The Nation Newspaper Three Nigerians who made Forbes' 2023 Billionaires List
Three Nigerians were on the list of the 2,460 individual billionaires globallyAliko Dangote is the founder and president/chief executive of the Dangote Group, the largest conglomerate in West Africa. He is the richest person in Africa.
One of the Group’s subsidiaries, Dangote Cement Plc, is the largest listed company in West Africa and the first Nigerian company to join the Forbes Global 2000 Companies list.Abdulsamad Rabiu is the founder of BUA Group, a Nigerian conglomerate active in cement production, sugar refining, and real estate.
The combined firm, called BUA Cement Plc, trades on the Nigerian stock exchange; Rabiu owns 98.2% of it.He is No. 4 on the Africa’s billionaires listChief Michael Adeniyi Agbolade Ishola Adenuga Jr is a Nigerian billionaire businessman and the third richest person in Africa. His company Globacom is Nigeria’s second-largest telecom operator and also has a presence in Ghana and Benin.
He owns stakes in the Equitorial Trust Bank and the oil exploration firm Conoil .He is the sixth on Africa’s billionaires list.
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