{"id":234648,"date":"2016-07-27T15:42:27","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T15:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=234648"},"modified":"2016-07-27T15:42:27","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T15:42:27","slug":"business-magnate-founder-of-global-haulage-passes-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=234648","title":{"rendered":"Business magnate &#038; founder of Global Haulage passes on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Business magnate and Founder\/ Group CEO of Global Haulage Group Alhaji Dr. Adamu Iddrisu has died.<\/p>\n<p>He died at age 82.<\/p>\n<p>He is reported to have passed on, early this morning [Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Adamu Iddrisu is reputed to be one of the most successfully business men in the history of the country.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-234663\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/31092484.295.jpg\" alt=\"31092484.295\" width=\"295\" height=\"195\" \/>He was the force behind many successful businesses in the areas of agriculture, banking, transport, commodities, insurance and real-estate among others in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>He is the founder of the Royal Bank, Imperial General Insurance Limited, Universal Agro Services and Isudam Construction Limited.<\/p>\n<p>Other companies he founded include Cocoa Merchants, Federated Commodities (FEDCO), Trans Royal Limited and Royal Commodities all prominent companies in the cocoa industry.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-234662\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/79774541.full_.jpg\" alt=\"Alhaji Dr. Adamu Iddrisu \" width=\"487\" height=\"730\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Adamu Iddrisu&#8217;s empire was birthed in 1964 following the formation of the Alhaji Adamu Transport Company.<\/p>\n<p>By 1971, the transport company had evolved into Great Grunshie Company.<\/p>\n<p>He in 1992 changed the name of the company to Global Haulage Limited.<\/p>\n<p>Under his leadership the company won many national and international awards, including: EMRC Euro Market Award (1998, Brussels), Millennium Excellence Award (2005), and Golden Trophy for Quality (2007, Madrid).<\/p>\n<p>In 2007 he was also honored with the award of the Member of the Order of Volta by President J.A. Kuffuor.<\/p>\n<p>He left behind 22 children, who will be taking over his tall list of businesses, having been running them under his guidance and training for the past twelve years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By:\u00a0 Vivian Kai Lokko\/citibusinessnews.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business magnate and Founder\/ Group CEO of Global Haulage Group Alhaji Dr. Adamu Iddrisu has died. He died at age 82. He is reported to have passed on, early this morning [Wednesday. Dr. Adamu Iddrisu is reputed to be one of the most successfully business men in the history of the country. He was the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":234689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[121,32,171,1166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking-and-finance","category-business","category-local-economy","category-transport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/234689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}