:51pm On Oct 04, 2013
Scun: That's how we know those who read headlines and jump to comment.
gringringrin
Re: Aluko, Boateng Launch $500m African Development Fund by jaytime(m): 12:52pm On Oct 04, 2013
Exactly
Re: Aluko, Boateng Launch $500m African Development Fund by Fazhy: 12:53pm On Oct 04, 2013
Is he the same Aluko that is a lawyer?

Re: Aluko, Boateng Launch $500m African Development Fund by bionicdude(m): 12:53pm On Oct 04, 2013
thought it was aluko and jerome boateng.datz y it is not gud to rush to comment.anyway itz a gud initiative
Re: Aluko, Boateng Launch $500m African Development Fund by AbuMikey(m): 12:54pm On Oct 04, 2013
Mtcheww!!!

See how I rushed to open this thread,thinking it was Sone Aluko and Kevin-prince Boateng angry
Re: Aluko, Boateng Launch $500m African Development Fund by Gifted4all(m): 1:04pm On Oct 04, 2013
God when shall i be able to roll out dollars in millions like dis guys

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Re: Aluko, Boateng Launch $500m African Development Fund by playboy19(m): 1:04pm On Oct 04, 2013
Fazhy: Is he the same Aluko that is a lawyer?

Kola Aluko alongside Jide Omokhore are the two front men for Minister of Petroleum, Allison or whatever she calls herself. The one with froggy eye balls

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Re: Aluko, Boateng Launch $500m African Development Fund by Lordave: 1:04pm On Oct 04, 2013
kcpragmatik:


Hope yu aint thinking its the footballers??
I swear I thought as much. Lol
Re: Aluko, Boateng Launch $500m African Development Fund by ZUBY77(m): 1:05pm On Oct 04, 2013
Dont ever trust a wealthy African businessman with development projects especially if the money would come from other people. A black man's head was programmed to look for his or her interest first. This money will disappear someday without trace. This Aluko and Boateng cannot, i repeat, cannot decline being the managers of the fund. They would stick with the money until death. That is the definition of Africa. If they want us to believe them, let them hand the project over to people like Bill Clinton or Bill Gates. But until then, let them continue their various business.

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Re: Aluko, Boateng Launch $500m African Development Fund by goshen26: 1:15pm On Oct 04, 2013
oluks05:

Lol, I actually thought so myself b4 I read d full story
me too
Re: Aluko, Boateng Launch $500m African Development Fund by HerexG(m): 1:15pm On Oct 04, 2013
ZUBY77: Dont ever trust a wealthy African businessman with development projects especially if the money would come from other people. A black man's head was programmed to look for his or her interest first. This money will disappear someday without trace. This Aluko and Boateng cannot, i repeat, cannot decline being the managers of the fund. They would stick with the money until death. That is the definition of Africa. If they want us to believe them, let them hand the project over to people like Bill Clinton or Bill Gates. But until then, let them continue their various business.

You think so, bro speak for yourself and not Africa.

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Re: Aluko, Boateng Launch $500m African Development Fund by Nonybb: 1:17pm On Oct 04, 2013
Ghanaians are knwn to be POOR. Who dash that Boateng some money. Oh i forgot he is a british-born
Re: Aluko, Boateng Launch $500m African Development Fund by Nobody: 1:27pm On Oct 04, 2013
kcpragmatik: Nigerian oil magnate, Kola Aluko, and Ghanaian-born British fashion designer, Ozwald Boateng, have launched the Africa50, a $500m African infrastructure project development fund. Oscar-winning actor and musician, Jamie Foxx, joined the two African businessmen to officially launch the fund on Wednesday at the NASDAQ in New York, where they rang the opening bell, according to a report by Forbes. Africa50, a $500m pan-African infrastructure fund, is a joint venture between the African Development Bank and the Made In Africa Foundation, a United Kingdom non-profit organisation founded by Aluko and Boateng to facilitate development on the continent by funding large-ticket infrastructure projects across sub-Saharan Africa. So far, Africa50 has raised about $250m, with Aluko and the AfDB committing $50m each to the fund. Together with the AfDB, the MIAF plans to attract investments from development finance institutions, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and governments to the fund. Capri Global Capital, a US-based investment advisory founded by African-American fund manager, Quintin E. Primo III, will work with the AfDB and MIAF in raising the additional capital. The alliance between MIAF and AfDB aims to raise $500m for Africa50’s project development arm by the first half of 2014. The money will be used to fund feasibility studies of large-scale infrastructure projects. The Foundation is also planning to raise a $10bn project finance fund. Aluko, a successful oilman, had said in the past that the solution to Africa’s problems was not charity in terms of building schools or hospitals, which sometimes are not sustainable. “These projects happen and then they are left in incapable hands and they are not commercially driven. As a consequence, most of them will go on for
as long as the money has been given lasts and beyond that they slowly dilapidate and slowly die,” he said in an online broadcast.


