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inoki247:
How Mike Adenuga dey always dey list I never still understand....


Bkuz I believe he no fit be only this Glo network wey dey torment people life they give am the money

No be una be their customer
Na fibre optics them dey talk now, no be sim card.

Am samuel

ezra1990:
What's your name please...in case i need it for future reference

DeepSight:
It may be natural that because the third world has weak institutions one may see it more here, or more openly here, but don' be decieved, it happens everywhere to varying degrees. The advanced European simply has evolved more sophisticated ways around things. If a US President happens to have $1 Trillion, believe you me, not only will nothing ever be heard of it, but the layers and smokescreens will be enough to confuse Satan himself.

Maybe. But in 2025, it's really hard to hide gold palaces (like Putin) or houses in France (like some African leaders), even in layers of shell companies. Western politicians tend to be under the PRESS spotlight, and Trump, who seems an outlier, may get his comeuppance yet. There's always the risk of being caught and what you stand to lose. Even in France, a very tolerant society where Sarkozy would have got away with it if he was found to have a chain of mistresses, bribery is too much.

Are there examples of Western leaders even rumoured to be neck-deep in lining their pockets and stashing funds in Swiss accounts? Not talking of county-level politicians in Spain and elsewhere (many of who are in jail anyway), but national-level players?

JuanDeDios:
Maybe. But in 2025, it's really hard to hide gold palaces (like Putin) or houses in France (like some African leaders), even in layers of shell companies. Western politicians tend to be under the PRESS spotlight, and Trump, who seems an outlier, may get his comeuppance yet. There's always the risk of being caught and what you stand to lose. Even in France, a very tolerant society where Sarkozy would have got away with it if he was found to have a chain of mistresses, bribery is too much.

Are there examples of Western leaders even rumoured to be neck-deep in lining their pockets and stashing funds in Swiss accounts? Not talking of county-level politicians in Spain and elsewhere (many of who are in jail anyway), but national-level players?

All I can say is that today, one does not need any gold palaces or villas in France. What can be hidden in cryptocurrency alone speaks enough.
Talking about examples, if I had those examples ready with evidence, that would defeat the point, dont you think?
Nevertheless the sort of back-hand/ scratch my back and i scratch yours - deals which often pop up with Trump, the Bidens, the Clintons and the self same Sarkozy - speak alot.

In the issue of "Liberation Day" and Tarriffs, Trump was openly boasting in the Oval Office about how many of his friends made billions of dollars in a few days. That speaks very loudly. I do note however, that you already mentioned he may be an outlier.

inoki247:
How Mike Adenuga dey always dey list I never still understand....


Bkuz I believe he no fit be only this Glo network wey dey torment people life they give am the money

He is also into oil and gas, have you heard of Conoil?

abbey621:
The question is not their wealth but how has their individual wealth contributed positively or negatively to their respective nations. Oprah for example is known for her charity work, ogbeni Dangote and Adenuga? Make we just dey laugh

they probably do it but not publicized

Politicstoday:
Aliko Dangote Tops Forbes List of Top 10 Black Billionaires in 2025.

Wetin Michael Jordan dey sell?

proff010:
My name will be there one day by God's grace.
Even if the character is not yet complete

No be God's grace put their names there

NOETHNICITY:
He tops the list by a long stretch
It’s going take the closest person quite an age to catch up

Not an age... An idea.
Dangote has been topping Africa before Elon Musk came from behind and topped the world.

Ideas rule

Assets valuation is public

SmartPolician:
How does Forbes determine these things? I am 100% certain that these people didn't disclose their earnings to anyone because rich people, probably because of safety concerns, don't like discussing their wealth.

Given what the media has made us believe, there are people who are by far richer than these folks who made the list but they are silent kingmakers who don't want the world to know them. We have been told they are the biggest problems in our world

richeeyo:
And you think you are wise
Go understand what Forbes is about illiterate

Not like you understand the word you're using. Who's an illiterate? This time use your dictionary.

Rich people. Dangote is Nigeria money

SmartPolician:
How does Forbes determine these things? I am 100% certain that these people didn't disclose their earnings to anyone because rich people, probably because of safety concerns, don't like discussing their wealth.

Given what the media has made us believe, there are people who are by far richer than these folks who made the list but they are silent kingmakers who don't want the world to know them. We have been told they are the biggest problems in our world

Short nd precise answer to ur question is...

Is just d same way pple knw ur IQ abilities..

No long things...

But have it at d back of ur mind dat... btter obi will never smell aso rock 🪨 gate

DeepSight:
All I can say is that today, one does not need any gold palaces or villas in France. What can be hidden in cryptocurrency alone speaks enough.
Talking about examples, if I had those examples ready with evidence, that would defeat the point, dont you think?
Nevertheless the sort of back-hand/ scratch my back and i scratch yours - deals which often pop up with Trump, the Bidens, the Clintons and the self same Sarkozy - speak alot.

In the issue of "Liberation Day" and Tarriffs, Trump was openly boasting in the Oval Office about how many of his friends made billions of dollars in a few days. That speaks very loudly. I do note however, that you already mentioned he may be an outlier.

Yeah, it would. But I was talking about credible suspicion - like, everyone knows the fellow at the hilltop in Minna stole a lot, even far more than Abacha. But that's all there is to it: everyone knows.

Also note that from my first response, I've been concerned mainly about issue of stashing funds abroad: that's what I'm theorizing to be a (mainly) African disease. I theorize thus because even the worst dictators from outside the continent (Stalin, HItler, Franco, Mao, Than Shue, Suharto, Saddam, Xi Jipin, Kim Jung-un, Erdogan, Maduro, Lukashenko, Nyazov [Turkmenbashi], etc.) kept/keep it mostly within their countries.

