THE LEDGER BUSINESS · MONEY · MARKETS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2026 VOL. XII · NO. 184 THE MONEY ISSUE PRICE $4.50 THE MONEY ISSUE · FIVE PROFILES Five fortunes, five ways of keeping them They built in telecoms, river barges, warehouse robots, digital...
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THE LEDGER BUSINESS · MONEY · MARKETS THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2026 VOL. XII · NO. 184 THE MONEY ISSUE PRICE $4.50 THE MONEY ISSUE · FIVE PROFILES Five fortunes, five ways of keeping them They built in telecoms, river barges, warehouse robots, digital software and scrap metal. Not one of them made it quickly, and not one of them is finished. BY A. R. WHITFIELD · Editor LAGOS · HAMBURG · SEATTLE · MADRID · ANTWERP E Adeyemi ran T H E F I V E AT A G L A N C E very fortune in INSIDE THIS this edition payphones for seven EDITION NAME SECTOR EST. years before the first was made in a 01 Kiosks, then 2 fibre cable reached the fibre business other Lagos shore. M. Telecoms $2.4bn people found dull. Adeyemi 02 The barges 3 nobody Fibre in the ground. The second half of the wanted Steel on the water. story is harder. Once W. Hals Shipping $6.1bn Arms on a the money is real the 03 Forty percent 4 job changes from faster warehouse floor. P. Automation $3.3bn building to deciding: 04 The coder who 5
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