In this video, Bill Gates, an American billionaire and co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, revealed what is most surprising to him about Nigerian billionaire, Aliko Dangote.

Aliko Dangote is also the president of the Dangote Group, which runs one of the biggest conglomerates in Africa. He has the largest listed cement company on the Nigerian Exchange.

Both men, who are very wealthy talk about what they do to improve lives across the world.

Gates said: “It was fun when we got to know each other, we would be travelling around Lagos with the traffic — gives you lots of time to talk. I would be showing Aliko some of my charts, hey Sokoto has a pretty low vaccination rate and Kano needs to do this.”

“And Aliko, he really knows people, he has relationships, he is willing to reach out to people, he would say ‘let’s call the governor’, we would talk to him about this, next thing you know we’ve got the governor of Sokoto on the phone, we’re talking about this.

“So this ability to reach out, to draw on the broad relationships that Aliko has developed — and you know I am pretty shy about calling people. I just want to mail them my charts.

“In fact, what has come out of that is that Aliko and I do conference calls with six of the governors in the northern states where twice a year we look at vaccine coverage.

“It is a big challenge, but really drawing on Aliko’s communication skills and the fact that he is not afraid to call anyone. Everyone likes to talk him, its been phenomenal.”

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