JuanDeDios:
Yeah, it would. But I was talking about credible suspicion - like, everyonne knows IBB stole a lot, even far more than Abacha. But that's all there is to it: everyone knows.

Also note that from my first response, I've been concerned mainly about issue of stashing funds abroad: that's what I'm theorizing to be a (mainly) African disease. I theorize thus because even the worst dictators from outside the continent (Stalin, HItler, Franco, Mao, Than Shue, Suharto, Saddam, Xi Jipin, Kim Jung-un, Erdogan, Maduro, Lukashenko, Nyazov [Turkmenbashi], etc.) kept/keep it mostly within their countries.

Fairly said even if I am not sure that all of them did (Hitler for example did not touch Switzerland for financial reasons), and as a fellow Fascist, this could benefit a Franco. A Mao was never going to store things abroad when he was shutting down China. Saddam at odds with the west could not. Neither can Kim Jung Un - North Korea in the past actually had to resort to extreme measures some of which have included the printing of fake USD. Suharto famously had $9 billion of his stash traced from Switzerland to Austria. And so on and so forth.

The summary of the reason African leaders in particular will store funds abroad is because of the weakness of African systems and the fact that the countries are so undeveloped that they feel they cannot access the height of global society, global investment, global power and global luxury in such backwaters.

Doyin2:
We are talking of real and not thief billionaires.

How is G
Dangote a "real billionaire"?
Through import waivers, using his traditional contacts in different governments to suppress business competitors, or by having massive financial injections into his businesses by the CBN (as they did with his refinery)?

DeepSight:
Fairly said even if I am not sure that all of them did (Hitler for example did not touch Switzerland for financial reasons), and as a fellow Fascist, this could benefit a Franco. A Mao was never going to store things abroad when he was shutting down China. Saddam at odds with the west could not. Neither can Kim Jung Un - North Korea in the past actually had to resort to extreme measures some of which have included the printing of fake USD. Suharto famously had $9 billion of his stash traced from Switzerland to Austria. And so on and so forth.

The summary of the reason African leaders in particular will store funds abroad is because of the weakness of African systems and the fact that the countries are so undeveloped that they feel they cannot access the height of global society, global investment, global power and global luxury in such backwaters.

Yeah. I guess, plus infrastructure. If you rely on hospitals outside your country, it makes sense to stash funds there! (Of course, you could just build a decent hospital in your capital, but hey, we're Africans!)

inoki247:
How Mike Adenuga dey always dey list I never still understand....


Bkuz I believe he no fit be only this Glo network wey dey torment people life they give am the money

Dr. Mike Adenuga owns majority of Conoil Plc and share a part of Julius Berger Plc

WowSweetGuy:
Rich people. Dangote is Nigeria money

Continue to play around

CaptainFM1:
The use asset worth estimates. They can't be absolutely accurate though because most African billionaires don't declare their assets.

Somehow, I think President Tinubu should be among the top 10 too, but you will never see Forbes listing him among the top 100.

How many presidents have you seen on Forbes list before?

abbey621:
The question is not their wealth but how has their individual wealth contributed positively or negatively to their respective nations. Oprah for example is known for her charity work, ogbeni Dangote and Adenuga? Make we just dey laugh

The internet on your device must truly be waste a space

abbey621:
Immense philanthropist and monopoly don't look good in the same sentence.......If he was based in the USA, antitrust lawsuits would be flying left, right and center

The antitrust laws are blind to Apple been only American phone brands, blind to OpenAI's chatgpt, blind to Microsoft dominating the word processing space, blind to Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Threads own by Meta?

Erickymania:
This top 10 list used to be dominated by South Africans before. Now we have more Nigerians.

Black billionaires is the context here. S

Some SA billionaires aren't black mind you.

Gboss247:
How many presidents have you seen on Forbes list before?

Before he became president nko? Abi wetin this one dey talk?

GrammarNazi1:
It would be really hard to displace Dangote from the top spot.

My oga, you're still in this our Nairaland community? Nice!

@ topic:

Sure it would be hard to displace Dangote from the top spot. I think his investments cutting across all sectors must be the secret. I am sure he is the most diversified billionaire on the list.

CaptainFM1:
Before he became president nko? Abi wetin this one dey talk?

How many politicians have you seen in Forbes list

SmartPolician:
How does Forbes determine these things? I am 100% certain that these people didn't disclose their earnings to anyone because rich people, probably because of safety concerns, don't like discussing their wealth.

Given what the media has made us believe, there are people who are by far richer than these folks who made the list but they are silent kingmakers who don't want the world to know them. We have been told they are the biggest problems in our world

in summary, u are trying to tell us there are billionaire's in nnewi richer than all of them.

We hear u

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SmartPolician:
How does Forbes determine these things? I am 100% certain that these people didn't disclose their earnings to anyone because rich people, probably because of safety concerns, don't like discussing their wealth.

Given what the media has made us believe, there are people who are by far richer than these folks who made the list but they are silent kingmakers who don't want the world to know them. We have been told they are the biggest problems in our world

Especially Alaba and Onisha market people

inoki247:
How Mike Adenuga dey always dey list I never still understand....


Bkuz I believe he no fit be only this Glo network wey dey torment people life they give am the money

Grace: He must have a big, big God.

Gboss247:
How many politicians have you seen in Forbes list

You no fit count yourself?