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ykalhaji:
Tony Elumelu and Jim Ovia to enter the list next year.

essentialone1:
What about Cubana Chief Priest, Obi Cubana, and Zenco?

Are they no longer Birrionaires?

wiseone28:
I never see KingCold or his fellow black slaves on the list?

Mynd44:
Does Adebayo Ogunlesi identify as Nigerian?

KingCold:
I rather be a black South African "slave" than celebrating one billionaire while 90% of you are wallowing in grinding poverty..

Also, black South Africans make the highest number of US dollar millionaires in Africa son

InvertedHammer:
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Despise what you can't have?

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wiseone28:
And who says there's no poverty in South Africa even in the midst of your masters?

Last time i checked your unemployment is outrageous too.

MightySparrow:
None makes the list.
Shikena!

dydx2020:
There's a level of money $$ you will have that Forbes will know u ...Dangote, Otedola , Adebayo Ogunlesi can't hide their status.

Fact#

Shikena:
Chinedu, don't mind them jare

IGBOPROMISE1:
You’re either a impostor pretending to be Igbo so you can kickstart in earnest the mass wankfest of the e-thugs on this thread….either that, or you’re one naive Igbo for you not to understand why the insecure fckers keep on creating new threads on this very same topic and pushing it to front page!

The last thread on this, they created about a week or so ago, to which i gave a robust response to their gloating, ethnic baiting and wankathon! My post was successfully submitted, but when i checked back about a minute later, someone with the power to do so had sneakily used the autobot ban thingy to hide my post and ban me from the culture section for 5 days just so they could carry on in ‘peace’ with their mocking, gloating and abuse of Ndigbo without that ‘i-too-sabi okoro’ interjecting and ruining things for them! I just looked at the entire episode and laughed!

It’s like these insecure Igbo-hating bigots constantly need to reassure themselves that they’re doing better than the Igbo in order to have some sort of validation in life and be able to sleep well! They need to be pitied and not laughed at!

essentialone1:
What about Cubana Chief Priest, Obi Cubana, and Zenco?

Are they no longer Birrionaires?

Mynd44:
Does Adebayo Ogunlesi identify as Nigerian?

NewDigitalWorld:
Source: https://www.thecable.ng/six-nigerians-named-in-forbes-2025-worlds-black-billionaires-list/

justi40:
I know see my neighbors name there oh, is this list updated??

IGBOPROMISE1:
Can you quit with your Dangote this…Dangote that! The man doesn’t have any extraordinary business acumen, but what i’d concede to him is that he made the most of his people’s total hegemonic control of the Nigerian polity!

Much more than what you see on the surface: favourable gov’t policies in which a select few got first pickings or gov’t enabled preferential treatment; easy access to bank loans; easy access to FOREX at exclusive rates; etc….much more than this was what went on behind the scenes: clandestine and subterranean moves which ensured the Hausa-Fulani/core-north military, entrepreneurial and political class cornered all the lucrative and juicy opportunities in politics, governance and business for themselves, and this was what gave Dangote the edge over everyone else! Like i said and conceded, he does have a bit of a flair for business given his family antecedents, and it was this flair, combined with being part of the clique that ‘owned’ Nigeria, that saw him get to where he is today!

With such a powerful and inherently anti-Igbo hegemony controlling Nigerias’ political and economic fortunes, what chance did a Ibeto for instance stand against such a force? The playing field was rigged in favour of some and against others!

Uchesis:
And you that have it....how has it benefited you?


Your people are still shouting "ebin pawa"

NewDigitalWorld:
Source: https://www.thecable.ng/six-nigerians-named-in-forbes-2025-worlds-black-billionaires-list/

Mynd44:
Does Adebayo Ogunlesi identify as Nigerian?

Hemanwel:
How many times are we gon' have this on front page within a space of one week? And like the other thread, watch how it's going to turn into a tribal war in the next 1, 2, 3...go!!!

NewDigitalWorld:
Source: https://www.thecable.ng/six-nigerians-named-in-forbes-2025-worlds-black-billionaires-list/

NewDigitalWorld:
Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, Femi Otedola, chairman of First HoldCo, and four other Nigerians, have been named among the World’s Black Billionaires for 2025 by Forbes Magazine.

In its annual World’s Billionaires list released recently, Forbes said out of 3,028 billionaires around the world, only 23 are Blacks.

“Twenty-three of them are Black—just 0.8% of the list—but they’re a wealthy and impressive bunch,” the report said.

“Overall, these 23 have amassed $96.2 billion in wealth, mainly from the finance, energy, and technology sectors.”

Forbes said out of the 23 billionaires, only six of them are Nigerians.

Here is a list of the Nigerian billionaires in order of Forbes’ ranking.

DANGOTE
Aliko Dangote | $23.9 billion

Based on the magazine’s ranking, Dangote, chairman of Dangote Group, topped the list with a net worth of $23.9 billion.

Forbes said the billionaire’s fortune skyrocketed after the Dangote refinery finally began operating in early 2024, boosting businessman’s fortune by $10.5 billion since last year’s list.

MIKE ADENUGA

Mike Adenuga | $6.8 billion net worth

With $6.8 billion net worth, Forbes said Mike Adenuga, the owner of Globacom, a telecommunications firm, is the second Nigerian, ranking fifth on the list.

ABDULSAMAD RABIU

Abdulsamad Rabiu | $5.1 billion net worth

Abdulsamad Rabiu, founder of BUA Group, is ranked sixth on the publication’s world Black billionaires list. With $5.1 billion net worth, the billionaire is the third Nigerian on the list.

ADEBAYO OGUNLESI

Adebayo Ogunlesi | $12.5 billion in cash and shares

Another Nigerian on the list is Adebayo Ogunlesi, the chief executive officer (CEO) of Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), holding a net worth of $2.2 billion.

Forbes said Ogunlesi is the 11th Black billionaire in the world. In October 2024, the entrepreneur sold GIP sold to BlackRock for $12.5 billion in cash and shares.

OTEDOLA

Femi Otedola | $1.5 billion

Following closely in the 12th position, Otedola, chairman of Geregu, boast of a net worth of $1.5 billion.

Forbes said the billionaire “made his first fortune in commodities before selling his shares in Forte Oil to invest in the energy business”.

“Today, he is the chairman and majority owner of Geregu Power, a power generation business whose other investors include the Nigerian government and the State Grid Corporation of China,” the magazine said.

TOPE AWOTONA

The last Nigerian on the World’s Black Billionaires 2025 list is Tope Awotona.

Forbes said Awotona, in 2013, founded Calendly, a scheduling software startup, which private investors valued at $3 billion in 2021.

The media company said Awotona, ranking 14th on the list, has a net worth of $1.4 billion
Source: https://www.thecable.ng/six-nigerians-named-in-forbes-2025-worlds-black-billionaires-list/