HIS NET-WORTH IS NOW OVER $13.8BILLION. NOW 51st RICHEST IN THE WORLD. FOLLOWED BY FACEBOOK 26 YEAR OLD CEO who holds No 52 spot.

The Nigerian businessman's fortune surged 557% in the past year, making him the world's biggest gainer in percentage terms and Africa's richest individual for the first time.
The catalyst was listing Dangote Cement, which integrated his investments across Africa with his previously public Benue Cement; it now accounts for a quarter of the Nigeria Stock Exchange's total market cap.

Already the continent's biggest cement maker, he has plants under construction in Zambia, Tanzania, Congo and Ethiopia and is building cement terminals in Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast and Liberia, among other places.

DANGOTE has been shuttling back and forth to London for months, in anticipation of a public offering there later this year. He began his career as a commodities trader; built his Dangote Group into conglomerate with interests in sugar, flour milling, salt processing, cement manufacturing, textiles, real estate, and oil and gas.

FORBES HAS FINALLY calculated the real worth of one of my business role models for the first time since year 2001 that the group diversified & embarked on massive expansion projects.
DANGOTE GROUP CREATES THE LARGEST EMPLOYMENT IN NIGERIA, NOW BIGGER THAN NBC(COCACOLA). may this man leave long to keep empowering NIGERIANS. OUR POLITICIANS AND PAST MILITARY OFFICERS SHOULD EMULATE THIS NOBLE NIGERIAN AND STOP LAUNDERING MONEY TO SOME FOREIGN BANKS.