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Dangote, president of Dangote group, is now richer than Donald Trump,
Republican front runner; Roman Abramovich, owner of Chealsea football
club and Oprah Winfrey, the richest black woman, put together.
Dangote, who came in at the 51st
position of the 2016 ranking by Forbes Magazine, is also richer than the
combination of all other Nigerians who made the list.
Despite losing $300 million from $15.7
billion (N3.1 trillion) to about $15.4 billion, (N3.05 trillion) in the
latest rankings, Dangote remains the richest black billionaire anywhere
on the planet.
At $15.4 billion, the 58-year-old is richer than Abramovich ($7.6 billion), Oprah ($3.0 billion) and Trump $4.5 billion.
The Nigerians who made the list are Mike
Adenuga ($10 billion), Femi Otedola ($1.8 billion), Folorunsho Alakija
($1.6 billion) and Abdulsamad Rabiu ($1.1 billion), who came in at 103,
1,011, 1,121 and 1,577 respectively.
Nigerian billionaires on the list
Bill Gates remains the richest person in
the world with a net worth of $75 billion, “despite being $4.2 billion
poorer than a year ago. He has been No. 1 one for 3 years in a row and
topped the list 17 out of 22 years”.
Amancio Ortega moves up to the second
spot for the first time, displacing Mexico’s Carlos Slim, who slips
number four, while Warren Buffett remained steady in third position.
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg had the best
year of all billionaires, the 31-year-old adding $11.2 billion to his
fortune and moved up 10 places from 16 to the sixth spot.
The global economic volatility and
plunge in commodity prices also affected the billionaires’ list, as the
16 billionaires fell of the list.
“Volatile stock markets, cratering oil
prices and a stronger dollar led to a dynamic reshuffling of wealth
around the globe and a drop in ten-figure fortunes for the first time
since 2009,”Forbes said.
“For our 30th annual guide to the
world’s richest, we found 1,810 billionaires, down from a record 1,826 a
year ago. Their aggregate net worth was $6.48 trillion, $570 billion
less than last year.
“It was also the first time since 2010
that the average net worth of a billionaire dropped – it is now $3.6
billion, $300 million less than last year.”
Alakija was negatively affected by the
fall in oil prices, while Dangote took a hit due to a fall in the
Nigerian currency, naira.
“Her first company was a fashion label
that catered to Nigeria’s elite women, including the wife of former
military president, Ibrahim Babangida, who awarded Alakija’s company an
oil prospecting license. Alakija’s net worth has fallen in the past year
as a result of lower oil prices,” Forbes said.
As Africa’s largest cement producer,
Dangote owns about 90 percent of publicly-traded Dangote Cement through a
holding company, a percentage that exceeds the 80 percent ownership
ceiling set by the Nigerian Stock Exchange.
In 2015, Dangote and 61 others were richer than 3.5 billion people around the world
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