Although, Africa’s richest man, Nigerian Aliko Dangote dropped to 105th on the 2017 Forbe’s real-time billionaires’ ranking, he maintains the lead in Africa, as the richest man.



Dangote, who was ranked 51st in 2016 with a net worth of $15.4 billion, currently has a net worth of $12.2 billion, africannews.com reports.



The businessman was ranked 37th richest man in the world in 2014 with a net worth of $25 billion.



The decline is attributed to the devaluation of Naira, the Nigerian currency.



There are 21 African billionaires living in Africa worth a combined $70 billion.



The next African on the is South African diamond magnate Nicky Oppenheimer who ranks 199th with $7 billion, followed by another South African, luxury goods tycoon Johann Rupert who ranks 237th with $6.1 billion.


Nigerian telecom tycoon Mike Adenuga ranked 250th with a net worth of $5.8 billion, followed by Egypt’s richest billionaire Nassef Sawiris ranked 269th and worth $5.6 billion.



Retail magnate South African Christoffel Wiese ranked 269th with a worth of $5.6 billion.



South Africa retains its dominance on the Africa list and is tied with Egypt for the largest number of individual billionaires.



Only two female billionaires in Africa made it on the list including daughter of Angola’s president Isabel dos Santos – who is Africa’s richest woman – and Nigeria’s Folorunsho Alakija, vice chair of Nigerian oil exploration company, Famfa Oil.



Tanzanian Mohammed Dewji is Africa’s youngest billionaire at age 41. He is CEO of conglomerate METL, which his father founded in the 1970s.



Onsi Sawiris of Egypt is the continent’s oldest billionaire at age 86 and the father of two other African billionaires — Nassef and Naguib Sawiris.



Thirteen out of Africa’s 21 billionaires have self-made fortunes, while the other eight inherited their fortunes.



They hail from 7 countries: South Africa, Egypt, Nigeria, Morocco, Algeria, Angola, and Tanzania.


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http://www.eyereport.com.ng/dangote-remains-african-richest-man-see-others/

Cc; Lalasticlala

their problem

i cant find my name there

Dangote......one of Nigeria's biggest problem

Just as the guy below me is nairaland biggest problem.
I fell like pooin on him

Dangote is a bloody pauper.

colossus91:
i cant find my name there

Kindly edit the post and put ur name their

I'm not understanding, is it that no potor man is ranked anywhere in Africa?

One Hausa and two Yorubas mentioned.

Hope those cursed with sorrow and wailing won't cry marginalisation as usual?

The man still collect his share of recession....

He is a blood sucker.

Listen you believe or you did not believe, before this year runs out something great will happen in me and you life in Jesus Name #click like to say amen

Mark Zukerberg is richer than all of them combined, he is $79billion rich.

Yorubas always represent when it comes to good things.

Children of Hatred can jump inside the lagoon.

Am just moved to pray this prayer to the readers of this that your caption shall be like of the dangote's, dangote and the rest of the africa rich people i.e it shall be ur name and the rest,we shall not serve our entire life time in jesus name.

Fact is most of Nigeria's billionaires don't appear on forbes list. We know them

Gates is back at the top

#MySignatureMyBusiness

If not for d crappy economy we have in this country, this man should have made top twenty richest man in d world by now.



Buh dis man get money oh.Despite d drastic reduction in his net worth since 2014,he is still worth ALMOST double of the second richest man in Africa!

Salute sir!!!

DeSepiero:
Fact is most of Nigeria's billionaires don't appear on forbes list. We know them

and what exactly does that mean ? where are they hiding billions of dollars ? in grave yards ? please brah be sensible in your utterances

Some people chest-beat while the game players keep making the money!

SuperS1Panther:
Yorubas always represent when it comes to good things.

Children of Hatred can jump inside the lagoon.

Potor is not ranked anywhere in Africa.

Jews....

SuperS1Panther:
Yorubas always represent when it comes to good things.

Children of Hatred can jump inside the lagoon.

Don't mind them!

Always shouting multi billion investment

They think wealth is about opening petty shops and stalls across Nigeria

Boastful lots!

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SuperS1Panther:
Yorubas always represent when it comes to good things.

Children of Hatred can jump inside the lagoon.

tribalism & hate don almost ruin u

try change!

NCANTaskForce:
Mark Zukerberg is richer than all of them combined, he is $79billion rich.

mark zuckerbergs wealth is in stocks and speculations. in reality he is not that rich. he produces nothing.all he has is a website. dangotes wealth is mostly tangible. he produces. he is wayyy richer than zuckerberg in reality.

Dangote will and can never be Richer than me for as long as am alive ...

DeSepiero:
Fact is most of Nigeria's billionaires don't appear on forbes list. We know them

You mean the one who made their money from drug trafficking, fake products and kidnapping?