{
  "id": 9322440,
  "title": "Aig-Imoukhuede Hosts Aliko Dangote Foundation WEF Young Global Leaders Learning Journey",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/23/aig-imoukhuede-hosts-aliko-dangote-foundation-wef-young-global",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-23T10:58:04.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "This Day",
    "slug": "this-day",
    "url": "https://www.thisdaylive.com/2026/09/23/aig-imoukhuede-hosts-aliko-dangote-foundation-wef-young-global-leaders-learning-journey-2/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "On Friday, 11 September 2026, business and finance leaders gathered at Access Tower in Lagos for a learning journey hosted by Aigboje Aig-Imoukhuede, Chairman of Access Holdings and Coronation Group. The event, organized by the Aliko Dangote Foundation and World Economic Forum Young Global Leaders, focused on the theme \"Finance, Capital and the Real Economics of Building at Scale in Africa.\" The participants, including Zouera Youssoufou, Innocent C. Ike, Obeahon Ohiwerei, Adebayo Adewolu, Temi Popoola, Chuka Eseka, David Bird, Kola Karim, and Adesuwa Okunbo Rhodes, joined current and former members of the Young Global Leaders community to explore the challenges and opportunities in financing and building enduring enterprises on the continent.\n\nThe session followed a tour of the Dangote Refinery, where the group examined the complexities of capital, infrastructure, logistics, development finance, technology, talent, institutional capacity, and capital markets. Speakers emphasized the need to move beyond sporadic examples of large-scale projects to a more repeatable model of capital formation and institution-building. They highlighted the importance of domestic capital markets, mobilization of pension, insurance, sovereign, and private capital, and pathways for broader institutional and public participation.\n\nAig-Imoukhuede stressed that vision, governance, and execution by great talent are crucial for an institution's endurance. He called for Africa's financial architecture to extend across the yield curve, connecting short-term commercial financing with long-term institutional capital. Zouera Youssoufou emphasized that the challenge lies in strengthening capital, institutional, and operating systems to enable ambitious enterprises to reach scale and endure. The discussions concluded with a challenge to the Young Global Leaders to become game changers and carry forward the principles of the programme.",
  "summary": "Nume Ekeghe Leading African business, finance and investment leaders joined current and former members of the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders community at Access Tower, Lagos, for the Finance",
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