www.punchng.com/business/business-economy/aluko-boateng-launch-500m-african-development-fund/

ok noted but please be reminded that a feasibility study is not a guarantee that the project will be invested into or executed.

we need people who will invest not those that will run only feasibility studies, our FG has done sooooooooooooo many feasibility studies and noting was done afterwards

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Re: Aluko, Boateng Launch $500m African Development Fund by Tonylyte(m): 1:33pm On Oct 04, 2013
Nonybb: Ghanaians are knwn to be POOR. Who dash that Boateng some money. Oh i forgot he is a british-born

Hahahahahaha, the gaynaian name there made me believe d story to be pure falacy......even if na british-born, the dna of failure is still in him.....

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Re: Aluko, Boateng Launch $500m African Development Fund by solomon111(m): 1:35pm On Oct 04, 2013
Oil-magnate indeed.
Probably one of the corrupt cabals in our oil industry.
I wonder why most of them are from the SW.
Re: Aluko, Boateng Launch $500m African Development Fund by Fuelish: 1:43pm On Oct 04, 2013
Nonybb: Ghanaians are knwn to be POOR. Who dash that Boateng some money. Oh i forgot he is a british-born
and nigerians r known to be 419ners,ritualists,robbers,terrorists,occultists,thieves,prostitvtes? modafaka from a sh1thole!

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Re: Aluko, Boateng Launch $500m African Development Fund by Tonylyte(m): 2:11pm On Oct 04, 2013
Fuelish: and nigerians r known to be 419ners,ritualists,robbers,terrorists,occultists,thieves,prostitvtes? modafaka from a sh1thole!

mumu, we talking money here, we aint talking nonesense.......bw, u dnt hav punchlines, u keep repeating stuffs.......charcoalistic tendency, so black, so black, so black, enough to over shadow the sun.
Re: Aluko, Boateng Launch $500m African Development Fund by huptin(m): 2:21pm On Oct 04, 2013
solomon111: Oil-magnate indeed.
Probably one of the corrupt cabals in our oil industry.
I wonder why most of them are from the SW.

jealousy, while you people keep boasting that you re the best in everything south western people keep showing the world their prowess and you call them corrupt. How many people in the so called most enterprising people in the world are in the Forbes list of top five richest nigerians? how many people from the most educated people in the world have won a nobel prize in anything? when did the first international flight land in the most developed region in the world? empty chest beaters.

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Re: Aluko, Boateng Launch $500m African Development Fund by yawkusi: 2:21pm On Oct 04, 2013
Tonylyte:

mumu, we talking money here, we aint talking nonesense.......bw, u dnt hav punchlines, u keep repeating stuffs.......charcoalistic tendency, so black, so black, so black, enough to over shadow the sun.

When I saw Nigeria I knew it was scam, and it will definitely be a scam. Some things never change; rain , tax, nigeria, islam

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Re: Aluko, Boateng Launch $500m African Development Fund by Arosa(m): 2:30pm On Oct 04, 2013
yawkusi:

When I saw Nigeria I knew it was scam, and it will definitely be a scam. Some things never change; rain , tax, nigeria, islam

So Ozwald Boateng is a scam?

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