Aliko Dangote Becomes The 23rd World's Richest Man (SEE FULL LIST)

                                         Foremost Nigerian industrialist and Chairman of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote has been named the 23rd World Richest Man of 2014 by Forbes becoming the first black man to break into the rank of world top 25 richest. Dangote’s wealth jumped to $25bn from $16.1bn in 2013. According to Forbes;

Africa's richest man is looking beyond cement, sugar and flour--the three commodities that built his fortune--to the oil business. In April, he announced $9 billion in financing from a consortium of local and international lenders to construct a private oil refinery, fertilizer and petrochemical complex in the country. His publicly traded Dangote Cement is also grabbing new markets in Africa, with $750 million in new plants planned for Kenya and Niger. He made his first fortune more than three decades ago when he started trading commodities with a loan from his powerful uncle.

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#1 Bill Gates$76 B
#2 Carlos Slim Helu & family$72 B
#3 Amancio Ortega$64 B
#4 Warren Buffett$58.2 B
#5 Larry Ellison$48 B
#6 Charles Koch$40 B
#6 David Koch$40 B
#8 Sheldon Adelson$38 B
#9 Christy Walton & family$36.7 B
#10 Jim Walton$34.7 B
#11 Liliane Bettencourt & family$34.5 B
#12 Stefan Persson$34.4 B
#13 Alice Walton$34.3 B
#14 S. Robson Walton$34.2 B
#15 Bernard Arnault & family$33.5 B
#16 Michael Bloomberg$33 B
#17 Larry Page$32.3 B
#18 Jeff Bezos$32 B
#19 Sergey Brin$31.8 B
#20 Li Ka-shing$31 B
#21 Mark Zuckerberg$28.5 B
#22 Michele Ferrero & family$26.5 B
#23 Karl Albrecht$25 B
#23 Aliko Dangote$25 B
#25 Carl Icahn$24.5 B