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Dangote ranks higher than US VP in world’s 75 Most Powerful People

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Nigeria’s foremost entrepreneur, Aliko Dangote, has been ranked among 75 most powerful persons on the planet, ahead of the Vice President of the United States of America, Mike Pence.

According to the Forbe’s latest 2018 ranking of the World Powerful people, Dangote ranked among world leaders like Xi Jinping, the Chinese President; Vladimir Putin, Russian President; and Donald Trump, the President of the US, all of whom were ranked first, second and third respectively.

Dangote was ranked 66th most powerful person in the world ahead of Pence, who is ranked 67, and Qamar Javed Bajwa, the highly influential Chief of Army Staff of Pakistan, ranked 68.

The Africa’s richest man is the only Nigerian on the list and one of the only two Africans who made the list with the other being Egyptian President, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who was ranked 45th most powerful.

Dangote, it would be recalled, was the only black man who made the list apart from former President of the United States, Barack Obama, in the 2016 ranking released in 2017 and was listed at number 71, just above the then American presidential contender, Donald Trump, who was listed at number 72.

Dangote is the Chairman of the Dangote Cement, which produces 44 million metric tons annually across the African continent and still plans to expand and increase its output by 33 per cent by 2020.

According to the Forbe’s rich list, Dangote as at March 2018 had an estimated net worth of $14.1 billion and ranked among the 100 richest in the world and the richest in Africa, a position he has held for almost a decade.

Dangote reached the peak in 2014 when he came in 23rd richest in the world and in 2013 surpassed the Saudi-Ethiopian billionaire Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi by over $2.6 billion to become the world richest person of African descent.

It will be recalled that the President of the Dangote Group of companies has often made such lists due to his business concerns and humanitarian efforts in Nigeria and other parts of the world, especially his efforts through the Aliko Dangote Foundation to rid Nigeria and Africa of polio, malaria and malnutrition.

His efforts in this regard was recognized by the United Nations, which appointed him Malaria Ambassador.

Dangote stepped up his humanitarian activities recently, spending billions of Naira to build hospitals and critical hospital equipment, the lack of which has forced Nigerians of means to seek medical attention abroad.

He also donated a N1.2 billion Business School Complex to Bayero University in Kano and is presently constructing a similar one for the University of Ibadan Business School.

The business mogul has continued through the Foundation by disbursing N10 billion to vulnerable women across the 774 local governments in the country.

Dangote made a donation of $2 million to the World Food Programme as part of efforts to help Pakistani nationals devastated by floods in the year 2010.

Dangote was made the chairperson of the Presidential Committee on Flood Relief that raised in excess of N11.35 billion, of which Dangote himself contributed N2.5 billion, an amount higher than the entire contribution from the 36 state governors in Nigeria.

Within the top 10 most powerful people in the world as listed by Forbes are Angela Markel, the German Chancellor, ranked 4th; Jeff Bezos, the Founder of Amazon.com, the 5th; the Catholic pontiff, Pope Francis, ranked 6th; Bill Gates comes 7th; Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, the Saudi Prince, 8th; Narendra Modi, the Indian Prime Minister; and Larry Page, the Chief Executive of Google, came in as the 10th most powerful person in the world.

Tags: Abdel Fattah el-SisiForbe’s latest 2018 rankingNigeria’s foremost entrepreneurVice President of the United StatesXi Jinping
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