In the list published yesterday, Alhaji Dangote was named in it alongside Mike Adenuga, Femi Otedola, Folorunso Alakija and Abdulsamad Rabiu. Alhaji Dangote, whose value is put at $15.4bn, retained his number one position as Africa's richest man in Africa and was ranked number 51 in the world.
Chief Adenuga with total wealth of $10bn was ranked the 103rd richest person in the world, while Chief Otedola, whose wealth was valued at $1.8bn, was ranked 1,011 by Forbes. Mrs Alakija was placed 1,121 on the list with her wealth put at $1.6bn, while Alhaji Rabiu was ranked the 1,577th richest person in the world.
Microsoft owner Bill Gates, 60, topped the list for the 17th time in 22 years, although he is $4.2bn poorer than in 2015 with a net worth of $75bn. This, still put him at the top spot of the Forbes’ World Billionaires list for the third year in a row, after dethroning Mexico’s Carlos Slim Helu in 2014, who came fourth in the 2016 list.
Others who made the top 10 include Amazon’s Jeff Bezos at fifth on the list, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook at sixth, Oracle’s Larry Ellison at seventh, Michael Bloomberg at eighth and tied in ninth place are David and Charles Koch. Forbes noted that volatile stock markets, falling oil prices and a stronger dollar led to a dynamic reshuffling of wealth around the globe and a drop in ten-figure fortunes for the first time since 2009.
A Forbes spokesman said: “For our 30th annual guide to the world’s richest, we found 1,810 billionaires, down from a record 1,826 a year ago. Their aggregate net worth was $6.48trn trillion, $570bn less than last year, which was the first time since 2010 that the average net worth of a billionaire dropped."
On the list, the he US had 540 billionaires, more than any other country in the world. It is followed by China with 251 and Germany with 120, while Russia has 77 and Brazil has 23 billionaires.
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