NO CHANGES ON FORBES RICH LIST AS ALIKO DANGOTE, ADENUGA, OTEDOLA, ALAKIJA, DANJUMA STILL TOPS LIST

Aliko Dangote

Dr Mike Adenuga

Femi Otedola

Folorunsho Alakija

The annual rich list of the mega men and woman was released again for 2017 and the positions occupied by many of those listed hasn't changed at all, neither the value of their wealth too.

Apart from Femi Otedola, Tony Elumelu and Jim Ovia who all sometimes moves up or down on the ladder before. Femi Otedola has now retained his 3rd position again.

Perennial number 1 and 2 remained fixed, as Aliko Dangote is still the Numero Uno liquid man with a staggering worth as stated by Forbes to be $12.5billion followed by Dr Michael Agbolade Adenuga.

Here is the full list according to their positions and their worth.

Aliko Dangote- Nigeria's richest and by extension Africa's wealthiest and also "Richest Blackman alive", said to be worth $12.5 billion. The value of his worth is not as it used to be meaning his position on the world's richest list from the high of nos 24 has now gone down to less than first 100 in the world.

Otunba 'Dr' Michael Agbolade Adenuga. Nigeria's consistent nos 2 richest. The owner of Globacom Nigeria nos 2 telecommunications company and owner of several other brands, with investments in several other pies.  Net worth is put at $10.5 billion. Some have claimed consistently that he might be worth more than the value above.

Femi Otedola. Nigeria's current nos 3. A position that he sometimes inter changes with others. The father of DJ Cuppy has experienced the down time which really affected his wealth and worth a while back, but he has since bounced back gallantly. A testament to his strength and ability is him occupying this 3rd position now with a net worth of $2.3 billion. The owner of Zenon and chairman of Forte oil is a survivor.

Folorunsho Alakija. Hers is the story of grace. The MD of Famfa Oil is said to be the undisputed Richest woman in Nigeria and probably the richest woman of African descent, there's the issue sometimes about who is richer between her and the Angolan first daughter. The former fashion designer has since grown in leaps and bounds. The UK would not forget the wedding of her son to his beau that held at a palace recently. The media spoke about that wedding with such gloss, that made Africans and Nigerians all over the world proud. Her net worth is placed at $2.1 billion.

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FEMI OTEDOLA BACK ON THE ROLL. EARNS A WHOOPING $398 MILLION IN 3 MONTHS

FO & GORGEOUS DAUGHTER CUPPY

For the past few months now, the billionaire owner of Forte Oil had had to deal with sundry issues. One of the major one was that he wasn't as liquid as he had always been, the reason mainly was that he was far too stretched by his indebtedness to some financial institutions. When the situation was bad, it was very bad, it took the grace of God and some super fantastic and deft financial manoeuvrings to take some of the tension and stress off the made man, one of the casualties of that dark period was the loss of his then Oando building on Ajose Adeogun, Victoria Island. If not for some investments especially real estates that were of great value, it might not have been nice at all.

But thank God for his grace, some of the troubles of the past have since become lessons to learn from and like the proverbial saying that goes thus ''The ram that took a reverse back, only did so to gather more strength, the handsome husband of Nana Otedola, who only just buried is beloved dad some days back, seem to be back on the good rollercoaster. Things are looking great again, the liquidity situation seem to have become a thing of the past. For mere mortals, what FO went through could have made some to take matters into their hands. Now after only a couple of months, Forbes Africa has claimed that FO is back with a massive bang!!! Earning a whooping $398 million dollars in only 3 months (between March 3rd & June 2nd), that's about 67 billion Naira plus or minus.

How did that happen? It's because shares in his oil & gas concern, Forte Oil appreciated by a whooping 167% in less than 100 days.

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NO CAUSE FOR ALARM. JIDE OMOKORE IS A-CLASS OKAY

Contrary to the tales flying around about the health of the magnate that many have come to refer to as the leader, or most often the grandmaster, he is hale and hearty. 

The unfounded tale had it that the energy mogul had suffered a heart attack in Abuja, the FCT shortly after meeting with Mr. President, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. 

But in apparent disgust and disbelief at the news and those carrying such tales, he is said to have spoken exclusively to The Will online at his Ikoyi home via a conference call dismissing the news as utter falsehood. 

The report was totally dismissed by the oil magnate. ''The report is utter nonsense'' ''I have never suffered a heart attack. I am in my house in Ikoyi. I am a normal person. I am hale and hearty. The last time I visited the hospital was for a pain in my back. I haven't been to Abuja in over a month, so I don't know where they are getting these lies from.

Jide Omokore is the Chairman of Atlantic Energy and one of the top top 10 richest Nigerians in the world. One of his companies is SPOG Petrochemicals Nigeria Limited, one of the companies or brands under the Energy Resources Group amongst several others. The group's annual turnover is said to be around $400 million.

OTUNBA DR. MIKE ADENUGA 2ND RICHEST IN NIGERIA & 5TH IN AFRICA

While the super rich, the rich are getting richer by the minute, the poor man's poverty has never been this bad. But can we blame the rich? Not at all. Forbes Magazine has just announced that the business magnate with massive investments in Oil & Gas, Properties, Communications etc, in the person of the Bull, the Guru, the one and only Otunba Dr. Mike Adenuga is now the 2nd richest Nigerian & 5th richest African on earth. 

One of Mike Adenuga's company, Globacom which is the 2nd national carrier and second biggest telecoms company in Nigeria, with a subscriber base of 24 million is his money making machine. By virtue of his enormous wealth, Dr. Adenuga is rated 312 on the world's richest list. According to Forbes Adenuga's wealth has now grown to about ($4.8 billion) $5 billion dollars, a far cry from Dangote's $25 billion (23rd richest person in the world), but still a colossal wealth any day, anywhere.