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Folorunso Alakija
Folorunso Alakija is a Nigerian businesswoman, one of the richest African women and also one of the richest black women in the world. In 2014 she unseated Oprah Winfrey as the richest woman of African descent in the world. [2] She is a business tycoon involved in the fashion, [3] oil and printing industries. [4] She is the group managing director of The Rose of Sharon Group which consists of The Rose of Sharon Prints & Promotions Limited and Digital Reality Prints Limited and the executive vice-chairman of Famfa Oil Limited. [5] Alakija is ranked by Forbes as the richest woman in Nigeria with an estimated net worth of $2.1 billion [1][4] As of 2015, she is listed as the second most powerful woman in Africa after Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and the 87th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes. [6]
Folorunso Alakija
Born
1951 (age 65–66)
Ikorodu , Lagos State , Nigeria
Residence
Lagos , Lagos State , Nigeria
Nationality
Nigeria
Occupation
Business tycoon
Known for
Philanthropy
Net worth
US$2.1 billion (2015)[1]
Title
Group Managing Director
Spouse(s)
Modupe Alakija (m. 1976)
Children
7
Early life and education
Folorunsho was born in 1951 to the family of Chief L. A. Ogbara in Ikorodu , Lagos State . At age seven, she travelled to the United Kingdom to begin a four-year primary education at Dinorben School for Girls in Hafodunos Hall in Llangernyw, Wales
. After returning to Nigeria, she attended Muslim High School Sagamu Ogun State, Nigeria. Afterwards, she returned abroad for her secretarial studies at Pitman's Central College, London. She also studied fashion design at the American College, London and the Central School of Fashion

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Dlordsamurai:
who she epp? And what has she done to help citizens of Nigeria? No foundation, nothing nothing. "TONTO DIKEH IS GREATER THAN THIS WOMAN, atleast there is tonto dikeh foundation.

You are a super failure!
Major problem of the unfortunate is that, even when they see clear information, they will ignore it.
Go and say this your rant to Tonto Dikeh. I trust her to wake your dead destiny with hot slap.

Dlordsamurai:
who she epp? And what has she done to help citizens of Nigeria? No foundation, nothing nothing. "TONTO DIKEH IS GREATER THAN THIS WOMAN, atleast there is tonto dikeh foundation.

e ti ya weyrey sir