Three Nigerians have made it to
the list of 2,043 billionaires in the world while only one black man, made it
to the top ten in the latest Forbes release.
Out of the 2,043 people in the
2017 FORBES list, only 10 of them are black.
Aliko Dangote, Mike Adenuga and
Folorunsho Alakija represented Nigeria in the list.
Dangote is the only black person
in the top 10 with a fortune estimated at $12.2 billion.
Saudi-Ethiopian construction
magnate, Mohammed Al-Amoudi, who is worth $8.4 billion occupies the second
position.
Angolan investor, Isabel dos
Santos, American media mogul Oprah Winfrey and Nigerian oil woman Folorunsho
Alakija are still the only black female billionaires on the FORBES billionaires
list.
See top ten black billionaires
found in the global list of 2,043 people as compiled by Forbes.
1.Dangote $12.2 billion (Nigeria)
2. Mohammed Al-Amoudi,
$8.4billion (Ethopia-Saudi-Arabia)
3. Mike Adenuga, $6.1 billion
(Nigeria)
4. Isabel Dos Santos, $3.1
billion (Angola)
5. Oprah Winfrey, $3
billion(America)
6. Robert Smith, $2.5 billion
(America)
7. Patrice Motsepe, $1.81 billion
(South Africa)
8. Folorunsho Alakija, $1.61
billion (Nigeria)
9. Michael Jordan, $1.31 billion
(America)
10. Mohammed Ibrahim, $1.14
billion (British)
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