Nigeria has been rated as Africa’s leading nation to boast of most
millionaires a result of its crude oil exploration. Here’s a list of
newly rated richest people in Nigeria and their net worth as we start
from the least:
13. Tunde Folawiyo – Net Worth $400 Million: Tunde Folawiyo is a
Nigerian businessman. He is the managing director of Yinka Folawiyo
Group, a conglomerate founded by his father, Wahab Folawiyo. He took
over the company in 2008 when his father died.
12. Oba Otudeko – Net Worth $550 Million: Dr. Oba Otudeko, CFR is an
astute and highly successful Nigerian investor and entrepreneur whose
domestic and foreign interests cut across diverse sectors of the
economy. Oba is the founder and chairman of Honeywell Group. The group’s
operations stretch across flour milling, oil and gas, marine
transportation and real estate. He also owns Radisson Blu in Lagos,
Nigeria.
11. Hakeem Belo-Osagie – Net Worth $550 Million: Hakeem Belo-Osagie
is a 58-year old Nigerian businessman listed by Forbes as the 40th
richest man in Africa. Harvard Business School-trained petroleum
economist Hakeem Belo-Osagie chairs the Nigerian arm of UAE telecom
provider Etisalat.
10. Mohammed Indimi – Net Worth $550 Million: A distinguished and
highly successful businessman, Dr. Indimi is the sole Founder and
Chairman of Oriental Energy Resources, Limited. He has over 20 years’
experience in the Nigerian Upstream Oil and Gas sector. Dr. Indimi is an
astute business man with a notable presence in the international
business arena.
9. Jim Ovia – Net Worth $900 Million: This self-made millionaire is
married and has two children. He resides in Lagos. This successful
banker founded Zenith Bank Group. With market capitalization of more
than $4 billion, it is one of Nigeria’s largest financial services
groups.
8. Orji Uzor Kalu – Net Worth $1 Billion: Orji Uzor Kalu is the
chairman of SLOK Holding and the Daily Sun and New Telegraph newspapers
in Nigeria, who served as the governor of Abia State, Nigeria from May
29, 1999, to May 29, 2007.
7. Tony Elumelu – Net Worth $1 Billion: Tony O. Elumelu is an
economist by training, a visionary entrepreneur and a philanthropist.
Tony is the Chairman of Heirs Holdings, the United Bank for Africa,
Transcorp and founder of The Tony Elumelu Foundation.
6. Theophilus Danjuma – Net Worth $1.1 Billion: General Theophilus
Yakubu Danjuma GCON FSS psc is a Nigerian Jukun soldier, politician and
multi-millionaire businessman and philanthropist. He was Nigerian Army
Chief of Army Staff from July 1975 to October 1979.
5. Abdulsamad Rabiu – Net Worth: $1.2 Billion: AbdulSamad Isyaku
Rabiu CON is a Nigerian businessman. His father, Khalifah Isyaku Rabiu
was one of Nigeria’s foremost industrialists in the 1970s and 1980s.
4. Femi Otedola Net Worth – $1.2 Billion: Femi Otedola is a Nigerian
businessman. He is Chairman of Forte Oil Plc, and appeared as one of
only two Nigerians to appear on the 2009 Forbes list of 793
dollar-denominated billionaires in the world.
3. Folorunsho Alakija – Net Worth $2.5 Billion: Folorunsho Alakija is
a Nigerian businesswoman who has replaced Isabel dos Santos as the
richest African woman, and also is the richest woman of African descent
in the world.
2. Mike Adenuga – Net Worth: $4.6 Billion: Michael Adeniyi Agbolade
Ishola “Mike” Adenuga Jr is a Nigerian business tycoon, and one of the
richest black people in the world. The self made Nigerian billionaire is
the founder of Globacom, Nigeria’s second largest mobile phone network.
1. Aliko Dangote Net Worth – $ 21.6 Billion: Aliko Dangote GCON is a
Nigerian billionaire businessman, who owns the Dangote Group, which has
interests in commodities. The company operates in Nigeria and other
African countries, including Benin, Cameroon, Ghana, South Africa, Togo
and Zambia.
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