NEW
YORK, NY – APRIL 29: Halima Dangote (L) and Honoree Aliko Dangote
attend the TIME 100 Gala, TIME’s 100 most influential people in the
world, at Jazz at Lincoln Center on April 29, 2014 in New York City.
(Photo by Ben Gabbe/Getty Images for TIME)
The Forbes Magazine annual billionaires list for 2016 is out and contains names and assets of 1,810 billionaires from around the world.
The dwindling oil prices and strength of the dollar made so many drop off the list.
Bill Gates for about 20 years has been top on the list and he still retained his position as the richest man in the world.
American presidential candidate Donald Trump also made the list and ranked 324th richest man in the world with a total net worth of $4.5 billion- meaning Nigeria’s Aliko Dangote and Mike Adenuga are richer than he is.
Nigerians Who Made the List
Five notable Nigerians made the list, four men and one woman.
Our very own Aliko Dangote made it and
has retained his position as the richest man in Africa and 51st in the
world. Aliko Dangote’s net worth, according to Forbes, has risen to
$15.4bn from $14.7bn in 2015. He was ranked 67th in the 2015 list.
Dangote founded and chairs Dangote Cement, the continent’s largest
cement producer. A spokesman for Dangote told Forbes that the company
has until October 2016 to lower Aliko Dangote’s stake and plans to do so
by then. Other companies in the Dangote Group, which is active in 15
African countries, include publicly-traded salt, sugar and flour
manufacturing companies.
Mike Adenuga the M.D of
Globacom also ranked the 103th richest man in the world and second in
Africa. Mike Adenuga, who ranked 393rd in 2015 definitely moved up in
2016, Nigeria’s second richest man, built his fortune in telecom and oil
production. His mobile phone network, Globacom, is the
second largest operator in Nigeria with 32 million subscribers; it also
has operations in Ghana and the Republic of Benin. A higher estimate of
Globacom’s revenues led Forbes to increase the value they assign to it.
His exploration outfit, Conoil Producing, operates 6
oil blocks in the Niger Delta. He also owns real estate firm Proline
Investments, which has hundreds of properties throughout Nigeria.
Femi Otedola of Nigeria
also made the list as the 1011th richest man in the world and 3rd in
Nigeria with a Net worth of $1.8billion, Otedola is the controlling
shareholder of publicly traded Forte Oil, an oil
marketing and power generation company. Originally a Nigerian subsidiary
of British Petroleum (BP), Forte Oil has more than 500 gas stations
across the country. It owns oil storage depots and manufactures its own
line of engine oils. In 2013, Otedola led the company to purchase a
government-owned stake in a gas-fired power plant in Kogi state in
central Nigeria.In 2015 he ranked 1741st.
Folorunsho Alakija the
only Nigerian woman on the list who ranked 1,121st richest person in the
world and the 4th in Nigeria with a Net worth of $1.6billion and is
the vice chair of Famfa Oil, a Nigerian oil exploration
company that has a 60% participating interest in block OML 127, part of
the larger Agbami field, one of Nigeria’s largest deepwater
discoveries, about 70 miles offshore. Its partners include Chevron and
Petrobras. Alakija’s net worth has fallen in the past year as a result
of lower oil prices as compared to her 949th ranking in 2015.
Abdulsamad Rabiu, the
founder of BUA Group, ranked 1577th in the world and 4th in Nigeria with
a Net worth of $1.1billion, He is a Nigerian conglomerate active in
sugar refining, cement production, real estate, logistics and port
operations. Rabiu is expanding cement production. In September 2015, BUA
signed a $600 million deal with Sinoma International Engineering, a
Chinese cement equipment and engineering service provider, to construct a
second production line at its flagship Obu cement plant, located in Edo
State in the western part of Nigeria.He also ranked 1741st in 2015.
Top Shots
Mark Zuckerberg, the 31-year-old Facebook
founder added $11.2 billion to his fortune and moved up to No. 6 from
16. He was one of the persons that made their first appearance in the
top ten of FORBES’ annual ranking of the world’s wealthiest.
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